Anyone know any good melee combat games?

[(XBOX)Lord ChibiVR]

Can be both pve or pvp. 

Rn all I have is chivalry 2 and Elden ring, with plans to get Naraka Bladepoint and Sekiro.

[Joezone619]

Wow melee combos have been bugged for this long and going huh...

[(XBOX)Lord ChibiVR]

7 minutes ago, Joezone619 said:

Wow melee combos have been bugged for this long and going huh...

Nah I love melee in Warframe. I just wanted to play something with pvp, or something similar to Elden ring (which I really loved).

[ant99999]

I've recently got into Monster Hunter World and the melee combat is fantastic there. What attracts me most is that almost all weapons have unique mechanics to them and gameplay differs significantly.

Some weapons however are unbelievably clunky and slow by Warframe standart. Some on the other hand are very agile, fluid and vertical. I chose Long Sword in the end, which is the middle ground. It feels something like what Blood Rush could ever dream to be, and is actually balanced. Never regretted choosing it.

 

Another game I could kinda recommend is Black Desert. The combat is just perfect there. Can't speak for all the classes, but I had lots of fun with Dark Knight (magic/melee hybrid with a long sword) and Drakania (very mobile melee class using a zweihander). The gameplay is more hack and slash style, very fast and mobile, like Warframe, but if combo system was competently designed.

The problems are very in-your-face microtransactions, and the fact that I kind of don't know what I am supposed to do there after reaching level 61. Maybe I'm just missing something crucial.

[xXDragonGodXx]

For Honor. It has good melee combat, good pvp elements and a toxic community. The best game for pure melee 1v1, 2v2 or 4v4 matches.

[Artekkor]

Sekiro and Devil May Cry 5.

Sekiro is basically refined and distilled form of Soulsborne combat, and Devil may Cry is just very fun as it rewards being stylish and experimental with your 50 different attacks, as opposed to spamming the same attack just to win.

[TeaHands]

The Nioh series is pretty tough but has some really cool combat. Just be ready to hear the sad samurai death music A LOT.

[(XBOX)Lord ChibiVR]

2 minutes ago, TomCruisesSon said:

The Nioh series is pretty tough but has some really cool combat. Just be ready to hear the sad samurai death music A LOT.

That reminds me, I got Nioh for free on epic games launcher.

[Amolistic.]

for honor i guess, but its community toxic level is equivalent to league of legends tho.

try it out at your own risk.

[(PSN)SlCCEN]

Nioh 2 is fantastic

I'm very excited  about the upcoming Wo Long Final Dynasty game to

[(PSN)Vexx757]

Soulstice. It takes inspiration from Claymore and Berserk, a sick game.

 

[CoffeeElemental]

Metal Gear Rising

[Gamma745]

I'm gonna go a bit indie and recommend Furi. You mentioned Sekiro is already on your radar, this one (to me at least) is a little more unforgiving, but shorter.

[(XBOX)Lord ChibiVR]

20 minutes ago, Gamma745 said:

I'm gonna go a bit indie and recommend Furi. You mentioned Sekiro is already on your radar, this one (to me at least) is a little more unforgiving, but shorter.

I actually bought Sekiro already.

[Gamma745]

13 minutes ago, (XBOX)Upl0rdYT said:

I actually bought Sekiro already.

Is that so? Are you enjoying it so far?

[(XBOX)Lord ChibiVR]

9 hours ago, Gamma745 said:

Is that so? Are you enjoying it so far?

Yeah it's pretty good, the bull boss was hard but other than that I find the combat to be perfectly balanced and fun, even if it's hard sometimes.

[(PSN)FunyFlyBoy]

Amazed no one has said Nier Automata yet in this thread. Very surprising. If you have a Switch, another good one is Astral Chain.

Nier

 

Astral Chain

 

[(PSN)Cargan2016]

For honor,  any of the Darksouls franchise,  you can limit your self to mele in fallout 4 (easy no but possible)

[(XBOX)Snakeeater49910]

Mortal combat if you  are into the old school  arcade games. Zena Warrior Princess and Hercules for N64 Legend of Zelda 

[(XBOX)Obi Wan Dandobi]

Have to second Nier Automata. Not often a game leaves a lasting impression on me months later but this certainly did!

And the soundtrack, incredible!👌

 

[(XBOX)Snakeeater49910]

I totally forgot to mention the Final Fantasy Franchise. Final fantasy 7 originally on Ps1 and the the remastered Edition is epic also FF 15 is worth a try too along with other Final Fantasy games! 

[vanaukas]

katana zero it's an amazingly short and well done game, if you like melee and platform you should try it.

Kenshi has a lot of melee combat focus but it's automated

When I feel the need of smash things myself and I don't want to play warframe, I jump into project zomboid.

[Mazifet]

I've heard Mordhau is pretty interesting.

BoTW has some very fun combat, even if it's not completely melee focused.

And Soulframe which is more weighty and melee focused than Warframe should be fun when it is released.

[quxier]

I've played some older, single player games.

- Assasin creed 1 (not played other games). You get stealth attacks and attacks/contratacks (not very precise terms)

- Bloodrayne 2 - same with attacks/contrattacks. 1st Bloodrayne has bad combat.

- Prince of persia - Sand of times, Warrior within and Two thrones trilogy and one from 2008. All of them have some nice combat but they are (at least slightly) different.

- Blades of time (don't bother with DLC) has pretty nice melee + gun combat.

[ant99999]

12 minutes ago, quxier said:

- Prince of persia - Sand of times, Warrior within and Two thrones trilogy and one from 2008. All of them have some nice combat but they are (at least slightly) different.

Oh yea, you reminded me. Sands of time was a spectacular game. I remember playing it in like my early school years. I recall in it you have like a long sword of an ever increasingly extravagant shape in main hand, and then you pick the weapons enemies had in your other hand, so you can use them until they break an throw away. Or something of this sort, it's been a while.

There also a lot of parcour based puzzles if I rememver correctly and also some weird time travel stuff.