Underwaterbob
@Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Just in time 2 weeks ago:
In the first pictures, the knight would clearly be of the “upper” class. Your chances of being some peon in a field are much, much higher.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 weeks ago:
Final Fantasy isn’t continuous. Aside from races, the occasional character name, and some thematic elements, the games are not connected at all. PS2 has two of the best: 10 and 12.
Of the two, 10 is a more traditional turn-based experience with notoriously awful-in-a-good-way voice acting and a very typical FF plot. It’s not really a spoiler to say that you end up killing god. It features some of the most egregiously awful mini games to grace the franchise. And if you want some of the best gear in the game, you will be committing a not -insignificant amount of time to frustrating button mashing.
Square tried a whole bunch of new stuff with 12 including realtime, MMO-like combat and a much smaller and focused narrative that is mostly a side story occurring inside a larger narrative. The voice acting is infinitely better than 10’s, and there are no obnoxious mini games.
They’re both still worth playing. The PC ports don’t add all that much to the games over what you can do with them emulated. In fact, I bet save states make some of the mini game awfulness of 10 better.
I did not intend to write an essay…
- Comment on Piegoth Ur 3 weeks ago:
Bocca Della Verita!!
Stick your hand in there and say something. If it’s a lie, lose your fingers.
- Comment on THEY'RE EVOLVING 4 weeks ago:
I will search that! Sounds cool. Why are there no giant mud dauber horror movies I wonder?
- Comment on THEY'RE EVOLVING 4 weeks ago:
That’s cool. Mud daubers are extremely chill and will only sting you as an absolutely last resort. They also are great at keeping the spider population down. Which I’m a little torn on because I love spiders since they eat mosquitoes, and mosquitoes can fuck off and die afaic.
- Comment on GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago 1 month ago:
I tried to play through it recently. Game was OK, but fuck their stupid launcher. I want nothing to do with GTAO, so why do I have to load into its menu every single time I go to play the game and suffer through a bunch of ads to play a fucking single player game I paid for? I uninstalled about ten hours in. I might pirate it. It’s probably a better experience.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Sequel 'Silksong' Crashed Game Stores, as $20 Price Irks Competitors 1 month ago:
They won’t because the bullshit is profitable. Yeah, Baldur’s Gate 3, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and Hollow Knight: Silksong are all fantastic games and sold very well, but their numbers don’t even come close to something like Grand Theft Auto or Fortnite. The bullshit will continue as long as “gamers” keep foisting money at it.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 1 month ago:
I used to play inverted. If it wasn’t inverted, I’d flail around helplessly. Then one day, inverted didn’t feel right, and I had to switch. It’s been that way ever since. Sometime during the PS2 era I think. I played equal numbers of PC and console games up to that point. Dunno why it happened.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 month ago:
Yeah, I remember a few sad runbacks with populations looking pretty sparse…
- Comment on quiet place 1 month ago:
Yeah, and the waterfall blocked their hearing entirely. Might be a good idea to go live there, even. Especially if you’re, y’know, pregnant.
And some random guy in his house discovers the sound that messes them up. Apparently the military failed to try playing loud sounds at aliens with super sensitive hearing. Just never occurred to them to try that I guess.
Annddd, if their hearing is that crazy sensitive, they’d be jumping at every random raccoon fart and bird dropping. There’s no way they could pick humans out over any distance. Sound is just a pressure wave through a medium, and doesn’t actually get that far with an appreciable amount of energy left over. These things would have to be everywhere to be such a threat, yet you hardly see any in the movie.
Maybe entertaining, but it holds up to precisely zero scrutiny.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 month ago:
The run to Blue Smelter nearly gave me a coronary.
- Comment on Something we all can agree on 1 month ago:
It’s the George Carlin bit about driving, “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”.
- Comment on Metal genres 1 month ago:
Haha! Now you’re just taking the piss. Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and any number of modern composers have composed plenty of music in 4/4. Whatever bias you have against western music, there’s no denying they knew their shit.
- Comment on Metal genres 1 month ago:
Well, 4/4 is definitely the easiest to dance to. It’s also the easiest to ignore in lieu of whatever else is going on musically. It appeals to the lowest common denominator. Not that 4/4 has to be boring or predictable.
- Comment on Intelligent Design 1 month ago:
I used to argue this stuff online. I had to quit for my sanity. If anyone wants a sample of the absolute insane beliefs and the staggering amount of handwaving these people are capable of, I suggest checking out evolutionfairytale.com. They will unironically claim to be objective, then a sentence later tell you that “proper science literature” is to be discredited because it has a pro-evolution bias. 🤣
- Comment on I fast-forward through the songs... 2 months ago:
Once More with Feeling
It’s possibly the only good example.
- Comment on WrestleMania was running wild on you 2 months ago:
It took approximately an hour after Ozzy Osbourne died for every single Black Sabbath video on YouTube to be inundated with “R.I.P. Ozzy” comments.
- Comment on I'm intrigued 3 months ago:
An ex and I were on a bus trip to a city about an hour away from where we lived while we taught English in Korea. The subject of there being a “subway” in said city came up randomly. She said she thought she had seen one the last time she was there. I had been there more times than she had and said there was no subway. She doubled down. No, she was quite sure she had seen one near the university. I doubled down, I’ve been there quite a few times. There’s no way they have a subway. It’s not even big enough for one! It got pretty heated. This went on for some time. Feelings were hurt.
She was talking about the sandwich restaurant, and I was talking about underground trains. We were both right.
- Comment on Oatmeal 3 months ago:
“Xarelto”, or alternatively “cereal with sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, crushed peanuts, raisins, dried cranberries, and Greek yogurt” if medicine doesn’t count.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Used to be 18 or 20, then I had a kid and 2 became the norm.
- Comment on In heat 3 months ago:
- Comment on Square Enix acknowledges Expedition 33 success as inspiration for next Final Fantasy as turn-based is still beloved by gamers 4 months ago:
Yeah. Reacting? Not a problem! Waiting to react? Ohshitohshitohshit!
- Comment on Square Enix acknowledges Expedition 33 success as inspiration for next Final Fantasy as turn-based is still beloved by gamers 4 months ago:
I love the combat! There’s nothing more satisfying than learning an enemy’s moves perfectly and then getting that juicy 20% experience boost for whacking them without taking a hit. The balance is a bit off sometimes, but when it’s on, it’s amazing. I finished a long, difficult fight last night with my last character being the only one standing. It was such a cool moment.
Enemies with huge, super-slow wind ups to their attacks can take a hike, though. If I can accidentally parry four-five times in the time it takes you to wind up your attack, just maybe my character should be preemptively counter attacking, y’know.
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 4 months ago:
I thought I saw in very recent patch notes that there was a community-made version of SM2?
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 4 months ago:
Zelda 1 seems an odd omission from the supported games. I wonder if some games are harder to implement than others or something.
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 4 months ago:
The thing is, this turd burgler could lose millions a day for the rest of his life and still retire more well-off than just about anybody. When’s the last time a truly filthy rich person ended up in the gutter?