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saspa posted...

They do? You're not counting the 1998 godzilla zilla movie are you? Only time I remember humans beat

Nope, not counting that one. There are a number of examples I can choose from, with the most obvious of course being the Oxygen Destroyer in the original film. Then there's Mechagodzilla. Every instance of Mechagodzilla except the first one is human-made, and as a whole, Mechagodzilla tends to be Godzilla's toughest kaiju opponent.

And usually in movies where Godzilla is the only monster (and thus the clear-cut villain), he usually does end up defeated or "killed" by some kind of crazy tactic or experimental weapon. It's just almost always a pyrrhic victory after all the destruction he causes.

I will say I like that the hunter was given a voice this time. I also kept the Palico voice on and found it to be more amusing than I expected it to be.

It's not something I would do, but it's fine for people to ask. I work in a grocery store, and although I don't work on the floor anymore, I still sometimes get asked to look. I try to give it a honest effort, but if it's something that I know is on a pallet that isn't broken down yet, there's not much that can be done.

I think there's a lot of cool cutscenes, but no doubt the story does slow everything down. I was still satisfied with it, but I can see why many others wouldn't be.

Humans have a better track record of beating Godzilla than every other monster he's fought combined, so I don't think the ant comparison is really apt.

Godzilla's view of humanity varies movie to movie, but I don't think he ever sees them as truly insignificant.

Monster Hunter Wilds and Deep Rock Galactic

The Hunter would be fine on Hoxxes. I think the Dwarves' firepower would be enough to take out almost all large monsters without too much issue. Engineer especially I think obliterates pretty much everything no problem.

anttttt posted...

air ride always kinda whelmed me. basically only city trial is any good and it has a fair bit of problems (most events suck, not a varied enough environment to play in)

the foundation of city trial is really good though, so it'd be nice to see the idea expanded upon

I'm glad Sakurai is in charge because he does seem to generally have his finger on the pulse of the players, as evidenced by all his work with Super Smash Bros. I would hope he knows just how much players liked City Trial and that they'll expand on it like you said.

I still liked regular Air Ride mode, and I do think that will return too. But in addition to that and City Trial or its equivalent, I'm interested in seeing what new ideas they'll have as well.

DrizztLink posted...

The main problem with 2 I remember was making it so a single death in co-op meant a full reload instead of a respawn.

It's fine as a Skull option, but I hated it being mandatory.

"I stick you with a plasma, you charge, I pull back and spawn you" was one of my buddy and mine's best moves.

Well, only moves, we aren't talented people.

That's only on Legendary, and if you're playing Halo 2 on Legendary you're doing it for a major challenge.

Halo: CE is one of my favorite games of all time. Ultimately, I do like 2 and 3 more, but the first game was one of the defining games of my childhood. And it's still very fun to play now.

Might be obvious, but even just going back to the most famous power-up, there are some reasons you may want to remain small Mario instead of getting the Mushroom. There are a bunch of levels in Mario Maker even designed around purposefully avoiding them.

They will almost definitely lose at least once game against the Phillies.

There's no way it can be that bad when shit like Lavasioth, Kirin, and World Kushala exist. I'm sure older games have even worse than those.

I just beat the low rank one last night and it was a pretty good fight. I can't see how it could get significantly worse.

Will_VIIII posted...

I still don't understand the price complaints. It's cheaper than the base PS5 (with a disc Drive) or the series X.

I could see an argument that they could have offered a digital only version but that draws the ire of a different crowd.

The price for the console itself is manageable. The price for everything else is absurd though. $80 games is crazy.

pinky0926 posted...

Makes me think there's no real development and they just wanted a low commitment way of adding some fluff to the reel

Yeah but they've done a million directs without showing off Silksong at this point. They could have easily not done so again and it wouldn't have really mattered, so I do think the 2025 is real. Team Cherry probably just didn't give Nintendo much to show off because they either want to do it themselves or not at all.

Yankees game was bizarre. Five errors, but a million home runs to make up for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkVwuWH-woA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoWvd8FiVfM

A bunch of home runs in the Yankees game already.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Why in the name of God would you hope for that

You mean you don't want a Man Fan movie?

saspa posted...

Porco rosso was a fun movie but I didn't really get the anthropomorphic pig gimmick at all, if anyone can shed light on that one. Like, a movie about a fighter pilot or plane delivery dude was fun enough as is, like an anime talespin. Did the pig gimmick add anything to the movie?

Him being a pig made the movie. It made Porco stand out as a character both stylistically and as far as his characterization goes. I honestly forget the details of his curse if the movie ever really even addressed it, but you could always just view it as a metaphor for his PTSD and lamentation for all the fellow pilots that he lost in WWI.

But most importantly, you wouldn't have the "Better a pig than a fascist" line.

Rise had some challenging bits in the title updates. World has Lunastra, Behemoth, and the Leshens, which are significantly tougher than anything else prior to that. So most likely Wilds will have some more challenging monsters in its title updates. I've seen many comment that Mizutsune should borrow moves from Violet Mizutsune, and I think that's not a bad idea.

Still, the extremely fast hunt times sounds rather alarming to me.

Built a new PC and I'm installing Wilds now. Just in time for TU1 I guess.

I have Origin because I wanted to try out Battlefront 2. Didn't play much of it, and apparently Origin is now defunct or will be soon.

Yeah it was lame. Predator, Predator 2, and Prey are all significantly better than it. Like you said, it was just really generic and ultimately pretty forgettable. Hell, even The Predator is a more memorable movie, and that's the worst in the franchise by a mile.

SauI_Goodman posted...

You can challenge calls now? Great cant wait for baseball to take another hour...

They won't be able to challenge balls and strikes in the regular season. They're just testing it right now in spring training. There's been a challenge system for other calls in place for a while now. But as already stated, the time of game has been significantly shortened with a lot of the more recent rule changes and additions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AelKQENqJwU

Cool Pokemon themed introductions. Must be awesome to go to a baseball game in Japan.

Dodgers beat the Cubs 4-1 by the way.

I have not watched it yet, but I just don't understand why they couldn't do a relatively straight adaptation of A Wizard of Earthsea.

I read all the books last year and loved them.

Puglia77 posted...

Pekora was too underleveled and almost lost her Nuzlocke to Flannery. How did Marshtomp lose to Torkoal lol. And how was Skarmory the only one to survive Torkoal??

Sun boosted Overheat is so dangerous. Flannery's gym battle to this day is still one of the most well-designed gym battles they've ever made just because of that. It can be very easy if you prepare for it, or the result can be what happened to Pekora. She seemed to realize too late that Water moves are neutered under the sun. And being relatively underleveled certainly didn't help.

Yup, one of the best comedic movies ever made.

I don't listen to a ton of music, but I've always thought The Beatles were pretty enjoyable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJVBdxVmst4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Feeney

Chuck Feeney actually did manage to give away the majority of his money. Not something I can really see any other billionaire being able to accomplish.

I enjoyed it. I want to see some more classic Godzilla kaiju get the Legendary treatment though. Give me Gigan already.

Cherche is the best.

I preferred the book by quite a bit, but I enjoyed that the film Doctor Sleep was a sequel to Kubrick's The Shining and not King's novel. Made for a different experience at the very least. And that's what makes The Shining so good too. The film is a poor adaptation of the book, but it's incredible in its own right. The book is my favorite of all King's works that I've read.

CastletonSnob1 posted...

It's been a LONG time (as in, almost 20 years since I played Gen 2). Is Ethan one of the default names?

It is in HGSS at least. I actually may have been slightly wrong. He might have only become Ethan after HGSS's release. I just saw a screenshot of the Gold manual referring to him as Gold. So technically the same character in both originals and remakes, but you can probably consider either name to be the "canon" one if you wanted.

CastletonSnob1 posted...

Ethan is what Gold is called in the anime, right?

No, Ethan is the name of the character in the games. He is only Gold in the manga.

Damn, would have been nice to get one.

I actually managed to order one this morning only for Newegg to cancel the order immediately after due to insufficient stock.

I think books are, but for me I have a lot of trouble getting motivated to start books. Once I start a book though, I'm very engaged.

Bringing back limited time event quests is stupid as fuck considering Rise made them permanent as soon as you downloaded them.

Trumble posted...

Thats still a top tier card. They are ridiculously priced at that tier. The 7800 XT is like half the price and unless youre running AI models on it you probably arent going to notice the difference outside of benchmarks. (And its still overkill, but the price difference between it and the next step down is small enough that its still the one Id get.)

Yeah I'll have to see what to pivot to I guess. MH Wilds having dogshit performance for the visual quality of the game seems to be a problem with a lot of otherwise decent GPUs unfortunately. My first time around building a PC was 7 years ago, and I went for a pretty mid build then. The PC still served all my needs well, but I'd like to get something much nicer this time around if I can.

PurestProdigy posted...

Still in Low Rank. The story is not nearly good enough to justify how intrusive it is. JRPGs are my favorite genre. I can sit back and let cutscenes play out if they are entertaining and I'm immersed. Definitely not the case here. I'm also a World sperm and miss the hell out of Clutch Claw and Wirebug.

Wirebug was awesome, but I'm so glad the clutch claw is gone.

Just cousins, though they like to call me uncle. I find that pretty amusing.

s0nicfan posted...

Update: looks like that MH Wilds AMD bundle sale on newegg goes through until end of April, so I can afford to sit it out a week or so and see what happens with the new cards.

I'm getting eager to play MH Wilds myself. Just gotta wait and see what happens with the GPU and then I can start buying the rest of the parts I need. Hopefully Capcom will find some way to fix the game's performance issues too by the time I get my new PC ready to go.

I'm hoping to be able to get one of the new cards on Thursday. Everything else is way too expensive. 7900x and XTX are the currently available cards that are most interesting to me, but their stock generally seems bad and the prices are astronomical.

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Really does seem like the most cursed political office in America.

Cocytus posted...

RTS?

Yeah. BFME 2 is also supposed to be great, though I didn't play that one. Both are currently considered abandonware I guess, and there's a pretty easy method of still playing them.

Battle for Middle-earth by a mile for me.

I loved the "we're gonna vote you out".

No you're not. This country is a joke.

Anony1125 posted...

dang, you struggled that hard with Pink Rathian but had no trouble with Azure Rathalos?
I hated Azure Rathalos, that thing was my bane in HR

Sounds like TC's struggles with Pink Rathian were more in the past. I do think people tend to struggle with her more though, probably because it's a required quest and Azure Rathalos is not. But also, it's not obvious that Herbal Medicine is significantly better to use than Antidotes for monsters that inflict poison. There's another poison-inflicting monster in Iceborne that I see a lot of players having a tough time with, and I always assume it's because they don't know how good Herbal Medicine is.

I don't mind a corny and stupid story, but I heard this game's story is very restrictive. That's not good for a game where the story should be a secondary thing.

I'll have to see for myself in a month hopefully. Can't play the game just yet.

Only spent money at the grocery store I work at.

Man JD Vance is very quickly gunning toward being the most worthless, spineless piece of human garbage in our government. Dude's almost as annoying as Elon.