I don’t really recall monopoly having you roll dice and add modifiers to pass a check against an invisible, secret number.

I mean the other flagships for MHW are, what? Nergigante and Velkhana? So, basically: a spikey boi who hulks out when you whomp on him enough—a la Gore Magala, minus any interesting mechanics—and then...*checks notes* yet another elemental dragon?

I mean it’s not like they haven’t done this before with monsters in previous generations, so I don’t quite get what the big stink is/was about.

“Actions are deliberate in the classic games.”

Hot take: until gamers can stop it with the whole “using racial and homophobic slurs as sentence enhancers,” shtick no one deserves voice chat

But most RPGs don’t use a d20, or even a tabletop-style system? Mass Effect and the modern Fallouts don’t even have a lot of rolls, it’s mostly thresholds or background percent modifier type stuff.

Man, the dubbed release of Tenchi Muyo is never going to not be hilarious to me when you go back and see just how much they changed.

Ok, right - roll that dice and add your modifiers. What does the result mean?

So I feel what I’m about to write here is a shocking revelation, but a computer game set in a mythical realm is, and I cannot stress this enough, not real life.

I’d also been pointed in the direction of several different people who could potentially vacuum the brain worms out of my head, each of whom were directly or indirectly tied to different characters in my party. I barely knew any of my party members and was given no time to get to know them individually. Every time I…

The games might not have deep lore, but a movie about the Dragon War or how the Ancient Civilization fell because they were basically trying to create dracoliches would be boss.

The “Lore” of MH, such as it is, is the following:

why is this naked man of gold breaking the laws of physics and how do i get him to stop

But...the game won’t let me date Black Cat and MJ at the same time?!

That’s a better explanation than the Hulk shunting off his extra mass into another dimension when he’s not using it, or Cyclop’s optic blasts coming from a dimension made up entirely of punches.

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iirc, that’s Romita’s early artwork—which, yeah. Definitely had a look to it.

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