In most fantasy games, characters wear their sword on their back. I have a few swords, and trying to do this is fucking impossible and I'm a lanky guy. Even in games like pic related sheathes seem to work by some magic magnetism.
Even if reach wasnt an issue for everyone, is it even possible to retain the muscle memory necessary to reliably resheathe it?
Was this ever a real thing? How did it become so popular in games and film?
It's for A E S T H E T I C S
It just looks fucking cool OP, that's all.
Probably because you have back back posture
It's just rule of cool really. Also done in Witcher books. It might be also possible that it's simpler to animate, a sword stripped to the waist as it should be could easily cause collisions with legs and lower torso while moving.
Of fucking course not you double nigger.
Swords were at the side of hips, never in the back, its unpractical as fuck to try to take it out, not counting the fact that you need to be strong enough to take it out, balance it mid air with a single hand and then just just adjust.
Not counting that having it in the back also is a pain in the ass when you are moving.
To be fair to Witcher 3, Geralt does often grab the bottom of the scabbard to tilt it and make it easier to sheathe and unsheathe. It's still impractical as all fuck, but it's something.
Didn't he have a rope or something in the books and pulled that to get half the sword out and then just pulling it out when grabbed at half of length? Basically as if he just pulled out a very short sword.
Must have been hell to get that string back in the scabbard and set it up for next use, though.
looks cool and is easier on the body to carry, but in the real world you care more about using your weapon so you keep it on your belt ready to be drawn in a second
Historically speaking, the long sword was worn on the hip, and the short sword was worn on the shoulder. When fighting in the shield wall, there wasnt enough room to reach down and unsheathe the sword from your hip. Additionally, unsheathing from the shoulder meant it could be immediately brought down in a slashing attack
Mostly aesthetic purposes, and possibly the fact it's easier to carry weight on your back.
Also note that Talion's sheathe is a rare exception where it's specifically designed where it's able to be to unsheathe from the back. It's very similar to what Guts used in the Golden Age arc.
>Also done in Witcher books.
Aye, and even in books it's considered weird, and is mostly a mark of witchers
>it's COOL!!!!
It's actually not that cool. A sword on the hip is cooler.
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It would also probably fall out if you leaned over too far to tie your shoe
>fantasy
>seem to work by some magic magnetism
you dont say
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>tfw no sword that floats and follows you
would make some cool combat moves too
>not wearing it on your ass
come on, senpai
Ever since Witcher 1, Geralt had 2 swords on his back but they crossed.
IIRC since witcher 2 both were side by side on his back.
literally nier automata
>Geralt had 2 swords on his back but they crossed.
probably infuence of Gothic 3. Series was very popular in Poland
fictional
it looks nice, and gives feedback on what weapons you have equipped
don´t most video game character also use sword moves and fighting styles that are made up as well?
my point is games are full of stuff that are unrealistic even for games staring magic and orks so no point in nitpicking every single aspect of them
user don´t think to much about it. sword on the back is just a trick developers use to make players feel more "badass" and too give the player a chance to look at their swords up close
There are a few ways to do it. I think the best would be a vertically split sheath with a 30deg angle that held the sword in place. You could use flares and a taper to funnel it and the let gravity hold it in the sheath with the 30deg drop.
i just hate when they are floating and not in sheaths or straps
seriously? time to get it then
Could be. Both games came out within 2 years of each other, but Witcher 1 was in development for a LONG time
Maybe for ease of travel some may have strapped it to their back, but it'd be cumbersome to draw and near impossible to sheathe. Most warriors who carried blades did so at the waist.
>Raiden's robotic sheath in MGR
Imagine if the game had MANY sword models.
They would need to make a sheath for each one that was a different shape.
Plus then they would have to fine tune all animations to prevent the sword from clipping through the sheath. Back in the days of lower floating point precision that would be infeasible, and doing it anyway would also look bad.
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in witcher 1 the animation for drawing and sheathing swords makes sense. he pulls out the sword with each hand and has to get close to the point before flipping it around. the sheathing animation i think is just the reverse of that, but it was a nice touch
When someone wore a long sword on their back in real life, it was because they were traveling and didn't expect to need to draw it. If it became necessary to do so, they'd take it off, THEN draw it.
>magic magnetism
Thay's because there is supposed to be a sling that is not there in the game because it would cause too many clipping issues.
I think the last game that had proper slings for weapons on back and didn't have horrible clipping was Uncharted 4
>clipping issues.
Just like rig them better, holy shit
what the fuck do they pay these monkeys for
>not keeping weapons in hand constantly
ATGATT
>not replacing your hand with a weapon
dude
who dis
reverse image search doesn't tell me
im glad it doesnt tell you because your taste is incredibly shit
Yeah you can't fucking draw it like that, but it's just easy to carry that way. Wearing it by your side is a pain while traveling.
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Well I guess Talion's makes more sense than a full sheath.
Wouldn't half a sheath mean that the sword would just end up getting rusty? It kind of defeats the whole purpose of having a sheath.
No the purpose is so you can carry a sword with you while freeing up your hands
It's cool, sword's been reforged by an ancient elven ghost.
It's pretty funny because Metal Gear Rising out of all fucking games is one of the few I've seen that adresses this.
Raiden's high-tech sheathe opens up in such a way that he can draw the sword out at an angle.
Don't forget that it can also place itself on his side on demand. Outside of how clunky it looks, it's the perfect sheath.
What if the sheath had a slit on size long enough for you to be able to draw the sword? It would fully guard the blade only to some point to which you can draw the blade and then there would be that slit to finish the draw. Simple, functional
In shadow of war, the sword sort of teleports from his hand to the sheath.
In real life the way to have it is a looser fit where drawing the sword in starts at your shoulder but you can pull the sheathe down to release the sword from the side.
>the short sword was worn on the shoulder
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I think the general consensus around two-handed longswords is that they were drawn out of their sheaths way before a battle started, so it wouldn't even have been drawn in the middle of a fight. You'd probably defer to a cudgel or something if ambushed.