Board 8 > SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Bachelorhood's End Edition [SELF]

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Quote of the Year, Female Villain Rivals Edition
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LeonhartFour posted...

Quote of the Year, Female Villain Rivals Edition

Of the 1980s

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Team Rocket Elite posted...

In an alternate world line SBAllen allows users to select the Rivalry Rumble finals percentage with a slider... and some people drag it the wrong way.

no need for an alternate world line when we get rivalry rumble 2
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damn gacha

I knew my odds of rolling Okita were low with the resources I had on hand but it's just insulting to get like 4 4* CEs and F/Z Berserker (yay np2 i guess) and that's it out of ~40 rolls.

couldn't even insult me with a 5* CE troll. =(

the return of knk luck though i guess i was less invested in this than that so not the worst time for the comeback. can probably get one more 10-roll later on in the banner but still

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also who are these guys voting series and villains? that's cruel and unusual punishment.

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My guess is the people voting for those weren't here for the first ones and don't know any better.

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proud voter of series right here

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I voted "something completely different" but regret it and should have gone with Game of the 90s.

There are other things that I'd prefer, but 90s would probably be a lot better than a random new thing!

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I also cant for the life of me remember if I was actually here for the original GotD. I dont have any concrete memories of it and its plausible I was taking a break from the site then, but Im not sure.

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I have little to no memory of most of the contests since like the 4 ways got introduced, i just kinda lost interest in them

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My contest memory is pretty good, but multiways are tougher.

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Nintendo dropped a trailer for a new Paper Mario, called The Origami King. I watched the trailer, and I think it's a really creative concept.

I just need to know RPG Bowser is back first. Also, it's coming out in two months! That feels like Nintendo doesn't have a great deal of confidence in it.

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It's funny that me being negative about FFVIIR before it comes out is met with resistance but if I join in for Paper Mario hate I'm just gonna blend in.

Negative opinions aren't allowed unless they're board approved.

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Maybe try having good opinions...!

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I feel like that doesn't even work here! Talking about speculative opinions!

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I mean, lots of people were skeptical and negative about FFVIIR before it came out!

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Yeah but I still remember the people jumping in to accuse everyone of being nostalgia nerds.

Even had someone mention my posts in the FFVII topic even though I made 5, I guess because they stood out that much? Feel like people who aren't a fan just stopped talking. Probably because of the episodic release and a "let's see" attitude. The gameplay seems well regarded at least.

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FFVIIR is good! Some strange decisions, to be sure, but good.

I do wish most of the boss fights weren't quite as drawn out. That's probably my main gripe in terms of the gameplay. It feels like a lot of JRPGs are going for the epic multi-phase MMO boss these days though.

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Leonhart4 posted...

I do wish most of the boss fights weren't quite as drawn out.

let me tell you about easy mode

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To be fair, I also do not have a great deal of confidence in "Paper Mario game released after 2007".

Though I admittedly haven't watched the trailer yet.
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The Mana Sword posted...

let me tell you about easy mode

Ha, I would seriously consider it on a replay.

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I feel like a lot of RPGs don't really nail the balance between where I want difficulty to be. It's usually the random battles that can get too painfully long, though. Like Xenoblade 2 for example - the regular battles can take a couple minutes, for minimal rewards, which isn't that fun. But I love the longer boss battles and would like keeping the same difficulty there. Some RPGs are good at addressing this by giving you a skill/spell that wipes random battles easy but isn't too good against bosses. I like that sort of thing.

Persona's kinda the same. The challenging bosses can be fun, but the dungeons take forever with all the battles you fight...
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I agree in a lot of cases.

Though, Persona/SMT to me is actually an exception. I feel like the battles themselves are relatively quick but are still difficult enough to keep me invested--at least in early/mid game anyway. There can be a lot of them though, yeah. Also dying to BS like random enemy who gets 1 turn and casts Hama on the MC kinda sucks.
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Most RPGs have a curve where random battles take longer at the beginning because the game doesn't give you crowd control abilities right away. Persona definitely starts going a lot faster once you have spells that hit everything. Skies of Arcadia might be the biggest offender in that regard

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From what I played of P3 nothing ever took long.

You either got a first hit and destroyed the enemy in one turn, or they ambushed you and you get a game over before you get to move.

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Hmm, I still feel like Persona games are a lot faster on NG+/easier difficulties. Maybe more to do with the number of enemies you fight there?
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Remember when Super Paper Mario was the one people disliked?

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I do, but I always liked Super Paper Mario! It had the soul of the series, even if it was a step back in some ways.

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I always liked it too! Although obviously less than the first two, but that's a high bar. Recall loving the Mr. L plot in particular.

It's just funny to recall when everyone complained about having pixels. Today I'm sure we'd love them back.

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Super Paper Mario is great. Might even be my second favorite Paper Mario game? TTYD still the strongest though.

I only have experience playing Persona 3 on Hard difficulty, but I will say that the mini-bosses took absolutely forever sometimes. (Which still feel a lot like random battles since they're just big versions of normal enemies) Can't say I felt the same way about the normal encounters, although I had to do significantly more normal encounters for grinding/farming purposes than I ever had to do on lower difficulties.
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My mom bought one of those Shark robot cleaner things that automatically cleans your floors or whatever, and they give you the option to name it. Since I'm in the middle of a Futurama rewatch (finished season 2 last night, by the way), I went with Bender.

My dog Maya is not a fan of it, but she's a pretty skittish dog in general.
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Did we get any new users this contest?

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were any of the people who posted in the Stats Topic new? I honestly don't know.
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Started watching Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files.

Waver got busy after Fate/Zero. Now he teaches the Golden Deer while he pulls a second job as a detective. even mages need second jobs in this economy.

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Case Files is pretty good. Didn't quite love it, but it has some great aspects.
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LeonhartFour posted...

were any of the people who posted in the Stats Topic new? I honestly don't know.

dante is probably the best new user this year

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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78689587

new topic

(I'm still not getting married for 9 more days but yeah)

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Been playing through Spider-Man. Has some good parts, and I'm getting pretty close to finishing it, but I must say: holy crap the stealth is AWFUL in this thing. Every segment playing as Miles is torture, and Mary Jane's terrible three quarters of the time too (she at least has interesting stuff happens when playing as her, and the part where you can summon Spider-Man with her was actually fun, gameplay-wise).
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Yeah, the stealth parts aren't great most of the time. The MJ stuff was definitely better than the Miles Morales stuff though, for sure.

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I need to try to get caught up on Kaguya-sama and pick up Dragon Ball again now that the contest is over.

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Ended up finishing Spider-Man. What a way to end! Some of the story beats didn't really hit with me, releasing everyone from the Raft felt more lame than cool but everything about that final battle/ending sequence was fantastic. Wow.

The lowest point of the game was the stealth sections. The ones with Spider-Man himself were mostly fun, since getting caught just meant combat which was all well and good, but the MJ ones were boring and lame (other than the cool story stuff and the actually fun one where she could summon Peter), and the Miles ones were abysmal (and had zero story value on top of that). The best part of the game was the traversal. Making moving around fun is a huge plus for an open world game (and any game, really, but especially open world games), and they nailed it... mostly. Webslinging is super fun for about half the game, and it's still enjoyable in the second half, but it kinda loses its luster? There's no progression, so it's not really all that exciting later on. I kinda feel the same about the world in general. Recreating New York like that is an incredible feat, and combined with the fun of webslinging I enjoyed just going around doing the random tasks for a while, but I was never really engaged with the world? I never felt a drive to explore. I barely learned where anything was - it was always just following target markers. I would've been perfectly happy with a smaller map, since I didn't care about most of the details. A few of those tasks probably could've been excised too - I did basically everything up until the prison section, and there was no reason for, say, the pigeons to exist.

Other aspects: graphics very pretty. Puzzles alright, except tower puzzles bad. Story solid with some great parts. Bosses eh, except the final battle and the Electro/Vulture fight. Kingpin fight at the start too hard.I feel like I should've liked this more, but there were some points where I really hated the game and wondered why I was even playing it. Like why is Sable even in this game? Their role was stupid. Bleh. At least it ended on a high enough mark to leave a positive impression. Not sure I'd be too interested in a sequel, especially since they seem to be going with Miles Spider-Man rather than Spider-Gwen ;_;.
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Stealth sequences in non-stealth games are almost universally bad and I really with devs would stop doing them.

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They teased Silver Sable in the main game to get you to buy her DLC campaign (which I still need to do eventually)!

I never really got bored with the movement or the combat. It always felt so good to me. Got the Platinum for it and everything!

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Haha, I've heard nothing about bad things about the DLC from everyone who's played it, even from people who loved the game.

The movement and combat always felt good, yeah. It just stopped exciting me later on.
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Yeah, I think making them completely separate from the game instead of trying to integrate them into the game itself hurts it because the free flowing sense of New York is one of the game's biggest strengths.

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Leonhart4 posted...

pick up Dragon Ball again now that the contest is over.

Find those dragon balls! Look out for them all!

English versions of japanese openings shouldn't have gone away.

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I just started Sable's DLC and she goes to 11 right off the bat.

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I do miss English adaptations of anime OPs, yes.

Sailor Moon the best

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Man, I hate having to force feed my dog her flea and heartworm medicine every month. She's too smart for her own good sometimes, so she doesn't fall for the "hide it in some food" trick anymore.

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I am tired.

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8 more days whoa

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