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It's probably Microsoft Flight Simulator, but I feel like Hi-Fi Rush is up there, even if it's not exclusive anymore.

Played two hours of Harold Halibut and I think it might be the most bored I've been playing a video game.

The only correct shorthand for Gilgamesh is 'Greg'.

Okay, looks like Mint probably isn't joining VShojo, but is back and is doing a podcast with Matara. Again, unless it's an elaborate April Fool's joke.

So, either Mint Fantme (Pomu) is joining Vshojo or it's one hell of an April Fool's joke by Matara.

foolm0r0n posted...

Then you hear Red say "I know we're on a mission but we just gotta help these chickens" and know it's gonna be a huge waste of time that will sour your memory.

That minigame was the best part of Gongaga.

I played the Stellar Blade demo. Its fun, especially when you have more skills unlocked, but the art direction and design is so bland, I just cant get into it.

I'm playing on Series X and it seems fine. It's not 60, but it's at least pretty consistent.

Fun game. Being an archer is kinda boring, but I'm determined to stick it out to see what the later skills look like. There's also a bunch of weird design choices, especially with the voice direction, but it would be a lot less charming if it was more competent.

I swear to fuck though, if my pawns talk about ladders one more time...

Almost 60 hours in and I just realised you can fix Chocobo Stops without getting off your chocobo...

Sea of Thieves is always my go-to for nice looking water.

Having not finished it yet, I also think Rebirth is better than Remake. Though, it's like a 9.5/10 to a 9/10.

No, that's definitely too extreme.

Man, I keep hearing you guys complain about minigames I haven't got to yet and dreading them and then I get to them and they're all just fine. The chicken clanging one is probably one of the funniest ones yet and the gliding Chocobo one is fun. Even the Moogle herding one, which is probably the worst one, is at least easy.

There was a moogle in Remake, y'know.
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I struggled with some of the hard Fort Condor maps until I realised you just need to wait a little at the beginning to start dispatching units, so that you're fighting them in your half of the map. Also, most of the time, your condors can defend themselves fine, so just focus on one lane and maybe spawn a unit or two to distract them if necessary. I think I did most of them with the offensive-focused team.

Man, Johnny and Kyrie are great, you guys are crazy. Can I also say how much I'm enjoying Elena? She's such a horrible brat everytime she's on screen, she's awesome.

XIII_Rocks posted...

OK, I know it was kind of predictable but Cloud completely shrugging off Yuffie's ridiculous self-introduction with a deadpan "cool" before walking away was fucking hilarious and the best line read in the game so far

This was great, their brother-sister dynamic is hilarious. But the best line read for me so far (chapter 7 spoilers) is when you're climbing Mt. Corel and Aerith is getting light-headed and Red is telling her she's becoming one with the planet and Cloud is just like "The hell are you doin', Red?"

It just reminded me of Ronan getting so confused at the end of Guardian's of the Galaxy that he completely drops character for one line.

MoogleKupo141 posted...

the only percentage I have seen when pressing the PS button is my percentage completion for the story of the chapter

The 'Game Progress' one. Guess I'm halfway now.
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foolm0r0n posted...

Where's the first revival materia? I had to redo the Titan fight like 5 times cuz someone died right at the end and I couldn't do anything

Unless I missed one earlier, I got my first one sometime during Chapter 7.

I'm on Chapter 7 and it says 46%, so I dunno.

Ifrit posted...

I guess what I mostly don't get is why sometimes a card won't open a new space next to it, and sometimes it will.

Each card has a grid on it with coloured squares which indicate which squares it will affect. The white square is where you place it, the yellowish squares are which squares will convert to your (green) pins where possible in relation to where you place it (the white square). There are also red squares which indicate the card has a special ability (normally buffing or debuffing cards in those spaces).

Coming up on 28 hours so far, just finished the first part of Corel, been doing all the side content as I go. The sit-up minigame is indeed the hardest and most frustrating so far, but you can make Tifa wear her swimsuit during it, so it's fine.

Not at all surprised, as they've been circling the drain for a while now. What was surprising though was finding out that they haven't been profitable for the last decade. Like, I knew they must be bleeding money, but I didn't realise they had been doing it for that long.

Funhaus was the only RT thing I still watched, which, while it wasn't as good as it used to be, was still pretty solid, so sad to see them go, at least.

Yeah, most fights just aren't long enough to trigger it. I think the Auto-Unique Ability Materia you get from Chadley helps though.

Just started the protorelic quest in the second open world area. Game of the Year confirmed.

Played the first two hours of Queen's Blood. Got a couple of booster packs, ranked up, starting to get a hang of things. The story side content is kinda distracting though.

MoogleKupo141 posted...

original ffvii question about Nibelheim:

No, Tifa knows, she's just afraid that there's something wrong with him and is keeping quiet because she wants things to go back to how they were. Also, everything he's saying is technically what happened, just with the wrong person.

Dragon's Dogma 2 and Princess Peach, though will probably get Peach later.

Kinda wanna get the new Alone in the Dark too, but I can't help but feel it's gonna be terrible, so will probably hold off on that one.

WazzupGenius00 posted...

Oh also she was trying to sue some random online commenters for slander but a judge shot that case down

My favourite part of this is that the judge agreed with the posters calling her creepy.

WhiteLens posted...

Looks like Nazuna is back to streaming.

I did wonder if she'd start using this account again. Every news article mentioned Rushia and Mikeneko, but I didn't see Nazuna mentioned once, so I guess it's a bit more under the radar.

I got a 55" LG C3 during the last Black Friday. I use it both for gaming and watching on-demand stuff. I don't really know how it compares to other OLED TVs, but I do know that an OLED screen is certainly pretty to look at. Lots of nice sharp edges and no pixel bleed. Unfortunately, it does mean that watching older stuff can look a little blurry, even in HD, although I guess that's more due to the size of the screen. It does have an AI upscaler to make low resolution video look a little better, but I didn't like how it looked. It also has a function that can increase the framerate of stuff, but again, mixed. When I was looking at reviews, I heard people complaining about the sound and recommended getting a soundbar, which I did, but honestly it's fine without it, unless you're an audiophile, I guess.

Raka_Putra posted...

...is this the first gacha > non gacha game adaptation that's not due to an End of Service?

This isn't even Granblue's first non gacha game, they've had two fighting games in a the same universe too.

ctesjbuvf posted...

Is both Mario Kart and Animal Crossing not ahead of Smash?

Oh, you're right, third best. It's listed as Wii U first, so I ignored it, but only 8.4 million of its 65.4 million sold are on Wii U.

I mean, Switch 2 should be backwards compatible really, but also Smash Ultimate was the 19th best selling game of all time and second best on Switch, so I could see them going the enhanced port route just to sell it again.

No one has an emotional investment in any of the gyms their first time through. The point is you set off in a random direction and just stumble upon things randomly and do them as you go. Which would work if they had scaled it properly, but instead you go from the Grass Gym's lvl 16-17 Pokemon to Mela's lvl 26-27 Pokemon who are right next door to each other with zero indication of where the next 'expected' thing you're supposed to do is.

Yeah, I liked how the gym challenge in Sw/Sh was this big event that happened once a year or so and that gym leaders had leagues (though, the fact we never saw anything from the minor league makes me think that was another thing that was unfinished).

And yeah, SV being open-world but not scaling based on the number of things you've done was dumb because the 'suggested' order was completely non-sensical and expected you to zig-zag across the map if you wanted to do them in order, which no one not using a guide did, so you'd find stuff you were supposed to do hours earlier and it'd be completely forgettable because you'd stomp through it.

I liked Sw/Sh but it wasn't great. I liked the cast and some of the Pokemon designs and music, but the story was whatever and they clearly didn't have time to finish all of it. The wild area was also poorly implemented and Gigantamaxing/Dynamaxing just wasn't as novel as Mega Evolutions. Raid battles were a good idea poorly implemented and the DLC was promising, had they built on it for the next game.

Still better than S/V though.