5b1534 No.14241603
Games that adapt portions of mythology or folklore into core parts of it's story, gameplay, etc, going beyond references. i.e. refrain from names, spells, summons, etc if it isn't clearly tied to or purely focused around mythology.
Bonus points to faithful interpretations with little to none cuh-ray-zee elements.
0e22da No.14241632
Cosmology of Kyoto
King of Dragon's Pass
d302db No.14241677
i'm still waiting for a game that lets me play as thor-sama dressed as a trap.
as a runner up i'll be satisfied with playing as cuchulainn when he gets to bang hundreds of hot naked young maidens to calm down his warp spasm.
0e22da No.14241726
Oh, I've not played it but there's also Aztez, IIRC you fight creatures from the Aztec underworld among other things.
dfeb8c No.14241884
I can think of tons of games that Irish mythological creatures/figures have appeared in, ranging from stuff like Smite to Nioh to DMC3, but Folklore's the only one I can think of where the plot focuses on it. The Celtic Otherworld also appears in Welsh/Brittonic mythology, but Folklore's set in Ireland, so yeah.
God of War's an obvious one. The mythology behind Kiryu and Nishiki's tattoos in Yakuza 1/Kiwami is brought up once, but outside of Ryuji and Shibusawa also having dragons on their backs in 2 & 0 respectively, I can't remember any other examples of tattoos being plot points in that series.
405fe1 No.14241901
0e22da No.14241906
d26d76 No.14241921
7b1440 No.14241941
>>14241884
Basically everyone's tats have some level of symbolic meaning to their characters and situation, but yeah, it's not that important to the actual overarching plot. Though Aizawa in 5 also has a koi.
61a346 No.14241963
Okami isn't based on mythology. Amaterasu is one of if not the main Japanese Goddess.
Good Doggo still has many millions or worshippers.
dfeb8c No.14242058
>>14241941
Forgot about Aizawa's koi, that's right. I just remembered that the bat tattoo in 0 was a big deal for a good chunk of its plot as well but I don't know enough about Japanese myth to know if it's symbolic of something.
5b1534 No.14242060
>>14241677
>tfw little to no mythology games based around playing the gods or heroes themselves
Games like God of War come close, but it makes me disappointed they opted for an original character™ instead of Hercules or other folk heroes. There's little to no pure mythology games in general, hence the reason for this thread and I hoped it would've sparked discussion about what sort of myths or stories would make excellent games.
If a Thor game did happen I feel normalfags would associate it more with "muh Mahvel" sadly.
>being trap thor-sama has the game become stealth focused as you sneak around jotunheim looking for mjolnir.
>tfw no sigurd game where you have find all the pieces of gram and reforge it to defeat fafnir
>>14241884
Smite doesn't count because there's no single-player experience in that and it rarely features other mythological elements besides the characters. It's just another "look at how many characters you can play as" MOBA ASSFAGGOTS game.
Creatures/Figures don't really have any meaning to me if the game doesn't feature a mythological setting or story/quest. Beelzebub is a boss in Symphony of the Night, but doesn't feature other high class demons and doesn't have a general focus on Judeo-Christian myth.
>>14241963
>features multiple japanese gods/celestial beings
>features multiple yokai and demons
>features multiple myths as side-quests/story elements
>isn't based on mythology
d302db No.14242446
>>14242060
i agree, there's a tremendous amount of amazing plot in various mythologies that would make good games.
when i first read cuchulainn's story and he killed his best friend who had been duped into agreeing to kill cuchulainn, i wept manly tears.
also offtopic but related to thread so pls no delete mods, but beelzebub was never an independent being by himself, the term was an insult yahweh came up with for satan. it means 'lord of the flies' or 'lord of the shit (as in feces)', depending on how it was spelled. the one commonly called satan's original name when he was an angel was azazel, and he was the angel of music, but when he lead (or, according to some, didn't lead but contributed the most to) the fallen angels in rebellion and in mating with human women, he individually and the fallen angels and their mixed angel/human offspring collectively were called 'satan', which just means 'adversary' or 'enemy'. yahweh uses the term 'satan' to refer to many individuals and collective entities thruout history, for example he calls the fallen angel samael 'satan', he calls the various races descended from the fallen angels mixture with humans satan, he called the apostle peter satan when peter tried to convince christ to not die, etc.
the whole idea that beelzebub, satan, etc are different beings came from milton's 'paradise lost', which while being an interesting read isn't really based on what actually happens in the ancient texts beyond a basic outline.
in the ancient texts, such as genesis, enoch, some of the letters of paul, the letters of james, etc, azazel and other angels taught humans secrets which yahweh kept from them, such as the use of fire, mining, smithing, writing, mathematics, astrology/navigation by the stars, magic, divination, and enchanting/hypnosis, painting and cosmetology, and alchemy. additionally they mated with human women to produce 'giants', not stereotypical 60feet tall giants, but usually described as being a couple heads taller than men.
4912c3 No.14242476
>>14241603
Castlevania, particularly SOTN, has a lot of pretty cool shit.
615e11 No.14242492
>>14242060
I think he's being pedantic
>It doesn't count as mythology because people are actively worshipping it! Lol! TRICKED!
4912c3 No.14242501
>>14242476
Shit, also, Dante's Inferno if you consider the Divine Comedy sort of mythological.
9ecec3 No.14242533
The Dominions series ot TBS is an obvious one. Most of the nations or god chassis in the game are clearly inspired by real world cultures. For example, the nations inspiried by slavic history can summon creatures like rusalkas and zmey. There is one nation that consists entirely of creatures from greek mythology, from satyrs to centaurs to minotaurs. Vanir and dwarves from norse myth also have a nation to themselves, and you can play with the Allfather chassis if you want to do an Odin roleplay or whatever..
5b1534 No.14242757
>>14242446
Fantastic post. But what I meant was that it was odd to have Beelzebub out of nowhere by himself in Dracula's castle for some reason without including other high class demons like the other 7 Princes of Hell. Judeo-Christian mythology has a lot of interesting elements that people seem to shy away from (for obvious reasons). Shin Megami Tensei is one that has an interesting approach. And from my understanding, historically a lot of names for demons were actually the names of other deities in the Canaanite pantheon, demonized for obvious reasons when the people switched to monotheism with Yahweh.
>>14242476
I recently finished playing it actually, and in a way, I was inspired to make this post because of it seeing all the inspiration it took from multiple sources. It made me wish all the bosses were inspired after demons, actually. Or at least that it could've been more closely tied to Judeo-Christian mythology.
>>14242501
I'm disappointed the bosses for each circle aren't the demons specifically representative of that sin, but the inspirations it does take are still decent choices.
f19cc0 No.14242805
Year Walk is based on Swedish myths, such as year-walking and various monsters and what they do. Old Sweden was fucking badass/terrifying.
Also, last image is a .gif, so you've been warned.
59abd0 No.14242852
Almost every Vanillaware game is strongly rooted in mythology.
Odin Sphere borrows heavily from Norse mythology, while not a direct use of its figures and events, a lot of what's there mirrors it very closely, noticeably Ragnarok.
Oboro Muramasa has a ton of mythological and historical figures from feudal Japan.
Dragon's Crown has a whole bestiary of mythological beings, mostly Greek and medieval Europe.
>>14242805
nuSweden is just terrifying. Albeit for other reasons.
e98c1d No.14242878
Crusader Kings 2 has a good bit mixed in and then there are also plenty of themed mods
6c8e36 No.14242884
>>14242852
Those are some cute girls
13fc57 No.14243488
>>14242884
>Baby we don't need to fight, how bout we fuck?
<NO! WHY DOES EVERYONE ASK THAT!
d6bea7 No.14243494
>>14243488
Cause you dress like a whore.
dab14f No.14243521
>>14243494
I know Greek men dressed like sluts but come on?
6c8e36 No.14243532
>>14243488
Do you think in each respective culture,there was people who fantasized about fucking their gods/idols/whatever?
9915aa No.14243536
>>14243488
>Monster
<Spartan
d6bea7 No.14243542
>>14243532
considering the weird seemingly fetishy things ancient cultures wrote about, yes.
6c8e36 No.14243579
>>14243542
Oh? they had kinky writing even back then?
e27c7f No.14243582
>tfw no survival horror game where you play as a Conquistador exploring Mexico and guatamala with spooky jungles and ruins and people trying to capture you for human sacrifice and crazy ass Mesoamerican gods and demons
e27c7f No.14243603
>>14243579
See pic
Also, the Aztecs had a goddess of sexual degeneracy and scat, basically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlazolteotl
13fc57 No.14243614
>>14243532
Remember that post about the graffiti on the walls of pompai, and how we realized that the scenery may change but people don't?
There is you answer.
6c8e36 No.14243617
>>14243603
>goddess of scat
Let's not remember such a thing,and burn all references to it,if possible.
d6bea7 No.14243625
>>14243579
>Aphrodite was born of the foam from the sea after Saturn (Greek Cronus) castrated his father Uranus (Ouranus) and his blood fell to the sea.
>Zeus's many sexual escapades
>To punish Minos, Poseidon made Pasiphaë, Minos's wife, fall deeply in love with the bull. Pasiphaë had craftsman Daedalus make a hollow wooden cow, and climbed inside it in order to mate with the white bull. The offspring was the monstrous Minotaur.
And many more.
6c8e36 No.14243635
>>14243625
Hmm,i guess,but i mainly talking about normal people,not the gods being raunchy.
d6bea7 No.14243667
>>14243635
Not a lot of that is preserved I imagine, but there was a greek poet Sappho who wrote poetry about love and included some very detailed descriptions about what she/he would like to do with their lover IIRC.
6c8e36 No.14243669
>>14243667
Yeah alright,it's not a guy wanting to fuck medusa but it's better then nothing.
d6bea7 No.14243679
>>14243669
There are tons of legends about gods fucking the mortals though, but I thought you wanted normal people?
6c8e36 No.14243693
>>14243679
I did,unless you're saying you can bring me examples of female gods lusting after some normal human dick,that's pretty hot,especially if they're a god made of up snakes or some shit.
d6bea7 No.14243709
>>14243693
Aphrodite fell in love with Adonis, and fell so in love with him she and Persophone started fighting over him until Zeus intervened and made him stay a third of the year with each, and a third wherever he liked.
e27c7f No.14243720
>>14243617
>burn all references to it
Spanish beat you to it buddy: They burned all native mesoameriican books and religious manuscripts they could find, including royal libraries. We have less then 10 remaining pre-contact books left.
6c8e36 No.14243721
>>14243709
What a lucky guy.
e98c1d No.14243730
>>14243720
>spanish not finishing the job as usual
wow water is wet
13fc57 No.14243798
>>14243709
I'm honestly surprised that he just didn't fuck Adonis himself to put a stop to their fighting.
5b1534 No.14243906
>>14243720
Quite a shame actually. Despite being utter degeneracy, it's still part of human history and a piece of the culture it belonged to. If it rots away, is lost, left forgotten, so be it, that's fine. But outright destroying seems counter productive in a way. It could've been used to provide examples of Aztec degeneracy, reversing it to prove why this sort of thing is wrong, etc, using the information to prove your point rather than destroy it altogether, i.e. you're getting rid of a basis you could use to argue with. Not to mention, it's interesting to read about different cultures/societies in general, even if they are primitive or reprehensible.
Let's not forget there are non-degenerate stories that we'll never get to read or experience because they were forcibly destroyed for all sorts of debatable reasons. Not only that, but some cultures might've had easy to go to traditions or stories that could've made it easier to point to their degeneracy but instead those stories destroyed and only made it's culture more fondly remembered.
d6bea7 No.14243962
>>14243906
fedora at me all you want but that is one of my major gripes with religion. Many ancient libraries and foreign cultures have gone the way of the dodo due to it.
5b1534 No.14244043
>>14243938
Thank you, I appreciate the polite sage, but please refrain from derailing any further and I'll be happy discussing this in a relevant thread, board, etc.
>>14243962
Don't worry, I agree with you, as long as you know that religion is also part of culture
0ddb8d No.14244044
>>14243582
I can see it, but you know it would never be allowed to see the light of day because muh poor Latinx and how dare you white man.
f22cc3 No.14244049
>>14243906
The Spanish were all racemixing faggots anyways so it's the kind of thing you'd expect.
d6bea7 No.14244051
>>14244043
That's why the destruction of their religion is so bad, it's destroying culture.
f22cc3 No.14244059
>>14244051
Why do you think Communists attempt to destroy Religion first?
d6bea7 No.14244067
>>14244059
So your devotion is to the state and not a higher power?
f22cc3 No.14244079
>>14244067
They also sold their own religion as a scene thing.
5b1534 No.14244173
>>14244051
Destruction of any religion, stories, art, etc, is bad. Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat and whatnot. Humanity needs to ability to reflect on itself and look back on all sorts of things we've thought. Including the things we've thought to destroy, it's important that those things happened in the first place
And to get a bit more back on track topic-wise, would a mythology inspired fighting game be a good idea? Smite's shown it's easy to represent a deity's powers in 3D ASSFAGGOTS style gameplay, but could it work for a 2D maybe 3D fighter? Or does that constrain the idea of mythology a bit? What other genres would be interesting for a mythological setting/theme?
edada5 No.14244204
>>14244173
>but could it work for a 2D maybe
Fight of Gods is alright.
5b1534 No.14244241
>>14244204
I found that while looking around to see if such a concept actually existed. I'm disappointed to say the least. It doesn't look that good considering you could do better with 2D sprites in Mugen. The actual fighting looks shoddy and choppy. I'm somewhat confused by the character choices too. Zeus not Hercules? Odin not Thor? Anubis not Horus? They could've added characters that actually would've made sense in a fighting game. Not to mention Jesus and Moses seem like they were added as meme characters when they could've used angels or demons for Judeo-Christian myths and they would've made sense in a fighting game. Also why is Jesus not using a whip and short sword? So much wasted potential, it's not even funny
d6bea7 No.14244250
>>14244241
Most games featuring deities always spring for the most boring or cliched ones for some reason. I really hate that.
5b1534 No.14244289
>>14244250
That doesn't seem like a problem to me, you should have your core or well-known deities first or as priority, it makes sense, they're supposed to be powerful right? My problem is when they don't do anything with it or it comes out half-assed. But for a fighting game that specifically features deities it'd make sense you'd include ones that seem like actual fighters and not high range "I'm going to stand on a cloud and throw lightning bolts" Zeus or shit like that. That being said, why the hell is actually a close-range fighter in Fight of Gods?
edada5 No.14244293
>>14244250
It's not that, it's just that usually with greek mythology they give you the pussy version where every god(except hades because he's a meanie poopoo head) is this shining benevolent hero. The one game I can remember that didn't have this was Apotheon.Which is ten times the game God of War has and will ever be
7b1440 No.14244309
>>14242058
Bats are a symbol of good fortune and luck in China, which Japan adopted.
5b1534 No.14244311
>>14244293
>apotheon
I remember seeing that on Steam sale and thought about buying it, but it had tons of mixed reviews. You should've included an image, it's artstyle is amazing.
6ec5d7 No.14244319
>>14241603
There's this filipino game Anito which incorporates filipino folklore.
Plays like Diablo
66d764 No.14244395
>>14241884
>Folklore girl
Now there’s an asshole I might fuck, if you know what I mean.
9bd1d3 No.14244403
>>14244293
The funny thing is that compared to Zeus and Poseidon, Hades was the least douchey out of all of them. Still a bit of an ass, but far less so than the other two. It should be the other way around but thanks to Disney that won't change anytime soon.
e27c7f No.14244627
>>14244044
I agree, and it's a shame. As a mesoamerieabo I can sort of actually sympathize with the outrage in the sense that there's so few fictional depictions of them that show all the cool shit they did in terms of art, architecture, urban planning, etc and instead it's all DUDE HUMAN SACFRIFICE LMAO, but at the same time playing up the wierd ass religious shit and the human sacrifice stuff can be cool too, as my example showed.
SJW's and people need to learn that while encouraging "postive represenation" is fine, that trying to harrass people for negative ones is counterproductive
8c8261 No.14244649
Imagine how cool it would be if something like Asura's Wrath was done with the the bible.
e27c7f No.14245271
>>14244649
Anythiing done like Asura's Wrath would be cool.
Itt's the only game i've seen to do QTE and cinematic shit right, it just makes it so balls to the walls insane with stuff that you couldn't ever directly control so that you can't help but to enjoy it.
eb94fe No.14245331
>>14244311
Apotheon is a great game but it is unfortunately incredibly easy and at times the combat gets repetitive due to it's lack of depth.
d6467b No.14245340
2f67f9 No.14245342
>>14244649
The games ENDING was DLC, you could not finish the game without paying for DLC
dc263c No.14245502
>still no good Norse or Celtic themed games.
Kill me.
Why do the Greeks get all of the attention?
Rune is the only remotely good Norse themed game.
>inb4 toddposters
66d764 No.14245603
There should be a game where the godesses have huge breasts. What mythology has those?
e27c7f No.14245632
>>14245342
That's not accurate: The game had an ending, but said ending teased at further story elements that weren't resolved untiill the DLC.
In etther case it was still scummy, but the ending in the DLC is also some of the hypest, raddest shit i've ever seen.
>>14245502
Norse is literally the most normie pleb mythology choice after greco-roman though, and it's probably the second or third most common mythology influence in games too.
IMO:
>Top Tier
Aztec/Nahua/Central Mesoamerican
Egyptian
>High tier
Maya/Western Mesoamerican
Judeo-Christian
Greco-Roman
Hindu
Shinto
>Good Tier
Mesopotamian
Buddhist
Polynesian/Oceania
Norse
Chinese
>Decent tier
Arabic
Gaelic/Celtic
Inca/Andean
>Low Tier
Germanic/Medieval European Folkore
Aboriginal
Slavic
Native North American
African
>>14245603
Pretty sure that's all of them, anon
5b1534 No.14246444
>>14245632
>slavic
>low-tier
It'd be more interesting if they didn't fucking destroy everything. Temples, books, statues, etc. What's your reasoning with most of those anyway?
234306 No.14246455
>>14245632
Where does Baltic lie?
t. /balt/
9ead28 No.14246461
>>14245340
Bayo kinda takes too many liberties with it to be considered Christian.
319dff No.14246486
SMT is one of the most obvious examples though the cuh-ray-zee elements can vary from game to game, with Persona tending to be the least interested in accuracy
079575 No.14246540
>>14244293
There are two pussy versions. The one where the gods are heroic, and the one where the gods are decadent ultra-humans. The truth is, there were two sets of "gods" in Greek religion: the higher gods who embodied universal truths, and the lower ones, which are the ones all the myths are written about. The higher ones have no human-features, the lower ones were human features brought to astounding excess. Aphrodite is the best example of this existence of two separate deities: Urania and Pandemos, two separate goddesses of love, one who embodied spiritual love, and one who embodied carnal lust.
e27c7f No.14252177
>>14246444
Just my own personal interest level and how cool I think they are\