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Best Touhou?
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Alice Margatroid 23 15.86%
i'm wrong 61 42.07%
Any/every other Touhou except the one Boom Boom Boom likes 61 42.07%
Total: 145 votes
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homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

Dangerous Person posted:

Jackie Brown is great and I wish he would go back to that more subdued style for another movie
that is mostly because he wanted to make a faithful adaptation of an elmore lenoard story

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Senerio
Oct 19, 2009

Roëmænce is ælive!
Specifically, what happened was that one of the people I killed the first Martial Arts guy in front of was in the Occult club, so I was barred from joining, and instead I went on a bloody rampage inside that club killing everyone but the leader, and then killing the leader.

Dangerous Person
Apr 4, 2011

Not dead yet

homeless snail posted:

that is mostly because he wanted to make a faithful adaptation of an elmore lenoard story


I gotta read that book at some point

Yes_Cantaloupe
Feb 28, 2005

a kitten posted:

Nope. Scroll up. :sparkles:

Well there we go. Don't think I've seen any Sailor Moon movies. That'll make three.

I wonder how many other English words there are that are only remembered by the Japanese.

Dilbert As FUCK
Sep 8, 2007

by Cowcaster
Pillbug

homeless snail posted:

that is mostly because he wanted to make a faithful adaptation of an elmore lenoard story



I wish I didn't suck at gif editing

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

Yes_Cantaloupe posted:

"Japanese doughnuts." Goddammit, gg.

ah yes...takoyaki

The 7th Guest
Dec 17, 2003

Butt Ghost
Nov 23, 2013

I am a prologue and three chapters into the Guilty Gear Xrd story mode. Am I supposed to understand what's going on? When do I fight?

Dilbert As FUCK
Sep 8, 2007

by Cowcaster
Pillbug



This show made me cry

Allarion
May 16, 2009

がんばルビ!

Butt Ghost posted:

I am a prologue and three chapters into the Guilty Gear Xrd story mode. Am I supposed to understand what's going on? When do I fight?

There's no fighting in story mode

Yes_Cantaloupe
Feb 28, 2005
That felt as much Symphogear as it did Macross. I want more.

Bad Seafood
Dec 10, 2010


If you must blink, do it now.

Butt Ghost posted:

Am I supposed to understand what's going on?

Bad Seafood
Dec 10, 2010


If you must blink, do it now.
As long as That Man lives, there will never be peace.

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

Yes_Cantaloupe posted:

That felt as much Symphogear as it did Macross. I want more.
macross is a reflection of its times, and in 2016, that means symphogear

Allarion
May 16, 2009

がんばルビ!

Bad Seafood posted:

As long as That Man lives, there will never be peace.

He's not responsible this time though

Dilbert As FUCK
Sep 8, 2007

by Cowcaster
Pillbug
Symphogear is a good anime; chris is the best girl from that show

Bad Seafood
Dec 10, 2010


If you must blink, do it now.

Allarion posted:

He's not responsible this time though
I know but it's still true.

Julias
Jun 24, 2012

Strum in a harmonizing quartet
I want to cause a revolution

What can I do? My savage
nature is beyond wild

Back to your old avatar... :(

Yes_Cantaloupe
Feb 28, 2005

Julias posted:

Back to your old avatar... :(

It's more fitting, honestly.

Dilbert As FUCK
Sep 8, 2007

by Cowcaster
Pillbug

Julias posted:

Back to your old avatar... :(

Nah couldn't get the mentions right so it is smaller.

I'll blame it and cold weather

Dilbert As FUCK
Sep 8, 2007

by Cowcaster
Pillbug

Yes_Cantaloupe posted:

It's more fitting, honestly.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

NowonSA posted:

I'm still in the early parts of Tales of Zestiria, just about to enter the second town. My favorite thing to happen so far is that a bunch of normies saw me punch the ground and three medium sized boulders sprout from the ground, and they all reacted like they're looking at the antichrist and I just opened the gates of hell in front of them.

I do like that they're going with a savior story where everyone is fearful of what I can do or doesn't believe I am who I say I am. I do wish I could hit some kind of Renegade option and just use my powers to beat the poo poo out of unbelievers and manipulators though.

Hopefully at least one of my angel pals will decide to lift up and choke somebody, then I can feel like Vader when that's happening and no one sees the angel assist :black101:.

But yeah, it's still pretty slow and standard battles are resolved way too quickly, but aside from that I'm seeing some potential. Fusion is a fun little wrinkle.
Once you get into the elemental temple part of the game it speeds up a lot.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Butt Ghost posted:

I am a prologue and three chapters into the Guilty Gear Xrd story mode. Am I supposed to understand what's going on? When do I fight?
do you know anything about the other guilty gear games

and you never fight. there is no fighting.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

which, honestly, is a good call, because blazblue's plot suffered from having to shoehorn in fights. might as well just do what you clearly want to do and make it a visual novel.

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

fights in arcsys story modes suck anyway, cause they're always on the easiest difficulty and only one rounders, they might as well not even happen

Dangerous Person
Apr 4, 2011

Not dead yet
Fighting games having stories always seemed weird to me but I don't play fighting games that often

Cialis Railman
Apr 20, 2007

Senerio posted:

Specifically, what happened was that one of the people I killed the first Martial Arts guy in front of was in the Occult club, so I was barred from joining, and instead I went on a bloody rampage inside that club killing everyone but the leader, and then killing the leader.

Yandere Sim is pretty neat, and it's cool to see how far he's gotten with it, but I'm waiting for him to add that "SNAP" option that's on the game over sim.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Dangerous Person posted:

Fighting games having stories always seemed weird to me but I don't play fighting games that often
fighting games are all about the characters so it makes sense to give those characters a story in which to bounce off each other

the best fighting game stories are mostly just excuses for people to talk. this is why blazblue ct was okay and why the later blazblue games got stupider and stupider as they made the plot more convoluted.

Dangerous Person
Apr 4, 2011

Not dead yet
I can respect that

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!

homeless snail posted:

fights in arcsys story modes suck anyway, cause they're always on the easiest difficulty and only one rounders, they might as well not even happen

either that or they're for some reason ridiculously hard

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

the story in the persona 4 arena games is just an excuse for them to make persona VNs, but they have to at least partially be about fighting tournaments or else there would be no reason to punch people most of the time

Everything Burrito
Jun 2, 2011

I Failed At Anime 2022

TheKingofSprings
Oct 9, 2012
Anime chat thread, I want to buy Guilty Gear Xrd as a secret santa gift for a friend that likes fighting games, but only plays a couple of games right now.

A friend of that friend told me they wanted either a PSN points card or a 20 foot USB cable.

Do I get the game I think they'll really like, but that they could end up not touching ever, or the kind of bland thing they're guaranteed to like?

Captain Baal
Oct 23, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022
The translator changed in MHA and only now do I realize that aside from the excessive swearing that the Fallen Angel stuff was actually pretty alright

homeless snail posted:

fights in arcsys story modes suck anyway, cause they're always on the easiest difficulty and only one rounders, they might as well not even happen

this is why guilty gear has a good story mode because it cut out the middle man and just let you enjoy the story mode also it wasn't 10 hours of loving around with bad text boxes like blazblue's became

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

even if the story doesn't really matter in a fighting game, it still makes the game more interesting and appealing if you give your characters personalities and motivations.

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

TheKingofSprings posted:

Anime chat thread, I want to buy Guilty Gear Xrd as a secret santa gift for a friend that likes fighting games, but only plays a couple of games right now.

A friend of that friend told me they wanted either a PSN points card or a 20 foot USB cable.

Do I get the game I think they'll really like, but that they could end up not touching ever, or the kind of bland thing they're guaranteed to like?
real gifts come from the heart

Allarion
May 16, 2009

がんばルビ!

Dangerous Person posted:

Fighting games having stories always seemed weird to me but I don't play fighting games that often

Well, it just starts with every character having some type of backstory, and then their ending ties into that backstory. Then the sequel comes around and now they combine all the endings somehow. Well that's how it was with Street Fighter anyways. SNK and ArcSys have the bigger over-encompassing arcs in their games.

Dangerous Person
Apr 4, 2011

Not dead yet

TheKingofSprings posted:

Do I get the game I think they'll really like, but that they could end up not touching ever, or the kind of bland thing they're guaranteed to like?


I think it's more meaningful to surprise them but they'll also be happy with the thing they asked for. If they're a real friend you'll win either way.

Captain Baal
Oct 23, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022

Motto posted:

even if the story doesn't really matter in a fighting game, it still makes the game more interesting and appealing if you give your characters personalities and motivations.

they already have these regardless of story modes though



TheKingofSprings posted:

Anime chat thread, I want to buy Guilty Gear Xrd as a secret santa gift for a friend that likes fighting games, but only plays a couple of games right now.

A friend of that friend told me they wanted either a PSN points card or a 20 foot USB cable.

Do I get the game I think they'll really like, but that they could end up not touching ever, or the kind of bland thing they're guaranteed to like?

do what you know you must

buy guilty gear

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The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
i mostly considered blazblue continuum shift's story worth going through because the joke endings ruled

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