You seem hung up on people “choosing” to do things and that somehow being a marker for judging them as people, but you don’t seem to recognize that half the point of playing a video game is to have the freedom to safely explore things you wouldn’t do in real life, by doing them virtually.

oh no what will i ever do i didn’t platinum one game out of the approximately several hundred that exist

Turning one of my favorite characters, with a mouth as foul as her heart is big, into an object to gawk at in order to score invisible video game points is childish and offensive.

Sure, but the nature of timelines and work being printed on a weekly basis makes things a bit different for Japanese Mangaka.

Okay, but other artists also evolve their styles. Just look at the difference between early McFarlan and later McFarlan.

Gacha games don’t make up even 10% of the games that are available and widely played on mobile devices. Try again.

It’s not just a Japanese thing, though.

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Can this dude really only do like.....three character designs, tops?

I seriously am starting to think that at least 40% of these bad takes on twitter are done by plants. Not even because they’re just that dumb, but because—esp in the gameosphere—so much of this nonsense just seems to be non-issues that people argue about to generate hype.

There is one point in the game in which Hawke must choose between the unfairly maligned but dangerous mages or the corrupt and fanatical templars. Gaider’s Snyder Cut DA2 would allow for a third, neutral option that sides with neither faction. Gaider also imagined an option to interrogate Anders, one of the player’s…

Came here to ask exactly this. WHY does this game deserve so much graphic power and updated re-re-re-releases when seemingly no one ever seems to play it/talk about playing it?

I mean, is this not the game that takes....*does a brief count*...at least three playthroughs, each at around 20 hours each, to get the full story? (With the final-final ending being found in a book and not the game itself?)

Like automata, its structured in a way that multiple playthroughs are required to get the full impact, and things that seem to have no emotional or story relevance in your first playthrough will suddenly get expanded and take on a completely different perspective on the second.

Theoretically, Rei—or one of her clones—could’ve piloted 01, along with a Dummy Plug. They also didn’t need the Unit to be “on” for Third Impact to occur—they just needed it to be intact and have a functioning S2 Engine.

A few points.

You could argue that, at that point, Unit 01 was rebelling against Gendo because his wife could not stand the emotional turmoil Gendo had put their son through.

Unit 01 did not require Shinji to be “unlocked”. Rei or a Dummy Plug with Shinji’s DNA could’ve been used as a pilot/key for Third Impact after the Lance of Longinius was lost—Gendo just ultimately needed/wanted Shinji there because it was the easiest way to keep 01 under NERV’s control.

It’s not, though? Their entire plan, from the get-go, is to have a certain sequence of events occur—broadly—in order for their different versions of Third Impact and Instrumentality to occur. Shinji isn’t really important to that other than, at least for Gendo, he’s easily manipualted.