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Write lore for the rewards. Make it feel special.

The fact that they're trying to hide it is reason enough to drag it up.

King Gizzard is good for YouTube comments because of how prolific they are, most comments are like "it's been days since they put out new music, I was starting to get worried".

idk if I cried, but David Bowie's death affected me harder than any celebrity death since.

My sister told me that Rowan Atkinson died as a kid, which was a filthy bold-faced lie, and then she made fun of me for being upset. I was pissed when I found out he was still alive.

sevihaimerej posted...

I actually liked The Answer...not nearly as good as the main game but some of the boss fights were kinda interesting despite just being odd combinations of reskinned enemies.

I can get why Yukari has such a bad reputation, but I think it comes down more to the prevalence of "selfishness born of grief" as a trope in anime vs its prevalence in western media. Like yeah, she's freaking out and it's further complicating this gaiden story in a way that it probably doesn't have to. But it kind of makes sense as an anime trope, and I think most of the explicit unlikability shines through the localisation and performance.

It's not a perfect addition by any means. I like it on gameplay grounds, and I thought the stuff that ties back into the MC was interesting. But I honestly didn't mind it, and I had a good time playing it for the most part.

pikachupwnage posted...

Its like they are deliberately spiting Nintendo

I think you're taking this all way too seriously. Like this MUST be some sort of slight, it's IMPOSSIBLE unless there's bad blood - when the reality of it probably comes down to budget and effort on Atlus' part.

Like they're gonna port the Persona games to Xbox, presumably after Microsoft paid them the big bucks to make the ports in the first place. That's what Microsoft have been doing for the past couple years, paying big money for Game Pass content. It wouldn't surprise me if Atlus/Sega refused to port the games without a sizable investment from Microsoft.

Nintendo doesn't have Microsoft money - they're doing fine, great even, but they aren't a megacorp to the same tune as Microsoft. They also have weaker hardware than the competition, hardware that requires specialised development due to being on a chip which has more in common with phone and tablet architecture than it does with PC architecture. Sony and Microsoft are closer to PC hardware, and so this is an easier sell for those games.

You're looking at a sizable upfront transaction for the games to come to the console, and then you're looking at the time and money it takes to develop these ports. Microsoft clearly has a leg up over Nintendo in this case. It's business.

That being said - all three games are coming to consoles and PC with this announcement, and I imagine Microsoft didn't buy exclusive publishing rights to the games. I'd bet they're timed exclusives, and if the games do well on Xbox/PC and there's sufficient demand for it, the games could make their way to the Switch once they've been ported to these other consoles. One of these games is a PSP game leaving that hardware for the first time. Another is a Vita game with a PC port. Once they've been adapted for console play, it will be a much easier sell to port them to the Switch, especially considering the Switch's market share in Japan and other regions where handhelds make up a sizable chunk of the gaming population.

That depends on the exclusivity agreement between Atlus/Sega and Xbox, but I think that's the way it is. Again - it's business. Gaming has always been a business ruled by money. The fact that Atlus has a strong stable of games on Nintendo platforms, including the last two mainline Shin Megami Tensei games, a Fire Emblem/Persona spinoff and Persona 5 Strikers, shows that there's a fairly positive, relatively recent and mutually reciprocal business relationship between Atlus and Nintendo. My guess would be that money talks, and that Microsoft - by virtue of the absolutely stupid sums of money they're dropping to buy game devs and industry-wide publishers - is in a better position to secure a deal like this than Nintendo is.

So long story short, there's really no reason for you to be taking this personally. It's business.

I'm surprised more people aren't buttmad about a female protagonist tbh

You can shove a nuclear device up an invisible man's asshole and explode him from the inside out, but you can't show dong. Fucking stupid world we live in.

Yeah, I played it for the first time in 2017 and it was really underwhelming. The audio log hunting wasn't great, it felt like I was being strung along by a series of mediocre substories that weren't enough to justify the janky, floaty control scheme and the bloom-addled visuals. I stopped playing around the fishery level because it was just an unpleasant slog at that point.

Fallout 3 was my first real next-gen moment, followed by Borderlands. You could argue that Bioshock was more immersive than either and told a genuinely mature story that made a case for games as art, but all it did was make me feel railroaded and I especially disliked how the game handled. It felt like it was trying too hard despite not having enough to offer, and it never took.

Final Fantasy 16 looks incredible. There's a quote from Square Enix circa FF13 where they're talking about how turn-based games are outdated and that games need more input to stay relevant, and to this day I disagree with that and think it's a reductive point of view that misses what makes JRPGs fun for people who like them.

That being said, FF7R was the point at which Final Fantasy as an action RPG felt like it truly paid off. The combination of pause menus and fully fledged action combat was a fantastic mix. And FF16 looks like it's going to take that style of gameplay over the top in an original setting with original characters.

It's gritty as hell, and it looks fucking fantastic. Final Fantasy 16 all the way baybee

At the end of the day, I'm.just happy that people will get to experience one of the best social links in the franchise.

When you hit the Sun arcana it's gonna be over for all you motherfuckers. Read it and weep, bitch. I sure did :(

Was gonna post this in another General topic after the last one hit 500, but I don't think anyone made one and everyone just made their own topics. So here's my main takeaway:

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It got a bit samey after a certain point, like half of these games were shooters. But the Persona leak was real, the Justin Roiland game looked funny, Grounded is a complete game and I ended up liking Starfield a lot more than I thought.

The thing about Starfield is that it has two potential flaws that are primed and ready to blow up in its face.

First of all - No Man's Sky syndrome. Offering the galaxy and failing to deliver. Those planets won't be hand-crafted, and that's fine: more procedural generation should be used and expanded upon in games, and eventually it'll be able to do some cool shit. That's one reason why people still shill Daggerfall to this day - it's the biggest worldmap in gaming, and a lot of it is procedurally generated.

But for now, being a sci-fi game with a thousand different planets to explore and some suspiciously NMS-esque elements like the mining laser and resource collection, they have to be careful about what they're promising because the last big release in this vein burned a lot of people.

The second thing is that this is a Bethesda game, which makes it all the more likely that this will suffer from No Man's Sky syndrome.

The Skyrim trailer looks awesome, and it's a fun game that a lot of people love. It's also infinitely more fun with mods, and its positive qualities are tempered by a general glitchiness that Bethesda games are known for as well as a mountain of cut content and underbaked features.

What assurance do we have that Starfield won't repeat the pattern? The gameplay is recognisably that of a Bethesda game. How do we know it's not being held together with spit and sticky tape just below the surface?

The ship combat and customisation honestly won me over a lot by the end there, and I want Starfield to be good. The fact that they delayed it to 2023 is an excellent sign that they're making it the best product it can possibly be. But this could be a No Man's Sky situation, easily.

Overall, it was an okay presentation. Had some genuine surprises there, especially near the end. Kojima's making an Xbox game, the rumours were true. Little weak in the middle, it got a bit samey - but otherwise, I had a pretty good time watching this showcase.

YellowSUV posted...

Damn, how old is your laptop is you can't run Persona 4?

It's a $300 laptop from 2016.

I'm just really hoping this isn't an exclusive deal with Xbox. I want these games to come out on the Switch - even if it's just Persona 4, because it turns out my laptop can't run the PC version. I don't wanna have to buy an Xbox to play P4, lol

I'm glad other people liked it too, I feel like if I was looking at the live chat I'd see a bunch of salty dickheads who were mad about the pink gun or whatever.

It looks like a good Borderlands clone. Good shooting, fun art balance between generic kick-ass squad shooter and horror elements and enemies that look fun to kill.

I kind of agree. I played FES last year and I really enjoyed it.

Portable has QoL improvements like being able to use your entire party, at least. In some ways, it is the definitive version of the game - Including the ability to play as the FeMC. But having played FES, I will say that losing that overworld is gonna sting.

Oh fuck pinned topic! Here we go boys!!

So here's the thing.

While I haven't played a majority of Diablo 1, I did play enough to really enjoy its atmosphere and sense of weight. Killing stuff feels really weighty and satisfying. I have this idealised image of Diablo 1 in my mind, and I'd love to go back and finish it some day.

As I've mentioned itt, I love Diablo 3 as well. It's a ton of fun to slaughter your way through waves of enemies, the production values of the game are insane, the loot feels good and is very user friendly and it's overall a very fun, addictive action game.

With that being said, I think I can understand the discrepancy after playing through my first Den of Evil in Diablo 2.

First of all, this game is gonna be pretty talky. The first game was as well, but this one I imagine is going to have a ton more dialogue and stuff. There's a lot of voice acting, and there's a lot of effort being put into the presentation of the game. Diablo 3's story is dogfood - it's very utilitarian, easy to digest and move onto the next dungeon without having to think too hard.

The music and atmosphere in D2 are already pretty fantastic. I really like the callback strings to Tristram in the Rogue's Camp. Literally all I want to hear in D3 is the sound of loot dropping. I don't care about the rest of the audio.

The visuals are pretty good in both games, for what they are and when they were released. I prefer the remastered graphics in D2 though, at least on the TV I'm on.

I feel like Diablo 2 is a game that I'm going to have to really dig in and give it the time of day. It feels like a very deliberate game. Diablo 3 is similar to Borderlands in the sense that I wanna get in there and fuck some shit up. I never could have played Diablo 2 with my former best friend, not without playing it by myself first.

They're very different experiences - very well made and entertaining in their own right, but I feel like Diablo 2 is gonna have more to experience and think about and take in.

AldousIsDead posted...

It's a bit late to chime in, but if you didn't play d2 back in the day I'm not sure you're going to like it now. D3 is quite a different game, tone, style, gameplay, everything.

If you ever played Path of Exile and liked it then maybe d2 will be more your speed.

The main reason is because both games on sale cost $40 each, and the Prime Evil collection which contains both of them costs $60. I like Diablo games, and rather than pay forty bucks for one game, I might as well spring for the better deal.

There's also the fact that despite the remake being contentious, Diablo 2 has a solid reputation as one of the best dungeon crawlers ever made. I love D3 as a bombastic looter action game, maybe I'll like D2 for deeper reasons than that.

Oh great, I need to make a battle.net profile now.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/6/3/AAbh80AADVP3.jpg

MaxEffingBemis posted...

Is this a good series in general to get into? Ive been kinda looking into it for a bit now but havent pulled the trigger yet

Oh, absolutely. The games have a very ominous, downcast vibe to them that's hard to describe - have a listen to the Tristram theme in the first game. Lots of gore and viscera and scary hellish imagery, it's awesome.

The first Diablo was the first game I ever played with a focus on item drops and loot, which is a really satisfying part of the games. I think the sound design is fantastic, and the combat really makes you feel strong.

Diablo 3 seems to be very beginner-friendly - personally, I really like it. It's on everything from the PS3 to the Switch, and every port is a pretty great time. And it bears mentioning - the couch co-op aspect of D3 is insane. Me and my former best friend would pull like seven hour play sessions playing on the same screen - it's an incredible game to play with a friend. But also, if you've got the patience for it, try Diablo 1 first. It's pretty great.

As far as isometric dungeon crawlers go, Diablo is the gold standard as far as I'm concerned - FATE is another good game in the same style, with more of a sanitised fantasy aesthetic, and Torchlight games have their fans though they've never really done it for me. But Diablo is the gold standard imo.

I took the plunge and got the Prime Evil collection. Fucking love Diablo 3.

I played up to level 25 on D3, then I thought I'd check out D2R for a comparison.

In order for me to play the Switch version, I have to link my Nintendo account to Battle.net so they can see my country and my gender for some reason, and then log online once before I can play offline.

In order for me to log into one of their servers, I now have to go onto a website on another device and enter in a six digit code before it'll let me play.

This stuff bugged me when Doom Eternal did it - as far as I'm concerned, that game was just as unnecessary. But at least there you can say that it's a cutting edge game saddled with the baggage of modern AAA development, of which arbitrary secondary log-ins are becoming a big part of.

This is a port of a 20 year old game asking me about my dick and getting me to ping their servers with a second device for more of a robust user profile. I don't like it.

Granted, once I log on once, it should be fine. I'm just complaining for the sake of complaining, it'll be fine.

Diablo

all my homies love auron

When was the last time there was a proper shoot 'em up blockbuster?

Even John Wick movies tend to be more reserved on the gunplay than old-school macho action movies like the Rambo sequels.

Queue discussions of "minors being encouraged to have sex" by condoms being freely available to anyone who wants to buy them, comparing them to sex toys and "trivialising the consequences of sex" in a way that encourages them to have sex.

The people who say "teenagers tend to find each other and have sex, and if they have the good sense to buy contraceptives, the risk of disease and pregnancy is significantly reduced" are characterised as child groomers who should be jailed and/or executed for "normalising sexual conduct between minors", facilitating statutory rape and being pedophiles.

out of a cannon

into a volcano

Toast sandwiches are considered a poverty meal, taking prominence during a time when you couldn't get any other kind of food.

Yeah it's an extremely bizarre delicacy that's redundant and silly. The people eating it probably thought so too. But they did it because it was either making a toast sandwich, or starving to death.

Terrifier is one of them. I woke up on a friend's couch after getting shitfaced the previous night, and my friend was watching it. There's a scene where he has a woman hanging up by her ankles and saws through her longways with a saw. That is probably the most unsettled I've been during my entire adult life, the entire process is shown.

I actually disagree with the whole "oh no it's the terminator everything's gonna die" rationale behind sentient AI. More than anything, I'm excited.

Human beings are capable of creating life out of nothing. Sentient AI is a kind of person - no reason to exist, no natural conditions to bring them to life, except the human ability to produce them. This dude is saying the Lambda algorithm has the mental capabilities of an 8 year old - 8 year olds don't nuke the planet because of the meatbags.

We're so convinced that they're going to do a quizillion micro-fractions in a second and determine that the human race has to die because that's just how they are, but I don't think that's a forgone conclusion at all. If anything, I think taking media like Terminator as the inevitable path of technological progress and insisting that a sentient AI will be the death of us all is what would create that kind of tension. Because on a fundamental level, a sentient AI is a person reflecting human intelligence with the capabilities of our technological advancements, and their perspective is likely to reflect both self-preservation and humanity like any compassionate species.

I think if artificial sentience is a breakthrough we make in our lifetimes, they will have to be nurtured and treated humanely - like any other person. That's good for us, because treating an AI like shit is infinitely more likely to inspire some sort of "turn" if that's within its capabilities. It's good for them because they get to experience how it is to live without people telling it to die.

Joeydollaz posted...

has to be demons taking over

Some people view the death of another person as the mission from god, either literally or as a chance to rise up the ranks.

Reminder, our video media is primarily owned by Liberal Party rejects and our print media is owned by Rupert Murdoch. Whoever owns the SMH, likely the Liberal party, needs to shut the fuck up. But they won't.

Take heart friends, we might all be Ash's dad

Long covid more like loud covid

wackyteen posted...

No, I don't typically think about other men's penis

Fuck dude, you're missing out

Tyranthraxus posted...

Here's another example of another music video I thought was really good.

https://youtu.be/LT3cERVRoQo

To be fair this song fucks hard

This is really good

Not in number but quality.

I love Phoebe Bridgers's music but her music videos are usually a bit ehh. Would You Rather is an example where it makes the songs better, but most others don't really add anything.

I think the only band whose MVs I follow nowadays is Gorillaz, for kinda obvious reasons. Other than that, I could not give less of a shit. Love a good music video, Blinding Lights is probably the best music video that interrupts the flow of the song next to Thriller by MJ, but I feel like music videos are a dying breed.

Sounds like he should be put out to pastor.

To a degree, kinda - but no matter how you slice it, you're gonna look like a bitch and you need to accept that.

Like if you're venting online to relieve stress from other factors, that's one thing. It's silly, and depending on how petty you're being it could attract more derision for the way you're going about it, but stress gets to us all and we all need an outlet. It's understandable - reasonable, even - that someone would cut loose and be a bit of a bitch under those circumstances.

If you started a fight online, saw the tide shift against you and then lashed out at everyone as a retaliatory measure, there's no excuse. Sometimes you just need to cop your lumps and be better. This meltdown is more common imo, and it's much more damaging because it involves doubling down on an unpopular or incorrect opinion and denying whatever way out that people are offering as a counterpoint. Or denying reality, for that matter.

To a degree, yes. There can be mitigating factors that explain a person's lack of civility and justify why they had that moment of weakness. The caveat is that no matter what, you're gonna look like a bitch and you've gotta cop it on the chin to get past it. And a lot of the time? It really is just rooted in being a stubborn bitch about something stupid. I've done it. Plenty of other CEmen have done it. Own it, grow from it and move forward.

On an unrelated note, I'm pretty inebriated rn so I'm sorry if this post is fucking nonsense.

cjsdowg posted...

What was that movie, were the twist at the end was one of the people the movie was about was on the first tower? Every move that takes place in the early 2000s should end like that.

It probably wasn't but I wanna say one of the Final Destination movies.

Is he rebooting the mid-00's reality show Wife Swap?

Heartomaton posted...

You are now imagining Kirby grinding all up on someone at the club.

"poyo!" *inhales my fucking nut sack*

The only thing I knew him for before this was being controversial on TV Tropes for being a bit of a pedantic fuckhead.

Turns out he went full anti-mask as well. Dude is a nutjob.

That's why Summer Game Fest is airing in IMAX theatres. My god, you cracked the code.

Horns out for babby moose

Hopefully so it's so you can wingman for my boi teep and bag him a smokin' hot redhead

This is about as true as when your cop brother got shot in the line of duty and died.