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(M/M) Fandom and original plots

@kat1v@CatKin

Would be happy to RP M/M with either of you and I have plots ready.

Cinema General

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The fact that there are, based on this, two good Digimon games kinda wrecks the comparison don't it. gg no re

(I don't really like the World games apart from World 2 and even then that's just out of blatant nostalgia because that game is hot trash)

@Fabricant451

Ithink all the world games are trash apart from the next order, so that's ONE good Digimon game and my comparison remains unwrecked.

But talk about movies.

Did you know that Saya No Uta might be getting a film adaptation?

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

It's like...it's like why people should tend to finish something before making a truly declarative review or whatever.

@Fabricant451

I disagree with this. I disagree with some other points made, like the shooting mechanic being cumbersome and personally never running into a situation where I needed to keep hunting in order to feed the camp (especially since fishing takes less time and if you upgrade the camp fully food basically handles itself), and I think the brawling is bad, but the slow pace is kind of the most fascinating aspect of the game to me. Fascinating is a word I keep coming back to with Red Dead Redemption 2 because so many of its design decisions seem so deliberately obtuse, archaic, or otherwise a matter of respecting 'realism' over concepts like 'moment to moment fun'. Whereas most open world games have fast travel unlocked almost by default, here you have to unlock it deep in a menu and you still have to manually travel back to a central location just to travel elsewhere which makes you wonder why you bothered going back to camp and not just taken the journey to the town or wherever yourself.

I've barely interacted with the story, I'm only shortly into chapter three and already find the narrative of the feuding families far too familiar to care - there is almost no way to make a Hatfield/McCoy or Capulet/Montague type story interesting and from what I've played so far I don't think Rockstar will change that - and most of the gang members are one note that's been plucked to death. The game, to me, is at its best when it's just that frontier survival simulator of going out, tracking animals and looking for that perfect three star animal and getting the clean kill, taking the pelt to camp while selling the crappier pelts, then going after a legendary animal and taking a trip to the trapper. The problem with that is far too often the other part of the game gets in the way, with the random events popping up and all of them falling into basically four categories of dull.

One of the best times I had with the game was treasure hunting simply because it fell in line with how I was already playing the game. The serial killer mission was fun as well from an exploration aspect - and then it glitched out on me once it was resolved and the culprit fell through the geometry and I was reminded I was playing a video game again.

RDR2 is a game I think people will get out of it what they put into it. It's often chunky to control and it does a terrible job explaining its systems and I honestly think people who just wanted GTA but with horses are going to come away upset with how much it isn't that and how much it is a survival game down to weight management and needing to change your clothes or hide your face or remembering to take weapons off your horse.

The game seems like it was designed around trying to take the Mexico moment from the first game and making an entire game to feel like that, and it is full of those kind of moments. Those personal, immersive moments like when I had a particularly lengthy ride back to town after a hunt and as I slowly trotted along up a hill, the sun was setting at just the right moment to bathe the nearby town in its glow as a perfectly timed musical cue played. It was terrific in a way many games try to emulate in their narrative moments to ill effect.

I don't know if I'm having fun with it. But I'm constantly fascinated by it and this weekend I played it for about five hours and all I actually accomplished was killing an alligator, a beaver, and a deer. And even still I was enthralled for the entire time.

@Fabricant451

Couldn't agree more.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

20 Hours in and Red Dead is boring as shit.

@Dynamo Frokane

I disagree with this.

@Fabricant451

RDR 2 likely winning GOTY is just proof that putting out a tedious, blatantly unfun chore of a game is fine so long as Rockstar is on the box

-Fabricant451

Cinema General

But Digimon World Next Order Owns

So how about that movie Widows? Easily the best movie of the year IMO.

Cinema General

It's Cyber Sleuth, by the way.

@Fabricant451

That's an interesting way to spell 'Digimon World: Next Order'

Cinema General

@Dynamo Frokane I stand by my earlier comments. There have been three good Spider-Man movies and one that is just okay but a victim of its own era.

@Fabricant451

And I stand by my put-down there have been no good spider-man movies previous but one was inoffensive and another was okay. If the PS4 game was a movie it'd be better than all of them.

I haven't seen Spider-verse but I'll take your word for it that it's good, it looked good.

But being the best Spiderman movie is like being the best Digimon Game.

Cinema General

@SleepingSilence Oh no sorry I didnt mean the names of the outlets I meant what did they say that made your eyes roll?

Cinema General

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Well it *was* positive coverage, but the way it was praised and what was focused on made it sound very unappealing. (basically equivalent to think pieces, and just as badly written and half-assed as that implies.) It was several outlets too, likely all copying off each other

@SleepingSilence

And what were these outlets praising that you saw as a negative?

Cinema General

@Fabricant451

Being first in a one person race more like.