Lurker > Kenri

Leonhart4 posted...

The difference between Delita and Edelgard is that you're still meant to root for and like Delita despite the terrible things he does.

Are you? I definitely didn't get this impression from the game itself!

Pity vote for Purugly, it's just a fat lil baby and doesn't deserve the hate it gets.

I like Cinccino and Snorlax and Lopunny a lot too though. All four have been solid team members in different playthings.

Azure Moon: 8/10
Verdant Wind: 4/10

Haven't played the others, not sure what my overall rating would be.

I've been paying $30-35 a year for PS+ and I still feel like that's too expensive, they'll definitely lose me with any kind of price hike.

Most of these are pretty cute but I'll go with Minccino

-hotdogturtle-- posted...

There's a lesser known interaction during this where you can bonk Charizard while it's circling, and it will get angry and fly away instead of landing. The Typhlosions go back to doing their regular stuff. Except now, 4* Typhlosion will get synergy from the second Typhlosion being in frame. This is so strange that people have questioned whether it's actually a bug in the game. There are no other known instances of "situational" synergy like this, and it doesn't even affect any other Typhlosion poses other than this 4*. You could take this same shot without doing the Charizard thing and it wouldn't be worth 5k.

This is so weird. Definitely sounds like a bug.

Decent batch aside from Aromatisse, Slurpuff, and Granbull.

Voted Alcremie.

NBIceman posted...

for such an easy game it felt oddly frustrating to play

This was essentially my take as well. "Basically functional" really is about the highest praise it deserves.

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

Well good news: game's easy
(to get into. that's a joke)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2022/02/23/elden-ring-difficulty-souls/

This does make it sound more appealing, as someone who liked Dark Souls but bounced off of Bloodborne and Demon's Souls.

I don't feel like I can rate this one but it really didn't do it for me, at least overall. I was super interested in the first half of the story: the characters are all great, the setting is insanely interesting, there's clear intrigue and high stakes. I've got nothing bad to say about it! Then the second half felt like it just went in a completely different direction and lost me. I got the first two endings (and watched the other two), read all the extra material that existed in the game, and still felt like there were some serious plot holes -- not to mention stuff about the world that I was really looking forward to learning more about but just seemed to be forgotten. Beyond that, I felt like the writing overall took a big hit in the second half, especially when it came to... like, everything involving Kaine.

andylt posted...

Looking back now it is so strange to think of pokemon with Clefairy as the mascot. I wonder what would have changed...

Fat Pikachu would still exist (blessed) but it would come at the cost of the existence of slim Clefairy (extremely cursed)

These are all pretty good (Jigglypuff shouldn't be a fairy though). Gotta go with Clefairy, probably a top 5 Pokmon for me.

Shout-out to the good timeline where Clefairy is Pokmon's mascot instead of Pikachu.

Either normal or hard depending on how good I am at the genre, but also shout-out to games that just tell you which difficulty is the intended or best experience

I won't rate it because I never finished it, but it sucks.

xp1337 posted...

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1496221147729481732

...praying for mexico too now

praying for this interviewer who is dumb enough to still treat Trump with respect and ask his position on geopolitics in literally 2022

Voted Spritzee. Flabebe is okay I guess. The rest suck.

8

I like this one a lot. Cool setting and an original take on an apocalypse story. Not quite as good as Bastion but still great.

Aerodactyl is my fave (imo it belonged in the rock poll though) but I like most of these a lot

I've never seen Cramorant before and that's a good ass Pokemon

It feels like cheesing because it essentially doesn't even trigger the fight. Frankly I didn't expect those items to even work on a "boss" but I kinda appreciate that they do.

Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Switch)

I saw the credits roll a few days ago but I wanted to complete the Pokedex, side quests, and post-game.

Overall I loved this game and played it kind of obsessively for the past week and a half. There's a lot to like about it: exploring is fun, catching Pokemon is fun, the boss fights are cool (though I wish there were more of them). There are a lot of nits to pick but mostly it's fine.

The one big issue is that the actual battle system is just. Fucking awful? For like, a lot of reasons. It's incredible that Pokemon has had the same battle system for 25 years, changed it once, and made it worse. Might as well have just not had Pokemon battling in the game at all.

NewerShadow posted...

took a break from the game for a bit, but today I finished off (post-game) the weather trio. Dealing with their overworld gimmick just was not fun for me, maybe I was dealing with it wrong but it was a lot of forced time-wasting which is lame.

I liked it for the trio because it felt hectic but doable, but Enamorous (possibly spoilers for you if you haven't caught everything yet?) was just a pain. Eventually I just cheesed her with stealth spray and dozens of smoke bombs.

Waluigi1 posted...

I don't see how anything involving Wally can be epic lol.

https://imgur.com/a/08vLME3

andylt posted...

Toxtricity is the clear fav from yesterday

Yeah but the people with good taste split the vote 5 ways so really it's a win for not-Toxtricity.

Anyway, for today, I don't care too much about the living rock Pokmon, they're fine but just kinda there. Relicanth, Shuckle, and Corsola are great though. Voted Shuckle.

BlAcK TuRtLe posted...

Just a reminder that noone has tried to refute this point, so I assume you now all agree that "asking for ID to vote is racist" is an absolutely baseless argument

FYI no one was trying to refute your point (before Chris decided to indulge you) because you have a history of being dense and annoying.

Hope this helps!

Zebstrika

The first 5 are all pretty good

It's either like 40 or 0 with rarely anything in between

Vespiquen 3*

2/10

Not actively horrible but what little is there is pretty annoying. Worst Mario story. I do love the setting, at least, but I'd credit that more to the art direction.

Huh, might be Yamper for me even though I haven't played the game it's in. These aren't great tbh

MZero posted...

There's full-screen tutorial about it that pops up when you unlock it, so I think he's asking if you just ignored that

Huh I don't remember that at all so yeah I must have missed it. I remember the line about Unown having an aura that repels non-empty Pokeballs or whatever but that's it.

Actually, I just checked and I do remember reading it, but I didn't realize the hints were already all there. I figured I'd find them throughout the game. And then I never opened the Unown-dex until like 30 hours later lmao

Waluigi1 posted...

??? Did you just not pay attention? Lmao

I guess not! I had never opened the Unown-dex before. Most of the ones I found were either from wisp hunting or just "that looks like an area that would have a secret".

Switch download speeds feel like a flash of literal lightning compared to the PS5 for me, lol. Like honestly 10-20x faster.

Glad you liked Xenoblade 1! I agree the Telethia plot twist was probably one too many.

I've caught 11 Unown and I just now found out there are hints for where to find them...

Not Dave posted...

Sneasler is so bad

Sneasler and Lilligant both look like they were poorly stretched in MS Paint

the official art looks way better than in-game and it's still pretty bad

Inviso posted...

Oh for fuck's sake. Okay. America specifically intervened in Central and South America, staging coups and installing pet dictators because America was able to do so to maintain their power and authority in the Western Hemisphere. We were able to do this SPECIFICALLY because we did not have any competing regional powers to fend off (either via conflict, or diplomatic alliances), allowing us the ability to run roughshod over our southern neighbors. Happy?

Ecstatic, thanks for asking!

Inviso posted...

In that regard, it was very easy for America to consider an isolationist policy, because we didn't have to worry about encroachment as much from foreign powers, the way Asia and Europe did.

We were the ones doing the encroaching, my guy

The word you're looking for there is "racist" then, not isolationist. Especially if you're de facto accepting Monroe Doctrine, "our half of the globe" framing as compatible with isolationism and not the opposite of it.

But my ??? was more about how something can happen "throughout the 20th century" but also end in 1941

These are all great except Poipole kinda

But Koffing stands above the rest

Espeon posted...

You had isolationism throughout the 20th century that only ended when the Japanese attacked us directly.

???

Probably an unpopular opinion but Dragonite is one of the worst gen 1 designs (and Salamence is a pretty bad gen 3 design too!)

The rest are pretty solid though.

LordoftheMorons posted...

Its not even the city, its because of a lawsuit from some local NIMBYs who were mad that the university was building more housing

City was part of it until they got paid off!

Xeybozn posted...

Everybody knows that. The thing is people don't actually want to fix any of the homelessness/environmental/etc problems they cite as reasons to not build new stuff. They just use all that as an excuse to prevent new building simply because they don't want it. Cities are doing exactly what their residents want, even though what they want is stupid.

Yep, and I think it probably all goes back to most of people's wealth being in their homes. Of course they don't want housing prices to drop. It's selfish but it makes sense.

I'm not sure why it should be the college's problem? Those students could all just move to Berkeley anyway even if they don't get admitted. If the city wants to fight homelessness it needs to actually provide more low cost housing, not order a college to admit less people. Very simple solution. Weird that so few cities in America can figure it out.

These are pretty much all bad, aside from Dragonair, which is great

Old dad Riki is pretty good, unfortunately mascot character Riki is absolute trash. Very conflicting character.

Always Gible, though I don't like the rest of its line as much

I like almost all of these, the first 2 Hitmons are great designs, Hariyama is the eternal RSE pinch hitter, and Mienshao is super underrated. Most of the rest are good too! Gotta support Mienshao but it's very close.

Xeodrifter is cool. Can't go wrong for a couple bucks.

I played Steamworld Dig 1 ages ago and it's fun but I really hate the aesthetic.

Shovel Knight: King of Cards (Switch)

So I think this was my least favorite of the 4 campaigns. The stages themselves were fine, but I really did not enjoy Joustus at all and never felt like I got any good at it. Luckily you can kind of brute force your way through with powerful cards and Chester's cheats.

I didn't think I'd end up playing all 4 stories in a row like this, but I wasn't really up to starting some new game and this was simple and familiar. Taken as a whole Shovel Knight is a really, really good package of game(s).

Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment (Switch)

I'm glad this campaign was a bit more transformed than Plague Knight's was (though that one was fun too). It felt like a different game, even though the levels and bosses were still pretty similar. This might be my favorite so far, so we'll see if King Knight changes that.

They didn't really have a choice since the alternative is to admit they've become the party of domestic terrorism.