Sorry, but sometimes this bugs me. Saying people are circlejerking when a game is both critically acclaimed across the review and player base board, usually means it's actually REALLY fucking good, and not people just obsessing over the next hot meme like Undertale. Especially when its expansion, Blood and Wine, beats out any other RPG this year for GoTY and is basically counted as a new game in of itself.

But Undertale was critically acclaimed across the board too, right? Obviously they're two vastly different games, but what about Undertale's success makes it a meme worth disregarding and not Witcher 3?

The mindset of "just because it's popular and everyone loves it, I'M not gonna love it!" without even trying it out, is stupid enough as it is.

Is it that stupid when the general populace as a whole doesn't have the greatest track record when it comes to making things popular? Call of Duty. Justin Bieber. Bayformers. Kardashians.

I don't think it's that stupid to be skeptical, or even annoyed.

"Unbiased news source," AKA whatever news source best caters to my worldview.

Maybe before you disregard some news source as "biased," ask yourself how unbiased you are first.

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Ratchet and Clank

i think you'd really like this

childhood favorite for me

I find it hard to play those kinds of games now

Going Commando, Up Your Arsenal, and Deadlocked still play pretty good

The original game's controls didn't age that well so I'd play the PS4 version

I haven't played the PS3 games, but I hear Tools of Destruction and A Crack in Time are really good too

a crack in time is dope, but the future series is when the humor and atmosphere started to get a little bit more child-oriented

and the technofuck soundtracks are replaced by (mostly) generic orchestral crap

still worth playing though

Got the fucking thing. Now all I need are Litten, Popplio, Cranidos, and Tirtouga and I have all the base forms for the entire Alola dex--not including the last few UBs, wherever they are. As for Zygarde cells, I'm still looking for seven stragglers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_game_franchises

Going off this:

The Sims
Assassin's Creed
Mass Effect
Tom Clancy's anything
Dragon Quest
Diablo
Monster Hunter
Civilization
BioShock

Don't care to go further, but yeah, there's actually quite a lot of stuff I haven't touched. Of those listed, Monster Hunter is the only game I'm remotely interested in, though. Maybe Dragon Quest.

Ratchet and Clank

i think you'd really like this

childhood favorite for me

discount metallica

metallica being pretty discount already

They really needed to make special SOS encounters more common. This is such a ridiculously shitty and unfun mechanic. I'm sitting here waiting for this fucking Sandshrew to call a Vanillite for help before it fucking Struggles itself to death (which has happened three times already).

Also Verb, how the hell have you not finished this game yet?

College (mostly), and for at least two weeks after the election, I lost a lot of motivation to do anything that I liked.

I'm not just playing the game--I'm recording it, taking notes for the review, writing updates, doing voice overs, editing footage, etc--A lot of extra work that requires time out of my day that I haven't really had lately. If I weren't doing all of that, I'd have the game finished months ago.

Now that my semester's wrapping up, though, I can get back to it.

Quote from: Verbatim on December 08, 2016, 06:34:53 PM

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Speaking of Dks1 and the Lordvessel, were is Verb in it at this point? He was at OnS while I was still stuck on Capra.
At this point iv'e beaten Seath

Preparing to fight Seath. I entered his lair and got fucked in what I'm assuming was a scripted fight, and now I'm trying to escape wherever I ended up. I'll talk more about it in my thread whenever I decide to write another update.

I'm officially in the dreaded second half, so I'm eager to see what everyone hates about it so much.

Have you fully embraced the power of pyromancy yet?

I wouldn't say "fully" but we'll see what happens. I like the hybrid mixture of things I have going on right now.

Do people tend to hate the second half? Lost Izalith and Demon Ruins are my favorite in the game. It's really awe-inspiring to look up and think about the history of the place and what it means for the story. It gives me the same feeling as Ash Lake.

That's the general impression I've been getting lately, yeah. The top 2 things I hear are Blighttown and the second half. I won't let that hamper my expectations, but it seems to be a pretty common (if recent) sentiment.

the only solution here is suicide

Dark Souls 3 is the worst game in the series. That's it, really.

it's the worst in the series because it's derivative?

because that is consistently the only complaint i've ever hear about it--"too much like dark souls 1"

is that what qualifies as "worst in the series" now?

Akuma looks great, if a bit stiff and slow.

Extended, long-lasting combos--precisely what this game needs. Fingers crossed that S2 adds more combo potential.

>sci-fi

ha, yeah sure

>"A linguist is recruited by the military to assist in translating alien communications."

...huh

maybe i will