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- Comment on FuRyu announces school life RPG VARLET for PS5, Switch, and PC 37 minutes 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) 9 hours 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 1 day ago:
Did they change anything meaningful, like removing that aweful level scaling?
- Comment on Useless rant about Witcher 3 romance 5 days 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. 6 days 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 weeks 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 weeks 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? 1 month 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.
- Comment on An Extended Look at Pokémon Legends: Z-A 1 month ago:
I don’t think the mainline games will change anytime soon, just like they didn’t adopt the battle styles of the last Legends game.
Like, don’t get me wrong, I think the idea they are going for is good. But I also think it does look really clunky and would kill the PvP scene.
Personally, I’d go for a turn based and position based approach like Like a Dragon or Dragon Quest are experimenting with.
- Comment on "MIRU: Paths To My Future" Original Anime New Key Visual, PV 2 months ago:
Somehow there is no pair of two characters with the same artstyle on there.
- Comment on successful swap 2 months ago:
Ignoring all the other choices, why is his right arm green?
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds PC system requirements may yet fall, as Capcom aim to improve performance 2 months ago:
I’m still hoping for Switch 2 version. Rumor has it the S2 will be roughly equal to a steam deck and the game ran on there - albeit only with about 20 fps. Hopeful they get their stuff sorted.
- Comment on Treat taking a dump like a sport 3 months ago:
I guess you haven’t had bad hemorrhoids yet, lucky you.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 3 months ago:
Same game and roughly same amount of time. Just started the main quest in Novigrad.
Got both DLCs for like 3 bucks, which was nice.
- Comment on If we eat three meals a day, why do we poop only once? 3 months ago:
Everything from 3 times a day to once every 3 days is normal. It depends on how much you eat, how much of it your body can absorb, your fiber intake and some genetic variance too.
Your intestines aren’t a conveyor belt, things don’t constantly move. There are multiple muscles acting as a valve between different sections. Based on the factors above your body decides when to push stuff to the next section up until the exit.
- Comment on EU grocery shoppers 'fooled' by 'maze' of food labels: audit 4 months ago:
I do actually agree that Nutri-Score could incentivize companies to add better ingredient to their food. However, the high tolerance for sugar is a clear-cut sign for lobbying influencing the calculation, I’d presume. And of course, until you have to feature a Nutri-Score on your products, you could simply not include it instead of improving your products - which leads back to the original article.
But that aside, my main critique is that a score like this should be usable to compare different products. While an informed customer certainly does benefit from distinguishing an “A” from a “D” frozen pizza at first glance, just as many people may eat more frozen pizzas as a result of rating it “A” instead of going for inherently healthier choices simply due to their lower rating. After all, many people still think juice is inherently healthy despite it being the poster child for hidden sugar bombs.
- Comment on EU grocery shoppers 'fooled' by 'maze' of food labels: audit 4 months ago:
Done! Apparently I’ve fallen for a common misconception. My point however still stands, the score is mostly useless, just my reasoning got changed.
- Comment on EU grocery shoppers 'fooled' by 'maze' of food labels: audit 4 months ago:
European consumer rights group Foodwatch is pushing for Nutri-Score, currently used in France, Germany and a handful other countries, to be adopted across the bloc.
Nutri-Score is kinda useless. The score isn’t based on overall healthiness, it’s based on how healthy something is within its group. The group isn’t listed anywhere and its unclear what’s in there. You could find a frozen pizza with a higher rating than hummus or soft drinks being rated the same as bottled water. I don’t even notice the score anymore, I go straight to the ingredients and nutrition table.
- Comment on South Korea exam sees record number of re-takes after medical reforms 5 months ago:
I assumed as much, but had hoped for a less disgusting reason.
- Comment on South Korea exam sees record number of re-takes after medical reforms 5 months ago:
Why would you protest this change? 0.015% is still insane and it takes nothing from the ones away who already made it.
I’m really glad I wasn’t born into one of the hypercompetitive asian education systems, but on the other hand, I’m not sure the degrading western education systems I was born in are better. A happy middle ground would be nice.
- Comment on Who am I? 5 months ago:
I couldn’t name a single street in the city I’ve been born in except the ones I lived in. I’ve learned to navigate the city before I could read and never bothered to read street names thereafter.
The same goes for every other city, my mental map of cities includes almost no street names. Maybe that’s because I don’t use cars at all, after all I could name bus stations and such (some of which are named after streets, I guess, but I’ve still got no idea about how they connect or even which street of an intersection actually has the name).
- Comment on Watch. It. 5 months ago:
Honestly, the anime isn’t even good. Like, I’m still reading the manga, but I had to stop watching the anime something like 10 years ago.
I’ve heard it has gotten better since then, but watching the whole thing still includes years worth of episodes so thinly streched you could probably watch every third one without missing anything. And that’s on top of arcs so long, they are even a slog to read through (Dressrosa and Wano).
- Comment on Lore Of Disturbing Human-Pokémon Relationships & Hybrid Offspring Come To Light In Recent Game Freak Leaks 6 months ago:
I’m guessing the hackers are releasing both actual and fake leaks, just to get attention. Do some damage until GF gives in to his demands, wich I presume they made.
Just don’t believe anything that could easily be made up.
- Comment on Ubisoft Director Claims "Non-Decent Humans" Are Wishing For Company's Demise 6 months ago:
First, it’s NEVER right for a person or group of people, regardless of position or occupation, to wish for a company’s death.
I disagree on a fundamental level. I stopped reading shortly after that.
- Comment on Patient gamer philosophy 6 months ago:
It’s quite easy, actually. I usually play everything years after release, however, if I’m really into a certain series, I’ll buy it right away. If I don’t care for the wait, I probably don’t care enough about whether or not a sequel is being made.
Of course that only works if you don’t get hyped easily. I play a lot of games, but usually only 1-2 per year are released within said year.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 6 months ago:
Unfortunately, there is no instance matching my interests. There are a number of communities across different instances, but it seems like several people tried to make their own, didn’t interact with each other and all of them are long dead.
Once I find such an instance, I’ll switch over. I’ve been meaning to leave .world anyways.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 6 months ago:
While I do agree with the problems identified, I can’t help but think they also made forums a lot better. Due to the lower discoverability and higher effort to actually join communities felt more personal. You interacted with smaller groups and came to know specific people. I still have friends from back then.
On larger platforms, I never had that. Even lemmy, which is small in comparison has enough people that I barely even think about specific users. Let alone speak with them on a personal level.
- Comment on Final Fantasy 9 Remake May Not Happen as a Single Title 6 months ago:
Because people liked the idea so much with FF7? /s