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Nobody listens to you about anything though. Anyway everyone knows what to expect from a Dragon Quest game. There's never any surprises in store really, unless it's that one which is an MMO. I'd be lying if I said I was in love with this but its exactly what I expected it to be and that's fine. I just wish the music was better, it's the only thing I have which is a major criticism really. I like the classic feel. I love that they keep the same icons and character model designs from older games. I like that the spells have names like kablam and boom and zap. My decision to play with strong monsters has made progress quite slow tho. There's major pushback from generic enemies. I'll probably turn it off if it gets too much. Anyway this is a gen defined by its horseshit tech it feels like and its good to see DQ is not shying from the competition

Honestly the games aren't bad. KHI just aged bad and aged really quick I only made this post tho cause this popped up again on my utube recommends and it's still good stuff and pretty much what I think when I see a KH cutscene

Yea but I didn't want to dominate the discussion with TL;DR I was merely waiting for maf to watch it and dismiss it with a pithy putdown calling it garbage for millenials and take the heat off me first.

But Nier has a single throughline. A message embedded within the story. Bandersnatch has its message embedded outside of the story and more within the story-telling form it chooses to use (CYOA), which means you really don't need to complete it if you notice the pattern after a couple endings. The message to this as you say is illusion of free will but implied by that same message is the idea that someone like me can say "fuck this shit" and walk away because I have a poor relationship with what's going on on the screen I had a whole post written up on this actually but deleted it cause I wanted to stop being the guy who posts the most and the most negatively on a thing on a topic. But I guess here too free will is an illusion init.

I'm sorry, we got off on the wrong foot. Let me try this again Ahem Kingdom Hearts II is much better than Kingdom Hearts I and the GBA game is probably cool too but I never owned that handheld.

Nobody's played the GBA game though. Ain't noone got time to play a card-based RPG. KHII has a steamboat Willie world it's the best.

Kh2 actually has some substance believe it or not It plays pretty well. Not on a DMC level or anything but it's the best JRPG-action game out there as far as mechanics go That Sephiroth fight is great.

I wish you could turn off the overworld music but keep everything else. All the music is generally tolerable except the overworld which is ridiculously annoying and repetitive.

I played KHI back in 2006 I think, right after playing II It had really horrible map/level layout and a combat system that didn't really allow you to do anything But KHII? That game felt great to play. The Disney stuff was better, everything was a big improvement over 1. But that's also where the story became extremely stupid. I know I played in the wrong order but I strongly recommend against trying to actually catch up on these games or take the story seriously. Just enjoy the cool fights and Donald Duck setting Sephiroth on fire.

From what I heard of the orchestral it's not even just the midi it's that the arrangements aren't inherently that interesting. The guy who does the music is way over the hill. For me mostly I can't be ignorant cause I already played VIII on PS2. VIII had a lovely soundtrack, but only on PS2 and only in EU and US Territories. After that the composer started getting litigious and stopped Square putting that version of his music in the game's, especially if they released outside Japan. Cause he's a cunt. But I'd recommend VIII still to people like maf who might be jonesing for more after XI. It's a bit more of an open world and it doesn't seem like it loses much complexity compared with this (but I'm too early on to really judge).

I played a bit of this. I enjoyed it, but I had to turn the music down to 4 because the midi was so piercing it overwhelmed the dialogue. I might just play the whole game with podcasts and custom soundtracks, it's just hard to listen to. But the mechanics are fine. Very classic. Unfortunately that also includes the save system I picked no xp for easy fights and tougher enemies cause I'd heard the early game is mindless without it. I'll probably turn those off once the grind kicks in.

Well the narrative is sort of built around that whole idea where everyone who ever read those CYOA books like Fighting Fantasy would always just go back in the book to choose a different path if they messed up. Or cheating basically. I'm not a huge fan of the series but the thing I like about BM is when it's a critique on how we distract ourselves with technology and media. Then it finds and shows what it thinks is the worst case scenario of our digital dependence. Some of this stuff has already been borne out in reality (the episode where a bear runs for office). But Bandersnatch doesn't have anything like this. It all just refers back to itself and for all the possibilities it ends up feeling more limited somehow.

One thing I'll say is it's rare to see a show take on the subject of videos games, much less the technicalities of developing them and then talking about it in a convincing way When Colin's game crashes and he's like "oh we overran the video memory buffer or whatever" it's a realistic enough string of tech jargon and not the usual rubbish you get on programmes like this But when it dispensed with the stuff about development and burnout and went into this metaphysical rabbit hole I got very bored cause it was all in service of winking and nodding at the storytelling form but at the expense of having a strong narrative. After a point of reading, watching and playing lots of "meta" books, shows and video games stuff like this becomes kind of lame. I also just feel like Life is Strange is in a other league to this type of thing. Well that's my "hot take" as the kids call it. One dwarf out of five.

Ok well I can't do that now because it will make me do all the work again and pick all the old choices. It just seems like a lot of work for some very basic metaphysical ponderings. If the meat of the message here was more compelling I'd be prepared to do the work but this is my least favourite of these Black Mirror things I think (My favourite being that one where they are all in a virtual coma)

I don't know. Maybe I picked bad choices but the subject matter of it made for stressful viewing and every path felt like a lot of work for more misery Interesting formal experiment/experience but narratively lacklustre lacking the "oh shit" punch of other Black Mirrors. Which is probably cause it got diluted by all those paths I suppose

Apparently if you sell it you automatically get the benefits of crafting it too or something That part of the game is just rubbish. The part I like about hunting is it's the most video-gamey part of the game. The most open ended. People found crafting small game arrows one-by-one out of bird feathers tedious but that's the part I loved. But the rewards are rubbish, even for legendary stuff. Definitely do not bother with hunting if act itself is boring to you and you just want the benefits. Also you need to sort of "scan" every animal to see the best weapon to use for a clean kill and things like this.

I am a Red Dead expert ask me anything I have all the answers feller ? Except to the question you just asked cause I don't know either. I just killed animals cause I liked killing animals. The hunting doesn't really offer much in the form of tangible benefits really other than food while out and about. To sell to Pearson you just leave the animal on the horse and you can sell it or something like that ?

I met a PUA once. Not intentionally, just went to some sort of event* in London and other people who were there recognised him as mildly famous from Youtube. Guy was super predatory but not in the way you might think. Predatory on obviously 'beta' guys, trying to zone in on them and start a discussion which would inevitably come round to "hey maybe I can help you with a thing". Also he managed to convince another dude he should start taking drugs again even tho a previous relationship fell apart due to it. Because he was good enough at giving off this vibe like he knew what he was talking and dudes who are rudderless are gullible enough to take advice from anyone who is a good enough bullshitter. Guys name was Johnny something or another. Strange surname that I've completely forgotten now. *Just to be clear it was a random meetup group on Meetup.com, not lechers anonymous or something like that.

It runs at an unlocked framerate but doesn't really hold or even reach 60 fps most of the time (in combat especially). The framerate fluctuates a lot, it isn't great. Had a kind of herky jerky presentation when I tried it anyway (even just a few frames will do that). But the resolution mode is solid and tends to lock to 30, which is all you need for that game. edit just to explain my position a bit better, when I played GoW performance mode it felt like it was floating between 40 and 60 a lot. 30 and 60 divide evenly into the refresh rate of our tvs and a game that sticks to either of those numbers will have a really smooth presentation. But something like 45 fps and up and down around that range tends to invite enough inconsistency and judder that can be distracting sometimes.

Put maf in a maf sandwich room and squish him. Squish him until the brains smush out.

VII is a nice idea that fails its execution. Those mold men might be the worst enemies in the entire series. Worse than the stretchy arm guys in Code Veronica and the whatever the fuk that was you fought in 6 I agree with this very well put review

REmake is a remake of the first Resident Evil game. It's up on PS4 PSN under the name "Resident Evil". No subtitle or anything

REmake is the best survival horror-ey one. Best layout, balanced difficulty (Re2 is too easy). RE4 is the best overall game but a different thing Never liked these Revelations games. They felt cheap. REVII is solid but fails to have a single interesting enemy outside of the boss fights (even then I'd only call the bee lady one actually good) and turns into a shooting gallery by the end. But super solid as a proof of concept for what REVIII could be. Or you know, just remake 1 again and build it as an FPS horror in the VII engine. Imagine that. You fix the rubbish enemy problem of VII and fix the camera angle issue of 1. Bam

Everyone should play REmake. Blakey do your goddamn zombie homework.

It's hard to know how to manage your power in this game cause it seems like it is scaling towards you using a certain number of those candies I think. Or doing catch combos