Dark Knights hold their swords like idiots...

[Magis]

Sword stances in general are different than what movies show.

http://www.aemma.org/index2.php?pg=h3

Check the 4 videos in the middle.

[Zojha]

I'm not sure what you're wearing but almost everything I've found has no tail hole.

Doesn't stop me from putting my tail through it because sod ya physics!

[MagiusNecros]

The inspirations from Berserk pretty much are restricted to the Job story.
Heres a bit of an example to those who beat the level 30-50 DRK quests.

Other than that, Guts has never really used that stance except on certain promo art. As Johnnycbad has pointed out, it's based on Cecils stance more than anything.

Yeah you're right. The DRK doesn't really fight anything like Guts. Some of the attack animations even look like the DRK has a hard time swinging their sword.

[Nektulos-Tuor]

I made this a long time ago. Since then I have studied the stance for how they use it a bit. However, they actually do hold it up like that. However, they don't have their legs spread out much at all. The reason it looks silly isn't really because hes holding the sword, its mostly his body that goes with it.

I think its an "extremely" stylized version of the stance, but i've gotten more used to it.

[Jonnycbad]

Why does a drg take DMG when they fall 10 feet but are fine when they use jump?

Falling =/= Jumping

Presumably when you Jump/SSD/DFD you are landing spear-down into a target, transfering all of your inertia and impact into THEM, therefore you crush them with your weight (all transferred into the spear tip) rather than landing on your feet and having your legs/body crushed). That transfer of energy means if performed correctly, you would only sustain minimal injury, if at that.



Or, if you want a more logical explanation, this sums it up:

[Kallera]

If they land spear first through the impaled victim, how do they bounce back up?

[Ashkendor]

Falling =/= Jumping

Presumably when you Jump/SSD/DFD you are landing spear-down into a target, transfering all of your inertia and impact into THEM, therefore you crush them with your weight (all transferred into the spear tip) rather than landing on your feet and having your legs/body crushed).

Suddenly, Roegadyn Dragoons are a lot scarier.

[Iagainsti]

I tried it out in real life and it just feels completely uncomfortable to me. I don't see how they even do it. I actually practice two handed martial arts though a bit from the old fight books.

Goliath Fechtbuch

[MagiusNecros]

Suddenly, Roegadyn Dragoons are a lot scarier.

If only races had actual abilities to differentiate them from their peers such as weight class.

[Noxifer]

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*cough* I like when people post responses to the OP half a year or more since they made that post, and after they've returned to the thread and posted updates that may or may not invalidate the original post.


That said... I haven't done much more than try out DRK myself, and I haven't looked that closely at the stance (since I play on my TV and thus sit almost 2 metres away), but... based on the screenshots earlier in the thread, I tried to copy it (without a sword), and both holding it and looking at the screenshotted stance (from the preview stream, I think?) it to me would feel more natural to be a stance preparing for an overhead chop thing. You know, as if the character was facing the other way, with the sword behind him. Probably based on (as Atoli mentioned) how the hands are gripping the hilt "upside down"-ish.
(And no, I don't have much IRL experience with fighting, either. Done a bit of kendo, and a tiny bit SCA heavy fighting, but not enough in either to feel confident in making statements regarding stances. So while the above is my instinctual feeling, it's not really based on anything other than that ^_^)