The internet likes to joke about whether a pirate could beat a ninja, but the people at Spike TV and Pipeworks Software take this stuff seriously. So seriously that they made an entire TV show based on the premise of which historical badass could beat the other.
Zach Murphy writes: 'The Deadliest Warrior TV series was fantastic television between 2009 and 2011. The series pitted warriors from a variety of eras against each other in an in-depth simulated battle.'.
Neocrisis: Ever thought of who would win in a fight if a Nordic viking was going against a Napoleon solider? or a Ninja vs a sword swinging samurai? Well wonder no more as Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat provides the answers (or at least tries to).
I played the first Deadliest Warrior game once. I was a Samurai and my friend was a Spartan. Match starts. He pushes circle. His Spartan chucks a spear at me and it magically hits me in the head, killing me instantly.
He then told me that it's random if the spear is going to go towards my head or not. So by chance, he killed me with a push of a button.
Screw this game.
That screen shot alone has turd written all over it. What you mentioned is the same reason I quit watching the show.
Their statistical stuff is cool in the show but when they show the cornball fight at the end and the fight is always won do to some total fluke it really makes a joke out of their decent statistical data. What you described summarizes the show perfectly.
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