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[BossLackey]

Gimme a game where I can manually sheathe and unsheathe my sword.

Feels damn good.

Shout out to Ghost of and Nioh series.

That is all.

 

[Hemingwayoffbase]

Witcher 3 made it a mechanic on certain settings where you needed to unsheathe the correct sword or you'd basically do no damage.

 

[Von Hugh]

I play sheathe the sword every night with my wife. It is lovely indeed.

 

[Sticks]

 

[BossLackey]

I play sheathe the sword every night with my wife. It is lovely indeed.

I knew this was coming.

 

[kiphalfton]

I like sheathing my sword too.

 

[Windle Poons]

I knew this was coming.

Yeah he gets it out she tells him to fuck off and put it away. Every night.

 

[KàIRóS]

Get Crimson Desert then, it has TWO sheathe animations one for single tap and a cooler one with double tap

 

[cormack12]

 

[March Climber]

OP what's better to you in games, holstering a gun or sheathing a sword?

Asking because you have a Snake avatar.

 

[Gonzito]

Same here

Crimson Desert has this option as well if you double tap the seathe button

 

[666]

Jedi Knight games on PC let you manually switch on/off your lightsaber.
And if you attack while the saber is off it will activate with the more aggressive sound effect.

 

[Trilobit]

Tried to find a good "sheathing sword in game" gif and this is the best I could find:

 

[Cancer]

Samurai Warrior had this 40 years ago or so and it was a cool gameplay feature. You could choose to unsheath your sword and npcs would react to it contextually.

 

[sCHOCOLATE]

Gimme a game where I can manually sheathe and unsheathe my sword.

Feels damn good.

Shout out to Ghost of and Nioh series.

That is all.

Soul Edge/Calibur series ...

 

[IntentionalPun]

Isn't that mostly the norm? I guess I play a lot of Bethesda RPGs.

 

[Hudo]

I remember that in Gothic 1 when you ran around people with your sword unsheathed, they would freak the fuck out and tell you to put your sword away. Especially the guards would draw their weapons as well and tell you to fuck off.

 

[Hugare]

Get Crimson Desert then, it has TWO sheathe animations one for single tap and a cooler one with double tap

Same here

Crimson Desert has this option as well if you double tap the seathe button

lol, people should get accustomed to the incoming "you can do this on Crimson Desert" posts over the next months years

 

[Red-Dead-Ocelot]

It was very satisfying in Ghost of Yotei

 

[TintoConCasera]

Yeah love that, and really missed it in Elden Ring.

 

[Coconutt]

 

[Kuranghi]

Now I'm wondering if anyone has ever made a real life sword sheath that makes a gasp/moan/whimper noise when you sheath a sword in it. Searching brings no joy, the AI recommends "fartbags" but thats more an after a series of particularly forceful sheathings sort of event.

Anyway yes, its enjoyable to do it on command, and I particularly liked the way it worked in LoZ:TP where you had to time it with the enemies exploding to make it happen.

 

[struggler_guts]

sheathing, jumping, and rolling.

3 things I never stop doing in games

 

[ahtlas7]

I, too, like to sheathe my sword

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

 

[PeteBull]

Time to sheathe, boys

 

[Puscifer]

Reminds me of Sir Roderick from Jade Empire when he insisted on educating the Asians with his Blunderbuss that would basically make them explode into a blood mist.

 

[recursive]

I play sheathe the sword every night with my wife. It is lovely indeed.

So do I.

 

[spookyfish]

So do I.

"Oh yeah! That's awesome! High fi— WAIT A MINUTE."

 

[kevboard]

the worst thing is a Star Wars game with lightsabers, that doesn't let you turn off the lightsabers manually...

I hate it...

 

[Aesius]

I remember that in Gothic 1 when you ran around people with your sword unsheathed, they would freak the fuck out and tell you to put your sword away. Especially the guards would draw their weapons as well and tell you to fuck off.

Both Kingdom Come: Deliverance games have this mechanic. If you pull your sword out in front of a guard, they act like you're ready to throw down then and there.

 

[BossLackey]

Get Crimson Desert then, it has TWO sheathe animations one for single tap and a cooler one with double tap

Crimson Desert spurred this.

I DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THE DOUBLE TAP AND I JUST DID IT AND OH FUCK YEAH

 

[BossLackey]

OP what's better to you in games, holstering a gun or sheathing a sword?

Asking because you have a Snake avatar.

Holstering a pistol and sheathing a sword are both S-tier. But there seems to be many more instances of the latter.

A good holster is hard to beat but most third person shooters don't care about it for some reason.

 

[BossLackey]

Isn't that mostly the norm? I guess I play a lot of Bethesda RPGs.

It's starting become the norm over the last 5 years. But a LOT of action games still don't let you.

 

[ClanOfNone]

Pistol flourish in the Red Dead games were always sweet.

 

[uncreativename]

Rise of the Ronin is great for this. It's got a quick sheathe animation, and a longer one where you also clean your blade. It's got some moves where you need to have your weapon sheathed to perform them, too.