Why are video games so lacking in Sword and Sorcery kino?

Gary Gygax was originally going to make D&D sword n' sorcery themed because thats what he preferred, but all his cohorts were huge Tolkienfags so he changed the theming to please them. Unfortunately we have been stuck with Tolkienfaggotry as the dominant theme of fantasy ever since..

One of my problems with western games is how they ignore some of the great western fantasy and sci-fi artists. Games that actually look like those greats painted them into motion on your screen is a future I still dearly wish to see but current "eccentricities" of the west have labelled such things anathema at best. They'd rather all have the same cartoon art style with the same hideously limited 'western rpg customization' options that don't hold a candle to eastern games (and I'm not talking art style here, I'm talking pure customization). Usually as in the Elder Scrolls games it wholly up to modders to fix such things but many games don't have the toolsets or mod support to make similar magic happen leaving any wrpg audience with basically nothing to work with.

So the customization in the west is shit and so are the art styles even though there are great western artists to pull from. It makes no fucking sense and fuck everyone responisble for "thats not a realistic depictions of-"FUCK YOU I DONT CARE.

Having one SnS-ish character doesn't make it a SnS game.

I'd kill for decent art like this in modern western games and animation.

Japanese sword and sorcery is 99% shit.

But user, the bikini armor is made of mythril enhanced with a magical aura that covers the skin and is only effective if sunlight or moonlight shines onto it, meaning they can't wear clothing over it.

I beg to differ, I think bikini armor serves to flavour the sort of fantasy world we're in. I'd much rather this sort of silliness because it tells me the setting just wants to have a good time as opposed to having to fret about the realisticness every parry technique and tax policy. Obviously there are several degrees of fantasy to be engaged in, I just think we who like the sword and sorcery like it because of how unrealistic it is.

too bad the game is kinda ass

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then why is she wearing a big stupid glove? the bikini armor isn't really what bothers me as i already said. its the nonsensical design of having most of the body naked and then randomly slapping heavy plate in super uncomfortable places. the metal underboob pasties are just brutal

this painting is the definition of butterface

I wouldn't call that decent art mostly due to the heavy rotoscoping it used, but it was impressive for its time which was 1983. I just wish we got a modern day take on Frazetta's stuff, I know there's that Primal cartoon that took heavy influence from Frazetta's art but that show doesn't really scratch my sword and sorcery itch.

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>shit like kills all immersion
No it doesn't. You grew up with conan and for all the claims of conan wearing full armor I can name masses of scenes and even the first half of one entire book where the dude was lucky to even be in a dirty loincloth. Hell int he black stranger he doesn't even have that for a good portion of one scene.

Don't fucking talk about lacking armor or stupid armor or no armor or outright nudity being unimmersive. Nothing was more immersive than three straight chapters of conan roughing it and dealing with picts and his hit and run tactics versus theirs and shit like that. That was fucking top tier shit and it's followed up by scenes of a barely clothed woman on a beach and every single lack of clothing and nudity instance made perfect fucking sense including another book where a literal nude warrior woman tore a dude's nose off with her teeth and came up covered in blood.

Fuck everyone that shits on nudity and skimpy clothes/armor in fantasy. Fuck every last one of you.

I made that up, I was just attempting to show how easily you can justify this shit with magic and it doesn't matter if it's "unrealistic".

I fucking wish they had today's technology in the 80s and 90s, when not everything was as cucked as it is today.

I mean one of the major issies here is they didn't bother with character shadows on the ground/themselves but otherwise it looks decent.

This is pure rotoscoped homosexuality.

No wonder boomers grew up to be such sex fiends

Bikini armor isn't immersion breaking in SnS because its going with the whole wild barbarian savage warrior archetype, this isn't some obsessively world built fantasy setting it runs on rule of cool/sexy/badass, let I also remind you men in SnS are equally ill clothed just check out so much 80s fantasy art.

God I wish Conan Exiles was made into some kind of single player game. It looks and sounds like Conan, but it doesn't have the kind of Conan world I'd want to explore and play around in.

I'd preorder right goddamn now if there was some bastard lovechild of Dragon's Dogma and Conan Exiles somewhere.

Blade & Sorcery is pretty fun. I just wish those asshats would hurry up and make an actual game around it.

Yeah they need an actual game to compliment the building shit. I suppose the building shit is more profitable though. I don't mind the building shit I just wants some actual swords and sorcery and npcs that I can really interact with and quest lines and cool battles and fucking execution moves and shit.

In some ways the first 20 levels of their conan MMO is a better RPG because it has the 'night' version of the world that really is just a story driven single player RPG and it would be fantastic if not for the shitty MMO combat system.

actually kino as fuck where can i watch this series?

One day I believe a game will actually bring back western art that doesn't look like progressive trash.

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No idea, but I want a come back. Full fledged RPGs especially.

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Restrictions and adversity bring out people's true talents. The reason all art is shit today precisely, because of the advance of technology. There's a reason art across the board is lazier and less technical, and modern artists trying to make up for it by giving more value to the abstract as a cope.

It's movie called Fire and Ice.

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At this rate there's probably going to be a Mount and Blade: Bannerlord mod that does the same thing rather than FunCom actually making the kind of game we're talking about. That'd be pretty dope as well. Just add some ruins and dungeons for a party leader and a small band of people (like the groups that do night attacks on bandit camps) and maybe some new perks and magic and you've basically got the whole Conan experience right there.

I dunno, Gwent had modern art in it that was decent. Just getting people to put that in an actual game that isn't made by CDPR is an issue. Even CDPR didn't really fully realize the style in 3D due to hardware limitations.

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