Exanima / Sui Generis

A heavily physics based isometric dungeon crawler. And when I say heavily physics based I mean that everything, including the weapons swing according to their weight, the time it takes to recover from a swing, the damage....everything. You need to play it to actually see how different it is.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/362490/
The combat it frustratingly difficult to master (if mastering it is even possible). I've been playing since over 5 hours and am yet to defeat an axe and shield wielding chick. She's opponent number 5 in the novice arena. Haven't tried going very far in the single player crawl.
In fact fluid movement around obstacles itself takes some getting used to and till then you'll keep tripping on boxes and stuff, falling flat face first. Lot of fun.

I watched some videos and it seems a bit ridiculous while they market it as serious realism or so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uKgUSRdrHM

I wouldn't call this realistic. Maybe it's funny, but it cost 15€, so. :shrug:

It's realistic in the sense how objects and bodies react when they collide with each other. If you create a character who is heavy and carries a big weapon, you can follow a swing with ramming yourself into the opponent which if done at an opportune moment can knock him off his feet.
The only downside I can find at the moment is the convoluted movement controls, but they're billing that as realistic too. The heavier and larger the body the longer it will take to change movement direction.

The problem seems to be the way in which characters swing weapons and how easily they end up off-balance. Actual humans would compensate for a lot of what seems to make you spin or be off-balance in this game. It's as though the characters are all drunk and the weapons are made of lead. Even the fighting toward the end of the trailer here looks as though the character is drunk. The Kingdom Come developers demonstrated that swordfighting did not make people look like theyre drunk. I think this game would be interesting if they fixed the drunken behavior.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuwSKCahTWU

Looks rather awesome

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Originally Posted by Husar

The problem seems to be the way in which characters swing weapons and how easily they end up off-balance. Actual humans would compensate for a lot of what seems to make you spin or be off-balance in this game. It's as though the characters are all drunk

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Well, they can rename it Drunken Brawl, or One Too Many and adjust the graphics so they go blurry from time to time, and the problem becomes yet another realism feature.