>on of the grandfathers of fantasy>no games>only thing that comes close is ridick vidyas
>>739375523I just want more games with that dark fantasy aesthetic like what you'd see on a bunch of old sci-fi/fantasy book covers.
not even /tv/
>>739375523There was the 2007 game, but 1) that is locked to PS3/360 (not as big of an issue now emulation has improved) and 2) it's kind mid, it's like a 7/10 at best, because it's cribbing too much from God of War, and there are some questionable lore things like Conan using magic, which feels like they didn't do their homework at all
>>739375523polish words look like ai
It might have got some besides exiles if that show had gotten greenlit instead of being turned down by amazon for being too masculine
>>739376221Korgoth could have being a really great "boring" main character. I like the idea of main characters who don't have much going on and are mainly only involved in the story because they are forced to.
>>739376678the world and writing seemed fun, they said it cost too much to greenlight but i don't buy that
>>739375947careful what you wish for, google "dark fantasy" images and see what's associated with that term
>>739375523Huh? If anything they've made far too many games of this soulless one note garbage as it is.
>>739376919>dark fantasylike this?
Conan Exiles is fun, but I've gotten bored of the mapAre any of the fan-made maps better? Are they getting updated for the UE5 remaster?
At least Conan got a few games. My favorite hillbilly gentleman doesn't even have modern reprints.>inb4 penguin classics I want the whole thing, not just the first book.
>>739376919kek, this
>>739377243weird that they didnt reprint them for the movie
>>739375523https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBQnHRmovog
>>739375523funny since Conan and all the other REH charecter are owned by Funcom so you would expect more games to come out.tbf most of them would be shit since you did forget a Conan Rogue Lite came out in 2022, so the only games he's getting are going to bottom of the barrel shovelware
>>739375523
>>739375523>no gamesBro, look at vidya released in early years, amiga and dos era. Most the the releases from that era were about BARBARIANS. There are more BARBARIAN games available than stars in the sky.
>>739378012The problem is that those barbarians were all meathead unga bungas.Book Conan might be perfectly happy to bash someone's head in, but to him violence was one of many tools he could use. He was also described most commonly as panther like, not a mountain of muscle.
>>739377887Christ what a rack
>>739377887>that haircutGlorious.
>>739377887They had breast implants in Hyboria?
>>739376253Its pretty fun, but no joke, I broke my disc after beating it because the final boss was so bad, I broke it so I would never think about playing it again.It was a fun thing to do also
>>739379265Maria Whittaker was all natural, baby
Funcom slop is the best we'll get and they can't produce anything palatable.Mainstream media doesn't even know the first thing about Conan/Kull and only pumps out roided meatheads while completely ignoring the cosmic horror aspect of the stories.
>>739379527Proof?
>>739375523Conan is too based to ever get a game.
>>739376919all i see are aislop images
>>739379667>Conan is too basedHe's a feminist.
>>739376253>like Conan using magic, which feels like they didn't do their homework at allHe will if he absolutely must.I want a Solomon Kane game.
>>739379726he rapes women and men equally?
>>739379686That's the point
>>739375947>oh no, I'm getting attacked by tigresses who want my dick, HELP ME CROM!!!!!
>>739379773>he rapes womenConan never raped any woman.
>>739379576I'm a baby who got breastfed by her, can confirm.
>>739379741Shut the fuck up Boco.
>>739376909Its true. They said that for its price they could only either greenlight Korgoth or more Venture Bros.
>>739379807>Conan never raped any woman.but you didn't mention men in your post.
>>739379861And naturally they went with the wokeslop. Fuck CN.
>>739377243Him having a hot nudist princess teenager as a wife was too powerful.
>>739377243I've read the first one, Princess of Mars. It was alright, I thought it was a bit meandering in the middle, but other than that decent enough. Are the others worth reading? I've heard that the first is the best one.
>>739377887
>>739379563>completely ignoring the cosmic horrorYou can literally call down Yog to tentacle rape cities to death. There's horrifying portals and aliens and gods. You can physically wither yourself with corruption as you sacrifice humans for magic power. Exiles absolutely has *some* cosmic horror.
>>739375523bring back sword and sorcery
>>739379861but then they gave joe pera like 3 shows. totally gay
>>739380479The little lizard dude is living the life.
>>739379563Bro there is tons of alien beings in Exiles. Old ones, Dagon, degenerate Lemurians, dragons, undead etc.
>>739380614Live action is dirt cheap. You can make those shows with five bucks and a cell phone.
>>739380530that's both lame and awesome as fuck
>>739375523Forget games it didn't even get a decent movie
>>739379563https://conanexiles.fandom.com/wiki/Portal_to_Yuggoth
>>739375523Because Conan is such a grandfather that basically every single fucking lone adventurer is Conan. At the time it was novel, today it's generic.
>>739377243I have the five book omnibus so you're lying.
I remember the Conan MMO from 15? years ago. It was fun, I remember you could walk backwards up mountains and male armor was skirts until you hit level 50.
at least Conan gets games, I can't imagine anyone in the present day doing a Solomon Kane or Steve Costigan game even if they would work quite well for those.
>>739379563https://conanexiles.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sunken_City
>>739381045I would kill for that.
>>739381045Have you played Witchfire? It's all you would want from a Kane game minus the IP name.
>>739380530The composition is cool and all but this style really only works if the hero is jacked and probably has a tan.
>>739381045I'm afraif maining saltzpyre is the best you're likely to get
>>739381286But the PC in that is Catholic anon
>>739381045I want pictish awesomeness
>>739375523Conan's influence on the genre is such that you probably HAVE played a Conan game even if you didn't recognize it as such. Like if you've played any game with dungeon running in it. Classic dungeon running was clearly based on the Conan stories.
>>739377887I think my dad had these games when I was a kid. The box art looks vaguely familiar and I think my mom got mad that I saw it one tine kek.
>>739381306Why are you looking at anything besides that woman? Her back and ass are literally perfect.
>>739375523Conan is my favorite fantasy character and the Hyborian age is my favorite setting in fantasy. I think the sheer amount of possibilities the setting has could make a shitload of high quality vidya. Unfortunately everything is gay now.
love me some conan, really need to read the books. I only watched the movie and played conan exiles.
>>739384172The fuck?
>>739381045>tfw no Doc Savage games just garbage like Uncharted
>>739375523The only Conan anything I liked was Age of Conan. The combat was fun and unique.
>>739384771You're a foid?
>>739380530When a normal girl just was in love with a normal dude. I miss the 00s.
Conan unironically won't go mainstream because of the racial undertones in Howard's work especially his "Shemites" who were described as thievingjust like their real life counterpart
Unironically one of the better survival crafting games and the only real Conan game worth mentioning>World is actually unique and interesting to explore>Armor/Weapons/Bases from all the not-historical cultures Conan totally didn't rip off of>Weird magical shit going on is actually done perfectly for the sword and sorcery themes>All the men are jacked with huge cocks and the women are hourglasses with giant tits>Can take slaves and force them to work in your base, be your shield maiden, etc. (and fuck with mods)I mean it's absolutely hamstrung by shit combat but I had a ton of fun with this game.There's also a ton of women in the RP servers
>>739383421It’s all about the contrast. The cuteness of the girl, the barbarism of the guy.
>>739384771rape
>>739385113There being no gear/character progression makes it pretty boring to play. Lots of dungeons etc., to explore, but all of them have effectively nothing in them.It's also way too grindy, but you can fix that with server settings.Although, I haven't played since before the magic expansion, so maybe things have changed.
>>739385113How is this game for coop pve? I played a lot of Ark and this looks similar, just with slaves instead of dinos
>>739379726Yes, based.
>>739385861i got 600 hours in it coop though at least half or more of that was with big mods that haven't updated for enhanced edition yet. it is a very good game, I expect if you and your friends are into it and the setting you could get at least 100 hours out of it, more if you like building
>>739375523>tfw no Elric gameAnybody ever read these? If you like Conan you would probably dig it. Also check out Black Blade by Blue Oyster Cult, the song the author wrote about the series.
>>739379773Conan doesn't rape women, all the women he steals conviniently have a big adventure with him were they eventually fall in love before any funny business happens.
>>739381826The Scarlet Citadel is pretty much the progenitor of dungeon crawlers.
>>739386367
>>739384172I recomend The Scarlet Citadel, Red Nails and Queen of the Black coast. To be honest they are novelles you can read all of them in a few days.
>>739375523Conan is for chads and chads don't play vidya
>>739385113>There's also a ton of women in the RP serversWomen as in females?
>>739387276Not him but yeah, actual women.It was weird the first couple of times I came across them. Pretty cool ingame tho.
>>739385861Don't play just standard co-op, runs way shittier and there's a gay ass tether.Drop the cash to have a dedicated server of your own for a month or two while you play co-op with a friend.
>>739387076>low iw>conan is for nerds>midwit>conan is for chads>high iq>conan is for nerds
>>739384172I think they're all great but my favorite is A Witch Shall Be Born.
>>739386736mmm cheese
>>739388303>Project Gutenberg has all the copies of Weird Tales>EXCEPT the ones that contain Conan storiesI know I can read them elsewhere, but I can't wait for those copyrights to lapse. The trademark wouldn't be able to stop distribution of the originals after that
>>739384907>racial undertonesRead Skullface. They aren't undertones.
>>739388504Wait, Conan is public domain in europe isn't it?Is project gutenberg not in europe?
>>739390318Yeah idk what’s up, it seems Project Gutenberg Australia has some of the early stories but not the main site
For me, it's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.
>>739391439I'm surprised no one tried making a film ot a tv show with those characters.
>>739390735I remember reading most of the Conan stories at Project Gutenberg Australia 10-15 years ago...
>>739379807https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600751h.htmlHe tried to rape Frost Giant's DaughterAdmittedly she asked for this and he only managed to molest her, but still an attempt was made
>>739379785Its not authentic dark fantasy either, AI is too tame to and restrained to make actual dark fantasy aesthetics like Dark Sun or Elric of Melnibone type of art. If it doesn't look like it would've been made in 70s or 80s its not legitimate dark fantasy art.
>>739392991Conan was also kind of mind-controlled in that story
>>739378554>80s metal catgirls
I want more Conan fantasy and more retro-futurism
>>739375523>only thing that comes close is ridick vidyasI know basically nothing of conan other than what my dad has talked about and the brief time I played that MMO from like 15 years ago but I know about riddick. Curious on what makes them so similar, I might have to dive into it cause I'm pretty bored atm.
>>739392991I loved the ending of that story when the Æsir found him and he was still clutching her veil.
>>739393935NTA, but I can see similaritiesGuy from an alien culture to where he ends upMore savage, but in a way more honorable than slimy civilized menNaturally inteligent ubermench, stronger than common men, but often unaware how things are done in those civilized realmsKeeps getting into different adventures every time as opposed for it all to be one big storyDestined to be leader
>>739394356Sounds like high T fun but fuck there's a lot of Conan stuff so idk what to watch/read and what to dismiss.
>>739380614Joe Pera is funny as fuck, so moot point.
>>739376253the final boss of that game was so absolute aids
>>739385113is this similar to valheim?
>>739395221Conan is more high T if you just read through Robert's works in chronological order as its an episodic series of stories and Conan's character is discovered in not really chronological manner, then read the Dark Horse comics, doesn't get more based than that.
>>739395221Conan the Barbarian movie is fantastic, but only first one. Drop in quality in a sequel is absurd. It's also it's own thing and not really an adaptation of any story in particular, just taking cool things from many Howard's storiesAs for books you just read Howard's short stories and not the "pastiches" which are essentially fanfiction written by other authors like L. Sprague deCamp. Many short stories are even legally free online by now. I got myself book in pic related, which is apparently pure and includes everything Conan related down to unfished drafts and synopsis of stories. Because often Howard stories were released in some weird way and were altered by other authors, expanded or rewritten so it used to be hard to actually read non altered versionsThere are many chronologies if you even wish to bother with that, where many fans tried to arrange stories in a correct order. I'm reading those stories following "Darkstorm" chronology and it feels reasonable, since Conan starts inexperienced and really naive and turns into a more mature military leader eventually. http://www.barbariankeep.com/cnchronds.htmlBut it's not really needed since stories are meant to be self contained and feel like it's some adventurer telling you his many random stories in random order.
>>739395784Forgot to add also the main theme in Conan is basically "worship of masculine expression of violence and survival against the odds" and the "lamentations of the natural role of man going out of style in civilization as the warrior and the hunter." from Robert's point of view. Conan does not fucking care how things are done in civilization: You have something he wants? He takes it.
>>739395917I have this, and it's great. Regarding chronologies, I've read J.R. Karlsson's, and it was amazing, but it was autistically broken down by a guy who went out of his way to add pastiche, which turned out to be great. Though I don't recommend Conan pastiche unless you're intimately familiar with Howard's works so you can pick apart what's worth your time or not (and some are, but they are all lesser than Howard's own stories).
>>739396404yeah, it seems rather obvious that you should read pastiches only after you are done and simply need moreBut there is also Kull for that and other Howard stories and characters
Why is the buttplug so big?
>>739393868Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon were perfect for that, but neither survived the 80s.
>>739395924>You have something he wants? He takes it.I don't agree with that assertion. It presents him as a mindless pict savage. He steals, sure, he loots as part of battle, but there's always been a stark noble savage chivalry to him. He doesn't just take what he wants if you are worthy of having it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadows_in_ZamboulaMan Eaters of Zamboula, the local governor's wife is trying to seduce Conan to help her and save her husband from being drugged and driven mad. She offers to sexually reward him if he helps - he doesn't rape her, he just loots a magic ring from the insane husband and leaves. About the only story where he goes to rape (actual rape) a woman is the ice giant's daughter and that's clearly got a mythological vibe of him being bewitched by her.https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42243/42243-h/42243-h.htm>Again Conan shook his head. 'Let others dream imperial dreams. I but wish to hold what is mine. I have no desire to rule an empire welded together by blood and fire. It's one thing to seize a throne with the aid of its subjects and rule them with their consent. It's another to subjugate a foreign realm and rule it by fear. I don't wish to be another Valerius. No, Trocero, I'll rule all Aquilonia and no more, or I'll rule nothing.'
>>739375523Conan is wrong! Civilization is strength! Not weakness!
>>739396786He sees it as a challenge to get past guards and rob a jewel, he's not a mindless savage, but if something grants him power, he wants it and finds a way to get it, he doesn't ask, he'll get it done. That's the idea, he's not interested in raping women, he understands he can get women to throw themselves at him with gold/power, so he does that route instead.
>>739396990Faggot.The only truth and good in this world is violence. Strength neither requires nor permits justification.
>>739375523says you.
>>739379667yep. no games
>>739385850There is tons of gear and character progression. Also they completely reworked the game from the ground up recently and the new itemization is amazing. Rewards for dungeons are now blueprints to craft powerful weapons rather than farming them for drops
>>739385861Coop is great, its overall a better survival game than ark
>>739385113>a ton of women in the RP serversthey're very ugly
>>739397249Looks like someone dropped a turd on the end of your bedYou need to toilet train your slaves
>>739385850>no gear progressionoh, so you're retarded then.
>no games with that aesthetic where between battles you can ravishly fuck your entire harembut why? why not yet?
>>739391502they would make them gay trannies who spend 3/5ths of the movie fucking each others butts
>>739378554wolfcut bringin back big hair thank god
>>739395784lol no. read the BD's
>>739397975The only two games I've ever played that scratch that specific itch are either modded Skyrim or modded Conan Exiles.
>>739375523Conan is unironically too Mundane for vidya. It's why vidya fantasy takes most of its inspiration from Tolkien or Moorcock (kek), or it's Japanese stuff.
BY THE WAY CAN ONE OF YOU THAT MODS EXILES PLEASE MAKE A MOD FOR BETTER SORTING IN THE INVENTORY MENUS PLEASE
>>739400029what's wrong with vanilla? you can sort already
>>739400415>you can sort alreadynot by a good means for craftingyou can only do alphabetical when it would be much more helpful to be able to sort by category, tier, etc...
>>739398403>modded Conan Exilescan you expound further?
>the best Conan story is the only one where he has a male sidekick/bro instead of a useless sexy wenchI wish Howard wrote more than one.
>>739379741>He will if he absolutely must.He would not, you inbred dog.
>>739386367>Black Blade by Blue Öyster CultI NEED an esoteric Lovecraftianism game modelled after their Imaginos cycle.
>>739386367I stopped reading at the third book because the writing was absolutely abysmal.
>>739380420Burroughs gets better as a writer as the series goes on, but he also starts to kind of phone it in towards the end. I think it's around the seventh or eighth installment where it becomes too formulaic.
>>739396528This is answered in Suppository of the Colossus
>>739375523I like Conan too much to want to see a new game developed by modern "developers"
>>739375523Conan Exiles works for me(before the new update made it unplayable for my ancient PC)
>>739379807He was raped by a woman, unironically his first real love interest from the original stories. The woman in question just happened to be one of the scariest characters in the entire lore. She took him as a slave on her insane cannibal pirate ship for awhile before he was promoted to the status of consort as "first mate" because his game was just that good. Conan's dick outright taught her empathy.
>>739395917stfu about Conan the Destroyer. All of you and /tv/ too. Have any of you read any Conan literature? It's campy and swashbuckley as fuck. The Conan the Barbarian movie is an anomaly, it's a John Milius vision of Conan.Destroyer was sick.
>>739403713The only issue with Destroyer is the much weaker casting, lame additions Conan's retinue of allies is how you tank a good Conan story. The character's in the first film were good because the actors were better and their Characters stood with Conan as equals without just being there for filler or comic relief. Everything else about it was fine.
>>739398046This, they would be ruined. Some shit needs to be forgotten for it's own protection.
>>739403713Destroyer was good, but Barbarian is the best movie ever made.
>>739404086elric, would be a black nb tranny played by ellen page if made as a movie today.
>>739404660And it would unironically supported by Michael Moorcock because he's a fucking faggot who only created the character to be subversion of pulp fantasy in the first place.
>>739379726As if. Conan is free of your labels.
>>739404849I find it funny that the only reason that book Conan goes adventuring in the first place is because he was bored. Not some grand quest, or tale of revenge, dude just wanted go start some shit.
Reject Sci-fiEmbrace PVLP
>>739378554
>>739375947>AIEEEEEEE SAVE ME CONAN
>>739405237I think I need to reinstall Skyrim with some dark fantasy mods.
>>739405557Based and ancient Nord pilled.
Games where I go from village to village solving problems and saving the day?
>>739406526Most if not all JRPGs lol
>>739406526This game gets shit on a lot (because of Kevin Sorbo), but it's honestly and okay Ocarina of Time clone. There's also a fun Xena game on PS1.
Please be good please be good
>>739406526Witcher 3
>>739406716I always liked Kevin Sorbo. Don't know why he stopped acting
>>739406778>conan film being made in current year>goodhow many times do you need to learn this lesson, old man?
>>739406778In another life, we could've had KINO
>>739406902bruh he does have a legitimate son. you trying to get the fat fuck to kill himself just because of a movie? illegitimate bro did alright for himself last I knew
>>739406902Add in a 40 minute subplot about Conan's wife and her political intrigues that only she can handle. Then give Conan Jr. a bossy black gf and you've got a screenplay mister. Welcome to Hollywood.
>>739387276Yeah actual biological women. Probably fat and ugly but still women.I did a lot of ERP with a british divorced mom. She ran a brothel in the server and I just happened to build nearby. Was hot
>>739386367>No Elric gameLegacy of Kain, heh
>>739379726Yeah, no. Try a more convincing revisionist lie next time.
>>739406902retarded take. conan would never raise soft sons. if anything, he would raise sons that would rather want to go adventuring than inherit the throne.
If you're into comics, the Wonder Woman x Conan comic was pretty fun.I'm not a shill, so here's a free linkhttps://getcomics.org/dc/wonder-woman-conan-tpb-2018/
>>739406778It won't be, Con, Conan's son was NEVER a good character.
is this game still fun without friends?
>>739407551Marvel was cool again for about five seconds before they decided to lame it up like usual.
>look up frazetta paintings>all the women have huge bushesbased
>>739407773Sometimes the bush is so big that it covers the entire body.
>>739407773He based his art of women around life drawings of his various girlfriends and then wife. Every time you see a naked Frazetta chick, he was showing off.
>>739407773We got lucky he was painting back when bushes were the norm.Nowadays, they'd be smooth and covered in tattoos and piercings. And they'd probably have that dyke hair sidecut.
>>739376919>>739379686> all i see are aislop imagesThen maybe you should look......harder.
>>739406854>>739407628Actually, Arnie promised McQuarrie understand Howard's vision and Millius might be the producer. I still have my hopes up.
>>739375523Conan is WAY too redpilled to get games made about him in this Jewish age.
>>739380530It's dead, Jim.
>>739408637I spend some time on /tg/ and it's really, really fucking grim. Even among the shitlibs there, nobody can actually explain WHY they do this stuff, because nobody actually plays game with this kind of faggot tone.
>>739409015>D&D was an escape from boring normalcy to a fastastic world of danger and violence and heroism-and has now become an escape from anxiety in the real world to a fantasy of safety, comfort and positivityThat is shockingly profound, and indeed really fucking grim.
>>739409015the marriage between real life and the fantasy world has been a disasterthat being said i'm not sure i agree society is as bad as we think it is, i'd rather be young today than during the great depression or the napoleonic wars
>>739409015Good fantasy can't exist in the modern world. That would be problematic.
>>739409573Everything down to the writing is abysmal in modern fantasy. Making art accessible to the masses has been nothing but a plague on art.
Rance is basically conan but anime
>>739375523I can't take Conan that seriously after finding out Howard was a weird oedipal faggot who killed himself after his mom died because he couldn't lust after her anymore.
Conan soulslike
>>739397975puta
>>739408505>McQuarrieHe's a real one.
Play Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga Episode III
>>739410195Really puts into perspective all the weird faggots posting Conan quotes likes it's deep and masculine.
>>739410195He didn't lust after her.He was just a lonely man that loved his mother, and she died there was nothing left holding him back to this world.
Which Conan books are worth reading? There's so many in different collections
>>739407271What's the go to servers now?>>739410195Genius and madness coincide. It's stupid and parasocial to care so much about the person rather than the product. There are cases where the creator if brilliant and blameless in person like Grandpa Tolkien but if Tolkien was some degenerate drunkard autist he'd still be worthy of respect.>>739411210Del Rey Anthologies. Three of them. Has all the stories uncensored with the editing only grammatical and such. It's only the Robert E Howard ones.>Which stories of Robert E Howard.All of them. There's no harm in reading them all, some are weaker than others.
the new conan exiles update is really pretty butlike the other anon said, the combat is just annoying dogshit without mods to try and fix itvery nice exploration at least
>>739375947why do those tigers have breasts and childbearing hips
>>739411470All the better to know whose lamentations you want to hear.
>>739375523Even Lord Dunsany got a videogame (Koudelka)
>>739375523are you retarded?
>>739411393>Del Rey Anthologies. Three of them. Has all the stories uncensored with the editing only grammatical and such. It's only the Robert E Howard ones.>>Which stories of Robert E Howard.>All of them. There's no harm in reading them all, some are weaker than others.Thanks anon, I'll get started on these
>>739410195I think he made up his mind to kill himself for unrelated reasons and was only sticking around because he didn't want to make her sad. In his private letters he showed a morbid fixation on the inevitable decline of a man's physical vitality due to aging, how he felt aging past your athletic peak was a fate worse than dying young, and he was about to enter his thirties himself at the time of his suicide. He also probably had clinical depression or some similar mental issue. He wasn't some soft NEET shut-in though; he had a girlfriend for a while, went on road trips with his friends, and was a fairly successful amateur heavyweight boxer. There was just something wrong with or in his head, and his small town in Great Depression era Texas didn't have any way of helping people with chronic clinical mental problems.
>>739406526uh, kingdom cum developence?
>>739375523You have to look for games with Conan ripoffs instead. Blade of Darkness was pretty fun.
>>739409015The simple answer to me is that some wish to escape into escapism that is soft and cuddly and rounded off at the edges. I don't think escapism is bad, but - >>739409219Really just that quote. It's something I've seen in another game where certain people like content which is just girls-kissing-girls-uwu (Not in a hedonistic 'lesbian sex is based' way but rather a teenage fairytale way), or which is purely 'friendship and peas and let's hug and talk about our feelings'. When previously said game was having narratives of thousand year wars, colonization and rebellion and the extermination of entire worlds. These are the same people who get panic attacks seeing a fucking Saint Georges Flag. When you consider that, them being afraid of racism towards tieflings that is not resolved with a morality tale or worse is justified starts to make sense.I'm not some ripped badass, I'm a loser same as everyone else but at least I want a heroic ballad and not a fucking lullaby.
This is neatohttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2295610/Abathor/And there's a free prologuehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2358610/Abathor__Atlantis_Landing/
>>739379726He tries to rape a girl for ragebaiting him in one story
>>739400927It depends what you mean by magic. He's used the rune of Jebbel Sag before, in Beyond the Black River he wards off beasts with it. What Conan will have no truck with is hypnotism or black sorcery. He has no aversion to using magic items or sigils.
I don't really get the difference between sword and sorcery and a typical darker fantasy is. Conan fought Lovecraft gods so it's not scale, and he journeys from place to place so it's not a sense of adventure. Is it that nobody is wearing a shirt? I guess there's also no real western medieval influence either, I don't know where Howard pulled inspiration from
>>739410195>>739410973Retarded niggers
>>739413442>I don't know where Howard pulled inspiration fromWdym? He pulled from human history. All the civilizations are ripped off from history, from the feudal lands in aquilonia and their heavy armored knights, to china and nomadic hordes to the east, desert peoples in the south, pictish tribes to the west, vikings in the north. he pulled from just about everything in his stories.
>>739391439Good stuff, my favorite stories are the ones with the skaven and the one where they're climbing StardockI would rhetorically ask why there's no games with them, but really, the first Thief game feels like an adaptation in spirit already.
>>739385113The ue5 update made it unplayable for me, it just gives an error on launch that my machine doesn't support directx 12, despite having directx 12 in dxdiag. I have like 400 something hours in it too
>>739407773frazetta and his wife were big into the bodybuilding and health scene. so when he needed poses for his art, he would work off of photos he took of himself and his wife. so those buff babes and dudes in the art he did are pretty much all just him and his wife.
>>739410195More like he already wanted to kill himself but didn't wanted to make his mom sad, so he took the chanceHappen to the best of us
>>739407740Hes a sorcerer, and beneath contempt
>>739386882>Scarlet CitadelI know I might sound retarded, but the plot armor Conan got in that story sours the experience a little for me.The whole scene of him trying to crawl through the dungeon in pure darkness was cool though, even if it breaks my impression of him being a barbarian with his heavily armored archers and knights and pikemen in the big battle at the end.I can also kinda understand why he has such a distrust toward sorcerers and their magic because holy shit the shit Tsotha and Pelias did really make you want to kill them when you got the chance.
>>739409573>the NPC creed.JPEG>>739409015People are delusional if they believe "dark" fantasy was not just as much of an elaborate form of escapism as the current stuff. All that changed is the world became less black and white, the average normalfag knows not just more but nearly every in and out of the society they inhabit, or at the bare minimum have the means to discover it. Most consciously don't yet intrinsically understand something is fucked up, not just fucked up but reinforced to be fucked up and get worse. Hence why fantasy is now less about contending with an evil world and more finding some self-validation in spite of it. Honestly that retarded Conan quote isn't too far off the mark; in the same way he just wants to eat, fuck, and fight (very basic things) your average modern fantasy-tranny just wants to be validated. Both have very basic desires and resent the notion of learning, doing, being or creating anything more. They're incredibly alike in this regard. All that's changed is how much quarterly-hunting big business is involved in this fantasy shit vs. back when it was a bunch of obscure tabletop games, newsletters and internet forums. But everyone is pathetic.
>>739396620>but neither survived the 80sIt may upset you to know that Taika Waititi is making a Flash Gordon movie.
comfy thread, I'll miss this when this website dies
>>739417712Two more weeks trust the plan
I wanted to make a jrpg-crpg hybrid inspired by conan and dark sun but I'm a brainlet
aaaaaa i wanna play conan exiles again but soulmask is devouring all my attention
>>739376253It's also backwards compatible on XSEX/S. Still the best Conan game to date.>>739379563Funcom only uses IP to milk a bunch of paypiggies with their live service GAASlop MMO-lite for as long as its profitable, the second it stops they'll sell the IP instead of actually making a proper single player Conan action game.
>>739417998I wish I could get into soulmask
>>739418586>And blame that bastard Sonny BonoBlame your elected representatives. Sony Bono didn't single-handedly do this. It's one more in a line of extensions to copyright period and it was voted for by congress and unanimously by the senate and then signed off on by the president.
>>739406526LINKHE COME TO TOWN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cRCB1P_6UItoo bad game is an mmo
>>739410930And kick some wizard to have him cast spells for you!>>739386367https://youtu.be/TTSl8BSAJec
>>739407819the book from pic is said to be not the greatest read for male readers lol
>>739375523The closest thing to a big series that is similar to Conan is Legend of Zelda. But Link is a lame twink. And most of the games have shoddy combat.
>>739381045Wish some of these old characters got real good games made like The Shadow or Zorro. In fact the only Zorro game I remember was one based on the movie from the nineties. Sad that for old characters the one who gets the most games is Mickey Mouse.
>>739411751>how he felt aging past your athletic peak was a fate worse than dying youngThe man is not incorrect. No human on this Earth fancies aging and exiting their prime. Getting old does feel awful. You get tired more easily, your stamina decreases, and if you age enough you see diseases start to cripple your health. Anyone who says they feel fine aging gracefully as its natural is a liar because no one genuinely enjoys becoming worse.
>>739400927Conan will resort to or respect ritualistic magic because of its connection to the wild. It's the other stuff like throwing magic missiles or resurrecting corpses that really freak him out.
>>739400927nta but you literally don't have to use magic in the game if you don't want to, I mainly used stone blast against the ape men to get a higher combo chain going or route grouped up mooks for quick kills.
How did modern depictions of barbarians in fiction become rage filled retards swinging their oversized weapons with no finesse when Conan was incredibly witty, well-read, level-headed and genuinely skilled with most weapons?
>>739421145they saw stills from that schwarznigger movie and said "ah, got it" instead of reading the source material. was pleasantly surprised when I actually picked it up myself and started reading
>>739421145Frazetta + Arnie
>>739421145I blame D&D
>>739421145They just looked at the pictures and made everything else up.
>>739408637>every character obviously caring SOOO hard about how they look and present themselvesthis is so fucking off putting for some reasonemotional depth of a puddle
REH was an extremely lucid and based man.His works can never be made justice in this jewish, trannified, pathetic modern world. See >>739410195 and >>739410973Also>In nations like Shem and Koth, Howard directly mirrors ancient Canaanite/Phoenician Baal worship. These religions are depicted as corrupt, wealthy, and deeply decadent, featuring tyrannical high priests and brutal human sacrifices.>>739413442>there's also no real western medieval influence eitherAquilonia is literally medieval western Europe, dumbfuck>>739421145kikes seeking easy shekels
>>739411751>was a fairly successful amateur heavyweight boxer>There was just something wrong with or in his headthis is probably related. CTE is no joke. also he offed at 30 due to "age"? that's like 30 years before one even starts to feels the physical decline given one's not a drunkard or pharma'd up the ass. what a waste
>>739411628yes.
>>739375523I liked Blade of Darkness as the barbarian. Shame there's no big modding scene for it though.
>>739406716>because of Kevin Sorbowhat did he do?>>739406841he's 67 years old haha
>>739410195bait used to be believable
>>739380878Post it. I'm not aware of that edition.
>>739421145Because people are dumb and like to simplify things? In books Conan is intelligent, strategic and like music and poetry. Even in 1982 movie you get a description that he is well literate.
>>739421615No it's literally his mother.She was perpetually sick when he was a child too, so his whole life had been focused on how she needs help and he exists to make her happy. He never had a chance to develop a reason to live independent of others. That unconscious sense that life is good and for you to live is something you learn as a child by your parents being selfless towards you: a human being dedicating half their waking hours to you- even though you're literally a useless child- is a nonverbal lesson that your experience of life matters even if it doesn't provide utility to another person.But Howard spent his life having to be useful child, so it sunk into his bones too early that life is about being useful to other people.He wasn't successful enough as a writer (appreciation happened after his death), his social circle had moved on without him, his hometown was full of immigrants due to the oil industry and all the while he could feel his body ageing, taunting him that he was becoming more useless for other people. When his mother died he had no idea how he could be useful to anyone anymore, so he stopped living.I don't want to bash his mother too much, because I think his dad was a deadbeat that abandoned them (or wasn't around for some reason) but the immediate suicide after her death is an indictment against how he was raised.
>>739423841>armchair psychology analysiscmon now. the father was semi absentee due to work but wasn't a deadbeat nor did he abandon them so there goes your whole theory. the easiest answer is it was the CTE that did him in
>>739377046No, like this.
>>739424334Well then it really was just his mother then.I read his life story and made this diagnosis years ago, so I can't remember the facts now but did when I decided he'd been emotionally neglected.
I know that the typical alphabet lunatics have a chip on their shoulder for this guy so I take all these "stories" with a massive spoon of salt.
>>739411848>>739422734The atmosphere in the game is so insanely well-done despite being so simple. I'm flabbergasted that it's not something people look into reverse engineering or modding because it'd probably get really popular if you managed to tackle some of the clunky controls and polish some things. The fact that you can actually cut enemies to pieces in such an old game feels amazing.https://youtu.be/FiqeX59afAw&t=2355
>>739380686The colander helmet is 10/10
>>739380686don't get rid of the cringy you, get rid of the you that cringes-adolf hitler
>>739379563Say what you will about Funcom, I've greatly enjoyed their shitty launches. While low levels were killing high level players with their CE rhino mounts, I was an avid shitty MMO grinder who had no trouble grinding out 50-80 after all good quests for XP had run out around the point where your tattoo is removed. I spent the entire time abusing combo exploits that like charge animation skip so as soon as you hit the charge key all your damage came out instantly. I ganked all day with this method, all across the noble quarter, inside the taverns, camped all the town in Keshatta which was a bloodbath half the time.Conan Exiles launch I played with /vg/ servers and dominated them to such a degree that the admins would exploit to kill me and my bases. There was no climbing so people thought they were safe without a ceiling, and I would use explosive jars to make staircases into their base. You could also use halberd to charge through doors, and if your offhand had a slaver rope you could animation cancel your swings. So everyone I came across got butchered instantly.In Dune I just ganked all day in DD, scouted for bases to raid, we had an 18 clan alliance running the big spice rings and major labs, and then it died.
>>739424974>Uses exploits>Cries about admins using exploitsPvpfags everyone
>>739378554https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fWYhPM-yeg
>>739424870If Mercury Steam weren't retarded they would have remastered BOD or something, instead they made some nugow better men slop that rightfully flopped and probably killed the studio.
Why did Conan cut the heads of chinamen off?
>>739421406Zamora was even worse than Shem, shemites were greedy and self serving but zamorians were downright evil.
>>739426071they were degenerates
>>739406902>>739407158>Conan is the somewhat well-meaning but rather useless king>his wife, played by Lena Headey, is the real mind and power behind the throne>the movie begins with Conan fumbling his kingdom, only to be saved by the Queen's advice and backroom deals>Conan's sons are shown as lazy, rude, and inept idiots who simply abuse their power and privilege (all played by white males)>this sets the stage for one of Conan's bastard granddaughters, a young woman of unspecified race played by Zendaya, who is the main character of the movie>the movie follows her struggles against the established patriarchy and power structures that fight against her as the most competent and worthy of Conan's offspring>at the end king Conan, having recognized her as the only worthy successor, says "You truly are my son's daughter" to which she replies "No, I am my mother's daughter" while the Queen smiles and nods>the movie ends as she is crowned sole regent Queen without a king
>>739377243>Del ReyThats the fucking fuck that fucking fucked sci-fi and fantasy and forced strict division between them to maximise profits. What a fucking fucking fuck.
>>73938053010 dollar cosplay.
>>739377243The disney movie was kino. Probably the last based film they've produced.
>>739425764The devs got together and made something wholly different for no reason? Honestly the whole story behind Blade of Darkness is so disappointing, they were at one point going to make an Xbox port of it that had to be canned, but it was going to have 6th gen console graphic upgrades and everything. They'd even upgraded a few of the designs for it and released some renders before it was canned.
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>>739416071That image is now the majority of men
>>739428351Both of them?
>>739427774Since when did real hollywood scriptwriters lurk on /v/?
>>739375523>no gameslolwut
>>739385850>There being no gear/character progressionWhat in the absolute, literal fuck am I reading? Conan Exiles has more gear than pretty much any RPG i've ever fucking played, i've got like 800 hours in it and I still regularly find new gear, or discover something that gives me the knowledge to craft new gear I can craft and it obviously has typical rpg level/attribute/skill progression.
>>739410195>WOOOOOOOOOW the author isn't actually the protagonist what the FUCKretard
>>739416071When I first saw this image it convinced me to give up.
>>739409573yaaaas
>>739410009That modern prose is fucking garbage. I don't understand how people read modern books.
>>739411393>Has all the stories uncensoredDo other collections censor them? I'm reading this one.
>>739379790This reminds me of Wanderer...
>>739421145That starts with people looking at the Arnie version of the character, who is very different from the stories but is still cunning and intelligent, and just thinking 'big dumb muscleman'Then D&D came along and reduced the concept of a barbarian to 'angry savage retard'
>>739379773>>739379726He almost rape Atali in Frost Giant's Daughter, but it was a in a episode of madness on top of getting an head injury. Aside from that, he respect women.
>>739379861Given they ended Venture Bros does that mean we're getting Korgoth?
Playing through conan exiles right now and having a good time, feel like i'm missing the main storyline though. Followed it up to the broken bridge and I just build a small town near the two statues. Had to run away from a fuckhuge spider and I still get hit for 30% of my health even with 300+ armor. Am I supposed to be following the loredropping stones
>>739431206She also deserved it but Conan loves women and wouldn't harm her beyond a struggle snuggle.
>>739432124What's Exiles like? Is it a big material gathering sandbox or does it have a proper story and quests?
>>739375523see >>739422081
>>739406526>Heracles>uses a swordYikes.
Ever notice that whenever the Conan nigger makes a thread board quality plummets ans the board gets flooded with super shitty threads? It's always the same exact threads too
>>739432176Tbh, she was some kind of fay and not a human.
>>739429074All I remember is going into those themed dungeons and pillaging them, and after the first one ot was pointless because they all rewarded the same stuff
>>739432681No, the board quality is so bad it doesn't push the needle any.
>>739432324big material gathering sandbox.there's a quest but when you finish it, you break your slave bracelet keeping you in the valley and the game ends.
>>739432324I'm not that far in, still in the starting zone. I've been told it has some story and quests, i've encountered some friendly NPCs and I have found a map to a cave where I can presumably learn magic but it's a sandbox mostly. If you've played valheim I would compare the experience with that. Might change in later zones but like I said i'm still way too early in the game
>>739427889soul
>>739432827>doesn't push the needleYou're one of the fags
>>739405137wrong photo for Howard.
>>739432984Yup.
Blade of Darkness is the closest you'll get. It's a great game too.
>>739433052You're a lying double nigger
>>739375523>Riders of doom plays in my headFuuuu man. This is why I modpack Skyrim into a dark low magic fantasy.
>>739430626just learn C, dude
>>739405137What about Frite Leiber or Heinlein?
>>739380887All I can remember from the mmo was during the first two weeks or something two players dueled and it broke an entire fucking area of the game.
>>739433114BOD is pretty close but the closest is Conan (2007) and Conan (2004) although Severance really nails the atmosphere and lack of magic spells unless you count the magic weapons
>>739418206>>739417998soulmask is the most dogshit game i've ever played
>>739432124nope. run from boss fights, thanks to jank combat, just slowly make your way north as you level, until you have a base somewhere up north you like and can make yourself good heavy armour, whilst breaking fighter thralls. only once your levelled and geared, should you really start bothering with story etc, as it leads you to some quite retarded bullshit fights thanks to the jank.
