Why are straight swords overused in medieval games? Halberds are clearly superior weapons.
Why are straight swords overused in medieval games? Halberds are clearly superior weapons
Because halberds are for bad guys and brutes, not heroes.
You use a couple in Onimusha, I think.
they will make gay swords for you
merchandising. easier to mass produce cheap plastic swords
halberds and spears are the weapons of the peasant levies
swords are the weapons of nobles and knights
more people think elite knights are cool than think rank and file soldiers are cool
Because a sword makes more sense for an adventurer who travels light and on his own.
Polearms in games always use the "weapon floats on your back" thing and it always looks retarded.
because halberds are for fighting in formation, retard
please actually kill yourself, swine. youre such a victim of propaganda its not even funny
we live in a post fromsoft world and you retards still think you need to have sheathed two handers and shit? why dont more games make is so the player character walks around with two handers resting on their shoulders or holding them as walking sticks? dragons dogma 2 did that too iirc
explain calladooty and battlefield
You don't use halberds for 1v1s, anon
Why are straight swords overused in medieval games?
Christian weapon that is symbolic of both status and martyrdom.
lmao your weapon is a 4 foot stick with a 2 inch blade. My sword is a 2 inch stick with a 4 foot blade. I think I rest my case.
i use a halberd in every souls game, it just works.
posts example irrelevant to MEDIEVAL settings
Straight swords are overused in games because they are overused in EVERY piece of entertainment and media
Movies, shows, comics, books, artwork
Why are straight swords overused in medieval games?
Because most games are about an individual, and their weapon is used individually rather than in formation. A sword makes perfect sense because that's what people used in real life in these contexts.
Further there's the obvious answer that swords hold a fantastical/mystical position in western culture and always have, Christianity only further reinforced this.
Walking around holding the weapon is fine but limits the character's actions.
Not when most games just make your weapon vanish when the player character does interactions and animations or just has the character interact with things with no animation.
Not when most games just make your weapon vanish
And it sucks
Yep
But lazy developers aren't gonna change regardless of how your character carries a weapon and what weapon it is.
posts the biggest jobber in mythology
lmao
imagine having a saying that refers to how badly you suck shit
and that isnt even a halberd
Good 'ol halberd and shield to btfo cavalryfags
B-but swords are the hero's weapon!
Lol don't care get POKED
I'll just charge in and use my superior spee-ACK
I'll simply use my shield t-AIIEEEE
as long as you're fighting mindless NPCs with no armor, this will work great.
Armor
We have special ones for that. I don't have a clever caption here this dude just would not quit.
While we're on the topic of armor this is your reminder that bevors are not fashion statements
calladooty
has been about operators (the closest modern equivalent to knights) noscoping eachother every since it stopped being ww2 simulator
battlefield
everyone wants to play as the sneaky spec ops guy, the sniper duelist, or a jet pilot in these games
Butt=Hurt
Hey man don't lose your head over it
proper way to handle a KNIGGER
Even the very first cod had you playing as paratroopers for 2/3 campaigns, and a sniper for the third. You were never rank and file normal infantry.
Halberds are clearly superior weapons.
For what context? Do you think all battles are the same?
Every fight has different context.
The first CoD had way more spec ops wankery than 2 or 3. Still had too much of that MoH blood
I was thinking about making a game where the main character uses a polearm for both combat and traversal (pole vaulting), if I ever stop being lazy I'll make it
Get's within 6 feet of you in your path
the point is that archetypal heroes CAN fucking use halberds and spears you fucking absolute 60 IQ fucking gorilla nigger. how are you so fucking daft?
well obviously once youre doing an action that would be extremely inconvenient to animate holding the weapon like sitting or lying down you'd obviously just store it in malletspace somewhere
loved goring cavalry in mordhau with these before maul gambling became the meta
polearms were battlefield weapons, swords were at least worn fairly commonly in every day settings by anyone with status
love me billhook. the pull messes with peoples timings sometimes too
where is our game, bros? i would love a fromsoft game about fencing so much
nidhogg 2