De_Narm

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did nightreign flop?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨Why don't Oblivion and Morrowind turn the character model when you run in different directions?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 (Available Today!)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Useless rant about Witcher 3 romance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨The Duskbloods [Nintendo Direct | Nintendo Switch 2]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨"The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie" will reportedly be pulled from theaters this Wednesday⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Never heard of it, looked it up and apparently it just came out on the 14th. That’s not even a full week till wednesday.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another live service shooter is getting shut down, this time before it even launched on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Greenlight was almost universally hated by devs. It could be easily gamed by abusing your popularity or by simply using bots. It prevented actual indie devs from ever releasing finished games while a lot of greenlit games didn’t even release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bloomberg analyst anticipate Nintendo Switch 2 to be priced at 400$ or more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been so long since Odyssey and we’ve just had Totk, I’d guess another 3D Mario is likely their S2 ‘killer app’. Could be Legends Z-A or Metroid Prime 4 too, both of which would be cross generation. However, I’m not exactly dying to get my hands on any of these either way, especially not Pokemon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bloomberg analyst anticipate Nintendo Switch 2 to be priced at 400$ or more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, no, once a Monster Hunter game releases on the S2, my partner makes me buy one.

  I could get something else, assuming cross play exists, but the only exclusives across all platforms I care about are games by Monolith. So, at some point I’ll need the S2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bloomberg analyst anticipate Nintendo Switch 2 to be priced at 400$ or more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully, I won’t have to get the console for several months - if not years. Nintendo’s launch titles usually aren’t anything to write home about. BotW was a notable exception in recent memory, but was also available on the previous generation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokemon Legends Z-A's visuals aren't "great" say former Nintendo marketing leads, but hope Switch 2 could allow Game Freak to "go back to the drawing board"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know multiple people who complain about every release and then buy it, preferably both versions. A few even complaint there’s no third edition to buy anymore.

  If anything, GF could reduce their quality even more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a gamer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly don’t get it. I’ve been playing the same game for about three months of real time now and clocked in about 120 hours. I didn’t play anything else and and it’s consuming most of the time I have to myself. The game is Witcher 3.

  Now, that means every 1000 hours would take me 25 months or just over two years of playing a game exclusively. Probably more sind my data above includes my Christmas vacation, which was quite lengthy. No single game is good enough to take such a big place in my life. I could play so many shorter better games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are modern Final Fantasy games bad?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Extended Look at Pokémon Legends: Z-A⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨successful swap⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ignoring all the other choices, why is his right arm green?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii | Adventure Overview Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love almost everything about this, apparently 100h+ in Infinite Wealth was not enough for me. Although, having discovered Like a Dragon only because of their switch to turn-based combat, I’m not sure the brawling is a good fit for me.

  I’ll probably pick it up eventually, assuming a new main game doesn’t drop till then.