/vr/ - Retro Games

I really like Rastan Saga. Never 1cc'd it, but still wanna someday.

>obvious answer is too obvious.

>>8222157
What's with all the ='s in Golden=Axe

>>8221823

>>8221826
This and it's sequel.

Here is a selection of sword and sorcery movies to keep up with your games, OP.

This is the only game that captures the feeling of a classic, Howard barbarian. You can never wildly swing your weapon like mindless brute and expect to win and have to think about your strikes and learn how to evade your opponent's blows, but when you do master this, you become a killing machine using your skill and grace

>>8222230
>>8222234
based and boobapilled

>>8222162

Maybe it's being used as an hyphen.

>>8222242
Thanks anon.

>>8222173
>>8222230
>>8222234
Blessed, good times on the AMIGA

>>8222157
Thighs of forever

>>8222249
I like this game but it is clunky as fuck sometimes. Extremely satisfying when you kick the shit out of like 3 guys trying to gang up on you.

>>8222162
>>8222320
I learned recently that its not an equals sign but a double-hyphen. The Japanese use it to clarify certain things in katakana, including gaijin names. It's kind of a signal that the name should not be reversed to match the Japanese style. It seems to be a bit old fashioned, though; I never saw it in use until I specifically went looking.
It also gets used in names that have a dash in them because the long dash already has a different function in katakana.

>>8221823
Athena

>>8222249
>You can never wildly swing your weapon like mindless brute and expect to win and have to think about your strikes and learn how to evade your opponent's blows
That's only the early game. Then you unlock and master combos and that's it. I remember the first time I've killed a ~18k HP minotaur with one combo as the amazon. She literally chopped him into at least four pieces. With one attack.

>but when you do master this, you become a killing machine using your skill and grace
And then you get to the final boss and throw it all into the trash.

Don't get me wrong, the game has not been matched yet, let alone surpassed. But those are some pretty serious flaws.

>>8223597
Cool info, thanks anon. The footnote in Wikipedia about Catherine's Zeta-Jones basically ending up as a mecha name made me laugh キャサリン・ゼタ゠ジョーンズ

>>8221823
This is literally pro-sword, anti-magic the game since you play as Catholic adventurers know a quest to slay demons, bandits and Satan himself.

>>8223597

Many thanks for sharing this info, kind anon.

Tough as nails, but very interesting and unusual.

Here is a good one for you, OP.
To go with all these other good ones in the thread!

>>8224925
based

>>8224925
Does it count as Sword and Sorcery if the story is not set in a fully fictional fantasy world?

>>8225547
Of course. The Hyborian age of Conan is a 'lost age' of earth, for example. Thongor's stories are similar, iirc, taking place in a remote region where dinosaur men reign. And of course in the timeless classic Beastmaster 2 the action takes place in modern LA.

>>8222162
what's with you thinking you have to use a ' for pluralizing something other than words (symbols or initials)?

>>8225887
Because =s looks stupid

>>8225887
The apostrophe isn't used for plurals for anything BUT symbols and letters. "Boy's" for boys is wrong. But "A's B's and C's" are stylistically used to avoid situations like "As" (already a word) or "Bs" (looks like an acronym). By extension you also use apostrophes for symbols. It's not prescriptive since English doesn't have an international convention for these things, but is common practice.

>>8221823
Golden Axe: Revenge of Death=Adder
Rastan Saga

>>8222242
Kull the Conqueror is unirocally better than half of this list.

>>8225923
>It's not prescriptive since English doesn't have an international convention for these things
>common practice

people can rephrase it in order not to use it, but sure, let's go with this approach, as linguistics do

>>8225953
>le shitty /int/ maymay
Oi, mate.
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/apostrophe/plurals

>>8225169
Gainax did the art. Pretty surprising to learn.

Fantasy art is so fucking based and otherworldly.

Been staring at Heavy Metal covers book for hours and hours. I want to play videogames in these worlds but nothing gives you the feeling of wonder and mystery like this art.

>>8226045
Try one (or more) of the Shadow of the Beast games. I like 2 the most.

>>8225948
>Kull the Conqueror is unirocally better than half of this list.
And its worse than the other half. So... an average sword and sorcery movie, then?
Seriously though I love it. I rank it between Deastalker 3 and Deathstalker 2

>>8223597
Blazblue also uses it but only because it's chuuni as fuck, and very appropriately.