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The nice thing about Persona 3's animal mascot character was that he was literally just a dog, and so he didn't talk.
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Dec 30, 2017 17:37
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Samuringa posted:The entire Teacher Social Link in P5 is like something straight out of porn, it has to be the most blatant pandering to male fantasies I've seen in gaming. i cant find the image of joker with the bright-red eyes responding with "that's what makes it so fun"
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Dec 30, 2017 17:38
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Yardbomb posted:I liked Kawakami and just wanted to help her v Same. Sure, come over and take a nap, whatever, I've seen what you have to put up with all day at school.
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Dec 30, 2017 17:43
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Look man it's important to date your teacher because sometimes you need to do laundry and make coffee and you sure as poo poo can't do both by yourself
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Dec 30, 2017 18:07
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Cleretic posted:Naoto's hit is relatively minor--hell, she's probably at her best in P4 Arena--but I never liked how Golden and Dancing All Night (plus her spinoff novel, but nobody cares about that) closed off the ambiguity about her gender identity. I thought she was way more powerful and interesting as a character when it wasn't entirely clear if she was transgender or just struggling with societal expectations, but that might be because I'm trans myself. Persona 4 makes it very clear that Naoto absolutely is not trans.
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Closed-Down Pizza Parlor posted:Persona 4 makes it very clear that Naoto absolutely is not trans. I think a lot of people see the surgery stuff and also assume the Shadow is a direct and literal representation of what the character wants, and not their fear about what certain things mean about them or for them. edit: Although there is probably something to be said for Naoto being like the only female character in a mainstream 08 video game dealing with some sort of gender thing. Kanji's deffos bi though, with an interest in masculine people. Also Teddy is bad, and they should have left in the Yosuke romance the cowards. TGLT has a new favorite as of 19:02 on Dec 30, 2017 |
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Dec 30, 2017 18:49
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kanji's whole thing is that he's coming to terms with accepting that you don't have to be 100% manly man all the time, and naoto's whole thing is accepting that it is ok to be a woman in a line of work considered to be "for men" and yes im with Yuri Lowenthal that its bullshit they didnt let you be yosugay.
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Dec 30, 2017 18:56
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Closed-Down Pizza Parlor posted:Persona 4 makes it very clear that Naoto absolutely is not trans. Yeah. Naoto just worked in a hugely male-dominated field, and felt like she wouldn't get any respect because she is a girl, which is why she presented herself as a boy while on the job. Her Shadow took that to an extreme conclusion (become a boy so her peers would treat her as an equal) because that is what Shadows do.
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The weapon limit system is pretty butts in EDF, a game with a ton of weapons but you're limited to 2 at a time. Its especially frustrating if you play the air raider class, since your airstrikes and tools are considered weapons. I'd rather give up my vehicle slot for an airstrike slot so I can carry an actual weapon and a support tool or an emplaced weapon.
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Closed-Down Pizza Parlor posted:Persona 4 makes it very clear that Naoto absolutely is not trans. TGLT posted:I think a lot of people see the surgery stuff and also assume the Shadow is a direct and literal representation of what the character wants, and not their fear about what certain things mean about them or for them. edit: Although there is probably something to be said for Naoto being like the only female character in a mainstream 08 video game dealing with some sort of gender thing. Plenty of it is definitely just wishful thinking and me wanting them to actually, if not definitively pull the trigger on making her trans, leave the door open on whether or not she actually is because yeah, she didn't exactly have a lot of company in mainstream gaming, and still doesn't, really. I always took shadows as the slightly different 'unacknowledged parts of a person's psyche' rather than 'a representation of a character's fears', though; in P4 Yosuke and Yukiko aren't really scared of what their shadows represent, they're just refusing to acknowledge that those are things they think. To that end Naoto's shadow can easily read as 'you know this is true, you have some idea of what you have to do, you just don't want to admit it', which is a VERY 'young trans person' problem to have. Her Social Link is a little more conclusive about that, but still not really putting its foot down on it, and Naoto is very clearly uncomfortable about the notion of presenting outright as female. With the sequels and spinoffs we absolutely know what they intended, but in the original even at the end of her character arc it was still a little nebulous. Also, I don't think Kanji's bi, but I absolutely think Yosuke is and doesn't know how to handle that fact. It just explains too much about his character and how he acts in certain situations to not have some kernel of truth to it. I think you could also make a case for Chie, albeit a weaker one, but not Yukiko.
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Cleretic posted:Also, I don't think Kanji's bi, but I absolutely think Yosuke is and doesn't know how to handle that fact. It just explains too much about his character and how he acts in certain situations to not have some kernel of truth to it. I think you could also make a case for Chie, albeit a weaker one, but not Yukiko. they did cut out the option to date yosuke, so you're not too far off
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Cleretic posted:Plenty of it is definitely just wishful thinking and me wanting them to actually, if not definitively pull the trigger on making her trans, leave the door open on whether or not she actually is because yeah, she didn't exactly have a lot of company in mainstream gaming, and still doesn't, really. I always took shadows as the slightly different 'unacknowledged parts of a person's psyche' rather than 'a representation of a character's fears', though; in P4 Yosuke and Yukiko aren't really scared of what their shadows represent, they're just refusing to acknowledge that those are things they think. To that end Naoto's shadow can easily read as 'you know this is true, you have some idea of what you have to do, you just don't want to admit it', which is a VERY 'young trans person' problem to have. Her Social Link is a little more conclusive about that, but still not really putting its foot down on it, and Naoto is very clearly uncomfortable about the notion of presenting outright as female. With the sequels and spinoffs we absolutely know what they intended, but in the original even at the end of her character arc it was still a little nebulous. Buckaroo I'm trans too and I would love a fantastic trans character in a videogame but I don't really feel comfortable shoehorning a character who definitively isn't into that role outside of my fanfiction, anyway
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Closed-Down Pizza Parlor posted:Buckaroo I'm trans too and I would love a fantastic trans character in a videogame but I don't really feel comfortable shoehorning a character who definitively isn't into that role When you are trans, you take your inspiration where you can find it. I'm so old, cross-dressing Bugs Bunny was all I had for way too long.
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Grimrock 2 feels like it should be my jam, as it takes place in an open Metroidvania-world, has actual environments this times round, greater build-variety, and a refined skill-system. What it doesn't have is good loading-times. Even on an SSD this game takes forever to load and quick-load which makes it difficult to move beyond the first level. I poo poo on Fallout 4 on a daily basis but I never had wait except when it crashed once.
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I bought the My Pet Dungeon DLC for War For The Overworld, which marketed itself as a sandbox addition to the game... which it mostly is. The problem is that they feel a lot more like scenarios/puzzles than I'd otherwise wish. For example, I'd prefer if I didn't have to spam the map-reveal spell to find the one block of diggable land that lets me dig all the way to the explosive rock so I can put down a exploding trap so I can destroy all of the impenetrable rock in order to claim a gem block, or a new gateway, or whatever. I don't want to have to go on the forums to find that the only way to get that item is to use that one trap and that one ritual to open up a location. It's supposed to be a chill sandbox addition, dammit! Related, and this is really esoteric and not really fair: the same thing that makes War For The Overworld awesome is the thing that can kinda drag it down. It's pretty much a pitch-perfect prettier copy of Dungeon Keeper 2, but at the same time it doesn't push same excitement buttons in the brain sometimes because it's a a pitch-perfect prettier copy of Dungeon Keeper 2, and I played that to death. A lot of this comes from simultaneously playing a DK-like game that does change things around, I dunno. MisterBibs has a new favorite as of 03:47 on Dec 31, 2017 |
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Diablo 3 was alright enough for me to keep going into paragon levels, but man it's mediocre. Builds feel heavily RNG based, like I can set synergistic skills but ultimately I'm reliant on getting the right set/legendary drops to make something serious happen. It's fun enough to play sometimes, but just super loving easy so far as long as I bother to care about recovery. I could up the difficulty more but health growth drastically outpaces damage and it's not fun to spend a minute on trash mobs. I have to grind rifts for the privilege of grinding greater rifts. Logically I guess this isn't really that different to mapping in PoE, but it feels incredibly rude. Legendary gem upgrades, one of the main rewards of greater rifts, have a 40% chance to fail because it wasn't grindy enough already. I got a gem that would've worked pretty well with what I'm trying to do. All four shots to upgrade it failed. Also they're so goddamn slow to do, like my clearspeed is ok but I don't have enough movespeed to make it fun and pack density is poo poo sometimes. Also there's little things, like there's no real item filter as far as I can see, and even with the more informative tooltip option ticked (and they're almost entirely worthless without it) they're still pretty vague. They don't show me actual attack speed, estimated DPS or real cost of use afaict. So many of the elite affixes are just annoyances. Oops I'm shooting into a wall now, guess I'll move around it 
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Gitro posted:grinding greater rifts. Greater rifts suck because as you say, you have to grind to do them but then it's just RNG. So what's that, trying to do your seasonal stuff where you have to clear one in under five minutes or something? Well gently caress you, every greater rift you find for the forseeable future is going to be a maze-like torture dungeon with sparsely populated encounters. Have fun with that one, especially if you're playing a class or build that relies more on chaining kills and momentum to survive. Were you doing great this time? Too bad, every enemy on this next floor is going to reflect damage, spawn lasers on top of you and teleport around while spawning poison everywhere. The fact that it's random is sort of the point, but having absolutely zero control over them is incredibly frustrating.
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Gitro posted:Diablo 3 was alright enough for me to keep going into paragon levels, but man it's mediocre. Builds feel heavily RNG based, like I can set synergistic skills but ultimately I'm reliant on getting the right set/legendary drops to make something serious happen. It's fun enough to play sometimes, but just super loving easy so far as long as I bother to care about recovery. I could up the difficulty more but health growth drastically outpaces damage and it's not fun to spend a minute on trash mobs. It's alright once you find one nice set with complementary uniques and your damage goes up by orders of magnitude with some skill combos. Then you go higher difficulty to keep things interesting and mad loot starts dropping. Once you can solo torment 7 comfortably you get enough new poo poo to have like three builds available in no time.
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I've started playing Dragon's Dogma as I heard it was fun, and the combat was OK so far, just got to making my character and done a couple of sidequests. The story has no real hook though, because it feels like the main character couldn't give less of a poo poo. The Dragon is the one picking a fight with him, basically saying "If you wanna fight me do this!" whenever he touches his chest, the main character hasn't expressed any interest in taking his heart back, it's just been kind of a "Huh? Where'd that go.." kind of reaction. As far as his reactions go, he was defending his village and failed, and now couldn't care less if he never saw that dragon again, as long as he never comes back. Even in the intro sequence, the previous Curse Boy had to go all the way to the dragon's lair to fight him, and even then never actually saw him, it was just "OK we fought a chimera, now what?... fade to black..." Hell the only reason to go west to the village that's trying to fight the dragon is that our pawn... says... so? The main character hasn't made a decision at all besides deciding to try to fight the dragon when it was actively making a mess. BioEnchanted has a new favorite as of 13:26 on Dec 31, 2017 |
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Dec 31, 2017 13:23
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RagnarokAngel posted:Adam is a literal prodigal son who gets to ignore all the drawbacks. It's always seemed really obvious to me from a thematic and gameplay perspective that Jenson should be a drug addict constantly on a hunt for Neuropozyne. It'd give you a reason to do quests other than for cash and XP, as well as a way to get you to properly engage with the morality systems. Hey Jensen, you want your fix? Well go and kill this rival dealer and we're good. Making him the only character immune to aug rejection is super short-sighted.
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Tiggum posted:Anger. I guess I should have prefaced with the fact that I like both HR and MD in spite of those complaints? Sorry about your high blood pressure.
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Mr. Flunchy posted:It's always seemed really obvious to me from a thematic and gameplay perspective that Jenson should be a drug addict constantly on a hunt for Neuropozyne. It'd give you a reason to do quests other than for cash and XP, as well as a way to get you to properly engage with the morality systems. Hey Jensen, you want your fix? Well go and kill this rival dealer and we're good. Making him the only character immune to aug rejection is super short-sighted. User feedback: We don't like the hunger meter or the microtransactions. Square Enix: Well, we can fix one of those two.
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RagnarokAngel posted:I personally think that things that look pretty on the surface but are poo poo underneath is a more relatable premise to people. Sure augs look great and seem convienant but now youre a drug addict and they jacked up the price. Mr. Flunchy posted:It's always seemed really obvious to me from a thematic and gameplay perspective that Jenson should be a drug addict constantly on a hunt for Neuropozyne. It'd give you a reason to do quests other than for cash and XP, as well as a way to get you to properly engage with the morality systems. Hey Jensen, you want your fix? Well go and kill this rival dealer and we're good. Making him the only character immune to aug rejection is super short-sighted. Honestly, you can keep the immunity to rejection and still include some aspect of Jensen needing Neuropozyne. Because importantly, for most of Human Revolution, he doesn't know he doesn't need it; if you look in his bathroom he's got a couple boxes of the stuff, he only finds out he's a golden boy to Sarif and others because of that immunity later. I don't really think it'd work to weave it into the gameplay itself, because frankly that sounds like exactly the sort of game mechanic that people bitch about, but they could've used a bit more direct focus on that just as an interesting part of the setting to explore. Hell, it could be interesting to explore it with a fake gameplay mechanic; set up that Jensen's worried about aug rejection if he doesn't have Neuropozyne, but don't actually have any systems in place for this, because it's entirely in his head.If the player pushes it they might wonder why nothing ever actually happens, until they find out that Jensen's being studied and pushed because of exactly that fact.
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Regarding fake-mechanics doesn't Hellblade: Needless Subtitle say it will delete your save after so many deaths, except it doesn't?
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Regarding fake-mechanics doesn't Hellblade: Needless Subtitle say it will delete your save after so many deaths, except it doesn't? Nah. It's implied, but never stated outright. Sorta one of those vague oracle of delphi statements.
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Something that makes the flow of Dragon's Dogma hard to figure out is that the quests have no way of seeing recommended levels, or difficulty ratings of any kind so it can be hard to gauge whether a quest is doable or not. The well is full of easy enemies, like bats and rats, then you get to the bottom and a water-monster sweeps you with it's spear and takes off half your health. It's kind of rude.
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BioEnchanted posted:Something that makes the flow of Dragon's Dogma hard to figure out is that the quests have no way of seeing recommended levels, or difficulty ratings of any kind so it can be hard to gauge whether a quest is doable or not. The well is full of easy enemies, like bats and rats, then you get to the bottom and a water-monster sweeps you with it's spear and takes off half your health. It's kind of rude. Do not agree to escort people to greatwall early on, you will be unhappy. Actually just dont do escorts unless you have a warp to wherever you're going. The early quests to head over to the forest take you right through the mountain hellbandits, back into a forest full of level appropriate enemies. I love the game but it is not always well put together.
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Gitro posted:Do not agree to escort people to greatwall early on, you will be unhappy. Actually just dont do escorts unless you have a warp to wherever you're going. Not always well put together is the understatement of the year. It's like the designers allocated enemy levels completely randomly. It's like the opposite of Fallout New Vegas.
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Yeah, that part is really bad, especially because if you decide to give it a pass until later because of how difficult it is you can fail that questline altogether by advancing the story. Which, of course, they don't tell you beforehand.
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Dunno what you're all going on about, I ran straight to Bitterblack Isle at level 2 and cleared about half of it  Oh man, is this how it feels to be a Dark Souls fan and screech out "git gud"? But no seriously gently caress the sword and board bandit, guy was my bane when I first started Dragma.
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The biggest problem with Dragon's Dogma is the difficulty curve is all messed up. The first couple of hours it is almost impossible to kill anything but once you start leveling up and getting abilities just about everything becomes extremely easy.
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Is this fixed in Dark Arisen? I haven't played too far into that but I had no problem smacking things around up to where I stopped.
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Zanzibar Ham posted:Is this fixed in Dark Arisen? I haven't played too far into that but I had no problem smacking things around up to where I stopped. That's the version I'm playing too, I've noticed that when your pawns enchant you you do a hell of a lot more damage if it matches to the enemy weakness. Also I accidentally accepted the escort quest from the hometown to the Encampment, at least that one was easy and the merchant had some great weapons (or at least the first ones I came across). Also some of the skills are satisfying like the Arrow Cloud move for the bow.
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Gitro posted:Diablo 3 was alright enough for me to keep going into paragon levels, but man it's mediocre. Builds feel heavily RNG based, like I can set synergistic skills but ultimately I'm reliant on getting the right set/legendary drops to make something serious happen. It's fun enough to play sometimes, but just super loving easy so far as long as I bother to care about recovery. I could up the difficulty more but health growth drastically outpaces damage and it's not fun to spend a minute on trash mobs. their chance to fail is based on the difference between their level and the grift level; if they have a 40% chance to fail, you are doing way, way too low level of grifts. if you do a grift 13 levels higher than your gem level, all 4 chances will succeed. basically this post is a bunch of completely failing to understand the mechanics of the game and bitching about them. diablo 3 is nowhere near a perfect game but this is all pretty lol
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BioEnchanted posted:I've started playing Dragon's Dogma as I heard it was fun, and the combat was OK so far, just got to making my character and done a couple of sidequests. The story has no real hook though, because it feels like the main character couldn't give less of a poo poo. The Dragon is the one picking a fight with him, basically saying "If you wanna fight me do this!" whenever he touches his chest, the main character hasn't expressed any interest in taking his heart back, it's just been kind of a "Huh? Where'd that go.." kind of reaction. As far as his reactions go, he was defending his village and failed, and now couldn't care less if he never saw that dragon again, as long as he never comes back. Even in the intro sequence, the previous Curse Boy had to go all the way to the dragon's lair to fight him, and even then never actually saw him, it was just "OK we fought a chimera, now what?... fade to black..." Dragon's Dogma is one of those games where the plot happens around you and you have no say or input into anything that ever happens for the entire game, you are here to fight the Dragon, nothing more, nothing less.
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Judge Tesla posted:Dragon's Dogma is one of those games where the plot happens around you and you have no say or input into anything that ever happens for the entire game, you are here to fight the Dragon, nothing more, nothing less. Yeah, but the main character doesn't even seem to care about doing that. If there had been any pressure to do it that would have helped, like establishing that they tried to ignore it but the dragon kept showing up and raising hell until he agreed to go to it, or even a meaningful dream showing the main character's obsession with finding and killing the dragon it would have helped, but it doesn't feel like he feels like doing it. It's the fallout syndrome: "I must find my father/son but ooohhhh look over there that's shiny... *6 months later* What was I doing again...?"
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Hard to show feelings when you're heartless. :/
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You might think I'm kidding but the plot of Dragon's Dogma is also just as disinterested as you are, don't get me wrong the game's one of my favourites but the storyline is an interesting beast, which is to be expected from Capcom and the Monster Hunter devs who made it.
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Judge Tesla posted:You might think I'm kidding but the plot of Dragon's Dogma is also just as disinterested as you are, don't get me wrong the game's one of my favourites but the storyline is an interesting beast, which is to be expected from Capcom and the Monster Hunter devs who made it. Monster Hunter has a fantastic story. You start as a scrub in a world where there's dragons made of stone that breath fire and leak poison from their pores and you want to kill them all  it's the ultimate underdog story.But seriously that world is horrifying.
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