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« on: June 29, 2021, 02:43:13 PM »
i think the last time i even stepped foot in that shopko while it was still there was over ten years ago
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« on: June 24, 2021, 08:10:11 PM »
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« on: June 21, 2021, 12:59:20 PM »
What's shounen
anime marketed towards teenage boys
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« on: June 21, 2021, 11:53:55 AM »
speeding through a show just because it's LONG seems like a bad idea to me anyway, especially if you're not super into it
you should be enjoying the show you're watching on some level—not watching it just to get it over with
Wonder how you'd react to the Chimera Ant Arc in HxH lol
how many episodes would i need to watch to make it to this arc
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« on: June 20, 2021, 06:57:54 PM »
speeding through a show just because it's LONG seems like a bad idea to me anyway, especially if you're not super into it
you should be enjoying the show you're watching on some level—not watching it just to get it over with
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« on: June 19, 2021, 04:35:44 PM »
Spoiler "It was about 10 years ago when we were working on the original Drakengard that I thought about the meaning of “killing.” I was looking at a lot of games back then, and I saw these messages like “You’ve defeated 100 enemies!” or “Eradicated 100 enemy soldiers!” in an almost gloating manner. But when I thought about it in an extremely calm state of mind, it hit me that gloating about killing a hundred people is strange. I mean, you’re a serial killer if you killed a hundred people. It just struck me as insane. That’s why I decided to have the army of the protagonist in Drakengard be one where everyone’s insane, to create this twisted organization where everyone’s wrong and unjust. I wanted to weave a tale about these twisted people.
And then we worked on Nier…We created this game called Nier, and after the world experienced the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the war in Iraq, we were being bombarded with updates on terrorist organizations and activities even in Japan. That’s when my opinion changed. The vibe I was getting from society was: you don’t have to be insane to kill someone. You just have to think you’re right. So that’s why I made Nier a game revolving around this concept of “being able to kill others if you think you’re right,” or “everyone believes that they’re in the right.”"
-Yoko Taro Drakengard 3 Interview
very cool stuff nier might be my favorite bad game
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« on: June 15, 2021, 12:20:32 PM »
Release in Octoboer is another great part of this
one day off my birthday, too
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« on: June 15, 2021, 11:52:28 AM »
imagine being upset about the lack of prime 4 when you're also getting a game that looks this sick
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« on: June 15, 2021, 11:42:38 AM »
i'm not over the moon about kazuya, but tekken stuff is welcome i guess. all those moves, goddamn
one thing is for sure to me at this point: mii costumes = HARD DECONFIRM
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« on: June 15, 2021, 10:11:27 AM »
Possible Character leak Mister Chef
Taking it with a grain of salt but I could see it with the context of upcoming Halo Infinite release as well as prior featuring with Fortnite. Also apparently comes from a reliable enough source as far as previous leaks goes (with a track record of occasional misses).
I don't really care too much for what goes on in Ult since it's just weird to play for me and I don't do much with it competitively compared to Melee, but I'll still take it over yet another anime tiddy sword character from a game I'm never going to touch. I imagine he'll be just as complained about/annoying to play against as Rob/Snake/Banjo/The entire cast since I've seen smash twitter complain about playing against nearly every character in the game at this point, with the exceptions of Sheik and Jigglypuff lmao. Might give him a whirl if the leak ends up holding merit next time I play.
at this point, i would actually be 100% down for this, if only because the majority of DLC has been quite underwhelming imo, and this would at least be something of an internet breaker i'm not really feeling it though—it'll be someone safe and boring, like crash
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« on: June 14, 2021, 02:21:53 PM »
Is Nier 1 = Nier Replicant™ ver.1.22474487139... ?
The latter is a remake of the former, yeah. I'm playing through the original, though, since it's what I have.
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« on: June 14, 2021, 02:20:50 PM »
The characters were all pretty okay, except for Kainé, who I loathed (and no, not just because of her incredibly stupid outfit).
I know why. Spoiler Oh lameao, that stupid bitch got hit and kinda died (but not really) again. Oh wow, she got pierced by spear few minutes after getting unpetrified (lololoool), guess she will die but not really because she can transform into shade or w/e. Oh guess she's completely fine after doing that.
Spoiler Don't forget how the camera would always zoom in on her asshole every single time she got got. There's that, and I also couldn't really jive with her personality, either. She definitely could've been cool—coomerbaiting aside, a pretty warrior lady with a surprisingly filthy mouth is certainly a fun idea, but I just don't think they did a very good job with it. The fact that she's so crude and caustic is a good thing—I don't want to give the impression that that's my issue with her. The problem is that she doesn't seem to have any brakes. Almost all of her dialogue gives the impression that she's just in maximum bitch mode all the time, which would be less annoying if it was intended to be funny or something, but it rarely ever seems to be. It's like hearing a song played with only one note. Every time the protagonist says something to her, I find myself being able to predict exactly what her sassy response is going to be, because she just can't stop being a surly cunt for even one second, and it doesn't help that the reasons for her attitude are never adequately explained until you've already beaten the game once. If you think her attitude is justified by her backstory or whatever, that's fine, but I just like my characters to be a little more three dimensional. She did have one good line, though. There's a moment when Emil is letting the protagonist know how he and Kainé pass the time whenever waiting for him outside the village, and he ends up embarrassing her in the process, prompting her to say, "Emil, that's enough! I got a fucking image to maintain!" I thought that was pretty funny, and it reveals that she's at least self-aware, which I appreciate.
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« on: June 13, 2021, 02:03:05 AM »
Just got Ending B, and I'm very pleased with where the story is going now. This ending pretty much serves to recontextualize everything that has happened in the game thus far, and it does so in a pretty emotionally satisfying way in my opinion (even if it does get excessively melodramatic at times). Spoiler What was once a simple story about a guy just trying to save his daughter in a fantasy world has become a story about a deranged bloodthirsty barbarian with a severe case of tunnel vision, destroying everything in his path to take what he only perceives to be his. Great stuff! I liked the story before, but now, I honestly kinda love it. There's definitely some metacommentary going on that I'm sure is gonna be taken to even greater extremes as I go further down this rabbit hole. I can't say any of this absolves the game of the horrible tedium I had to endure to reach this point in the first place, and it certainly hasn't been less of a slog to play, but I've pretty much accepted those flaws at this point. Now I'm just anxious to see how the other two endings are gonna twist the story around.
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« on: June 11, 2021, 10:07:13 PM »
ive seen a lot of people creaming over elden ring
am i the only one who had no idea what that was
probably tbh it's only a big deal because it's a collab between the guy who made dark souls and the guy who will never finish the book series that game of thrones is based off of besides that, i can't say the game really grabs me in any way—i'm sure it'll be great, but it just looks like dark souls again
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« on: June 11, 2021, 03:49:01 PM »
So I beat Nier—or at least, I got the first of four endings. My friends say I need to keep playing until I see the fourth and final ending, which is the one that leads into Automata. As cool as the story ended up being, the game itself is simply not very fun to play unfortunately. Combat is pure button mashing monotony, and the sidequests are about as boring and soul-sucking as can be—and because one of the endings requires you to acquire every single weapon in the game, you're basically forced to engage in some of the most mind-numbing and backtracky fetch quests you've ever put yourself through. There were times when I honestly thought the game was some kind of parody, or making some kind of comment on the nature of performing such monotonous tasks for hours on end while playing video games—but there are other times where I feel like that would be giving the game too much credit. There are clues here and there to support either side, I think, which makes it an interesting game to sort of dissect and think about, which might owe to its popularity, but at the moment, I don't find myself in the camp that argues that the game is some kind of deep or intelligent masterpiece. Maybe once I see more, but I doubt it. I was told that the game likes to play around with genres a lot—and I suppose that's true, but only to an extent, I feel. The game's so-called "genre shifts," for the most part, amount exclusively to a change in camera perspective. There are sections of the game where the camera will do something totally different from the rest of the game, makeing you think you're suddenly playing a survival horror game, to an isometric dungeon crawler, or even a text-based adventure at one point—but the gameplay itself doesn't change at all, which makes these "genre shift" moments feel ultimately shallow and unnecessary. The best thing I can say about it is that it's unique, interesting, and keeps you on your toes—but never did it stop me in my tracks, or make me go "Oh my god, what is this game??" as it made some of my friends react. The OST has been by favorite aspect of the game by far, and I would go far enough to say that the game probably doesn't even deserve to have a soundtrack this good. I won't comment too much on the story for now, just because there are still some things I'm trying to wrap my head around, but I will say that I'm glad it wound up getting somewhat interesting towards the end, because the first half of the game led me to believe that I was in for an extremely shallow adventure—but I wasn't, so I'm happy about that. The characters were all pretty okay, except for Kainé, who I loathed (and no, not just because of her incredibly stupid outfit). As I get to the other three endings, I'm gonna cross my fingers and hope that the game really is going for some kind of deep metacommentary on video games, because that's the only way I can accept having played something with gameplay this boring and shitty.
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« on: June 11, 2021, 01:41:57 AM »
yeah just give me some botw2 footage and a smash character that isn't totally stupid and i'll be content basically
for smash, i'm betting we're gonna see a bandicoot, which won't be the hypest thing in the world (for me at least), but it would certainly beat another anime sword waifu
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« on: June 04, 2021, 12:37:01 PM »
charlie sheen at the very least has a likable onscreen presence
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« on: June 03, 2021, 10:53:42 AM »
 Here's every N64 game I may never own, unless I get lucky or bite the bullet on their price. - The holy grail of the system is ClayFighter: Sculptor's Cut, but it's just an updated version of a game I already possess, so if I never get to have it, it's no skin off my back. - Super Bowling, Stunt Racer 64, PGA European Tour, and NFL Blitz Special Edition are all just sports game that I can probably live without, as well, but I actually really want to get Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 for the simple reason that it was the last game made for the system. I can see myself biting the bullet on this one; it's pricey, but not absurdly so. - Sometimes, there's an unfortunate situation where the ONLY reason a game is considered rare or valuable is because it was released at the tail-end of a system's life cycle. Bomberman 64: The Second Attack is probably the most egregious example of this, especially because it's part of a big name franchise, and it was never re-released; paying $250 for a loose copy is your only legal option. It's not even good, apparently. - Games like Worms: Armageddon and Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals may be expensive to get on the N64, but at least they happen to be available for cheaper on other platforms, such as the PlayStation. - Ogre Battle 64 and Harvest Moon 64 are both available as Virtual Console titles on the Wii U's e-shop, so I'll probably just end up picking them up on that platform. - Snowboard Kids 2, Chameleon Twist 2, and the two Goemon games are the ones that hurt me the most. They're all considered great games, and none of them are available on anything else. For these ones, I'll just have to cross my fingers that Nintendo Switch Online will have add N64 games some day. - Strangely enough, if I were to hold out for digital re-releases for all the games I want the most on this chart, the most logical game to physical purchase on this chart would end up being Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine and Duck Dodgers, because these are never getting re-released. - Starcraft 64 would be such a cool game to pick up, and I'm still kicking myself for passing it up that one time I actually saw it on a shelf (it would've sent me way over budget, but still). - I recently beat Earthworm Jim 1 and 2, so Earthworm Jim 3D would be the next game in the series for me, I suppose. But the original creators apparently have nothing to do with this game, and it got bad reviews because the charm was lost, or something. It would be a fun novelty, at the very least. - Daikatana is an infamously bad game by John Romero, and it's kind of a meme. I might bite the bullet some day.
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« on: June 02, 2021, 07:06:58 PM »
can't go five minutes into a Big Bang Theory episode without wanting to kill myself
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« on: June 02, 2021, 06:48:04 PM »
Picked up some N64 today—nothing I would call noteworthy (except Rampage: World Tour, maybe), but enough to bring me down to less than 70 games to collect, 33 of which are in the sports/racing category.
I feel so close, but so far. Prices are getting fucking ludicrously insane. I found a loose copy of PGA European Tour—a basic fucking golf game—and they were asking $70 for it. Once I get Banjo-Tooie, if there's seriously nothing else to collect but sports games that go beyond the MSRP for a modern day PS5 game, I'll probably just consider my collection to be "ghetto complete" for my own sake.
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« on: June 02, 2021, 06:18:43 PM »
Just beat the 3rd game. Didn't bother with any of the filler between 2 and 3 because I honestly don't care, but watched a few summary vids. Yeahhhh, my Kingdom Hearts friends were ADAMANT that I avoid doing this, because it turns out that all those weird spin-offs are actually integral to the storyline, and being able to follow along with their convoluted mess of a story is meant to be super gratifying, and you're meant to forgive a lot of the dumb stuff because you've just been with these characters for so long and whatnot. I dunno. The last thing I did was watch an entire LP of the DS version of 358/2 Days, rather than the abridged version of the game that's available on the collection I bought, and it was a colossal fucking waste of time. It's basically just a slow burn that leads to nothing but some cringey cryporn that doesn't really add anything substantial to KH2's story in my opinion. Chain of Memories, too, was probably the worst game I've ever played from beginning to end—but I honestly really enjoyed the storyline to that one, because they play with some interesting concepts, and it's actually fairly mature and self-contained for the most part. It's the one that takes place between 1 and 2, Spoiler you get to know why Naminé is part of the story and everything, and why half the organization is dead by the time you get to KH2, among some other pretty important things. I don't know if you've experienced that one. Might be worth watching cutscenes of it on YouTube or something. Otherwise, the gameplay is just fucking horrendous and not worth the trouble. Also all the flashbacks in the old graphics, seriously? Couldn't even redo those to match the new graphics? lazy mfers I don't know how it's executed, but I think I could possibly give them the benefit of the doubt on this one. Presenting scenes you remember as you remember them could make those flashbacks feel all the more nostalgic. I actually kind of like that choice, but perhaps not if it doesn't seem purposeful.
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« on: May 26, 2021, 07:30:05 PM »
I just find it weirdly exploitative even though its a drawing
But anyways
I don't watch much (or any) anime actually so I can't really say
Of what I have watched, I would say slice of life comedies are my favorite
It makes me feel like I'm laying back and chilling with the lads
alphy's got you covered then, all i like is edgy psychological shit
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« on: May 26, 2021, 03:04:10 PM »
OFFICIAL LIST OF CERTIFIED FRESH ANIME:
- Dragonball Super
- Attack on Titan
- My Hero Academia
I thought I could trust you
i mean why tbh don't forget you're talking about a guy who watches my little pony
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« on: May 26, 2021, 12:15:04 PM »
Fanservice is the worst thing to ever be invented
Why would you do that to your own characters?
yeah, it's a pretty fucking shit trope, and a big reason why i couldn't get into anime for the longest time but in the show that i suggested, while the fanservice is incredibly over the top, it's possible to watch the show as a satire (or even a critique of) the male psyche, which tends to enhance the humor a great deal—at least for me, because the show is basically making fun of how the average hormonal numskull guy sees women, and that's funny to me, in a "let's all laugh at this idiot" kind of way, or a "why do guys have to be like this" kind of way i can totally understand being unable to tolerate it, but it's also going to make the vast majority of anime almost unwatchable if you can't let a little bit of it slide what are your favorite anime/what are you generally into
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« on: May 26, 2021, 10:32:14 AM »
scratch my suggestion then, unless you don't mind it when the fanservice is part of the point of the show
as i recall, you've seen pretty much all of my favorites already—have you seen perfect blue? idk
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« on: May 25, 2021, 08:30:13 PM »
OFFICIAL LIST OF CERTIFIED FRESH ANIME:
- Dragonball Super
- Attack on Titan
- My Hero Academia
not only are you a weeb now, you're also the most basic possible weeb how does it feel, wormdick
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« on: May 25, 2021, 07:05:22 PM »
golden boy, only make sure it's the dub
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« on: May 24, 2021, 04:56:13 PM »
Well the goals I have are kinda in conflict. On one hand I want to improve the world, ease suffering, etc. On the other hand, I really don't want to do anything at all. I naturally crave the loser lifestyle and would be happy living in a one bedroom apartment working as a delivery driver. I feel most fulfilled when I am helping others but doing things for others just drains me emotionally for some reason. The things that make me happy make me feel dead inside at the same time. So going towards one end would lead me further from the other. Either way, I just feel exhausted and not at peace with myself at all
Now that I'm out of school, I feel like I have to decide who I have to be. I wonder if I'll ever find anything that will make me happy without make me feel like a piece of shit at the same time. I don't know if this even makes sense but I feel like I'm spinning my wheels in place
i guess we're more alike than i thought
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« on: May 24, 2021, 04:47:04 PM »
How much would you say you've spent on games in the past year?
somewhere approaching $1000, i would guess what can i say? it's my favorite hobby
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« on: May 24, 2021, 04:01:28 PM »
Been hitting my backlog pretty hard lately. I'm trying to focus on 1995 games, but because I have a couple friends playing through that remake of Nier that came out recently, I figured I'd start playing that as well. Not the remake, though—I've owned the original on PS3 for a while now, and I've never been keen on remakes in general, so I wasn't gonna fork over $60 for a game I basically already own.
Besides the music, it's honestly pretty fucking shit so far—the combat is brain-dead and the gameplay loop seems fairly monotonous—but I've been advised to keep going in spite of that, so whatever.
For the 1995 project, my current favorite game from that year would have to be Yoshi's Island, so the project is essentially about finding a game I happen to like more than that one. I've beaten Comix Zone, DKC2, Eathworm Jim 1 and 2, Vectorman, Street Fighter Alpha, Ristar, Mega Man 1-7, Mega Man X-X3, and a few more all in the past couple months.
Most recently, I just beat KoF95, which only cost me whatever was left of my mental health, and I'm currently playing Real Bout Fatal Fury, Rayman, and the first Klonoa game—which is not a '95 game, but the sequel is one of my favorites of all time, and I've never played the original, so I felt like I owed it to myself to check it out. It's also $5 on PSN vs. the $300 I would be spending on it, given that it's currently the single most valuable PS1 game on the market.
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