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Not a terrible idea honestly.

Would be pretty cool if the game starts on a relatively typical Final Fantasy world and your party is the crew of a ship being sent out into space for the first time on an exploration mission. Pick up a few aliens along the way.

DrizztLink posted...

To be fair, the first season was, like, six episodes long.

That's very true but I still think the people in charge from Season 3 onward would have still managed to make those 6 episodes go by a lot slower.

It's a show that desperately wanted to be prestige television but just didn't have the writing behind it.

Tries to mimic the slower burn pacing of Breaking Bad but can't match the quality. I think Scott Gimple as showrunner introduced most of this issue. The first season was a lot more quicker paced and the second didn't feel quite as impacted either.

Even in Fear The Walking Dead you could tell the moment he was in charge, for better or worse.

Alucard188 posted...

The guys that tried and failed to remake KotOR want to show you their AI upcaled mod for an arguably more beloved game.

It really makes you wonder what they showed to Sony/Disney that they instantly scrapped it. I'm guessing it looked lot like this Deus Ex remaster.

Also as much as I love the idea of some updated control schemes, it was barely functional in the Tomb Raider remasters, so I dread to think how they've "modernized" Deus Ex which is a lot more complex.

Dramatic as it sounds it was pretty much the final nail in the coffin for me (the third party collabs in general). I doubt I'll ever play it.

Loved the first game.

I really dug the music in that trailer, took me back to the PSX era of fantasy games. Vandal Hearts vibes for sure.

I actually love the modern day stuff and think it's an important (and now very under served) hook for the whole series but unless they were remaking every game in the series it would be pretty weird to include in what is practically a standalone title now.

They may as well drop 4 from the title while they're at it.

Shah138 posted...

It's funny how that works. Some people never catch up, and I'm just sitting here begging for another one when the last release came out six months ago.

This is me. I'm almost bummed they're remaking 3 because I've already played it and just want a new one.

It's great news for everyone else though and that new IP they're doing looks really promising so I'm sure we'll be okay.

Only vaguely in order because it's too difficult otherwise:

Destroy All Monsters
Son of Godzilla
Godzilla vs Hedorah
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Invasion of Astro Monster
Godzilla vs Gigan

Cinematically speaking most of these aren't considered the best movies but they are the ones I re-watch the most by far and I love and cherish them.

I grew up on the Showa era so my fondness for them is sky high but I enjoy all the eras. Definitely miss the days of some guy in a rubber suit though, there's a certain charm to it that can't be matched but Minus One and Godzilla(2014) were both excellent top tier G-movies regardless.

I don't get any enjoyment out of high difficulty in games. I always see people say things like how after they spend an hour learning and practicing on a boss, when they finally finish the battle they say how good and satisfying it felt - I don't get that. I'm glad it's over but not in a "go me, I rock!" kind of way and instead more of a "thank god, that sucked" and there's a really high chance the next time I get stuck in that kinda situation I will just stop playing.

People who enjoy high difficulty seem to feel that a high level challenge is a requisite to have fun and will often chide easy games for being boring, but I'm on the other end of that spectrum and find high level challenge boring (frustrating and stressful too depending on how mechanics work). I've even played through games such as Control with god mode on the entire way and loved it. Just because I couldn't die during combat didn't mean I couldn't soak in the atmosphere, get invested in the story or even enjoy the gameplay. I still try to play my best even on low difficulties, there's just none of that anxiety of game over screens, time wasting or loss of progress when I screw up.

I also have played many online competitive games and there are a handful I have actually been very good at, I just don't like that level of intensity in my single-player experiences.

The main reason debates like this become so heated is that people who love high difficulty don't want people who don't to have the option of a low difficulty because they feel it will take something away from the game, effectively barring everyone else from the game (I've played two Souls games in my entire life including the original Demon's Souls) which of course makes everyone defensive. I can do these games, rise above the difficulty and finish them but what a lot of people can't wrap their heads around is I don't enjoy it, I don't have fun. I could have fun with these games if I was given options but I'm told no and that really sucks.

EDIT: I will add that a quick and dirty but also elegant solution to this is just add God mode toggles to games. This way the design philosophy of the game does not get impacted in any way. I'd be fine with that and probably even pick up Elden Ring finally, and just switch the toggle when something really starts walling me. Obviously have it disable achievements but I don't see any drawback to this as an option that doesn't devolve into gatekeeping.

I'm a big advocate for watching it yourself the first time because for all you know you might end up loving most of it but with the "skip it" advice you might either never watch it at all or be retroactively spoiled by later episodes (in the sense of writing, pacing, characterization etc) that not being able to enjoy it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Either way, despite being dryer and sometimes rough in places, I don't think it was bad anyway, certainly not the whole season. Plus there's some continuity there like meeting Q for the first time.

After the first 2 is where it starts getting blurry. I can remember a handful of Pokemon from the 3rd gen just off the top of my head (and could probably name most of them with pictures) but if you asked me to name any from the 4th I wouldn't know what to say. Those early days were the times I was most involved with the games, multiple playthroughs including all the spin-offs and watching the shows and movies.

Starting from 3 it was more hit the credits and wait for the next one and I fell off the anime and movies somewhere during Johto's run I think. Pokemon 2000 was maybe the last movie I watched while it was still relevant though I can't even remember if I saw it when it came out or just on TV some day.

I pronounce it as Deh-Kyoo but in my head it's Deh-Koo

No idea why there's a difference.

Relieved to see they're still making these, though Batman again is a little underwhelming.

Still wanna play though and it looks like it's riffing on the Nolan movies this time which I think is new (haven't played all of them).

Mutant

I prefer dubs for animation and games but will always do subs first time for anything live action.

I really can't tell the difference between good or bad voice acting if it's in a language I can't understand anyway so I really don't feel I lose anything.

This is feeling so removed from what I'd like to see from a Buffy continuation that I'm pretty checked out already.

Would a show about a middle-aged Buffy (and presumably the oldest Slayer to ever live) really have been so bad? It sounds like it's barely going to involve her at this rate and instead is just using her as a springboard to launch an entirely different show with a Buffy skin.

Not so much a Buffy reboot as a spin-off.

Dungeater posted...

i cant actually call it bad, because it isnt. but, consequently, i cant actually call it much at all. it existed

I feel this way about a lot of modern (big budget anyway) films, it's kinda like all the edges have been sanded off and they don't really serve much of a point anymore because of it.

AceMos posted...

but his personality had shifted to him being dumber than he was in the rare games

This is the part I struggle most with. I'm not a big fan of the model but there's a side of me that likes it being a throwback to how he was originally envisioned so I'm sure it can grow on me. But the new attitude I just really dislike. DK to me has always been a kind of cool and collected leader type with his endearingly goofy moments but now he's such a clown and comes across as more an idiot. I also find this whole crazy look on my face or oops something stuck on my head style of comedy pretty lazy and obvious.

Dungeater posted...

god i hate her tardis tho

It's very busy but then I've also kinda felt that way about most of the modern ones except late Smith/Capaldi's. I much prefer the more clinical minimalist sci-fi look from Classic. Though great big shout out to 7/8's TARDIS in the movie, that looked cozy as hell.

The Japan one is a really cool shot but other than the guns and I guess it being literally dark, I'm not really sure what it has to do with the game.

I like the EU one the most though Elvis being reflected in the eye of NA's version is a really cool touch, just a shame Joanna's face looks so off for some reason. Reminds me of the Lion King.

It's always been my top MP game. I love the minigames (except the rotation ones which to be fair are a big deal breaker so I totally understand) and it has the best maps because they actually feel like they're in the Mario world and I dig they're themed around the characters' personalities, many later titles kinda lost that vibe. Also I have huge nostalgia for all those early N64 era models.

I don't know. Modern prices are a really big ask and a huge leap of faith. Reviews help as they always have but I think I'm hitting a threshold where I'd at least like a demo.

Oh I don't have the picture but one of the best examples of this is Dead or Alive 4 around the XBOX 360 launch and then Dead or Alive 5 near the end of the console's lifespan. It's almost shocking they're both in the same generation.

Foppe posted...

How do we know that the pirate didn't copied it to his friends consoles or uploaded it before selling it?
How do we know that one copy must be legit if two are online at the same time?

I didn't say we must know, I said presumably and this should be Nintendo's (or any other online platform's) headache to figure out, not ours. My take on this is that I just won't advocate for our accounts getting potentially banned despite doing nothing wrong. A "smooth" 1-3 day customer service interaction like our time and purchases are meaningless isn't going to change my mind.

I'm genuinely surprised at how defended this is and would be curious to see if that stance remained if those same people were getting their own accounts banned but for me I just can't get behind it. I concede that some of you feel differently and that's fair enough, just a clash of philosophy I guess. I apologize if I came on too strong in my previous post, I didn't mean for it to sound aggressive... just annoyingly tends to come out that way when I feel strongly about something.

Foppe posted...

So tell us, exactly what should Nintendo do when they see clearly pirated copies being played? Send a message to each console, asking nicely to show a pic of proof that they are playing a legit copy?

Isn't that literally what they're doing except forcing you to do all the work? Regardless if there were more than two then there's a good chance it has been mass copied in which case it's much more understandable but in this case where there were only two instances, one of them presumably legit and they can't tell which then I don't think it's fair to ban the person not doing anything wrong.

Like this is all fine and dandy for most gamers I guess but imagine it's a young kid with clueless parents or an elderly and relative non-gamer or vulnerable person. Hell, what if it happened to you? Twice? And this guy may have had a good experience with customer service but that won't always be the case.

Maybe if this only prevents you playing multiplayer it isn't so bad but if it also stops you being able to access all your purchased games it's way too far and frankly you know well as I do if this started effecting thousands of people, Nintendo would change it because of the hit to their reputation.

It's definitely not okay Nintendo are taking a hammer to the issue and letting people who are doing nothing wrong get banned for simply buying a used game.

"It only takes 1-3 days to clear up!" doesn't make having to pucker your ass every time you put a game you just bought into the console a good consumer experience.

Guilty until proven innocent, come on... they should do better.

For what it's worth they really nail the ending.

BotW was really cool as a one-off but I was completely done with it a few hours into TotK. Over the whole thing now.

I hate that the new direction has even completely overtaken the Warriors spin-offs. It went from a celebration of the entire franchise to just BotW and now TotK. It's pretty boring and feels like everything from before is being left behind for this bold new vision.

Jupiter posted...

Personally, anything with boost gameplay sucks. So the Adventure games were the last good 3D Sonic games for me. >_>

This is basically where I'm at.

I haven't loved a 3D Sonic game since then, and anything I've played since only really had parts that I liked but was still overall mediocre.

I felt 8 won with the summons in the PSX era at least, even to this day though it has a real pantheon of them that I'm not sure has been matched since. Diabolos alone...

I liked 7's magic effects the most though. Ice sounded really lethal and they all just seemed to pack an oomph that was lost with 8 (I don't remember 9's at all weirdly enough even though it's the one from that era I played most recently).

I should have loved Tactics Advanced but this mechanic turned me off it pretty quickly. That was a long time ago though, maybe I'd feel different now.

I like to think it was McCoy's way of keeping Spock's half-human side present. He often used it as a sort of ego-check more than anything else and as a previous poster mentioned it was pretty much targeted directly at Spock as opposed to other Vulcans.

McCoy was kind of a hard man and I don't think he was ever gonna sit down and have a heart-to-heart with Spock about his concerns over the amount of pressure Spock applies on himself trying to be Vulcan, instead he riled him up and forced Spock to confront his human aspects.

However, it's only palpable because there aren't Vulcans in reality (that we know) and it really wouldn't fly if there were.

I always think it has before I watch his latest thing and then I watch his latest thing and think... okay that was pretty good.

It's not high art and I don't think it should win any awards (UNLIKE HIS MUSIC!) but he's charming, enjoyable and it's pretty harmless.

I'd be surprised that if this were a simulation, there was also a real version of us to wake up in. Unless the real us went voluntarily into some kind of VR game and just had no idea what we were getting ourselves into...

But no I don't think I'd be shocked, it's every much a possibility as any other for the universe existing the way it does I suppose. I'm pretty salty over the prospect of never knowing the answer though, whatever it is.

He played a role in I Saw the TV Glow so he can't be all that of a terrible person in real life, I think meeting him would have more value.

My history with this series is so weird. I played SC2 on the Gamecube and loved it so much, probably close to 100 hours into it all said. Then I never played another one ever again.

I guess Link was really that much of a draw for me at the time?

It's so weird to me that after X, Square kept trying to fundamentally change Final Fantasy with every iteration even though X wasn't a flop.

Like not once over the last 20 some years or so they thought "Maybe we should just try a mainline turn-based seeing as not a single one bombed and some of these action oriented ones are getting a lot of hate?"

Nope, action forever.

They tried to solve a problem that didn't exist yet.

UnfairRepresent posted...

But was quickly kicked to the curb when his focus would be on making Duke the butt of the joke because the character was an anachronistic dinosuar by modern standards.

I always thought Duke was the joke, though? He's like the Johnny Bravo of videogames.

He looks cool, but he isn't.

If you have any interest in Star Trek, try Star Trek Legends.

It's a gacha game that plays similar to Galaxy of Heroes but a game you actually buy, there's no additional monetization inside of the game so you can progress at pretty much your own pace and there's lots to do. Perfect for podcasts and stuff.

Just remembered there's a Mega Man one too. Mega Man x Dive offline. This one isn't quite as turn your brain off because it plays like Mega Man, but so much to grind out it's pretty great.

UnsteadyOwl posted...

I ignore the AI overview but I can't help but wonder how many people do read it because it's convenient and end up getting bad information.

I imagine it has to be pretty common. The average person has no reason to believe it might just be completely wrong. It's such a bad feature and I won't be shocked if it gets people hurt (if it hasn't already).

I've been seeing stuff like the Star Wars Disney+ shows being sold on Amazon for years now in the form of DVD sets etc (even before Disney released any themselves).

I'm not sure why anyone would buy those over just subbing for a month but I guess they have their reasons.

Twinklestar posted...

I think Pokemon Ranger would be one of the most impossible thing to port to Switch. It extensively requires the use of stylus on the second screen.

I think you could probably change the symbols to varying difficulty QTEs quite successfully but how fun it would be I don't know. Beats never being able to play the game again, though.

Not convinced AI will ever be in a place where it can carry cohesive season and series long character developments and story-lines.

If it COULD then I'd probably just continue shows that have long since ended, or just have like "lost episodes" of old shows. Really don't think it will ever get there in a way that doesn't involve heavy user input though and I think having to make all the details yourself will kinda prevent you from being able to consume it for entertainment value outside of the novelty.

Unsuprised_Pika posted...

Who we getting from DS9? Sisko? Kira? Odo? Quark? Maybe even Weyoun?

Garak. I could totally buy him having a secret sidequest where he gets into a racing tournament with cartoon characters and then when he gets back to DS9 tells all the other characters exactly that when they ask where he's been but says it in a sarcastic tone so they think he's being coy about where he really was.

Pretty disappointing when these rosters are often missing some cool Sonic characters let alone SEGA in general.

All these guest characters even have their own kart racing game I think, I'm sure I've seen a Nickelodeon Kart racer with them on the art.

It's been a while but Rise of the Argonauts, I'm pretty sure.

Underrated game at the time, not sure how well it holds up nowadays though.

I've seen it be wrong more than a few times now so unless it is actively verified as opposed to generated on demand, it's a useless feature because you really can't trust anything it says.

Consider the Jedi Apprentice novels by Dave Wolverton/Jude Watson. They're meant for a younger demographic but really captured the magic of Star Wars for me.

It's the story of how Obi-Wan becomes Qui-Gon's Padawan and how their dynamic forms, I really enjoyed them and still think about them after all this time. They're pretty quick reads too IIRC.

Batman may very well be overexposed but I genuinely feel like he and his villains have the depth to back it up. A bad Batman story is a failing of the writer and not the character.