Current Events > I feel like a cowboy and samurai games are underrepresented

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I guess you have Red Dead, but that's a movie game so it doesn't count.

I'm more thinking games with super deep dueling and bounty/infamy systems.

Have some cool gun/katana customization, throw in a dumb plot with some fun bosses and I think itd be a great game.

Rising Zan Samurai Gunman was a cool idea.

Rise of the Ronin (upcoming Team Ninja game for the PS5) looks good, IMO:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0gwsQvDGh4o

there's also Like a Dragon: Ishin (Yakuza series spin-off, set in feudal Japan) that came out earlier this year, I think.

boxoto posted...

there's also Like a Dragon: Ishin (Yakuza series spin-off, set in feudal Japan) that came out earlier this year, I think.

I was going to suggest that, it's a great game that is very fun.

Ghost of Tsushima is hopefully getting a sequel announcement soon.

boxoto posted...

Rise of the Ronin (upcoming Team Ninja game for the PS5) looks good, IMO:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0gwsQvDGh4o

there's also Like a Dragon: Ishin (Yakuza series spin-off, set in feudal Japan) that came out earlier this year, I think.

Looks cool but it looks more like its just an aesthetic for a fairly standard 3d action/adventure game.

I'm more thinking of a game super into the setting

Tc has never played red dead

IceCreamOnStero posted...

I guess you have Red Dead, but that's a movie game so it doesn't count.

Define "movie game."

Because as others have said, you have not played either Red Dead Redemption game.

Its pretty hard to "play" Red Dead given it does that by itself anyway

Red Dead 100% counts.

And you have Ghost of Tsushima for samurai.

IceCreamOnStero posted...

Its pretty hard to "play" Red Dead given it does that by itself anyway

You have no idea what you're talking about.

.....Okay, you're bored and shitposting. At least admit that much.

IceCreamOnStero posted...

Looks cool but it looks more like its just an aesthetic for a fairly standard 3d action/adventure game.

I'm more thinking of a game super into the setting

Sounds like you want Red Dead

We're way overdue for a new Way of the Samurai (and Shinobido for that matter).

Sekiro for samurai

We need a cowboy Souls-like.

Look I don't really like the Red Dead games much, but they don't play themselves, that's ridiculous hyperbole.

Giant_Aspirin posted...

Sekiro for samurai

Isn't Sekiro about a shinobi? Also, while its very fun, I think of it as more of a Spulslike than a "samurai game".

Ivynn posted...

We need a cowboy Souls-like.

How ould that even work tho

IceCreamOnStero posted...

How ould that even work tho

Gun....swords? >_>

Shinobi were also almost always samurai

So every ninja game is also a samurai game

There was a great samurai/fighter hybrid for the PS2 that was essentially just going to various different dojos and defeating the masters. Then you'd unlock their moves and you could design your own move set, combos and stuff. Low budget game but I liked it a lot.

IceCreamOnStero posted...

Isn't Sekiro about a shinobi? Also, while its very fun, I think of it as more of a Spulslike than a "samurai game".

uh. i guess so. but it has the 'duels' using samurai swords that you seek.

what
theres metric fuck tons of samurai games

There was that remnant or something game, that was supposed to be a ranged souls like. They made or are making a sequel already too.

I want a game where its samurai that also have revolvers, that would be cool.

Board_hunter567 posted...

We're way overdue for a new Way of the Samurai (and Shinobido for that matter).

Came in to mention these.

Yeah, samurai games come out every year. I'd be up for more, though.

And the thing about Wild West games is that guns just kind of sucked up until the 1940s or so. There's really only so much you can do with, say, 1880s gun tech without running into either a brick wall or just saying fuck it and giving you a completely out of place weapon instead.

Alteres posted...

I want a game where its samurai that also have revolvers, that would be cool.

I mean that's Ryuu ga Gotoko Ishin! Yakuza Ishin or whatever they call it in the West.

Red Steel on Wii

The pinnacle of the cowboy genre was reached in 1993 with sunset riders. Were good there.

Rising Zan could use a remake.

Such a great idea, but the dreadful controls and camera ruined the game.

K181 posted...

Yeah, samurai games come out every year. I'd be up for more, though.

And the thing about Wild West games is that guns just kind of sucked up until the 1940s or so. There's really only so much you can do with, say, 1880s gun tech without running into either a brick wall or just saying fuck it and giving you a completely out of place weapon instead.

I don't know, there's still pretty good variety in guns for westerns. Revolvers, semi-auto handguns if you move closer to the 1900s, slower bolt action rifles, quicker lever actions, different shotguns, and then there's weird guns weapon makers were trying out in the 1800s that didn't make the cut you could throw in for some wackier stuff.

I'm not saying that there wasn't variety, but compared to modern or futuristic shooters? Okay, you have a six shooter or an eight shooter revolver and maybe a pump action shotgun and a repeater carbine that has a dozen and a half rounds but is then a pain in the ass to reload. That's a pretty limited assortment of carryable weapons compared to WWII and later games, which can feature pistols with much larger magazines, submachine guns, heavy and light machine guns, bazookas and rocket launchers, sniper rifles, assorted throwable and attachable explosives, and that's not even bringing up future tech, just to name a few.

There's just less gunplay options the further back in time you make your game's setting.

Outside of machine guns a Western game has all those, though. "Bazookas" tend to be stationary cannons, but still.

How about both?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/dfa4690f.jpg

Bazookas were fully portable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazooka

And the better pistols and rifles and a huge assortment of machinegun options alone are huge differences in variety, and more grenade options and ammo options make a big difference, too, and that's only scratching the surface.

There will always be a market for cowboy games, Red Dead being proof of that, but they'll never be the norm and will quickly reach a critical mass if too many are released in a short period for those reasons alone.

codey posted...

Outside of machine guns a Western game has all those, though. "Bazookas" tend to be stationary cannons, but still.

What? No they weren't. What do you think a bazooka was?

UnholyMudcrab posted...

What? No they weren't. What do you think a bazooka was?

I'm saying a western games version of a highly explosive weapon like a bazooka is a stationary cannon

codey posted...

I'm saying a western games version of a highly explosive weapon like a bazooka is a stationary cannon

So just say cannon. Bazooka has nothing to do with it

We needs more games with both samurai and cowboys

Ricemills posted...

So just say cannon. Bazooka has nothing to do with it

I wasn't calling a cannon a bazooka lol, I was responding to a post saying more modern shooters had more weapon types like "bazookas and rocket launchers" by pointing out that westerns also have large explosive weapons

Mystic Warriors has both.