You are the one who needs to take your pirates swashbuckling with rapiers and lightweight cutlasses fantasy behind. For the period we are actually talking about, sword fighting was much cruder and more forceful than this sidestep dodge parry shit. Kotaku even did an article talking about how real sword fighting…

Except you know, what we see in that gif is an obvious non-attack from a stance of precognition that the other person is going to roll. It's moot.

No no, I just find your pre-emptive criticism of other people's criticism of criticism to be petty and annoying.

There is no time spent for a turning motion involved in the games. It's instant. Consider it an abstraction for all the various ways someone could actually leap backwards or to the side.

Your adamant defense of their criticism from of the game for a lack of realism coupled with your statement that a sidestep would be 'just as effective' as the roll sounds like advocacy to me buddy.

Except you are advocating removal of the dodge roll in favor of something like a side step because it isn't realistic for person on person sword fighting... when the series isn't really about person on person sword fighting.

Or you know, maybe you are actually trying to hurt someone instead of just demonstrating that you can put a sword against their skin. But hey, whatever.

Oh, I'm sorry, did my pointing out that the adversaries you face in a game like Dark Souls aren't like the adversaries someone would face in a real life sword fight offend your sense of logic?

Except you know, the roll in Dark Souls isn't really a roll, but a dive followed by a roll. You dive out of the way of things and then roll to get back on your feet.

Except a sidestep wouldn't do shit when a 50 ton giant is about to smash you with a club the size of a house.

Let alone one of those crazy Berserk Dragon Slayer style ultra greatswords from the sequel.

... Are they practicing their sword fighting in a racquetball court?

'though guys'?

This roll is much slower and covers nowhere near the distance of the Dark Souls dodge roll. The Dark Souls rolls don't involve slowly dropping down to one knee and shifting, they are a crazy dive that would probably be more likely to cause a normal human to break their neck than anything else. There was clearly no…

Only as far as the stock families go. Most people never even bother to play the stock families, so it's not really something that you necessarily have to care about.

Again and again and again.

Sorry Holder, there is no such thing as a hole through which only a cop can fit. Not on the physical plane, not on the virtual plane either.

And that would have made perfect sense... had they not skipped 9.