video-games

[dire saffron]

one of my friends was also interested in it so i was gonna buy it and see how it turns out

[quartz latch]

For one, I'm pretty sure something is wrong with the average RPG because I can't believe grinding is (objectively) considered an inherent part of the genre. It's a stain on gameplay mechanics is what it is.

[acoustic jacinth]

i don’t think grinding to that extent is a characteristic in rpgs. open world rpgs might feature more grinding, and some open worlds require more grinding than others. but yeah, grinding is a pain and takes you out of the game experience

[rancid token]

As someone who has the same issue with RPGs, the ones I've been trying in order to expand into the genre a bit really avoid that issue

DQ11 and FF9, specifically, but I remember Chrono Cross also having a leveling system that wasn't friendly to grinding

[acoustic jacinth]

genuine question: do jrpgs tend to feature more grinding than western rpgs? i haven’t really played any jrpgs, so i have no idea

[quartz latch]

On average, I don't think so. I have a very specific beef with FFXIII for having a difficulty progression 'with all the curves in the right places', as bad fanfic prose would have it, right until the end boss... and then between that and the rich endgame optional bosses bonanza there was like a ten-levels gap.

[raven dome]

DQ11 worked great because even when you had to grind, it wasn’t much, and there was both auto-battle and increased combat speed options.

[stable kindle]

do you want your text back

[quartz latch]

pffffft proxy misfire, sorry

thank you, easier to switch one word than retype it all

[stable kindle]

The way I see it, a RPGs allow players to self-adjust difficulty a bit - the average playthrough should be feasible by doing all areas with no additional grinding, and if one's feeling confident one may skip a fair deal of battles in each area and truck on somewhat underleveled, and if one's not very good one may overlevel a bit with a little grinding and find their own sweet spot with difficulty. As long as combat's fun.

changed that word for you

[quartz latch]

Oh you did it for me, thank you ❤️

[raven dome]

The only games I can think of that fit that description are the Paper Mario series and the Mario & Luigi series.

[quartz latch]

So yeah, but then I see certain trends toward either bad difficulty calibration or subquests that are just grinding ('kill x mobs'), or idk customizable weapons that require materials that have low drop rates, and for the life of me I cannot see the value in that approach to design. I don't see fun interaction, I don't see meaningful choices, just being subject to drop rates.

[raven dome]

Especially the Mario & Luigi series, what with its unique mechanic of having all attack be dodgeable or counterable.

[quartz latch]

(by meaningful choices I mean battle-wise, like choosing a certain equipment or certain specs)

Those are all great from this point of view (and also all-around great, love 'em), there's also Chrono Cross as mentioned earlier with its limited exp per area... I'd say a lot of classics are well-balanced, though? I recently went through FFVI again and ime the only major difficulty bump is well-supported by having several story-heavy quests available at that point, naturally bringing you up to the level you needed to progress the main story.

[raven dome]

Whenever I played Pokémon, I just used only my starter Pokémon because I didn’t want to have to grind an entire team. Even when I did try to raise a party evenly, I gave up part way through and went back to using only my starter.

[polar dragon]

I think doing a Nuzlocke run can help with utilizing more Pokemons

Sometimes, you have to.

Maybe use some exp mods or pkhex if you dont want to grind too much.

[raven dome]

What if there was an option to make levels only affect evolution and learning moves, and by default, every pokémon’s stats are that of a level 100?

Nah that’d have problems of its own.

Although, considering most casual games nowadays have a “instant win super easy mode” for people who only want to see the game to completion(like Hades’ God Mode), I’m surprised Pokémon never picked up on the trend.

[polar dragon]

The simply truth is that non competitive Pokemon is quite light on the tactical layer.

I mean if your starter is level 50 vs level 40, doesn't matter type matchup you will smoke them.

[raven dome]

What if there was a special hold item that maxes a Pokémon’s level while held?(Considering multiplayer evens everyone’s levels out, this item would be pointless there)

[raven dome]

This is literally why my strategy as a kid was “use only my starter for everything and overpower everyone”

[polar dragon]

Well pokemon gets stronger also by EV, basically who you defeat along the way.
Levels 100 pokemons aren't equal.

[raven dome]

I know, but it’s just a casual single player item.

[polar dragon]

Oh yeah, then uh idk

I on the other hand actually want a more complex tactical layer and less grind in Pokemon games.
I don't want to press A to win.

[raven dome]

Same, all I want is zero grind.

[polar dragon]

Honestly that's why I don't mind using pkhex to add exp

Or to trade evo

[raven dome]

Pokémon Stadium 2 with only rentals is suffering.

[polar dragon]

Lul

[stable kindle]

haha cynthia has entered chat

[raven dome]

Their method of “balancing” is give all the most powerful Pokémon garbage moves and vice versa

||Somehow I beat Round 1 with rentals only though||

[polar dragon]

Shh.
I beat her Garchomp with my lower level Garchomp because her missed the Dragon Rush lol, or Outrage, whatever it was.

[raven dome]

I barely remember Cynthia’s fight, I just used Empoleon and Palkia and breezed through it.

Because high levels

D/P was also the last pokemon game I played.

[stable kindle]

its very easy for rng to screw you in that fight lmao hers is a pretty notorious fight in the series for difficulty

[raven dome]

Haven’t played B/W on

[rancid token]

I mean, I know currently (to the chagrin of some) Pokemon has taken to having EXP share on from the get-go and unable to be toggled, which certainly helps alleviate that feeling of needing to grind

[raven dome]

I don’t get why Cynthia is so popular. Is it simply because wife-oo?

[rancid token]

Strong trainer, good design, popular games

Has shown up several times and not just the once, from what I remember

[raven dome]

Well obviously I wouldn’t know that

[rancid token]

That would be why I'm informing you that she has, yes

[raven dome]

I just unlocked a really weird memory

When I first saw B/W’s gym leaders, all that was available was the VS screen splash art, so you could only see from the shoulders up

[polar dragon]

Partly. I honestly think Cynthia is popular because she is hard (and hot).
Her Pokemons are memorable, too.
Spiritomb literally had no weakness in gen 5.
Lucario and Milotic have always been fan favorite.
Garchomp is an Uber tier pokemon with near competitive skill set and a bit overleveled.
Many reasons to remember her.

[raven dome]

I saw Skyla and thought “wow, she looks like a fun character”

Then I saw her outfit and was like

“O-Oh...”

[polar dragon]

That's why I think Pokemon would greatly benefit for having more difficult encounters.
We may have more Cynthia moments.

[rancid token]

I agree, I think people feel the same way about Red at the end of GSC as well

[raven dome]

Red is special

He’s you, but better

[rancid token]

I think they should really lean into the "moderately easy main game, blisteringly difficult postgame" strategy

[raven dome]

Like Kirby

[rancid token]

Although I'm glad we're starting to see a bit of branching out in Gym Leader design with Raihan

It's not much, but being billed as the Dragon Type Gym Leader when he actually runs this weird weather-based team is really cool

[polar dragon]

And of course the debate of starter type

Should we move to a new trio

[raven dome]

I always pick the water type, always have, always will||(there is a really complex exception where I picked Chikorita in HGSS even though I picked Totodile in GS, but I’m ignoring that)||

[polar dragon]

I think I shuffle around a bit.

At least I know I did
||Torchic, Mudkip, Piplup, Snivy, might have gone Charmander and Tortodile but I can't remember now||

[raven dome]

But who did you “get”(read: retry until you got what you wanted) in Mystery Dungeon?

[dire warren]

raihan's concept of using the weather and stuff was cool
but after piers proved a threat, i decided to 'play it safe' and overlevel a smidge for raihan only to find out he used more ground than dragon types

[rancid token]

I wish the Psychic-Dark-Fighting trio was a bit more balanced

[dire warren]

bold of you to assume i ever did one of those quizzes without a guide

[raven dome]

The questions are random each time so you’re not guaranteed a Pokémon you want even with a guide.

[dire warren]

yes i know

so it's just resetting
great times, so glad they changed it in super and dx

[raven dome]

I only played Rescue Team and Explorers, but both times I picked ||Mudkip||

I really hope they remake Explorers like they did Rescue Team.

That game’s story was phenomenal

[dire warren]

honestly i'd prefer a pmd5

like explorers is top quality but i still have it so

[polar dragon]

I didn't retry but I got Mudkip fair and square <3

[eager hamlet]

Ok Im a bit late to this but

[polar dragon]

didn't finish though

[eager hamlet]

This has been something modern JRPGs avoid

Usually you can finish the game just by doing the fights that are on the way to any objective

[raven dome]

But what if I want to play the classics?

[eager hamlet]

Sometimes they want you to do some sidequests as well, but its not mandatory

[raven dome]

Not all great classics get remakes unfortunately

[eager hamlet]

Then you play them with all their era-appropriate flaws

Not much else you can do

[raven dome]

I’m going to do them anyways.

In fact most people do in my experience

[eager hamlet]

True, but its there in case people don't do the sidequests

Point is, grinding as such is not that major of a deal in modern JRPGs unless you want to go 100%

But then, that in itself is a grind

[dire warren]

my favourite debate about rescue team is 'cubone is overpowered'
because
like
did anyone who says that actually try fight articuno with a double type weakness

[raven dome]

You know what I miss?

Gameboy Tower in Pokémon Stadium, because you could unlock the Doduo/Dodrio Gameboys and speed up the game.

Turn Based RPGs need a speed-up button

Gotta grind fast

[rancid token]

I miss the minigame portions of the Stadium games

[raven dome]

YES

I can safely say even with all the battles, well over half the time was spent in minigames

[rancid token]

Better than Mario Party, honestly

My favorites were always either the log cutting one or the Hitmontop one in 2

[raven dome]

Depends on the Mario Party

It’s probably Delibird Delivery for me.

@rancid token https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlAqrmTA7SM

[rancid token]

Those bink bink noises are burned into my brain

[vapid fossil]

I started playing hades a week ago and now I keep trying to open doors in animal crossing with R

[lunar nymph]

Oh my god yes

[dire saffron]

@steady otter i need game recommendations

[steady otter]

uhm

uh

there's 1 problem here

[dire saffron]

preferably $15

[dire saffron]

??

[steady otter]

yes, see that's the heart of the problem

I'm EU

so games don't always have same prices

[dire saffron]

oh yea

:/

[steady otter]

hmmm

[dire saffron]

well whats considered cheap for you then

[steady otter]

doki doki literature club

[dire saffron]

god no

i refuse to play that

[steady otter]

it's fun

quite disturbing at times

[dire saffron]

ive seen all the twists and stuff so it wouldnt be that exciting

[steady otter]

so many warnings

ye

hmmm

[dire saffron]

i also dont know how i feel about ln tbh

since ive never played one

[steady otter]

see, I'm from Norway, so cheap for me is relative

[dire saffron]

uuuhhh whats norway currency??

[steady otter]

nok

but we're one of the most expensive countries in the world

[dire saffron]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/788127249223909407/819332485074386964/unknown.png

sweats

[steady otter]

ooh, cheaper then normal

usually it's 150nok

[polar dragon]

League is free

;)

[dire saffron]

another game i refuse to play

community sucks from what ive heard

and ive never been interested into mobas

[steady otter]

stardew valley

[dire saffron]

why is it so high??

[dire saffron]

hmmm maybe, i played it once and liked it a nice bit

[polar dragon]

Nova Drift is a hit among my friends recently

[steady otter]

usually the rate is around 10 nok to 1 $

[polar dragon]

Haven't tried it myself

[dire saffron]

thats a lot ;w;

i mean yen is like 100 = $1

[steady otter]

do you even know the value of the currency tho? XD

what do you think I could buy for 10 nok

[dire saffron]

ummm

idk

[steady otter]

a regular small bottle of coke is around 24-29 nok depending on the store

[dire saffron]

ahh, its about 1.49 ish for the states

[steady otter]

I could maybe get 1L of milk?

can't get a bottle of water - that's the same price as the coke

[dire saffron]

damn

[steady otter]

buying water is a luxury

we can just drink from the tap

but 10 nok is nothing

[dire saffron]

lmao mood

[steady otter]

you can barely buy anything

[dire saffron]

damn

[steady otter]

now games for you

bioshock?
nah, you must've already played those

[dire saffron]

oh no i havent played bioshock

you sent me that vid tho i still need to watch

[steady otter]

right

you don't like fps!

I'll cross those off the list

[dire saffron]

:3

im more into either turn based stuff or like tight platforming/combat

[steady otter]

hmm

pc right?

[dire saffron]

hence why i like most rpgs and rogulikes

and metroidvanias

[dire saffron]

switch preferably

[steady otter]

oh

oh

well that changes things!

[dire saffron]

i havent gotten computer privileges back yet and my computer is a toaster

[steady otter]

need to look at that library instead of the steam one then

can't convince you to play rune factory 4 special can I?

[dire saffron]

i mean you could

im not a big fan of resource games but im always open

[steady otter]

it's more then that

so more

[dire saffron]

hell i wanna get spiritfarer and thats a resource game :/

oh

[steady otter]

so very much more

there's hundreds of hours of content according to some

there's dungeons & farming & taming monsters

[dire saffron]

:o

maybe

[steady otter]

you even unlock an ever changing maze dungeon by the end

[dire saffron]

lol nice

[steady otter]

||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwI0mzf2flY||

[dire saffron]

lol anime op

[steady otter]

it was originally on 3ds, that's why some things look a bit wonky

[steady otter]

and cut scenes!

the next game in the franchise is coming out soon

there's also crafting & forging

[dire saffron]

like minecraft

[steady otter]

and just about everything is a skill you can level

like sleeping, eating & walking

and bathing

giving you different boosts the higher your lvl

[dire saffron]

ooo

maybe

i mean as of right now im torn between trying that out

or

yuppie psycho

[steady otter]

maybe watch some gameplay footage first then

[dire saffron]

||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aUESdHCOIA||

[steady otter]

I fell completely in love with it myself

[dire saffron]

its not the most baby friendly game

[steady otter]

and me trying out stardew valley was to try & get that feeling back on the switch XD

but stardew valley just doesn't have everything rf4s has

[dire saffron]

aahh

well ill def look into it :3

[steady otter]

[steady otter]

looks like an interesting game

[dire saffron]

yeaaa

horror stuff is great

like yea i wont be able to sleep

[steady otter]

too bad I like witches

[dire saffron]

but it looks cool as hell

what kind of games do you like actually??

[steady otter]

uhm

idk

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[dire saffron]

lol

[steady otter]

I don't think I'm very tied to any one particular genre except "please no excessive horror"

I can handle some, but not a lot

[dire saffron]

lol no yuppie psycho for you then :3

[steady otter]

so no fnaf or res e

[dire saffron]

since its a lot of horror from what ive heard

ahh

res e honestly seems really cool

[steady otter]

I tried res e r & I was way too trigger happy

[dire saffron]

capcom confirming pegging scenes pog

[steady otter]

I kept jumping at everything

it's not really the imagery that gets to me

it's the suspence, the waiting

I hate jumpscares

[dire saffron]

ahh

for me its the imagery

like just the visuals dont let me sleep at night

[steady otter]

I have to always have my phone on silent cuz I jump at the sound of it ringing

[steady otter]

eeh, I can imagine worse stuff

[dire saffron]

lol lil scardey cat

[steady otter]

worse then they show I mean

[dire saffron]

ahh

[steady otter]

it's more that I'm hyperaware of sound

I can't even use high volume on my tv cuz it's too loud

[dire saffron]

ahh damn

i mean tbh loud stuff is fine just as long as it isnt ear piercing or excessively bass heavy

and most horror things arent like that so :/

[steady otter]

ye, I just can't

anyways games I like..

uhm

I love plague inc, though out of some respect & to preserve my sanity, I stopped playing that early 2020

3 guesses why first 2 don't count

[dire saffron]

ahh i mean idk about stuff like plague inc

just seems so slow

[steady otter]

isaac can be fun..
loved ESO & played for around 4 years until my mac couldn't handle it anymore..
love Skyrim

[steady otter]

you have a speed up button

[dire saffron]

lol you knwo what i mean i hope

just not as active as i would like

[steady otter]

there's campaigns making it fun, but yeye I know

but I love it

so there

uhm..

I love rf4 obviously, and just about all pokemon games

botw was fun, IFR is fun

Hades fun

[dire saffron]

havent played ifr but botw was fun on my first run

[steady otter]

bioshock was amazing, bioshock 2 was fun & I kinda don't wanna do infinite cuz it ain't rapture

[dire saffron]

pokemon is neat too, like its fun but modern isnt nearly as fun as like og gen 3-4

i like stuff like hollow knight, darkest dungeon, katana zero, celeste

stuff like that

cant wait for silksong tho except i doubt itll ever come out

[steady otter]

I tried hollow knight out but it wasn't quite it for me

[dire saffron]

itll be a kh3 situation

ahh

yea the way it plays isnt for everyone

[steady otter]

octopath traveler was cool & I have to do it again cuz I can't remember much of it anymore

oooh

[dire saffron]

ooo i loved the octopath combat

story couldve been better tho

[steady otter]

unepic was fun, need to play that again & finish it

[dire saffron]

whats that??

[steady otter]

||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnTDPjnYbeM||

it's on switch too

[dire saffron]

oh god the quality is just

[steady otter]

and steam

[dire saffron]

...

[steady otter]

it's not the best trailer, but it's fun to play

[dire saffron]

ahh

[steady otter]

I love jurassic world evolution

[dire saffron]

idk, might just look into rf4 and decide from there

never really been a fan off of any games based on a movie

always kinda feel gross imo

[steady otter]

I just wanna have dino park

and do dino park missions

[dire saffron]

lol

[steady otter]

I'm a simple soul

[dire saffron]

dinos is all thats needed to make anyone happy ngl

[steady otter]

truth

[dire warren]

the topic has moved on from hollow knight but... now there's a game...

sadly my switch controllers decided to drift horribly and until i sort them out i can't actually go finish hk

[dire saffron]

yikes

[steady otter]

well, have fun with whichever game you end up with plum!

[dire saffron]

i have the smash pro controller and its still going strong after a couple years

[dire saffron]

yea i hope so :3, good talking to you shadow :3

hk was really fun

lore is cool

controls really nice imo

[dire warren]

it's only forwards so i can play something where i'm mainly moving forwards a lot just fine

and tbh i have a pro controller but its just not the best for hk

[dire saffron]

ahhh i mean after i got my pro controller i couldnt go back to joy cons

it just felt soo much better

[dire warren]

wish i could relate lmao, i'm usually playing handheld

[dire saffron]

ahh yea same but i have it in handheld but still use my controller

[steady otter]

I only just got a controller

I'm not used to it

[dire saffron]

lol yea it felt weird going from joy con to controller

[steady otter]

feels so ugh

it's nice in some ways in that I can walk back & forth in rf4s to grind that skill without having to hold the switch..

but so weird

[dire condor]

Hyper Light Drifter can be very difficult but it's basically a Zelda game.

[polar dragon]

maybe sacrilege but I don't like the narrative in the game.
i get that it's intentional and an artistic choice but ig it's really not my taste.

[dire condor]

HLD?

[wraith cradle]

HLD makes me think on Horizont Lero Dawn 😆

[stable kindle]

me, stupid: what is hld....
me reading three lines further up: oh.

[dire condor]

Horizon Zelda Drifter.

[polar dragon]

yeah, I was talking about Hyper Light Drifter.

[wraith cradle]

If you like Hyper Light Drifter you may like this game

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[lethal drift]

oh ysbyrd

they published Va11halla and ||Yiik||

[woven breach]

I love how you censor the other one

[dire saffron]

hehe

yeaa

[lethal drift]

Most people just hate it cause the controversy and the childish dev who took the criticisms poorly

[dire saffron]

||yiik|| is just

interesting

[polar dragon]

yiik?

[lethal drift]

I only know like one person who actually likes it

[wraith cradle]

The creator?

[tame veldt]

your mom

HAHA XD

LMAO

[lethal drift]

nice

[wraith cradle]

It has Niosi of all people as MC's VA

[tame veldt]

IM FUNNY

[dire saffron]

gerry is very funny

[lethal drift]

you sure are, honey

[tame veldt]

some people agree

[lethal drift]

it frikin has Garoad and Toby Fox on the o st

[polar dragon]

are those games?

should I google what those are?

[lethal drift]

they're game music producers

[tame veldt]

you don't know toby fox?

[polar dragon]

megalovania

[lethal drift]

dead meme

[polar dragon]

not in my memory

[tame veldt]

https://tenor.com/view/sanesss-sans-undertale-unitale-gif-5478072

[lethal drift]

honestly I'm sure Undertale is an ok game but I just dislike the pixel art

[tame veldt]

undertale is boring

[polar dragon]

do you like 2d graphics?

[polar dragon]

undertale is fun if the internet didn't spoil everything

a lot of the fun is just seeing all the references

[tame veldt]

too bad i don't know them

[lethal drift]

like if I compare it to something like Blasphemous that has some incredible pixel art and then there is Undertale with just really unimpressive pixel art

[tame veldt]

the references that is

[lethal drift]

some ideas of Undertale were ok to me

[wraith cradle]

I only played two games I would called embarrasingly pretentious.

YIIK is one of them

The other is Superhot (And the sequel)

[lethal drift]

"I felt the elevator shake, vibrating in motion"

actual quote from Yiik

it even plagiarized some stuff from a Haruka Murakami book

[wraith cradle]

It plagiarized ELISA LAM SUICIDE

[lethal drift]

and sensationalized it

[tame veldt]

is there even story in superhot?

[wraith cradle]

Yes

[polar dragon]

YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG

hmm

[wraith cradle]

And it's pretentious

VERY pretentious

[tame veldt]

um

sure

[wraith cradle]

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-07-24-the-new-superhot-forces-you-to-wait-hours-after-the-ending-before-you-can-play-again

[tame veldt]

that's cringe

[lethal drift]

how many hours?

[wraith cradle]

8 apparently

[lethal drift]

yikes

[polar dragon]

cringe

also can I say

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/802615525141643265/819425272298340362/unknown.png

[lethal drift]

I know Anodyne did something kinda similar where you had to wait a ton of hours just to have something happen

[wraith cradle]

The gameplay is great but anything isn't gameplay is pure uncondensed Fedora

[polar dragon]

who the heck thought that putting the title on the bottom for zero 1 was a good idea

who

seriously

who

[tame veldt]

heh

[lethal drift]

someone at Capcom

[vivid mesa]

Mega Man Zero 1 was a very oddball game, to be fair

like nothing about it fits

hub world; no EX skills; super friggin' hard

[polar dragon]

that's the vibe for the entire zero series tbh

[junior crown]

What I like about pretentious stuff is that it's way of being is enough to be discussed about and never forgotten, pretentiously enough to make way for the goal it always meant to get to.

[vivid mesa]

now that said, I LOVE the MMZ series ❤️

[polar dragon]

zero is like super hard

[vivid mesa]

yeah but 1 stands out lol

[lethal drift]

is it like first game sundrome?

[polar dragon]

fair, I only got through it with the collection edtion where they made it infinitely easier

[vivid mesa]

also they did go back to the classic menu with the maverick mutos reploids' faces in the sequels

I played MMZ1 like, two months after it came out on the GBA. lol

[polar dragon]

nice!

I have a GBA SP and a PSP Go.

But finding games for them nowadays is near impossible.

[vivid mesa]

Also, cartridges do not age well 😦

[lethal drift]

I really want a gba sp

[polar dragon]

yeah, though that's not a big issue if you really want to play those games yknow

[vivid mesa]

That's true. And I still want a retro N64 collection, haha
and a Dreamcast

[stable kindle]

i still have all my old gameboys and variants

[polar dragon]

like gameboy?

not even color or advance?

[wraith cradle]

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/03/10/get-12-free-warhammer-pc-games-with-white-dwarf-462/

👀

[polar dragon]

no way

that true? how do I get it

[lethal drift]

heck yeah free games

[polar dragon]

it seems that you need to buy the magazine

hmm

[wraith cradle]

It includes some good ones too

Like Vermintide II, Space Marine and Total Warhammer

[woven breach]

I can vouch for space marine

Vermintide if you have friends

[tame veldt]

that is sick

is that the original

maybe barnes and noble still sells gameboy stuff

[polar dragon]

yo that is sick

[lethal drift]

[polar dragon]

they might be invaluable in the future

[stable kindle]

the gameboy was my mom's, so yeah its original 😭

[tame veldt]

that's so cool

[stable kindle]

it still works but the screen is really hard to see anymore

[tame veldt]

it's always been hard to see

no backlight

[lethal drift]

yep

[stable kindle]

well more than usual

[tame veldt]

i haven't noticed my color getting harder to see

maybe an og thing

[stable kindle]

still lov that gba, companies should bring back electronics with frosty see through cases, that was peak aesthetic

[wraith cradle]

Welp Finished Loop Hero

a Roguelite I liked more than Hades

[tame veldt]

a sin

in this server

[wraith cradle]

Welp, There is 3 or 4 more than I like more than Hades :`p

[polar dragon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/802615525141643265/819431198262558750/Screenshot_20210310-2346292.jpg

my tiny collection

[stable kindle]

oh i forgot my black and red psp lol

[polar dragon]

I hate that look ngl

[stable kindle]

i think its cooler than whatever minimalist designs everyone goes with now, boring, safe, lame

[polar dragon]

I remember modded Nokia 3310 was the trend back in 2010 with frosted clear case and LED

I just wish mobile games aren't so crappy.

Imagine a Nintendo level game but for phone.

[tame veldt]

we all wish that

[polar dragon]

before you say it, genshin doesn't count

[stable kindle]

o wait we have the same sp, heck yeah

[polar dragon]

heck yeah

mine is front lit AGS 100 I think it's called

so it's as OG an SP as it can be

[stable kindle]

digs mine back out

model ags-001

[polar dragon]

oh that's it

001 is the front lit first version
101 is the back lit second version

[wraith cradle]

I played the Alien game on Mobile and was legit addicting

[tame veldt]

wdym genshin sucks

[wraith cradle]

It was free tho although now costs money

[tame veldt]

any gacha sucks simply because it was only made to steal your money

not out of creative passion

[wraith cradle]

What About XC2?

[tame veldt]

is that xcom?

idk haven't even seen gameplay

[wraith cradle]

A joke about Xenoblade Chronicles 2 having an in-game gacha system

[tame veldt]

mmm

[wraith cradle]

Isn't actually gacha in like the money spent is all ingame

[tame veldt]

i only played like 3 hours of xeno2

[polar dragon]

I also read that as XCOM 2 lol

[lethal drift]

I love XBC2

[tame veldt]

i love waifus

[lethal drift]

XBC2 has those in spades

[polar dragon]

So far I have found a couple of ports to mobile including
XCOM Enemy Within
Dead Cells (no expansion)
Classic Final Fantasy series

[polar dragon]

The new Smash fighters make me blush 😳

[woven breach]

Man... I remember the first moment I put my hands on PSP go

I...

Hate it

Till this day

[polar dragon]

lmao what

[woven breach]

It's too slim

For me anyway

I prefer the bulk on normal psp

[wraith cradle]

Now instead of sword users we get sword users

[tame veldt]

The answer to your problem is emulation.

[polar dragon]

yeah the screen is smaller than a fat psp also

should have bought the psp3000

but i was a kid, thought newer was better

sigh

[tame veldt]

i just noticed it's mario day

[woven breach]

Yea it is

His games are 35% off on switch

I don't like mario games

[tame veldt]

it's like mario party and tennis though

[woven breach]

Yea well

Nintendo rarely put discounts on their games

[polar dragon]

haven't played enough mario to judge

[woven breach]

Gotta take any win

[polar dragon]

I think i played the SNES version and the GBA version

dunno what the numbers are because the naming scheme is wack

[lethal drift]

tfw I like Mario and like Nintendo but people just hate Nintendo for really selfish reasons

[tame veldt]

[rancid token]

There's plenty of legitimate criticism to level at ol' Grampa Ninty

[woven breach]

Like the lack of VC support on switch

[lethal drift]

I am very aware. Believe me

[eager hamlet]

Well, today was uh, interesting

[tame veldt]

their a profit company. they do what they do to make money. any organization that does this is gonna be hated

[eager hamlet]

I was playing some Fighterz.

[lethal drift]

I do not agree with their business practices at all but I will only just play the games

I'm just a simple man who likes fun games

[eager hamlet]

Noticed that my enemies name was Lythero.
... and he was using his team
... and he had the trans rights colours on DBS Broly

[lethal drift]

I see

[eager hamlet]

Turns out I got washed by the actual Lythero

On stream

[tame veldt]

wow

[woven breach]

I... have

No idea what those words meant

[tame veldt]

i have no idea who that is

but congrats

[eager hamlet]

Famous FGC content creator

[tame veldt]

i assumed they were good

y'know to beat a gamer like yourself

[eager hamlet]

Probably best known for UMvC3 and his Phoenix Wright in particular

Also genuinely cool dude

[woven breach]

Ok quick google and yes he is

That's pretty cool

[eager hamlet]

And nah, I suck at Fighterz

But still, that was ... unexpected

[woven breach]

I've only appeared in a stream once.... bombing a content creator in MHW

It was fun

[tame veldt]

my hero wackademia?

[woven breach]

No it's My Hero Wario

[lethal drift]

monstew hunta wise

[woven breach]

UwU

[lethal drift]

[rancid token]

Buh

There's a glaring hole in my Pokedex and it bothers me

[lethal drift]

fill it up

with pokermanz

[woven breach]

The pokemon name is glaring hole?

[rancid token]

Diancie

[lethal drift]

that's slightly funnier than mine

[rancid token]

Mew at least there's plenty floating around the aether and worst case I could just track down a Pokeball+

But Diancie only happened the once and I don't foresee it being popular enough to be given out again

[lethal drift]

bummer

[rancid token]

Otherwise I'm missing 10 Pokemon, and 8 of them are from the DLC stuff I haven't played yet

[woven breach]

Ayyyy

[lethal drift]

[woven breach]

Good for you cause I don't bother with finishing pokemon sword story

Evn though I bought it

[rancid token]

I like about 60% of SwSh

There's a lot of things wrong, but I think the Wild Areas are fantastic and I genuinely enjoyed Hop's character arc

[tame veldt]

i hate swsh beyond belief i could make a 15 page essay about how much i hate it

[rancid token]

I wish it didn't hook straight into a save-the-world arc at the end and just stayed a ground level sports story

[woven breach]

What I like the most are marnie's and bede's theme

They are BANGERS

And that's it

[rancid token]

The music also slaps but I think that's one of two things I'd say is consistently good across the whole franchise

Music, and the designs of the Pokemon themselves

[woven breach]

I don't like the chimes

As in

They only play like 8 chimes in the game on a loop

It has come to a point where I tell my bro to take the switch to his room

Whenever he wants to play

Cause it's like earworm to me

[rancid token]

The gym theme goes harder than it has any right to

[woven breach]

I don't remember the gym themes

Only marnie's and bede's

Cause I like them

[lethal drift]

Marnie is adorbs

[rancid token]

Incorporating soccer/football chants into it was really smart

[woven breach]

Yea

I agree on that

[rancid token]

Also, da bois

[woven breach]

You know the reason I hate the game, is that I like a pokemon and cause I have memory of a gold fish I don't remember the name

[rancid token]

https://tenor.com/view/pokemon-falinks-falinks-pokemon-walk-cute-gif-16068318

[woven breach]

The only way to evolve them is to trade them

And I don't have NSO

[woven breach]

Oh yea they're adorable

[lethal drift]

wiggly worm boi

[polar dragon]

ohh falinks

[rancid token]

https://tenor.com/view/falinks-pokemon-wild-encounter-gif-15656825

[polar dragon]

i like the multiple pokemon forms

wishiwashi is one of them also

[mortal siren]

All companies exists to make money wdym

[polar dragon]

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/stellaris-discovery-bundle

[tame veldt]

yeah i dunno made sense at the time

[woven breach]

Random question for you guys

What game that you gave a try but then something in the game happened where you went "nope"?

and not finish the game?

I'll start

Sakuna, the gameplay doesn't reel me in. 4 hours into the game, fought a miniboss and wrecked. I get that it's my fault but the combat is clunky

[red fjord]

For me it was dishonored 2, I was having a ton of difficulty with the game, especially the stealth aspect. On after a mission with about 10 deaths or so I just didn't come back to it although the gamplay was kinda fun

[woven breach]

yea I don't like that about dishonored

if you don't want me to kill, why give me variety of ways to do it?

[steady otter]

Cuphead - was fun to watch others play it, but too hard for my mediocre skills so I haven’t touched it since that first day
It’s sad too cuz I know it’s a cool game, but it just didn’t work out for me

[red fjord]

Cuphead looks like an absolutely amazing game, but the difficulty looks... intimidating

[steady otter]

Exactly

Sadly the let’s plays I watched made it look so easy..

Maybe one day in the future I’ll have the skills needed for it

[red fjord]

I feel like they absolutely nailed the asthitic, and the whole 60s to 80s vibe

The music the art style the sound effects the enemy design the animations etc

[woven breach]

you know I was ecstatic when I see there's a difficulty option on cuphead

then I found out you can't progress on simple difficulty

[red fjord]

Oof

[steady otter]

Uhhuh

Much sad

[red fjord]

What games do you guys feel are extremely underapretiated?

I spelled that wrong

But oh well

[steady otter]

Rune factory 4

The rune factory series really

[woven breach]

let me thonk

[red fjord]

What is that?

[steady otter]

[woven breach]

that speaks for itself lmao

[red fjord]

Heh

[steady otter]

It’s a game series that started as a spinoff from Harvest Moon or so

But like rf4

It’s farming dungeon crawling monster taming crafting/forging/cooking dating game

So much content

[red fjord]

Huh

[steady otter]

And just about everything is a skill

[red fjord]

Sounds cool

[steady otter]

Walking, eating, sleeping, bathing

The different weapons & elements

[woven breach]

Gravity Rush, Freedom War, Soul Sacrifice Delta

[steady otter]

And the max lvl is 999 or smth

On the skills

[woven breach]

those games are on PSVita

[red fjord]

Never heard of any of them...

[woven breach]

welp I expected that

[steady otter]

Rf4 is on 3ds & it got a release on switch - rune factory 4 special

Soon though rune factory 5 will be out

[woven breach]

Though Gravity Rush and Gravity Rush 2 are on PS4

[steady otter]

I’ve heard of gravity rush

[woven breach]

it's just the game server got shut down

can't get plat now

[red fjord]

The game I feel like it's underapetiated is control

[thorn tundra]

Yea cuphead is too tight for me

[junior crown]

I have the different problem with dishonoured stand alone dlc game, due to fact I couldn't really put myself to try and play it since there was no drawback to the actions.

[steady otter]

https://youtu.be/PwI0mzf2flY

[thorn tundra]

Like I recognize the things I have to dodge

But Im just so bad at parrying its saf

[woven breach]

I like the world building, the chars are fleshed out

I don't like the shooting

idk

it doesn't click

[thorn tundra]

Not really nope but I realized Im not really into deep sandbox games

And farming sims

Didnt like terraria and stardew valley since I dont really like playing a game with a wiki on the side

[steady otter]

[red fjord]

I mean... you can not shoot, telekinesis and all, but I get what you're saying. I personally loved the shooting, it felt like it had a good omf to it, or at least the versions of the gun I used

[steady otter]

I like stardew, but it couldn’t compare to rf4 for me so I quit playing

[woven breach]

the control (hehe) doesn't feel right, I played on PC.

[red fjord]

Ah, I see, I played on consol so I wouldn't know

[woven breach]

maybe I'll try again in the future

[junior crown]

Due to way how I play high chaos in dishonored it feels way too mindless to actually try it for me at least, so I stick to stealth since I think it's Dishonored's one of the stand out thing for it, apart from interesting setting and just nice looking animations/places. But like in standalone dlc there was no real need to attempt to improve my stealth so like it was just very awkwardly taking out enemies and then continuing on.

also can agree on terraria, I honestly can't really get into that due to how slow it is or how it needs knowing a lot of things from the get go. Can't really say the same for Stardew Valley, I feel like it needs less usage of wiki, maybe for some endgame stuff, otherwise it's nice to just do chill stuff and figure out the stuff there since there is no real drawback for that.

[steady otter]

You might like rune factory then

[junior crown]

Don't have Switch for that lol

[steady otter]

It’s on 3ds too

[thorn tundra]

Oh yeah my problem with stardew valley is different. I find too slow/relaxing and I realized Im not into games that are designed that way

And the lack of short term objectives

[steady otter]

That’s the beauty of Rune factory

Its as slow or fast as you want it to be

[thorn tundra]

There are a lot of goals in the game but most of them are in the long term planning

Oh yeah played RF4 too on the 3ds

[steady otter]

You can spend all day in the town talking or farming - or you can go out & fight monsters & do dungeons

Stardew was a letdown in comparison

Rune factory just did it better

[thorn tundra]

Liked it though waiting for a new game since not really feelinh spending money for the remastered version on thr switch

[steady otter]

Rf5 is coming soon

[thorn tundra]

Liked the boses in rune factory too

[steady otter]

I got the remaster as well as the 3ds version

[thorn tundra]

What I really miss is Fantasy Life in the 3ds

[steady otter]

If you have the remastered one it seems you’ll get an outfit & some visitors from it in rf5 though
Checks for a save file

[thorn tundra]

Snack world wasnt the same

Loved that fantasy life has so many jobs and you can actuslly just do everything from alchemy, sewing, forging by yourself

[steady otter]

What I think is cute is that in Japan it looks like they might be giving out a trial version of rf4s for a limited time before the release of 5

I get lost in the crafting & cooking & forging in rf4

So many options..

So many ways to upgrade

[thorn tundra]

Wish that Ever Oasis too will have a new game on the switch aside from Fabtasy Life

Its a lot simpler game but it was a charming one

[steady otter]

Btw, did you abuse the tutorial too? And object X?
Just curious

[thorn tundra]

Oh no cant remember much sorry

I just remember I speared the horse to death

And quite enjoyed that it has bosses

[steady otter]

I’m abusing the tutorial right now

Time doesn’t move until you go see venti (the dragon), and after you plant your first seed & speak to vishnal (butler boy) you can learn skills

I’m over lvl 50 in throwing already

I’m just pressing some buttons on my controller while I watch videos

[thorn tundra]

[steady otter]

I’m gonna have such nice attack stat by the time I get utterly bored of this

I’m currently lvl 1 with an attack of 36

Which is p good cuz I started with 6

[twin yarrow]

same problem with terraria with only difference is that i like the game, and the slow-paced games in general

i start with enthusiasm, get to some advanced items, maybe clear some dungeon, and then at some point pre-hardmode i realise that i have to sort a ton of junk in tens of chests

and build an apartment for each existing and not yet existing NPC

then i begin to study wiki, to plan a future museum of All The Things In The Game ™️

then at some point i delay the studying for a day, three days, a week, a month, a couple of years till the next update

[polar dragon]

Late but Sunless Sea. Got it free from Epic.
I like the concept. But noped out after an hour.
It's so slow and tedious that I can't stand it to get to the good parts.

[woven breach]

I can sea that

hehehe

[wraith cradle]

Oh boy I finished Call of the Sea and is quite something

Probably the cutest game based on ||The Cthulu mythos|| I've seen

[rancid token]

Subnautica made me realize I have a mild case of thalassophobia

[hybrid jetty]

agreed with sunless sea

everything about it setting wise seemed cool

unfortunately it is just
not fun

[junior crown]

I think sunless skies does better job at delivering more fun to gameplay

still slow

but it is quite a journey

also space trains

[polar dragon]

Yeah. I prefer games that are a bit fast paced, not necessarily FPS fast, but faster than Sunless Sea for sure.
Fun fact: turn based games can feel fast and quite intense.

[tame veldt]

name one example

[polar dragon]

XCOM?

FTL

[tame veldt]

THAT'S TURNBASED

?

[polar dragon]

XCOM is turn based yeah

[tame veldt]

booe to the baba

[polar dragon]

Chimera Squad is basically turn based R6 with a bit of alien vibe.

[sleek quiver]

So, I’ve been playing with the new Apex on the Switch and I just suck at aiming with a controller

[tame veldt]

not epic gamer

[sleek quiver]

I sure am not, sir

[thorn tundra]

practice the gyro you'll get used to it

[tame veldt]

this is why kbm is superior

[sleek quiver]

I’m so used to using gyro on my phone, playing cod mobile, but the gyro on the Switch works a bit differently

[polar dragon]

Gyro? Is that the tilt?

[tame veldt]

yes

[sleek quiver]

Yeah, coming from KBM, this is a difficulty curve for me

[thorn tundra]

you can adjust the sensitivity to match it more closely to your phone

[sleek quiver]

And I’m not even that good with KBM

[thorn tundra]

kbm is definitely superior but that's because you can't perform quick turns using a controller

[tame veldt]

the switch's gyro also just plain sucks. the up and down axis is more sensitive than the left to right axis

[thorn tundra]

Im used to it depending on the game

[sleek quiver]

The horizontal gyro works like a steering wheel, if that makes any sense

[thorn tundra]

borderland switch has terrible gyro

[sleek quiver]

Ok bout to start a game

BRB

[thorn tundra]

but Paladins has a pretty good gyro control

[tame veldt]

imagine saying a good thing about paladins :p

[thorn tundra]

hey its the only game with a SEA server that also has gyro

on switch

cause my laptop is pure garbage

[tame veldt]

mod it

that's what i did

now i can run things like apex and warzone

memory wise though

ehhh

[thorn tundra]

no its just pure old

[tame veldt]

yeah no saving it then

[thorn tundra]

i3 1.7 ghz 4gb ram

[tame veldt]

ew

[thorn tundra]

intel hd graphics 4400 as the onboard gpu

yea I just use it cause I prefer typing on a laptop

my phone is literally more powerful than my laptop

[tame veldt]

nothing beats a laptop typing

[polar dragon]

I feel this.

Also that's why it weirds me out now to buy a handheld

[tame veldt]

i don't even use my phone

[polar dragon]

Like we have such a powerful device that is our phone

Why do I need to pay extra for another device for games.

[tame veldt]

i'm a pubescent teen and i don't use my phone for anything except my checkmark at the beginning of school to get in

[polar dragon]

If only mobile games don't suck

[thorn tundra]

I just like analog controls because touch controls feels very weird

[tame veldt]

i break stereotypes

[thorn tundra]

also exclusive games

[sleek quiver]

And ded lmao

[tame veldt]

they're all gachas

[polar dragon]

Get a controller clip for $10

Works for me

[thorn tundra]

the main selling point of handhelds and consoles are exclusive games

[polar dragon]

True

[tame veldt]

that's how you get people to buy it

[polar dragon]

Oh boy, Bloodborne for PC

Hmm

[thorn tundra]

I'll ask for a new laptop for my graduation

will also be a practical thing since I might need some apps for school that can't run on my current PC

[polar dragon]

I heard Asus Zepherus are god tier laptops right now.

[tame veldt]

aren't they like 800 though

[thorn tundra]

preferably something in the $400 range

[tame veldt]

unless i'm thinking of something else

[thorn tundra]

I just need something mid specs

[polar dragon]

Yeah Asus Zep is between 800 upward to 2k5

[thorn tundra]

$400 is an easier sell to parents than $800

[polar dragon]

Not sure if $400 would get you a midrange option tbh, not trying to doom here

You are better off just build your own PC instead of buying a laptop

[thorn tundra]

$400 can if I custom

yea not really a laptop

[polar dragon]

Oh ok

Yeah I thought you were talking about 400 laptop

400 for a PC can be decent

Hell 300 can do with AMD APUs

[thorn tundra]

whatever is the cheapest barely good out there

[junior crown]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/43110/Metro_2033/ metro 2033 free rn

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[red fjord]

Anyone here played the boomerang X demo?

[dire condor]

I've heard OG Metro 2033 is extremely rough. I played Redux and loved it.

[floral warren]

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/03/11/20-bethesda-games-now-on-xbox-game-pass/
holy kabloshoot

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/455536748190236677/819638305473429524/unknown.png

[cosmic vine]

That alot games

[floral warren]

I know right?

like they dumped everything in gamepass

[cosmic vine]

Well for me i have 185 games on my steam library including dlc

[floral warren]

I don't

I just bought cyberpunk for me and my friend for like 20$

[cosmic vine]

I mostly got alot of older games, indie games and some of nowadays AAA games

Like code vein, sekiro shadow die twice and the surge 2.

As for cyberpunk 2077 I hear that game is very buggy

And the driving control is not good with keyboard and Mouse on the pc.

So I mostly skip it

[floral warren]

on pc it's not as they say, although there's a bit of bug lottery going on. so I'd say you wait

and the driving... I can't really tell you much, mostly because I walk and don't use vehicles

and there's also a mod for that already FYI

[cosmic vine]

To be honest I stop thinking about cyberpunk 2077. Because I hear they made the main story short

[floral warren]

if you only play main quests (which in cdpr fashion is a big no) yeah the game is short, but (again as per cdpr fashion) they put a lot of work into side quests

side characters questlines is my favorite

[cosmic vine]

I see

[floral warren]

compared to the witcher 3 it is indeed short, but they said that there will be more expansions than witcher 3

[cosmic vine]

Well witcher 3 is a third person rpg game

In cyberpunk 2077 the gameplay I have watch on YouTube. It seems to be another looter shooter

[floral warren]

different subgenre different characters different world setting different lore and certainly a tooon of keanu

tbh it kinda is if you focus on gunplaying only, but you can actually diversify your character into different playstyles

run 'n' gun, stealth, hacker, ninja

[cosmic vine]

I see.

[floral warren]

(blade runner )

[cosmic vine]

Oh well I guess in the meantime I still be playing divinity original sin 2

[floral warren]

I hope you have fun

[cosmic vine]

It's fun

I have played it over 218 hours now

[floral warren]

is it CRPG like disco elysium?

[cosmic vine]

It a turn based CRPG game.

[floral warren]

a turn based CRPG game, interesting

cyberpunk and hades is just eating my time right now

I want to get into a new subgenre, and I hear a lot of positive comments about DOS2

[cosmic vine]

It more like the turn based dnd game.

[floral warren]

i've never played any dnd, is it like fantasy stuff?

or high fantasy?

[cosmic vine]

Dnd is Dungeons & Dragons fantasy tabletop role-playing game

[storm sedge]

dos2 is one of my favorite games of all time

its turn based

very highly recommend

[acoustic jacinth]

dos 2 is great! kind of wish I could try it multiplayer, but i've got no friends who play it

[floral warren]

I know for certain that it's a popular tabletop RPG (just like Cyberpunk 2020/RED)

[storm sedge]

i will say its more fun once you sort of know what youre doing because larian studios does not care about your feelings

they will drop you into combat with no knowledge or skills and just let you figure it out

[dire condor]

dnd isnt a videogame you know

[cosmic vine]

Yup@storm sedge

[storm sedge]

but yea dos2 very very cool

once you make it off first island

[cosmic vine]

Yup

[floral warren]

oooh, adds some challenge to the gameplay

[cosmic vine]

[storm sedge]

i would estimate about like 90-95% of playthroughs stall on first island lmao

[acoustic jacinth]

but there's also so many opportunities for cheese

[storm sedge]

our current multiplayer campaign just made it to second island and thats how you know we're finishing the game

i like the chest dropping

[cosmic vine]

For me i mostly play divinity original sin 2 in single play

I just love the teleport skills

[storm sedge]

where you fill an unbreakable chest with every heavy item and drop it on enemies to one shot them

[acoustic jacinth]

teleport and high ground bonuses

are great

i've never tried barrelmancy, but i've seen it, it's fun to watch

[cosmic vine]

There a enemy who has the high ground. Time to teleport them pit of fire I just made

As for other crpg games I have played are pathfinder kingmaker a real time crpg game. And pillars of eternity games

In pathfinder kingmaker I can be lawful evil ruler running my own kingdom

[acoustic jacinth]

how's pathfinder? I have it, but haven't played

[cosmic vine]

Well in pathfinder kingmaker the gameplay it a bit like old school baldur's gate games

The gameplay is not bad. When I get used to the combat system

As for the voice acting there are some in the game but not a lot so I mostly been reading a lot of text

P. S as for bugs in pathfinder kingmaker it seems the devs have fixed it back in 2020.

Besides that I been playing the brutal doom mod for the past few days

Got to love pc gaming. I can download the mod and play it.

Unlike on console you can't do that.

[hybrid jetty]

best part of kingmaker (now that they finally added it) is the turn based option

makes it sooo much better and closer to the tabletop game

[cosmic vine]

True

[acoustic jacinth]

i could go either way. i played baldur's gate 1 and 2 before turn based games like divinity, so i can roll with the pause every second and micromanage strategy

i've never tried pillars's turn based mode, though. i played vanilla poe2 and then uninstalled it because my laptop was having some difficulty w/ it.

[cosmic vine]

Well besides playing video games.

I been doing some fan art drawing in my free time.

Working on the Drawing one of the character in fairy fencer f advent dark force a turn based jrpg game

[dire saffron]

im scared to try the magnamalo hunt for the rise demo

since you only have 15 minutes

like ill def try this weekend

but god thats scary

[graceful galleon]

Yea kinda scary

Gives me the nergigante vibes like in mh world demo

[dire saffron]

i mean like yea im sure people have already done magnamalo

[graceful galleon]

But demo monsters tend to be harder than in the actual game though, because of unoptimized gear and whatnot

[dire saffron]

but imma have to solo it ;w;

ahh true

since the demo just gives you gear

and literally no way to change it

which i think is kinda bad in terms of game design

but still fun

[polar dragon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/802615525141643265/819741489159733268/Breach_PvyNVnlzu1.png

Into the Breach Hard Mode done :D :D

[dire warren]

only 15 mins for the magnamalo? ohh that's nasty

[dire saffron]

yea and some mizu speedruns on the demo are like 8 minutes

like how the hell am i supposed to beat the flagship in 15 minutes

its a cool ass flagship tho

music slaps and it looks like a very fun hunt

[woven breach]

Tried magnamalo

Wow

It hits pretty hard

I like him tho

Lovechild of teo and nergi

[woven breach]

after few times of playing, I improved myself from fainting 3 times in MHRise demo

to time's up

:D

[graceful galleon]

lol

progress!

[woven breach]

Me: "time to attack"
jet engine starts roaring
Me:

https://tenor.com/view/chuckles-im-in-danger-ralph-wiggum-the-simpsons-gif-14149962

[coral hawk]

Magna is so hard I love him so far

[graceful galleon]

Ngl im kinda more excited for Goss Harag fight

Oni bear

But im really liking what they did with the new monsters design though, all this japanese yokai aesthetics is just really cool

[coral hawk]

oh I'm digging it so much

the 26th can not come fast enough

I tried to play some gu but wow it feels clunky after rise not bad just clunky

[dire warren]

i still need to get mango's demo... will do it later and then get my butt handed to me

because it wasn't like i struggled to manage rath and mizu together, no

[graceful galleon]

ok tried the magnamalo demo

im getting crushed

meanwhile someone from Team Darkside did it in 7:41 https://youtu.be/OzXOHy1BBrU

[dire warren]

sounds like team darkside tbh

[graceful galleon]

They're insane

Also CantaPerMe, his speedruns are unreal

[thorn tundra]

they're also helpful for learning monsters

[sour cipher]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I WANT RISE SO BAD

IT LOOKS SO GOOD ;-;

YOU CAN RIDE A MONKE

[dire warren]

ok so magnamango is horrible to fight

the actual, fighting, is good, fun, unique, it's a good opponent
then you get hit by one attack and immediately die

[dire saffron]

oh damn

[sour cipher]

Magnamalo is just Nergigante but weeb

Change my mind

/s

[dire warren]

no no, nergigante is far more edgy

[sour cipher]

True...

[dire saffron]

god hunting horn is busted

like im an IG main and i might struggle since i cant match the sheer damage or get that many breaks

and in just watching that i learned a lot 0-0