Thread 719697348

Are there any modern games that still embrace the old school heavy metal fantasy aesthetic? I want giant axes, chainmail bikinis, grotesque monsters, flaming skulls, and generally relentless violence and sex.

>>719697348 (OP)
I wanna try that Blades of Fire game, that may scratch itch because I feel the same way.

real Conan was nothing like this :)

>>719697348 (OP)
I have only read Arawn vol.1. But I bet that's more than you mister aesthetic.

>>719697493
Yeah, he was like a warrior thief. Using his brawn, but always a quick thinker. Couldn't always take every foe on with his blade or fists alone. Such as luring deadly enemies into traps with black lotus pollen.

>>719697348 (OP)
this but unironically

>>719697348 (OP)
The only way you'd get something like this again is when it sets out to be for a very specific and niche audience. Fantasy in general is in very rough shape. You either have stuff in the vein of Harry Potter or you have ultra gritty and "realistic" Game of Thrones stuff. There's no room for stories about a simple man walking around in his underwear fucking babes and killing monsters.

Most quintessential Conan-core game:
Rastan.

>>719697348 (OP)
Doom the Dark Ages clearly tried to mimic the 80s heavy metal aesthetic, but it came across as really corporate and lame.

>>719697583
He also wore armor when he had the chance.
Also, that pale woman? Naked all of the time.

>>719697741
>Doom the Dark Ages clearly tried to mimic the 80s heavy metal aesthetic
no

>>719697348 (OP)
Dragon's Dogma

>>719697675
>a very specific and niche audience
This subgenre appeals to something primal in the straight man's soul. Just because zoomzooms think we've evolved past it doesn't mean they wouldn't love it if they actually experienced it.

>>719697613
Reminds me of Dio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lvs2FzF64o

>>719697741
>no cheesecake and barely any beefcake
you wouldn't get it.

>>719697348 (OP)
>192x262

Just go back to the 80/90s sidescrollers.

>>719697348 (OP)
Too problematic. Games aren't made for red blooded white men anymore

>>719697718
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Slf1QML_E

>>719697956
>straight man
>wants to see sweaty mostly naked muscular men in fur bikini bottoms

>>719698229
so? worried you're gonna pop a boner?

Name 3 Bande Déssinées from Heavy Metal.
>Bandard Fou
>Arawn
>L'Incal

Just get friends and play tabletop RPGs.

>>719698282
>druuna
>lorna
>ranxerox

>>719697348 (OP)
somehow, dragons dogma 2 is the most recent major release to even give us a glimpse of this aesthetic. they did it better in 1 and even then it was toned down. but that is what we have.

>>719698145
This. King of Dragons, Knights of the Round, even more recently Dragon's Crown. For some reason the Sword and Sorcery genre seems to be stuck to hack and slash games

>>719697613
I'M NEVER GONNA TURN DOWN AGAIN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMUDVMiITOU

That used to be the American kind of fantasy, based on the US pulp novels and comics. Now fantasy in US is created by millennial women who think all fiction needs to be therapy.
There are many reasons and explanations for the shift, but one major one is that men as a demographic generally have kinda checked out from recreational literature as a media both as creators and consumers, so there has not been new generations of male fantasy authors.

>>719700753
Unironically, piracy may have lessened the influence (money) of men who are capable of pirating. The low IQ retard masses and women are all spend spend spend.
t. pirate

>>719697613
damn that's gay

>>719699453
Dragon's Crown was the last hurrah. Now not even Vanillaware would make another game similar to it, since George Kamitani decided to take more of a backseat role.

I've been reading Conan a lot lately and it's really good. Including a fair amount of pastiche, but it's crazy that even the best pastiche writer pales in comparison to REH on an off day.

>>719698361
>friends
how?

>>719698028
>Heavy Metal
Dear God how they have fallen.
Heavy Metal used to be THE adult comic magazine. Now it's dead.

>>719697348 (OP)
Gauntlet (2014), if you consider that modern like I do
>>719699453
I wish Dragon's Crown was on PC
>>719702279
REH packs a lot into his short stories and dialogue/descriptions.

I recommend the Dark Horse run of Conan comics, too.
They fill in the gaps inbetween the canon Conan stories, with varying results, but the overall series is very good.

>>719702004
>he doesn't wear nothing but fur-briefs, fur gloves and fur boots of animals he killed bare-handedly to assert dominance against all who play false metal and woo the fairest of maidens

ngmi

>>719702689
>I wish Dragon's Crown was on PC
It is. It even runs better than it did on the PS3, anon. Make a little effort and you can easily find out how to play it.

>>719702868
I don't know much about PS3 emulation, what do you use?

>>719702689
>I wish Dragon's Crown was on PC
Same. I would buy it again in a heartbeat.

>>719697348 (OP)
Vidya industry developed properly after Sword and Sorcery fad already passed.

>>719699453
>Knights of the Round
>"Percival"
>"An eager 16 year old"

>>719697613
Someone said Manowar was a soft parody of power metal, is that true? I'm inclined to believe it on account of their recent release but there's a genuine feeling in their older stuff, I can't make heads or tails.

>>719697613
i heard one of their members got exposed for being a pedo or something
anyway manowar suck

Any games where you can play as Red Sonja (or make her in character creation)?

Age of Barbarian is OK.

>>719697348 (OP)
Classic god of war
Prince of persia
Dante’s inferno
Barbarian ps2
Brutal legend
Blade of darkness

>>719704107
Damn, it's impressive how all of these look like the same. They all look like generic NPCs from Fire Emblem.

>>719702602
Well it was very poorly run by Kevin Eastman for 20 years, and then it got very anti-cheesecake so it's no wonder it got cancelled as a book.
I've not tried the relaunch that happened this year or the Metal Hurlant one either but I would guess Hurlant is the better of the two since it has the eurocomic back catalogue to rely on

>>719697348 (OP)
Blade of Darkness is exactly what you want (minus the sex, although it does have a hot Amazon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBQnHRmovog

>>719698145
Really if you think about it the likes of Golden Axe and Rastan were already after their time. Both Hollywood and the Italians had pretty much stopped making such movies by that time.

>>719704394
Those Funcom Conan games probably

>>719704135
Manowar isn't and never was "parody", they didn't take themselves too seriously but neither do most power metal bands. (The genre is inherently cheesy and everyone knows it)
Nearly naked muscle men was unironically considered cool back then.

>>719705417
>failcom
stfu any time

>>719697348 (OP)

I guess Dragon´s Dogma is the closest thing but not really.

>>719697493
Conan is not real.

>>719699453
I want an actual rpg in that art style.

>>719705386
Id love a BoD remaster, it was one of my alltime favorite games growing up

>>719697493
Red Nails
>no chainmail bikinis, but everybody is wearing a loincloth including Conan
>grotesque monsters
>literal flaming skull lich/wizard thing
>like 20 mentions of someone being bled out in a short story
>Conan is constantly trying to fuck Valeria, the weird city people are just fucking in a lounge room all the time

>>719697348 (OP)
this is very anti-semitic

>>719706461
There was a remaster, in 2021, that's what that video is

>>719697751
As she should be.
Red Sonja was topless most of the time too

>>719705073
>modern

>>719697741
probably because Bethesda is really corporate and lame. We want the 80s heavy metal aesthetics but btw, what are your pronouns?

>>719706470
There was also the run-in Conan had with the Frost Giant's Daughter and all her bullshit.
By the end of it Conan is so angry and maddened that he tries to rape her, but snaps out of it once she invokes her father, god Ymir, who spirits her away. The murderous demigoddess could have done with some correction, all things considered.

Are the Conan books worth reading?

Path of Achra hits some really good sword & sorcery and weird fantasy notes.

>>719707474
Most versions of that story, Conan is clothed since he is in the far north of Hyborea and is just coming out of a Battle
Conan does wear armour and clothes in most stories, the main exceptions are stories where he's a thief like God in the Bowl, Tower of Elephant or Rogues in the House or his taken prisoner like the Scarlet Citadel or the Hour of the Dragon

>>719697493
>nothing like this
Why? Just because he was most likely a redhead considering his people?

>>719707569
The original Pulps are mostly good but some are bad, and you can tell REH was just writing for a quick paycheck.
Prose Pastiches are a separate matter, and most can be avoided.
Comics are alright, but a mixed bag.

>>719697348 (OP)
>modern
>chainmail bikinis
It is an aesthetic lost to time

>>719701916
Lies. The overwhelming majority of pirate copies would have never became purchases. They are either by those too poor, by those who will never buy anyway due to a number of reasons, or as of late used in place of no longer existing demos.

I'm planning on modding Skyrim into something like this.
Wish me strength to not give up halfway trough testing and tuning.

>>719707569
I personally love them. They're short stories, not full novels, so they're easy to read in one sitting and they're all very interesting. My personal favourites are Queen of the Black Coast, Shadows in Zamboula, and Devil in Iron. SiV in particular is a very gripping read. It'll have you by the throat before you know it and won't let go.

>>719707569
Yes, but only the ones written by Robert Howard, Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter. Ignore everything else.

>>719708308
I saw an excerpt on /lit/ of a conan story that was pretty much just socialist propaganda. Do you have any idea of who could have written it?

>>719708797
The thing with Conan books that pretty much everyone can write one. I'm not sure how exactly this works from the ip laws pov, I assume there is some royalties contract.
So answering your question I have no idea.

>>719709192
Conan is still copyrighted, but it is bit of a clustered clusterfuck where various media rights are fractured and there is not a singular one Conan owner. It should have lapsed into public domain already like Lovecraft's work has, but the IP holder kikery still keeps it under copyright because the waters are a bit muddly about how Howard's estate was handled and by how Sprague de Camp contributed to early Hyboria.

>>719709192
Everything Howard wrote is free of rights, things written by other people later isn't. So you can use everything from his stories, but if you bring bikini chainmail Red Sonja or Tulsa Doom from the movie instead from Kull's tales, you have a copyright problem.
In short, make sure to read Howard's Conan before writing your Conan tale. Or make it so out there you're safe.

>>719697348 (OP)
No.
Gaming has never matured.

>>719707991
Kek

was the biopic good?

>>719707569
Yes, REH's works on the character are all excellent; pastiche is a mixed bag that shouldn't be delved into until you've read REH's works in full. For pastiche, Camp and Carter wrote a fair amount that are okay and rewrote and edited REH's works for the worse, but it's easy to find the original versions of his stories now. John Maddox Roberts, John C. Hocking, and Robert Jordan blow their works out of the way. There are others like Nyberg and Paul Anderson that are worth your time as well, but none do Conan better than REH did.

>>719697741
That's because they are terribly scared of nudity and female body. Just look at this creature, jesus fuck.
The enemy designs are also very "corporate" and safe.

>>719709760
I kinda wish people would do more with Howard's original Red Sonya (a Slavic gunslinger woman who fights Turks in the 16th century) who is in the public domain.

>>719707013
well yeah, the ps2 is a modern console

We're not going to get a game like this from a mainstream dev, even if they are fans of 80s heavy metal aesthetics there's a high chance they are also troons and surrounded by likely-minded troons, so anything they shit out will be as bland and corporate as Dark Ages.

I do not want modern day developers to touch the barbarian aesthetic, they'll make it gay.

I remember playing Age of Conan when it released (the MMO) and the whole thing about being able to go topless kek, even in the promotional material there were digital posters of her fully nude etc.

Is there a single story in this type of aesthetic that is focused on a cool wizard or a sorcerer?
I know there's Bastard but it's japanese.
Seems like a cool direction for a potential game.

Real Conan would respect trans right, ask for your pronouns and tell us to be better Type As

>>719710364
Kill yourself

>>719710196
They did that ages ago when the LGBT community infected D&D. It's normally women barbarians etc now.

Where would you live /v/?

>>719710364
>"Conan.. what is best in life?"
>Respect your enemies
>See that they are cared for
>Hear the hardship of the trannies

>>719710338
hard to say because typically in conanesque stories, wizards are evil, magic is shunned and requires huge sacrifice (like kill a person to summon one demon ape for one day to do your bidding)
maybe try elric of melbourne

>>719710489
Wasn't Aquilonia the most prosperous and advanced?

Also
>Iranistan
kek

>Vendhya
Imagine the smell.

>>719697493

Conan is whatever the popular culture says he is, and it says he's what's in the OP.

>>719710489
Hyrkania.
Thousand miles of fucking nothing.

>>719710489
Vanaheim all the way

>>719697348 (OP)
>Are there any modern games that still embrace the old school heavy metal fantasy aesthetic?

No. I've been thinking about that lately too, how cool it would be to have an RPG with that aesthetic, but I don't think there's been one since like 1992 (Ishar series). I think current game companies are simply too dickless, both figuratively and literally, to do it justice. You need a LOT of testosterone to do it without feeling the need to apologize for it or turn it into a parody. Also you need the ability to disregard review scores because the current games media will rake you on hot coals for making something, anything, that 100% aims itself at male players.

>>719710338
Wizards being evil and/or insane tends to be a staple of the sub-genre. Thundarr the Barbarian has a sorceress in the main trio. It is a post-apocalyptic story where the world has devolved into sword & sorcery barbarism after a global societal collapse, so it is not everyone's cup of tea thematically. The 80s cartoon is fun, and Dynamite Comics is currently doing a comic book revival.

>>719710489
Stygia is way too green in this map. It's meant to be proto-Egypt, and it's depicted as such in REH's stories. The jungles should be moved to the Pictish Wilderness.

>>719710337
>the whole thing about being able to go topless
Only reason I put down my WoW-addiction to give it a look. I didn't beat my addiction

>>719711009
Did you beat anything else?

>>719710965
Thought it was meant to be sort of Desert/Jungle mix.

>>719710101
>>719710196
This.
At least wait a decade and see how the industry is doing in 2035.

>>719711009
Me and a friend tried it, and actually stuck around for a few months. The soundtrack was amazing, plus for some reason everyone was really into the RP, especially at taverns etc. Was quite fun whilst it lasted.

>>719710337
I got banned from /v/ a few weeks ago when I posted a screenshot from Age of Conan (there was an exposed nipple in the screenshot). Skill issue on my part.
AoC turned into a great game after 1-2 years of content updates.

>>719710338
>is there a single story in this type of aesthetic that is focused on a cool wizard or a sorcerer?

>>719710615
uh no Conan is who Howard wrote him as

>>719711389

Wrong, retard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3jimScV_14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdi1DSqBZ6Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmG2xcsvH8s
I miss fantasy. Not necessarily the wizards and fireballs kind but the creative kind, the one you'd see on pulp covers or in paintings where an artist asked "what if there was a kingdom on the moon?" or under the sea or in another dimension. Weird things to explore. Imagination running wild. We can facescan people and have photorealistic graphics but we can't make a world we would want to live in?

>>719711507
cope, only gay communists believe death of the author

>>719697348 (OP)
DD1 and 2 sometimes

>>719710615
>Conan is whatever the popular culture says he is
so this galadriel according to you?

>>719711601

"Popular culture" doesn't mean whatever shit came out most recently. It means the picture most people have in their minds when they think of the characters.
The real Conan is the Conan from Marvel comics and Vallejo/Frazetta art because that's how most of humanity pictures him. Maybe 1% of Conan fans have ever read a single thing by Howard.

>>719697613
THE GODS MADE HEAVY METAL
AND THEY SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD
THEY SAID TO PLAY IT LOUDER THAN HELL
AND WE PROMISED THAT WE WOULD

>>719711752
You're a normalfag who needs to kill himself.

>>719711364
Noice

>>719711593
Dragon's Dogma has the best "dude swinging a heavy sword" feeling on the market.

>>719705349
>and then it got very anti-cheesecake
wtf??

>>719698229
Yes

>>719697348 (OP)
You've been making a lot of the same shitty threads over and over lately on multiple boards. Are you off your meds again?

Tolkein > Howard

Conan is literal pulp slop.

>>719710489
River Thot (upstream of Lake Ho)

>>719712078
>Calling Howard slop
You are brown.

>>719711974
Basically, they ran stories about Taarna( the character from the movie), and they covered her up and made fun of the bikini armour.
Heavy Metal has not been a well-run magazine for a long time

>>719698282
Really the french have to pick up the ball and run with it. Because no one else can or will.

Streets of Rage 4 had absolutely fantastic aesthetics and music and reminded me how great things could be.

>>719712476
Broadsword is still around

>>719712536
>boob cat
>only two boobs
boo

>>719708140
Skyrim lacks hot amazon like mods because most of the outfits closer to it are straight up porn attires. Those cumbrains can't make anything decent without going full porn, so much they end up making most of the outfits too clean. The Amazing World of Bikini Armor would have been perfect if the author properly gave underwear that made sense in instead of being weird strings that covers nothing. Should be thongs instead.

>>719712773
look harder

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/20024

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/71999

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/41822

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/146621

>>719710337
I was SO hyped for this game before it came out and convinced my parents to buy it for me on launch, then I couldn't run it at more than 8 to 10 fps
never ended up playing it because I forgot about it by the time I upgraded

I had a fun time as a barbarian in elden rang

>>719697348 (OP)
Closest thing I can think that is new is Abathor, and it's more of an old D&D cast with a Conan rip off than what you're looking for. At the right there is an Elric rip off, and the other two are also from other books I can't remember.

>>719713471
Looks fantastic

>>719712078
>howard slop
yea you dont know about slop

>>719713471
>magik design was so good that abathor devs put her in the game

>>719710489
Nemedia

>>719714040
It is funny how pretty much entirety of Tarzan's popular culture image is based on the first relatively grounded books, when later on Burroughs went full literal capeshit with supervillains like witch and mad scientist, massive stakes and Tarzan going to places like Earth's core for his adventures.

>>719707861
did you fucking read the stories? He was explictly described as having black hair.

>>719706909
The fuck is that supposed to mean?

>>719712427
he is right you retard conan was marvelshit of it's time

>>719697348 (OP)
Gauntlet Dark Legacy

>>719697348 (OP)
Skyrim

>>719710337
Is it good now?

>>719712225
THE BIZ

>>719712060
It's the only thread I've ever made about this. Maybe you should refill YOUR meds, buddy.

ludo status?

>>719697936
No chainmail bikinis in pozzed Crapcom shit

>>719710489
>Kush
DUDE

>>719697493

Did you read the original stories? He fucks a bunch of women and kills a bunch of people in brutal combat. I’d say he is really like that.

>>719714278
What's that? Gaem?

>>719717137
Yes?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kush

>>719717234
Magik from Marvel Rivals.

>>719716935
Really nigga?

>>719717141
Are there great comics from that era that you heard of but that aren't as widely known as conan?

>>719697348 (OP)
Hoping that new Golden Axe is like this.

>>719716935
anon doesn't play videogames lmao

>>719699224
Lot of people saying DD. I think it does have a little bit of the look but it has none of the soul.

Any games where the big muscular hero fails to save the girl and she gets fucked by monsters?

>>719717489
You should make this.

>>719717287

Well, the original ones are short stories, not comics. I’m not too well read on the pulp scene from that era. I’m sure they exist but you’d have to do some digging. From about the 40s to 70s you get some pretty good pulpy man-focused novellas and short stories. Things like Travis McGee. If you’re into sexualized Nazi fanfic, Israel had a thriving market for BDSM pulp with hot Nazi women set during the Holohoax.

Any games where the big muscular man dumps his hot female sorceress for a lovely kissy 4-legged monster (or 5)?

>>719717475
>it has none of the soul
DD1 is soul overload. 2 is not as great but still gets carried by Ikeno's fantastic art.

>>719710672
Lmao, кaзaкcынбa?

>>719715005
If he had a prefigure.

>>719717353
They already showed how it looks and everybody is extra dressed and looking like they're from DnD4e.

From what book do the Conan books get good? I tried reading the very first one recently, and it is very plodding with a lot of narrative exposition about the world and its peoples, and the plot is focused on political intrigues. Not what I was looking for in a Conan story. I want high adventure, not alley crawling and assassinations of some minor nobility or other by poisoning.

>>719707861
Cimmerians are a black-haired, moody race of people. You're thinking of the Vanir, a race whose land, Vanaheim, borders on Cimmeria, who are red-haired and a gregarious people.

>>719718220
Vanirs were fucking normies and Cimmerians were doomers

>>719718220
Do they resemble the historical people called Cimmerians?

>>719718390
t. Æsirscum
Go kidnap another Cimmerian child since your own people don't have the strength for hard labor.

I love frazetta art, and would kill for a game where you play a big muscle man hacking up non-human hominids with an axe for trying to rape our scantliy-clad women.

>>719715736
the biz

>>719718446
Not at all; Cimmerians were designed to be proto-Gaelic, whereas real-life Cimmerians are proto-Thracian. REH lifted the name, and that's it as far as I know.

>>719717475
I've played it, and it's just generic fantasy shit in a modern/bad sense, Skyrim-level of soulless.

>>719717423
2 of those are mods thoughever.

>>719718129
From the start. If you want something more of an adventure, Queen of the Black Coast would probably be a better fit.

>>719717475
People are blinded by the silk lingerie and scarlett hosen.

>>719707569
Late reply but yes they're fun adventure tales.

It was real. All of it

>>719697583
I actually went through the conan stories last year, and it's a mix of both

he couldn't always take on any enemy with just his brawn....however he was FUCKING RIDICULOUS with his physical exploits, like in Beyond the Black River and The Slithering Shadow he kills demons whilst unarmed.
I'm struggling to remember which story it was now, but I remember in one Conan is trapped in a location with a wizard who is down a hallway gloating that Conan won;t be able to run at him to kill him with his axe before the wizard can cast a spell, so Conan throws the axe at lightning speed with perfect accuracy to hit the wizard from dozens of feet away, that is NUTS levels of skill and strength

I did really like how sneaky Conan could be though, his thief aspect wasn't well represented in the films

>>719712225
people may not like it, but this is what peak femal performance looks like

>>719710364
real Conan wouldn't give a shit as long as one of them didn't try to trick him

a big part of the stories is that Conan is a lot smarter and more reasonable than you would expect considering his origins and physique

>>719719138
all of these are in the game

is conan exiles worth a look if you are a solo player only

>>719710965
> It's meant to be proto-Egypt
Funny thing is that Northern Africa was much greener and wetter in the past (think 500 B.C.), and process called dessertification was massively accelerated by animal husbandry and farming. GG NO RE.

>>719721305
That was the entire Sahara

>>719721253
I would also like to know this, I worry that the main appeal is the online because of the building

also the price of the game and all it's DLCs seems ridiculously excessive

>>719720302
>I'm struggling to remember which story it was
Rogues in the House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4TwDasFnq0

>>719721373
Yup. Humans are a plague upon this planet, or so say some tree-huggers.

>>719721519
Thank you!

>>719721550
>or so say some tree-huggers.
tell that tree hugger to visit India

>>719711279
>I got banned from /v/ a few weeks ago when I posted a screenshot from Age of Conan (there was an exposed nipple in the screenshot).
I would call mods absolute faggots like they FUCKING ARE, but honestly, I am not sure if it's even mods these days. More like some AI bot. Some of the bans I've gotten in the last few months over NSFW pictures (even on /pol/) have been really fast. Like in terms of minutes.
There's no way there's that many mods monitoring that many threads at the same time so it's either some automated AI shit or the castrated normalfaggots/women/zoomers that this site has been infested with over the last few years are really smashing that report button often enough for mods to notice it faster. Which still makes mods GIGAFAGGOTS for actually indulding these scum but eh, water is wet.

>>719721519
>>719720302
That guy wasn't a wizard.

>>719721618
They did. That is why they have such a misantropic stance in the first place.

>>719710437
>It's normally women barbarians now
How is this a problem? That sounds like everything I've ever wanted

>>719721749
>sewers exist, therefore everything is shit

>>719697348 (OP)
Conan Exiles has got you covered. Yes, you can play it single-player.

>>719722037
Girls are icky though.

>>719722264
What are you, a faggot?

>>719721253
The combat is absolute dogshit, pure soulslike trash. Everything else is various degrees of alright. I honestly wouldn't play it alone. If you can, just play on your own heavily modded server with 1-2 friends.

>>719722407
>likes women, inherently feminine objects
>calls other people faggots
I prefer manly things because I'm a man, sorry.

>>719697348 (OP)
Exiled Kingdoms. Supposed to be mobile games best rpg. I bought it on steam and had a blast

>>719722842
>girls are icky
>i prefer manly things
Liking women and oggling them and prefering manly things are not mutually exclusive you nonce. Its the
>girls are icky
that outs you as a latent homosexual. Or underage. Or both.
Now vanish.

Found a copy of Golden Axe Beast Rider the other day. Never played any of the Golden Axe games but I like this one. It's not great but seeing as there aren't many developers making games with this artstyle, I take what I can get.

>>719721125
Guess that's true. Mistook the trickster robes for a sorcerer robe.
And my party is comprised of quite a few men I've noticed.

>>719712476
How could they so radically misunderstand their audience?

>>719721550
farming and agriculture doesn't actually destroy local wildlife and turn the land into a desert if you're not, yknow, brown.

>>719725257
Egyptians were white in the /pol/ lore though.

>>719697613
Absolutely based Manowar enjoyer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyjNkG3yKak

>>719712078
> "The potential greatest author of all time is greater than a very good but not as accomplished author"
wow really

>>719712078
Shut up. Howard stories/characters are mythical and iconic to this day.
I'm not going to diss Tolkien just because someone like you is using him to attack Robert.
He was a brawler and a writer, he was Steve Costigan fighting cultist in China, He was Conan fighting the picts. Howard is eternal.

>>719712225
>>719718883
I find really interesting Bisley's Slaine looks quite similar to book Conan.
>>719719815
Howard's idea about the fall and rise civilizations are fascinating. He truly was a prophet of a forgotten era.

>>719723135
Saint Jeanne in the thread!
>>719712225
>>719718883
Here's Slaine by the way, the picture I posted was from Conan the Savage by Quique Alcatena and written by Chuck Dixon.

>>719728012
Whoops, forgot pic related.
WEEP BLOOD FOMORIANS!!!!

>>719727807
Well Slaine was just Pat Mills doing his own Conan while also going on his hate boner for Rome

>>719697348 (OP)
I'm being completely serious when I say Wuchang.
The world is Chinese but all the aesthetics you're talking about in OP are there.

>>719728187
Slaine meeting William Wallace was pretty cool too.
There's a deep sense of nostalgia in the stories of Slaine. It's like seeing the last phoenix bird fly away, or a legendary elf having his last stand against the world.

>>719728187
But going back to the topic of Conan. Bisley's Conan looks like a mountain, book Conan on the other hand is described strong but also slim and agile, more cat-like, similar to how Bisley's Slaine looks in his book.

>>719697348 (OP)
Play Dominions and make pop-fantasy Germania bigger

>>719728475
I probably should reread some of Pat Mills' work, like WW3 and Finn, which was cancelled for being to similar to Slaine

industrial society... something

>>719728894
Beautiful
>>719728859
Have you read Nemesis the Warlock?

Off topic but idc: what are some media pieces about forsaken, cast off or pariah protagonists. What's kino, what isn't? Surviving an orc raid is cool, except not.

>>719728728
Bisley seems to have mostly been inspired by John Bushema's take on Conan, that pose is based on a sketch by Bushema, but even more exaggerated, Liam Sharp goes for a more Barry Windsor Smith design for him

REH was right, man is naturally barbarous, and civilization is a thin veneer that barely holds groups together.

>>719729074
Read Nemesis when it was storytime a couple of years ago on /co/

Is Conan Exiles actually worth getting tho

>>719717423
What is the armor on the left called?

>>719697348 (OP)
rune
blade of darkness
die by the sword
deathtrap dungeon sorta kinda

>>719697613
Brothers of Steel is a legit masterpeice. I hear they are bizarrely huge in Bulgaria.

>>719717141
I read the first collection volume, he fucks litteraly zero women

>>719697348 (OP)
I just play DND/Pathfinder games as a Barbarian.

>>719729447
it's fine if you like that sort of game but not worth it otherwise
>pic
That later part of Morrisons Green Lantern was so bizarre

>>719729228
>Liam Sharp goes for a more Barry Windsor Smith
Liam Sharp recently released his own Conan comic, for Titan Comics if I'm not mistaken. And speaking of Barry, BWS is THE Conan artist. which leads me to mention that Titan Comics are releasing old Conan volumes, and they are also releasing new stories.
It's a good time to be a Conan fan or a REH fan in general, we are getting another Solomon Kane mini-series and a comic about Steve Costigan.

>>719729523
what an uncanny ad
the mom is looking at the tits and the boy is looking at the missing head

Reminder Morrowind is the perfect not-Hyborian story

>>719729997
Sharp has been doing some stories in the new Savage Sword magazine by Titan, but he hasn't done that many.
You might be conflating his Conan work with the announcement that his doing Spawn:the Dark Ages

>>719729997
I heard the titan comics are really good, I need to get to them one day.

>>719730325
>You might be conflating his Conan work with the announcement that his doing Spawn:the Dark Ages
oh yeah

>>719729489
Enigmatic Robe I think.

>>719717423
dios mio....

>>719697741
>but it came across as really corporate and lame.
Because it was corporative and lame

>>719718883
>08
man that spiky hair is so 90s, reminds me of panda delgado

>>719721247
Best body type, I love it when you can see veins protruding slightly on a muscular body, especially around the lower abs and thighs.

>>719704135
Joey de Maio is the opposite of parody, whatever that is called. He's like the most serious you can be, which makes it all the more funny.

>>719736180
isn't she 14?

>>719697741
It has that Marvel look that every big american game has these days. Plastic looking, green and purple neon energy colors, purposefully ugly and masculine women, all the same slop.

>>719698361
I'm too embarassed to even accept friend requests on Steam, how can I play ttrpgs

>>719733605
Literal homosexual

>>719697348 (OP)
Nah, sometime fantasy stuffs are allowed to do barbarian stuffs, even if the setting is not prehistoric.
The biggest crime is how there is only two types of SF these days: Sensible, anticiparion stuff or Iphone bar looking stuff.

>>719697348 (OP)
Elden Ring often captures that vibe although the story isn't sword and sorcery at all

>>719704394
You are not ready for this talk yet but Red Sonja was the hidden harbinger of woke in nerd culture.

>>719697348 (OP)
Blade of Darkness has a bit of that, but it's more focused on violence.

>>719697348 (OP)
Have you tried Conan Exiles

>>719721253
>>719721424
Game is fun if you have building autism like I do. Combat is whatever, you can get thralls to tank everything for you. The game goes on sale for $12 pretty regularly, so it's not too bad. They do nickel and dime you with the DLC and in game store shit though. Play the base game before getting any DLC, it's all just cosmetic stuff

>>719737573
Yes, get over it, nigger.

You get a AA studio and 50 million dollars. What is your Conan/sword and sorcery game like?

>>719697348 (OP)
theres that Age of Barbarian game on steam, but i dont think its that good

>>719738432
>that bush
10/10
Anyway you start as a forlorn renegade with nothing to his name who finds an ancient god in the steppe who aids him towards his quest for revenge. The combat is deflect based like Sekiro, but slower and more hard hitting. You can execute enemies brutally with QTEs. You can also harvest body parts or belongings from your enemies and offer them to your god, who casts magic through you as a reward, including transformation magic.

>>719738720
>including transformation magic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hihEhsdwiIk

>>719738432
Personally I want a Rune 2 with s&s skin. I love vikings but I feel Ragnar's story ended and going to some far off mystical place as not-Conan would be cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1IRRk3DEFo

>>719717259
Tanks

>>719728894
Wonderful.
Thank you Anon.

>>719717645
Quite a lot. Ye, I'm not a tourist, I k ow if the 79s nazi comics. Goverment had to intervene. Germany again stupid af. Instead of giving them 50bln bucks, they should've donated them pulp porn for that amount of money. However, these nazi soft porn comics had top notch art direction.

>>719737821
a lot of Elden ring is based on Fighting Fantasy Novels which most poeple would say are S&S.
the UK game books were a big inspiration for Miyazaki

>>719738432
Basically just Conan Exiles 2 with a much larger and diverse world, better combat, competently coded so it can handle better mods, and a full on X rating.

>>719738432
Kenshi, but with overworld like in M&B where stuff is actually being simulated

>>719738432
Point and click with sex and violence.

I like CE

>>719740364
>USE
>cock
>ON
>desert sorceress
GAME OVER

>>719739896
Yeah, the Cristalians from Elden Ring are literally designed 1:1 after a Fighting Fantasy enemy

>>719740535
I can't get over it being designed for an mmo survival. I wish it simply was a TES-like instead. I can cope somewhat with mods, but everything from empty world where everything respawns, 1 sorry excuse of a city and fucking respawning instead of reloading piss me off

>>719697493
Conan is a fictional character to begin with .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61_NtZ95nJ4

Feel free to drop any recent games that are true to Howard's version as well. Or De camps. Or marvel's or arnies.

>>719710489
Hyperborea because that's Clark Ashton Smith's territory and unlike Robert E Howard he knew how to craft a great short story.

>>719738432
Elder Scrolls but Conan

>>719697493
Yes, but that's besides the point.

>>719741324
CAS is godd writer but i he was worse than REH at writing compelling short prose fiction, CAS is to verbose for his own good or have your not read his works like The Maze of the Enchanter or The Tale of Satampra Zeiros, the man loves his words.

>>719702868
Can you play it online yet?

>>719741324
>REH
>unable to craft a great short story
I swear you niggers just say anything nowadays.

>>719710489
Shem. and I hate ALL you anti Shemites, each and every one of you.

Elderborn

>>719697613
ACCIAIO 18-10

Bump.

>>719742010
And it has sex built-in. Yeah, that would be a neat game.
>>719740725
I feel your pain.
It is quite playable though. I managed and Morrowind is my GOAT. Barely any NPCs, barely any quests (except getting that bracelet off), whole land for you alone to explore, and build your own shitbrick palace. You can enslave people, and with recent patch, thralls walk around your shitbrick palace and do stuff too. It has a LOT of lore, some VERY nice places, and a very neat overarching story of the land, and some neat stuff too (they did add a bunch of free stuff, so you have saucery too). And the only DLC you ever need is Debaucheries of Derketo (nice bed and curtains, tree-building kit, and actually nice outfits).
Get it when its on discount, and then play singleplayer - it allows that.

>>719702602
No it came back from the dead with new owners. They went to quarterly and are on issue 2 of the new run. So far I am happy I got a sub from them.

very nice thread we are in dire need of more high fantasy games with all the materia out there it should be no problem all it takes peopel with guts and a vision ]and some money ofc[/spoiler

>>719697348 (OP)
Battletoads used to, but then...

>>719713471
Hell yeah, came here to recommend this

>>719710489
i wouldn't stay anywhere specific but i would travel to every corner of the world exploring and making a name for myself and my little warband+a scrib

>>719697348 (OP)
The term you are looking for is high fantasy.
Age of conan kinda felt like it but its a dead mmo and the gameplay was trash. Yes nudity was a tging in that game.

>>719697493
Please stfu this is what robert e howards conan loos like, not schwarzenegger

>>719697348 (OP)
no because that is toxic masculinity and white supremacy

>>719717270
Thats not a bikini, wheres her bare tummy?
>>719717423
Why do they look fat?

>>719704394
Conan Exiles. Has the full range of "skimpy chainmail bikini" to "full plate and mail," for both sexes. Red Sonja's specific outfit is from a DLC, but there's more than enough armor mods which add it and a thousand others/better.

are there ANY games that got Bronze Age Hyborian aesthetic?

>>719757026
Conan Exiles. For the plenty of complaints that can be made about the game, the aesthetics are not among them. It captures the source material perfect, both the movies' and the comics.

>>719697348 (OP)
This looks like some shitty SFM but I think it has the spirit of a conan barbarian game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/402880/Age_of_Barbarian_Extended_Cut/

>>719697348 (OP)
>metal
>heterosexual

ALL RISE FOR THE GAY RAPE NATIONAL ANTHEM

https://youtu.be/ob9R_akXi-Q?si=hJaOToYwzjrc2mzo

>>719756846
>>719757351
What sandbox settings should I change for singleplayer?

never before have i wanted to be a rich guy this much
imagine having fuck-you money and just making your dream games and not giving a shit about cost or sales
hell you might even strike it big on accident if your tastes align with others
sure as hell beats buying a superyacht or fucking underage prostitutes

https://youtu.be/UI8xbqI7npg?t=357
I don't know what they put in the water over there in south korea that a game this fucking metal can exist.

>>719729997
>It's a good time to be a Conan fan
I've been saying for years now that we need another run at Conan movies. Hear me out.
We get Arnold's boy, the mexican one (Joseph), to be Conan. He's a spitting image of Dad and he's yoked.
5 movies, one every 2 years. Put $250m towards it, but start small. First movie do it for like $20-$30m. Film it in butt-fuck Spain or Italy like they used to. Adapt the stories. Nothing original. ADAPT. First film can be something really easy like Tower of the Elephant. Make it like 80min. Who cares for 3 hour films. Just get it done and show it can be done. Then keep growing the films in scope and scale as you go. By the time you get to film No.5 you do the big daddy, Hour of the Dragon. Joseph is like late 30s by then, so he's aged with the role. Hour of the Dragon can be your 200min epic and drop like $100m on it.
Every film is R-rated. It's an adult property. Make it adult.

>>719758536
There is no modern director of the caliber of John Milius to do it justice.
Neither is there a composer like Basil Poledouris who could do it justice either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMVmW0k9jZI

>>719759013
i will forever be grateful to poledouris for conan, starship troopers and robocop, they don't make em like they used to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LANHWwEjOAU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIGHCoVzqtk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb1_38445vA

>>719757594
Up to you, but here's mine. The tabbed out lines are flexible changes. Of note,
>all progress is default
>harvest rates default
>combat rates are default (consider raising Thrall Damage Given if you want to use pets)
>PVP enabled but time-restricted to 0 minutes (turns off friendly fire, but you can enable it in-game (by turning time-restrict off) without having to restart the server if you want FF back on, such as for triggering thrall eating during training)
>3x mult on corruption gain (makes corrupt ruins more hazardous, gives value to dancers and anti-corruption potions, also makes playing as a sorcerer more bearable)
>Spoil rate: half (for QOL, but since egg hatching uses the decay system, be prepared to flip it around, or just leave it at 1.0x)
>Land Claim: 0.33x (helps prevent your base from making resources despawn)
>Crafting Time: 0.1x or 0.2x (respects your time)
>Thrall Crafting Time: 0.1x or 0.2x (same, but it does invalidate the purpose of multi-slave wheels. I'm more prone to leaving this default, esp. after the devs reduced default T4 rate from 24H to 1H, further reduced by taskmasters)
>Build Anywhere (this setting is to prevent online griefing, you don't need it in SP)
>Creative Mode: Everyone (so you can enable it without hassle in case some janky bullshit happens, without needing to go through admin again)
>Animal Pen Crafting Time: 0.1x (same reason as thrall, but this also affects pet item crafting, so it's also worthwhile to just leave at default 1.0x)
As a reminder, you can change settings anytime in-game by going into settings and enabling admin mode. But to disable admin mode after, you need to open the console (the `~ key) and type MakeMeNormal.

>>719759237
Don't forget Hunt for Red October. Basil Poledouris was awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRG1UixHvos

>>719721253
it's a really great game if you want to build a cool bronze age palace and have a harem of buxom slave women you can fuck (with mods, of course).
as others have said, though, some of the worst combat ever. The weapons and armors are cool as shit, but in a kind of LARP way. It's fun arming your thralls and posing them in various ways. I have an army of basicbitch conscripts with really light bronze armor and iron spears, but then I have an entourage of warriors with unique armors tailored for their cultures and combat roles.

>>719759013
I'd done a shortlist of who I think could helm the project, but can't find it. I think it was;
>Directors: Richard Stanley (unlikely, but I think he would be the one to do it justice), or Jordan Vogt-Roberts (more likely to do it, )
>Writers: Alex Garland or Mike Flanagan.
>Composer: Robin Carolan. He did The Witch and The Northman.
>Cinematographer: Jarin Blaschke. He also did all of Eggers films.

>>719759697
The Northman wasn't a perfect movie but it was the closest to feeling like something in the vein of Conan the Barbarian I've seen in a long time

>>719721253
>>719721424
I played about 40 hours online with strangers and 60 hours with friends. The rest is singleplayer, typically modded but nothing necessary (armor and customization mods).

My final take is that it is best played is singelplayer. PVP is worth trying out a bit, but official servers are ass and so are their ban policies, while private servers have the usual admin problems.

It's a sandbox survival-building-crafting RPG. Beside PVP, the only use of online is showing off the things you've built to others. The content is balanced around solo play (a player + a thrall), and it has a vague main quest to pursue as a final goal. Finishing the quest ends your character, so that also gives the game a definitive ending where you can say you beat the game and move on.

As a new player, most of your time will likely be figuring out where new resources are to progress and following the Journeys. Eventually you'll stumble across the main quest and bosses and figure out what you need to do to finish the game. Until then, it's all about carving out your own slice of the world, building up your base, populating your base with pets and thralls, and exploring the world. Once you feel confident you've seen just about all the game offers, just finish the main quest.

>>719759876
I like Eggers a lot, I just don't think he's the right guy for Conan. His visual flair is outstanding, but it isn't what I'd expect for Sword & Sorcery.
Richard Stanley was my pick cause he's old school. He hates Hollywood, so I think he'd be unlikely to fall for the traps and conventions of modern cinema. His take on Colour Out of Space was totally brilliant. Loved it. I could see him having a vision for Conan while paying total respects to the source material.
Vogt-Roberts I think is an underrated and underutilized director. He's also refreshingly honest and critical of his own works. Say what you will about Kong: Skull Island, but the good bits were fucking great. The bad bits he's fully admitted were a combination of his own failings and not being strong enough to stand against studio meddling.

>>719760379
>Colour Out of Space mentioned

That movie doesn't get enough credit. Not perfect, but really unique.

>>719760619
Dude, I was so excited when that came out and the whole team was talking about doing multiple Lovecraft adaptations with Stanley helming them all.
Shame it all fell through.
Cage had a good tear during that time. Mandy, Colour Out of Space, Pig. Just a fucking worker.

>>719760379
>Say what you will about Kong: Skull Island
That and Godzilla were the best of the monsterverse, and they were carried by having good human casts that were worth watching rather than filler you want to fast-forward through.

not vidya but the 1st season of this kinda scratched the s&s itch t b h.

>>719760919
>having good human casts
That was the ticket, man. Skull Island worked cause you didn't get bored of the humans. All the soldiers felt great and grounded. Sam Jackson's revenge arc slapped and you totally were on board with it. Appropriately violent action without being overly flashy or Michael Bay-esq.

C A Smith's Hyperborean stuff is more interesting than Howard's Conan imho

>>719699453
Dragon's Crowd may be one of the more recent games that embraced this sort of things, and it's not even all that recent. It was on PS3. Still have my copy.

>>719759287
Hey Anon, I remember you from the thread last month. FYI you convinced me to get the game and I've been really enjoying it as a single-player experience. Adventuring aside I've been having a ton of fun with base-building too. Good rec.

>>719699453
>Sword and Sorcery genre seems to be stuck to hack and slash games
I think that's cause it's the easy road to take. If you wanted to adapt Conan, you'd need stealth sections, talking/social sections, combat sections, narrative sections (either branching or linear). It's a lot of work. You'd be making Ubi-slop if you're not careful.
Someone like old-CDPR could do it. Not sure about the current studio line-up. But the guys who did Witcher 2 could have pulled off Conan.

>>719761456
Glad to hear. It's a game I love so I like recommending it, but it's also janky as shit so I'm always left wondering if I shouldn't have said anything.

>>719697348 (OP)
you see some cyoas on /tg/ like void lord that do stuff like this still but i cant remember any recent video game that goes for awesome aesthetics like this
dragons crown goes full tits and muscles but that game is ps3 era

>>719710593
>Elric of Melbourne

"Gday, cunts. I'll have a McMuffin and a flat white."

"Mate, you are already flat and white enough."

>>719697348 (OP)
It's not super new, but Arcane made a game called Dark Messiah of Might & Magic. It has muscles, tits, ass, armor, weapons, magic, succubi, and everything I thought the future of gaming was going to be (and everything I wanted it to be) back when I played it. Just deeper RPG systems and a big more nonlinear design and more to explore and do and boom it's perfect .... but I say that as someone that's played that game to death and just wants more.

Age of Conan is an MMO, even has the tits. It's old and in a completely abandoned state, good luck even signing up to play it.

Conan Exiles is a survival game also abandoned by the devs and basically a cash shop at this point but the base game has the aesthetic you're looking for.

>>719697348 (OP)

How is Dragons Dogma 2? Wanna give it a try honeslty

>>719762008
Really badly optimized. It's simultaneously better and worse than the first game, depending on which aspects you're talking about. Some aspects of the combat are just better (greater variety of possibilities the creatures do more things and behave in even better ways, etc). Others are worse (monster variety). Some things are debatable like everyone having less active skills now except the warrior who technically gets upgraded by one active skill.

It's hit and miss. One of the biggest misses is there's no Dark Arisen equivalent, no deep dungeon, no endless dungeon where you can just play the most fun part of the game (the combat) over and over in quick succession without masses of land travel between notable encounters.

>>719761958
Bro that game is ancient. Say it like it is LOL.

>>719739119
DPS actually but

>>719697348 (OP)
Doom the dark ages. It's the most metal game since brutal legend

>>719720302
>>719721697
It also wasn't an ax. Conan didn't have a weapon at that moment so he threw a fucking chair. The politician got beaned to death by a chair while he was gloating over his victory. Shit sent my sides into orbit.

>>719697493
It's Frazetta's fault. He started painting Conan as a huge mostly naked guy in fur bottoms in the 60s and the image stuck.

>>719764008
It's story dependent. In plenty of stories he's just a loincloth clad vagabond. And in others he's wearing full chain with platemail.
Physically he's always been described as larger than life but supple and quick. He's essentially peak-human in terms of strength, speed, and stamina.

>>719764008
Most of Conan's novels outside of Aquilonia, he's poor as fuck tho and working as a thief

>>719764178
>>719764507
Nah. You're putting more thought into it than Frazetta did, broski. His Tarzan paintings and drawings are the exact same guy in loincloths and fur as his Conan ones. He just had a style he liked to draw no matter what the content he's supposedly drawing for that very obviously influenced the pop culture idea of what Conan was despite not being what he was in the stories.
I mean, for fuck's sake, look at this. This is supposed to be Eowyn fighting the Witch-King. Reminder that she was fully armored and disguised as a man in the actual book.

>>719764806
Yeah look, fair enough. I adore Frazetta's work regardless.
Funnily enough the old Weird Tales cover artist always drew Conan as a short haired lithe and fey man, more like a swimmer than a muscle man.

>>719765267
I love Frazetta's work, too. I'm just saying the kind of annoying way Conan is wrongly seen as the way it is is because everything Frazetta drew was in that style of naked chicks and mostly naked dudes.
Here's a John Carter by him. Which, funnily, is a setting where where the question of just how naked everyone is is a point of discussion.

>>719765719
>image.jpg
That work slaps so hard. I recently went and read Princess of Mars and was surprised by its content. Watching a scifi author trying to establish scifi concepts with no previous works to draw on was astonishingly refreshing. The whole thing read like a diary, and I suppose that was by design given the tense it is written in.

>>719765719
>Which, funnily, is a setting where where the question of just how naked everyone is is a point of discussion.
I always thought it was a stupid discussion. It always struck me as insecure fans trying to make their favorite books seem more palatable to normies and more 'serious' than they need be, instead of just embracing the colorful pulp weirdness of Barsoom.

>>719702689
Kurt Buseik is my favorite writer for Conan. He puts a lot of psychological depth into the character that I think follows in line with how Howard wrote him.

>>719766068
Most of what I've seen is more trying to figure out what exactly they're supposed to wear and what is or isn't covered.
One thing that's funny is that, at one point in Princess, I'm pretty sure Dejah mentions something like finding it ugly that Earth people wear more clothes than just metal ornaments and jewels like the Martians do.

>>719766520
>Kurt Buseik
That motherfucker wrote Astro City, which for my money is the best superhero series I've ever read.

>>719767116
Which also works with a lot of homage fusions to other works. The guy knows how to take a character archtype and make a story about why those archtypes are the best.

I'd like a game that borrows heavily from the Planetary Romance genre. The old Phantasy Star games were the only thing that even came close to capturing that feel.

>>719767227
What Starfield could've been

>>719766068
>>719766876
It's also to do with a matter of societal expectations of the day. ERB writing in the early 1910s was trying to show a different culture than what was around him, so we get scantily clad martian princesses.
Trying to explain to someone in the now that this was the original scifi story is lost on them - they just see it as derivative tits and ass.

>>719767353
You'll take your contemporary Scifi slop written by Californian college grads and you'll like it.

>>719767447
Well... That happened.

>>719767227
There's an old Speljammer PC game that probably fits, haven't played it myself. It's about as old as those Phantasy Star games.

>>719767414
>we get scantily clad martian princesses
It was scantily clad everyone. They were all pretty much naked, men and women, except for their ornaments.
I thought it was fairly interesting for the time it was written for the female Greens to be described as being just as heavily armed and violent as the males and as being smarter and more ferocious fighters than the males in war times.

>>719765883
In the first book, the Martians use "radium rifles" that can hit targets miles away using drone spotters to direct their fire. That's badass and so far ahead of its time it isn't even funny.

>>719711547
>We can facescan people and have photorealistic graphics but we can't make a world we would want to live in?
My theory is that realistic graphics, realism as an artstyle and high visual fidelity in general are the cause of this.
Developers look out their downtown windows and anything they can't see there cannot be put into the game OR they can't put it into the game since something obviously not real looks out of place with all the other premade realistic assets.

I wish I could paint like Frank Frazetta.
I wish to paint my Death Knight from WoW being a cool guy.

>>719768324
I dropped a line about realism killing creativity but you get the idea

>>719767227
Check out Ultima Martian Dreams. It's retrofuturism not planetary romance but still it's a non-standard space rpg, you may like it.

>>719729597
It was written in the 30s for magazine publication, of course there's no outright descriptions of Conan sticking his dick in anything. In any case, Queen of the Black Coast is in the first collection. If you seriously think Conan wasn't banging the pirate queen between every scene when she was topless dervish dancing over him the first time they met, you're a fucking idiot. Likewise with the ending of Iron Shadows in the Moon, the story ends with the half naked former slave lady giving in to Conan's passion when he was busy sucking her face.

>>719767501
Just saying, the best stories we have seem to be written by people with incredible backgrounds, often full of hardship and struggle and variety.
>Edgar Rice Burroughs: Son of Civil War Vet, Military College graduate, prospector/miner, cowboy, pilot, war-correspondent.
>Robert E Howard: Son of a Physician, grew up fighting every day of his life, saw horrible mining/farming accidents regularly, boxer, weightlifter.
>HP Lovecraft: Son of a mental patient (possibly syphilis), raised by aunts, taught literary horror by his grandfather, beset from a young age by terrible nightmares (night terrors), started writing poems at age 7, family broke and destitute by age 10 (suicidal), suffered nervous collapses all through his teens.
>Mary Shelley: Daughter of a feminist philosopher, mother died at a young age, father went to debtor's prison, no formal education, used to fuck in graveyards, traveled from France to Switzerland by donkey during The War of Liberation, miscarried her first child (haunted by nightmares of her dead child ever since).

>>719704394
pusy

>>719729597
>>719768816
It's usually a "fade to black" moment in the stories. He'll often grab women and kiss them in a fit of passion at the end of a story and the rest is left to your imagination.

>>719768918
You could really just put "Scared of niggers" with Hp Lovecraft and you would already have a relatable person.

>>719769414
Kek.
Less so of blacks than he was of miscegenation in general. My reading was he took a more paternal position which placed the Anglo over the lesser races, but was horrified at the idea of mixing races (diluting purity). Hence when he found out he was part Irish he wrote his seminal work, Shadows Over Innsmouth, which is effectively a commentary on discovering "tainted blood".

>>719711547
No Fun Allowed.

>>719768918
True. But keep in mind the scale of time between these people. Going by Sturgeons law we're just dealing with the same shit that other people from the past have been dealing with. There's still great stories out there, they just need time to be found in the great filter of what the future considers timeless classics.

>>719769803
>found in the great filter
I wonder what these will be? There's obviously popular slop like Harry Potter, Twilight etc, which will last forever. But actual good stories? Just off the top of my head;
>Three Body Problem
>The Expanse
>Wheel of Time (I've not read it but friends rate it highly)

>>719769994
And at least one of those authors will probably gain the same following in the next century talked about as we've talked about the authors here. We can focus on the slop that's with us now but that would be ignoring the history of slop created even in the pioneering ages of media. The diamonds out there, they just need to be dug out of the shit.

>>719768549
Things need to have a certain roughness to them to be real. It happens with everything, it starts out wild and creative then rules are applied and it becomes rote and boring and finally it dies or becomes a zombie.

>>719769994
To add imagine the amounts of boring works Hp, Howard, and Mary Shelley had to sift through in their writing circles before they decided to make their marks on history. Howard had to go through pulp magazines, the most most cheap and formulaic genre of its time. Mary Shelley made Frankenstien to CHALLENGE the literary influences of her own circles contrived writing conventions.

>>719710489
Old fantasy literature really just used antiquated names of existing cultures and readers thought that was acceptable

>>719697493
Wait till you find out about FGO. They turned King Arthur into a woman.

>>719770725
Big boulders generally don't grow by a lake though. Did the painter really go out that much?

>>719697348 (OP)
Not really. The people who that aesthetic appeals to the most tend to be idea guys without the resources to make games in that style. Also if something that looks 'old school' pops up, you can expect it to be so irony poisoned that they may as well not have bothered. Or they'll be painfully self conscious and try to jazz it up to make it stand out in some egregious, stupid way. Or it'll be more of a retro throwback to some NES game that incidentally includes generic 'old school fantasy' designs. It's a pity because there's no reason there couldn't be something good like that out there. But even if there were, it would only take one good game coming out to start a fucking bandwagon that crashes within two or three months because it's harder to get it right than it looks, and one of the prerequisite qualities is, you can't make it if you're a pussy, which is everyone now.

>>719707825
In comics he usually starts the arc with being armored from head to toe. Then he slowly starts to lose gear, usually due to female trickery and ends the story in a loincloth being fed up in the current bullshit and taking a horse to new adventures.

>>719697348 (OP)
Closest thing right now is probably Dragons Dogma

Pulp aesthetics are too based for the modern world.

>>719711752
>The real Conan is the Conan from Marvel comics and Vallejo/Frazetta art
Nobody knows what the fuck that is, the only notion “popular culture” has about Conan is the Schwarzenegger movies.

I like the sketches from the end credits of Outlaw Star but I've never been able to find much from the same artist. They have that kind of pulpy sci-fi/fantasy feel. 100x more interesting than the show itself.

>>719771385
you've never seen a big rock by a lake? i have tons of times

>>719771435
>you can't make it if you're a pussy
This is true for sure.
>which is everyone now
This thread has almost 400 replies, overwhelmingly positive. The demand exists so where's the supply?

>>719772575
Blocked by a very small collective of individuals who have somehow infiltrated their way into high places where they can ruin the lives of people who try to do that.

>>719772575
Manly men generally don't pursue art.

>>719772690
>Manly men generally don't pursue art.
Untrue. Art is one of the virtues of manliness, or more specifically, creativity or creation in general.
The fuck you think the term "warrior poet" comes from?

>>719772871
They don't exist in modern times.

>>719772904
Maybe they're just warrior poets and dont knowwior it.

>>719772946
>Maybe they're just warrior poets and dont knowwior it.
Kek

>>719772904
>They don't exist in modern times.
That's not an argument.

>>719772979
He was a painter.
Who only used red

>>719772645
Y-you don't mean...

>>719773074
Okay, then explain why nobody can answer OP's demand for what is generally considered a very manly genre of game? Surely there should be dozens that fit the criteria in the past couple of years.

>>719723907
Are we really still asking this question after Bud Light?

>>719773131
Yes. Progressive Millennials with no social filters.

>>719773182
The argument was about whether or not art is a part of being manly >>719772690
I just posited that it was.
We know why we don't get manly media anymore - cause there's no one manly doing creative things, or if they do, they are long-housed into oblivion.

>>719711547
Mainline Final Fantasy going from this to fucking whatever 16 was made me so sad.

Its why I still love Kingdom Hearts though. It's more of a fairytale world than anything. I would have never played it but the music and environments in the gacha game looked amazing before it was cancelled.

Ironically Kingdom Hearts is doing realism but it seems purposeful and the cartoony shit is confirmed to be staying. Like this city was going to be something new.

That fairytale feeling is why I love old games like Legend of Mana, Chrono Cross, baten Kaitos so much. And all the old rpgs pretty much were good because some sort of combination of what we said. Phantasy Star was great for its scifi pulp look too

>>719697348 (OP)
It's more of a space opera concept album flavor of fantasy metal, but Amid Evil might fit

>>719773352
>Like this city was going to be something new.

Something new alongside real ass tokyo*

>>719697348 (OP)
We need more save the damsel in distress games.

>>719697348 (OP)
path of exile, in places.

>>719772352
You would love the Five Star Stories manga and OVA.

>>719697583
>tfw no conan movie when arnold hit his 60s where he had to rely on his brains and trickery because he didn't have the strength anymore

>>719697348 (OP)
It's just a pixel retro throwback beat em up but that new He Man game looks fun. Heman was actually metal as fuck. The cartoon made everyone think it was goofy but the toy art and comics was the coolest shit.

>I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom's realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer's Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care.
>Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content.
>Let teachers and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me.
>I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.
Conan is more kino than we deserve.

>>719712078
i like them both for different reasons

>>719712078
Incomparable styles, genres and ideas. You just wanted (you)s

>>719773707
That's what made conan so great. The critique on "civilized society" with the truth that mankind is just as oriented on survival instincts as it's always been. The greatest irony being the inevitability that all things fall no matter how much we dress it up with pretty ideals.

>>719721247
It really bothers me how the strip of leather going across her cleavage curves downward at center. Coomers are so dumb.

>>719767227
JRPG do this literally all the time Xenoblade for example is basically this.

>>719767353
Did you really think Bethesda had the creative talent for that?