Well now I’m extra glad I didn’t play the Ultra versions of Sun/Moon. The stuff with Lillie and her mom was my favorite part of that game. It was still implemented kinda sloppy since they also did the usual trainer who sets out to become champion thing but smoothing that out would probably have been a better way to go…

Sun and Moon is a bit of a weird game. Maybe I’m alone in this but for me it really felt like they wanted to tell that story about Lillie, Lusamine, their messed up family, and the Ultra Beasts but had to also concede to the self insert player character who’s gonna go beat all the gyms and become the league champion…

It kinda depresses me that X/Y are so low in this list. It’s not my favorite but it was the first one that let you customize your character and until then I had no idea how much I wanted that. So it’s got a special spot in my heart because that aspect of the game got me a lot more involved than I’d normally be. And I…

I don’t think it’s that unusual for a Japanese company. A lot of anime/games have issues with translations and things because some Japanese publishers demand total control or approval over all kinds of things from casting, scripts, etc and do things like check every line of an adapted work for approval or get obsessed…

I guess I didn’t mind this because you could just fast travel back to camp and put everything in the box. Now I usually only head out with a handful of items because I know I’ll end up picking up a bunch of stuff while I’m running around.

I’ll probably end up upgrading a fair bit but if those numbers for the max upgrade…

You pick Beidou because she’s the only one with an eyepatch. All other factors are irrelevant.

Also, what kind of gatcha player picks for power/utility instead of waifu/husbando potential? :p

Close, it was my second. I played FF7, skipped 8, then played 9, tactics, and 10, then dabbled in a bunch of the others on emulators and handheld consoles. I stopped playing the new games after 13-2 because I preferred the older turn based combat systems but by now I’ve played pretty much all of them, though I didn’t…

My big idiot gamer moment: I beat 80% of Final Fantasy 9 before I realized how to switch spells from single target to target all. I also played with the help menu open most of the game to help with targeting so it was staring me in the face every time I went to cast a spell.

Game got a lot easier when I could heal my…

Yeah I tried doing it in the Arkham games too since some of the Riddler trophies were locked behind fun little puzzles but in the end remembering where they all were became too much of a headache (at least I don’t remember them being marked on any kind of map after you found one). I heard they were really obnoxious in…

The last time I tried to 100% complete a game was in Assassins Creed 2. I had done everything but collect all the feathers and with a map I went around getting all the ones I missed and when I got to the end I was missing one and I had no idea which one it was and there was no way to know without double checking all…

I guess it depends on preferences. I tried a few times to get into Disco Elysium but I keep bouncing off of it and I don’t know why. It’s a really interesting game mechanically but it just doesn’t grab me for whatever reason. I might just not be in the right mood or something. Sometimes games and books are like that…

This is kinda why fan translations and fansubs popped up in the first place. The demand is there but availability was often not, especially back in the day when anime/manga was much harder to get. Streaming sites kinda spoil us these days and make fansubs a bit redundant (though they still have a niche spot translating…

Recasting Smith was going to be a hard sell no matter who they got. My issue with him is that he just kinda...didn’t need to be in the movie? He could have been cut and it wouldn’t have changed anything. All he really does is have one fight scene with Neo and then show up at the end to screw with the bad guy for not…

Faxanadu’s such a weird game but it had some great tracks and some very unique world/enemy design. Took me a long time to figure it out and beat it but it definitely left an impression. 

Eh, I don’t think it’s a poor work ethic. The man’s consistently working on some project, just not always on the A Song of Ice and Fire novels. He does a lot of short story work and stuff of that nature. If you check his bibliography, he hasn’t gone more than two or three years without releasing something. Some of it…

That’s a fair point. Square is kind of notorious for setting unreasonable expectations for a new release and then proclaiming that the game failed to meet its sales expectations. But as least when Hitman 2 didn’t perform how they wanted they let it free instead of keeping the rights locked up forever and killing the…

“There is no reason to assume good faith on behalf of companies who deserve none,” wrote Twitch streamer CaseyExplosion on Twitter over the weekend. “They’ll raise prices if people will pay, and keep all the rest of the slimy, predatory crap too. It’s not a case of either or, and we’re not in any kind of position to…

But then why flag the how to draw videos as well when they don’t show any footage? These were all claimed to be manually flagged and not things caught up by a bot flagging tags or similar. It doesn’t make any sense.

For a long time, I ignorantly assumed that anthro art was...unserious. Anime catgirls and dog boys generally seem pretty upbeat, drawn with bright colors and cheerful expressions

The fact that I’d never heard of this forum until four years ago and was still exposed to a lot it’s influences and memery is probably a pretty strong indicator of how popular it was and how much it contributed to internet culture during it’s run. So that’s kind of amazing.