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Man I do love fighting games, but Sakura Arms.... is very little girl focused. I've only really played Yomi--hows SA stack up?
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tokenbrownguy posted:Man I do love fighting games, but Sakura Arms.... is very little girl focused. I've only really played Yomi--hows SA stack up? Yeah, same here. This looks like something the worse Anime freaks will love.
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Oct 27, 2020 23:13
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I must be numb to it or something from all of the other tabletop kickstarters that are pretty much just an excuse to have t&a art/minis with a game attached because sakura arms looks tame af to me.
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Oct 28, 2020 00:01
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GrandpaPants posted:L99's Sakura Arms is up: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/level99games/sakura-arms Tragedy Looper's out in English, though?
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Lord_Hambrose posted:Yeah, same here. This looks like something the worse Anime freaks will love. You are either projecting or are blissfully ignorant of the worst anime "freaks." Like I've seen worse ads for mobile games. Leraika posted:Tragedy Looper's out in English, though? But not in a form that doesn't require me to look online for errata and rules clarifications and whatever other fuckups ZMan did to that game.
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GrandpaPants posted:You are either projecting or are blissfully ignorant of the worst anime "freaks." Like I've seen worse ads for mobile games. I mean, yes it isn't the grossest product I have every seen or anything. Not by a long shot. However I think the style of art direction will definitely appeal to some rather unsavory types.
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Lord_Hambrose posted:I mean, yes it isn't the grossest product I have every seen or anything. Not by a long shot. However I think the style of art direction will definitely appeal to some rather unsavory types. So did Tiny Toons, what’s your point?
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Mors Rattus posted:So did Tiny Toons, what’s your point? I mean, nothing really? I don't care for the art direction but people can obviously support the products that appeal to them.
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Oct 28, 2020 04:31
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GrandpaPants posted:L99's Sakura Arms is up: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/level99games/sakura-arms I literally just bought a copy of Tragedy Looper and the expansions from where I work, I can't wait to play it.
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Lord_Hambrose posted:I mean, yes it isn't the grossest product I have every seen or anything. Not by a long shot. However I think the style of art direction will definitely appeal to some rather unsavory types. Yeah nah. The art style is tame and fine, the chibi characters fit the cards well, and it incorporates a really lovely calligraphy aesthetic throughout. You're reading way too much into it just because it's anime.
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Infinitum posted:You're reading way too much into it just because it's anime. 
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I backed this today like three minutes after coming across it, I feel like it has to be in the thread here somewhere but just in case it isn't I thought I'd share it: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fishinthepot/ancient-undead-spider-wizard Rad rear end dungeon crawling tunes and adventures on vinyl
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Lord_Hambrose posted:I mean, nothing really? I don't care for the art direction but people can obviously support the products that appeal to them. It's a weird line you immediately drew from "I don't like this art style" to "this game really appeals to pedophiles (or whatever dumb thing you were implying)".
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Some people are incredibly performative about not liking anime just in case someone might mistakenly think they like it even though no one knew who they were until they Kramered in
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To be fair to Hambrose more than half of the girls in the game are wearing thigh high boots and short skirts. It's not just because it's anime, it's because it's kind of leery with it too. It's not the worst I've seen but I still wouldn't want to show this game to my family or friends. If you like the game and it's style then cool, go nuts and enjoy it. Let's not start saying people are projecting or whatever though because they think it veers a little too close to skeevy anime tropes.
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Redundant posted:To be fair to Hambrose more than half of the girls in the game are wearing thigh high boots and short skirts. It's not just because it's anime, it's because it's kind of leery with it too. It's not the worst I've seen but I still wouldn't want to show this game to my family or friends. Yeah, it's easy to overlook because it's tame by anime standards but it's still present.
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GrandpaPants posted:It's a weird line you immediately drew from "I don't like this art style" to "this game really appeals to pedophiles (or whatever dumb thing you were implying)". It's over. The Anime is safe.
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Sakura Arms is really good, but you should be aware going into it that it's got less of a learning curve as it does a flat cliff; it really wants a playgroup that commits to learning the game fully and being familiar with the entire cardpool. A game can often be more or less decided in the deckbuilding phase, before the first hand is drawn. Especially if one player kind of knows what they're doing and one player doesn't, the tactical layer can often turn into a completely unfun shitstomp where one player is utterly in control and the other player spends the whole match doing nothing because they can't get into their range window and all their cards are useless. It has a decently serious tournament circuit in Japan, and I'm told that these no-counterplay scenarios are very rare if both players know what they're doing during deckbuilding, but that probably won't be true of your group for a long while. A good comparison might actually be trying to play bridge without knowing anything about how bidding works. e: the big difference between it and yomi/battlecon is that it doesn't have a simultaneous-card-selection mechanic, it's strictly alternating turns like magic. it's basically a resource management game (where one of the most important resources is "current distance"), and card counting can be pretty important. in fighting game terms, less mixups, more footsies. Reiterpallasch fucked around with this message at 13:19 on Oct 28, 2020 |
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I didn’t have much success with Sakura Arms in my group since we preferred the fixed deck setup of BaCON/EXCEED/Yomi
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Tekopo posted:I didn’t have much success with Sakura Arms in my group since we preferred the fixed deck setup of BaCON/EXCEED/Yomi Would be nice if L99 just put in suggested combinations. Character X + Character Y: Use cards...
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The Alderac release did have two starter decks picked out to learn the game with that were pretty evenly balanced but did nothing to teach deckbuilding. L99 seems to have gone the route of splitting each character's cardpool into two "cores" (I'm guessing an attack-heavy one and a support-heavy one) and telling beginners to just mush together a left-side core and a right-side core to build their deck. I'd have to have a look at the cards they picked out for the cores, but that seems like a pretty decent compromise for at least learning the game, though likely to lead to some pretty one-sided games along the way if a player picks two characters with zero synergy.
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Reiterpallasch posted:Sakura Arms is really good, but you should be aware going into it that it's got less of a learning curve as it does a flat cliff; it really wants a playgroup that commits to learning the game fully and being familiar with the entire cardpool. A game can often be more or less decided in the deckbuilding phase, before the first hand is drawn. Especially if one player kind of knows what they're doing and one player doesn't, the tactical layer can often turn into a completely unfun shitstomp where one player is utterly in control and the other player spends the whole match doing nothing because they can't get into their range window and all their cards are useless. It has a decently serious tournament circuit in Japan, and I'm told that these no-counterplay scenarios are very rare if both players know what they're doing during deckbuilding, but that probably won't be true of your group for a long while. Thank you for pointing this out. I autobacked because I trust Level 99 to put out quality product and everyone's been saying it's a great game, but...I'm remembering I don't like deckbuilding, and I'm not going to play any competitive game consistently enough for either me or my friends to develop a sense of the card options. And considering I have all of BattleCON, ultimately I feel like I've got dueling covered unless the game is doing something different and exciting that I want, whereas here those differences are maybe not so much a thing I want. So I think Sakura Arms will be a pass for me after all.
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Arcsech posted:Blacklist's next giant miniatures box (and optional board game) is up: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blacklistgames/dire-alliance-horror. It's horror-themed this time. The minis do look nice, for whatever that's worth.
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Yeah, the Darkest Dungeon KS... it's starting to creep up to that "$250 if you want everything / prob at least $300 by the campaign's end" mark. I dropped it. It was giving me "Dark Souls: The Board Game" vibes where I love the miniatures and artwork, but the game is just a clunky, poorly-thought out mess. It looked like a major pain if you were trying to solo it, too, with 4 characters and their boards/cards/tokens to manage. They really should have cut half of the mechanics and tokens from the game.
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The Moon Monster posted:Yeah, it's easy to overlook because it's tame by anime standards but it's still present. It's a gestalt thing. Yes there's worse, obviously, but here we have 1. Everyone is in that vague anime teenager range where they could be 9 or 17 who knows. 2. Don't worry about that though because they're not little girls they're goddesses. 3. Just enough skirt flare and underboob chest straps that you notice. 4. Oh whoops that's all there is here, no adults, no dudes, no nonbinary types, just endless warrior goddesses with thigh-highs. It's that last one (also hating deck builders but that's beside the point) keeping me away. Variety wise this is paper dolls with different weapons.
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I reread some updates of the Mortasheen kickstarter and ...quote:Everyone wants to know a lot more about the play mechanics, which is understandable; I'm the "art side" of Mortasheen, but then there's the folks handling 100% of the "gameplay side," tailored to try and best reflect how it would feel to live in the Mortasheen world. so I guess they haven't followed a lot of RPG kickstarter campaigns, uh. paradoxGentleman fucked around with this message at 17:33 on Oct 28, 2020 |
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JazzFlight posted:Yeah, the Darkest Dungeon KS... it's starting to creep up to that "$250 if you want everything / prob at least $300 by the campaign's end" mark. I dropped it. It was giving me "Dark Souls: The Board Game" vibes where I love the miniatures and artwork, but the game is just a clunky, poorly-thought out mess. It looked like a major pain if you were trying to solo it, too, with 4 characters and their boards/cards/tokens to manage. I was reading the comments and supposedly people were pretty angry that heros were in the $50 expansions which I kinda understand. I'll wait and see what the final result is but I'm leaning towards dropping it. I still haven't finished the video game anyway
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Oct 28, 2020 17:43
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Lord_Hambrose posted:With a lot of this stuff, if it isn't successful enough to get a retail release... Just don't sweat it. It wasn't meant to be. The second I start to see any FOMO poo poo on a kickstarter now it is an automatic pass. Ugh, quote isn't edit.
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Tawd has posted a new thread to promote their friend's kickstarting game (KS started today) for their new RPG, The Wildsea. There is also a purchased ad, which we should see on TG pages soon. I gave Tawd permission to start a thread specific to that game, here: The Wildsea: Cutting through the rustling waves, an unending tree-top sea! You can discuss that kickstarter and the game in that thread, or in here, as your whim takes you.
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Hostile V posted:Oof. That's not encouraging. I'm treating it as a Kickstarter for neat bit of worldbuilding that just might have a usable RPG come out at some point.
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paradoxGentleman posted:I reread some updates of the Mortasheen kickstarter and ... hahahahahahahahahahaahahaha
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A friend/acquaintance is doing the art on this so I guess I should link it: Throwing Horns. I'm not even entirely sure what it is, I think you play demon ladies on a tour playing metal in hell? Something like that, there's like two hours left, check it out? 
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theironjef posted:It's a gestalt thing. Yes there's worse, obviously, but here we have I really do think you're looking too far into it. It's okay to not be interested otherwise for reasons like the deckbuilding stuff and I totally understand being concerned about stuff like this but this is coming across like you're jumping through hoops to make the game sound worse than it is when you can just leave it at "not interested" and nobody would give you any guff over it.
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What are people's thoughts on backing the second edition of Urban Shadows from like, a moral standpoint? I am torn. On the one hand, Truman did apologize, publically and in the infamous article, and I don't like the idea that if someone makes a mistake they can never be forgiven. Plus, Magpie Games posted this in the FAQ: quote:Is Andrew Medeiros involved in Urban Shadows: Second Edition? On the other hand, he's apparently still involved, so while they know he's a problem they are at least keeping him around (for now?). Plus, well, the situation with Zak S was absolutely terrible, just about the worst position one could possibly take in those circumstances. This should not be forgotten, and it's not like they made reparations in some way. Thoughts?
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paradoxGentleman posted:I reread some updates of the Mortasheen kickstarter and ... He also said this in a Q&A on the kickstarter when someone asked what the rules are: quote:"I am sorry to insist but my question is the same as before: Which um... I am pretty sure that's not how intellectual property works in relation to tabletop game rules? paradoxGentleman posted:What are people's thoughts on backing the second edition of Urban Shadows from like, a moral standpoint? I am torn. You're referring to the time Mark Diaz Truman used the Magpie Games blog to "both sides" the people calling out Zak S's lovely behavior with two blog posts, where he later added hasty retraction to the top of the first one after Zak became too radioactive to be associated with? I'd call it an inadequate attempt to cover his rear end, at the most. It says a lot that he's not willing to remove the names of people he calls out in those blog posts, either, or apologize directly to them for the harm he did for shaming them before. If you find that objectionable, I don't see a reason to support a game where he's still the designer and project lead.
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