Hot takes

[Michael Frank]

Let's see... maple syrup, butter, some whipped cream, and strawberries. I'll take two stacks, I need to keep my strength up to kill the FILTHY STINKING GOBLINS!!!

They'll goblinate the whole entire... Huh? What's that Sword? Hot takes? Oh...
Not hot cakes... well, er, um... hmm.

Well damn, I wanted pancakes...

<shakes head> Burururururu
Batman: The Animated Series was mid at best.

...goblins...

Sir, this is a video game board, we serve video games here...

Also, that's not hot, that's just a bad take.

 

[Burzuru]

spell making being removed in skyrim is fine, because it means you have to organically level your magic skills from actually doing instead of spamming a custom spell with a magic cost of 1.

 

[χKai]

Megaman lowkey kicks ass in Ultimate, and we just haven't found enough dedicated fans/players to prove it to the majority yet.

 

[Michael Frank]

Fanservice is good, but too much doses of it and the game becomes disguised pornography, and that's not a good thing in any way.

 

[sovietsausage]

Listen, I don't like Nintendo's practices as a company. They're a company of blunders since the Famicom days, and while I obviously enjoy their games, they're backwards in almost every other aspect.
And I'm a big Emulation advocate. I'm not against a Switch emulator. I approve of the concept, actually. But making an emulator for a CURRENT gen console is suicide. It happened with PSX and Bleem, and I think it happened to an early 64 emulator. And then came all the clout chasing "forks". The fact that we lost Citra when it was finally getting decent is a massive shame.

 

[Michael Frank]

Fighting games in general shouldn't compromise their playstyle with every iteration or sequel trying to make it easier to appeal to casuals, either you practice and get good or don't bother.

 

[Big Finger Jim]

Listen, I don't like Nintendo's practices as a company. They're a company of blunders since the Famicom days, and while I obviously enjoy their games, they're backwards in almost every other aspect.
And I'm a big Emulation advocate. I'm not against a Switch emulator. I approve of the concept, actually. But making an emulator for a CURRENT gen console is suicide. It happened with PSX and Bleem, and I think it happened to an early 64 emulator. And then came all the clout chasing "forks". The fact that we lost Citra when it was finally getting decent is a massive shame.

Sub zero take. Fuck them, their $90 games, and their DAY 1 SWITCH 2 JOYCON DRIFT. It really sucks cuz they can still make good games and I want the actual people making the good shit to get paid, but these diuretic parasitic company headers gotta drive off the customers and give them EVEN MORE incentive to emulate their shit.

 

[Lokgamer]

Sub zero take. Fuck them, their $90 games, and their DAY 1 SWITCH 2 JOYCON DRIFT. It really sucks cuz they can still make good games and I want the actual people making the good shit to get paid, but these diuretic parasitic company headers gotta drive off the customers and give them EVEN MORE incentive to emulate their shit.

It's a good thing I've never been interested in Nintendo consoles or their games.

 

[χKai]

It's a good thing I've never been interested in Nintendo consoles or their games.

 

[Michael Frank]

The only thing bad with Resident Evil 6 was the story, because the gameplay and the locations are actually good, and the coop makes it a great experience.

 

[Deleted member 58254]

Mortal Kombat wasnt good until 9

 

[Lokgamer]

The only thing bad with Resident Evil 6 was the story, because the gameplay and the locations are actually good, and the coop makes it a great experience.

Yes, but it's not something I would criticize. It's not like Resident Evil ever had a good story.

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

Fighting games are boring. I think to myself "I rather play anything else besides this shit"
Fighting game stories are equally pathetic.

 

[Lokgamer]

Mortal Kombat wasnt good until 9

What did you just said? how dare you...!!! ok, you're right.

 

[AkiraSO4]

The only thing bad with Resident Evil 6 was the story, because the gameplay and the locations are actually good, and the coop makes it a great experience.

Co-op makes RE5 and 6 a MUCH better experience. That being said, RE6 solo is nowhere near as rough as RE5 solo.

 

[Max]

All souls games made by FromSoftware are the equivalent of FIFA, the same game year after year

 

[Lokgamer]

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[Sfjeov]

Listen, I don't like Nintendo's practices as a company. They're a company of blunders since the Famicom days, and while I obviously enjoy their games, they're backwards in almost every other aspect.
And I'm a big Emulation advocate. I'm not against a Switch emulator. I approve of the concept, actually. But making an emulator for a CURRENT gen console is suicide. It happened with PSX and Bleem, and I think it happened to an early 64 emulator. And then came all the clout chasing "forks". The fact that we lost Citra when it was finally getting decent is a massive shame.

the devs kinda lost my respect for them cuz they ended up dragging citra down because of their shenanigans with yuzu with nintendo. Maybe I'm feeling petty and unreasonable but idk.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

Final Fantasy 9 is the most overrated final fantasy game.

Final Fantasy 8, single handedly made me a fan of RPGs', not 7, though I loved aspects of 7 and I played that and a few other RPG's before hand, I much prefer the advent children additions and onwards, the 7 remakes are what the OG should have been and I'm glad it got remade because of all final fantasies, that needed a remake the most, as it aged like milk outside of the music and designs.

9 gets heaps of praise for some reason thought itr's objectivel worse than 8 in every way.

It has a simpler story and is more straightforward than 7 and 8. I also didn't notice that it was loved by anyone till I saw people mention it online. I am willing to bet it was their first final fantasy.

A common reddit post is "when does FF9 get good?", "How much longer do I have to play through 9 before it gets good?", I tried playing through it three times throughout the years and I stopped playing each time.

I say that as someone that finished, 7,8,10,13,13-2,lighting returns and all the kingdom hearts games, and all dragon quests except 9. I''m quite seasoned at RPG's in general and I thought FF9 had bad character designs, crap level layouts, really drawn out combat and also Nobuo Uematsu's worst soundtrack, add to this that it's written exclusively by Sakaguichi, whom isn't a great writer and the better written final fantasy stories are written by someone else, anyone else really. Blue dragon had great music, character designs, good music and a absolute ass story, written by Sakaguichi.

I said somewhere what's probably great about FF9 while i prefer 8 too for the reasons you mentioned such as a more complex story , we gotta give 9 credit where it's due.

If you played the first 6 FF games you will know why 9 is so special from the PS1 trilogy as 7/8 deviated from the usual FF setting that was middle ages by adding technology and with 7 simplifying the pieces of gear you had to equip like 6 having 5 while 7 you only equipped weapon some bracer and an accessory.

With 8 it was even more simplified by swapping armor with durability and accessory merged with special abilities like magic increased by 40% (you gotta have rinoa with this)

While 7/8 were deviating from the roots 9 went back to the roots , a setting more akin to the older games along with gear becoming 5 slots now bringing back ability to equip gloves along with the traditional jobs like knight/theif and the return of white/black mages.

Along with music brought back from older titles and the return of the start of final fantasy battle music the "bass" i think it's called , tracks like castle pandemonium remade for FF9 , the return of the dwarves , and the story line containing the crystal and the four fiends of elements , so many throwbacks to older titles along with a deviant version of FF8 abilities system and an artstyle and animations similar to FF7 being quite cartoony compared to FF8 which square went absolutely nuts with animations , all in all FF9 felt like the devs honoring their history while utilizing PS1 technology to create a traditional Final Fantasy game taking elements from all previous installments.

It also does help that series creator has FF9 as his favorite game.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Listen, I don't like Nintendo's practices as a company. They're a company of blunders since the Famicom days, and while I obviously enjoy their games, they're backwards in almost every other aspect.
And I'm a big Emulation advocate. I'm not against a Switch emulator. I approve of the concept, actually. But making an emulator for a CURRENT gen console is suicide. It happened with PSX and Bleem, and I think it happened to an early 64 emulator. And then came all the clout chasing "forks". The fact that we lost Citra when it was finally getting decent is a massive shame.

There's a difference between genuinely wanting preservation (which is good, I cannot play Virtual Boy games sur as Wario Land without paying too much money from second hand) and doing unambiguous piracy.

At least old console emulators could still claim they're for homebrewing (which is sometimes true) to let some ambiguity about their primary use (since you cannot really afford to claim that you could run games that are still sold in stores) so this is why Nintendo hasn't shut down Dolphin despite being the most proficient Nintendo console emulator that had a bigger popularity thanks to the fact you could run mods such as Project M/Project Plus.

This is also why for safety the PlayStation emulators are requiring a Bios file (you could extract from your own console via a tutorial) to even be able to run the games.

It should be common knowledge that you're supposed to extract the game files from your own cartridges or CDs and not getting them online even if you own those games to be legit.

They really has fumbled hard by showing unreleased games and made some builds locked behind a paywall.



In the end of the day I'm all for preservation but I think that for something to be preserved there should be a "buffering time".

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

Man we should have this thread as a sticky thread one of the best threads on the site.


I find to YouTube videos that usually go over 30 minutes to be tedious and always offer not much substance.

Unless it's a documentary.

 

[MasterEn]

I find to YouTube videos that usually go over 30 minutes to be tedious and always offer not much substance.

Unless it's a documentary.

this isn't a documentary but this video is over an hour long and is quite interesting.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

this isn't a documentary but this video is over an hour long and is quite interesting.

Ahh hell no bro that's some ungodly unholy torture , you would just grind stuff from monsters still annoying as hell.

Seems like this "can you beat X game using Y only" took off after giant grant games made his videos like c+"can you beat SC2 using marines only" or "can you beat WarCraft 3 without losing a unit" pioneered this sort of challenges.

 

[MasterEn]

Ahh hell no bro that's some ungodly unholy torture , you would just grind stuff from monsters still annoying as hell.

Seems like this "can you beat X game using Y only" took off after giant grant games made his videos like c+"can you beat SC2 using marines only" or "can you beat WarCraft 3 without losing a unit" pioneered this sort of challenges.

it seems like this guy has only done a couple of videos about this kind of stuff. he made a new one about ff2:

and this one about doing everything possible in ff1.

he seems to make videos on whatever he wants to, which sometimes involves some crazy challenges.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

it seems like this guy has only done a couple of videos about this kind of stuff. he made a new one about ff2:

and this one about doing everything possible in ff1.

he seems to make videos on whatever he wants to, which sometimes involves some crazy challenges.

Absolutely painful challenges