What, in your opinion, is the greatest sword in the history of vidya?

What, in your opinion, is the greatest sword in the history of vidya?

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The Monado

Probably going to seem like bandwagoning due to all the Breath of the Wild stuff, but totally the Master Sword to me. It's basically just the video game version of Excalibur but it's just a super neat design and the way it's usually presented gives it this aura of reverence that makes it really cool.

Agreed, it's the best sword and I haven't touched a zelda game since twilight princess and I didn't play any of the 3d handheld ones.

Excalibur 2

>Not bringing up the Wolflobe sword
Cancerous

Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Katana

He said greatest not worst

THE MASTER SWORD IS BASED ON CALEDWFLCH NOT EXCALIBUR

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>implying katanas aren't 4th town weapon shop tier.
They're so common that they're outshined by the sword found in a chest in the previous dungeon.

I'm just a dumb shit who doesn't know that much of the whole sword in the stone thing. I just used "Excalibur" because it's the one most widely known.

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>CALEDWFLCH
isnt that literally Excalibur or?

Frostmourne, I love the soul reaper aspect.

say that again I dare you!

But that's just the Welsh name for Excalibur. Stop trying to show off, its just backfiring.

The word Excalibur literally derives from the Welsh Caledfwlch.

Katanas are lame

No, they're two different swords.
The lady of the lake gives Arthur Excalibur.

wrong
Yes, some myths blend the two together, however, the origin of Caledfwlch is almost always being drawn from a stone, while Excalibur is almost always being given by the Lady of the Lake.

caladbolg?

Sephiroth's bigass katana isn't even a good weapon. He's just a phenomenal supersoldier.

I always had a hard on for this sword design ever since I first saw it.

what the fuck is that retard-ass armor? Isn't that legend supposed to take place in like 400AD?

That is irrelevant, the actual etymology is that Caledfwlch became Caliburnus became a few other names in French and then finally Excalibur.

>Sword is a gun

This will always be retarded

oh you've done it now

*unzips katana*

there's always one of you autists who post this isn't there?

I never looked at it that closely

Why is it a gunsword, and why does it require a magazine?

Most normies aren't familiar with the era so a lot of Arthurs are put in full plate mail because they think knights in the 800AD sense.

The myth changed by then, and about half of the myths have them as separate swords.

This t b h
He shouldn't be wearing 16th century armor. He should be wearing maille

I love the idea of a sword that transforms to suit its weilder's fighting style.
Also applies to its sister blade, of course, but Calibur edges it out because I'm a sucker for that blue coloration and crystalline design.

That's a Naginata

What is the most OP sword in vidya?

Because the firing mechanism allows him to surprise even extremely well-trained cyborg samurai by launching the weapon out, allowing him to catch it in mid-air without needing to expose his stance for a response, and slashing opponents. He cleaves Raiden's arm clean off with that specific technique and damn near wins the fight alone.

The mag is probably just a formality, or maybe it really needs a lot of bullets.

Yeap.

>being literally 500 years too late to realize this legend is intentionally an anachronism

Or did you think knighthood, feudalism and the code of chivalry were also big in the fifth century?

How do you hold this thing

unzip this!

Vorpal blade

It's not a gun. It's even better. Like said it fires a blank that launches the sword out of the scabbard so Sam can draw in a blink.

Muhnado can rewrite the universe, so that.

Sword of Aeons
Literally everything else is a joke
>Inb4 FF and cross dressers of hyrule 3

I always liked how this render image is twice as wide as it needs to be and full of whitespace just for the sake of showing the entire sword.

It's a shapeshifting sword, user, you can hold it however the fuck you want.

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Literally causes a localized apocalypse with every swing. So OP even the wielder gets fucked by it.

you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!

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If I went around sayin' I was an emperor just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

Wrong, it uses a gun-like drawing mechanism that assists in Iaito techniques with the sword, it doesn't actually fire a projectile.

Actually the legend of Arthur dates back to the 800s, which is only a couple hundred years after he was said to exist. So in all likelihood, he was a King, was loved by many, and endorsed chivalry and such.
The legend of King Arthur itself is about the first appearance of chivalry in an uncivilized age, where the tale of Camelot is supposed to be told from father to child so that chivalry can return to England. It is meant to put a legend behind the nature of chivalry, give it a face.

No, Caledfwlch is the Welsh name for Excalibur.

Umbra

>video game version of Excalibur

Not much of a comparison, I'd argue- drawing Excalibur singled you out as Rightwise King born of all England, whereas pulling out the Master Sword merely confirms your status as this cycle's Ganon-exterminator.

Also:

>super neat design

Again, not really. Even the Magical Sword looks better- especially after the redesign they gave it in Hyrule Warriors

*cuts through your dimension*

Where's your motivation?

Yeah but that's the "in-universe" canon of how those tales are presented. The actual metamorphosis of the legend in real life shows that since the 12th century or thereabouts the writers took anachronistic approaches and started portraying it in their own era ie with feudalism, plate mail, etc. Tom Malory even added guns. But it still takes place in the bygone days lost to time, it's like LOTR or Conan in that respect.

I can't help but like them. I don't even care about the series all that much.

Pretty interesting movie. Merlin was really cool.

>the Magical Sword

Shit, forgot the image.

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Shut up, will you Shut Up!

Yeah I guess, but it's still a revered status. People in the games who recognize it look to you with hope all the same.

>Even the Magical Sword looks better- especially after the redesign they gave it in Hyrule Warriors
Really? I thought the Magic Sword always looked a bit too overdesigned. The Master Sword has usually looked regal, but this is just comparing different taste so it's not like it really matters.

SWORD OF OMENS

GIVE ME SIGHT BEYOND SIGHT

This shit right here. With Ebony and Ivory the greatest guns.

I always thought the sword in the stone was called Caliburn
then the Lady of the Lake gives Arthur Excalibur

Not at all
Literally doesn't take place until after the roman occupation(and with the way it's written should be around 1300 CE

damn that's ridiculous, here's my fix. looks a lot better imo.

Frostmourne hungers.

it's complicated
Thomas Malory called it Excalibur and it shined like 30 torches but then it broke, then the sword he got from the Lady of the Lake was also called Excalibur, the inconsistency wasn't addressed again and the lake sword didn't seem to have any special powers and in fact was worthless compared to the magical scabbard

>swordlets

this. it could only be a video game sword

Come see the violence inherit in the system!
Help, help! I'm bein' repressed!

Clearly you don't know shot about Arthurian legend if you think Caledfwlch and Excalibur are different swords

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DID SOMEONE SAY [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]?

Always really liked this one.

Someone please post era appropriate armor that King Arthur would have worn.

Wait, I thought the sword in the stone was nameless, and Excalibur was the lake sword?

Think something like the Rohirrim from LOTR

Masamune, motherfuckers.

ive always heard the Sword in the Stone called Caliburn

that gives me a sick idea for a sword that sheathes into a kings staff. Nice

Blade of Awe
>tfw was too poor to justify guardianship

chaos zwiehander +10

what the fuck sword did arthur pull out of the stone then

Cool, that looks pretty nice. So no plate mail? Was chainmail what they were really only using then?

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the legend has a ton of different versions

Where/s the lindy chaps video when you need it

Excuse me? youtu.be/-cHqPYnnLpo
>Nobody has said pic related
Fuckin plebs

Rune sword from FE
Shit is just cheating

Well, Excalibur isn't strictly from a videogame, so it can't be that. Any of these are pretty great:
>Master Sword
>Rebellion
>Masamune
>Soul Edge
>Can't remember the name of Vergil's Japanese steel
>Buster Sword

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>Plate mail
Stop that lad. I'm assuming you mean a full plate harness. That's pretty much 14th/15th century armor.
King Author would've most likely wore just plain mail.

Chainmail was getting ready int put to good use in the mid to late 800's yeah but it saw its true surge in the 1400's

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