#DIE BY THE SWORD GAME MOVIE#

than you BASHTHARDS!Įnric attempts to wave his sword dramatically Get you a bandage?ĮNRIC: This happens quite often, I will be fine. Dare I presume that you are Enric, scourge of the darkness?ĮNRIC: Silence, demons! Stand and fight- shit! Ow! Shit! Perchance there is a YUCA in the land of light above to which I remain unilluminated. KOBOLD 2: I do believe it is the human dance known as the 'YMCA'. KOBOLD 1: Eee, 'eck, what's this one doing? ENRIC enters, raising his sword.ĮNRIC: MONSTERS! Prepare for oblivion! You BASHTHARDS! Two KOBOLDS sit around a fire, toasting the flesh of previous adventurers and giggling to themselves in high pitched voices. That never happened of course, but some of the script pages do still float around.Ī dark, forbidding cave in the undermountain.

#DIE BY THE SWORD GAME MOVIE#

Even so, Die By The Sword's ambition was enough to win it many friends, to the point that it was one of the first PC exclusive games to be considered for a movie conversion. 'As easy to play as a piano covered with razor wire' however is fair, at least beyond comically flailing around and pretending to be in Monty Python And The Holy Grail. This was impressive stuff for 1998, and honestly could still be impressive right now, if only as a novelty.

Combat is a matter of moving to block and parry, stab and slice, with enemy limbs flying and whoever programmed the camera earning themselves a stint in Hell. Move it to the side, and the problem of translating motion on a 2D plane into 3D becomes painfully obvious, and would become more-so if poor Enric was hurt by his sword constantly clipping through his flesh.

Move your mouse, he moves his sword in real time. (At this point in 3D, just about everyone else was instead using frame based animation, sparing ragdolls endless pain.) VSIM was all about offering skeletal animation - sometimes actually of skeletons - long before Half-Life made it the unarguable way to do in-game animation. It's possible to play Die By The Sword in an arcade mode, but forget that. Nobody gives a kobold's second kidney about any of that though, because the star of the show is and always was Enric's right arm.

'Dude, you just broke AND dislocated your arm? This is not your day.' Though in fairness, it's not as if anyone else is that much closer to it, with even the most dribble-worthy technology of the moment still focused on technologies like treadmills and VR helmets and even a whole generation and a bit of Wii yet to go beyond the equivalent of swashbuckling sign-language. 'Once you play and become accustomed to the greater control of your character, you will never be able to go back to the old technology that limits your control,' it also adds, blissfully unaware that in just a few short years, creators Treyarch would be churning out Call of Duty sequels rather than figuring out more ways to hook your body up to sensors and fully drive interactions.

'Die By The Sword will become a classic and forever known as the game that set the standard.' Well, not quite. 'The VSIM technology is really the future of animation and character control,' it declares. The Readme file makes for somewhat sad reading. You'd think a lady prepared enough to bring that shield would have packed better armour than a metal bra.

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