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In Training
Jun 28, 2008

every Nintendo first party game has loot boxes in it but you can't pay for them which is wildly annoying. XBC2 does it and I've spent a hundred+ hours grinding gear in Splatoon 2 to get the optimal loadout that's 2% better that you can just toggle yourself when you're playing locally. They should just leave that poo poo for fire emblem phone games

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In Training
Jun 28, 2008

Hell getting trophies in smash bros has always been pulling slot machine levels for a million years.

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!

In Training posted:

every Nintendo first party game has loot boxes in it but you can't pay for them which is wildly annoying. XBC2 does it and I've spent a hundred+ hours grinding gear in Splatoon 2 to get the optimal loadout that's 2% better that you can just toggle yourself when you're playing locally. They should just leave that poo poo for fire emblem phone games

I get the impression that they saw how loot boxes are a big trend and assumed that regular gamers actually demanded and enjoyed them in games at a mechanical level, instead of publishers cynically shoehorning them in wherever they could to milk sad whales

elf help book
Aug 5, 2004

Though the battle might be endless, I will never give up
yea would be better if you could give money to nintendo in those cases

HolePisser1982
Nov 3, 2002


randomization is abhorrent in all its forms

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

HolePisser1982 posted:

randomization is abhorrent in all its forms
This is why the only game I play is chess.

Azraelle
Jan 13, 2008

HolePisser1982 posted:

randomization is abhorrent in all its forms

Nah, randomization + money and entire conferences dedicated to making to making games as poo poo as possible unless you continually give money to companies is the big problem.

Scrub-Niggurath
Nov 27, 2007

imagine going back in time to 2008 right after the orange box came out and telling everyone that Valve was going to be responsible for all of the worst aspects of the video game industry over the next decade

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Scrub-Niggurath posted:

imagine going back in time to 2008 right after the orange box came out and telling everyone that Valve was going to be responsible for all of the worst aspects of the video game industry over the next decade
I blame PopCap Games

I.N.R.I
May 26, 2011

HolePisser1982 posted:

randomization is abhorrent in all its forms

i tend to agree

I.N.R.I
May 26, 2011
i mean obviously its fine as far as like, deciding what attack a boss is going to use goes. but random rare drops and quest items and that sort of stuff ... id rather not have any of that

Bongo Bill
Jan 17, 2012

Gambling is usually a bad thing to be in a video game. It has its uses.

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

I hate even when its in minigames like the Casinos in Pokémon

I.N.R.I
May 26, 2011

Plutonis posted:

I hate even when its in minigames like the Casinos in Pokémon

yea. though i think its ok when there are some skill games involved, like dq7 had the pair matching game (altohugh it completely broke the game if you were good at it) and ni no kuni had the card battle game, i cant remember the name of it, which also basically broke the game if you were good at it. but they are nice in theory

mysterious loyall X
Jul 8, 2003

In Training posted:

every Nintendo first party game has loot boxes in it but you can't pay for them which is wildly annoying. XBC2 does it and I've spent a hundred+ hours grinding gear in Splatoon 2 to get the optimal loadout that's 2% better that you can just toggle yourself when you're playing locally. They should just leave that poo poo for fire emblem phone games

this says more about you as a person than it does about the value of lootboxes

mysterious loyall X
Jul 8, 2003
time to grind for gear in this game thats 98% 7 year olds on wifi. need that compettative edge against colton, cayden, brayden, asher, semicolon, burpo. yasqwyyn, and takeshi-kun

Evil Eagle
Nov 5, 2009

mysterious loyall X posted:

time to grind for gear in this game thats 98% 7 year olds on wifi. need that compettative edge against colton, cayden, brayden, asher, semicolon, burpo. yasqwyyn, and takeshi-kun

Lol

Evil Eagle
Nov 5, 2009

Those kids stand tall on the inking fields. I wouldn't underestimate Ayden.

I.N.R.I
May 26, 2011
i always wonder what happens to kids that have stereotypical retarded child names when they grow up like brandon, dwayne etc. because there arent any adults called brandon

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

Well I mean the grinding is just playing Splatoon. Which I do anyway once I have the set I liked

mysterious loyall X
Jul 8, 2003

I.N.R.I posted:

i always wonder what happens to kids that have stereotypical retarded child names when they grow up like brandon, dwayne etc. because there arent any adults called brandon

time to direct you to RationalWesternGrandpa's 4 hour youtube thinkpiece about the problem with millennial names and its implications for free thinking society

I.N.R.I
May 26, 2011
I think theyre all living in the sewer pipes under las vegas with the rest of the lootbox generation

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!

mysterious loyall X posted:

time to grind for gear in this game thats 98% 7 year olds on wifi. need that compettative edge against colton, cayden, brayden, asher, semicolon, burpo. yasqwyyn, and takeshi-kun

HolePisser1982
Nov 3, 2002


mysterious loyall X posted:

time to grind for gear in this game thats 98% 7 year olds on wifi. need that compettative edge against colton, cayden, brayden, asher, semicolon, burpo. yasqwyyn, and takeshi-kun

lol

extremebuff
Jun 20, 2010

mysterious loyall X posted:

time to grind for gear in this game thats 98% 7 year olds on wifi. need that compettative edge against colton, cayden, brayden, asher, semicolon, burpo. yasqwyyn, and takeshi-kun

extremebuff
Jun 20, 2010

Really need the shirt that gives me 2% more ink. On hour 12 of the grind. Wish nintendo would just let me give them 100 dollars for this bullSHIT

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

The slight randomness of netcode makes a way bigger difference than equipment in Splatoon.

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

It doesn't take 12 hours now thankfully bc of the way the chunks and slurpees work.

extremebuff
Jun 20, 2010

In Training posted:

It doesn't take 12 hours now thankfully bc of the way the chunks and slurpees work.

its really hosed up that im the one that gets flamed around here because I said hollowknight was good.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

extremebuff posted:

its really hosed up that im the one that gets flamed around here because I said hollowknight was good.
It's because you're Latino.

its curtains for Kevin
Nov 14, 2011

Fruit is proof that the gods exist and love us.

Just kidding!

Life is meaningless
*pops crucial checkpoint orb by accident*

dios mios

PaletteSwappedNinja
Jun 3, 2008

One Nation, Under God.

elf help book posted:

i hope its on a bigger cart just so the box doesnt have the giant ugly INTERNET SERVICE REQUIRED banner on top

they had to take Yoshi off the German cover just to fit the big stupid ratings logo

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Game about beating up all your friends: Happy Kirby.

Game about having a fun racing adventure: Freaking insane pissed off Kirby.

Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

FactsAreUseless posted:

Game about beating up all your friends: Happy Kirby.

Game about having a fun racing adventure: Freaking insane pissed off Kirby.

Kirby is actually old English for the name of an Old God of Death. He feasts on the souls (stars) of his enemies.

THE AWESOME GHOST
Oct 21, 2005

Neurotic Roleplay posted:

it's going to be really good. looks like we'll be able to have a "secondary" job for each character well. I'm just basing that on the fact that they each have the "primary" job and there looks like space under it for more

Yeah they’ve said you won’t be able to change the main job of any character but they can equip a subjob from anyone in the party

I really wanna play the demo but the 3 hour limit

I’ll start it when the games closer to coming out

THE AWESOME GHOST
Oct 21, 2005

In Training posted:

every Nintendo first party game has loot boxes in it but you can't pay for them which is wildly annoying. XBC2 does it and I've spent a hundred+ hours grinding gear in Splatoon 2 to get the optimal loadout that's 2% better that you can just toggle yourself when you're playing locally. They should just leave that poo poo for fire emblem phone games

Japan invented gacha poo poo in games and “just one more” arcade style microtransactions

THE AWESOME GHOST
Oct 21, 2005

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they had to take Yoshi off the German cover just to fit the big stupid ratings logo


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Yoshi does not conform to Eu privacy standards

tyler
Jun 2, 2014

Should I buy disgaea 5 complete, xenoblade 2, or lost sphere?

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
Yoshi wears no pants

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Winifred Madgers
Feb 12, 2002

Kurtofan posted:

Yoshi wears no pants

my hero

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