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FirstAidKite: Nov 8, 2009

VideoGames posted:

????? Consumes HP to run?

Yes. Lunar Dragon Song, a game that I've heard barely has anything to do with the Lunar series and you have to walk everywhere because running takes away your hp. You also don't get to pick which enemy you're targeting in battle and on top of that you also have to choose between getting items from a battle or getting experience from a battle.

# ? Mar 23, 2021 10:38

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# ? Jun 5, 2024 04:05

goblin week: Jan 26, 2019; Absolute clown.

Didn't Ys 1 do that too?

# ? Mar 23, 2021 10:39

VideoGames: Aug 18, 2003

Gotta give it to them, that is a wild system to have the game run by. Not my cup of tea but yikes.

# ? Mar 23, 2021 10:39

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

Yeah, it's one of the big reasons why everyone and their mother just absolutely hated that game. Slow gameplay? One thing. Making you hold a button to get anywhere in sane amount of time? Another thing.

Making you pay in HP for getting somewhere in a sane amount of time? What kind of absolute idiot would ever think that is even remotely a good idea?

# ? Mar 23, 2021 10:41

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

Ok so there are no bad games except Iggy's Reckin' Balls, Custer's Revenge and Lunar Dragon Song. Top work people we got there

# ? Mar 23, 2021 10:42

Last Celebration: Mar 30, 2010

goblin week posted:

Didn't Ys 1 do that too?

Not really? You ran into enemies to hurt them but have to clip them so you�re barely touching their sprite or else you get hurt too.

# ? Mar 23, 2021 10:43

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

goblin week posted:

Didn't Ys 1 do that too?

literally none of it

# ? Mar 23, 2021 10:47

FirstAidKite: Nov 8, 2009

goblin week posted:

Didn't Ys 1 do that too?

Ys 1 and 2 had strategic bumping where you could trade blows by running into an enemy but you could run at angles to hit them without being hit back, nothing at all like dragon song

# ? Mar 23, 2021 10:49

FirstAidKite: Nov 8, 2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGQZItOMz6k

# ? Mar 23, 2021 11:19

Barudak: May 7, 2007

While we're ragging on Lunar Dragon Song lets mention other great things about it

1) The way you make money is accepting delivery quests, fighting monsters to get the items you need, going to the destination and turning them in. This is mind numbingly tedious but there is no fast travel between places on the world map, if a town is 3 dungeons apart you gotta go through those three dungeons again, buddy. Where it reaches the peak is that the quests it gives you are entirely randomized, so the optimal way to make money is just have the game reroll quests as frequently as possible hoping the delivery is in the same town you start in for items you already have so that you can avoid ever actually delivering packages which is literally the protagonists job.

2) The final boss is a palette swapped boss you already beat

3) Just before the final boss fight, a character in your party sacrifices themselves to slow down the boss. You then take their sword and throw it into the boss as a symbol of revenge and honoring the fallen. The boss, completely unfazed, tears the sword out of themselves and proceeds to use it for the remainder of the fight to deal massive AoE damage to your party.

# ? Mar 23, 2021 11:43

Mode 7: Jul 28, 2007

Barudak posted:

3) Just before the final boss fight, a character in your party sacrifices themselves to slow down the boss. You then take their sword and throw it into the boss as a symbol of revenge and honoring the fallen. The boss, completely unfazed, tears the sword out of themselves and proceeds to use it for the remainder of the fight to deal massive AoE damage to your party.

This is good, actually

# ? Mar 23, 2021 12:32

VideoGames: Aug 18, 2003

Barudak posted:

3) Just before the final boss fight, a character in your party sacrifices themselves to slow down the boss. You then take their sword and throw it into the boss as a symbol of revenge and honoring the fallen. The boss, completely unfazed, tears the sword out of themselves and proceeds to use it for the remainder of the fight to deal massive AoE damage to your party.

That is absolutely awesome in every way.

# ? Mar 23, 2021 12:32

Regy Rusty: Apr 26, 2010

Yeah that part sounds cool

# ? Mar 23, 2021 12:33

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

It's incredibly cool from an outside perspective, but it makes you feel like poo poo when you're playing. One of the reasons I think conventional writing skills apply badly to writing for video games.

# ? Mar 23, 2021 12:34

THE AWESOME GHOST: Oct 21, 2005

Barudak posted:

While we're ragging on Lunar Dragon Song lets mention other great things about it

1) The way you make money is accepting delivery quests, fighting monsters to get the items you need, going to the destination and turning them in. This is mind numbingly tedious but there is no fast travel between places on the world map, if a town is 3 dungeons apart you gotta go through those three dungeons again, buddy. Where it reaches the peak is that the quests it gives you are entirely randomized, so the optimal way to make money is just have the game reroll quests as frequently as possible hoping the delivery is in the same town you start in for items you already have so that you can avoid ever actually delivering packages which is literally the protagonists job.

2) The final boss is a palette swapped boss you already beat

3) Just before the final boss fight, a character in your party sacrifices themselves to slow down the boss. You then take their sword and throw it into the boss as a symbol of revenge and honoring the fallen. The boss, completely unfazed, tears the sword out of themselves and proceeds to use it for the remainder of the fight to deal massive AoE damage to your party.

I am still upset I bought this game. In case you forgot it cost MORE than a DS game at the time on top of that bullshit

# ? Mar 23, 2021 12:49

Barudak: May 7, 2007

Cardiovorax posted:

It's incredibly cool from an outside perspective, but it makes you feel like poo poo when you're playing. One of the reasons I think conventional writing skills apply badly to writing for video games.

Yeah it sounds kickin rad if you're reading it. In game it is the culmination of 20+ hours of your character being told they suck, having someone die, and the final boss just disrespecting you. You don't even kill the final boss so theres no catharsis and the ending of the game is "nothing you did mattered, go play a good Lunar game"

# ? Mar 23, 2021 12:58

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

Ninja Gaiden II is so awesome. Not long ago I was fighting up the Statue of Liberty and now I'm going through the canals of Venice. It's such a huge upgrade from the first game's 'empty neon city at night that might as well be Tokyo'. I thought the first game was a fairly solid character action game with nothing to really make it stand out aside from the incredibly wobbly boob physics but drat the sequel is real fun, so far it's a step up in every single way

# ? Mar 23, 2021 12:58

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

Barudak posted:

Yeah it sounds kickin rad if you're reading it. In game it is the culmination of 20+ hours of your character being told they suck, having someone die, and the final boss just disrespecting you. You don't even kill the final boss so theres no catharsis and the ending of the game is "nothing you did mattered, go play a good Lunar game"

Yeah, exactly. This really sums it up 100% - I do not play video games to feel like a sucker who got clowned on by everyone who actually mattered. That's what real life is for. A lovely game is a game that makes you resent it for fooling you into playing it. Lunar Dragon Song is exactly that game.

# ? Mar 23, 2021 13:01

Barudak: May 7, 2007

Are you playing the NES originals or the SNES remake of Ninja Gaiden?

# ? Mar 23, 2021 13:02

Barudak: May 7, 2007

Cardiovorax posted:

Yeah, exactly. This really sums it up 100% - I do not play video games to feel like a sucker who got clowned on by everyone who actually mattered. That's what real life is for. A lovely game is a game that makes you resent it for fooling you into playing it. Lunar Dragon Song is exactly that game.

It is a game asking you to hold out your arm and when you do so it uses it to punch you in the face and says "stop hitting yourself!"

# ? Mar 23, 2021 13:04

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

Barudak posted:

Are you playing the NES originals or the SNES remake of Ninja Gaiden?

The XBox 360 one

# ? Mar 23, 2021 13:12

wuggles: Jul 12, 2017

FirstAidKite posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGQZItOMz6k

I already liked this album and I think I�d seen the video before but that�s a really good video.

# ? Mar 23, 2021 13:19

Waffleman_: Jan 20, 2011; I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna!!!

Also from what I remember, the ending of Dragon Song feels more like the end of the first act of a larger game but then the credits roll.

# ? Mar 23, 2021 14:25

Help Im Alive: Nov 8, 2009

I don't really use discord much but it's weird to me that every streamer seems to have their own server

are people just in like a million different discords

# ? Mar 23, 2021 14:33

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

Pretty much yes, actually. It's like being a member in a forum. Costs you nothing, but when hilarious poo poo happens, you're there to see it.

Well, not like being a member in this forum, I guess. But in those anyone else cares about.

# ? Mar 23, 2021 14:35

Barudak: May 7, 2007

Rarity posted:

The XBox 360 one

Oh laffo, too many Ninja Gaidens. Its fun and I think better than its Sigma revision even if its massively unfairly harder in places

Ninja Gaiden 1 (xbox) has Ninja Gaiden 1-3 (SNES) as unlockables, while Ninja Gaiden: Black came with Ninja Gaiden (arcade). Ninja Gaiden: Sigma has nothing because its garbage.

# ? Mar 23, 2021 14:37

Goa Tse-tung: Feb 11, 2008; ;3; Yams Fan

also: you usually have to subscribe to get access, and we all know that paid forums are actually p good in the long run

# ? Mar 23, 2021 14:39

The 7th Guest: Dec 17, 2003

FirstAidKite posted:

Is it like "yay I got my wish and now I'm happy" or is it like "I got my wish but I don't like the consequences of the wish so I have to undo it now and realize I already had it pretty good before the wish"?

it's sort of the latter in the first episode although hanako helps to fix it...ish. basically the protag wishes to get a boyfriend and hanako just gives her a romance advice book. after a while she gets tired of hanako's practical advice and steals one of his magic items because she hears half an explanation and just can't wait 5 seconds to hear the rest of it. the item turns her into a fish and she has to then serve a mermaid for the rest of her life, but hanako stops the mermaid because he hasn't granted protag's original wish yet. he then is able to change her back into a human, in exchange for becoming his assistant

most of the episode is hijinx from trying and loving up the tips from the book

# ? Mar 23, 2021 14:46

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

Basically, it's the premise for an entire manga series without actually solving any problem that would make the series happen to begin with. But just from looking at like the first volume on some random manga site? Nothing to complain about, unless you hate manga on principle. Really pleasant. Just the plot of a monkey paw story without the monkey paw spitefulness.

Cardiovorax fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Mar 23, 2021

# ? Mar 23, 2021 14:49

mango sentinel: Jan 5, 2001; by sebmojo

Toilet Ghost is a really great and cute anime you should watch.

# ? Mar 23, 2021 14:51

goblin week: Jan 26, 2019; Absolute clown.

Does anyone piss in the ghost-occupid toilet

# ? Mar 23, 2021 14:54

Barudak: May 7, 2007

Sorry, I only watched shows advertised on the Yamanote line so Im locked in to watch Upper 1%s Scream-Cry in Scenic Tokyo Locale.

# ? Mar 23, 2021 14:55

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

goblin week posted:

Does anyone piss in the ghost-occupid toilet

Probably yes, but thankfully off-screen.

Also, creepy, man.

# ? Mar 23, 2021 14:56

FirstAidKite: Nov 8, 2009

At least it isn't the japanese toilet paper ghost that is like "what toilet paper do you want, red paper or blue paper" and then it just kills you instead of giving you toilet paper

# ? Mar 23, 2021 14:57

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

Well obviously you should wipe with napkins, as any TRUE NIHONJIN would know.

# ? Mar 23, 2021 14:59

Barudak: May 7, 2007

Don't listen to Cardiovorax's lies.

Its a bidet

# ? Mar 23, 2021 14:59

Looper: Mar 1, 2012

goblin week posted:

Does anyone piss in the ghost-occupid toilet

i think you're looking for a different manga

# ? Mar 23, 2021 14:59

The 7th Guest: Dec 17, 2003

also i'm halfway through talentless nana and it became a lot more Columbo than i was expecting

nana has an antagonist who is constantly going "oh just one more thing, *crucial detail breaking apart nana's alibi*" to her

# ? Mar 23, 2021 15:01

SeXReX: Jan 9, 2009; I drink, mostly.
And get mad at people on the internet

Help Im Alive posted:

I don't really use discord much but it's weird to me that every streamer seems to have their own server

are people just in like a million different discords

100, because thats the limit

# ? Mar 23, 2021 15:01

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# ? Jun 5, 2024 04:05

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

Barudak posted:

Don't listen to Cardiovorax's lies.

Its a bidet

I never lie. I speak truths of dubious provenance, but I don't lie.

# ? Mar 23, 2021 15:02

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