De_Narm

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s the best written Pokémon game?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Take my opinion with a grain of salt, for the most part, I’ve mostly enjoyed games released in the third generation and didn’t touch anything past the seventh. The increasing amount of handholding turned me off and degrading mega evolutions from the once advertised evolution of the gameplay formular to a mere gimmick broke the last straw.

  That being said: The Gamecube games hands down. The intro cutscene to Colosseum has more story than some generations did in their entirety and instead of you just stumbling into the plot you are actually an integral part of it. As an added bonus, both games feature final bosses that actually fight back. I think Colosseum is the only Pokemon game I ever struggled in.

  Of course, taking everything Pokemon into account, Mystery Dungeon is the only true answer, but I wanted to got with an traditional RPG first.

  If you insist on mainline games, you’re probably right about the fifth generation. These games have everything you would need, but the execution itself is fumbled - and it has to be, since they questioned their own franchise at its core. Logically speaking, N is right and everyone else is wrong.

  There are some interesting things in other generations, but it usually feels tacked on and isn’t actually relevant for 95% of the game. Like, the sixth generation had some nice ideas - but they are mostly implied or retold, without you having any urgency in the matter. Once again why I chose the GC games, two of the few games with you being part of the plot. In the early mainline games, you mostly happen to be there when story happens, in the later games, you sometimes only get told that story happens somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit plans to unify its search interface as it looks to become a search engine | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit? The site with a search so bad, I had to use external search engines? Great idea.

  Also, Reddit offers their own AI Q&A? The site that prominently poisend many Google AI summaries? What are they even smoking at this point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current fit in the Witcher 3, anything I should be on the lookout for?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, there’s a main story event in the DLC with the single best piece of equipment - the Professor’s spectacles. Buy them, it’s your only chance!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I require nothing more⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ain’t no home with enough open space for all kinds of push ups! If you’re daring, you could even do other exercises too!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do Vampires know they are immortal without first living forever?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The original one probably doesn’t know, but I’d consider myself functionally immortal for as long as there are other vampires who didn’t age for a couple hundred years more than I did.

  As the original one, however, I’d never stop checking for new signs of aging. Well, at least until I’ve had enough of life altogether.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monster Hunter Wilds game reviews hit "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam — can Capcom turn it around?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think they truly understand their audience. Everything before the end game is just a tutorial in MH. Yet, they usually ship the end game with the DLC .

  Then again, it sells anyways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New report suggests third-party Switch 2 game sales are "below estimates"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t have expected anything else. The two types of people I’ve mostly seen buying the Switch 2 are those who are really into Mario Kart and those who are into Pokemon, for the extra frame rate.

  Neither of these groups is known for buying 3rd party games - at least not the ones I know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did nightreign flop?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You see, that’s your problem. Companies don’t make games for any other reason than money. Since there are no microtransactions or subscriptions available, they quite frankly don’t care if you ever play the game after you’ve purchased it.

  They moved a lot of units already and considering it’s only a side game with reused assets, they made a profit. Therefore, the game by all means is a success for them, even if nobody would play anymore.

  Concurrent players also shouldn’t influcene future sales by much, since you only need 3 people at a time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite Tactical RPGs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, above all else.

  That being said, Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor 1 and 2 are awesome. They combine SRPGs with the usual SMT combat - I don’t think I’ve found something similar yet.

  You move around like you would in any other SRPG, then you can attack enemies in range to enter normal turn based combat - however, at most, you can only play out 2 full turns before combat ends. Afterwards the next unit moves. Each unit represents a squad of up to three characters you will be batteling with, usually a human and two demons. Depending on your squad, you may have different movement, range and abilities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capcom spent 2 years trying to get permission to use Toshiro Mifune's likeness in Onimusha: Way of the Sword⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You do not need them, yes, but I think it’s always fun to recognize people in games like Like a Dragon.

  That aside, it’s always been a thing in Onimusha. It wouldn’t be a proper revival of the IP without one of their biggest USP back then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Puzzle Pizzazz Humble Bundle has some 8 quality games for cheaps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems to be heavily inspired by Portal, so that’s par for the course. Portal was more about the writing - does the game deliver on that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve played them all! Although, I haven’t finished all of them. I’m planning on fixing that with the FFT remaster, however, I had to drop the original release.

  Personally, it goes FFTA > FFTA2 > FFT. I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who likes FFTA2 the most.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Funnily enough, I really didn’t like FFT. The only thing I could get behind was the story. However, I’m planning on giving the remaster another shot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually, whenever people talk about A, you get a few of the following arguments:

  • The story is bad/too childish
  • Laws/Judges are overall a terrible mechanic
  • Learning skills from equipment is bad
  • SRPGs need permadeath
  • Send missions are bad and just there to promote the game with having 300 missions

  Of course, I disagree with all of these. Actually, these are some of my favorite things about this game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

  People only ever talk about Final Fantasy Tactics and dismiss any of the other games. However, going by the original release, Tactics Advance is by far my favorite. It’s my favorit GBA game and at least in my Top 25 JRPGs, despite having played almost nothing else for the past 20 years. I like many of the things the game gets critiziced for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC Gaming’s Mascot Squad—who makes the cut?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re missing many of the most iconic games on PC, namely stuff like League of Legends, DOTA, WoW, Overwatch, Runescape… Kerrigan is the only one you’ve included.

  Now, to be honest, I haven’t touched most of these games myself, so I can’t tell you their mascots. But at least the MOBAs are bound to have one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s actually a common practise in some areas. I saw people doing it in London for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  God of War 2018 isn’t the same as God of War 2005, I’m not that old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't Oblivion and Morrowind turn the character model when you run in different directions?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These games are meant to be played in 1st person and 3rd person is just an after thought. In this case, yes, that’s maybe just laziness or more likely they didn’t have time for low priority stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't Oblivion and Morrowind turn the character model when you run in different directions?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is nothing hard about 3D rotation, at least not for people successfully building a 3D open world game of that scope. Their characters can turn and you have a direction, there is no difference to walking in that sense.

  If anything, they didn’t want to create animations for that and just turning them mid animation looked stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Bravely Default 2 Suck?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For the most part, the story is nothing to write home about and it’s not exactly the most beautiful game out there. However, I think the mechanics are great - I did enjoy my time with BD2 a lot and would recommend it.

  That being said, if you don’t enjoy the gameplay, it won’t change that much. You just get more classes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oblivion Remastered Impressions (and Discussion Thread)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve not yet touched it. But since you mentioned it: How does leveling now work? And more importantly, how does enemy scaling work?

  If I remember correctly, in the original, I felt strongest when I got Umbra at Lv 1 and just never levelled up.

  Furthermore, how are the character animations? I saw the Emperor in the Remake and while the model was quite nice, in combination with his facial animations, I actually preferred the original. What I assume to be the original animations paird with updated models seemed too uncanny. However, that problem could be specific to him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FuRyu announces school life RPG VARLET for PS5, Switch, and PC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never came around to Monark. Was it any good? I can’t quite remember what detered me back then. This does seem like it’s build on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 | Review Thread (92/100 OpenCritic)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are some impressive scores, sucks that I don’t own anything I could play it on. Hopefully there’s a Switch 2 port in the future, since I’ll likely get one once a new Xenoblade game is on the horizon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Official Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did they change anything meaningful, like removing that aweful level scaling?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Useless rant about Witcher 3 romance⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Earlier this year, I was in a similar predicament. I actually told Triss that I loved here. However, that only works if you take advantage of her while she’s drunk at the party. (She falls down while drunk and after you catch her, you can randomly kiss her.) I didn’t and locked myself out of romancing her early.

  I would have lost many hours of progress by going back and frankly, I didn’t want to go for that choice. I cut my losses and went with Yen. Since then, I finished the whole game, DLCs included, and I don’t regret my choice. She gets a lot better later on and I came to appreciate her. Her quests are good. I just think the game does a poor job introducing her. I don’t care for either the books nor the show and I only played Witcher 2 once on release. With my first playthrough of Witcher 3 starting last year, I knew literally nothing going in. Up until I could romance Triss, Yen was annoying and arrogant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Guess I’ll start with the same disclaimer: I don’t think I’m too smart for chess or amything.

  I always thought chess is kinda boring. Don’t get me wrong, it’s fun enough as a novice. It’s probably also fun for people who mastered it, I’m not denying that.

  However, for everything inbetween, it’s mostly about memorizing stuff. You just learn hundreds of openings and how to counter them. From what I’ve seen, a lot of intermediate players fall apart once they go off-script. It takes years until you’re good enough to strategize properly on your own, like a novice would, without some going “That’s the ‘double helix chin twister’” and beating you.

  It’s kinda like the problem multiplayer games often have for me. There’s a set meta and you either learn it or lose. To experiment yourself successfully, you have to invest a massive amount of time. Experimenting myself is the fun part. I’m don’t want to invest hundreds if not thousands of hours before I get to have fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Duskbloods [Nintendo Direct | Nintendo Switch 2]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming that’s correct, all my interest in the game died instantly. Which is sad, because it’s the only title I was truly interested in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Katamari creator says he left Bandai Namco to develop games with people from other countries⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m interested in trying everything the man does, Katamari is such a gem. Probably the best game in the “genre” of replayable stage-based games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are modern Final Fantasy games bad?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I don’t think so. They are just different and people don’t like change. For context, I’m a massive JRPG fan and I’ve played: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12 and 15. And of course tons of spin-offs. Planning on playing 7, 8 and 13 - don’t care for MMOs and 16.

  Out of these, I love of course the obvious early ones: 4 and 6.

  However, 10 is my favorite overall. It has the most solid gameplay (fuck ATB tbh) and a great story, even though we sideline Sin way too much for Seymore who I don’t care for. It’s biggest problem are the minigames though, I hate Blitzball and especially the Cloister of Trials.

  9 could be better, but the steam version crashes so much I didn’t get to finish it.

  Now, after 10 we got a lot more experimental:

  12 was fun but had massive problems. It’s biggest was the autobattle mechanic alongside the speed up in modern releases. You basically don’t play the game and you don’t even strategize. It’s always faster to sprint a few minutes around the map and get back with more levels which ultimately killed any interest I had in the battle system. But I dislike programmable party members in every game, so your milage may vary. The worldbuilding on the other was awesome.

  15 was a great game. I think it’s reception isn’t wrong necessarily because of how much it differs from trailers and such. However, I played it years after release and without having seen a single trailer. I had a blast throughout. The writting is among FF’s best, not because it’s such a great story, but because the relationships between the main party are so strong. I even liked the battle system - it’s different and has a lot of potential I think. It’s biggest failure is that you need to watch a series, a movie and read lots of other material to grasp the story - a lot of it isn’t in the game.

  16, I can’t say much about. I’m honestly not very interested in basic medieval fantasy settings, they’ve stripped out the RPGs mechanics and quite frankly I just don’t own a system I could play it on. Maybe I’d like it after all, I don’t know.