Hot takes

[Pandaprewmaster325]

Final Fantasy II is pretty good actually. Sure it has some bugs that allow you to ignore most of the game's systems [taking off all your armor and weapons and punching everything to death] but the systems they introduced are super ahead of their time, the soundtrack is amazing for every system it gets ported to, and the story is fun to follow.

I agree on the soundtrack being GOATED , the rebel army theme , the palamecia castle theme , that one boss fight theme , but really all FF games soundtracks are GOATED so...

Gameplay wise it was indeed a new system and quite unique but it has its problems like the bug you mentioned i think a fix to this can be made in the source code if they code something that checks if its an ally who attacked the party member or not.

But sadly the story builds up to be good up until the dreadnaught after that it falls off , the dark knight story line feels wasted , gareth death is lame , the emperor doesnt get enough screentime , and more.... The game has all the right cards to be one of the best FF games ever but it fails in every regard when it comes to story and its gameplay is meh

Thats why i want a remake for FF2 that makes it look as epic as the artwork i mean you seen it? Freaking dope images of firion in battle...

And thats why i will always have my status as "SQUARE ENIX REMAKE FINAL FANTASY 2" till we get one

 

[Jambhala]

Its definitely an interesting game, like in terms of stories in racing games, its the pinnacle. But its also very RPG, yes your vehicle starts off weak, but as you grind races you get better and better. But it also has some of the worst driving ever, and its possible that you can just get hit by really lopsided races, and losing sometimes removes parts from your vehicle, causing the vehicle to do even worse, and enter a downward spiral. But i think if its a matter of, racing game vs racing game, Ridge Racer has far better handling, and also much less rage inducing.

Yeah ridge racer is miles better, rr4 and the psp version are the best handling in the series. 5 is okay, but a little harder to get used to. I loved the aspect of racing lagoon where you can lose parts since it feels more fair instead of you being able to take whatever you want but the enemies can't do anything, I never really spiraled off it because by the point I hit a strong car I knew what other cars I could beat to make up for the loss

 

[Zooey]

Yeah ridge racer is miles better, rr4 and the psp version are the best handling in the series. 5 is okay, but a little harder to get used to. I loved the aspect of racing lagoon where you can lose parts since it feels more fair instead of you being able to take whatever you want but the enemies can't do anything, I never really spiraled off it because by the point I hit a strong car I knew what other cars I could beat to make up for the loss

I had some bad luck with the random encounters 3 times in a row, where if i beat them it would've been huge, but their cars were so much better, that i just kept losing parts. But the driving in Racing Lagoon is still more realistic than something like Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition.

 

[Ikagura]

Still we own it we are the top of the food chain pound to dominate everthing else

The food chain looking like a pyramid is actually an obsolete model and a pretty big misconception considering that bacteria and insects also consume humans once they've passed away then it loops back to the base.

The food chain should look more like a giant circle as it's basically a cycle (similar to how water works).

Its cuz we are blessed with the ability to think we may not be the strongest physically but we have one thing that allows us to out match the animals and its our brain and just like rambo says "the mind is the best weapon" or it was "greatest" thanks to our brains we can deal with these animals if they become a threat.

I don't really want to feel arrogant by thinking that "humans are the best".

 

[Deleted member 884]

Its cuz we are blessed with the ability to think we may not be the strongest physically but we have one thing that allows us to out match the animals and its our brain and just like rambo says "the mind is the best weapon" or it was "greatest" thanks to our brains we can deal with these animals if they become a threat.

The same brain who created myths and invisible beings who still "live" nowadays?

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

Anime english dubs suck

 

[Deleted member 884]

Anime english dubs suck

Even though I never watch an english dubbed anime, italian dub is probably worse. Only the ones aired on local TV and on MTV were faithful dubbed. National networks here suck when it comes to anime, with any kind of censorship.

 

[KyleOnDemand]

Kingdom Hearts is absolutely mid, and maybe that's being a bit generous even.

 

[Bakuma1997]

Kingdom Hearts is absolutely mid, and maybe that's being a bit generous even.

True that, only played Chain of Memories (TBF a crappy introduction to the saga due to the cards mechanic) and i barely got past the first set of card worlds
Tried 1 and two and i had to pinch myself awake, the cutscenes are SOOOOO LOOOOOONG, even if you pay attention the lore is so confusing you can barely comprehend it and the gameplay... i love Action RPG's but give me Star Ocean or Tales any day of the week rather than two deadweight lobotomized AI "Companions"

 

[YoshifreakZX]

The Virtua Fighter series is decent and all, but aside from 4 Evolution, they aren't anything mindblowing IMO. I actually prefer playing Fighting Vipers and especially Fighters Megamix over playing the first 3 VF games.

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

If someone doesn't know what a post is asking about, then they shouldn't reply to it in the first place.

 

[Michael Frank]

It's definitely still an unpopular opinion because nostalgia has clouded most people's judgement of the system.

What i say might be a hot take, but i think, at least from what i've seen since CDRomance and then this site, that people here have matured to the point that they at least recognize that a good thing can have flaws and still be enjoyable, and that's good.

 

[Moreno909]

i think ridge racer(the entire series) sucks and is vastly overrated, the 90s titles handle like a turd and dont have an understanding on why driving cars is fun in the first place(which is to say dynamicism, something these games lack) and in my eyes are easily overshadowed by sega's 90s arcade racing games which have actually aged well due to how well they drive(especially sega rally). the 2000s titles are simply boring to me with the now easy and understandable driving(unlike previously where for the life of me i cant get a consistent drift to work and it feels so weird and on rails) feeling as flat as before but now easier coupled with very boring racing as this series never invested its time in developing actually challenging ai of any sort. i also feel that the presentation(outside of the 1st game) is lame but i feel like thats just because i dont like these games in the first place

The handling is a bit weird at first but when you get it the game together with the presentation is sublime

Post automatically merged: Apr 10, 2025

Biker Mice from Mars > Rock 'n' Roll Racing
Top Gear SNES series > SNES F-Zero and Mario Kart
Outrun, Outrunners best 2D racing games overall

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

If someone doesn't know what a post is asking about, then they shouldn't reply to it in the first place.

Good one

 

[PurpleShoes]

I'm just gonna say it. I like Hawaiian Pizza. I wouldn't get an entire pie or anything, but just one slice as a snack is FANTASTIC

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

The Simpsons movie could have been better if it wasnt oriented at people who havent watched the show

 

[bjork]

Just because you can make threads, doesn't mean you're obligated to.

Also, it's fun to search and see if someone's made the exact same thread or something similar recently.

 

[popckorn]

I rather adopt and rear domestic animals rescued from the street, than to breed a new human being with my perception and sensibilities to suffer this cruel and corrupted world.

The world is horrible, full of fun things to do, but pleasure and contentment are impermanent, unlike chronic pain.

I also rather be alone in my late 30s, than to deal with an angry person in the same house.
I have a bad enough time coping with my shortcomings as a man, to even think of letting down a woman person who will be right to despise me.

I think it is responsible not breeding, even though I had plenty of chances of reproducing, and getting married despite being Autistic and Bipolar (blessed with good looks); because I am suicidal and I would hate leaving children to suffer abandonment like I suffer my own families abandonment while they were alive.

I truly feel reproduction is way over-hyped.

Louis Breton once noted how weird it was for people in the direst conditions to insist in reproducing plentifully without even being able to provide the basics, like dogs do on the streets plagued with languid pestilence. Whereas Elephants, he noted, never reproduce in captivity. Elephants understand their conditions and restrain their drive for orgasmic pleasure.

I am sure Bankers and Plutocrats conspired for centuries in order to breed poor, uneducated, masses whose labour to exploit. And now we can barely afford to rent a tiny room with half our income even if we graduated from University.

I think the tides are changing and the plan is to depopulate in the brink of total automation and AI.
I think that is why they are Turning The Frogs Gay with agro-chemicals and promoting the Hedonistic agendas of sexual "deviations"... they no longer need to force us to comply into family units of people who hate eachother but had a higher calling to be a family and breed because "Tradition".

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[Elwiwi]

Pizza is bread with extra steps





Sorry Italian people

 

[Lena CE]

Pizza is bread with extra steps

Sorry Italian people

Sayin that like its a bad thing, bread is great c:

 

[Elwiwi]

Sayin that like its a bad thing, bread is great c:

I didn't mean to say it as a bad thing

 

[MasterEn]

Pizza is bread with extra steps





Sorry Italian people

bread is pizza with less steps. : )

 

[Elwiwi]

bread is pizza with less steps. : )

You are playing 6d chess right now

 

[MasterEn]

You are playing 6d chess right now

 

[MegaHiro91]

I follow a manga about figure skating called Medalist, whose first season (anime) just ended.

Yesterday I saw people all over socials celebrating the main character's birthday, and while I love precious lil Inori to heaven and back, I will never understand celebrating the fake birthdate of a fictive person. I mean real life people's birthdays make sense, it's the day you were born... duh. But while a fictive character can also have a mom and dad and a canonincal birthdate that the author decided on... they are not a real living person, so they have no real birthdate.

Like, I am all for being so attached to a fictional character that when you read the story they feel real to you, because that's a sign of good writing. But please don't go so far that you celebrate the "day they were born".... because they weren't.... that's going too far in appreciating the character in my stupid opinion.