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Ching Shih would be pretty great for a bit of 'oh god everyone else is hosed'. In fact, several female pirates would make great Servants. Darth Walrus fucked around with this message at 08:55 on Aug 30, 2014 |
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Yeah I don't think it would be too hard, especially if you're prepared to use mythological characters like in FSN.
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Gaius Marius posted:Reusing that same trope is exceptionally lazy writing. Mulan as well, along with some other famous Asian historical figures, heck Extra had Amaterasu right? Since Archer is from the future no reason we can't throw in people from as recent as WWII, why not have Lyudmila Pavlichenko? e: I've always wondered why not just outright use gods as well? Many from Norse and Greek mythology could easily be genderswapped in either direction. Or are ancient Gods actually also a thing in the Nasuverse? Raenir Salazar fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Aug 31, 2014 |
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Aug 31, 2014 03:09
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Raenir Salazar posted:Mulan as well, along with some other famous Asian historical figures, heck Extra had Amaterasu right? Since Archer is from the future no reason we can't throw in people from as recent as WWII, why not have Lyudmila Pavlichenko? I think it's said somewhere that gods aren't allowed unless they were humans or other lesser beings at some point. And while WWII-era people aren't banned per se, you're not going to get many people with the necessary amount of mystery or power.
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Silver2195 posted:I think it's said somewhere that gods aren't allowed unless they were humans or other lesser beings at some point. that dude who hosed up Nazis with a Zweihander would basically be the best Servant who ever lived
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Silver2195 posted:I think it's said somewhere that gods aren't allowed unless they were humans or other lesser beings at some point. The only person I really see acting as s servant from the modern age would be the Red Baron as a rider.
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Aug 31, 2014 03:52
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I don't think it would be appropriate to use historical figures from within living memory. FZ (unlike FSN) does include some definite historical figures, but they're at least from so long ago that it's unlikely anyone will care. e: with that said Red Baron Rider sounds great Irony Be My Shield fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Aug 31, 2014 |
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Aug 31, 2014 04:02
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Hunt11 posted:The only person I really see acting as s servant from the modern age would be the Red Baron as a rider. Just about any of the old west Gunslingers, Wild Bill Hickock, Billy the Kid, Calamity Jane and the like would make a pretty good Archers I imagine.
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Gaius Marius posted:Just about any of the old west Gunslingers, Wild Bill Hickock, Billy the Kid, Calamity Jane and the like would make a pretty good Archers I imagine. Johnny Appleseed, the Biomancer Caster.
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AlternateNu posted:Johnny Appleseed, the Biomancer Caster. Aleister Crowley might be a Caster candidate as well.
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klapman posted:that dude who hosed up Nazis with a Zweihander would basically be the best Servant who ever lived Should he be Saber or Archer, though? quote:Churchill resumed his commission after Poland was invaded. In May 1940 Churchill and his unit, the Manchester Regiment, ambushed a German patrol near L'Epinette, France. Churchill gave the signal to attack by cutting down the enemy Feldwebel (sergeant) with a barbed arrow, becoming the only British soldier known to have felled an enemy with a longbow in WWII. According to his son Malcolm, "He and his section were in a tower and as the Germans approached he said 'I will shoot that first German with an arrow,' and that's exactly what he did." Darth Walrus fucked around with this message at 10:48 on Aug 31, 2014 |
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Aug 31, 2014 10:46
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Honestly as a Korean I just want Yi Sun-Sin as Rider or Archer. Probably Archer though. Fate/extra already did the Rider with a boat thing.
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:Honestly as a Korean I just want Yi Sun-Sin as Rider or Archer. Probably Archer though. Fate/extra already did the Rider with a boat thing. Hell yeah reading his history reads like some action movie. How one man can be such a stone cold bad rear end and still be virtually unknown in the west is baffling to me. He's like Admiral Nelson but twenty times as bad rear end. His chances in being in a Japanese developed game are less than zero.
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I'm sure every Korean male has, at least once in his lifetime, wanted to be Yi Sun-Sin. Roaring Currents just reignited a flame that was already burning deep within. Still haven't watched the movie though.Gaius Marius posted:Hell yeah reading his history reads like some action movie. How one man can be such a stone cold bad rear end and still be virtually unknown in the west is baffling to me. He's like Admiral Nelson but twenty times as bad rear end. His chances in being in a Japanese developed game are less than zero. Yeah, Korean admiral who fought off a bunch of Japanese invaders is not gonna sit well with a country that still has trouble admitting that their role in WW2 may not have been a good thing.
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:Yeah, Korean admiral who fought off a bunch of Japanese invaders is not gonna sit well with a country that still has trouble admitting that their role in WW2 may not have been a good thing. Not Korean, but there are weird exceptions out there. Like the 1942 series, where the object of the game is for one American plane to destroy the entire Japanese navy and air force by itself. And then you got strategy games like P.T.O., where in the second game the Japanese side's music makes them sound unambiguously evil while the Americans get a heroic anthem.
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Zogundar posted:Not Korean, but there are weird exceptions out there. Like the 1942 series, where the object of the game is for one American plane to destroy the entire Japanese navy and air force by itself. And then you got strategy games like P.T.O., where in the second game the Japanese side's music makes them sound unambiguously evil while the Americans get a heroic anthem. Jesus poo poo how is that even possible.
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:Jesus poo poo how is that even possible. Its a bullet hell shooter. Realism is not a thing its going for.
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:Jesus poo poo how is that even possible. It's a Shoot 'em up
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Oh, no, it wasn't the shoot 'em up aspect that shocked me, it was the America beats Japan thing. It just surprised me that a game like that could get made and be popular. Then again I guess as a shoot 'em up the premise and stuff was just glossed over.
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Nyaa posted:I always figure gender swapping is a good twist to the original tale and hide the servant's identity. Talking about Saber again for a moment, there's another really nice twist to the King Arthur story that Nasu did for Saber. In most versions of the Arthur story that I've read, at least, Arthur sort of bumbles into becoming king pretty much. He pulls out the sword in the stone with really realizing exactly what he's doing, and has to have other people tell him that what he did was important. On the other hand, Nasu's change makes it so the Arturia knows exactly what she's doing when she pulls the sword out and spent her whole life training and preparing for that crucial moment, when she would need to become king and rule her country, even if she could tell very few people about who she really is. Really, Takeuchi's idea to turn Saber into a woman was a stroke of genius, on the marketing and plot front.
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Sylphid posted:Talking about Saber again for a moment, there's another really nice twist to the King Arthur story that Nasu did for Saber. In most versions of the Arthur story that I've read, at least, Arthur sort of bumbles into becoming king pretty much. He pulls out the sword in the stone with really realizing exactly what he's doing, and has to have other people tell him that what he did was important. So, in the Nasuverse, is Excalibur the sword in the stone or was it given to Arturia by the Lady of the Lake (and thus she actually has a second sword)?
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There are two swords. Nasu calls the sword in the stone Caliburn, and after Arturia loses it somehow she is given Excalibur and Avalon by the Lady in the Lake.
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Scrree posted:There are two swords. Nasu calls the sword in the stone Caliburn, and after Arturia loses it somehow she is given Excalibur and Avalon by the Lady in the Lake. Wasn't Caliburn Gawain's sword in Fate/Extra?
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AlternateNu posted:Wasn't Caliburn Gawain's sword in Fate/Extra? Gawain's is called Excalibur Galantine I believe.
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As an Australian Ned Kelly would be a unique servant choice
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Hollow Ataraxia full translation finally released, sort of: http://forums.nrvnqsr.com/showthread.php/5046-Fate-Hollow-Ataraxia-Translation-Patches
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I'm looking outside my window right now, but I don't see any pigs flying. Are you sure?
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BlitzBlast posted:I'm looking outside my window right now, but I don't see any pigs flying. Are you sure? Well, it's not the final version; the plan is to have one more patch with typos, etc. corrected.
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so what is HA anyway?
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Kagetsu Tohya version F/SN.
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Cake Attack posted:so what is HA anyway?
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Silver2195 posted:Hollow Ataraxia full translation finally released, sort of: http://forums.nrvnqsr.com/showthread.php/5046-Fate-Hollow-Ataraxia-Translation-Patches It took what, 8 years?
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:It took what, 8 years? Eight years and a new translation team, yeah.
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Hollow Ataraxia is pretty amazing; half of the events are about cooking, buying food for cooking, or talking to people about what to cook. The amazing punchline to this obsession is that one of Avenger's, who is literally Persian Satan, main complaints about Bazett is that she doesn't appreciate good food and simply sees eating as a way of getting nutrients. Scrree fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Sep 16, 2014 |
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Seriously, it's Gurrrm levels of food-porn.
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:Oh, no, it wasn't the shoot 'em up aspect that shocked me, it was the America beats Japan thing. It just surprised me that a game like that could get made and be popular. Then again I guess as a shoot 'em up the premise and stuff was just glossed over. On a similar note, ten years ago Medal of Honor: Rising Sun was released. It was also very popular in Japan.
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With 2 weeks to go I was going to start putting together a UBW thread unless someone else feels like it. I did ask Zorak and he said no to a second thread or Type-Moon general thread so it'll just be a vanilla UBW thread with the usual rules, and if it gets bad with spoilers we'll cross that bridge when we get there. While there is probably a huge crossover of people who watched Fate/Zero I was thinking of simply going with a "tag everything" sort of approach.
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What is Zorak's beef with a TM thread exactly? It's a pretty huge brand and it would hardly be the first thread of that kind.
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Rodyle posted:What is Zorak's beef with a TM thread exactly? It's a pretty huge brand and it would hardly be the first thread of that kind. I'm pretty sure it is just a personal thing at the point. He has something against the IP for some reason. (Maybe because it started off as a set of ero-games?)
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Rodyle posted:What is Zorak's beef with a TM thread exactly? It's a pretty huge brand and it would hardly be the first thread of that kind.
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