make sure you watch fullmetal alc brotherhood, and not 2003

Will do, though it's sort of confusing why.

Bump. Still happening and I have proof of progress.

looks good, i wish we could see what multiple posts look like on a page though

>super

sorry, "critical art"

>Nash - Bison fight


REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I love how it's just the only fight in story mode that's even remotely challenging

Overall the artstyle is an improvement over IV, but some characters just look odd (like Kolin's face in story mode).

Kolin's face was actually altered from her original model.



It was an improvement, imo, but it may have created some awkward inconsistencies.

She's not the only character to get a facelift, either—I don't know why they couldn't have gotten it right the first time.

I wish you could buy nostalgia alts with FM. I don't really want to shell out $12 for the Juri, Alex, and Ibuki outfits.

Akuma, too.

It sucks, a lot, but I actually prefer this method to how SF4 did it. Back then, you paid a lot of money for a whole bunch of costumes at once, even if there's only one costume that you're interested in. SFV has more of an à la carte system, where you're not paying extra for stuff that you won't ever use.

But yeah, honestly, all the DLC should be obtainable with FM. That's how I thought it was going to work from the beginning.

The art for the character stories looks downright lazy btw, but that's probably an old complaint all things considered. Laura looks nothing like herself, and they managed to fuck up Ryu's jaw line.

Yeahhhhh, it's really not great at all. The NPCs don't even put up a fight—it's kind of a joke.

Have you done the actual story mode, A Shadow Falls? Beating it on both difficulties nets you a lot of FM.

For the love of GOD, though—don't do anything that awards you FM if you're not connected to PSN. You won't get it.

Thread's back.

oh thanks

god i love hbox

I wasn't ragging on you by saying that just a little joke. 99% of anime is hot garbage, .7% is just good or different enough to be worth a watch, and the last .3% is so beyond the standards of the industry that calling it "anime" is a bit of an insult. The only reason I enjoy an anime of any sort nowadays is for spectacle (Jojo is just odd, but reasonably so) or the occasional SoL that I can relax to. It's not high-brow media by any means, but sometimes something comes along that's worth watching once.

when you watched hxh, which one was it

Just wondering, if you were to watch an anime that in one episode contains all the things that you hate, would you immediately drop the show or continue on to see if it gets better or not?

I've dropped several shows in less than three for that, yeah.

There's virtually no chance of a show like that getting "better," because the first few episodes are typically there to establish what the show is all about. And if the show is all about nothing but the things I hate the most, there's pretty much no point in wasting my time.

There are rare cases, like in TTGL, where I'm actually more likely to complete the show—not because I think it's gonna get better, but because it's such a mind-bending spectacle of sadness, that I simply can't look away. One day I'll write up a big long rant on why I hate that particular show so much.

To my understanding, that's how most anime fans do it anyway—they go by the three episode rule, or something. If they aren't interested in three episodes, they just drop the show. That's considered normal, apparently.

That's another thing I don't like about anime. It's so fucking disposable, you're ENCOURAGED to drop shows that you dislike instead of powering through it. If you told me that you stopped watching a movie twenty minutes into it, or a Western television show a few episodes in, and you told me it "sucked," I would tell you that you're an idiot who's not allowed to have an opinion, because you didn't watch the entire thing.

But in the anime world, it's perfectly acceptable to do shit like that. I don't understand why, but if it gives me a viable excuse not to sit through hours and hours of anime just to find something I despise, I guess I'll take it.

Not entirely sure if this was asked before, but what do you feel is a specific reason you dislike anime in general?

I don't think I could give you just one specific reason, but perhaps I could try to give you one relatively broad reason instead.

I think it comes down to the fact that I have a severe, visceral contempt for Japanese culture—or at least, the exaggerated elements that seem to pervade all of their media.

I hate everything from the way characters interact with each other, to how they're illustrated, to how every scene is animated and played out, all the way down to the tropes, themes, and common threads that every single show seems to share, and there's just something about it all that gives me a horrid taste in my mouth and leaves me utterly repulsed, no matter how innocent or bubbly it is (in fact, the innocence and bubbliness often makes it worse)—to the point where I almost have a kneejerk reaction of sheer disgust whenever I see anything remotely anime-esque.

To get a little more specific, by far one of my least favorite aspects of anime is just the male chauvinism and all the insulting portrayals of women that are SO ever-present in almost every single series that I try. And I've heard all the explanations for it already. I still find it unacceptable, and I think anime fans should be fucking embarrassed that one of their favorite mediums has such a lax view of what's an acceptable and fair representation of a human female.

There honestly shouldn't be any female anime fans, because if I were a woman watching your average anime, I don't think I'd be able to handle it. And I don't understand how they do. Objectifying and making a complete mockery of the female form solely for the masturbatory pleasure of the hormonal teenage boys in your audience is an affront to anything I'd consider intelligent or worthy of praise.

It also pisses me off how nearly every single show uses the same cookie-cutter artstyle, with some very minor alterations in between. It takes away whatever individuality or personality the show may have had before, and makes every show look like they were all made carelessly in a factory (oh wait, they pretty much are).

There's also a sense of me having a distaste for TV shows as a concept in general. I prefer movies, because you can watch the entire thing in one go, and you get all the information you need in about two hours. No cliffhangers, no filler. Maybe you noticed that I tend to rate films higher than I do shows—that's not on purpose; it just so happens that film is much better suited for storytelling than a series of episodes is. In my opinion, at least. TV shows tend to promote a lot of toxic and cancerous industry practices, and I'm sure even anime fans are well aware of those.

But yeah, I think the bottom line is culture. I hate Japanese culture, and I hate any of the tropes related to it.

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Who cares if they're condescending? They're not worth the time, any other normal person will just say "ok" if you tell them you don't like anime.

in all my years on the internet, this has honestly never happened once

this just isn't how anime fans behave—they can't accept that someone hates anime

Why do you care?

why shouldn't i

I'm asking you why you care.

because i really hate it when people don't listen to me and take what i say seriously

there's also no reason why i shouldn't care

not caring hasn't gotten me anywhere good in life

not caring is for retards

Why should those people care what you think?

because i'm the fucking master

Have you watched Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood?

it's on the watchlist

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Quote from: challengerX on August 03, 2017, 03:26:58 PM

Who cares if they're condescending? They're not worth the time, any other normal person will just say "ok" if you tell them you don't like anime.

in all my years on the internet, this has honestly never happened once

this just isn't how anime fans behave—they can't accept that someone hates anime

Why do you care?

why shouldn't i