Ketram

The reality is that it’s been 20 years since many of those “best games ever”. 20 years is a huge chunk of your working life. It’s just not realistic to keep the same people that whole time, or even a percentage of them.

People don’t want to think about the reality of it, they just want content to devour.

I thought remake’s combat system was great and it was my game of the year when I came out. FF16 was also great for me, but it was never going to make everyone happy, it had far too many issues and was a focused action game.

Ff7 rebirth though- holy shit, it was just too fucking long. Too exhausting to play. So much shit to do it was overwhelming and SO, SO much filler. So many terrible, stupid story decisions undercutting emotional moments and jumping the shark on itself. I went from loving it because it was more remake to hating it because of many of the changes and the writing. Just…exhausting.

Square just seem like they are missing hard because FF16 was too focused, and FFRebirth is too big and up it’s own ass.

Tbh, I was part of a very LGBTQA+ group of people, but I was one of the very few just straight people. I made out with a lot of dudes and that was enough for me to tell that I wasn’t into it. Didn’t feel that same heart-thumping feeling that I feel with a person of the opposite sex.

I do still kind of wish I was bi just to see what it’s like. But I’m straighter than an arrow

I do love last epoch a lot. It’s uniquely fun just because it’s doable just to make builds yourself and find enjoyable and good synergies and take those builds all the way to endgame.

Slightly off-topic: might be alone in this, but I actually really enjoyed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. It’s nice, self-contained, has some fun action, some cool scenes, and it turned me on to Jake Gyllenhaal and I’ve liked his work ever since. It’s Generic and schlocky but it’s better than the usual videogame movie garbo.

It fits nicely into that B-movie slot IMO.

Starfield was garbage IMO. I didn’t even pay for it and wanted my money back in less than 3 hours.

But I AM still hopeful for Elder Scrolls 6. The weakness of Starfield is exploration is barely a thing; incredibly boring procedural generation is the cause. There is little to no value getting excited exploring the world and the incredible world of Skyrim is what makes it good.

I seriously doubt Bethesda is dumb enough to try procedural generation with the next elder scrolls game, and if they are then it will be dead in the water just by association. But a game similar to Skyrim will likely still find a stronger audience, even if just for the return to form.

Oh true. My bad, was thinking in context of old shows and forgot the topic.

For my kids cartoon, would probably be Static Shock. The animation is way tougher than I remember, but it was still really fun!

I’ve been watching Hercules: The Legendary journeys from the 90s, and I watched them a ton as a kid, too. Love most episodes still even tho Kevin Sorbo is now a shitmonkey. They honestly had really positive messages, and it’s just campy enough for the costumes and ancient animation to still be fun.

Yeah there are artistic scenes in samurai Jack that wow me even all this time later. Great show.

Yeah this is all I want. I can barely afford to eat normally right now, if this got priced reasonably I’d be all over it.

Hmm okay, high TTK makes me more interested. I was a big fan of sombra too. I’ll def give it a chance when I get access.

I’ll admit I’m curious. If a friend of mine invited me I’d try it, but I worry my flick shooting isn’t good enough. I was always better at overwatch since it involved characters that could be played well without good shooting ability.

Oh man, I hadn’t heard of emudeck and was just about to start running emulation on my new deck. Any other amazing tips like this? I have run emulators for years but only on windows on my desktop.

Oh man, just made my own comment on black and white, and I assumed I was the only one. Black & White 2 is still the best God game out there for me and it was so much fun.

A bit of an obscurer one, but I would love another Black & White, based on Black & White 2. It’s a god game where you control a giant bipedal creature, control a city (or several) and battle against other gods through architecture and combat. You can train your creature to do things you prefer and expand your influence however you like.

It had a good/evil morality system, is completely winnable by being a pacifist, and has a really cute style of humor.

No other God game has quite scratched that itch and it’s still fun to this day almost 20 years later.

Personally, I felt like he was a more “normally” designed souls boss fight in a game that feels FAR better fighting human enemies. Once you get parry mechanics down you can kinda cruise through most of sekiro, but with demon of hatred he involves WAY more dodging and jumping in a game where those just don’t feel as good. Combine that with a huge healthbar, 3 phases essentially, and it was kind of exhausting to play compared to other bosses. It turned into a lot more trial and error like a normal souls boss, where you kinda just bash your head against them until you learn all the moves.

Did I hate it? No. But I have no desire to fight it again. It was fun as a 1 off fight, whereas I would happily fight most of the major bosses in sekiro again no problem. It’s a fun change of pace (and I like how powerful some of your gadgets like the umbrella can be in that fight) but it’s not something I’d want to do again.

Anything above basic content in 14 (which is lowest common denominator content) can honestly be quite challenging, and savage and ultimate content is very very difficult content overall. It’s all about how much time and effort you’re willing to invest, the first 70 levels of content is pretty braindead so anyone can beat it.

Curious if elder scrolls online is similar because I honestly don’t know, haven’t played it in a decade.

I hope this doesn’t feel as “required” as tenderizing did in iceborne. It always felt like a chore to tenderize where I was going to hit just to get good hitzones. Hopefully this is the reverse where you naturally generate weak points then have the option to exploit them, making it less a thing you HAVE to do just to play the game normally, and more an additional bonus thing skilled hunters can exploit.

It’s a pretty fun story focused game. The visual quality can be quite astounding, especially really nice facial animations. The combat is nothing terribly special, but it’s serviceable to get you to the next cutscene which are, on a whole, really good and well written.

It’s also got a myriad of points where the game essentially tests you to choose the right dialogue and choices to get better outcomes. Its actually a pretty fun “choice” based game where there is just enough reactivity in the game to your dialogue that you think about what you are saying before you pick it.

On the whole, I have only fond memories of the game. It’s worth this sale price at 11.99 IMO.

Have to agree, a lot more meaningful weapon skill expression. The difference between a decent Nioh 2 player and an incredible one is night and day. Whereas most competent sekiro players at least have the parry timings down. Sekiro is a lot of fun too, though. Just a very parry focused game.