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| Topic | So I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond |
| KanzarisKelshen 03/21/24 1:17:23 PM #109 | Also, one last fun tidbit: do you like Isaac Asimov? Because Shinjuku is based on one of his works. Every EoR is built out of a crossover between two literary properties with a secret third property forming the hidden core of the story. It's an insanely cool concept and they do a lot with it.
--- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | So I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond |
| KanzarisKelshen 03/21/24 1:13:18 PM #107 | Relatedly if anyone hasn't seen her animation update yet go check it out, it's phenomenal, the wait for it to arrive to NA is gonna be painful
--- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | So I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond |
| KanzarisKelshen 03/21/24 1:11:31 PM #106 | ExThaNemesis posted...
I get the Jalter hype now. She's the og best girl to the point she got a special set of cgs just this week in fgo jp Truly top tier --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | What's the best eports game to watch? |
| KanzarisKelshen 03/18/24 8:32:03 PM #24 | #1 is Starcraft 1 and it's not even a little bit close. Partly because the game might legitimately be the best esport of all time, but also because it has the best casters with like, decades of synergy together and they know how to make even a total newbie grasp how the game functions.
#2 onwards is trickier. I kinda wanna say either Marvel 2 or a King of Fighters entry? Both are absolute hype machines and always get massive reactions from any crowd, and they're on exact opposite ends of the 'wtf is going on' spectrum -- Marvel 2 is such a mad scramble that the sheer insanity takes over, KoF is so clear about what's going on that you can track it easily even if you don't know a single thing about it. --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | Does anyone here like Undertake? |
| KanzarisKelshen 03/17/24 2:35:23 PM #41 | BakusaiTenketsu posted...
I will finish it, so maybe I will "get it," at the end, lol. You're a little kid who's in an unfamiliar place. What do you think your children would do if they ended up far, far away from home? --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | Does anyone here like Undertake? |
| KanzarisKelshen 03/17/24 2:18:39 AM #12 | Nor people who put focus into gameplay over narrative, since it's such a mechanically simple game I couldn't disagree with this more strongly Undertale is a ludic masterpiece. It's one of its strongest aspects, in fact -- the intermixing of gameplay and story is what makes it such a memorable experience and without it it'd land a lot less hard. There's a reason tons of 'boss fight' mods exist for it too, like for example Undertale RED. It holds your hand a lot early on and if you stay on the 'correct' path, but the deeper into it you go the less true this is. That one fight (you know which) made like ten hours of my life vanish in a flash and I can't say that a game that did that has weak gameplay. --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | Does anyone here like Undertake? |
| KanzarisKelshen 03/17/24 2:11:42 AM #10 | She talks about how good the story is, but I haven't really seen much in regards to story as of yet (just got to a snow town). All I know is I'm some kind of kid that fell into a hole and wants to go home or something, lol. Out of curiosity, you wouldn't call, say, exploring Toriel's house story? Like, finding out what kind of person she is, what her hobbies are, why she's so nice to you and so on? To me, that's what Undertale's story is about. It's in taking time to stop, explore your environs, and learn about everyone around you. This includes your 'enemies' in the random encounters, by the way. --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | Next time LMS makes a topic |
| KanzarisKelshen 03/16/24 7:05:09 PM #49 | XIII_Rocks posted...
Or maybe people should stop telling him to shut up? It is clearly not actually going to make him shut up. It hasn't until now. Making those posts is not some selfless thing about helping LMS, it's a selfish release of frustration. This is a bad take Telling people their actions are unwanted is how you get them to stop (or, well, you punch the daylights out of them if they don't take the hint/escalate legally/whatever else is the next step from 'stop'). If gamefaqs modding policy was sensible there would be a 'report for inappropriate content' option and we'd just use that en masse, but we don't have that so telling him 'you're stupid, shut up' is what we got. --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | So I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond |
| KanzarisKelshen 03/16/24 1:07:34 PM #58 | ExThaNemesis posted...
I used one of you guys' King Hassan against the Demon God Amon, and I hit the finish blow with Azrael Fun fact: this was originally a bug. They fixed it and the fanbase complained so extremely loudly that they readded the bug back in SPECIFICALLY for King Hassan just so he could get the swaggiest possible finish for his NP. --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | Playing Hades, quick strategy-question. |
| KanzarisKelshen 03/14/24 1:12:24 AM #11 | Biggest prio is getting bloods imo. Put them into the spear to unlock some important stuff. After that, try to evenly clear with every weapon while upgrading your fave.
--- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | So I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond |
| KanzarisKelshen 03/11/24 5:18:34 PM #42 | ExThaNemesis posted...
The one who spoke kindly to Kingu in the jungle --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | What four games are on the Mario Games Mount Rushmore? |
| KanzarisKelshen 03/11/24 1:35:00 PM #244 | it might be Mario Party -- huge series of its own, plus other party games like Fusion Frenzy and Fall Guys fit this vein from after the original Party-trilogy. Did these kinds of multiplayer minigame-collections exist much before 1999? Even other Nintendo variations like Remix and WarioWare. This is actually a really good question and I have no answer to it. Mario Party 1 might honestly be the game that proved 'hey, minigames!' was a real gaming genre. If so, it would be the really obvious inclusion for the fourth slot, but I'm not sure the genre wasn't established before it. Likewise, SMRPG is credited as 'the first RPG that actually sold in the west' but the existence of Final Fantasy 4 (and 1, even) makes me wonder if that was actually true. Mario history is gaming history to such a degree that I would kill for a gaming historian's takes on this, actually. --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | So I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond |
| KanzarisKelshen 03/11/24 1:27:54 PM #40 | ExThaNemesis posted...
Those creepy Lahmus assimilated Siduri didn't they :( What makes you think they did? --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | Tom Cruise and Bruce Willis are responsible for the sequel trilogy |
| KanzarisKelshen 03/11/24 5:17:33 AM #18 | LinkMarioSamus posted...
It just kind of feels like the trilogy owes at least as much to other sci-fi and action movies of the '80s and '90s as it does to the previous six movies if not more. Doesn't help that Abrams directed Super 8 (a bigtime homage to Spielberg's past work) and that the screenwriter of Raiders of the Lost Ark has a co-writing credit on The Force Awakens (when his only previous brush with Star Wars was a screenplay credit on Empire Strikes Back). Can you like, name a specific work that influences the sequel trilogy's feel at all Because I frankly don't agree with this. I can't recall a single non-arthouse 80s or 90s movie (and I would bet all the money in the world that arthouse anything did not enter the discussion for it) that does the 'spend 30 minutes following people with no names whom you know little about' thing that The Force Awakens does, for example. I feel this is more having a pet hypothesis and wanting to force it than something substantiated. Open to being convinced with examples tho. --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | What four games are on the Mario Games Mount Rushmore? |
| KanzarisKelshen 03/11/24 3:28:14 AM #213 | Yeah I feel like 'why didn't you ask for a port' doesn't apply when a successor game exists and is recent
Or in this case, multiple ones! --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | What four games are on the Mario Games Mount Rushmore? |
| KanzarisKelshen 03/10/24 10:03:36 PM #200 | Leonhart4 posted...
We didn't say FF was dead during the wait for FFXV The franchise was absolutely buried until 7R dropped tho, as a referential entity in the RPG world. It wasn't dead in terms of new games (a better comparison here would be megaman, tbqh), but it was completely destroyed critically by the one-two punch of FF13 and FF15 until XIV Shadowbringers and 7R dropped to prove that Final Fantasy had found its groove again. Anyway, I'm convinced. Restating my previous two picks with the new ones for clarity... SMB1 SMB64 New Super Mario Bros Wii Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Feels right I think. --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | Tom Cruise and Bruce Willis are responsible for the sequel trilogy |
| KanzarisKelshen 03/10/24 6:35:02 PM #15 | LinkMarioSamus posted...
I genuinely think the sequel trilogy amounts to more of how '80s or '90s Hollywood would have followed up the original trilogy. And by Hollywood I mean not George Lucas. What does this mean? --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | What four games are on the Mario Games Mount Rushmore? |
| KanzarisKelshen 03/10/24 6:09:42 PM #176 | SMB1
SM64 First two are easy. Last two, not so much. SMB1 saved gaming, and it should really be an unanimous inclusion as a simple measure of respect for the most important game of all time. SM64 changed gaming, and while it's ok if not everyone has it in their lists, it just makes sense in the same way the first iconic coloured film should prolly be on a movies Rushmore. After that it gets difficult. SMB3 was huge, SMW was huge, but like...all Mario games are huge. The two SMB2 combined sold over 10 million copies without ever being pack-in games (which unambiguously helped SMB3 sell 18m). Sales, I think, are not enough when evaluating which Marios deserve to get the nod over others. I feel like, more than any other videogame series, Mario games have to be evaluated by their impact on other games, and not just their own franchise. Given that, I kinda lean away from SMB3 and SMW. Can anyone say that they really changed the course of platformers in a way SMB1 didn't? So the question is...what Mario games had the most outsized impact? My gut says there should be one rep for 'casual' or 'party' gaming, which means either a Mario Kart or a Mario Party game, but the last slot is difficult to settle on. What do you guys think is the third most game-changing Mario game after 1 and 64? --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | So I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond |
| KanzarisKelshen 03/09/24 5:01:34 PM #33 | Also, if you like Quetzalcoatl, good news: she's getting a ten times cooler version near year end/start of next year, so you have time to prep for her.
Bad news: she features in Lostbelt 7, gotta catch up to see her do her thing --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | So I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond |
| KanzarisKelshen 03/09/24 4:59:54 PM #32 | ExThaNemesis posted...
TFW I saw Gorgon's health bar lmao Fun fact: I am indirectly responsible for, IIRC, the only video'd kill (like, actual kill) of this boss back when it was current and all we had was Waver and a dream. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWo1I0mHkpE Lowkey one of my favorite FGO things I ever did was help set this up. Also: STRONG recommendation for reading FGO Turas Realta. It's one of the two Arc 1 manga adaptations (it's the one featuring male Fujimaru) and unlike the other one which entered dev hell, it has kept going at a steady pace and is currently on Babylonia. As far as I'm concerned, Turas Fujimaru is very much the canon version of the character -- a much more complex character than the one we get to play as, but still demonstrably the same guy. --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | Which four songs are on the Sonic the Hedgehog Songs Mount Rushmore? |
| KanzarisKelshen 03/09/24 1:00:50 PM #41 | Green Hill Zone
Live and Learn Escape From the City Undefeatable The first three should be pretty straightforward, but I want to go to bat for the last one because I think it's important. Sonic was a joke for the better part of two decades. You know when people actually realized the franchise actually might have found its groove again outside 'just make yet another 2d sonic that's similar to the Genesis ones'? When they reached Giganto or watched a vid of someone playing against it and saw a Super Sonic fight that was more than just 'bonk dude in the head three times to win'. A huge part of making that work was using a type of music the series has never really tried before. It's also an independently popular song that's gotten significant amounts of play in memes and other such things. It's a very recent entry but it feels right, IMO. --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | What was the biggest leap between gaming console generations? |
| KanzarisKelshen 03/07/24 10:22:28 PM #35 | foolm0r0n posted...
What are 3 popular ones? I literally can't think of them. But the exception does prove the rule. Marvel vs Capcom 1, Strider 2, the various PSX Mega Man Xs. Didn't even have to go past a single company here. 2d didn't die in the PSX/64 era! --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | RIP Akira Toriyama |
| KanzarisKelshen 03/07/24 10:17:13 PM #9 | We lost a truly real one D:
Shit sucks, yo. Manga has become smaller today. --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | What was the biggest leap between gaming console generations? |
| KanzarisKelshen 03/07/24 9:13:42 PM #22 | Lopen posted...
I mean I guess like Very detailed games existed in the first and second generations, just not graphically. Colossal Cave is from 1976 for example, only four years after Pong. It's hard to say exactly what divides 'actual, real game' games from the first generation from the ones in the second in terms of depth, but they did exist. It was just a hard tradeoff between graphics and gameplay depth is all. --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | Anything I need to know before I start Disco Elysium |
| KanzarisKelshen 03/04/24 8:53:32 PM #9 | Keep a skillpoint in the pocket for retrying white checks just in case and save often. That's about all you need.
--- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | Madame Web reviews: "It is the Cats: The Movie of superhero movies" |
| KanzarisKelshen 03/01/24 2:27:50 PM #365 | kevwaffles posted...
Also some of you don't really appreciate how much more recognizable DC characters in general were over Marvel before the MCU. This is true and important (Spiderman exempted) I think there's a genuine argument for having an S tier of recognition for Superman, Batman and Spidey because those three completely dominate any other comic characters in recognizability. Set those aside and I think 'who's an A-lister comics character?' makes a lot more sense. At that point your A-list is like, Flash, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Hulk, etc. and Iron Man is a tier below those. --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | Gamespot's Official Ranking of Single Player Mainline Final Fantasy Games |
| KanzarisKelshen 02/28/24 2:11:20 PM #27 | Robazoid posted...
Why do we get Zodiac Age and VII Remake but everything else is the base game? FF3 Pixel Remaster (both the most recent AND most definitive version of that game) is a genuinely terrific and tight gameplay experience that fixes just about all the flaws of OG FF3 without shitting the bed in the process like FF3 DS does. It's much superior to FF13 tbqh --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | Project L (Riot Games Fighter) update / name announcement tomorrow |
| KanzarisKelshen 02/25/24 2:48:50 PM #41 | Accel_R8 posted...
2XKO is a bad name but "lol this is the worst ever" is mad hyperbole. Yeah but that just shortened to UNIBEL or UNICLEAR, both of which are readable and straightforward to say. Twexo reads like ass --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | Project L (Riot Games Fighter) update / name announcement tomorrow |
| KanzarisKelshen 02/22/24 8:03:29 PM #35 | Yeah, reminder every single game out of Riot Forge, ALL OF THEM; got shadowdropped and only one got even a little marketing. It's shockingly awful actually.
--- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | Trdl rates anything Magic the Gathering related |
| KanzarisKelshen 02/22/24 1:36:00 PM #79 | Scorching hot take: Cardgames are better when the resource you fight over is literal board positioning over mana. The game Duelyst died because of mismanagement, but its idea of grid-based combat was a brilliant way of controlling ramp in a consistent resource environment by limiting the amount of ways an opponent could leverage it with smart positioning.
--- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | Project L (Riot Games Fighter) update / name announcement tomorrow |
| KanzarisKelshen 02/22/24 11:38:24 AM #12 | Deeply excited to play noted cool game...
...uhhh Twexo right (Seriously, Double Kill was right there and so was Double KO. Why this???) --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | Twilight Princess vs. The Last Jedi |
| KanzarisKelshen 02/21/24 8:05:34 AM #4 | LinkMarioSamus posted...
TLJ getting fodderized, good. I honestly feel like if I had seen the movie when it came out without knowledge of the fan backlash, it would have just been another Star Wars movie to me. Honest question, why do you care then? If it's just another movie to you, why even make topics about it? I've never been able to figure out why you hyperfocus so much on random works of what you feel is poor art. It makes less than zero sense to me. Life is so short that you'll never be able to experience even a fraction of the good things it can offer. Why care even a little about things you don't even think are notably toxic or damaging? Why does it matter to you at all? --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | Trdl rates anything Magic the Gathering related |
| KanzarisKelshen 02/20/24 5:26:59 PM #11 | Ravnica block (ideally all three parts separately, but an overall rating is cool too)
--- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | What four songs are on the Final Fantasy Songs Mount Rushmore? |
| KanzarisKelshen 02/18/24 12:40:35 PM #47 | Prelude
Battle on the Big Bridge One-Winged Angel Answers I don't think any selection for FF makes any sense without the first two (and the victory fanfare, but that's too short to be a full song unto itself). They're the most immediately recognizable tracks the series has. OWA is a step below that, representing the post-SNES period, and Answers reps the game with which FF began to swing back into prominence after hitting its slump. Seems about right to me. --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | Something I don't get about the fan reception to the Star Wars sequel trilogy |
| KanzarisKelshen 02/16/24 8:27:06 PM #12 | LinkMarioSamus posted...
People have been increasingly lenient on it as time passes. 'Lenient on it' does not mean 'is someone's fave' People have warmed up to Terminator 3 because the followups to it were Terminator Salvation (an unmitigated disaster that did nothing right), Terminator Genisys (a divisive movie due to making a beloved character into the main antagonist, and also fielding two leads who had little chemistry with each other), and Terminator Dark Fate (a very messy movie that did not live up to the hype generated around it). It's easy to warm up to a technically competent movie that makes an absolute hash of the universe lore when the followups also do that but they are less complete and well-done products! This does not mean that literally anyone takes it over Terminator 1 or Terminator 2: Judgement Day (or hell, Terminator: Resistance if they count expanded universe media, as it's pretty much the real Terminator 3 that everyone wanted) --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | Something I don't get about the fan reception to the Star Wars sequel trilogy |
| KanzarisKelshen 02/16/24 4:37:30 PM #4 | LinkMarioSamus posted...
I don't understand how the sequel trilogy gets raked over the coals for featuring a "happy ending override" and then re-hashing the plot of the original trilogy, but older movies that are guilty of not much different like Ghostbusters II and Terminator 3 have become varying degrees of nostalgic favorite. Only thing that makes sense is they care mostly about the overarching story of Star Wars, so they don't care about comparing it to those past movies. Terminator 3 is no one's nostalgic favorite Please don't invent things to support your viewpoint --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
| Topic | Think of a video game developer before clicking this topic |
| KanzarisKelshen 02/03/24 2:21:36 PM #14 | Supergiant Games
This could actually be kinda sick even if the roster would by necessity have to be small - you'd get all of the MCs (The Kid, Red, Zagreus) and then there'd probably be some leaning on Pyre to pad the roster. I'd actually be super curious to see how something like Jodariel's massive dunking power would translate to a fighting game, or Rukey being a lil doggo. --- Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
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