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solosnake posted...

and Starfield

He specifically said JRPG. That's barely even a Western RPG.

_____Cait posted...

SMT is ok, but i should have specified, hi-scifi. Like Star Trek. Not so much like Cyberpunk.

Yeah Star Ocean, Xeno, and Phantasy Star are pretty much it for that category. And some indie games, like Cosmic Star Heroine.

Oh yeah the Battle Network and Digimon Cybersleuth games are also cyberpunk.

For a Western indie game styled like a JRPG you have Cosmic Star Heroine.

Oh and Baroque for weird ass creepy cyberpunk.

Does cyberpunk count? Almost every Megami Tensei game.

X8Azazel8X posted...

I missed it then you happen to know the name it would make it easier to find if its still up on the site.

https://www.nhk.or.jp/minplus/0121/topic085.html

That was the interview but I can't find it on NHK Plus.

https://www.nhk.or.jp/gendai/articles/4899/

There too.

X8Azazel8X posted...

Its still strange to me i dont see more protests against the ai being used to name targets, find them, decide the acceptable casualties, and executing them in what is basically genocide. They are training ai to do this in war now and that isnt really brought up as an issue anywhere.

NHK had an hour long special on exactly that. But in Japanese and also Japan is one of the most anti-Israel countries outside the Middle East, so yeah, you probably won't see much about it on English language TV.

Motown was literally manufactured for white consumption.

radical_rhino posted...

get rid of save ribbons

Limited saves is a good mechanic if you want to build tension. Part of what makes the original game work is all the limited resources. You are always managing your resources and that includes saves. By limiting saves you get the type of consequences for dying that causes fear. Similar to what Dark Souls mantes to do without actually being a horror game. Nothing makes an enemy scarier than knowing if you die there will be consequences. If you just reload from the last checkpoint right before the enemy appeared it's not really scary.

REmake is my favorite in the series by far. It makes me sad that we can't have games in that style anymore. 3rd person action games just aren't scary.

Technically the entire board game genre of dungeon crawlers is a simulation of D&D dungeons or more appropriately D&D is an expanded version of a dungeon crawl. Dungeon (the original dungeon crawler board game) and D&D were developed at the same time and share a lot of elements, but Dungeon has no real story telling and is much simpler. Personally I really enjoy the Shadows of Brimstone series of Dungeon Crawler board games, but there are tons of them. Technically even Mansions of Madness is a dungeon crawl board game, but it had a lot more story elements to it. Kind of related is the card game Arkham Horror which has a lot of choices and story along with exploration elements. It's a pretty unique card game.

And Descent (mentioned earlier), at least in the second edition, is a very great dungeon crawler board game.

If you wanted to level Gaza it could be done using conventional bombs. Even if you want to genocide everyone because you're a sociopath, you wouldn't want to use a nuclear weapon right next to your own country for obvious reasons. They're both evil and stupid. And somehow that gets them 50% of the vote.

Also I just want to point out after Wizards has had controversy with use of both plagiarized and AI art there are some cards in this set that if they aren't AI generated, might as well be. The standards there are just so bad now.

I mean look at that hand on Miku, Lost but Singing. If that isn't AI generated than someone should have said something, because a hand can't look like that.

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Honestly at this point if it's a popular franchise it probably had a crossover. D&D and LotR had entire sets with mechanics. 40k was like some commander decks as was Walking Dead. A lot of stuff is just variant art like Miku here and Godzilla. There's a bunch of others.

The worst part is I am pretty sure free text to voice software could do a better job and names are literally the hardest things for software like that to get right.

Can you just give us an example of a game with what you consider shitty design so we can understand? A lot of people have different ideas on what is or isn't shitty design and the description here is vague which is why people are asking for examples.

What's a game that requires perfect play? Like as an example of an actual game. Is it games with one hit kills? I would only argue those require perfect play if you have like pixel perfect jumps, dodges, etc. Celeste had some really tough jumps, can't remember if they were pixel perfect, but it also had extensive difficulty modifying options. Can't really think of any other super hard one hit kill games right now.

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Isn't that exactly who FOX News talking points fool?

Watching Americans try to destroy their own country while actively embracing propaganda designed to get them to do that is certainly something. If I lived there I would probably be upset a lot for sure.

DoGCyN posted...

Is the way they're saying "Understood" or "I understand" one of these things? I thought it was "Wakarimashita" but I keep hearing something different whenever our british friend says it and when he was taught to say it. Same with the Gozaimasu honorific (Is that considered an honorific?).

Wondering if these are just a different modern way of saying it, or one of these "old-timey" ways that has been described. Or something else.

Not really. Things like , and are still used in modern Japanese, just not as often. The biggest one would be the negatives ending in instead of (there was no nn sound in Japanese, it entered to transcribe Chinese loanwords, over time some Japanese words that had n sounds like also started being pronounced as , but it's way more extensive than what these types of shows have where it's only done on negative verbs).

Kamil posted...

I don't need another game at the moment, but I probably eyed that one up at least several times. Undernauts was really good just the tension of that drpg was undercut by so many QoL features. I don't need a super complicated game like those Galleria games seem to be, but I want some fear if the situation is literally trapped in an underground mine, can't get out.

I really think Sword City is the game for you. Wait for a Steam sale.

Don't worry he directed Venom: Let there be Carnage. So clearly in good hands. /s

Kamil posted...

I wanted to try that SoSC game, but all the Steam reviews say don't buy it on Steam because it's a bad port. And there was a remade version too that comes with a old game they made.

Yep. Get that one here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1363840/_/

I actually like both of them, but absolutely Sword City is better.

Oh and all of them are technically in the same universe (Wings, Sword City, and Undernauts).

Kamil posted...

Undernauts: Labyrinth of Yomi

I think they wanted to go more accessible with that one. Their stuff in general went from stupid hard to reasonable. I think Stranger of Sword City is probably a great choice if you are looking for a dark Experience DRPG that is quite challenging (assuming you play it on Hard of course).

Aren't there people on here who said they plan to vote for him?

SilvosForever posted...

I'd say 30% of his voting base just want to be agents of chaos like that and make as many people suffer as they can because they hate their own lot in life and want everyone to be as miserable as they are.

I think it's an extremely small percent, way less than 30%. You can see the demographics who voted for him last election from exit polls and it's pretty clear what groups he is appealing to and why.

Also you have a lot of subs that are rendered useless due to low effort meme posts, literally a picture of a thing they bought, and pretending to discover some hidden gem that everyone knows and loves.

WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...

Man Fan

Bro. That's CE's UNESCO certified Intangible Cultural Heritage.

DavidZ2844 posted...

I think the biggest thing about Reddit that drives me nuts are the super cringy one liners and their chain of annoying one liner responses that usually follow. Just the absolute unfunniest cheesy shit youll ever read in your life, that gets upvoted like crazy because people think they are so clever and witty.

It's literally the same shit over and over too. Like somehow every time hundreds of people are seeing it for the first time?

Reddit unfortunately encourages echo chambers. There are very few neutral subs and they're all smaller. And it isn't just news or politics, literally a gaming sub will have certain group opinions you either share and get a bunch of upvotes or get mass downvoted for having.

The voting system is theoretically supposed to be quality of the post and not I agree/disagree. But in practice it's just the latter. I used to try to help people on the Learn Japanese subreddit, but a lot of fluent speakers would get downvoted for sharing objective stuff by people who literally studied for like a week (Dunning Kruger effect). Just not a good system unfortunately.

It's also one of the most botted sites on the internet. Fake accounts, upvote manipulation, tons of it. Moderation is also completely up to a given sub and can be completely unhinged or just automated by bots.

He is extremely consistent in quality. He also hasn't turned into an old man who bitches about his problems with modern society.

Actually I listened to some of the stuff you posted, and it wasn't all bad. The vinyl obsession though was straight hipster.

BrohammedAli posted...

I know we're all cringe as fuck in our early 20s but I was absolutely just dialing in on every mid-00s hipster dude stereotype.

Bands you've never heard of.

Tyranthraxus posted...

It's fucking stupid that you have to pay extra to play the games you already own because of nanny government.

Nanny government? You think they're doing this out of some kind of misguided paternalism? Everything is done for the benefit of the government. It has nothing to do with protecting people from dangerous games or anything. The only danger they care about is danger to the government.

ForsakenHermit posted...

Are there any legal penalties for using one there?

It's illegal in China and yet the only times you ever hear of anyone getting in trouble for it is when the government was upset by their behavior. I think as long as they aren't criticizing Vietnam online the government won't care.

I think it's weird she somehow missed the way dog culture in the US evolved. I grew up in an area where people killing dogs because they felt like it wasn't really rare. But even there I noticed that things started shifting a lot. When I lived in Seattle I really saw the fill extent of dog culture and how people treated them just like kids. I am honestly surprised no one told her "hey this just isn't going to go over well in today's society".

Even if they open locally it will probably be a wasteland with no games so you need to do what Chinese people do and just use a VPN and access the international version of Steam (they do the same thing with the Switch too). Tons of friends in China playing on international Steam using VPN. Easy to do.

MEGAsoldier posted...

I feel like grimdark JRPG is a niche in a weird spot. JRPG folk tend to lean towards the more animu games (why Persona got so popular) and people that play grimdark games don't really play JRPGs.

Shin Megami Tensei is more of a DRPG and those tend to be dark even in Japan. I would say it's only recently they started making a lot of Japanese DRPGs that aren't dark, probably due to the success of Etrian Odyssey.

Grey is much better. No doubt. Some stuff is atrocious though. Like programme. Or manoeuvre.

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I was into JRPGs in the late 80s and early 90s. I knew DQV existed in Japan because my cousin was there (and informed me Dragon Warrior was called Dragon Quest there). He got me a copy of it and he didn't really play games and I didn't really understand that this game would be in Japanese (and also not fit in my SNES). Thankfully I figured out how to mod my SNES (aka take some pliers and rip off those hinges), but unfortunately the game was entirely in Japanese. However it was only kana and I using a dictionary managed to get the menus figured out. I was basically ignoring dialogue and just running around doing stuff. Learned some basic words, other people online playing helped form early guides (some of them are still on this site). Eventually got Dragon Quest VI as well. I had been reading the dictionary just learning words but still not understanding grammar really, but eventually got a grammar book that helped a lot. Then I wanted to look into other Japan only RPGs and SMT was recommended a lot. That was a massive undertaking as it has kanji (unlike DQ) and a lot of complex words (but English menus lol). I had an N64 and not a PS1, so I basically missed that generation, but I bought a PS2 with money from my first job and modded it by removing the front (it's like a disc swap technique) to play imports. After that I started basically only playing Japanese games outside computer games.

Beveren_Rabbit posted...

Realism in videogames is boring and annoying.

What if guns jammed? What if you could not reload while moving? what if reload times aren't always consistent? What if you dropped your mag? what if you could not do a tactical reload

But STALKER is like my favorite FPS ever. Even better with the Misery mod.