Thread 718369481

>fantasy game
>only fast traversal option is a horse
If a game has elfs and dwarfs in addition to humans, why can't it have more fantastical mounts too?

fweewen is not that small

Frieren (formda de largogato)

>>718369481 (OP)
Does Frieren have any defense against someone with a sniper rifle blowing her head off from 700m away?

This thread will totally be about video games

>>718369713
Frieren is basically a standard powerwank series so it would probably be said that she simply keeps a passive magic barrier up at all times like how she casts magic concealment at all times. Don't think too hard about it, it's like asking if you can snipe Goku.

>>718369713
Honestly, most top-tier magicians rarely have any defenses against snipers. Doctor Strange, Dumbledore, Gandalf, Zatanna, etc. - like 95% of magical characters would be taken out by a bullet to the head.

>>718370157
People like to joke about Harry Potter with guns, but Voldemort actually is immune to them through 99% of the series (it would still slow him down though)

>>718369713
I don't know about Frieren, but some fantasy settings have explained it away as having a passive barrier up at all times or tying magic in to reflexes. That said a lot of magic systems fall apart because you would think they could figure out at some point putting a lot of magic power/force in to a small projectile would be the strongest thing to do in just about any scenario.

I think star wars books did magic the best, force users always see slightly in to the future and almost always just themselves. So that laser blast that hits you in the chest in one second? Just move the light saber to block that spot

>>718369481 (OP)
like wheelchairs?

>>718369980
>it's like asking if you can snipe Goku.
We know the answer to that, although it depends on the weapon. As a kid, Goku was sniped by a conventional rifle. The bullet hurt him, but still bounced off. As an adult, he was sniped by a laser gun. It went right through him.

>>718369481 (OP)
Magical surfboard/skateboard/sled
Giant chicken
Friendly Mimic where you sit on the chest and it sprints to your destination
Hang Glider
Ghost Waifu who holds your hand and allows you to fly
Very Large Cannon that launches you across the continent
Grapple Hooks
Friendly Dolphin that lets you hitch a ride and won't lead you to a rape cave
Giant Turtles that do the rounds between a series of villages so you can just chill on its back

>>718370834
final fantasy almost had it right with the giant chickens, wish they were the main mode of transportation tho

>>718369713
Its not explicitly stated in the show but after reading Eragon forever ago, I just assume all magicians/magic users put up some kind of barrier or ward that protects them from a projectile attack. I have never seen any character like this get killed by an arrow or bullet across every show or game I have seen that would break this assumption

>>718371119
This is also how characters like John Wick survive gunfights, he casts ward

>>718371476
It's because he wears a bulletproof suit. This is like that discussion in Game of Thrones, where the little girl is doing gymnastics and saying that some fancy pants fighting style is what makes her idol the best fighter. Then the big guy bends the girl's rapier against his armor and says the guy wins a lot because he has a big sword and thick armor.

>>718369481 (OP)
How many people at once could an average uma carry?

>>718372205
They can lift 100s of kg, it's more of a question of stability for the riders

Who's the better ace for the Taurus cup bros? Also am I GMI

>>718369713
frieren gets jobbed by any goon with a sword in melee range. she would have no counter against sneak attacks of any kind. of course she has arbitrary plot armor in her story but without it she's a glass cannon that needs a frontline by her own words.

>>718374558
I saw a webm where she made strings out of thin air and used them to dismember a guy stuck in a jail cell with her. She's an OP as fuck mary sue that will never be challenged. Her fighting expression will always be :| to signify how bored she is.

>>718369481 (OP)
CHICKEN JOCKEY

>>718374846
Correction, she was attacked by a guy with magic string. However, he was an inexperienced retard who left himself wide open and got dismembered by some kind of slicing wind spell. Both Frieren and the guy's own allies called him rash and stupid.

Frieren is powerful, but the whole point of the series is about how she is the long-lived mage from the party of heroes who killed the demon lord like 80 years ago. She is OP as fuck, but the draw of the series isn't the combat. It's in the interpersonal relationships, and how this thousand year old elf hag reconciles her feelings regarding the hero she spent a "mere" ten years with, long after his death.

I imagine you'd be more interested in a child-targeted shounen anime like Naruto, Dragon Ball or My Hero Academia. Something where the spectacle of the fight scenes is more emphasised than the story.

>>718375489
Not the guy you replied to but saying that "the draw of the series isn't the combat" feels like a blatant lie after the show spent considerable amount of time explaining mages, spellcraft, them hiding their actual powerlevels in comparison to demons and actual fucking exam ripped from something like Naruto. Frieren irked me wrong way because it feels like main draw of the story is severely underutilized. I think the series would be good if instead Frieren hanging around same characters for whole series so far the cast would change every few episodes to showcase how passing years feel to her in comparison to her shorter lived companions with only important events really registering in her mind if at all. The series would then progress to showcase multiple parties she traveled with and how much or little things change across years. I don't think music, the way it looks and was animated can carry a wasted premise.

>>718375769
Also teleporting between Mage Guild (so you need a decent or neutral reputation with them to use them)
Also the Dunmer Fortresses (which you need a quest to actually use)
Also the two kind of scrolls that teleport you on the closest temple of one of the two religions.
Man, Morrowind was truly SOUL.

>>718375797
ur dum

>>718369713
Considering her reflexes are good enough to react to hypersonic attacks and that she tanked hits that would easily obliterate towns I'd say some dude with a sniper isn't a problem.

>>718369481 (OP)
SEGSO WITH WEIRD HONSE GRL AND BABA ELF

>>718369481 (OP)
Is this the uma thread?

because any other form of transportation would just be reskinned horses

>>718375489
>Actually you need a very high IQ to understand Frieren
Jesus Christ.

>>718377153
If it looks like a horse and sounds like a horse

>>718377426
"The Tolkien of anime", the standards are that low.

>>718375797
Tournament arc was the worst part of the story and felt like a betrayal to people like me who jumped into Frieren expecting a story about an autistic elf wanting to connect with her short-lived companions

>>718375489
>It's in the interpersonal relationships, and how this thousand year old elf hag reconciles her feelings regarding the hero she spent a "mere" ten years with, long after his death.
This cheap emotional hook was dropped a few episodes in anyway.

>>718377640
I guess, what CM league should I choose as a non-autist humble f2p?

>>718372205
They don't age after a certain point and can pull and carry giant tractor tires which are clearly several tonnes.
The developers says they are the Elves of their world, but they sound more like Virtrumites instead.
Now if only they were actually more horse sized.

>>718377690
If any anime deserves that title it should be Dungeon Meshi, till this day the author is fleshing out her world

>>718369481 (OP)
why would fantastical mounts be a thing? Elves are woodland treehuggers and dwarves are cave dwellers

>>718369481 (OP)
I usually go for engine on wheels with maybe a chair on it kinda like preorder bonus car in new mafia. Lookks better than moodern cars btw

>>718377943
>the raped

>>718378547
>Crushed pelvis

>>718378023
true lol, meshi world building is better than frieren

>>718378483
Redneck Elves that live in swamps, riding on domesticated alligators.
Forest/Desert elves that ride on domesticated rhinos.
Dwarves domesticating giant moles that bore holes through stone like butter and get harnessed like a sled dog.

>>718377943
>>718378665
>tfw you're in the timeline with human-sized umas

>>718374420
Left probably has enough stamina but I'd still go with right just in case, it also has better medium skills
>am I GMI
Haha...
>>718377906
If and only if your best medium option isn't B+ rank or above should you choose the kiddie league

>>718369713
Not having sniper rifles in the setting is a good defence against them

>>718377943
>don't age
>around since ancient times
Are they functionally immortal? They don't give of a centuries old vibe, if so

>>718379239
Would it just be like being a shota in one of those Oneesan Gyaru/Milf doujins?

Are any of the poverty SSR cards(McQueen, Rice, and Winning Ticket) worth upgrading?

>>718379794
We have the equivalent of the Japanese Man o' War still looking, moving and running arond like a young girl, and that one was from around WWII, so they clearly live for a long time.
If they ever hope to add more legendary horses in the future, my guess is that they are more or less immortal.

>>718379969
Rice is good for debuffers, but you can cleat the others for free pulls trust me bro.

>>718380041
Trap with "legendary" horses is that most of them would be just a horse of a famous guy, not an actual famous horse.
I can name only a handful of historical horses that would fit

Big hors.....

>>718380210
I don't know some like Bucephalus would be interesting either way, especially since the Umas also seem to take characteristics from their jockeys when they get Isekai'd.
So we basically would have Iskandar in Uma form I guess.

>>718375797
>feels like a blatant lie after the show spent considerable amount of time explaining mages, spellcraft, them hiding their actual powerlevels in comparison to demons
worldbuilding
>and actual fucking exam ripped from something like Naruto.
jangling keys for the average retard

if you want your story to be good youll do the same

>>718369713
>>718379349
Frieren and her party had to fight assassins at some point and she was extremely wary about the very skilled archer getting their location through a magic user feeding them information in real time
Maybe she does have protection against such projectiles and she was more concerned for her human companions but idk

>>718380440
>Bucephalus
He was my 1st though. That and what i thought was Napoleon's horse, but looking it up i learned that i remembered the anecdote about bread for his horse wrong and the horse's name wasn't relevant

>>718380210
>doesn't know THE GOAT horse

>>718380486
How do you worldbuild when the point of your setting is being the most generic fantasy ever, with the pièce de résistance being that you intentionally didn't add anything interesting to it to be a "break from subversion".
I should at least be thankful they left everything arbitrary instead of adding levels and EXP and spell slots and gaymer shit, the mark of modern anime sewage.

How you gonna have a universe about the best race horses in history, and not have Secretariat though?
Also, do only race horses get Isekai'd there, or is it any horse?
Would like to see some regular horses with more normal or goofy backstories reincarnated there, if only for some background world building or references.
Or maybe some war horses being referenced

do you answer the call

>>718381138
Pot-8-os when

>>718380262
Look at that earth shake when she jumps. God i love big horses

>>718380674
You don’t. That’s kind of the whole grift, innit? They wanted to make something so stripped down and “comforting” it loops back to being creatively bankrupt. It’s the IKEA furniture of storytelling-technically functional, but soulless unless you project something meaningful onto it. And yeah, dodging the gacha UI-laced, status effect-riddled “RPG mechanics” is a mercy I didn’t expect from a show that screams “12-year-old power fantasy.” But that still doesn’t excuse why everything feels like it was assembled out of discarded trope DLC.

>>718369481 (OP)
My horse daughter and granny daughter

>>718381138
Sergeant Reckless was a fucking warhero, she got a ton of medals too and survived the war.

>>718375797
>>718377730
The real point of the tournament arc was to introduce a bunch of characters like Übel and Denken that the author could then bring in again for later arcs. Not that you'd know that if you only watched the anime.

>>718381709
I'm reading the manga you retard, there's other ways to introduce them without using the one battle story trope that's been used to death
The El Dorado arc kinda makes up for it so whatever, but the tourney arc was a slog to read

>>718369713
Shit stories never bother explaining things like this, so the answer is always yes, they could snipe her.

In something like hunter x hunter the people fighting were as durable as normal humans, to fortify themselves they used magic on themselves to form a protective barrier, which means if they caught you without that barrier on they could easily kill you
There was this episode where they caught one of the strongest criminals and sedated him(obviously it wasn't strong enough) and they literally couldn't do anything to him to torture him because he kept the barrier up at all time so they couldn't really hurt him

What i want to say with all of this is that modern anime is garbage