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| Topic | What's the most technically impressive Switch game? (Day 27) + Xbox X/S final |
| Xiahou_Shake 05/01/24 8:22:20 PM #8 | Tears of the Kingdom
For all the reasons stated above - this game just casually dumped several systems that could have defined entire video games on their own and somehow made them all actually work really well. --- Let the voice of love take you higher, With this gathering power, go beyond even time! |
| Topic | Video Game Character of the 2010s - 2B v Estelle Bright / Mae Borowski v Arthur |
| Xiahou_Shake 05/01/24 5:52:27 PM #29 | Estelle
*Abstain* That first match is horribly cruel, love them both dearly. But Estelle is Bestelle. --- Let the voice of love take you higher, With this gathering power, go beyond even time! |
| Topic | Fill in the Blank 270: Child of ___ |
| Xiahou_Shake 05/01/24 3:16:21 AM #25 | Light
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| Topic | Hades was kind of a letdown |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/30/24 7:48:17 PM #43 | Isaac's lack of descriptions was a legitimate artistic vision in the original game but Edmund McMillen has said himself that it straight up doesn't work anymore with how many items are in the game - he's said he'd like to see something like that item description mod officially added to the game. But yeah, for now if you're not on PC you're kinda just stuck with the wiki which is a great resource but a pretty shitty way to actually play the game.
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| Topic | May 2024 Video Games |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/30/24 3:49:41 PM #18 | Is System Shock Remake only just now getting to consoles? That's a bizarrely huge gap, it came out a full year ago!
Curious about Animal Well but Senua is the easy highlight in an otherwise pretty quiet month of catch-up for me. --- Let the voice of love take you higher, With this gathering power, go beyond even time! |
| Topic | Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO - Master and Apprentice trailer |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/30/24 11:45:39 AM #4 | skullbone posted...
In 2024 it's just weird to think of a fighting game that is primarily going to be played single player and then put away.In fairness I'm pretty sure this is still Mortal Kombat for the vast majority of its playerbase --- Let the voice of love take you higher, With this gathering power, go beyond even time! |
| Topic | Hades was kind of a letdown |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/29/24 9:44:31 PM #32 | Kenri posted...
Hades isn't a great roguelike but it's a fantastic action game with great characters and writing so I just played it with that mindset and loved itYeah this is pretty much the way to look at it. I agree that Hades isn't a terribly good roguelike but you're probably somewhere between 20 and 40 hours into it before that really becomes a crippling concern. As a roguelike it's simply far too lacking on run diversity, and you also ultimately get way too much control over your runs. Like, if you want to get a certain boon loadout for a certain weapon you're able to make it happen like 95% of the time once you have your stuff unlocked, which just further ruins the sense of adaptability and impactful decision-making that all good roguelikes are built on. Really hoping that Hades 2 can address those issues cause if you combine Hades' storytelling and character performances with an actually well-designed roguelike you've got a potential GoaT on your hands. --- Let the voice of love take you higher, With this gathering power, go beyond even time! |
| Topic | Do you like this character? Day 1540: Yuffie Kisaragi (Final Fantasy VII) |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/28/24 3:27:00 PM #24 | Haven't played Rebirth but a big yes to both the original and Remake versions. Hilarious to me how many people don't like her.
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| Topic | Fill in the Blank 265: Killer ___ |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/26/24 5:46:40 AM #45 | 7
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| Topic | First look at Hunter x Hunter: Nen Impact gameplay #fitegames |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/25/24 4:03:49 PM #8 | CassandraCain posted...
Which other anime properties use the Ninja Storm fighting mechanics? I have never seen of any others.Off the top of my head there's... J-Stars/Jump Force Kill la Kill One Punch Man Jujutsu Kaisen My Hero Academia One Piece Demon Slayer Saint Seiya There are probably some I'm missing but it's definitely been a consistent complaint that "uninspired arena fighter" at least for a solid period was the default answer to what to do with an anime license for video games. --- Let the voice of love take you higher, With this gathering power, go beyond even time! |
| Topic | Dragon's 2nd Dogma: The Topic |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/24/24 9:23:31 PM #14 | More than any other vocation in the game, Trickster needs a few vocation levels before it really becomes playable. Ultimately you'll want to get your ghost into position (potentially even in the air where nobody can reach him using the astral projection skill or where nobody can see it via the fake wall) and then pop the pawn buff and spam the AOE taunt as the enemy AI shatters to pieces and gets obliterated by the pawns they're completely ignoring.
Pawn buff and AOE taunt are non-negotiable and absolutely essential. Beyond that you can use your remaining slots either for the meister ability (can knock big guys on their ass,) the fake wall, astral projection or if you're feeling *really* spicy the fake floor so you can do set-ups that get enemies to jump off cliffs. --- Let the voice of love take you higher, With this gathering power, go beyond even time! |
| Topic | What's the most technically impressive Wii game? (Day 19) + Xbox 360 final |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/24/24 4:42:52 PM #24 | Xenoblade Chronicles - Monolith has worked some absolutely insane black magic getting unreasonable levels of presentation out of every platform this series has been on, but it all started here. The sheer scale of the environments here was amazing at the time by any metric, so seeing them on the Wii was downright mind blowing.
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| Topic | Stellar Blade Review Zone |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/24/24 4:16:27 PM #31 | Every day I grow more happy that I've completely divested from social media and can ignore all of this toxic stupidity - the little I've been exposed to of the "discourse" surrounding this game and Eiyuden is totally mind-numbing.
On topic, great to see the game being received so well! Very exciting to see Korean studios really starting to step up to the plate with single player games. --- Let the voice of love take you higher, With this gathering power, go beyond even time! |
| Topic | Metaphor: ReFantazio is out on 10/11/2024. |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/23/24 7:45:18 PM #27 | If that choir drop comes in when you switch to turn-based mode, I swear to god
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| Topic | Project B8 - A modern recreation of a classic GFAQs style forum |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/23/24 7:33:04 PM #31 | Absolutely love that you're doing this - it's fantastic to see someone with the know-how taking initiative considering what's been going on with this site of late.
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| Topic | Metaphor: ReFantazio is out on 10/11/2024. |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/22/24 8:41:49 PM #6 | Jobs tied to social links and the action/turn-based hybrid both sound absolutely genius. To be expected given the team but it also looks stylish as all hell. Definitely really looking forward to this one.
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| Topic | I had to put one of my cats down today |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/21/24 4:05:24 AM #10 | Super sorry to hear about this and all that other crap, dude. You did everything you could for Oreo and I'm sure he felt happy and very loved.
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| Topic | If B8 goes down, will you migrate to B8 Discord? |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/18/24 3:17:28 PM #69 | I'm already in the Discord but never use it since the chat just isn't for me.
I'd definitely consider going if 1) A significant portion of who's left here also went over and B) We used the forum mode, which is probably as close as we'll get to replicating what we have here. Of course, as others have pointed out, this would really just be kicking the can some number of years down the road as Discord has also already begun its enshittification so it's just a matter of time before it, too, becomes unusable. --- Let the voice of love take you higher, With this gathering power, go beyond even time! |
| Topic | Which board warranted containment the most? |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/17/24 3:33:30 PM #11 | This thread just unlocked a memory
https://youtu.be/EaQR4EumjP4?si=E3HKAg2D5xkx0JlW This was a moment in GameFAQs history --- Let the voice of love take you higher, With this gathering power, go beyond even time! |
| Topic | paramore twitter |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/15/24 11:41:31 PM #7 | paramore twitter hornyposting
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| Topic | Rumorzone: FF7 Rebirth selling half as well as Remake |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/15/24 5:55:58 PM #190 | foolm0r0n posted...
God what a desperate time. Miranda's ass carried the entire industry solo for nearly a decade.Bayonetta's ass was out there before Miranda's! Honestly I'm wondering if we have those two to thank for the industry-wide trend of huge asses that eventually led to 2B and stuff like even BotW Zelda having a huge donk --- Let the voice of love take you higher, With this gathering power, go beyond even time! |
| Topic | Fandom bans politics on GameFAQs (outside of Current Events) |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/15/24 3:45:59 PM #11 | I've had the politics tag blocked since it was an option, but I really dislike the precedent being set here of banning topics outright, especially with the insanely heavy-handed way they're handling CE. (Which is a cesspit to be sure, but still.) If you look at what they're actually saying and consider what the overall mission of Fandom is there's little doubt that this board itself is going to be shuttered some day to spare them a rounding error, which really sucks.
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| Topic | Dragon's 2nd Dogma: The Topic |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/14/24 12:08:53 AM #6 | I'm playing too and having a great time about 50 hours in. As I draw near to the end, though, it's really perplexing and actually kind of baffling how this game appears to be falling victim to the exact same stuff that made the original "the best 7/10 game ever." Like, I really just want to know wtf happened that they made the exact same mistakes on top of actually going backwards on some stuff like storage/equipment management being a straight up QoL downgrade from Dark Arisen.
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| Topic | Rumorzone: FF7 Rebirth selling half as well as Remake |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/13/24 11:50:16 PM #6 | Also waiting on the PC version, which thankfully should come out way faster than the first one did. (And with less double/triple exclusivity bullshit to boot!)
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| Topic | OJ Simpson, dead at 76. |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/11/24 8:50:51 PM #37 | Reading some of those theories, the OJ case would've made for a great Umineko episode
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| Topic | Hot take, but the US should absolutely be sending troops to Ukraine. |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/11/24 2:26:25 PM #37 | This sounds like a great way to start WW3 and/or escalate the nuclear threat as high as it's been since the Cuban Missile Crisis
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| Topic | Do you like this character? Day 1537: Viewtiful Joe (Viewtiful Joe) |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/07/24 9:09:34 PM #23 | Leonhart4 posted...
Henshin-a-yes-yes --- Let the voice of love take you higher, With this gathering power, go beyond even time! |
| Topic | Aww Yeah Platinum #638 GET! - Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/07/24 3:26:39 PM #2 | Wolves hunt in packs!
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| Topic | What four games are on the PS2 Mount Rushmore? |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/05/24 8:12:45 PM #23 | Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Final Fantasy X Kingdom Hearts II Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas MGS3 is my favorite game of all time so it feels a little weird to put MGS2 here instead, but I can't deny that no game - no moment - quite captures the idea of the PS2 and the raw technological leap it represented for me quite like the opening of MGS2. --- Let the voice of love take you higher, With this gathering power, go beyond even time! |
| Topic | So I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/04/24 1:46:42 PM #264 | KanzarisKelshen posted...
(because iirc there just aren't aoe 3 star zerks)I have a level 100 Spartacus and I won't stand for this disrespect Edit: Well nevermind, I haven't played in so long I forgot his rarity was even lower! --- Let the voice of love take you higher, With this gathering power, go beyond even time! |
| Topic | So I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/04/24 2:24:28 AM #246 | Holy hell, that's an incredible pull, way to go!
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| Topic | Anyone else seeing weirdness like this? |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/03/24 6:42:06 PM #13 | Oh yeah I thought I was going nuts cause it kept loading like, an older version of the thread without a bunch of the posts I'd already seen last time I clicked into it. Not sure how that would even happen, really!
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| Topic | Content Warning, Pawggle and Murder of Sonic free on Steam |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/03/24 2:55:10 PM #9 | MZero posted...
I thought you were tagging Pawggle and Murder of Sonic with a content warningI thought the same after zeroing in on "Content Warning Pawg" --- Let the voice of love take you higher, With this gathering power, go beyond even time! |
| Topic | What's the most you've spent/would spend on a single item of food or drink? |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/03/24 2:07:38 PM #33 | I'm pretty firm in my belief that if you go past maybe $80 for a single person's meal (including drinks), you're purely paying for prestige/atmosphere/other things unrelated to the dish itself. Some of the most delicious and life-changing food I've ever eaten was barely more than what fast food costs these days.
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| Topic | 20+ years later, I'm giving Star Fox Adventures a second chance |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/02/24 1:31:44 PM #16 | TomNook7 posted...
nO thats too LOWWI played through this entire game with a group of friends in a drunken stupor - this quote and "NOBODY EVER BRINGS ME GIFTS ANYMORE" are regular references for us to this day --- Let the voice of love take you higher, With this gathering power, go beyond even time! |
| Topic | Does cilantro taste like soap? |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/01/24 6:24:43 PM #15 | The real question is how does everyone in this camp that universally says it tastes like soap know what soap tastes like
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| Topic | Does cilantro taste like soap? |
| Xiahou_Shake 04/01/24 5:43:52 PM #3 | Very glad I don't have this gene, but I do have stinky asparagus piss (which, fascinatingly, everyone does, but I learned the actual genetic quirk is whether you can smell it or not.)
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| Topic | Playing Hades, quick strategy-question. |
| Xiahou_Shake 03/31/24 12:45:32 AM #54 | Yeah I'd agree that what you just saw is "beating the game" and the epilogue thing is really more of a small bonus for playing enough to do all the other stuff.
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| Topic | Dragon's Dogma 2 currently at 'Mostly Negative' on Steam |
| Xiahou_Shake 03/30/24 4:11:27 PM #146 | Everfall wasn't very good it was something I guess. I'm 20ish hours into this and still exploring the first region - it's been a great time so far but I'll be very perplexed if this game does indeed have the same shortcomings as DD1 seeing as that game was famously unfinished and ostensibly the whole point of this game was to "do it right." (Like, to the point that the title screen and title card both just say "Dragon's Dogma" with no "2.")
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| Topic | Fill in the Blank 239: Prince ___ |
| Xiahou_Shake 03/28/24 9:02:51 PM #69 | Ali, Fabulous He, Ali Ababwa
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| Topic | So I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond |
| Xiahou_Shake 03/28/24 12:54:39 PM #184 | My one big complaint about FGO at least as someone who played from the global launch up through the end of Epic of Remnant is that for how huge the game is/was, they really did the absolute bare minimum of reinvesting their profits. Like look at something like Honkai Impact 3rd and how horrifically crusty it was at first versus what it became. By all rights FGO should have frequent fully animated cutscenes, full voice acting, massively improved presentation with regular CGs, etc but instead everyone was losing their mind if an event had like, a single voiced scene or even a single CG. Animation updates are nice and everything but man a story this good really deserves better than how it's presented given the ludicrous amount of money the game makes.
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| Topic | RIP Joe Lieberman |
| Xiahou_Shake 03/27/24 6:25:14 PM #6 | Yeah the fuller context is he's the reason we don't have universal health care in the U.S.
I don't have anything nice to say so I'm gonna go ahead and stop now. --- Let the voice of love take you higher, With this gathering power, go beyond even time! |
| Topic | Older Tales games getting mass delisted on PSN |
| Xiahou_Shake 03/27/24 1:34:34 AM #19 | KCF0107 posted...
making games more affordable and accessible to everyone, creating lower barriers to entry into the industry,Emulation does all of this, at least! To clarify, I'm not opposed to physical games existing - I'm just pointing out that they're not a valid path to preservation due to both physical decay and unfortunate economic realities which have already put a huge portion of games older than the 360 financially out of reach for people who would desperately like to own and play them. Lots of people don't care about games living longer than they do and for them I hope physical games continue to be an affordable option for as long as possible. --- Let the voice of love take you higher, With this gathering power, go beyond even time! |
| Topic | Older Tales games getting mass delisted on PSN |
| Xiahou_Shake 03/27/24 1:09:49 AM #17 | MacArrowny posted...
This is a myth that physical haters love to share.Even if it is a myth (it isn't) those games are all going to cost hundreds to thousands of dollars to acquire thanks to price gouging human refuse already completely destroying retro gaming in the name of profit. Paratroopa1 posted... I've gone the other way on this and accepted that going digital IS the future - but the future also involves consistently ensuring that games that come out are fully preserved [under the purview of the law] so that we won't lose themThis is the way. --- Let the voice of love take you higher, With this gathering power, go beyond even time! |
| Topic | Older Tales games getting mass delisted on PSN |
| Xiahou_Shake 03/27/24 1:00:46 AM #14 | Physical games are all going to decay eventually and will be lost to time like tears in the rain
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| Topic | Older Tales games getting mass delisted on PSN |
| Xiahou_Shake 03/27/24 12:58:06 AM #12 | Good thing the community is fantastic about preserving games forever because hoo boy are companies absolute shit about it across the board
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| Topic | Older Tales games getting mass delisted on PSN |
| Xiahou_Shake 03/26/24 11:30:31 PM #8 | UshiromiyaEva posted...
I gotta wonder what the path forward is for this franchise.Supposedly the Scarlet Nexus director is heading up the next game - I feel like this is their last shot before Tales falls into Star Ocean levels of brand decay. (At which point I'd say the move is to do what Star Ocean did and make a sick-nasty remake of Destiny to restore brand faith... but they already did that on PS2!) --- Let the voice of love take you higher, With this gathering power, go beyond even time! |
| Topic | Older Tales games getting mass delisted on PSN |
| Xiahou_Shake 03/26/24 9:54:42 PM #2 | Graces and both Xillia games still being stuck on PS3 after all this time is so sad - really hope this portends ports but I sincerely doubt it.
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| Topic | watched John Wick 1, 2, and 3 |
| Xiahou_Shake 03/25/24 3:37:54 PM #14 | 1 > 3 > 2 - All fantastic movies in pretty different ways
4 opinion, spoilered since you haven't seen it: --- Let the voice of love take you higher, With this gathering power, go beyond even time! |
| Topic | What four cartoons are on the Nicktoons Mount Rushmore? |
| Xiahou_Shake 03/25/24 3:33:30 PM #68 | Rugrats
SpongeBob Avatar Hey Arnold --- Let the voice of love take you higher, With this gathering power, go beyond even time! |
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