Fabricant451

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

Definitely need to actually play Persona (here's hoping a non-strikers Persona game comes to Switch right? xD)

@Dark Cloud

Boy have I got news for you

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

@Dark Cloud

On one hand you are entitled to your opinion,

On the other you have to at least commend them for even making it possible. Most wanted or not, Disney's stingy with their copyright.

@Majoras End

To be fair, it turns out Disney was super cool with Sora being added to Smash, it was Nomura who was the holdout.

Probably because Disney was like "Will it make us money? Okay go for it"

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

Oh also I'm late saying this but putting Sora in Smash was the stupidest thing I've experienced. Fuck you Sakuri, there were plenty more ICONIC characters but no! The character with no fucking personality whatsoever was chosen, Sora just has famous friends and no real substance.

@Dark Cloud

What shows/movies are you watching?

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My mixed feelings about Everything Everywhere All At Once aside.

I do agree that killing off any of the characters, probably wouldn't have fit what the movie was going for. But it easily could've been a little less predictable in places. (The last 'protags saved at the last minute scene' was one flashback away from being a Shonen anime.)

@SleepingSilence

What's wrong with being predictable? Especially when the movie sets it up before the final setpiece. It was a play on that exact thing happening in the first one, where Maverick was the one to save the day in the final hour. Like what would have been better, if it was a pyrrhic victory because the protags don't make it back but win the day?

What shows/movies are you watching?

Top Gun Maverick was well made. (And probably better for those who recently saw/deeply care about the characters in the first.)

I had not seen it in a while. So when most of the movie hinged on slow sentimental scenes between those characters, I was starting to get a little bored in places. (Plus, the action felt pretty low stakes. Like I knew no main character was going to die, or even get injured. Similar to Panic.)

But according to the people I saw it with, it had plenty more action than the first.

So it was decent overall, I suppose.

@SleepingSilence

The thing about that is the only characters from the first other than Maverick is Iceman and that whole scene and its sentimentality has more to do with Val Kilmer's irl cancer than any connection from the first movie because the first movie absolutely does not show them becoming friends beyond just the fact that they're both navy pilots. The action feeling low stakes is exactly what makes it so effective. In the age where action movies are just more and more grandiose and similar and more often than not contain superheroes and the same style of humor, a movie that is just so simple and 'low stakes' while also being so goddamn incredibly well made because of Cruise's obsession for realism makes it so goddamn thrilling to watch. There's just a sense of genuine realness and tension to it that you just don't get with blockbuster movies anymore.

The 2:15 scene is a singular gripping moment of film tension from start to finish and people in my theater cheered after that scene and it was earned. A movie doesn't have to kill characters to up stakes or tension when it's shot in such a way that when characters have an insane amount of g-force you actively feel yourself gripping the armrest until it levels out. That's the kind of movie it is and goddamn it's incredible how a sequel to a cheesy bad 80s movie about shirtless dudes pretending they're heterosexual is one of the best movies of the year and also the best legacy sequel movie that I can remember.

Maverick is far and away the best theater experience I've had in recent times and Tom Cruise is saving cinema once again what a crazy motherfucker. It's not the best movie I've seen this year (but it's a solid third), that honor goes to Everything Everywhere All At Once.

Anyway I have no desire to watch Obi-Wan because a big problem I have with Star Wars projects now is this insistence on filling in gaps that don't need to be filled and also everything still revolving around the same legacy characters. Star Wars needs to leave the Skywalker era behind in either direction.

I have been watching Ms. Marvel because I'm a fan of Kamala Khan in the comics and probably the biggest Carol Danvers fan any of you know (and I will fight any pretenders to my throne) and with those biases aside the show is, three episodes in, probably the best MCU streaming show. It's certainly the most visually creative and colorful which is a low bar but then this is the MCU we're talking about.

Birdie Wing: Girls Golf Story is the most yuri ass show that isn't actually a yuri show and the hardest sell for it isn't them making golf exciting but it's trying to tell me that the main character is fucking 15 years old and that's part of why I have such a difficult time getting into anime anymore.

I watched Good Luck To You, Leo Grande and that was a delightful little movie. It kind of felt like a stage play but there's something to be said about a movie consisting solely of two characters talking in a room for 90 minutes especially when the characters are talking about sexuality and personal growth.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

HoloCure is way too good for what is a free fan game in the vein of Vampire Survivors.

But unlike Vampire Survivors the characters in HoloCure are unique and the game moves at such a fast pace that I don't even realize I'm spending like 25 minutes a run now.

Say what you will about the vtuber fans out there, when they decide to do something they can really do something.

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Haven't seen it but there's that new Beavis and Butthead Do The Universe that either just came out or is out tomorrow...

@BangoSkank

It came out Friday on that streaming service no one has (Paramount Plus).

I watched it.

There's something comforting about Beavis and Butthead having the exact same style of humor as the 90s even in a movie where they wind up in 2022. The only thing it was missing was a randomly inserted music video section like Do America had.

The first Sonic was better than the second. Though it was simply a tighter/shorter movie.

@SleepingSilence

I see your comment and raise you one Shadow the Hedgehog. The Sonic Cinematic Universe is embracing the edge and I am here for it.

Also they got Kunckles' love for grapes in the movie. 5/5 best video game movie ever made

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Sometimes all it took was a little confidence to change things for the better but when confidence alone wasn't enough sometimes it didn't hurt to have a little backup. Of course, the idea of backup to most people didn't tend to include the appearance of mysterious crystals but Mila wasn't about to look a gift rock in the mouth, so to speak, and if it meant being able to give some measure of payback to the strange beings that were causing chaos then she would happily accept the backup. She already had the confidence in spades, now there was surely nothing that could hold her back. She still had every desire to study the crystals in greater detail but much like a soft spoken word about quesadillas - yes, Mila heard it and smirked at it with a punctuation mark of a head shake - there was a time and place for things.

It seemed in the chaos of the situation that there was a little separation of the sexes, though from the corner of her eye Mila saw one of the Crystal Sorts use a lance against the enemy and another doing a kick that would make anyone think twice and the food truck owner hoping that insurance covered kicked bodies. If someone could do that while boasting about having never trained in martial arts, Mila had to wonder what that would mean for someone like her, who certainly had. The way some people did yoga, Mila did capoeira. It was relaxing in its own way, it allowed her to focus herself on something other than rocks and history and her life before Angel Grove.

With the strange attackers closing in, Mila found herself close to Hana and Ji-Su, not quite back to back to back like some sort of action movie trio, but close enough that Mila had to take a few steps forward for their own safety. She was confident in her ability; she wasn't a master but she knew how to move, how to aim, how to fight, but one of the aspects of her chosen martial art was the movement meant she ran the risk of hitting an ally on a back motion.

But it was a blessing, in is own way, as being the one to take a step closer meant she got to show that her roll from before wasn't just some flailing fluke. Mila couldn't tell if the one who had humbled her was approaching but she was going to act like it was anyway, just to make it hurt him a little more. Mila began her movement. Swaying side to side, body bent slightly, like she was dancing to a gentle beat in her mind. A lance-wielding enemy rushed towards her and rather than simply roll out of the way, Mila twirled, extended her hands, and twisted her body downwards, placing her hands near the ground as her left leg, her back leg, snapped out, spinning as her body completed the rotation; her heel impacted on the jaw of the attacker, sending him to the ground, limp, like he had just gotten knocked out in a fight; though instead of a bell there was a bright light as the body exploded. Evaporated? Disintegrated? Whatever it was, it felt good.

"You like that? We call that the Meia Lua de Compasso! Who else wants some?" Was she gloating? Absolutely. Was it worth it? Without a doubt.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

You don't get better at Hades. You die to make the game easier/get better RNG drops. (Until you've played enough to become one of those "Yeah, it gets better after forty hours" people. I'm kidding. Kind of.)

@SleepingSilence

This seems blatantly hyperbolic considering the game can be beaten on a fresh run with zero boons and the game is designed around the fact that unless you're literally dying at room one that every run will help you unlock something to get the thing in your favor. I absolutely got better once I found my weapon preferences and kept losing to Meg and bosses until I figured out their patterns and my dash frames. Hades and a Souls game have more in common than not except there's not the random factor in a Souls game but both games revolve around getting into a rhythm and memorizing optimal paths.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

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