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Jen0125 posted...

Are they going to make the PotD board be on topic again or is that safe?

Wait, did we ever have topicality here?

EclairReturns posted...

The second bullet-pointed item of rule nine baffles me. Wouldn't that make it harder for game developers to detect bugs?

Point 3 baffles me as well, wording it that vaguely would also include alcohol and coffee.

In fantasy, the god(s) of religions, most of the time have an actual direct presence in the setting and are not just something invoked by (religious) leaders to justify their positions. Which kinda gives religion a different dynamic in fantasy than it does in real life.

American Football RPGs? Bloodbowl?

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

Sure you can, and it's quite common in the dating scene.

Maybe when still in early parts and blind dating and no actual feelings being involved yet. If feelings are already involved, it is just sleazy.

DragonClaw01 posted...

Well... Even as a BSG reference, it would still be a 4 letter word.

Frack(ing) refers to a form of shale gas mining. Although under the current rules, it might be too much of a political issue.

Like I tried to say in the other topic. Few things are not political. It is a far too wide a concept to really be used as the foundation of any kind of rule.

First the movie with Stallone, then Oscar de Jarjayes.

streamofthesky posted...

That RFK Jr. topic that was created 6 fucking days before the dumb fuck announcement is closed and TC is "not an active member".

That just sets a terrible precedent...

Almost everything is politics in some way anyway.

Kinda late for a 1 April joke.

darkknight109 posted...

-If we're allowed to go with entire classes, both the Sniper and General in Fire Emblem have historically suffered from this. The former would be amazing in a game that didn't include counter-attacking; the latter would similarly be great if the game design included more defensive maps instead of ones that expected you to move against enemy positions, often penalizing you if you take too long (by having recruitable characters get killed or enemy thieves loot treasure chests, for instance).

Longbows, +Range Skills, Boots, +Movement Skills, Teleportation Staves and Dancers are all options to deal with that, depending on the specific game in question.

Ogurisama posted...

Who do you think was the best one?

Taz the Tasmanian Devil.

funkyfritter posted...

No real upsets in round 1 by my reckoning. Round 2 should be more interesting.

Eh? Best one is already out, so definitely an upset.

Without the what now?

I stopped drinking coffee with breakfast.

Would take longer than that here.

I have been wondering what country this "Phantom" could have been/be an agent of. I doubt this game-series would name any real-life counties, so no Russia, China, North Korea etc... But since we know they struck at the very least 7 years ago, that would make it perfectly plausible as a retaliatory action for certain international events set in motion by Edgeworth 8 years ago.

I made that statement after coming across Ponco for the first time. The name Metis rings no bells for me.

Just finished the case, I suppose that is a twist, but (thankfully) not 3-4 levels of dark and depressing. I doubt we are going the route of "the defence lawyer did it" (that already happened last game), so the evidence has to be fake or misinterpreted in some way. So either somebody planted the prints on the lighter (Foolbright has opportunity, but that would be insanely silly), Foolbright unintentionally contaminated the evidence (still silly, but more in character), or something very weird is going on...

Wait a moment, is Ponco like a prototype/precursor Widget or something?

Wait, Investigation Day 1? I was expecting this to go full 3-4 and just end early...

Ferarri619 posted...

I remember how Indigo Prophecy had to be censored to get the m rating.

That's the US name for Fahrenheit right? Now I am wondering why that was even renamed in the first place...

I have no doubt the writing will, it is just random and silly at this point.

Have not played since starting Case 4, but still wanted to put some thoughts to text.

Turnabout Academy feels way too small for a case that took place at a school. 4 students and 2 teachers? At the very least we should have met the Prosecution Faculty Head. (Which also made me realize the two balcony set-up makes no sense, if there are supposed to be 3 Faculties...)

Realizing the structure DD has been going for, I am afraid Case 4 is going to be as dark and depressing as 3-4 was. I also feel like the narrative just skipped over something, with Apollo just deciding to wear an eyepatch out of nowhere...

ZayKayWill posted...

And yes. That does indeed say one billion dollars.

I'd disagree, but sure.

And there's the age reveal... At least having a license for operating heavy machinery is a funny way to reveal it.

Still, since now it is 2 for 2, will this case actually manage to surprise me beyond this point, or was everything truly that painfully obvious from the very beginning?

Edit: Out on a stroll? I love Simon.

joemodda posted...

I keep reading this as half my parents are dead again like wtf is this some kind of regular occurrence

I read it as "pants" and got even more confused by the topic text...

SpeedDemon20 posted...

They do that on the best route a bit before the final chapter.

Blue Lions is the only time in any FE story where I went: "Wait, are we the badguys?" and Dimitri only continued to terrify me more and more as a person and I was seriously wondering why we were letting him be in charge.

papercup posted...

strangely dark and glossed over themes,

3 Houses is unapologetically dark, with no real designated good guys. Think more factions based on differences in politics, like say Three Kingdoms or Legend of the Galactic Heroes, with no-one being pure white or black, but all just differing shades of grey.

SkyShowtime not even an option?

Salad is the greens/veggies, not the mayonnaise... Salad does not even need any sauce or dressing to be a salad...

Uhm, game, these insistent reminders that Robin is a man, are getting a bit excessive...

Over the top insistence that something is a certain way and not another way, does not make that another way a good reveal when it is finally revealed, it will just receive a "we know! stop treating us like idiots!" response.

Although, I would prefer to be proven wrong. Thinking you have things figured out before the first day of trial, and then day 1 of trial seems to confirm things, AA should never be that obvious on a mid to late game case...

Edit: now that I think about it, using Widgit to go through the emotional discord that is gender dysphoria, would be amazing if the writers could pull it off, but so easy to mess up and come across as belittling and insulting...

Edit2: of all the words the game/writers could have chosen for Simon to describe Hugh, it had to be juvenile...

Chronologically yes and I think it was completely self-contained regarding the story of DD, only using Bobby and Blackquill for some reason.

The case absolutely should have started with Gumshoe being the one who tries to find a willing prosecutor, maybe even have him as the Chief of Police and having him be excited about Wright's return. Only for that to backfire on him when the only Prosecutor willing to take the case, keeps whipping him...

Case 3, initial impressions. Feels like it has been a while, since I played a somewhat regular AA case for the first time, without the story just telling you who did it.

Initial guess, the story wants us to suspect Means, Robin and Hugh. Which would imply to me they have random, unrelated, reveals that will take up some time in court.

Robin Newman: gender neutral name and "New man", leads me to believe the reveal is that Robin is either a transman, or a woman crossdressing.
Hugh O'Connor: Huge and O''Conner', going by his looks, he is lying about his age for some reason? He looks older than half the "young" cast, despite being listed as 18.

Means: would be my guess for the actual killer. Connecting neatly to the myth arc and all that.

Dutch Rebellion? You mean the 80 years' war?

Edit: I also feel the need to ask for clarification, Maarten who? Which Maarten are we celebrating?

I guess this case really proves that the one thing I would like to see from AA (more interconnectivity), would probably just result in ill-suited references every other line with these writers.

Still, for this one case it was fun. I also feel like every aspect was included as a reference to a previous case, makes me wonder whether every case received a reference?

By now Blackquill is starting to feel like a do-over of Barok van Zieks (pre-over, I know this originally came first). (For some reason I remembered that name as a von and German, not Dutch, huh...) Everything seems to be against the guy and I just want to give him a hug. Let's hope he is distinguished somewhat from (or better put, the writers properly distinguished Barok from him)

I think I now get why this was the DLC case. Has AA ever been this self-aware?

Although kinda expecting that only day 1 will be the defence of Orla, even with the eternal mockery of "defending the orca", being the defining factor of the case in the discourse.

I guess Marlon getting Tanuki's theme, means it is not actually his theme and just the generic weird/silly/whatever people for this game? Meaning two of the recurring themes are annoying, with one even only being used for the same annoying character. What were they thinking, with making Fullbright as annoying and obnoxious as they did?

LinkPizza posted...

I always liked DD quite a bit. Never heard it was unpopular. I did hear that about AJ:AA, though I wonder is DD unpopularity had anything to do with the Download only thing. Though, that would affect SoJ, too, so IDK

Now that I think about it, it is probably just every game but the 1st and 3rd. But that's fine, I have yet to play an AA game I actually disliked.

And the good music keeps coming in.

I loved the way they had Apollo put together the case at the end and it even got a new amazing theme.

I vaguely recall Dual Destinies being the more unpopular game of the series, but as of yet I have come across nothing that would explain that.

Wow, Blackquill. As ludicrous as the idea is, the execution is awesome.

Just a shame Fullbright is still as annoying as they come.

Started up the game again, immediatly reminded of what I disliked last time playing.

Rubber faced (one off) witness, sure fun. Rubber faced Detective (with meh music theme), annoying.

Can we just go back to Ema already?

Edit: I must admit, he is somewhat capable. Ruling out a suspect based on them being unable to wield the murder weapon, this guy would have seriously shortened Serenade.

Now I am wondering if the games will ever remember Machi, considering he is technically their sibling as well.

Just realized quite some people are naming things as songs, that are not actually songs in this topic...

I suppose I will do the stupidly insane thing and present the same thing to Jinxie again. And then I am truly all out of options.

Edit: Wait what? First Trucy nearly strangles Apollo with her magic panties for shoving his badge in Jinxie's face and 5 seconds later you do it again to progress?
Game... Please! Badge shoving is a tradition. Making it both a comedic "do not do this" and progression within 2 minutes, with the same character, is insanely counter-intuitive...

ConfusedTorchic posted...

so why does everyone treat him like he's never won one before

Because it started out as an extreme parody of the Japanese system.

And then conveniently never mention it again?

Also, 3 screens in, went through all talk and present options and now I am stuck?
Did the game mess up by not giving me explore options, or was that changed in such a way in the 3DS games that it becomes unintuitive on Switch?

Devil_May_Cry posted...

Some Russian trolls could for instance sow discord on the left pretending to hate Israel.

What discord would that create? People are outspoken about both sides of the conflict, for good reasons.

adjl posted...

Because there are several other services that have collected the necessary data to answer that question, making it unnecessary for Steam to also collect (and store and process) it.

And those are still wrong at times.

That was an amazing first case and despite being just an opener, it had everything. (Just comparing to Serenade here, since even on a replay, I felt like one barely learns anything about what actually happened, it just mainly focussed on the aftermath)

Also, that Confession music, was not expecting it to go that hard.

1997.

I also remember the books being read for, uhm, are they called "reading competitions" in English?, while I was in primary school. I am trying to think of the proper word. We have actual words in Dutch to distinguish between reading to yourself and reading out loud (perhaps with pantomine and voices) for others, but I really cannot think of the proper word in English.