Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

[Dolerman]

@Dynamo FrokaneHey. Not my fault your only response was using what I said anyways xD

@Notorious Guy

There was a key difference, you dont care about anime girl games, and I dont care about youtubers playing said anime games.

But its just a meme brah.

[Bee]

coming back to this thread like

[Notorious Guy]

@Dynamo FrokaneHey I never said I didn't care about anime girl games. I just care if they're good, and not fap games hiding behind a bejewelled clone.

[POOHEAD189]

@Dynamo Frokane Even if it's spoiled somewhat I'll still enjoy it a lot.

[Fabricant451]

Xianghua Seong Mi-Na and Cassandra dont vary much in terms of being young spunky adventurer girl looking to support thier significant person (Kilik, Yun-Seong & Sophitia respectively).

@Dynamo Frokane

Seong Mi-Na is a tomboy who wanted to prove herself and, when denied entry into military service because of her gender, set out on a foolish quest to claim Soul Edge which was pre-emptively ended. She ran away again because she didn't want to be married off and wound up losing to Ivy because she was cocky and over-confident. She's not looking to support Yun-Seong. Yun-Seong got denied training by Mi-Na's father and she felt sorry for him, gave him an heirloom, then decided to chase after him to keep him from getting Soul Edge because it's an evil sword.

Xianghua is spunky and childish and got wrapped up in the Soul Edge business because she was a member of the Imperial Guard and the Emperor of China wanted the sword - she met Kilik and Maxi and joined up with them partly because the sword is evil and partly because of her mother. Good thing, too, since Xianghua's sword turned out to be Soul Calibur. After falling out of favor with the Emperor for failing to find Soul Edge and learning that there are Soul Edge fragments, she decides it is her duty to destroy them. Kilik doesn't enter the picture until later when, yes, Xianghua admits that she has feelings for him, but her goal was always to destroy Soul Edge not support Kilik. She leaves Kilik behind to train harder only to reunite by chance later on.

Cassandra is hardly spunky adventurer girl considering her quest is to shoulder her sister's burden and in the process have a crisis of faith before determining that the one she has to believe in above all is herself. She's the opposite of her sister in that she's more brazen and aggressive (Which is reflected in her gameplay style).

I don't think it's fair to say they have the same personality apart from them all being women who get swept up in the Soul Edge nonsense for wildly different reasons.

[Fabricant451]

Isnt the story somewhat spolied because we know major characters like Dutch and Edgar Ross can't die due to canon?

@Dynamo Frokane

Sure, because those are the only characters in the game and it's not like prequels are lesser because of information known already. The Godfather 2 is spoiled because we know Vito Corleone doesn't die until later in life.

[Hero]

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i recommend holding off on SC6 for just a bit. there seems to be an issue with input lag online.

@Bee

Yeah Jordan had said that, too. A shame.

[Hey Im Jordan]

@HeroI'm hopeful it'll be solved soon.

[Bee]

i was playing with a dude who lives on the same block as me and we were having terrible lag.

it's definitely the servers.

[OwO]

i was playing with a dude who lives on the same block as me and we were having terrible lag.

it's definitely the servers.

@Bee

Sort of the curse of fighting games. Servers are going to be ass at launch when there's thousands of people playing, but they go to normal once hype dies and the sticky people stay.

also the virgin delay-input vs the chad GGPO

[Hey Im Jordan]

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Sort of the curse of fighting games. Servers are going to be ass at launch when there's thousands of people playing, but they go to normal once hype dies and the sticky people stay.

also the virgin delay-input vs the chad GGPO

@Burger

This guy gets it.

[Dolerman]

@Fabricant451

Youve went to painstaking lengths to provide their flavour text and backstory as to justify their current characters, but regarding their in game behavior, voice lines and behavior towards characters in game, they come across extremely similar. It doesnt really matter if they have somewhat different reasons for acting like spunky adventurer girls who are 'going for the gusto'. The fact is to the slightly more casual gamer who hasnt delved into their character bios in gallery mode they are going to come off largely the same.

Mitsurugi and Taki have different reasons as justified by their backstories to be focused badasses with a strong sense of personal justice. But they both still act like focused badasses with a strong sense of personal justice.

Cass, Mina and Xiang could have their battle and win quotes all conpletley rearranged between each other and most of the fanbase would barely notice.

[Dolerman]

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Sure, because those are the only characters in the game and it's not like prequels are lesser because of information known already. The Godfather 2 is spoiled because we know Vito Corleone doesn't die until later in life.

@Fabricant451

Yeah and I found those bits of Godfather 2 boring, unlike RDR2 it wasnt a total prequel and it had 'current' parts to it.

I generally dont like prequels because I feel like all tension is taken from them.

This is why when Han in Fast and the Furious films is in a death defying car chase I dont feel any excitement or tension for his life because I know hes not going to die until tokyo drift.

[Fabricant451]

Cass, Mina and Xiang could have their battle and win quotes all conpletley rearranged between each other and most of the fanbase would barely notice.

@Dynamo Frokane

That is blatantly untrue and you know it. Xianghua going "JUST KIDDING!" in mid-combo is damn near a part of her character as her annoying feints in the first place. Seong Mi-Na and Cassandra are like tertiary characters at best but even still their battle quotes and win voices are still unique to them. Most of Cassandra's lines are about Sophitia or how shit her opponent wound up being while Mi-man mentions her father and her own bravado. Practically every character's win quotes have something to do with how much better they are than their opponent - that's fighting games - but they all have their unique spin and cadence.

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Yeah and I found those bits of Godfather 2 boring, unlike RDR2 it wasnt a total prequel and it had 'current' parts to it.

I generally dont like prequels because I feel like all tension is taken from them.

This is why when Han in Fast and the Furious films is in a death defying car chase I dont feel any excitement or tension for his life because I know hes not going to die until tokyo drift.

@Dynamo Frokane

Do you not like action movies or Bond movies because you know the hero is going to win in the end? You know the fate of Darth Vader but that didn't make the prequels worse. Knowing that the Titanic sinks doesn't make Titanic a worse movie. Dutch's gang in RDR was down to like three people and RDR 2 is about the gang in its heyday and there are far more characters involved that the story can be built around. You don't even know the scope of the narrative but you're already saying it can't possibly be good, or that it's ruined, because you know the fate of Marston, Dutch, and Ross beforehand. Knowledge of future events doesn't invalidate or lessen a story or its characters. You know any given action hero in a film or game is going to pull through, the tension comes from the moments where that safety net is yanked away even for a moment.

And Han wasn't in that many death defying car chases until like the end of 6 - which was coincidentally the last movie before Tokyo Drift re-entered canon. In 4 he was only in the beginning, in Five he mostly hung out with Giselle and was disguised as a cop during the heist, in 6 he had the fight scene with Roman and otherwise just spent the movie saving Giselle because subtle is not in the vocabulary. In that instance the tension isn't from the fact that Han makes it to Tokyo, but that Giselle doesn't.

And for the record, up until the sixth movie Tokyo Drift was barely canon and considering 4 was all but a soft reboot and 5 retconned Brian and Roman's relationship it's easy to forget that Tokyo Drift barely factors into the overall universe.

[Gelatinous Cube]

I would really like Beamdog to make an Infinity Engine game with Fifth Edition rules. I tried to play Sword Coast Legends but it was so loosely based on the ruleset I just couldn't get into it.
I've been playing Icewind Dale 2 a lot lately and if they can implement Third Edition rules so well then Fifth should be a snap.

[mickilennial]

Sort of the curse of fighting games. Servers are going to be ass at launch when there's thousands of people playing, but they go to normal once hype dies and the sticky people stay.

also the virgin delay-input vs the chad GGPO

@Burger

Especially those on PC.

[mickilennial]

Two days until I can waste my life away playing Poker in a Rockstar game.

[Dolerman]

Two days until I can waste my life away playing Poker in a Rockstar game.

@Inkarnate

And growing a beard.

[Fabricant451]

The greatest trick Rockstar ever pulled was making a survival simulator for the mainstream market.

[Fabricant451]

Me: Soul Calibur characters are trash

NamcoBandai:

Me: wtf I love Soul Calibur now