What is the appeal? even non-Japanese games wank the Katana

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST BUY A GUN WHAT ABOUT THE HONOR OF A FAIR DUEL

Imagine being a weeb and thinking that this sword isn't trash. Even the chinese and romans made better swords 2000 years earlier.

Normal katanas are boring as shit. I like those fuckhuge sephiroth tier katanas though, but very few games let you use those. I remember way of the samurai let you use one

Nobody actually cared about honorable melee. All samurai clans (not just Oda) adopted guns when they got them, and Japanese also started making their own.

SCUM

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They're iconic but odachi are cooler

Imagine being a retard caring about reality in video games. The aesthetics are all that matter.

Haha remember that time when owning a sword in Japan was illegal haha man that worked out well haha

Japan used to have gobs of soft power, a euphemism for popular cultural exports, in the 80's and 90's, and they still have some.

It just looks cool and quick draw iai techniques they usually come with are the shit.

it's a good looking saber that doesn't have the meat cleaver bit at the end that makes them look arabian

It's both elegant looking weapon, and noticeably different from "default" European swords. In world of popculture, functionality isn't even important if it looks good.

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It's like less gay saber without the silly handle guard.

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another example

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They're flashy as fuck.

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Yes, I agree. The Katana is shit.

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>meanwhile in reality

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They look beautiful. I do know that the katana is not the perfect sword or anything and has its flaws but damn they look so good. I believe it's a testament to the work and effort put into it that the smiths were able to make something like that despite the material they have to work with

The seething chink hivemind.

Katanafags absolutely btfo

reality is gay and katana are just cool to have in games

>Don't mind me, i'm just the best sword ever made by human hands

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What do you faggots care?

It's not like you'll ever kill a man with one.

Don't tempt the autists.

Wootz steel is OP pls nerf

Much sharper while still being lighter in general than the weird pig iron swords they use in europoor countries
Also it actually requires skill to use unlike the weird iron clubs with edges

what was the best melee weapon ?

>chink

That's a Euro Longsword retard

>while still being lighter
good job outing yourself weeb, I bet my ass that you've never held either of the actual swords. No, shitty chink replicas made out of spit and glue don't count.

Nip Katana versus the Euro Longsword

Spear

A hammer.

I prefer the german katana

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>Use a tool in a way it was never designed or meant for
>Tool does poor job at thing it wasn't supposed to do in the first place
>HA TOOL SUCKS
Retard

All blunt weapons, but especially great clubs. Fuck minmaxing halberdfags.

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Weeb fingers typed this post.

iron fan

you dont messer around

enough samurai & shinobi games, give me a single player action-rpg wuxia or xianxia game with flying swords with cliché cultivation systems

like with any type of weapons, depend on situation really. I suppose spear is your best blind choice in realistic battle scenario, because reach and simplicity are always valuable.

>swords aren't designed to resist the impact of another sword

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Fuck off carlos you cheeky spic

clamp your buttstucks (yes, I know it hurts) and see what this webm responds to

swords dont clash in combat? stfu you are the retard also what's stress testing? the level of cope of these weebs, you'll never be japanese faggot.

Not to defend the weeb's retardation but you're supposed to deflect the blows with the Mune aka back of the sword.

>>Use a tool in a way it was never designed or meant for
So you're syaing you're not supposed to hit things with the Katana? It's just a decorative weapon?

They are not
If you hit edge on edge you're a retarded fuckup
you parry with the flat of the blade

t. knows nothing about swords

Well made European swords are extremely light, lighter than katana as a matter of fact

well, you're supposed to deflect strikes, not stop them dead on tracks. Not wanting to damage your weapon is just one reason for that

>What is the appeal?
Weeaboo points. Old samurai movie aesthetics carried on into modern cinema. See Kill Bill and zombie flicks.

Not at all true. I own both, and they weigh the same. Balance is different, though.

Katanas were forged from layered steel that was designed to not break upon impact, but instead chip and bend, so that the sword could be easily reforged. The steel the Japanese have in their mainland is garbage compared to European steel, so they made do with what they had. This is why you have the "folded 1000 times" meme, you need to fold the crap iron 15-20 times to get the impurities out of it to make it good enough for a sword.

because a duel or battlefield is a clinical environment where the ideal situation happens every time, try thinking outside your narrow perspective for once.

Euros made the best swords

is peak sword design

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The two blades clash in the middle edge-on-edge with a loud “clang!” There is just one problem. No two cutting-swords—historical or replica, authentic or modern, Asian or European —would withstand such abuse without their edges being severely gouged in the process. This is a problematic issue of historical fencing exploration that can be addressed reasonably and factually.

When it comes to historical swordsmanship, such a description stands in direct contrast to how edged weapons were actually handled and employed.

So no

Kill bill is shit though

yup, better than the katana. You could still grab it by the blade and bash someone with the handguard to death.

Normies love it.

Literally a two-handed cavalry sabre.

why didn't japs use shields

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Straight swords look fucking dull, and extremely curved swords look fucking gay. Aesthetic-wise, katanas are the middle ground.

As for realism, who cares, reality is the saddest unfun shit you can imagine anyway.

Not honourabbubu

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You're not supposed to use your edge when deflecting or blocking a blow

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That will break your blade after a while. It’s better to try dodging or use something actually meant for blocking.

Care to elaborate on why it’s shit? Or you just parroting This website’s popular = shit obsession?