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Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

And saying it doesn't look better than mobile games is a bit disingenuous.

@Fabricant451

doesn't look much better gameplay wise than those Diablo ripoff games on the android.

Good thing I didn't say that. :D

But my rant paragraph structuring was bad, so I don't blame you.

I think your problem is sourcing opinions from people you deem to be paid hacks.

Okay, so. If I found a trusted reviewer in my YouTube search, after scrolling through pages of it. I would've.

But to get into part two of that rant. If Lost Ark didn't exist. I wouldn't have seen a random unfollowed user on twitter say, "Guys, some play to win games are good. And some not pay to win games are bad. Guys. Guys."

With the entire comment section grilling him for the fact he used to go after bad monetization practices, and also knew exactly what game he was defending. (And I use paid hacks semi-ironically. Youtubers gotta eat too. But it's only because the game has spent "Raid:Shadow Legends" money on advertising itself/paying people daily to play & stream it.

I think it's just because I heard some fuck with a thick accent, pretend to be excited when he could jump in an MMO. And it made me lose my mind.

I can't deny that the moment to moment fighting of enemies is solid enough to be better than garden variety ARPGs.

@Fabricant451

I've loved to hear examples of ARPG'S it's better than in comparison.

But I suppose everyone said the same thing about Tera too. About how great the combat system is. And eh? I suppose it's probably more fun to play, then it is to watch.

But the kind of zealous online defense and equal parts hatred that I'm seeing from the community about this dated MMORPG. I think I'll stick with the cash grab I'm already fooling myself into playing. Thanks.

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Still need to get to the other seasons, but the first season of Infinity Train is almost the perfect response/counterpart to the last show I watched.

The main character is lost somewhere unknown, and actually acts like she wants to get somewhere fast. The show does its dark and playful scenes far better. (And the character hates singing songs in cartoons as much as I do.)

Plus, almost all the jokes are dogs are cute and morbid humor. Both things which I'm a sucker for. So yeah, it was pretty entertaining/well-animated. (Now I'm just waiting for them to fuck things up.)

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If I could give my original two cents on Korra. I honestly didn't find the first season all that bad on my first uncritical viewing. (Maybe a 6/10.) Liked the bad guy in concept, and didn't care that much about the anti-climax ending that bothered others more.

But the 2nd season turned me off so fast. And I wouldn't even be able to tell you exactly why. But watching glimpses of episodes throughout while my friend/roommate watched it. I think I'd hate it for the same reason I found Digimon Frontier so insufferable to watch.

1. BAD, like VERY BAD, comedy.
2. The lead is a mary sue/stew character.
3. Your hero still loses every goddamn fight.

You know, most people like characters having to train, then overcome their battles. But if you're going to be "I'M THE AVATAR AND YOU HAFFTA DEAL WITH IT." or "Friendship. Friendship! Friieendshiip!" And be unlikeable as sin every episode, you could at least outsmart your opponents and win some battles on your own maybe. <.<'

(Don't know if its even fully accurate to Korra. But every time I looked at the screen, it was either (A.) A god awful joke. (B.) Korra being unlikeable. (C.) Korra failing.

Current Mood in One Gif

I love how unironically lazy this gif is as well. I wish I made it.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

>searches "Lost Ark gameplay" on youtube, and gets a bunch of random paid hacks with carbon copied titles of each other.

Oh. Oh...it's one of these games, isn't it?

>clicks a first impression video

"Wowie, this game looks so good and fun." (It's an empty ass map.) "Wow. There's ver-ti-cal-ity in the maps, that's rarely been done in a top down ARPG before." (Like actually go f*ck yourself. That happens in even mobile ARPGs.)

>Shows several boss fight combats that don't even look flashy. Let alone any better than any other mmorpg that I've played ages ago.

This...this doesn't even look better than Path Of Exile. (Or New World, since it's trying to pass itself off as an MMO worthy of your time.) And it...it honestly doesn't look much better gameplay wise than those Diablo ripoff games on the android.

>The youtuber's hilarious cons are that leveling your character is boring and that it's "probably pay to win".

Are you f**king kidding me?

>And one of his pros, and I quote.

"This games endgame has raid bosses, that are harder than anything else in the game previously. And hard raid boss content isn't something you really ever see in MMORPS." (Hard end game content, and raids are in basically FUCKING EVERYTHING!)

Rant over. I made a mistake being curious.

What Are You Listening To?

Spoon's New Album - More Than Fine/10 (Sounds like a Switchfoot Album. Not a bad song on it. One of the few recent albums that I've been able to get through in one sitting, actually.)

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Over The Garden Wall has way too much bad singing in a show about dying kids. 6/10

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

Dude add me, I literally have nothing better to do than try to grind. Btw you can just do Relic grinding for free plat. Literally I made 25p by selling relics for 1p a piece and people flooded me with messages.

Do you play on PC or Switch?

@Dark Cloud

Switch at the moment. (So if you're on the Switch, sure. PM your friend code or something. (Apparently at some point it will be cross platform. But I don't think it is yet.)

But I just spent over two fucking hours trying to catch fish on Deimos. (Since its the only free roam place that seems to ever actually spawn fish.) And my Switch just froze/crashed on me. So bye bye to all of my progress. The 2nd day in a row I've lost hours of resources to free room. Fuck my life.

I just want the damn fish oil to make this damned archwing thing for fuck sake.

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Gravity Falls maybe? But I say that having not seen Gravity Falls.

@Fabricant451

I have. And I'd say it's 100% the most entertaining of the Modern Era. So give it a try. But no. (And Mable is basically a terrible, terrible character in terms of how she's written.) But that's neither here, nor there.

And the "story" doesn't even really kick in until its later seasons either. <- But that statement applies to almost every kids show I've seen. Hence why I wouldn't use "tone" as critique as to why I thought The Owl House was so mediocre. I'd use it's dialogue, character writing and episode plots to do that.

But yeah, 'comedy put there for kids to enjoy', is basically included in every kids/family/PG film, series, anime to ever exist.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

I'm playing Warframe again. For some reason. (It's because my friends are into it too.) I guess it's better than its more popular counterpart Destiny 2. But it's my only defense for the game that I can muster.

Because f*ck me the in-game currency is overly expensive and needed for everything.

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I didn't find myself compelled to watch beyond that despite everyone telling me that it gets 'even better'. That may be but I have the same response to that as I do when someone tells me "Yeah no, this game gets good after 20 hours."

My problem was its writing, largely. It was full of tonal shifts and obvious gags for the young crowd.

@Fabricant451

Off topic from your own opinion, but I was watching someone called "Southpaw" streaming Avatar. Where he (and those watching with him) were criticizing an episode about how the children cast of the show didn't understand the moral complexities of a weapon's merchant selling his wears to 'the bad guys'. (Like children were supposed to understand nuances in the first place.)

But when I see that kind of critique, in aims to knock something down a peg. My biggest question is "Well, what would you use to compare it with, that does it better?"

So back to your points. Can you think of a kids show where 'obvious gags for the young crowd' doesn't apply? Or can you think of a season one of a kids show that does its worldbuilding/lore better than Avatar? Please don't say Steven Universe or Adventure Time, I beg you.

Because I could even agree that the few least good episodes of Avatar are probably in Season One. (Plus, I also hate the 'it gets better later' defense.) So fair enough. But, I think Avatar shows "potential" pretty quickly.

Faster than any kids cartoon I've seen on Netflix, at the very least.