Has a game ever done proper katana gameplay?

>proper katana gameplay?
You mean shatter into a million pieces because all katanas are cheaply made ceremonial blades?

Are you really this dumb? Are people this dumb?

You mean a sidearm you might resort to when all else fails (samurai were horse archers), or a ceremonial weapon come Edo period?

1 wasn't, 2 was.

Also, god I love mall ninjas. They're so much more pathetic than armchair gun experts. If I had the money and the power, I'd pay to see two mall ninjas fight to the death.

it's really stupid making that room into some kind of dojo with the ceiling that fucking low
I'd bet he's ended up slashing some of those panels and shit plenty of times

People used pikes and crossbows anyway. Swords and katanas are fucking retarded, cheaply made, and impractical. Also Samurai were all low IQ thugs and bandits. Not some hero like in the animes.

weebs are

I miss old youtube when 90% of videos were shot in one take and in people's back yards. Unscripted, of course

*tips fedora*

Has it been confirmed that it was tape?

you have no idea what you're talking about

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You don't know what you are talking about you stupid weeaboo.

I love the way he pronounces "katana"

Yes

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The Japanese were the most fearsome warriors to ever exist. Read a history book.

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you said swords in general you dumb faggot, I don't care about katanas. I'm talking about european swords

Our best men, while unable to 100% confirm it, believe that yes, it was tape. We won't really know until we interview the kid himself.

Actually your thinking about Ronin

>fearsome warriors
That does not equal good nor smart

seething whitey

Pikes and spears are used more than a dumb sword.

The new Shadow Warriors are quite good, because you can slice up quite some stuff with them.

you can just see the anger, frustration, fear, and sadness pouring out of him with every interaction.

None do them justice, though Metal Gear Rising Revengeance is the closest to how real life katanas were like.

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>these weapons are better in many situations
>that means swords are impractical
let me see you carry spears and pikes into small buildings and tight alleys

based

No. Just no.

(And i'm European btw.)

He's gone way underground. Needle in a haystack finding someone that well trained and illusive.

I don't know about proper, but here's peak gaming skill ceiling. Shits on all other fighting games and characters and genres in terms of raw skill required.

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Virgil.

>Falling for the GG meme

Sekiro

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This. Here is the actual tier list.
Johnny > (power gap) > Yuzuriha > Baiken > Bishamon > Vergil > Mitsurugi > Raiden >Yoshimitsu.
t. battojutsu and Iai instructor

What was his problem?

Anime is so fucking embarrassing.

It's a fun game. Sucks to be you lol

cope and dilate. You seething, knee sock wearing, dildo sitting retard

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Okay, so here the thing, Katanas are actually a pretty good weapon.
Not because of technique or style or any glorious nippon steel, folded over 1000 times shit.
It's good because it's a well balanced sword and a well balanced sword always makes a decent melee weapon. Yes, the whole thing about Japanese pig metal is true, but a Katana style weapon made from proper European tempered steel is actually pretty strong, not as a strong a standard European sword, but that's because it's thinner. But being thinner also means it's lighter, so it's not a bad trade-off for a weapon you would be used for brief encounters.

The only games I can think of that had interesting katana combat are Afro Samurai, Dead Island, and Red Steel. Remind me, were any of these good?

As far as swords of their size go, katanas are pretty thick, though.

well every unarmed peasant viewed some mentally unstable guy with a sword fearsome
btw
>no game about cutting down helpless serfs while you perform autistic screams
there is your answer OP

lol that boy in the vid looks and talks like a dimwitted virgin

The swordsmiths will carefully break the kera apart, and separate the various carbon steels. The lowest carbon steel is called hocho-tetsu (soft iron), which is used for the shingane (translated as "core-steel") of the blade. The high carbon steel (tamahagane) and higher carbon pig iron, called nabe-gane, will then be forged in alternating layers, using very intricate methods to form the very hard steel for the edge, called hagane (edge steel), and the springy metal jacket, called kawagane (skin steel).

The most useful process is the folding, where the metals are forge welded, folded, and welded again, as many as 1600 times. The folding removes impurities and helps even out the carbon content, while the alternating layers combine hardness with ductility to greatly enhance the toughness.

Currently, tamahagane is only made three or four times a year by Nittoho and Hitachi Metals during winter in a wood building and is only sold to the master swordsmiths to use once it is made.

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Anyone that talks about swords is a virgin

You got that assbackwards. The garbage iron had the impurities removed and the carbon distributed by the folding process. So the folding is what made the steel (iron) usable, it would have been garbage without folding. As for balance, anyone who has ever held a sword can tell you that katanas are poorly balanced because they lack the distil taper that European swords have.

short spears existed for that
>trying to wave around a sword in tight spaces
you are better off having a long knife at this point

>missing THE iai character

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Go to China.

Came to the thread for these posts. Everyone arguing about muh swords/katana autism should kill yourselves

the range is one of the best things about a spear, might as well use a short sword at that point

Based and tapepilled.

Que pasa neng has a HD remaster?

Anyone have the winnie the pooh image?

Depends on the design. Katanas can have a very thick blunt edge that was designed for non-lethal blows, particularly near the base. However they taper off quite dramatically and the cutting edge is typically a lot thinner than your standard sword.

Low skillcap.

he's white

All of this is done for tradition's sake. More modern sword-companies just use high-quality steel from the get-go to make great battle-ready swords for much more competitive prices.

Kengo: Master of Bushido, too

It's more of a piece of art than a weapon though.

It's tape

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Even samurai didn't use them shitty katanas they were mostly for ceremony and executions

Exactly, which is why katanas are worth far more than being flung around in worthless debates by arm-chair historians. All swords are beautiful and deadly in their own way, and the pinnacle of a blacksmith's craft.

shut up tylur

unironically killing floor 2

Then why are there so many treatises and martial schools in Japanese history focusing on how to use the katana as a practical weapon
>b-but muh armour
There were plenty of situations where a samurai would need to defend against unarmored enemies, e.g. being attacked in their homes by an intruder. Are you also going to argue that handguns are 'obsolete' and 'useless' because Kevlar exists?

not the guy you're talking to, but you're extremely dumb if you think kevlar makes guns obsolete. the impact from a bullet can break and bruise your body even if it doesn't penetrate

the best thing about a spear is that its simple as fuck and cheap
>short sword
waste of time and material when you can make a short spear that still gives you more range when needed, does exactly the same thing the sword does, costs less and is easier to maintain

What the fuck is wrong with weebs? How do you get like this lmao

Is this sword ntr?

No, I self insert as the katana

no because when u swing katan the world should jus explode because of how overpowered it is

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What’s worse fedora plus matrix coat wearing anime junkies larping with foam weapons in the early 2000s OR 2019 HEMA fat asses who swear up and down they’ve discovered the real way to hold a sword is by the blade and attack with the hilt cause it’s in this one old medieval sketch someone in Germany found.

Honestly I’d rather have the larping anime guys at least they actually practiced with foam weapons and had fun with it, actually learned what worked and what didn’t for trying to hit someone or block an attack etc... the HEMA people are always fat asses and always just complain about historical accuracy and that the sword fighting in movies is too fast and flashy or how fighting with two swords doesn’t work and never can! Like these HEMA idiots would lose a sword fight to the larping kids because you cant complain your way out of the larping kid doing something too fast or too flashy thy they practiced and got to work. being caught between two swords and then stabbed for instance the HEMA fags will claim can never happen but common sense and not “historical accuracy” say of course it can. Duel wielding wasn’t common practice and it isn’t the best use of both hands but that doesn’t mean you can’t lose to it and HEMA fags would lose to the Lapers who actually tried everyting they could think of out and eventually figured out what worked for them. The HEMA motto is essentially limit your potential and mock anything that looks cool/appears to take talent cause REAL talented techniques must look boring and stupid. Sure guys, and the best basketball players in the world never make it look flashy either right.

>jerking off a sword this much

Goddamnit why is this so funny

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this. katana wouldn't have even been used in warfare. samurai mostly used naginata and bows. kara as were just a ceremonial weapon aka dogshit

MGS2

Every single thread that katanas are mentioned there has to be some autist
>ackshually the steel was bad
>they would lose 9/10 times against a knight
Great, I couldn't care less, I just think that scenes like the showdown in Sanjuro look cool and I want to live that inside a game.
Sekiro isn't an accurate simulator by any means but for a while playing it I was having fun. I'm installing Nioh right now. I don't expect it to be accurate either but I'm guessing it will scratch that itch.
>inb4 manchild
Where do you think you are?

That's it. I'm sick of all this "Masterwork Bastard Sword" bullshit that's going on in the d20 system right now. Katanas deserve much better than that. Much, much better than that.

I should know what I'm talking about. I myself commissioned a genuine katana in Japan for 2,400,000 Yen (that's about $20,000) and have been practicing with it for almost 2 years now. I can even cut slabs of solid steel with my katana.

Japanese smiths spend years working on a single katana and fold it up to a million times to produce the finest blades known to mankind.

Katanas are thrice as sharp as European swords and thrice as hard for that matter too. Anything a longsword can cut through, a katana can cut through better. I'm pretty sure a katana could easily bisect a knight wearing full plate with a simple vertical slash.

Ever wonder why medieval Europe never bothered conquering Japan? That's right, they were too scared to fight the disciplined Samurai and their katanas of destruction. Even in World War II, American soldiers targeted the men with the katanas first because their killing power was feared and respected.

So what am I saying? Katanas are simply the best sword that the world has ever seen, and thus, require better stats in the d20 system. Here is the stat block I propose for Katanas:

(One-Handed Exotic Weapon)
1d12 Damage
19-20 x4 Crit
+2 to hit and damage
Counts as Masterwork

(Two-Handed Exotic Weapon)
2d10 Damage
17-20 x4 Crit
+5 to hit and damage
Counts as Masterwork

Now that seems a lot more representative of the cutting power of Katanas in real life, don't you think?

tl;dr = Katanas need to do more damage in d20, see my new stat block.

literally the only reason they needed to be folded a million times is because the iron was garbage