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Harrow posted:I think I like them because they're contrived and hokey, if that makes sense. Sure. Different strokes for different folks. Its all relative taste. They're almost more like puzzles with a bit of a time limit rather than "fights" in the traditional sense.
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Apr 1, 2021 20:47
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The End is the pinnacle of mgs boss fights imo
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Apr 1, 2021 20:47
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:The End is the pinnacle of mgs boss fights imo quiet is so much worse, it was such a disappointment
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Apr 1, 2021 20:48
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Zaphod42 posted:Sure. Different strokes for different folks. Its all relative taste. That sort of reminds me of how I feel about FFXII. I realized a while ago while talking about the game that I could make a list of reasons it's great, and someone who hates it could make a list of reasons it sucks, and those lists would be like 80% the same.
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Apr 1, 2021 20:49
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I think MGS3 strikes the best balance of wacky gimmicks and actual fun. The End, The Boss and The Fear are all seared into my memory decades later (and The Sorrow but not for fun reasons).
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Apr 1, 2021 20:49
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Harrow posted:That sort of reminds me of how I feel about FFXII. I realized a while ago while talking about the game that I could make a list of reasons it's great, and someone who hates it could make a list of reasons it sucks, and those lists would be like 80% the same.
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Apr 1, 2021 20:51
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he doesn't get brought up as much as the cobras but i really like the ocelot fight in 3
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Apr 1, 2021 20:51
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Harrow posted:That sort of reminds me of how I feel about FFXII. I realized a while ago while talking about the game that I could make a list of reasons it's great, and someone who hates it could make a list of reasons it sucks, and those lists would be like 80% the same. Yeah absolutely. I'm replaying FFXII with my gf right now, and we just finished playing 6 and 7 earlier, so we're finding it refreshing that you can program the combat and then just let it do its thing most of the time, since we've just done a ton of JRPGing anyways. I like the Star Wars story for what it is also. (The remaster's "speed up time" feature is a godsend for plowing through fights, and the international release zodiac class system changing the license boards is very welcome) And on the flipside, FFXIII seems to be the same for me too. I try talking to the people who really like it and the things they say make it good just sound awful to me. I've tried 3 times to give it a solid chance and I just can't like that game.
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Apr 1, 2021 20:52
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Acerbatus posted:MH games have stories? Never really played them butI thought they were basically on the level of sonic or mario. MHW has had the most cinematic story so far, but even then it boiled down to "zorah magdaros (a 500ft tall walking volcano) is walking somewhere! we are a scientific expedition following it to see where it's going and why!" and then more stuff happens as you get clues to the mystery MHR story is so far "our village is under threat of a monster stampede the likes of which we haven't seen in a hundred years. please god defend us and maybe we can figure out why it happens" and presumably more stuff will happen but i haven't gotten to it yet!
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Apr 1, 2021 20:54
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Monster Hunter's story is always "we have to balance our lives with nature, but these monsters are upsetting the life cycle so we need to kill them, but its for good reasons we're totally environmentalists not poachers"
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Apr 1, 2021 20:55
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Zaphod42 posted:Yeah absolutely. I'm replaying FFXII with my gf right now, and we just finished playing 6 and 7 earlier, so we're finding it refreshing that you can program the combat and then just let it do its thing most of the time, since we've just done a ton of JRPGing anyways. I like the Star Wars story for what it is also. (The remaster's "speed up time" feature is a godsend for plowing through fights, and the international release zodiac class system changing the license boards is very welcome)  I also just really enjoy coming up with party builds and job combos for its own sake. The game doesn't really require optimization, but it has enough fun things to play with that it's a good time for me to put together the pieces into different cool combos just for the hell of it. Cardiovorax posted:Realizing something very much like that is why I barely argue about video games anymore. There's a difference between liking something and having to think that's it's objectively good. Too many people get hung up on one and waste their time defending it as if it had to be the other. I've definitely found that I have a better time posting about video games now that I just don't really bother posting about games I don't like. I'd much rather post way too many words about games I love. I do sometimes still get too drawn into defending a game I like that someone else doesn't but I'm getting better at knowing when to just leave it at "I just think it's neat  " and move on.
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Apr 1, 2021 20:57
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Looper posted:he doesn't get brought up as much as the cobras but i really like the ocelot fight in 3 It's extremely "wild west showdown" and I love it
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Apr 1, 2021 20:57
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Zaphod42 posted:Monster Hunter's story is always "we have to balance our lives with nature, but these monsters are upsetting the life cycle so we need to kill them, but its for good reasons we're totally environmentalists not poachers" 4 uhhh something about a rock
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Apr 1, 2021 21:00
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Zaphod42 posted:Monster Hunter's story is always "we have to balance our lives with nature, but these monsters are upsetting the life cycle so we need to kill them, but its for good reasons we're totally environmentalists not poachers" Harrow posted:I've definitely found that I have a better time posting about video games now that I just don't really bother posting about games I don't like. I'd much rather post way too many words about games I love. I do sometimes still get too drawn into defending a game I like that someone else doesn't but I'm getting better at knowing when to just leave it at "I just think it's neat
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Apr 1, 2021 21:01
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It turns out the real Monster Hunter is Nergigante
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Apr 1, 2021 21:02
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Cardiovorax posted:I sometimes like to post criticisms of games I disliked to help people avoid games that I thought have legitimate flaws, but yeah, I'm with you there. It makes life so much more chill once you internalize the idea that there really is no accounting for taste. Something I've noticed about myself is that I'm often more critical (and a lot more verbose) about games I really love than games I don't like. I've posted a lot of detailed critical stuff about, like, BotW, FF9, and Persona 5 and stuff like that, but at the end of the day I only bothered thinking that hard about those games because I love them.
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Apr 1, 2021 21:03
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I have zero fondness or nostalgia for a Vita, but at least it came in orange which is better than most systems can say
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Apr 1, 2021 21:03
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Cardiovorax posted:I sometimes like to post criticisms of games I disliked to help people avoid games that I thought have legitimate flaws, but yeah, I'm with you there. It makes life so much more chill once you internalize the idea that there really is no accounting for taste. When I really don't like a game I tend to post one or two posts complaining about the issues I had (hoping there's a workaround I'm missing, or to warn others like you said) but then I'll move on! The threads I visit every day are the games I love in my heart of hearts. I don't get how some people keep following a game day after day after day just to tell people they're wrong and its bad. Although I do follow Star Citizen so I guess I'm guilty too.
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Apr 1, 2021 21:03
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Harrow posted:Something I've noticed about myself is that I'm often more critical (and a lot more verbose) about games I really love than games I don't like. I've posted a lot of detailed critical stuff about, like, BotW, FF9, and Persona 5 and stuff like that, but at the end of the day I only bothered thinking that hard about those games because I love them. Zaphod42 posted:I don't get how some people keep following a game day after day after day just to tell people they're wrong and its bad. Although I do follow Star Citizen so I guess I'm guilty too.
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Apr 1, 2021 21:04
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im not sure which one is worse: the vague vibe of colonialism in MHW or the sheer silliness of the quest descriptions in Rise and the old games ("hunter please! i want to go picking flowers but there's a monster somewhere in the same zip code!! kill it!!!!!")
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Apr 1, 2021 21:04
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The way you can tell I bounced off a game is if I'm posting in a game's thread for a while, start posting a few mild critiques/things I didn't like, then just quietly stop posting about it at all sorry, bravely default 2, you do some cool things but just didn't really grab me like I'd hoped
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Apr 1, 2021 21:05
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:It's extremely "wild west showdown" and I love it Go up to him and spin your revolver during the fight
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Apr 1, 2021 21:06
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of course monster hunter also takes place in a ffx-esque postapocalypse where monsters created by man turned around and punished him for his own hubris, and now people are scattered across the land in small villages for fear of attracting monsters if they develop too much the ps2 games and mh3 were cool because instead of village quests being single player and multiplayer being confined to the guild hall, you went from offline village to online town. going to bigger and busier places to cooperate with other hunters on harder hunts. the biggest town in the hunterverse is dundorma which by its nature had to become a giant anti-monster fortress covered in weapons and full of hunters
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Apr 1, 2021 21:13
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homeless snail posted:of course monster hunter also takes place in a ffx-esque postapocalypse where monsters created by man turned around and punished him for his own hubris, and now people are scattered across the land in small villages for fear of attracting monsters if they develop too much It does?
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Apr 1, 2021 21:15
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homeless snail posted:the ps2 games and mh3 were cool because instead of village quests being single player and multiplayer being confined to the guild hall, you went from offline village to online town. going to bigger and busier places to cooperate with other hunters on harder hunts. the biggest town in the hunterverse is dundorma which by its nature had to become a giant anti-monster fortress covered in weapons and full of hunters Oh poo poo that's really cool
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Apr 1, 2021 21:16
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sin would get absolutely wrecked in monhun land
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Apr 1, 2021 21:16
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Was going to crack on some effortposts but then my laptop's WiFi died, the world is conspiring against me 
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Apr 1, 2021 21:18
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RBA Starblade posted:It does? Although it doesn't seem as if they made the monsters, just hella exploited them.
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Apr 1, 2021 21:18
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according to an artbook. its not something they ever address in game because idk that anyone living in the games knows or cares about it, but maps have occasionally had weird modern elements or talk about ruins of ancient fallen civilizations, especially the ones where elder dragons have their nests
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Apr 1, 2021 21:19
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Cardiovorax posted:Turns out it actually does: https://monsterhunter.fandom.com/wiki/Ancient_Civilization The idea of a civilization as a whole pulling a Frankenstein with dragons filling in as the mob angry at the defiance of the laws of God and Man owns
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Apr 1, 2021 21:22
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Now I'm watching Revengeance boss fights on youtube and I had forgotten just how much awesome dumbshit action movie stuff they had (like how the boss tends to explode at the moment Raiden sheathes his sword) Kinda wish we had gotten current-gen ports of this instead of Bayonetta and Vanquish
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Apr 1, 2021 21:23
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I picked "answer 2" because Jak II.
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Apr 1, 2021 21:23
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haveblue posted:Now I'm watching Revengeance boss fights on youtube and I had forgotten just how much awesome dumbshit action movie stuff they had (like how the boss tends to explode at the moment Raiden sheathes his sword) I'm playing the Steam version right now, it's great!
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Apr 1, 2021 21:46
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Ive had such a weird mental image in my head thinking of Balan Wonderland. Someone said the game looked like an asset flip and I got a very distinct visual of exactly the ways in which I hated them, but I couldn't think of what I was comparing them to. Well, three days later, I finally figured it out. e: ironaically it was Fishopolis who said it ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1pf9sSpQzA&t=738s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lJhcmuMeBA&t=20s
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Apr 1, 2021 21:48
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:I'm playing the Steam version right now, it's great!
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Apr 1, 2021 21:50
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It's a real shame that Konami and the Metal Gear brand mysteriously ceased to exist in 2014. A Revengeance sequel on modern hardware would be absolutely wonderful.
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Apr 1, 2021 21:52
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RazzleDazzleHour posted:Ive had such a weird mental image in my head thinking of Balan Wonderland. Someone said the game looked like an asset flip and I got a very distinct visual of exactly the ways in which I hated them, but I couldn't think of what I was comparing them to. Well, three days later, I finally figured it out. I feel like the developers of Balan Wonderland are trying to emulate / pay homage to the aesthetic quality of Nights into Dreams.
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Apr 1, 2021 22:03
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i know if it did exist it probably wouldve leaked by now, but the theories around whether the nier remake is going to include an extra ending (like maybe the ending that was in one of the follow-up light novels) are very fun to watch flying around
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Apr 1, 2021 22:05
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I can't wait to play disco elysium again Again
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Apr 1, 2021 22:11
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Is it ok to just ignore the rampage quests in MH Rise I don't wanna do these
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Apr 1, 2021 22:12
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