that pulp was the coolest shit everanime is gay and i'm tired of it
>>729809414>Robert HowardBruh this nigga shot himself, I ain't listening to a single thing he has to say
>>729809594who cares, he made an iconic characteralso he could kick your ass
>>729809414I agree that pulp is some cool shit and I'd kill for some pulpy stories to return.I also don't mind anime, though.
>imaginary chad says LIVE LAUGH LOVE because he doesn't have to deal with the fallout and miseries of real life and things always work out for himlmao I'm so inspired rn
>>729809823it's true thoughyou sound assmad
>>729809823I mean, imaginary chad is better than self insert miserable ugly lesbian. He's also saying this in response to a witch trying to trick him, and is in a setting of petty feuding demons with a consistent habit of personally overselling their abilities to men.
>>729810062true how? it's all fun and games as long as you act like Conan but that only works in fantasyirl, Conan would die of a dagger wound or an STD, shitting himself in the gutter while cursing passerby
>>729809823bro he lives in a hellworld compared to our own, he narrowly escapes death on a constant basis
>>729810409you're the exact kind of faggot that ruins fantasy, just on the opposite side of the spectrum.really nigga, who cares? it's a romp. you're supposed to suspend your disbelief to enjoy it. next time you're gonna tell me something about rambo or the terminator and something about aryans and trannies
>>729810545>>729810643>NOOOOOOO STOP BEING MEAN TO CONANlmao what are you gonna do? grab a longsword and slay me? bitch, Conan couldn't do shit against my mac10>I BURN WITH LIFEEEEE-ACK
>>729810806>Conan parries you then rips you in halfnothing personnel kid
>>729811051>N-NO SNIFF HE HE CAN P PARRY YOUR BULLETS SOBholy cope
Sword and sorcery and anime aren't mutually exclusive. Besides, S&S genre games are pretty much all made by westerners anyway, who rarely use an "anime" aesthetic. Look at Skyrim or Baldur's Gate 3, two games that are much closer to Sword & Sorcery than than anything anime unless you mod the shit out of it.>>729809594The context of that quote is young Conan anyway, a barbarian hedonist who eventually becomes a king and family man after slaying and fucking his way through a bunch of adventures, and not Howard himself talking about his personal beliefs.
>>729810409I mean yeah lots of warlord types get shanked. Conan can't exactly get a investment portfolio in the Hyborian Age. It's not really a peaceful time, and there is plenty of demand for armed idiots without fear of death to go fight the river warlock.
anime is pulp you are just being exposed to the worst of it constantly
>>729809414
>>729809414I feel pulp slowly faded away and was replaced by high fantasy inspired by Tolkien. Vidya has been taken by dark fantasy inspired by Dark Souls.
>>729809594>implying not killing yourself because your mother died isn't relatable for many anons.The man created a lasting legacy from his works.
>>729809772They still exist, they just changed form. The thing about "pulp" is that it was always low-effort trash. That's where the name even comes from; these were stories that were only printed on "pulp" paper instead of in regular books because they were meant to be cheap shit you read on the train or whatever.The modern equivalent would be self-published ebook exclusives, of which there is an incredible plethora. What people usually mean when they say "pulpy stories" is probably specific genres like Sword & Sorcery, Space Adventure, or Noir-style detective fiction. And there's plenty of that being published in low-effort ebook format still. It just probably isn't sitting on a rack at the gas station.Hey wait a second, are we even talking about video games? I thought I was on /lit/ for a second.
>>729811857pretty much this. I can't think of any good anime about sword and sorcery or pulp. I watched Lodoss thing a month ago and it was very bad. Terrible overhyped trash by people who don't know anything about the genre
>>729811857yes retard they expose the worst of it all the time. I don't want 'slime princess transported to another world where she is god of leveling otaku'; I as the based consumer want more berserk or fist of the north star. Pulp with some asian elements like religion, honor and martial arts. it's the overall aesthetic that is so prevalent nowadays that bugs me>>729811627retard
>Conan>Not a single good gameWhat went wrong?
>>729812073>anime about sword and sorcery or pulp. I watched Lodoss thing a month ago and it was very badI take it you haven't actually ever read the Conan stories then? They actually kinda suck too. It's just that the concept is cool and people like Frank Frazetta's art.
>>729812246>they kinda suckthey are products of their time and language like all novels are, retards like you would call le morte d'arthur poorly written
This. I love salivating over muscly, sweaty, hairy barbarian men. People who don't are gay.
>>729812007I think anon means a return of the 80s fantasy aesthetic in video games with art like OP's image, though you are completely right
>>729809594Let me guess, your parents are still alive, eh?
We need more pulp games, swords and sandals and sorcery. Doesn't need to be connected to D&D or anything, just give us the setting and aesthetics and ability to cleave apart our enemies.
Sci-fi should indeed go back to looking like this again
>>729812323>umm, masculine media is bad atschkually for you because you can't control your abominable urges. begone, sodomite
>>729812609His mother died after him. He killed himself because he had a similar mindset to /r9k/fags>>729812005>relatable for many anonsWhy should I give a fuck what anons think? This site is a hellpit of degenerate outcast losers, anything to the tastes of anyone here (except me) is genuinely repulsive anyways
>>729812641hmm something about this...
>>729812853>(except me)and me
>>729812820They tried, anon. Didn't take.
>>729812853He killed himself when she slipped into her final coma and a nurse told him that she would never wake up.He died 8 hours after shooting himself and his mother the next day.
>>729812974i've literally never heard of this before also it looks like a hero shooter and if so it's automatically garbage
>>729813015I do not believe the word of soulless wrecks like 4chanoids over proven recorded facts and news.
Pulp chads, RISE UP
>>729811627Howard truly believed that barbarism was mankind at its most pure. It's not very off from his personal beliefs.
why do people not get mad at minorities in Conan but they start to rage when they see them in LOTR
>>729809414What about pulp anime?
>>729812974>DangerSkins party on the cover>"They tried"They didn't.
>>729814023Most times minorities appear in Conan, Conan makes some comments about how he doesn't like black people.
>>729814089>"They tried">They didn't No, "they" tried. Big difference.
>>729814023because minorities in Conan makes them hornysomeone post the comic where Red Sonja canonically gets porked by a black guy and she enjoys every second of it
I'm all for bringing back pulpy fantasy and sci fi games but what I really want is edgy mass army murder simulators with mentally ill protagonists. Drakengard and Prototype spiritual successors please.
>>729814023conan is an odd far off traveler merc in strange lands, lotr is a mythic origin story for anglo saxons.
God I want another game dealing with Egyptian supernatural shit like in Strange Brigade.
>>729813868Who would oppose Clark Ashton Smith?
>>729814730Try Deadfall Adventures, it's basically first-person Uncharted from Wish.
>>729809594>>729813868Killing yourself because you love your mom so much that you can't imagine living in a world without her in it is the level of "mama's boy" that I'm probably at too.
How many variants of this “anime bad western fiction good” bullshit I am I going to see?
>>729815514>Crom or Conan chiding anyone for being horny???
>>729815891As many as it takes for the message to set in. Weebish hedonism has unironically been a plague on entertainment for several decades, and the east is exploiting AGP gooners to sell low-effort garbage that retards are lapping up by the bowlful just because "at least it's not from the west."
>>729811627>Baldur's Gay 3>close to Sword & SorceryI wish being stupid was painful to you
>>729815891Until we finally get games that let you do both. I want to mix and match a party out of Japanese cartoons and 2000AD, like some kind of transcontinental fantasy Roger Rabbit.
>>729813868It was weird reading the life history of a lot of notable sci fi authors and discovering a ton of them were sexual deviants with a laundry list of allegations behind them. Makes you wonder if their popularity wasn't artificial. Burroughs is one of the most based men who ever lived, his life story is insane.
>>729809414Author forever known for having blown his brains out at 30 because his mother got put in a coma.Cherry picking usually quotes from the wise, anon.
>>729809594niggas shoot themselves every day in usa and nobody remembers them
>>729816518Grow up
>>729816556You can grow THIS up*unzips dick*
>>729809414>anime is gay and i'm tired of itthankfully, you have western products made by and for your kind
>hurr durr I'm a stupid racist and I praise strong white men no matter how vile they were in life because I'm weak and need to project an air of masculinity to compensate for how impotent I am in real life and how little respect I get from otherscan we just ban posters like this already
>>729809414You ever read the Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs? Absolute classics, I recommend them.
>>729816645Fuck's this mutant so worked up about? Any kind of coming-out is going to have follow-up questions, especially if it's something normies haven't heard of, and the mom is clearly trying to understand.
>>729816518I'm pretty sure he's more well known for Conan, redditspacing tranime poster.
>>729814730>Strange BrigadeGod I wanted to play that shit so bad, but I couldn't convince my buddies to try it when it was a literal dollar to play.
>>729816853It's not your place to ask them questions. It's your place to be quiet and listen.
>>729816893no he isn't, go ask a bunch of random people about Conan and they will think you are talking about the tv show host you stupid fuck, he has no cultural relevancy at all, modern political streamers have more value than he does
>>729816665Robert E Howard was a feminist and a progressive thoughever.
>>729816986find me the man who asked, dipshit
>>729813868What about Philip K. Dick? I never read his books, but the original Blade Runner movie is kino
>>729816923>do NOT question any of my bizarre and outlandish truth claims its not your right to be skeptical of the reality I hold in my headI'd hate my kid if they turned out this way too
>>729817281That's because you are a mentally ill right wing psychopath.
>>729816515>Makes you wonder if their popularity wasn't artificial.It's fascinating you write this and then, in the literal next sentence
>>729809414I like Conan but I'm sick of games that are only Conan adjacent. I want a big badass Hyborean Conan game were you get to play as Conan.
>>729814730very sexy foot on that negress
>>729816645I like how you ignore the dozens of anime that glorify being a tranny
>>729809594probably because the modern world does not let you do any of that cool shit
>>729817554Don't you like your GAAS trash that is Conan Exiles?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2204620/Kings_Blade/
>>729817606It's kind of fun but not wholly satisfying
>>729809414>>729809594It's because retarded jeets pretending to be WHITE_CONQUISTADOR_ARYAN_1488 always idolize young Conan, despite Conan growing out of this retardation as he grows older and wiser. However unlike Kratos, he doesn't become a beta simp cuck basedboy.
>>729817554Loosely adapted the slave to king plotline would be perfect for a vidya trilogy it really is just free money sitting there and nobody wants to touch it.
>>729816983>i am ignorant and proud of it, anyone who knows about thing that makes me angry also make me angry, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
>>729817906anon quick tell me the entire history of Constantinoplewhat are you, ignorant and stuipid?
>>729809414What group can these days?I can't think of anyone who could even match Poleodoris' soundtrackhttps://youtu.be/8G85Kd1s_wU
Red Nail would make a killer survival horror hack and slash
Try Dark Sun
>>729817952nobody asked you to tell us the entire history of conan dumb nigger
>>729812007Its more of the art. Think of OG magic and the men's magazines of rhe 60s. The stories were retarded but the art was really good.
>>729812641I wish games were like this.Instead it's all beefy mcbeefcake.
>>729817554>>729817860Just be happy they aren't touching it, do you honestly think modern devs wouldn't fuck with it in the worst way possible? Look at nuGoW. And if you mention Red Sonya you're retarded to not see the difference between her and modern female strong womyn.The Chinese or Russians wouldn't add fags and strong womyn, but the former has no interest in Conan and are busy making Wukong and whatever, and the latter only really do strategy games and shooters, all with heavily military or post apoc themes.
>>729818246Play Genshin
>>729818297Kill yourself gachanigger.
>>729809669there is nothing weaker than a dead man ololololol
There's this game called Age of Barbarian. It's by all accounts not very good. Buggy and barely works. But I also kind of love it for it's pure spectacle and cheese and tits.
>>729818248You sound like a very sad person, why would I imagine hypotheticals that would upset me? Until someone does make it and it is shit, I will continue to imagine my perfect conan vidya.
>>729818316>>729818246Fuck off, faggot.
>>729818397Cry about it weeb.Your anime brainrot can never produce anything of value.
>>729818396You should grow out of this mindset by the time you're allowed to vote.
>>729812007>They still exist, they just changed form. The thing about "pulp" is that it was always low-effort trash.It wasn't. Many classic science fiction authors published in pulp novels: Arthur C. Clark, Ray Bradburry, Paul Anderson, Doc Smith, Philip K. Dick. Clarke's stories form "I, Robot" collection were first published in Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction. Not to mention early fantasy authors like Howard and Leiber.
Istanbul was ConstantinopleNow it's Istanbul, not ConstantinopleBeen a long time gone, ConstantinopleNow it's Turkish delight on a moonlit nightEvery gal in ConstantinopleLives in Istanbul, not ConstantinopleSo if you've a date in ConstantinopleShe'll be waiting in IstanbulEven old New York was once New AmsterdamWhy they changed it, I can't sayPeople just liked it better that waySo take me back to ConstantinopleNo, you can't go back to ConstantinopleBeen a long time gone, ConstantinopleWhy did Constantinople get the works?That's nobody's business but the TurksIstanbul (Istanbul)Istanbul (Istanbul)Even old New York was once New AmsterdamWhy they changed it, I can't sayPeople just liked it better that wayIstanbul was ConstantinopleNow it's Istanbul, not ConstantinopleBeen a long time gone, ConstantinopleWhy did Constantinople get the works?That's nobody's business but the TurksSo take me back to ConstantinopleNo, you can't go back to ConstantinopleBeen a long time gone, ConstantinopleWhy did Constantinople get the works?That's nobody's business but the TurksIstanbul
>>729818469I don'r think so, feel free to cry about it thoughever.
>>729812007>modern pulp is litrpg/isekai
>>729818634Really speaks for the downfall of society doesn't it
>>729818748it speaks to us living in it, even.
>>729817554You probably moved away from the thread but I have two answers:# 1 is called Dark Axe with a charming PS3-styled graphics where Conan returns to Granach Village, finds it raized, and then doggedly pursues those responsible similar to the 80s movie. Has a combo system, enivornmental hazards, short narrated cutscenes where he's called half man half animal, and two women who play hard to get.He ignores them both. Has sex with one. The other cries her entire life she missed out.
>>729818748>>729818809Yes. The west has fallen. Billions must die. Because you read too much hentai.
>>729809414>rare female pulp protagonist>all brawn
>>729818874Did you understand a single word in the posts you responded to, or the one they were responding to?
>>729818062but you implied knowledge is inherently valuable and lacking it deserves scorn, even with something pointless and irrelevant like Conan the Barbarianwhere is your argument now?
>>729818582it'll be taken back, just you wait roaches
>>729809414I'll never forgive Americans for replacing pulp with capeshit
>>729818856And #2?
>>729817554There's that Conan game on PS3/360 literally just called "Conan." It plays like God of War (the first three) and has Ron Pearlman phoning in his performance as Conan. It's honestly alright.
>>729818938Which actually makes Jirel interesting. She's not a typical female character who uses deception, seduction or poison. She just hits really hard.
>>729819025take an ambian sperg.
>>729817554>>729819205There's also ANTHER game titled Conan for 6th platforms and PC.
>Sword and Sorcery>looks inside>it's just Conan wank>again
>>729817554>>729817860Second option is NOT about playing as Conan but really fits the rags-to-riches scenario + has the largest (and imo best) portrayal of Hyboria to this day.Age of Conan. I truly and honestly recommend that game if only for the 9/10 tutorial are (Tortage) which is fully voice acted, has a few quest with multiple options, four class-specific storylines and is short enough to do in ~5 days of average playtime.Beyond that the game drops to a shitty 5/10, unless you like the setting which makes it a 7/10 for me.Extra selling point: there's very little diversity so if you choose to exclusively kill Scandis, go to Cimmeria. If you wanna kill browns, go to Stygia. If you wanna kill asians, go to Khitai.Turan, Vanaheim, Aquilonia and the ........... uh pirate Island from the Momoa movie are also features, but they aren't that content-rich.I stopped playing after killing Toth about 3 years ago. Not sure about the state of the game rn but you could get raid groups going
>>729818856And number 2?
>>729819554>why do people keep making things about the creator of the genre?
>>729819103>>729819205>>729819375well shit apparently those were two separate games that I mixed up. Yeah one is called Dark Axe and the other is just "Conan". The first one is simpler with narrated cutscenes, the second one has a larger combo system with a few funny scenes like the brown girl being mad that Conan isn't chasing her
>>729809414>>729811886Reddit
>>729817203From what I’ve read he kind of went insane later in his career. Nothing strange beyond that though.
>>729819657Must be a bad genre if that's the only thing that can be made.
>"You see, girl, when a civilization begins to decay and die, the only thing men or women think about is the gratification of their body's desires. They become preoccupied with sex. It colors their laws, their religion --every aspect of their lives.>"Listen to me. When you have a dying civilization, the normal, accepted lifestyle ain't strong enough to satisfy the damned insatiable appetites of the courtesans and, finally, of all the people. They turn to Lesbianism and things like that to satisfy their desires."
>>729819556>can choose to exclusively kill brownsnot really true but the end-game locations used to be in Stygia only.
>>729819860I'd respond by pointing out he's a 30 year old manchild virgin with no life experience and that his bravado means nothing because I can get in his face and insult his mother and if he swings a fist at me, he gets to spend the next few years in jail.
>dat feel when no Kane game
>>729813868I like both what now
>>729819758Well, there's also Deathstalker, Machiste, Samson, and other sword and sorcery movies, which of them would you like to play?
>>>729820153>dat feel when now coop broop
>>729820287To think, one of those men had sex with a ratgirl.
>>729819947>Anon pretends to be an ancient boomer with lot of life experience>Thinks people in modern world go to jail "for years" for punching annoying moronsLMAO.
>>729820249>moviesFuck off.
>>729818582Those words you typed come from great men of a bygone age. Some might even say… they might be giants.
>>729820153>gameI'd settle for fucking novel re-prints.
>>729818634Modern pulp would be something like "This Rotten World", a series of zombie books. I read a couple and they scratch the same itch as Endworld or Able Team.
>>729820364You know exactly what I mean, ACfag, stop pretending to be a faggot just to make yourself angry.
>>729820450Read a fucking book.
>>729818856>>729819375>>729819675I never heard of that 6th gen Conan game before. I'll check it out. Thanks, famalam.
The problem is the actors and actresses' looks that kept the image for this kind of thing going died out in the 80s. I can't even remember the last time there was a real 80s build protag, male or female. If there's no visual memory to tie it with, it's harder to sell to the normalfag crowd
>>729819860he's not wrong
>>729820575Yeah, it's not like actors haven't bulked up for roles but nobody really has that Frazetta build like Arnie did. And most actresses these are far worse.
I don't know if it really counts, but I'd recommend Abathor if you want a good old fashioned sidescroller where you can play as a Conan-esque barbarian fella.
>capeshit used to be about KILLING criminals! wwhat the HECK! But the number of murderers stays the same????
>>729816645"So....I'm non-binary."
>>729820790Kill TWO killers and the number of killers goes down by one.My nigga Lamont Cranston knew that.
>>729820712This was cool but christ its long for a game of its genre. Even more when you do the extra stuff beyond the gate.
>TFW no cool game where you play as soldier chad winning barbarian woman and fight dinosaurs and wizards
>sword and sorcery but gayWhat game?
>>729821187Devil May Cry 1-5
>>729821187fuck off
>>729820520Are you just belching random retarded garbage for attention?
>>729821294So Conan?
>pulp meets capeshit>it's actually not bad
>>729816645For all the slop shit out by westoids, the number of "I was reincarnated as a cute little girl" from bugs remains uncontested in quantity.
>>729821428I thought Marvel was the one who owned Conan and did crossovers with their superheroes.
>>729821448To be fair, turning into a cute girl is the objective of every wizard.
>>729821501The Conan license bounced around a bit. Marvel had it through the 70s to 90s but then Dark Horse in the 00s. Marvel had it back for a bit in the late 2010s but have since lost and Titan has been putting out Conan books since.
>>729820153>immortal anti-hero with undertones of horrorkane has flown under the radar
>>729820547happy to
>>729820364Solomon Kane actually has a surprisingly decent movie that got fucked over by distribution rights or something.
>>729821428I've noticed the number of crossovers has increased dramatically in comics, mainly because sales are literally 1/100000000th of the worst shounen manga and are losing everyone.
>>729821918>mfw Demon Slayer alone outdid the ENTIRETY of the US comics industry at one point
>>729821918>everything is fortnite I hate this
>>729821918>>729821970Because no one cares for comics. If even with the massive success of Marvel movies they didn't have a 10% sales increase it's really time to give up.
>>729817979fucking kinobest soundtrackbest use of imageryit's the kind of movie that shows the very best of the medium.
>>729822157It's not that they don't care for the medium, it's just that the comic industry is so uttery corrupted that nobody sane is willing to give them a chance. There's only so many times someone can be issue 1 baited before they just say fuck it.If comics actually became entertaining again people might go back, but it would need the entirety of the upper management and writing staff of multiple companies to be executed in public before people even consider getting invested in the again.
>>729815982Well, Crom isn't horny at all. But he also doesn't chide anyone at all. He sits alone on his mountain in grim and silent solitude. He offers no blessings and no reprieves.
>>729809414This is toxic masculinity.
>>729822157Hell West mediums are dead, comics or cartoons, all dead.
>>729822663He gave one, but only to someone who was willing to fight without it.
Weird how Imaro never took off. It's essentially black Conan in Africa with African myths. Very hit or miss, but when it hits, it's good
>>729822568Which will never happen because creatives don't really have a say in the comics. Whether you're a writer, artist or colorist, you're just hired for a job. Company still owns everything and business guys don't really understand creativity. It's sad because in the US every comic that's not about capes essentially has to differentiate itself as GRAPHIC NOVEL just so people don't go "oh, you mean superheroes?".
>>729822568Yeah, as a long time comic fan, the simple truth of the matter is that current marvel and DC just aren't very good right now. DC's better at the moment but all of it is pretty far removed from where they were at their heights. And Marvel is determined to cut their nose to spite their face. The big problem though is that because of complicated decisions made a very long time ago even the good outlier comics like the current Conan book don't get the same market share as the big 2 so love it or hate it the comic shop lives and dies on them. It's all a very frustrating and depressing set of affairs.
>>729822705For his time REH was actually considered quite the feminist.
>>729820790I really liked the movie, the effect where he's laughing and you can hear it from different speakers was kino.
>>729822791If you look at Howard's own extensive bibliography people only remember Conan and Solomon Kane. Maybe Kull if you looked deeper.
>>729809594Yeah, he did. And he also wrote all of this great shit before he even turned 30. An incredible talent, respected by a lot of serious authors of the time for his abilities. A lot of people think he killed himself because of his mother's declining health and that he felt trapped with her and his responsibilities. That is understandable. But I don't think that's what it is. I think he couldn't reconcile our gay, faggoty world with the fertile world of endless imagination he could so effortlessly create and put to paper. How could you not be massively depressed when the world you write is so much more interesting than ours? Also, a lot of writing about that world serves as a direct criticism of ours.He could've written anything. Instead, he just wrote what he wanted. I legitimately believe that he is as good of a sentence-to-sentence English writer as has ever lived. At the very least, he is the undisputed king of action sequences -- he writes with such violence but also such clarity. There is almost zero of the confusion that creeps into other authors' depictions of combat or action sequences, nor an overreliance on technical terminology. Anyway, read Robert E. Howard's Conan stuff. You won't regret it.And I hope they make more games that feature characters like his favorite protagonist.
>>729822908It's honestly astounding just how much he wrote outside of Conan in such a short time. Kind of makes me feel bad about being such a procrastinator with my own attempts. He just sat down and punched out HUNDREDS of stories.
>>729822157i don't like either medium but that's because i'm a grumpy old man. i think western comics could gain some ground by actually appealing to the audience(s) most likely to give a shit. j-shit is loaded with shounen and school dramas while most western stuff is about adults grappling with weird sexual issues.
>>729809823Conan my not give good life advice, but he does make a good action game protagonist. He'd certainly be more fun to play as than the priest or the phillsopher.
>>729823063Conan becomes very sober with authority.
>>729810806Ok, but what if Conan has an M60?
>>729822717I'd say comics specifically are a US problem. They're doing rather well in Europe, but people there have a different mindset to it where they're perfectly willing to wait however long it takes and pay premium for that hardcover with 60 ages inside, 10 of which are concept art.
Conan is just a man.
>>729823145He prefers a revolver
>>729816645please do not attack anime anymore when this is what Western DnD has evolved into.
>>729823261What if Conan BLASTED a nigga
>>729822926>I legitimately believe that he is as good of a sentence-to-sentence English writer as has ever livedI've always maintained this as well. He's easily among the top prose stylists of the English language. Unfortunately he rarely gets the credit he deserves in this regard because his work is considered "low brow".
>>729812641Why is Conan looking notable zesty here.
>>729823275Let's just agree that the current state of modern fantasy is depressing across the board.
>>729822879she never got any other big roles after that and only did a small # of movies.Either she got "rich enough" or didn't want to play nice with the PDFs at hollywood
>>729818319And when you die, you’ll have no legacy while people will still talk about his
>>729823350Conan was a femboy in his youth.
>>729823150what you posted came out a decade ago and was never relevant
>>729823392It's a real shame because was she was really good in that movie. Like she really had action girl chops which was depressingly rare. It was pretty hilarious watching her play the villainess in Red Sonja because it was really obvious she could just break Bridgette Nielson in half
>>729822908Because a lot of them were more niche.>El Borak is a Western adventurer who is equally at home in the deserts of Arabia and the wilds of Afghanistan, and who uses his quick wits, expert marksmanship, and fighting skills to navigate a dangerous and treacherous world.>One of the things that makes El Borak unique among Howard’s characters is his ability to operate in both the Western and Eastern worlds. He is a Texan by birth, but his travels have taken him to places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India, where he has learned to speak several languages and gained valuable knowledge about the local customs and politics.
There was a time frame of a few months where I'd check out Conan stuff regularly and got a vast amount of enjoyment, I should probably do that again, thanks for the thread
>>729814063>two evenly matched guys bare-knuckle beating the piss out of each other at the end of everythingWhat are some other staples of the genre?
>>729823150>>729823473that shit reminds me. soon.
>>729823641Yeah you should. Conan rules.
>>729823397He pivoted out of that pretty well fair play.
>>729809414>thread overlaps vidya, comics and books
>>729823120Would old Conan make a good action game character?
>>729822568The biggest issue with comic media now is simply, its gotten far too big and extensive for anyone, even the hardcore fans to follow. From there you get people doing things to keep it fresh, while alienating each fandom and generation before that. Someone who grew up reading 1930s Superman comics would be confused by 1960's Superman comics and so on and so forth. There isn't one universal canon, defining identity for any character now. New supporting casts will be added, retcons or reboots will happen and eventually you'll be back to the same place you were before.
I heard the current Absolute Batman, Superman and Wonderwoman were good
>>729823867If Hour of the Dragon is to believed, yes
>>729824047take anything "good" with a grain of salt because the current state of comics is dire
>>729821448>>729817574I like how you niggers ignore the fact that battle shounen manga, which are basically pulp fiction in anime form, has and always has been the most popular form of anime. Literally cherrypicking the worst of the bunch when shit like DBZ, One-Piece and Bleach are what most people associate with anime.
>>729824105Of course but I feel like it's the same thing for video games, cinema, tv and any form of entertainement out there. Even anime and manga are mostly trash honestly it's just that anime fans are more mentally ill than any other people on Earth and they have lower standards
>>729823709Corum comics are genuinely a good idea if they're adapting existing stories since I doubt many have read those in the first place.
>>729823935That is not only not true it's stupid. Comics used to be written in a way that anyone picking up a new issue could follow along just fine. Very few people who read comics were from the first issue. If you ask anyone of my generation or around then they'd tell you that they started reading some popular comic well into the hundreds. I still remember my first Spider-man book. Pic related. I had NO trouble following along even though it was in the tree hundreds. I don't know what it is about this current generation but they're the only ones who panic when they have information they aren't immediately told ahead of time. A long running comic used to be appealing because it meant the book was healthy. Now comics rebrand and renumber yearly to new number 1 sales but diminishing returns.
>>729823520Oh absolutely. Incoming unasked for rant, but:I remember mentioning her as an example to my parents as the "kind of girl I'd like". When asked why - again, as a pre-sex drive kid - I answered that she knows how to have fun.It's one of the moment I treasure with my parents because after the initial laughter, they looked at each other like "oh shit we forgot to have fun". I had the house to myself for the next day. Heh.
>>729816893>tranimeanime website, loser
>>729809414https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk5Gq3PJTkI
>>729824218It's say it's far FAR worse in the comics industry. That's basically where all the failed vidya writers end up at, which should tell you how bad it is.
they do understand, that's why they avoid it. their purpose isn't to do cool stuff they are ruled by female office politics so they are actively anti fun.
>>729824436LOL it's that bad huh? I'll stick to Daredevil from Frank Miller and other older stuff like that then
>>729824306Its very true, and you're likely an autistic outlier. No I don't mean that offensively, autistic people just have a hard time understanding anything not in their own sphere or bubble, even if actual children can grasp it. Sure (you) might have an issue and the internet age allows people to learn things quickly, but people will see a character namedrop an event or arc, that was a callback to another event or arc from several decades before (in-universe its only been 3 months), then wonder how thats relevant to the main story, which is also a ripple-effect from a crossover that branched out into 50 different books, all with different quality of writers, artistic talent and story. At a certain point it also becomes nothing but empty filler, serialized soap-drama that repeats itself endlessly until humanity dies out.
