Why is the katana always so weak in video games?

Why is the katana always so weak in video games?

It literally is the most perfect sword.

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>i am an edgy teenager
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Because, no armor piercing capability outside of anime. Takes absolutely nothing to ruin the edge of a katana, but those burs can be straightened out. Not phenomenal battlefield weapons.

For once the edgy guy with a katana looks pretty good

Still looks stupid as fuck, especially with those shoes, but the dude could be classy

Katana is a boring meme

Found the guy in OP's pic

No, he looks like a tit.

Why dont girls like me / 10

>using a sword
Use a gun, retard

mate...

hello OP's pic

You can't deflect a bullet without a sword, idiot.

*deflects your bullet back at you with my lightning fast reflexes, killing you instantly*
tch.... give me a REAL challenge next time.....

Katana is a one trick pony. It's way too brittle and frail to use it for more than 2 - 3 enemies. Video games don't take that into account.

nigger you would make 2 half bullets instead

fucking anime

Well they usually are overweight and have ugly faces/body disproportions.

For once i think the guy could look cool

I bet you can't deflect your virginity.

it's a sword made for japs to be honest

deflectionmind

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Deflection is different than cutting, retard.

>katana is a magical sword which can cut through literally anything because the soul of some zennigger was used in the process

Where did this meme come from anyway? Anime? If you concern yourself with metallurgy and blacksmithing a little bit you will learn pretty fast how average katanas are.

Kill Bill?

I know it was not Japan that forced this view.

>katanas are the only sword anyone ever talks about
I can't be the only one who'd rather to do pirate shit with a good sturdy cutlass than tip my fedora with a meme weapon

>It literally is the most perfect sword.
Nice b9 m9 i r9/9

I prefer sabers, scimitars, shamshirs, talwars.

Zweihanders ftw

That's it. I'm sick of all this "Masterwork Bastard Sword" bullshit that's going on in the d20 system right now. Katanas deserve much better than that. Much, much better than that.
I should know what I'm talking about. I myself commissioned a genuine katana in Japan for 2,400,000 Yen (that's about $20,000) and have been practicing with it for almost 2 years now. I can even cut slabs of solid steel with my katana.

Japanese smiths spend years working on a single katana and fold it up to a million times to produce the finest blades known to mankind.

Katanas are thrice as sharp as European swords and thrice as hard for that matter too. Anything a longsword can cut through, a katana can cut through better. I'm pretty sure a katana could easily bisect a knight wearing full plate with a simple vertical slash.

Ever wonder why medieval Europe never bothered conquering Japan? That's right, they were too scared to fight the disciplined Samurai and their katanas of destruction. Even in World War II, American soldiers targeted the men with the katanas first because their killing power was feared and respected.

So what am I saying? Katanas are simply the best sword that the world has ever seen, and thus, require better stats in the d20 system. Here is the stat block I propose for Katanas:

(One-Handed Exotic Weapon)
1d12 Damage
19-20 x4 Crit
+2 to hit and damage
Counts as Masterwork

(Two-Handed Exotic Weapon)
2d10 Damage
17-20 x4 Crit
+5 to hit and damage
Counts as Masterwork

Now that seems a lot more representative of the cutting power of Katanas in real life, don't you think?

tl;dr = Katanas need to do more damage in d20, see my new stat block.

kill yourself cuck

There are so many things that show that this is a bait.

Really bad bait.

masamune was pretty good in ff12

Have you never seen the X is under powered in Y pasta before?

The point is to be subtle, user.

t. edgy assblasted homo

>saying a man can look good is gay/cuck

dude how insecure are you?

hownu.ru

Everything you need to know about the Katana and why it's actually a kinda shit weapon made out of necessity not for performance

IT's a sword for midgets. Double edged sword has the same cutting power with a blunter edge but has piercing power as well.

Its like a razor blade verses a knife.

Fgot the link...

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Just shoot the enemy bullets coming at you with your own bullets, casual.

Nah. I'm not that into pastas.

someone post the katanapasta

Newfag spotted.

Found the retard who doesn't know how guns work.

I dont have that but I have this.

I mean I get what you're saying - this is a guy who would actually look decent in a real outfit that isn't wannabe Matrix shit - but still.

>cutting power

Not really. You can sharpen a double edged sword just like a curved, but it wouldn't have the same cutting power anyway. Blade geometry is just in favor of curved swords.

You can still make clean cuts with a straight blade, but you actually have to train that shit.

>be knight
>get Saracen'd
>get peasant'd by Swiss shit eating peasants
>get Mongol'd

meanwhile Samurai rekt said Mongols. Any questions?

Yuropeons are GARBAGE at warfare look who the most cherished yuropeon warrior is - viking aka a guy who only fucking attacked unarmed people. Yurotrash is so shit at fighting killing a woman or some old fuck pedo is a military feat to them! Also they created no martial arts.

that just means you're a newfag

now this is good bait

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So what's the list of why katanas are shit? So far I can think of
>Pig iron
>One cutting edge
>Designed only for slashing
>Thin blade
>Poorly balanced
>If it really was "forded over one mirrion timus" then not suitable for equipping an army

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excuse me pardon me best blade coming through

Western mythology actually

My matey

they have a very thick blade, the balance varies. Some japs wanted a meat cleaver, other wanted to slash.

...everything else is accurate.

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That's not a fucking real katana
Every time

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>Not really. You can sharpen a double edged sword just like a curved, but it wouldn't have the same cutting power anyway

Except this is untrue. Double edged sword has weight, it wins because of momentum that continues through the cut.

Elaborate

Loved the fuck out of this manga when i was 10, i think it's the reason i started drawing

>soft back and hard edge is a poor compromise, the back will bend
>meanwhile the edge is too hard and thus brittle, will get nicks if it hits everything harder than a human body

This is really the main issue.

FOLDED 1000 TIMES

Awful weapon in reality.

Except it is.

All that did was remove all the impurities in japanese iron ore. Seriously their metal was very poor quality.

>Implying your weak arms would be able to even carry it.

>you will never be able to pull off wielding a katana without looking like a massive twat

Fell for the meme

Name one game where they aren't a broken piece of shit?

The blade is, reportedly, too hard which means it has a chance to shatter from side impact. Now, if you listened to some "pundits", European smiths would consider it a bad sword, preferring a sword with certain tensile elasticity that would rather bend than shatter on impact, prolonging its use in combat.

Hardness helps katana with its sharpness, but they're damn brittle.

I fucking hate people like you.

Every sword is folded, really. But yeah, they had to take the extra effort of folding it even more because their iron was so poor.

A good, pure mono steel is always the best choice.

>You will never figure out how to chain Scottsdale Rapes into Perfect Storm

Thank you for posting this so I didn't have to.

I'm so strong i can even lift your mom's fat ass

You keep hauling bigger and bigger bait, but I'm not falling for it.

fucking newfags

My superior sword will pass yours any day.

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Uwut

what?

Katana wielded by anyone who isn't a samurai always looks fucking edgy. Why?

NANI???

TEME

BAKA BAKA!

Because you have subconsciously associated katanas with edginess.

I unironically think katana are the coolest swords and even learned how to actually use them correctly because of it, despite knowing they're pretty average swords.

KISAAMAAAAAAAAAAAAA

YAMERO

Times I've used a katana in games and it hasn't been complete shit
>way of the samurai
Because they have multiple schools of katana-based martial arts, and a good 90% of them are coherent.
>modded skyrim
Because I got a perk that makes all successive hits with katanas add 15% attack speed up to 4 times, so by the end you're just a slice and dicing blender.

You and this guy should start a club. Here's some inspiration.

yeah? well you're a big fat phony

Now HERE's a fucking meme weapon since Dark Souls made it popular.

Perfect for slicing up unarmored peasants

It became a meme since Berserk became popular

still god tier though

>Poe's law.

best sword