Swords are in fact quite light and nimble weapons but if that’s the case then why are they often depicted as incredibly slow and awkward in video games?
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Wait…so you're saying that you DON'T wind up for a few seconds and then yell whenever you swing a weapon….strange
i already knew that Sword Combat wasnt realistic in video games…but then again, i Dont Want the realism of "still alive" enemies, writhing and bleeding and screaming on the ground…not ever sword-strike results in "instant" death, yknow (especially some of Skyrim's Cinematic Kills)…its in far better taste to simply have them fall down dead, and despawn the corpse…
Disappointing to see The Cantina jump on the race-bait wagon.
A realistic-ish medieval game set in Europe features white people? Imagine my shock!
If you don't like it, maybe you should play a different game that doesn't adhere so strictly to the standards of realism?
I think it's subjective though. Go look at William Wallace's sword for example, to us it would be heavy and cumbersome, but not to a man such as William Wallace (Scottish, absolute legend)
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Wait he has a sword in real life and not in a game……. Oh no
Love ya Cantina!!!
Aww, this was a good one 🙂
Oblivion combat dev: reads title heh
cantina: draws sword
everyone: BY THE GODS, THERE'S A PSYCHOPATH ON THE LOOSE!
Hope your doing alright Cantina.
To be fair, you're the one who brought up race.
aww yeah, the Cantina's going lindybeige
Because the games would be boring stand stills of trying to poke and cut each other even with bigger swords. Like look up some hema fights, hell I've participated in them. It's just a way to keep combat good without making them boring.
Not that hema isnt fun, but it probably lose its flair in a game.
Yeah fr Africans in Europe weren’t uncommon especially in Scandinavia since they mixed and raided them and integrated them into their society same as they did everyone else they raided/ traded with
Fun Fact: Dual wield was very uncommon in actual practice because swordsmen realized how ineffective it was.
0:20 my boy getting beer belly
So wait…you're telling me that Link's swing speed in Ocarina of Time is…realistic? Mind = blown
o no an oblivion gamer with a sword?!?!?! O NNOOO
"approaching with a sword, a guard can get nervous.."
morrowind with its 40lb goldbrand is silly
"Seriously skinny arms" I can relate 💀
What do you think of the combat of Kingdom Come Deliverance?
Careful cantina and heed the warnings of old,go woke go broke.
So a black guy has to be included because white european history offends you? Wow that so sad. It actually racist to force race into everything. If it fits with the context like a Moor but forcing some Frankish knight to be black is just fucking stupid.
5 almost identical shades of white guy LMFAO WTF!
let me guess can't be a girl either right? smh VSJDVJVD
as for swords thats one of the things i like about oblivion, two handed is slow yeah but one handed swords in it are pretty quick and make the combat more consistently engaging to me than skyrims slowly swinging boat oars LOL
Bring up the fact that in real life swords weren’t actually used in war because they were inferior in every way to spears. (Reach, piercing, costs etc)
1 minute in…. no no no.
daw fuck who have him a sword
Gotta say, I didn't expect such a historically based video on this channel XD Seems more like something from Shadiversity or Metatron, but I am impressed and glad. Nice video cantina.
Another game with more realistic sword combat is Kingdom Come Deliverance. I played that game recently and it was really fun. The combat was hard to get into at first because your character intentionally sucks at everything he does. But by the end you certainly feel like a master of the sword arts. Or mace arts in my case because yeah, I mainly used maces.
Hey, Cantina-guy, nice woke rant about the lack of diversity in Medieval European warfare.. Is this the part where you shock us all by saying you have Jewish heritage and hate white people living together and European history? Subsaharan African knights & man-at-arms LMAO
Black people were not common at all in medieval Europe, not nearly as common that they should be always shown in medieval based movies and games. There were Moors in Spain and some traders in the Mediterranean but who besides them? Medieval Europeans were of Germanic, Slavic, Celtic, Roman, Greek, Ugro-finnic, Baltic and etc. decent and none of those ethnic groups were black. Mass migration from Africa was not a thing back then. Even today blacks are exceptionally rare in European countries without high migration rate. And great majority of blacks who live in Europe today came here, or their ancestors did, very recently. Blacks in medieval art, which is also exceptionally rare, are mostly Balthazar, St. Maurice or Moors which proves that medieval Europeans knew for the existence of black people, but not they were common across Europe. Most of ''medieval'' art that shows black people I've been able to find on the internet is not actually medieval but from colonial age. This game is fantasy so they could have put blacks in, but since it's based on medieval Europe only white characters are completely appropriate.
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Can you talk about how realistic armor is in video games
The most unrealistic thing about this is actually how most games allow you to kill a knight in plate armor by whacking him with a sword… there's a reason they stopped using shields and started using 2-handed weapons once plate armor became widespread. You CANNOT cut plate armor with a sword! If you are lucky you may stab through but you have much more luck wedging it into a tiny little gap. Shadiversity even reckons there might have historically been more dagger kills than sword kills in situations where the opponent is fully clad in plate armor.
Also SHAME! You talk about sword realism but not Kingdom Come Deliverance? tsk tsk… nah we still love you 🙂