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i kept winning so much that it rounded my 99% winrate back up to 100%

iv never lost

bingqilin

Alright it took me like four days of starting and stopping but I finally got through Oshi no Ko's premiere.

It was pretty awesome. I'm glad I watched it.

Knowing the ending adds a lot to how you view the owls and the impact the Eye had on them and the choices they made. Aside from the gameplay flow arguments presented, that's the biggest reason to do the ending first rather than how it actually affects the ending. You might or might not be applying your new understanding of the Eye back to the things you saw and the slides you watched now, but that's a bit different than knowing it as you are trying to piece their history together.

I thought it was a bit funny you SUDDENLY decided to go do the ending after that reason had more or less passed

ummm they are owls

i actually did not complete the DLC because it was too spooky

The main thing about the DLC is that it's a very long self contained area separate from everything else which makes it not fit very well to suddenly be separated from all these interconnected pieces just because you ended up in the DLC. That makes doing it in the normal playthrough not great

I'd still say do the ending but if you are ready to go to the ending and want to take that long detour right now before the ending, this probably is the best time to do that.

https://clips.twitch.tv/DelightfulPreciousScorpionCharlieBitMe-DRpfXtNs_zGWP0Cs

i don't know where the right place to leave this so red finds it but here we are

Thinking $18 is too much for these remastered gems is a braindead take.

That exp change is pretty nice. There were only a couple points I typically grinded in any of these games in my recent playthroughs and didn't mind it too much but there were certain points that probably woulda been nice. Is that unique to these versions?

All the way from FF1 through 9 in my playthroughs, this is a problem i've had in most games. If I have to spend like, 7 mp to do equal or lesser damage as a character normally attacking one target, and my character has 50-100 mp, and ethers are kinda rare, then I just don't even bother. Getting Fira which does decent damage but costs 22 mp while I only have 100 total also makes that basically unusable.

Unless I'm getting to the point that my character is clearing the entire field with a cast like that which dramatically speeds up battle time, or they have enough MP that I can spam without much fear, I'll just not bother using magic at all. They aren't contributing much and then have no resources if a situation happens where I actually want them to do something - so most of the time they just do nothing. An unfortunate position most FF games have had.

For some examples - I thought magic was garbage in FF7 generally - but Enemy Skill was super good with things like Matra Magic, Trine, and Beta sweeping fields for reasonable MP costs for when you have them. In FF6, Strago Magus's Aqua Breath was super good while regular magic was not much use until late game.

Quina's Aqua Breath is good but, but just like regular magic, the MP cost makes it a bit out of reach.

As someone who's omega down on the MCU, this looks pretty sick

Glad to see Talos isn't just being shifted to be the villain again, will be curious to see how we ended up in this whole situation when generally the skrulls are friendly. Are these an entirely different group of skrulls, or is there a schism in Talos's people?

that subtick stuff sounds horrendous. i'm booming hard over here. i need the leeway of slow tick refreshes for my shots to go through before these damn zoomers take me out. im gonna get subticked off the map.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw1O6jpASTI

Anybody know much about Last Epoch? I see it on Maxroll as another ARPG that's up and coming - apparently it's been early access and may or may not be moving towards full release soon? Wonder if it's worth checking out at all.

I've played a little.

My biggest expectation is that they wouldn't really know how to innovate and carry forward the two biggest and most important systems for games like this, skills and loot, and instead just lean on basic ideas in the past that worked and that'll cause the game overall to just putter out in the long term. The items do seem like they could be cool, but can't really tell how it will workout in endgame yet. Skill tree looks cool but I'm super skeptical this will actually be that interesting in the long run - I'm 100% expecting its just going to be "pick your 6 skills and then take the nodes next to them that make them good) which isn't going to be much of an improvement over D3.

But what I expected this game to excel was the polish on actual combat. As much of a mess Diablo 3 turned out system wise, it WAS just a blast at actually playing your character and blowing shit up. The skills all just felt great and satisfying to use. Every now and again I roll up a new Diablo 3 season just to get that feeling, because it's great.

It's a bit hard to tell how this will develop with higher level skills, but D4 feels really slow and clunky right now. I made a rogue and i spent so long just doing straightforward shooting an arrow or throwing a dagger 100x at enemies, or just doing a normal melee attack. When I started to unlock skills, I've only gotten some basic utility like a smoke bomb or a dash, so it hasn't improved much.

It's possible this will improve as the game progresses and more stuff is unlocked but it feels like it should be better at this stage. As someone who just spent last year playing Lost Ark, which has 10+ classes which have great class fantasy and it feels smooth and active to play - Diablo 4 has a LOT of ground to cover to come anywhere near how good combat should feel today. I've quit Lost Ark because of how bad the Korean MMO systems are but playing D4 just makes me want to go play my Soulfist and spiritbomb some mother fuckers.

I rolled a Sorceror briefly just to see if it is different and it actually does feel a bit better than the rogue with these spells, but not that much better. I'm prob not gonna play much this weekend, might try again with my favoured Necromancer next weekend to go a little harder and see how it goes further in the skill tree and with some legendaries.

dreamy night - lilypichu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXuNJ267Vss

FF1-3 have more fleshed out and relatable main characters than FFV.

so anyway, i started blasting

Hmm, would it be spoilerino to direct him to the synthesis shop in Lindblum?

I'm just a bit past this point in my playthrough and I annihilated this boss. I had to reload because I accidentally killed him while trying to steal.

No

I've been to Video Games Live a few times. What always happens is that after a night of playing all the most recognizable songs in gaming history, at the end Tommy teases that they are gonna play everyone's favourite song. The entire audience loses their shit that its gonna be One Winged Angel, and then it is.

If you are trying to reduce this to the most iconic jingle normies recognize then that might not be it but trying to minimize OWA in general is kinda silly. Not even top 50 iconic video game music?????

amogus

I can finally find out if they ever caught Naraku

I've been watching Blue Lock. I'm a sucker for sports anime. The formula is just built for success.

Fast X looks like it's gonna be good. they goin back to space

https://clips.twitch.tv/AgitatedBitterCookieOSkomodo-R9cEfVWTcZeH-SZ1

is it?

the monotone voices make this pretty painful to watch. AI actually could generate the voices though.

the technology isn't quite there yet here. maybe they are avoiding actual copyright striking but AI is capable of much better both voice and visual wise

my post is a cry for help someone please

scarletspeed7 posted...

Like they did with noted 2013 megastar Henry Cavill

I think if they tried to keep Cavill pinned into every animated series and video game in the last 10 years they woulda had a bad time

This "same actor thing" and trying to maintain continuity across games, animation, TV, movies etc all seems really farfetched. Unless they just give up on movie stars and can somehow lock some nobodies into doing all this work for 20 years, it just seems more work than will ever be sustainable.

And that's just acting talent. Imagine actually trying to main continuity and tone....

OK I watched Gunn's statement

This mfer really just told us he has a major long term plan for how this is gonna go and in order to convince us he really has a plan he shared Part 1 of Chapter 1. He wouldn't even give us a whole chapter.

Confusion might be that the top left Nightwing bubble kinda sounds like he might be replying to what they said here, but it's not, it's replying to whatever came before or even just starting the conversation to tell them to leave with no trouble. Then it just goes right and then the bottom one is last.

I have a wallet case like this -

https://www.amazon.ca/kwmobile-Wallet-Case-Compatible-TCL/dp/B08K8G8WP5

It's kinda supposed to double as a phone case and my wallet. i don't actually have a phone case on my phone, so it's smaller than it would be, so it combines with the wallet for one item rather than two separate things in my pocket.

The thing is this version sucks -

When I bought my phone, I got a case just like this, except it had a magnet, with part of it held in the case and the other part on my phone. so 90% of the time i'd have my phone stuck i the wallet, but if i did need to pull my phone out it was super easy to just pull it off the magnet, do whatever I need, and put it back on the case. I really love that set up.

But eventually that case got too worn down and I had to replace it... and this version isn't that wallet. It has no magnet; it's just a phone case glued to the fabric. Which means putting the phone in and out is a hassle of fitting it in and clipping in the phone case. Which I'm essentially not going to do throughout the day. The result is now I just have a phone with no case in my pocket and this wallet thats supposed to hold my phone but now is just mostly a waste of space!

The kiosk I originally got my phone from doesn't have any cases like what I got, and I havent' found a good replacement online.... but hopefully soon....

You can always tell when you are done stealing because if he fails, it says "couldn't steal" but if you got everything already, itll say "nothing to steal"

In that case, they both had two items, but importantly the little guy had a Silk Shirt and the big guy had a Mythril Dagger

this is neato but the soulsborne style applied to 80ies fantasy movies hits real hard

you'd get 4 cubes from his counter snap though already right? you can try and keep your opponent pacified a bit but that seems fine to me.

I'd suggest buying three of everything.

What would you say Joker changed that you didn't like? I've played Joker and liked it but didn't get immersed like before and I'm not really sure why, have been thinking about trying it again or just replaying the original DWM.

Fun fact when Joker came out like 15 years ago my best friend was dying in the hospital and I happened be at a Gamestop and saw Joker was mispriced at $5 so I bought two copies, one for me and one for him and gave it to him. He spent every waking hour at the hospital playing and really wanted to beat me but I effortlessly crushed him every time I visited and we'd battle. He brings it up every now and then. He can't wrap his head around it. He had nothing else to do except play the game and plan how to beat me but still couldn't pull it off \_()_/

I have a similar deck where I either use Devil Dinosaur or Infinaut to win a lane (good for completing win a lane with 1 guy quests)

I have Onslaught and Quinjet also but I think they are kinda bad. Devil Dinosaur gets buffed by Onslaught but IDK if it's that strong if I use both my turn 5 and 6 play and committed hte rest of the game to getting a full hand just for one lane.

Quinjet I put in since I'm generating all these cards for Devil Dino but don't always use him when I choose to go for Sunspot/Infinaut win condition, so I can try and dump the extra cards. But if that's happening, ideally I'm playing Sunpot on turn one to benefit from unused energy throughout the game, and benefiting Quinjet and a card generated requires both Quinjet and the generated card to have already been played so that you can start a turn with the card in hand with the reduced cost. So what does that look like. Sunspot turn 1, cable/sentinel turn 2, quinjet turn 3, play it on turn 4? Can't play it on turn 5 or 6 if I'm playing Inifinaut. White Queen cards never benefit from it. If i'm not playing Infinaut I'm playing Devil Dino so I don't want to dump the cards.

All in all, going to call this a failed experiment, but maybe I'll try a Quinjet focused deck without any of this baggage later.

transience posted...

#19. Dragon Warrior Monsters

My favourite DQ thing is this dumb monster breeding game. There's no story to speak of and every dungeon is randomly generated -- is this a roguelite?? -- but the DQ hooks get me real good. This game can occupy my mind and my time more than any other game on the list. I'm always looking for another one of these that's anywhere near as charming or as enjoyable, kinda like how I'm always looking for the next great strategy rpg. But there's only one DQM. Even the remake of this game doesn't do it justice.

This game captured my heart as a teenager. Capturing monsters and breeding them to get a new, stronger, different monster with traits of the parents had so much depth. I've also always been chasing this dragon but I've never gotten a similar experience except Jade Cocoon, which had an awesome feature that would actually fuse the appearances of monsters to create an in between monstrosity of combined body parts and colour schemes. Shocking they were able to achieve that on the PS1 but I've never seen anything like it since. Pokemon was dead for me after this, breeding is practically non existent compared to what I want after DWM.

Apparently, Monster Taming and Monster Breeding are actual genres with tons of games and I've been scouring Steam lately looking for something similar, but I haven't really found anything at all that gives me what I want.

I've never tried Shin Megami Tensei but I've heard it may be similar... I thought Persona was that so I tried Persona 5 which was a good game but not what I'd hoped, but apparently that's actually a spinoff?

SeabassDebeste posted...

rick and morty's voices are arguably the worst part of the show anyway

aww jeez

Dan Harmon's Rick and Morty impressions are pretty spot on - they'll probably just cast him as the voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A-qJx2ohXA&t=1780s

This probably won't be a big deal. By all things I've heard behind the scenes, Roiland contributed unique rough juvenile ideas that are kinda funny but don't really go the distance to make the show, but then the writers finetune it into an actual workable idea. Maybe that'll turn out to be the magic that makes the show, but I think they can do it without him.

Does Steam FF9 have a 3x speed? I haven't noticed it. FF8 Remastered had it as an easy toggle but it would randomly cause crashes so I unfortunately had to use it sparingly.

I just searched Trails of in the archive site and boy there is a ton of topics in here!

Board 8 has trained me to fly right by topic titles like these though. I always assumed this was one of those writing projects or some kind of board game and I almost never look at those. Never would have come to know there's a video game series there.

has gamefaqs added the feature to like posts yet? i can't find it

I looked up Bannings because I've never heard of him, he's from a game I've never heard of, which is the 10th game in a series i've never heard of.

Non-human's get some leeway. FF9 has a literal party member in the running but they get a pass.

I dunno if you've seen normal Deadpool yet but he's very similar - 1/1, if he gets destroyed put him back in your hand with double power.

if you can get him a few buffs like Forge +2 or Nova +1 etc, then destroying him a few times gets him out of control quick. i love him.

Qwenpool will be the same way except you trigger by figuring out how to On Reveal her rather than destroying her.

I just started this too! I've played through all the FF's starting with 1 and now I'm here. This game is absolutely so charming, I'm in love with it.

btw 8 was awful. might even beat out 2 for worst

your comment is kinda funny saying they went back to the cartoony style of 7. 7 felt like a massive tonal shift to being more serious and gritty in both artstyle and world building compared to 6. I think it probably only feels cartoony compared to 8 because the graphics weren't quite there yet, but I think being more like 8 was their goal. I'd say 9 is a return to 6 rather than 7