Talk:Ninkondi/@comment-178.204.123.241-20150909191205/@comment-172.15.16.99-20150910041609

What makes a weapon practical in a video game - especially a melee weapon - has never been, and will never be, the same as what makes a melee weapon practical in the real world, past or present.

The reason nunchucks are not practical in the real world - and also the reason why heavy swords, spears, and flails are - is simply because they kill the quickest. In the real world, 100% of the point (no pun intended) of a melee weapon in actual, lethal combat is to kill the other guy before he can kill you. You are not trying to melt his armor, bypass his shields, or slowly hack away at his HP pool, because he doesn't have those things - he has a heart, a brain, and a lot of blood. Your goal is to make one of those 3 things inoperable as quickly as humanly possible.

In a video game, your enemy is going to have a HP pool that will often not go down in a single hit from your weapon, no matter if that weapon is the Kogake or the Galatine. For this reason, the strategy involved in killing the target often requires status procs, and status procs are about two things: weapon speed and status chance. Needless to say, a weapon that does very little damage but hits extremely fast and carries a 100% status chance even without channeling is pretty damn impressive - in a video game.

But beyond all that, we're talking about electric nunchucks here. Not just nunchucks, ELECTRIC ones. If these things were actually real, they'd be a "non-lethal" weapon in line with a standard taser or maybe those taser shotgun shells. Accordingly, they'd almost certainly be made by the same company (I forget the name, maybe it's actually Taser, but I know they've patented everything they make to the hilt.)  And that company is based in...Ohio, I believe. I know they're here in the US.

So EVEN IF these were in real life and EVEN IF we're going to have a boneheaded argument about far eastern-inspired weapons in a VIDEO GAME WITH NINJAS...your argument STILL doesn't hold water.

That is all.