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You shouldn't start with any Ys games because they all suck

Raka_Putra posted...

I've only played 0 and 7 so far which funnily enough makes me completely oblivious to the 'actual' mainline story with Kiryu and Majima.

Interestingly I think 6 is the only Yakuza I'd put in this topic. Most of the rest definitely have connections and recurring characters but not to the point you couldn't feasibly start with them.

Yakuza games tend to be self-contained stories with the real continuity being in clear character development from one game to the next, not payoffs of hanging plot threads not being resolved like some others in the topic.

Basically they're more like something like the Die Hard movies or a season of 24. Completely possible to use any given one of them as an entry point, you just won't get quite as much out of it as if you did them all in order.

This is compared to something like Trails where if you don't play them all before Cold Steel 4 you will just be completely and utterly lost on many major plot threads and character arcs.

Xenoblade 2's art style is better than Xenoblade 1's and its not even remotely close. Also nearly every major character in Xenoblade 2 is better than most of the characters in 1 (Shulk, Dunban, and Melia are the only characters I'd actually say 'are good', Reyn is a fun meme comic relief character though).

Rex is not well designed or generally a good character though, whereas Shulk is both of those. Even at Rex's best I'd call him 'inoffensive' and he definitely is not at his best most of the game.

Nia is the best character in either game by a complete long shot. Like you could probably put at least two football fields between Nia and the next best character.

Xenoblade 1's overall plot is better than 2's, though.

Also upgrading Blades in 2 isn't that big of a deal because you aren't going to use that many. It is technically less optional than Xenoblade 1's side quests are but its like... so inconsequential its not even worth considering imo.

Yeah idk if I agree with Suikoden 2 being on this these days

But regardless,

Suikoden 2 > Lufia 2 > Live a Live > Front Mission 1 > Secret of Evermore > Romancing Saga 3 > Sailor Moon > DBZ

All of them are pretty good to some extent or another though. Legend of the Saiyans is probably the only one I wouldn't recommend to someone unless they REALLY wanted to play a DBZ RPG specifically. Sailor Moon is a bit above that in the 'I'd recommend it, but only if you've already played the majority of other JRPGs on the SNES'.

I consider both Suikoden 2 and Lufia 2 to be 'must plays' if you like JRPGs, personally.

SaveEstelle posted...

Yeah, I can thaw a chicken breast for a couple of hours, season it, toss it in there for like 20 minutes. Perfect.

I can do the same thing in the oven in 35!
Literally no point to owning one of these things.

Yeah I own one its called my oven

Yeah I definitely would not say the "Core" of Xenoblade's gameplay is side quests.

There are a lot of them and some of them are worth doing if you can get over how grindy and uninteresting a lot of them are, but its hardly the 'core' of the game.

I would probably recommend most people skip the majority of side quests, myself, unless they're REALLY into the game.

Yeah I honestly wouldn't even call P5 Strikers a Musou, its more like its own action RPG with Musou influences.

God, I love Ice types.

Snow is trying his best and that's what counts!!

Butts are very cute

KamikazePotato posted...

Once again the bottom row is awful. Move #4 to the bottom and it fits perfectly too

wtf did you just call Snom awful

You're awful

Also "Search Action" sounds dumb, like a some toy marketing phrase trying to appeal to 10 year olds from the 90s.

Language is meaningless from now on we should all just communicate in grunts

I believe I've heard its just kind of alright?

Not positive on that though.

Pizza Hut is the best followed fairly closely by Dominos. I get Dominos more generally just because its cheaper than Pizza Hut. Papa Johns is disgusting and I regret getting it every time I order it.

I haven't had Little Caesars in like 8 years so can't comment on that.

When I was a kid I think my opinions on what the best nuts are are almost completely reversed from what they are now.

I didn't like cashews when I was a kid and brazil nuts were my favorite but now its the opposite.

I can't really give pistachios a fair shake because I am and always have been mildly allergic to them (and a few other nuts + mushrooms but its the worst with pistachios for some reason, can't even eat a small handful without getting a severely scratchy throat).

Toxel is really good

Also probably should mention my go-to fruit in general is grapes, and not any of the listed ones! (I do still eat bananas and apples decently regularly though)

RyoCaliente posted...

I am told Cosmic Crisp rules the roost, you should check it out.

I've never seen that near me sadly

But I'll keep an eye out for it

I like orange flavor the most but I hate actually eating oranges unless they are supremed because I hate the texture of the segment walls and they're too much of a pain to supreme for personal consumption. If I'm gonna go through the effort to do something like that its gonna be with an easier citrus to do it with like a pommelo.

So I'ma go with apples, so long as they're Fuji, Pink Lady, or Honeycrisp. Most other varieties suck for just straight up consumption.

Bananas are just okay. They're just kind of mostly tasteless mush to me.

Literally all of these are good.

Diglett is just so memey and funny I gotta give it to the little guy tho

2.

It barely has a story, honestly.

Clawitzer is pretty awesome.

Despite me voting Krabby last round, Kingler is pretty near the bottom of this list for me (its not anywhere close to as bad as Barbacle though which while not AS bad as its unevolved form, is still atrocious). It's literally just 'Krabby but slightly bigger'.

The rest are all pretty good. Crustle is a bit dumb, but in a funny way.

Going with Krabby but I like most of these

Binacle is embarrassingly bad, however. Near the bottom of all Pokemon designs.

Yeah I'm not usually a "GenWunner" but the Gen 1 designs are definitely way better than the rest here lol

Not that all of the others are bad or anything. They're just not as good.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/8/7/AAAnT8AAC1-r.jpg

Yeah that's about what I expected lmao

Crust
Cheese
Sauce
Toppings
Reheatability

Misdreavus looks the best but arguably Galarian Corsola has one of the best designs in all of Pokemon due to how depressing its concept is. It's just a super inspired 'dark comedy' joke that also just looks good.

_PandaMaster_ posted...

Politicians in the Italian Senate were meeting via Zoom and one politician was watching Tifa hentai and it aired over the Zoom meeting.

From my understanding this isn't actually what happened, but rather it was an open Zoom meeting anyone could join but they didn't configure it correctly to not have screenshare, and one of the people that joined to watch put it up on the screen.

Still funny though.

There are quite a few but probably the one that matters most recently due to BDSP is I NEVER remember that Croagunk and Toxicroak are Poison/Fighting. I always think its Poison/Dark.

Where's the 'myself' option

I can't even imagine not having a PC honestly

I'm pretty sure I'd go insane without access to one at all times

UshiromiyaEva posted...

I really wish they would give us Sky on a viable platform though. My only hope at this point is that rumored PS Now replacement let's me play the PSP versions.

It's already on PC

Bloodwhetting is absolutely absurd

I wish I liked Warrior more than I do because its super good right now. At least Gunbreaker is fine which is my current favorite tank.

Raka_Putra posted...

The timing of this new animated Bidoof short is pretty impeccable!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTidwW3iLHk

That was legitimately great.

KokoroAkechi posted...

For a bigger picture of the MHA universe. The bigger problem is that it is way too cemented in "ideals" more than anything. Like "what does it mean to be a hero" and all of that. But it rarely explores this and doesn't do anything interesting with these premises. Bad guys are always bad guys and good guys are always good. There are little nudges where something could be different sometimes, but they never explore anything.

I could not possibly disagree with you more about this paragraph. I do agree that S5 of MHA wasn't that good overall, but this just screams "I'm not actually paying attention".

Literally one of the main, core themes of MHA is that all that really separates a hero from a villain is circumstance, and that no one is necessarily beyond redemption. The villain arc was all ABOUT showing that the bad guys aren't just bad guys.

I refuse to do a playthrough without recruiting literally everyone possible because I love all the characters and don't want any of them to die :(

It's actually kind of the reason I don't like 3 Houses as much as some, honestly. Still the best FE we've gotten since Gamecube at least, and hopefully the next one will be just as good if not better.

Grinding anything repetitively for hours upon hours is bad, to be fair

It just so happened that its the most efficient way to do it for 17-60 which is a huge level range as well.

Deep Dungeons are cool content

Definitely needs some refining still (even after Heaven on High) but I'm glad they're bringing them back in Endwalker (assuming plans hold up).

A4 Normal was never a problem.

It was A3S and A4S that almost killed raiding. Pepsiman was brutal for most casual groups and if you managed to get past him, the worst mechanic in all of FF14, Nisi, was waiting for you.

Also A2S is just not a good fight (neither is A2N really, but its easy at least).

I like Alexander's plot overall, personally, and its cool it gave some lore on Au Ra before we actually got to a zone with Au Ra properly in it. Kind of sucks when you learn that Mide's tribe ultimately got wiped out, though.

They really, REALLY need to go back to voicing 24 man content (and 8 mans).

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Honestly if that was me having done that I'd have straight up left the instance once I recognized my mistake

I will say that it is a bit weird how FF14 does the Ivalice stuff
Like... both FFT and FF12 seem to have just... happened in their entirety at some point in the past, with small differences.

It's a little weird.

I realize they basically did the same thing with Crystal Tower but I feel like it's not as egregious there because FF3's story is like... not as fleshed out as Tactics and 12, so 14 put more of its own spin on it there.

I definitely won't get all my jobs to 90 or even close before I burn out and unsub for another 5-6 months again.

Will have all my DoH/DoL there soon at least, and I'll probably get 2-4 more combat up there. Have Mch, Pld, Smn/Sch, Sge, and Nin at 90 so far and Rpr 2 levels away.

I plan on finally getting around to Eureka once I finish up crafting and gathering though.

https://c.tenor.com/4j3YA4jyxLIAAAAd/gacha-fgo.gif

Haha too many people were hoarding materia on my server so the prices fell by like 30-40k per X and 5k per IX.

Glad I sold mine early because I needed money to level my crafters.

The Aphorism mats are selling super expensive right now though. Made about 2 mil off those, not too bad.

CasanovaZelos posted...

I wish I had already reached 90 with my Ninja so I could actually understand what these changes are doing

Basically at 90 you got an ability that, every time you used Raiton, it gave you a new ability you have to use immediately after that you used twice (the proc is lost if you didn't use it).

It was very strong but kind of clunky to use, because both parts of it are gap closers and since you have to use them immediately it can force you into weird situations where you want to use it but can't, or don't want to use it but can.

What they did is split them into two abilities (which still combo off Raiton), one is a gap closer that is weaker, and the other is just a strong attack now. So you basically pick one or the other based on if you need a gap closer or not (its kind of like a reverse Red Mage backflip situation).

Because it's now two abilities, they put the Bunshin finisher, Hosho Ranryu, on the Bunshin button itself instead of being a separate button so as not to bloat hotbars more (honestly probably what it should have been to begin with anyway).

You shouldn't worry about it much anyway, you make way more money being consistent than in bursts.

Like yeah you might miss out on making like 15-30m gil on patch launch or something but just doing crafts in your spare time and putting them up on the market board regularly will get you way more in the long run.