SleepingSilence

Is this site still active?

It's been years since I last checked in here. I've been browsing the forums lately and have seen many inactive or dead RPs. I wonder if this site is as active as it used to be years ago, or if people have been navigating to Discord. I heard that Discord-based RPing has become more popular these days.

@Aiyanna

The activity will be more easily found in the 1x1 section and through PM's. (Where I've happily RP'd for the past few years on this site.)

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Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

That game has genuinely been pushed/name-dropped on Youtube harder than any other game I've seen recently. (Aside from things like Among Us, or actual paid mobile games ads ala, Raid Insert Title Here.) To the point that I can't help, but it having the opposite effect on me...

Vampire Survivor looks like it uses slot machine tactics to keep people playing. (The dev supposedly worked in the gambling industry.) So the game uses lots of noises and flashing images of money on screen, etc. Just without the microtransactions, and endless spending that usually goes along with it. Thus, mobile game addicts or whales like most of the streamers who gave Blizzard all of its free advertising, are now playing that and praising it to high heaven.

But it appears that the game is essentially a mindless clicker game, without any input from the player aside from moving around. So, I can't say that kind of thing appeals to me.

Though upon further looking into it. I guess the dev is at least transparent that this game was already being developed to be a clone of another free-to-play IOS game. "Magic Survival" (So I guess his goal was fairly successful...)

Current Mood in One Gif

>Just had to put in a new furnace for my house

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

@Dark Cloud Nevermind. You did mention renewing your PSN sub. Thought you had a Switch only. For some reason. It was morning and I just had to fix my furnace. So mind was somewhere else.

Yeah. Got it for 99 cents. But I still feel cheated. Lol.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

@Dark Cloud I'm putting yo ass in the hot seat. Black Desert IS NOT cross platform for PC players. Only PS4/Xbox allows cross platform. So I can't play with you. (Especially if you use the Switch.) Or my friend that bought the game.

So now I might hunt for a refund. Likely too late now.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

Here's my experience of playing Black Desert.
>Starts for first time and gets blocked by anti-cheat software, and goes "Oh god. It's one of those games."
>Second time I create my character. The detail sliders don't move and makes the character customization shockingly limited.
>Unskippable cutscene
>Tutorial to move character forward and not lose target. Watch target float and freeze after two seconds. Makes me repeat.
>Watch the target float and freeze after two seconds. Makes me repeat. And I go, "Oh God! It's one of those games."
>Third times the charm and unskippable cutscene. (The person's name you don't know betrays you. Fascinating stuff.)
>Tries to edit UI and realizes it stops you from doing so until you're level 10 arbitrarily.
>Gets cash shop ad and mobile game rewards spammed in face.
>Do a fetch quest and the game hard crashes.
>Reload and gets another cash shop ad.
>Then. Every. Single. Fucking. Quest. Since Level 20. Is. Go Somewhere. And/Or. Kill Imps. (Please! I beg you! Let me kill ANYTHING ELSE!)
>Including three bosses (two were one after the other) that are all health sponges that can; stun and knock you over, use aoe effects that cover the whole screen, move and attack faster than you, hitboxes are larger than area on screen, play an overly long cutscene when you've got them down to half HP, lose all HP on the health bar and yet don't die, before spamming attacks until the game starts to lag (basically forcing you to consume HP potions) and THEN they die.
>But don't mistake that for me saying the gameplay is a challenge or even remotely engaging. Because otherwise, I kill absolutely everything in ONE HIT! I click to win combat! You have no idea how boring that is!
>Among every other thing that I could pick at. Like; the game has skills that you can't put in the quick slot bar for reasons completely unknown. (Frankly, I can't even tell how to improve skills yet.) The game is optimized like complete shit compared to FF14. Every NPC speaks without moving their mouth, and often before even showing up on screen. Unskippable cutscenes. The endless dialogue between NPC quests and your own personal Navi, Etc. Etc.

Yeah...I can't say I'm having a blast thus far...

Though my friend isn't having the same issues on his PS5. The screen shake and tiny UI (with a giant TV) until level 10 was hurting his eyes. (And what game is better than one that's actively painful to experience.)

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

@Dark Cloud Of course the site itself isn't going to rebuke any of its classes. :P

I tend to look up the best/worst characters, before I play an MMO like this. So when I see the "this game is perfectly balanced" more than any actual answers or opinions based on the question provided. I know I'll be surrounded those type of fanboys that think critiquing their game will cause it to burst into flames.

But I've seen several threads about the Tamer and none of them were positive. So I guess I'll have to stick to my ARPGs, if I want a fun and overpowered summoning class. ;-; (Though many of the favorite classes threads came down to whose the hottest...) So, I'll likely pick from one of the other twenty-something classes at random. Especially since most of them are various flavors of human, and I'm usually selecting anyone other than that...

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

@Dark Cloud Tamer (Pet classes) Haven't had time to look into most of the classes yet though.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

@Dark Cloud I got Black Desert (along with a friend.) But it's unlikely that I'll play it today. (Plus a class that I like to play in MMO's is the only class that everyone hates and admits is the weakest class.) So I guess I'll have to figure it out tomorrow.