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I just thought that post was way too funnysametdze wrote:
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Rejected (2000 short)
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doing it now since it's like 10 minutes longNuuskamuikkunen wrote:
Rejected (2000 short)
ngl, I expected it to be different, I like don hertzfeldt, I think "It's such a beautiful day" is probably the best western animation ever created, but it turns out this short which tbf was created like 12 years earlier has a completely different style, and instead of being as heavy an artsy it's more random/shock comedy like with ASDFmovie
The jokes are better than ASDFmovie, I will give it that, the animation is also way better, it's all made in paper with very simplistic stick figures, but they still have some really clever effects like what it does at the end of wrinkling the paper around the character to kinda picture tension and stress
also, given that this was made in the year 2000, it's also REALLY ahead of it's time in terms of comedy
Placed in C tier
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haven't started maid wars
halfway through sleeping dogs
Topic Starter
this game?mizu_chuu wrote:
Little Misfortune !!
yup yup !Patatitta wrote:
this game?
Topic Starter
will add to the queuemizu_chuu wrote:
yup yup !Patatitta wrote:
this game?
Also, another request would be the game Cold Front !!
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Topic Starter
given it's so short I may do it early, added to the queuemizu_chuu wrote:
Also, another request would be the game Cold Front !!
AKIBABehrauder wrote:
https://myanimelist.net/anime.php?id=52193
Topic Starter
Akiba Maid Waremajakolic wrote:
AKIBABehrauder wrote:
https://myanimelist.net/anime.php?id=52193
I see you behrauder have given it a 10, it seems like you, emajakolic also enjoys this, and for me personally, it's probably on my bottom 5 anime, excluding the ones i've dropped.
I don't get what you see on this anime, it just feels awful. It's a mafia/yakuza anime except that the yakuza are maid cafes, and it's just complete and utter nosense for the rest of the anime. I get this is also a comedy anime, that it's supposed to feel absurd, but it's not entirerily comedy, the tone of the anime really gets serious past a certain point, and it's those segments I hate the most
One thing is having absurd comedy, another is making the anime up as you goe, and given that this is a anime original, it's no exaggeration. Like really, nothing has more than 1 episode of developement in this anime, if something happens it's either set up on the asme chapter or it's just handled really badly. There really isn't any real plot to this anime either, there isn't any goal they're working for, any real big bad, the anime kinda just ends at a certain point and it's not satisfactory at all.
the characters are also really poorly written. In episode 1 the protagonist signs up for being a maid at a maid cafe, then later sees her coworker literally murder someone in front of her eyes and then has to run out of an armed conflict, this literally causes her PTSD as we have scenes on episode 2 of her seeing like food being cooked and she being reminded of what she saw, and then, when she's about to escape, another character has like a motivational speech where she basically tells her "the outfit is cute tho, you wanted that right", and this somehow convinces her that everything is alright, she stays and her PTSD is healed, she never really questions this reality and way of life ever again in the anime.
And it's just, maid cafes are so, so romanticized in this anime. You would assume that for a anime that has yakuza be maid cafes they would be critical of these, but no, not at all, half the anime is THE GOAL OF A MAID IS MAKIGNG THE MASTER REALLY HAPPY BECAUSE THAT IS OUR LIFE OBJECTIVE AND LOVE WILL RULE OVER ANYTHING ELSE like bro wtf the salary isn't even that good
they're not even cute at all either, it's not a moe anime, so like, what the fuck at this point
A lot of characters are introduced, barely have screentime and then you're expected to care heavily for them. It really falls into a lot of tropes of other animes, like having a episode about them playing baseball but the baseball is wacky that i've already probably seen 3 or 4 times by now
also, like, a lot of the jokes just kinda feel like second hand embarrasement, I can't really say of any gag or anything that has really made me laugh either
This is going to the how could you do this to me tier.
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no more anime to watch
i'm actually close to finishing sleeping dogs
I rated it a 10, but I would actually rate it a 9. Because it's an anime that mixes maids with mafia or something like that, I decided to give it 10, since if it weren't for it, there wouldn't be another anime like it.Patatitta wrote:
emajakolic wrote:
AKIBABehrauder wrote:
https://myanimelist.net/anime.php?id=52193Akiba Maid War
I see you behrauder have given it a 10, it seems like you, emajakolic also enjoys this, and for me personally, it's probably on my bottom 5 anime, excluding the ones i've dropped.
I don't get what you see on this anime, it just feels awful. It's a mafia/yakuza anime except that the yakuza are maid cafes, and it's just complete and utter nosense for the rest of the anime. I get this is also a comedy anime, that it's supposed to feel absurd, but it's not entirerily comedy, the tone of the anime really gets serious past a certain point, and it's those segments I hate the most
One thing is having absurd comedy, another is making the anime up as you goe, and given that this is a anime original, it's no exaggeration. Like really, nothing has more than 1 episode of developement in this anime, if something happens it's either set up on the asme chapter or it's just handled really badly. There really isn't any real plot to this anime either, there isn't any goal they're working for, any real big bad, the anime kinda just ends at a certain point and it's not satisfactory at all.
the characters are also really poorly written. In episode 1 the protagonist signs up for being a maid at a maid cafe, then later sees her coworker literally murder someone in front of her eyes and then has to run out of an armed conflict, this literally causes her PTSD as we have scenes on episode 2 of her seeing like food being cooked and she being reminded of what she saw, and then, when she's about to escape, another character has like a motivational speech where she basically tells her "the outfit is cute tho, you wanted that right", and this somehow convinces her that everything is alright, she stays and her PTSD is healed, she never really questions this reality and way of life ever again in the anime.
And it's just, maid cafes are so, so romanticized in this anime. You would assume that for a anime that has yakuza be maid cafes they would be critical of these, but no, not at all, half the anime is THE GOAL OF A MAID IS MAKIGNG THE MASTER REALLY HAPPY BECAUSE THAT IS OUR LIFE OBJECTIVE AND LOVE WILL RULE OVER ANYTHING ELSE like bro wtf the salary isn't even that good
they're not even cute at all either, it's not a moe anime, so like, what the fuck at this point
A lot of characters are introduced, barely have screentime and then you're expected to care heavily for them. It really falls into a lot of tropes of other animes, like having a episode about them playing baseball but the baseball is wacky that i've already probably seen 3 or 4 times by now
also, like, a lot of the jokes just kinda feel like second hand embarrasement, I can't really say of any gag or anything that has really made me laugh either
This is going to the how could you do this to me tier.
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no more anime to watch
i'm actually close to finishing sleeping dogs
Anyway, seeing you be so critical about things I've watched makes me question whether I have any sense of criticism at all. I don’t know how to feel about that. Just as it makes me appreciate the things I watch more, it also doesn’t sound like a good thing, I don’t know... my average score on MyAnimeList is 8.69, and a few months ago it was 8.67.
Still, you gave the anime a 5, which is further from 7.59 (the average rating of the anime on MyAnimeList) than the rating I gave it (10, but it would be 9), so I don't know.
I don't even know why I'm making this post, actually.
Topic Starter
I force myself to give at least a 5 if I have been able to finish it, it honestly may be lower, and there is nothing wrong with enjoying things I don't, as long as you're enjoying things that's good, it's better to have a average score of 8.7 than one of 4.2, also yes, i'm in the minority for hating this anime lolBehrauder wrote:
I rated it a 10, but I would actually rate it a 9. Because it's an anime that mixes maids with mafia or something like that, I decided to give it 10, since if it weren't for it, there wouldn't be another anime like it.Patatitta wrote:
emajakolic wrote:
AKIBABehrauder wrote:
https://myanimelist.net/anime.php?id=52193Akiba Maid War
I see you behrauder have given it a 10, it seems like you, emajakolic also enjoys this, and for me personally, it's probably on my bottom 5 anime, excluding the ones i've dropped.
I don't get what you see on this anime, it just feels awful. It's a mafia/yakuza anime except that the yakuza are maid cafes, and it's just complete and utter nosense for the rest of the anime. I get this is also a comedy anime, that it's supposed to feel absurd, but it's not entirerily comedy, the tone of the anime really gets serious past a certain point, and it's those segments I hate the most
One thing is having absurd comedy, another is making the anime up as you goe, and given that this is a anime original, it's no exaggeration. Like really, nothing has more than 1 episode of developement in this anime, if something happens it's either set up on the asme chapter or it's just handled really badly. There really isn't any real plot to this anime either, there isn't any goal they're working for, any real big bad, the anime kinda just ends at a certain point and it's not satisfactory at all.
the characters are also really poorly written. In episode 1 the protagonist signs up for being a maid at a maid cafe, then later sees her coworker literally murder someone in front of her eyes and then has to run out of an armed conflict, this literally causes her PTSD as we have scenes on episode 2 of her seeing like food being cooked and she being reminded of what she saw, and then, when she's about to escape, another character has like a motivational speech where she basically tells her "the outfit is cute tho, you wanted that right", and this somehow convinces her that everything is alright, she stays and her PTSD is healed, she never really questions this reality and way of life ever again in the anime.
And it's just, maid cafes are so, so romanticized in this anime. You would assume that for a anime that has yakuza be maid cafes they would be critical of these, but no, not at all, half the anime is THE GOAL OF A MAID IS MAKIGNG THE MASTER REALLY HAPPY BECAUSE THAT IS OUR LIFE OBJECTIVE AND LOVE WILL RULE OVER ANYTHING ELSE like bro wtf the salary isn't even that good
they're not even cute at all either, it's not a moe anime, so like, what the fuck at this point
A lot of characters are introduced, barely have screentime and then you're expected to care heavily for them. It really falls into a lot of tropes of other animes, like having a episode about them playing baseball but the baseball is wacky that i've already probably seen 3 or 4 times by now
also, like, a lot of the jokes just kinda feel like second hand embarrasement, I can't really say of any gag or anything that has really made me laugh either
This is going to the how could you do this to me tier.
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no more anime to watch
i'm actually close to finishing sleeping dogs
Anyway, seeing you be so critical about things I've watched makes me question whether I have any sense of criticism at all. I don’t know how to feel about that. Just as it makes me appreciate the things I watch more, it also doesn’t sound like a good thing, I don’t know... my average score on MyAnimeList is 8.69, and a few months ago it was 8.67.
Still, you gave the anime a 5, which is further from 7.59 (the average rating of the anime on MyAnimeList) than the rating I gave it (10, but it would be 9), so I don't know.
I don't even know why I'm making this post, actually.
Just enjoy things, even if the reason for liking them is "I find it cool". No need to look or see Patatitta as some sort of quality media God.Behrauder wrote:
I rated it a 10, but I would actually rate it a 9. Because it's an anime that mixes maids with mafia or something like that, I decided to give it 10, since if it weren't for it, there wouldn't be another anime like it.Patatitta wrote:
emajakolic wrote:
AKIBABehrauder wrote:
https://myanimelist.net/anime.php?id=52193Akiba Maid War
I see you behrauder have given it a 10, it seems like you, emajakolic also enjoys this, and for me personally, it's probably on my bottom 5 anime, excluding the ones i've dropped.
I don't get what you see on this anime, it just feels awful. It's a mafia/yakuza anime except that the yakuza are maid cafes, and it's just complete and utter nosense for the rest of the anime. I get this is also a comedy anime, that it's supposed to feel absurd, but it's not entirerily comedy, the tone of the anime really gets serious past a certain point, and it's those segments I hate the most
One thing is having absurd comedy, another is making the anime up as you goe, and given that this is a anime original, it's no exaggeration. Like really, nothing has more than 1 episode of developement in this anime, if something happens it's either set up on the asme chapter or it's just handled really badly. There really isn't any real plot to this anime either, there isn't any goal they're working for, any real big bad, the anime kinda just ends at a certain point and it's not satisfactory at all.
the characters are also really poorly written. In episode 1 the protagonist signs up for being a maid at a maid cafe, then later sees her coworker literally murder someone in front of her eyes and then has to run out of an armed conflict, this literally causes her PTSD as we have scenes on episode 2 of her seeing like food being cooked and she being reminded of what she saw, and then, when she's about to escape, another character has like a motivational speech where she basically tells her "the outfit is cute tho, you wanted that right", and this somehow convinces her that everything is alright, she stays and her PTSD is healed, she never really questions this reality and way of life ever again in the anime.
And it's just, maid cafes are so, so romanticized in this anime. You would assume that for a anime that has yakuza be maid cafes they would be critical of these, but no, not at all, half the anime is THE GOAL OF A MAID IS MAKIGNG THE MASTER REALLY HAPPY BECAUSE THAT IS OUR LIFE OBJECTIVE AND LOVE WILL RULE OVER ANYTHING ELSE like bro wtf the salary isn't even that good
they're not even cute at all either, it's not a moe anime, so like, what the fuck at this point
A lot of characters are introduced, barely have screentime and then you're expected to care heavily for them. It really falls into a lot of tropes of other animes, like having a episode about them playing baseball but the baseball is wacky that i've already probably seen 3 or 4 times by now
also, like, a lot of the jokes just kinda feel like second hand embarrasement, I can't really say of any gag or anything that has really made me laugh either
This is going to the how could you do this to me tier.
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no more anime to watch
i'm actually close to finishing sleeping dogs
Anyway, seeing you be so critical about things I've watched makes me question whether I have any sense of criticism at all. I don’t know how to feel about that. Just as it makes me appreciate the things I watch more, it also doesn’t sound like a good thing, I don’t know... my average score on MyAnimeList is 8.69, and a few months ago it was 8.67.
Still, you gave the anime a 5, which is further from 7.59 (the average rating of the anime on MyAnimeList) than the rating I gave it (10, but it would be 9), so I don't know.
I don't even know why I'm making this post, actually.
Topic Starter
Sleeping Dogs
this is it, this is what we've been waiting for, the first of two games axispraxis requested, which would prove this entire thread wrong and showcase I have a shit taste at videogames. I have witnessed TRUE KINO right here, and I wouldn't have wished any other game, this is the first past-S rank
nah i'm kidding game is pretty mediocre, did beat it in full tho, did not drop it
Sleeping dogs is basically an american yakuza/GTA clone released in 2012, it's abotu this undercover police agent who joins the triad of hong kong, but in the process, kinda betrays their police identity and goes full mafia, the story faces a little bit of the same problems GTA IV does, just on a lesser scale
the protagonist doesn't have that much of a personality, they just follow orders, they rarely do stuff based on their own volition, there are also multiple storyline that basically do not touch with each other, which idk if it's better or worse than having the chronology be a mess, like in GTA IV. And again, we face the same problem of, killing people only matters if it is in a cutscene, you can kil llots of civilians and that is not a problem, but kill one boss in a cutscene and dude wtf,,, you can't do that,,, you're going to get kicked out of the police and go to prision,,, in general the story is very bland, it doesn't really say anything or really do anything that hasn't been done better already
the combat is a replica of the combat system in yakuza but without any depth, like really, it's the same type of brawler combat, you also got your heat moves, I mean, environmental moves, can pick up weapons with limited durability and do special attacks with them, you also got your komechi moves, I mean, melee training moves where you have to do a special combat each time you unlock a skill in the skill tree. The difference is that the combat in yakuza often makes you think or at least feel really cool, while in this game that doens't happen
the combat is extremely easy, but that's not the bad part, the bard part is that the optimal way to play the combat is pretty boring. There are a lot of infinites you can do, thing is, most of these infinites won't led that much damage, and given that you're probably using the infinites on 1 on 1 battles, so, bosses, these have a lot of health and lead to very boring combats
but worry not, there is another way to cheese every single combat which is slightly less boring!, in this game there are counters, the counters are really easy to do and every move can be countered, also, if you're in a counter you're kinda immune to what happens around you, so why not just, don't attack so you never get into cooldown and just only attack by doing counters, this is slightly faster than doing infinits but it's still really boring.
there also points in the game where they just give you a gun, the gun combat is fine, except for some reason getting into cover is really weird and often I died or had to press ctrl multiple times for the game to register I want to go into cover
also, I don't really know why the protagonist doesn't wear a gun at all times?, like, you know you're getting into a fight anyways, why not bring a gun?, but what is even worse, is when you literally have a gun in the mission, a cutscene happens and you lose the gun for no real reason, like in the very final mission I reached the final boss with a gun, then the boss kicks me and I drop my gun and then they run and it's a chase sequence, my question is, why didn't the game allow me to pick the gun from the floor and just shot him???, like, it would have cut the entire final boss lol, if you're going to remove my gun at least make it make sense
this game is full of inconsistencies like that, in the penultimate mission in the game your character is FUCKED, and there is a really cool segment, probably the best segment of the game where your body barely responds and your vision is doing funny things and you have to like do two kills in that state, then you hit a loading screen and like your character is at 100% power already and i'm like what
the driving segments feel pretty bad at time, it's not fun for cops to literally pop into existance during a escape sequence, the car hijack doens't really work properly half the time, and everything has an incredible rubberbanding
it also has a lot of random collectables across the map that just works to make the playtime longer if you're aiming for 100%.
it's just a very bland open world AAA game, just play yakuza man, placed in D tier
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next: NFS 2005
this is it, this is what we've been waiting for, the first of two games axispraxis requested, which would prove this entire thread wrong and showcase I have a shit taste at videogames. I have witnessed TRUE KINO right here, and I wouldn't have wished any other game, this is the first past-S rank
nah i'm kidding game is pretty mediocre, did beat it in full tho, did not drop it
Sleeping dogs is basically an american yakuza/GTA clone released in 2012, it's abotu this undercover police agent who joins the triad of hong kong, but in the process, kinda betrays their police identity and goes full mafia, the story faces a little bit of the same problems GTA IV does, just on a lesser scale
the protagonist doesn't have that much of a personality, they just follow orders, they rarely do stuff based on their own volition, there are also multiple storyline that basically do not touch with each other, which idk if it's better or worse than having the chronology be a mess, like in GTA IV. And again, we face the same problem of, killing people only matters if it is in a cutscene, you can kil llots of civilians and that is not a problem, but kill one boss in a cutscene and dude wtf,,, you can't do that,,, you're going to get kicked out of the police and go to prision,,, in general the story is very bland, it doesn't really say anything or really do anything that hasn't been done better already
the combat is a replica of the combat system in yakuza but without any depth, like really, it's the same type of brawler combat, you also got your heat moves, I mean, environmental moves, can pick up weapons with limited durability and do special attacks with them, you also got your komechi moves, I mean, melee training moves where you have to do a special combat each time you unlock a skill in the skill tree. The difference is that the combat in yakuza often makes you think or at least feel really cool, while in this game that doens't happen
the combat is extremely easy, but that's not the bad part, the bard part is that the optimal way to play the combat is pretty boring. There are a lot of infinites you can do, thing is, most of these infinites won't led that much damage, and given that you're probably using the infinites on 1 on 1 battles, so, bosses, these have a lot of health and lead to very boring combats
but worry not, there is another way to cheese every single combat which is slightly less boring!, in this game there are counters, the counters are really easy to do and every move can be countered, also, if you're in a counter you're kinda immune to what happens around you, so why not just, don't attack so you never get into cooldown and just only attack by doing counters, this is slightly faster than doing infinits but it's still really boring.
there also points in the game where they just give you a gun, the gun combat is fine, except for some reason getting into cover is really weird and often I died or had to press ctrl multiple times for the game to register I want to go into cover
also, I don't really know why the protagonist doesn't wear a gun at all times?, like, you know you're getting into a fight anyways, why not bring a gun?, but what is even worse, is when you literally have a gun in the mission, a cutscene happens and you lose the gun for no real reason, like in the very final mission I reached the final boss with a gun, then the boss kicks me and I drop my gun and then they run and it's a chase sequence, my question is, why didn't the game allow me to pick the gun from the floor and just shot him???, like, it would have cut the entire final boss lol, if you're going to remove my gun at least make it make sense
this game is full of inconsistencies like that, in the penultimate mission in the game your character is FUCKED, and there is a really cool segment, probably the best segment of the game where your body barely responds and your vision is doing funny things and you have to like do two kills in that state, then you hit a loading screen and like your character is at 100% power already and i'm like what
the driving segments feel pretty bad at time, it's not fun for cops to literally pop into existance during a escape sequence, the car hijack doens't really work properly half the time, and everything has an incredible rubberbanding
it also has a lot of random collectables across the map that just works to make the playtime longer if you're aiming for 100%.
it's just a very bland open world AAA game, just play yakuza man, placed in D tier
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next: NFS 2005
good luck with the rubberbanding
It isn't that bad compared to NFS Underground 1. Only Earl is a weird.AxisPraxisMDS wrote:
good luck with the rubberbanding
yeah, but if theres a heavy trafficsWinnyace wrote:
It isn't that bad compared to NFS Underground 1. Only Earl is a weird.AxisPraxisMDS wrote:
good luck with the rubberbanding
The game really isn't that hard, still.AxisPraxisMDS wrote:
yeah, but if theres a heavy trafficsWinnyace wrote:
It isn't that bad compared to NFS Underground 1. Only Earl is a weird.AxisPraxisMDS wrote:
good luck with the rubberbanding
Topic Starter
Need For Speed: Most Wanted (2005 version)
it starts being fairly solid, it falls of starting the second half and the last quarter is just painful
NFS 2005 is a very arcade style driving game, there is basically no plot, just do the races which is the fun part of the game and just mess around and do cool stunts and stuff. This is not the type of game I cover in this thread, but honestly I kinda wanted to do this one
The game starts with a lot of FMV cutscenes which I very much enjoy, and it basically sets the objective of the game, climb a ranking and defeat razor, since they sabotaged your car making you lose everything. That's about as far as the story goes, the rest of the gameplay loop is just doing the races and other tasks you need to meet the quota to race the next rival and do that until you get to razor
The car controls are pretty good, I never had much of a problem with the car being little responsive or whatever, the tracks are cool, lots of shortcut opportunity and I think they're well designed, but man, the meta progresion of this game is god awful
the idea is that after each rival or each race you improve your car, this requires money, you're also expected to upgrade said car, all of this is fair game, the problem is that money is sparse and this game is also REALLY punishing for doing the wrong choices
You don't really have a steady source of income in this game, you really can't farm it, you have a max ammount of races you can do, you can also do races from previous tiers to gain a little bit extra, but you're never swimming on it. If you buy a car and upgrade it, you're probably going to run out of money. If you try to sell the car, you only recover half the money you put into it, which means, if you spend all your money in a car, and that car just turns out to not be that good, you're just fucked and the game is going to be 20 times harder for the rest of the tier. Like really, the difficulty of the game is defined by how well do you invest your money. It's an awful system that I personally would solve by just giving you 100% refund
So let's say you save a lot of money and buy yourself what is probably the best car you can get at that point in the game, how does this affect your gameplay?, it doesn't due to rubberbanding. Fast cars only help you to not fall behind, however, if you're already winning, a way faster car will just mean you're winning the exact same ammount. It's extremely obvious this is happening too, I remember, on one race, radar race, I did the first corner really badly, I get 140km/h, second place gets 130, and i'm like, oh i'm fine, I lose that race, I do the first turn but really good this time, I get 200km/h, I go like "oh I got a big lead now", second place has 190km/h, that is just demotivating, why would you put effort to get good at driving is such effort isn't rewarded?.
Another problem I have with the progression is just that a lot of things aren't explained. For example, the nitro button on controller for some reason is unbinded at first, I thought I just couldn't use nitro yet. Acceleration races were also very confusing at first, I think I had to rebind stuff too.
On the topic of acceleration races, they suck. Basically they're really short races where the difference is that you must do the stickshift of the car yourself, you're just mainly focusing on that, so the car just goes a predefined path, you don't need to steer, just make sure you change gears at the correct time, you can slightly steer the car but it's not vital except it is because ALWAYS the route that the game chooses is one that crashes directly with 40 different cars except the light steer they allow you to do isn't enough half of the time so the only way to dodge is to go faster except that doesn't seem to do any difference because if you accelerate faster the traffic will too so like what the fuck, also they barely give any money so it's really not worth it to do
A thing the game requires you to do in order to fight the bosses are police chases, you need to increase your wanted level as well as doing diverse tasks, this fucking sucks. First of all, the wanted level isn't tied to your character, it's linked to your CAR, so if you were to I don't know, sell your car so you can get a better one, that means you got to farm the police chase on the double. Also the tasks in police chases aren't skill things, they're just time consuming, they're things like "crash into 15 cop cars", "Survive for 6 minutes". Specially that later one got so bad that I was booting up cheat engine to speed up the game so I would get over it faster. Escaping from the police is also RNG dependent, i've seen cop cars spawn on me when i'm hiding. Also the cops have rubberbanding too because fuck you
Also, this game has 15 tiers, 15 blacklist levels, after like the first 4 you've seen all the has to offer, the rest is just more of the same.
Placed in D tier.
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next: Little Misfortune
it starts being fairly solid, it falls of starting the second half and the last quarter is just painful
NFS 2005 is a very arcade style driving game, there is basically no plot, just do the races which is the fun part of the game and just mess around and do cool stunts and stuff. This is not the type of game I cover in this thread, but honestly I kinda wanted to do this one
The game starts with a lot of FMV cutscenes which I very much enjoy, and it basically sets the objective of the game, climb a ranking and defeat razor, since they sabotaged your car making you lose everything. That's about as far as the story goes, the rest of the gameplay loop is just doing the races and other tasks you need to meet the quota to race the next rival and do that until you get to razor
The car controls are pretty good, I never had much of a problem with the car being little responsive or whatever, the tracks are cool, lots of shortcut opportunity and I think they're well designed, but man, the meta progresion of this game is god awful
the idea is that after each rival or each race you improve your car, this requires money, you're also expected to upgrade said car, all of this is fair game, the problem is that money is sparse and this game is also REALLY punishing for doing the wrong choices
You don't really have a steady source of income in this game, you really can't farm it, you have a max ammount of races you can do, you can also do races from previous tiers to gain a little bit extra, but you're never swimming on it. If you buy a car and upgrade it, you're probably going to run out of money. If you try to sell the car, you only recover half the money you put into it, which means, if you spend all your money in a car, and that car just turns out to not be that good, you're just fucked and the game is going to be 20 times harder for the rest of the tier. Like really, the difficulty of the game is defined by how well do you invest your money. It's an awful system that I personally would solve by just giving you 100% refund
So let's say you save a lot of money and buy yourself what is probably the best car you can get at that point in the game, how does this affect your gameplay?, it doesn't due to rubberbanding. Fast cars only help you to not fall behind, however, if you're already winning, a way faster car will just mean you're winning the exact same ammount. It's extremely obvious this is happening too, I remember, on one race, radar race, I did the first corner really badly, I get 140km/h, second place gets 130, and i'm like, oh i'm fine, I lose that race, I do the first turn but really good this time, I get 200km/h, I go like "oh I got a big lead now", second place has 190km/h, that is just demotivating, why would you put effort to get good at driving is such effort isn't rewarded?.
Another problem I have with the progression is just that a lot of things aren't explained. For example, the nitro button on controller for some reason is unbinded at first, I thought I just couldn't use nitro yet. Acceleration races were also very confusing at first, I think I had to rebind stuff too.
On the topic of acceleration races, they suck. Basically they're really short races where the difference is that you must do the stickshift of the car yourself, you're just mainly focusing on that, so the car just goes a predefined path, you don't need to steer, just make sure you change gears at the correct time, you can slightly steer the car but it's not vital except it is because ALWAYS the route that the game chooses is one that crashes directly with 40 different cars except the light steer they allow you to do isn't enough half of the time so the only way to dodge is to go faster except that doesn't seem to do any difference because if you accelerate faster the traffic will too so like what the fuck, also they barely give any money so it's really not worth it to do
A thing the game requires you to do in order to fight the bosses are police chases, you need to increase your wanted level as well as doing diverse tasks, this fucking sucks. First of all, the wanted level isn't tied to your character, it's linked to your CAR, so if you were to I don't know, sell your car so you can get a better one, that means you got to farm the police chase on the double. Also the tasks in police chases aren't skill things, they're just time consuming, they're things like "crash into 15 cop cars", "Survive for 6 minutes". Specially that later one got so bad that I was booting up cheat engine to speed up the game so I would get over it faster. Escaping from the police is also RNG dependent, i've seen cop cars spawn on me when i'm hiding. Also the cops have rubberbanding too because fuck you
Also, this game has 15 tiers, 15 blacklist levels, after like the first 4 you've seen all the has to offer, the rest is just more of the same.
Placed in D tier.
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next: Little Misfortune
mmh, ok, whats is your fav/go to car in the game, and what do you think about the soundtrack?
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mario kart/initial d arcade stage 5AxisPraxisMDS wrote:
mmh, ok, whats is your fav/go to car in the game, and what do you think about the soundtrack?
the OST is okay, didn't mention it but the game tries to aim for a really urban really "cool according to teens in the early 2000" feel but it didn't really resonate with me that much
The nitro boost situation is a controller misconfiguration. By default, it should do that, but mid-2000s PC games always have weird issues with controllers and even now there are some rough spots. It's why Steam Input exists after all.
The cop chases are frankly the best part of this game and its main selling point. I do agree that they're kind of janky and the forced challenges are annoying, but the chases itself are, in my opinion, interesting and dynamic.
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only starting level 4 tho, you can beat police level 1-3 by driving below the speed limit, i've tested itWinnyace wrote:
The cop chases are frankly the best part of this game and its main selling point. I do agree that they're kind of janky and the forced challenges are annoying, but the chases itself are, in my opinion, interesting and dynamic.
i meant the in game licensed car one, not the game onePatatitta wrote:
mario kart/initial d arcade stage 5AxisPraxisMDS wrote:
mmh, ok, whats is your fav/go to car in the game, and what do you think about the soundtrack?
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oh, my bad, I read it as fav car game, I don't really have any preferences, the one that had better stats at that point in the gameAxisPraxisMDS wrote:
i meant the in game licensed car one, not the game onePatatitta wrote:
mario kart/initial d arcade stage 5AxisPraxisMDS wrote:
mmh, ok, whats is your fav/go to car in the game, and what do you think about the soundtrack?
Yes. I would say starting at Level 3, they become aggro and fun.Patatitta wrote:
only starting level 4 tho, you can beat police level 1-3 by driving below the speed limit, i've tested itWinnyace wrote:
The cop chases are frankly the best part of this game and its main selling point. I do agree that they're kind of janky and the forced challenges are annoying, but the chases itself are, in my opinion, interesting and dynamic.
ah, level three!!! i mean i could enjoy lots of things about the earlier heat levels but it was not nearly as dynamic as it would become after the suv was introduced to the police force during gameplay! i loved those chases so much... i remember playing specifically for that for hours, idk how long my longest chases were but it was a sweet faded memory from a more innocent childhood (...well, not exactly...)Winnyace wrote:
Yes. I would say starting at Level 3, they become aggro and fun.Patatitta wrote:
only starting level 4 tho, you can beat police level 1-3 by driving below the speed limit, i've tested itWinnyace wrote:
The cop chases are frankly the best part of this game and its main selling point. I do agree that they're kind of janky and the forced challenges are annoying, but the chases itself are, in my opinion, interesting and dynamic.
finding the most fun routes to play with the pursuing cars as they got more aggressive and powerful,, trying my best to survive the most tense moments spent trying to escape incredible and ridiculous swarms i intentionally collected behind me, the music aaaghghfhfg i loved the music dearly too
anyway, the gameplay elsewhere was reasonably good and i loved customizing everything i could, idk if it was "objectively" great and a lot of my experience with it was super sentimentally-biased (and further influenced by current nostalgia) but... it is interesting to see how people view that game :)
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Little Misfortune
It's not the first time I play a game like this, however, it was the first time in a long while, and it really did feel nostalgic, I really like this game
Little misfortune is a walking simualator/choose your own story game with a pretty cute artstyle, about a girl, little misfortune, who starts hearing a voice in her head to play a game, where at the end she will recieve eternal happiness
While the artstyle is cute, the actual environments aren't, it uses these very dull colors and grim scenarios, like for example, the story can be considered dark but our protagonist isn't really aware of it, since she is a child and she doesn't know any better, things like living in an abusive family for example. Not a new concept but honestly pretty well executed
The game also has some pretty dark comedy that I think is very well executed
The story is engaging, mainly because it creates a very mysterious atmosphere, and honestly it ended up being way better than I imagine it would be at first
The ending of this game is very abrupt, you walk through a door, expecting more, and the game just ends. However, just before that you have some massive lore drops, that puts into question the rest of the videogame, and that is because the game isn't as lineal or simple as you may expect, the monster isn't just a monster, as everything is very allegorical, very abstract. I'm not replaying the game, but I imagine that if you were to replay it you would start noticing a lot of small details that would explain the true story of the game. I think this works really well, the original "dark story but it's childish" is not a new concept, it's something you see, go "ah i'm familiar with it" and then accept it, as we already consider that to be a subvertion, you expected something childish but you got dark, so after that, you lower your guard, you don't expect the game to go further and it does and it hits
The game is very short actually, only being a couple of hours long, took me 2 hours and a half, and honestly, I wouldn't wish it to be longer, everything is so small and compact and crafted so carefully, it's good, also it makes it easier to replay the game, something that you may want to do after the end.
Placed in A rank
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next: cold front
It's not the first time I play a game like this, however, it was the first time in a long while, and it really did feel nostalgic, I really like this game
Little misfortune is a walking simualator/choose your own story game with a pretty cute artstyle, about a girl, little misfortune, who starts hearing a voice in her head to play a game, where at the end she will recieve eternal happiness
While the artstyle is cute, the actual environments aren't, it uses these very dull colors and grim scenarios, like for example, the story can be considered dark but our protagonist isn't really aware of it, since she is a child and she doesn't know any better, things like living in an abusive family for example. Not a new concept but honestly pretty well executed
The game also has some pretty dark comedy that I think is very well executed
The story is engaging, mainly because it creates a very mysterious atmosphere, and honestly it ended up being way better than I imagine it would be at first
The ending of this game is very abrupt, you walk through a door, expecting more, and the game just ends. However, just before that you have some massive lore drops, that puts into question the rest of the videogame, and that is because the game isn't as lineal or simple as you may expect, the monster isn't just a monster, as everything is very allegorical, very abstract. I'm not replaying the game, but I imagine that if you were to replay it you would start noticing a lot of small details that would explain the true story of the game. I think this works really well, the original "dark story but it's childish" is not a new concept, it's something you see, go "ah i'm familiar with it" and then accept it, as we already consider that to be a subvertion, you expected something childish but you got dark, so after that, you lower your guard, you don't expect the game to go further and it does and it hits
The game is very short actually, only being a couple of hours long, took me 2 hours and a half, and honestly, I wouldn't wish it to be longer, everything is so small and compact and crafted so carefully, it's good, also it makes it easier to replay the game, something that you may want to do after the end.
Placed in A rank
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next: cold front
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Cold Front
Short itch.io VN, it has a 2.5D perspective and a little bit of movement sometimes but it is a VN; at a more technical level there are some flaws, I had some lag spikes when I shouldn't have given the game is a VN and some sounds looped with the moment they looped being very apparent, howerver that didn't affect my enjoyement of the game too much
I really don't have much to say about this game, it's kinda cute which is what you expect from this type of game, the art is good (the author 100% draws yaoi), as I said very short, took me less than an hour to beat, while it has some horror elements that try to be psychological, the game isn't really about thinking, as everything is explained by the end, no room for interpretation, I think this is a good move as the game is much more focused on the feelings
not the best itch.io VN i've played but this was enjoyable
Placed in C tier
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nothing more in queue
Short itch.io VN, it has a 2.5D perspective and a little bit of movement sometimes but it is a VN; at a more technical level there are some flaws, I had some lag spikes when I shouldn't have given the game is a VN and some sounds looped with the moment they looped being very apparent, howerver that didn't affect my enjoyement of the game too much
I really don't have much to say about this game, it's kinda cute which is what you expect from this type of game, the art is good (the author 100% draws yaoi), as I said very short, took me less than an hour to beat, while it has some horror elements that try to be psychological, the game isn't really about thinking, as everything is explained by the end, no room for interpretation, I think this is a good move as the game is much more focused on the feelings
not the best itch.io VN i've played but this was enjoyable
Placed in C tier
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nothing more in queue
I know you've already mentioned how you're able to organise all this, but don't you get burnt out from consuming so much every day? Isn't there ever a moment where you can't really be fucked doing something requested in this thread?
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noYmir wrote:
I know you've already mentioned how you're able to organise all this, but don't you get burnt out from consuming so much every day? Isn't there ever a moment where you can't really be fucked doing something requested in this thread?
Wtf
tismYmir wrote:
I know you've already mentioned how you're able to organise all this, but don't you get burnt out from consuming so much every day? Isn't there ever a moment where you can't really be fucked doing something requested in this thread?
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it's not like I have that much else to do tbh
Games:
Auto Destruct
Cyberpunk 2077
Anime:
Hellsing Ultimate
Auto Destruct
Cyberpunk 2077
Anime:
Hellsing Ultimate
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I don't think i'm doing autodestructKarmine wrote:
Games:
Auto Destruct
Cyberpunk 2077
Anime:
Hellsing Ultimate
I will try cyberpunk
hellsing will do, but I will take a while since i'm in the process of watching all of psycho-pass and that is going to take a little while
Here's a thing to read
oh i remember this one...! im glad to see its still meaningful to someone, it was neat :> i think i primarily loved the artstyle and the characters and their interpersonal dynamics, this had crazy good sense of art direction honestly from everything to backgrounds and color palettes and ui, it was satisfyingly sentimental and winnie & augustine were easy enough to sympathize with as more was revealedPatatitta wrote:
Cold Front
Short itch.io VN, it has a 2.5D perspective and a little bit of movement sometimes but it is a VN; at a more technical level there are some flaws, I had some lag spikes when I shouldn't have given the game is a VN and some sounds looped with the moment they looped being very apparent, howerver that didn't affect my enjoyement of the game too much
I really don't have much to say about this game, it's kinda cute which is what you expect from this type of game, the art is good (the author 100% draws yaoi), as I said very short, took me less than an hour to beat, while it has some horror elements that try to be psychological, the game isn't really about thinking, as everything is explained by the end, no room for interpretation, I think this is a good move as the game is much more focused on the feelings
not the best itch.io VN i've played but this was enjoyable
Placed in C tier
but i did forget most of it like i do with nearly every game or piece of media
i remember dead plate too, i have vague memories of enjoying both of them during a lot of the dialogue and cg scenes but mostly held onto the parts nearest to the end like cold front's stairs and dead plate's manager and the Room
cool ^^
Press F for the weird car action game.Patatitta wrote:
I don't think i'm doing autodestructKarmine wrote:
Games:
Auto Destruct
Cyberpunk 2077
Anime:
Hellsing Ultimate
I will try cyberpunk
hellsing will do, but I will take a while since i'm in the process of watching all of psycho-pass and that is going to take a little while
Hell screen by ryunosuke Akutagawa, i not read it, but, I found a Video on yt of someone read it the whole novel, and i listen and read it, does it count read?
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not at all, you must read it, watching a yt video does not countAxisPraxisMDS wrote:
Hell screen by ryunosuke Akutagawa, i not read it, but, I found a Video on yt of someone read it the whole novel, and i listen and read it, does it count read?
oh, but read via doc count? i had one in my desktop, and i dont have money to buy a copy
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wdym read via doc? like reading it digital?AxisPraxisMDS wrote:
oh, but read via doc count? i had one in my desktop, and i dont have money to buy a copy
yes but in pdfPatatitta wrote:
wdym read via doc? like reading it digital?AxisPraxisMDS wrote:
oh, but read via doc count? i had one in my desktop, and i dont have money to buy a copy
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I mean, I don't care if you've read it physical, digital, legal, or illegal, as long as you've actually read it in full and not when you were like 5yo, it works for meAxisPraxisMDS wrote:
yes but in pdfPatatitta wrote:
wdym read via doc? like reading it digital?AxisPraxisMDS wrote:
oh, but read via doc count? i had one in my desktop, and i dont have money to buy a copy
done, i ive read it, its really short really
Also, Can you play nfs carbon? Its a Sequel, I remember i play almost to the end, using my lil bro phone, using dolphin, but due to low fps and hard boss, i dont finished it
Also, Can you play nfs carbon? Its a Sequel, I remember i play almost to the end, using my lil bro phone, using dolphin, but due to low fps and hard boss, i dont finished it
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did you just read hell screen or one other?AxisPraxisMDS wrote:
done, i ive read it, its really short really
Also, Can you play nfs carbon? Its a Sequel, I remember i play almost to the end, using my lil bro phone, using dolphin, but due to low fps and hard boss, i dont finished it
Also I won't be playing any more NFS, I didn't like most wanted very much and I don't that opinion is going to change for the rest of the franchise
yes, i totally read it,Patatitta wrote:
did you just read hell screen or one other?AxisPraxisMDS wrote:
done, i ive read it, its really short really
Also, Can you play nfs carbon? Its a Sequel, I remember i play almost to the end, using my lil bro phone, using dolphin, but due to low fps and hard boss, i dont finished it
Also I won't be playing any more NFS, I didn't like most wanted very much and I don't that opinion is going to change for the rest of the franchise
theres a game called nfs prostreet, that was different from any nfs, But, I will tell about if i was finished it
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... it's 224 pages long?, you've only had an hour to read it???AxisPraxisMDS wrote:
yes, i totally read it,Patatitta wrote:
did you just read hell screen or one other?AxisPraxisMDS wrote:
done, i ive read it, its really short really
Also, Can you play nfs carbon? Its a Sequel, I remember i play almost to the end, using my lil bro phone, using dolphin, but due to low fps and hard boss, i dont finished it
Also I won't be playing any more NFS, I didn't like most wanted very much and I don't that opinion is going to change for the rest of the franchise
theres a game called nfs prostreet, that was different from any nfs, But, I will tell about if i was finished it
edit: nvm, apparently there are multiple versions, with VERY varying lengths, what edition did you read?
well, ive read the shorter versions, i had the pdf version, mind if i share to u?Patatitta wrote:
... it's 224 pages long?, you've only had an hour to read it???AxisPraxisMDS wrote:
yes, i totally read it,Patatitta wrote:
did you just read hell screen or one other?AxisPraxisMDS wrote:
done, i ive read it, its really short really
Also, Can you play nfs carbon? Its a Sequel, I remember i play almost to the end, using my lil bro phone, using dolphin, but due to low fps and hard boss, i dont finished it
Also I won't be playing any more NFS, I didn't like most wanted very much and I don't that opinion is going to change for the rest of the franchise
theres a game called nfs prostreet, that was different from any nfs, But, I will tell about if i was finished it
edit: nvm, apparently there are multiple versions, with VERY varying lengths, what edition did you read?
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sureAxisPraxisMDS wrote:
well, ive read the shorter versions, i had the pdf version, mind if i share to u?Patatitta wrote:
... it's 224 pages long?, you've only had an hour to read it???AxisPraxisMDS wrote:
yes, i totally read it,Patatitta wrote:
did you just read hell screen or one other?AxisPraxisMDS wrote:
done, i ive read it, its really short really
Also, Can you play nfs carbon? Its a Sequel, I remember i play almost to the end, using my lil bro phone, using dolphin, but due to low fps and hard boss, i dont finished it
Also I won't be playing any more NFS, I didn't like most wanted very much and I don't that opinion is going to change for the rest of the franchise
theres a game called nfs prostreet, that was different from any nfs, But, I will tell about if i was finished it
edit: nvm, apparently there are multiple versions, with VERY varying lengths, what edition did you read?
Topic Starter
recieved the pdf, it's 27 pages, will add to the queue
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noPolyspora wrote:
can you ÇPLEAP=EESE PLAY SOMA?
ok, i recently Read The little prince, so can u read it?
i borrow the book from one of the librarian in my school
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince
i borrow the book from one of the librarian in my school
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince
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I don't think i'm covering that oneAxisPraxisMDS wrote:
ok, i recently Read The little prince, so can u read it?
i borrow the book from one of the librarian in my school
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince
why?
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just doesn't seem like the type of thing I would enjoy at this current momentAxisPraxisMDS wrote:
why?
You don't need to force yourself to recommend stuff to him.AxisPraxisMDS wrote:
ok, i recently Read The little prince, so can u read it?
i borrow the book from one of the librarian in my school
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince
whatWinnyace wrote:
You don't need to force yourself to recommend stuff to him.AxisPraxisMDS wrote:
ok, i recently Read The little prince, so can u read it?
i borrow the book from one of the librarian in my school
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince
i don't think he's forcing himself i think he just wants patatitta to review the stuff he gives out but patatitta seems to be hesitant with some of the stuffWinnyace wrote:
You don't need to force yourself to recommend stuff to him.AxisPraxisMDS wrote:
ok, i recently Read The little prince, so can u read it?
i borrow the book from one of the librarian in my school
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince
yeah, he just want pata to review the booksametdze wrote:
i don't think he's forcing himself i think he just wants patatitta to review the stuff he gives out but patatitta seems to be hesitant with some of the stuffWinnyace wrote:
You don't need to force yourself to recommend stuff to him.AxisPraxisMDS wrote:
ok, i recently Read The little prince, so can u read it?
i borrow the book from one of the librarian in my school
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince
Topic Starter
Touge Oni: Primal Gods in Ancient Times
Hard-carried by good art
This is an adventure manga where as the title suggest they meet ancient gods and other equally powerful creatures. If i'm being honest, the story is pretty weak, there is no real final goal, it doesn't try to really say anything, it's just adventure for adventure sake, which some people will undeniably enjoy
What this manga really has is good art, the art is very polished, it has a lot of visual clarity, the panel structure is also really well done, everything flows really smoothly and they also use the technique of having some drawings break out of the panel which may seem small but actually adds so much. The setting is interesting and the character designs are all very pretty, to top that of, there are some REALLY original panels, like stuff I haven't really seen ever
as an example, this pannel (box because technically is a spoiler I guess)
however this is not a shin'ichi manga where the stories are built in a way that allows him to spam full page/full spread panels too, in fact, this manga doesn't really have those moments at all, or even big panels like that. I find it impressive that the author can cram stuff so cool in panels that in many other mangas would just be filler. I still prefeer the shin'ichi style but honestly this proves something, this sets a precedent that you can make the small stuff really impressive artistically.
In many ways, this reminds me of dorohedoro. While dorohedoro is way more over the top, they both just create really unique settings to make every panel interesting, and while dorohedoro was fairly standard in it's art and paneling and mainly just created all of it's appeal with the setting, touge oni mixes in a lot of modern techniques and their own more experimental ideas to do the same thing but better. I like this more than dorohedoro
so yeah, while I didn't care about the story at all, I still really appreciate this manga. Placed in B tier,
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started cyberpunk, have my complaints
decided not to watch the psycho-pass sequels right now and start hellsing ultimate, will watch the sequels later.
next: Hell screen
Hard-carried by good art
This is an adventure manga where as the title suggest they meet ancient gods and other equally powerful creatures. If i'm being honest, the story is pretty weak, there is no real final goal, it doesn't try to really say anything, it's just adventure for adventure sake, which some people will undeniably enjoy
What this manga really has is good art, the art is very polished, it has a lot of visual clarity, the panel structure is also really well done, everything flows really smoothly and they also use the technique of having some drawings break out of the panel which may seem small but actually adds so much. The setting is interesting and the character designs are all very pretty, to top that of, there are some REALLY original panels, like stuff I haven't really seen ever
as an example, this pannel (box because technically is a spoiler I guess)
the panel + explanation why this panel is peak
this is actually peak and I want more mangas to do it, using two panels to form a single drawing but using the time displacement of both panels to do a really cool effect while they both share a single text bubble which is being broken away? actually fucking take notes that's INSANE and I love it so much
this is actually peak and I want more mangas to do it, using two panels to form a single drawing but using the time displacement of both panels to do a really cool effect while they both share a single text bubble which is being broken away? actually fucking take notes that's INSANE and I love it so much
however this is not a shin'ichi manga where the stories are built in a way that allows him to spam full page/full spread panels too, in fact, this manga doesn't really have those moments at all, or even big panels like that. I find it impressive that the author can cram stuff so cool in panels that in many other mangas would just be filler. I still prefeer the shin'ichi style but honestly this proves something, this sets a precedent that you can make the small stuff really impressive artistically.
In many ways, this reminds me of dorohedoro. While dorohedoro is way more over the top, they both just create really unique settings to make every panel interesting, and while dorohedoro was fairly standard in it's art and paneling and mainly just created all of it's appeal with the setting, touge oni mixes in a lot of modern techniques and their own more experimental ideas to do the same thing but better. I like this more than dorohedoro
so yeah, while I didn't care about the story at all, I still really appreciate this manga. Placed in B tier,
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started cyberpunk, have my complaints
decided not to watch the psycho-pass sequels right now and start hellsing ultimate, will watch the sequels later.
next: Hell screen
Topic Starter
Hell Screen
A japanese short story written in 1918, it's good. It's about an artist who gets obsessed in it's own work leading to him making awful things.
I admit it's well written and engaging from start to end, however, it didn't resonate too much with me, it doesn't really seem that there is too much meat to this short story. If anything, the most interesting thing it does is the end (not a spoiler because it's a japanese short story from 1918 you're not reading it anyways), where the guy finishes the hell screen, and well, it turns out it's like really fucking good which leads to everyone kinda forgiving him. That point of how you can be an awful person but be able to create banger art. Which i'm pretty sure was pretty interesting and groundbreaking in 1918, but nowadays, in 2024, there are many other books that explore the same topics and do it better
also, unrelated, but when I was reading the book, I searched some of the names online to see if this was based on a IRL story or if it was purely fiction, and while it is entirerily fiction, I stumbled the entire thing reuplaoded to the "Creepypasta fandom wiki"?, which like, what the fuck, this isn't even horror, yes it's a dark story, but it's not horror, it's not scary.
I'm kinda indeferent torwards this short story, placed in B rank
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i'm still playing cyberpunk and watching hellsing ultimate
nothing else to read
A japanese short story written in 1918, it's good. It's about an artist who gets obsessed in it's own work leading to him making awful things.
I admit it's well written and engaging from start to end, however, it didn't resonate too much with me, it doesn't really seem that there is too much meat to this short story. If anything, the most interesting thing it does is the end (not a spoiler because it's a japanese short story from 1918 you're not reading it anyways), where the guy finishes the hell screen, and well, it turns out it's like really fucking good which leads to everyone kinda forgiving him. That point of how you can be an awful person but be able to create banger art. Which i'm pretty sure was pretty interesting and groundbreaking in 1918, but nowadays, in 2024, there are many other books that explore the same topics and do it better
also, unrelated, but when I was reading the book, I searched some of the names online to see if this was based on a IRL story or if it was purely fiction, and while it is entirerily fiction, I stumbled the entire thing reuplaoded to the "Creepypasta fandom wiki"?, which like, what the fuck, this isn't even horror, yes it's a dark story, but it's not horror, it's not scary.
I'm kinda indeferent torwards this short story, placed in B rank
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i'm still playing cyberpunk and watching hellsing ultimate
nothing else to read
Topic Starter
Hellsing: Ultimate
This is an anime about people beating each other up, and it's one of the better ones.
Hellsing is about vampires and vampire-hunting organizations mixed in with churches and stuff, it's pretty sick, however, as you may expect it's not explored too deeply as the point is the action and gore and fights, something i'm not too into. So kinda the biggest exploration of it is how they adapt guns to be effective against vampires.
This is also a OVA, so it's 10 episodes, but 10 episodes of varying length, being 40+ minutes long, the artstyle is also fairly unique, it has high production value and the character designs are all very recognizable, specially alucard. This high production value really helps the anime, more here than in many other animes. A frenetic anime is going to have more complex set scenes and animation than a more calm anime, so here, the animation works really well with all of the gore and visceral scenes.
The actual plot isn't bad either, as I say it isn't exactly ambitious, the focus of hellsing is not on the plot, but what they have works.
This anime have also some fairly comedic moments, something I didn't expect, but again, it does work because of the juxtaposition
placed in B rank
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next: nothing
still playing cyberpunk 2077
This is an anime about people beating each other up, and it's one of the better ones.
Hellsing is about vampires and vampire-hunting organizations mixed in with churches and stuff, it's pretty sick, however, as you may expect it's not explored too deeply as the point is the action and gore and fights, something i'm not too into. So kinda the biggest exploration of it is how they adapt guns to be effective against vampires.
This is also a OVA, so it's 10 episodes, but 10 episodes of varying length, being 40+ minutes long, the artstyle is also fairly unique, it has high production value and the character designs are all very recognizable, specially alucard. This high production value really helps the anime, more here than in many other animes. A frenetic anime is going to have more complex set scenes and animation than a more calm anime, so here, the animation works really well with all of the gore and visceral scenes.
The actual plot isn't bad either, as I say it isn't exactly ambitious, the focus of hellsing is not on the plot, but what they have works.
This anime have also some fairly comedic moments, something I didn't expect, but again, it does work because of the juxtaposition
placed in B rank
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next: nothing
still playing cyberpunk 2077
Alucard is iconic.
Watch Spaceballs
Topic Starter
I'm really not feeling like spaceballsabraker wrote:
Watch Spaceballs
mmh, Fallout: New vegas including 3 Dlcs
also, dont blame me for its crashes
also, dont blame me for its crashes
then The Map of Tiny Perfect ThingsPatatitta wrote:
I'm really not feeling like spaceballsabraker wrote:
Watch Spaceballs
rate the Geometry Dash Level Editor.
arcane
Topic Starter
do you mind if I do fallout 1 and 2 first?, I don't care if you haven't played them I just want to try out those two games, will do new vegas after those twoAxisPraxisMDS wrote:
mmh, Fallout: New vegas including 3 Dlcs
also, dont blame me for its crashes
sureabraker wrote:
then The Map of Tiny Perfect ThingsPatatitta wrote:
I'm really not feeling like spaceballsabraker wrote:
Watch Spaceballs
this thread doesn't cover things like thatBluePyTheWDeer_ wrote:
rate the Geometry Dash Level Editor.
league of legends related so deniedburgernfat wrote:
arcane
There's also Fallout 3 that comes right before New Vegas.Patatitta wrote:
do you mind if I do fallout 1 and 2 first?, I don't care if you haven't played them I just want to try out those two games, will do new vegas after those twoAxisPraxisMDS wrote:
mmh, Fallout: New vegas including 3 Dlcs
also, dont blame me for its crashes
it's pretty good thoPatatitta wrote:
league of legends related so deniedburgernfat wrote:
arcane
and I don't play legue
do you mind if I do fallout 1 and 2 first?, I don't care if you haven't played them I just want to try out those two games, will do new vegas after those twoPatatitta wrote:
[quote="AxisPraxisMDS"]
mmh, Fallout: New vegas including 3 Dlcs
also, dont blame me for its crashes
well, do u want
Topic Starter
yeah but I'm not very interested in 3 and I know you don't need to play them in orderNuuskamuikkunen wrote:
There's also Fallout 3 that comes right before New Vegas.Patatitta wrote:
do you mind if I do fallout 1 and 2 first?, I don't care if you haven't played them I just want to try out those two games, will do new vegas after those twoAxisPraxisMDS wrote:
mmh, Fallout: New vegas including 3 Dlcs
also, dont blame me for its crashes
still deniedabraker wrote:
it's pretty good thoPatatitta wrote:
league of legends related so deniedburgernfat wrote:
arcane
and I don't play legue
its better to understand the lore if you play in order
Topic Starter
may play depending on how much I enjoy 1 and 2Polyspora wrote:
its better to understand the lore if you play in order
Is it really that important to play 3?Polyspora wrote:
its better to understand the lore if you play in order
no, its a great game thoughYmir wrote:
Is it really that important to play 3?Polyspora wrote:
its better to understand the lore if you play in order
Only played 1 but afaik 2d and 3d games are very different.Patatitta wrote:
may play depending on how much I enjoy 1 and 2Polyspora wrote:
its better to understand the lore if you play in order
Topic Starter
yeah i'm just not interested very much in 3 but idk I guess if I get really into fallout I would play itKarmine wrote:
Only played 1 but afaik 2d and 3d games are very different.Patatitta wrote:
may play depending on how much I enjoy 1 and 2Polyspora wrote:
its better to understand the lore if you play in order
Topic Starter
Cyberpunk 2077:
The anime was way better ngl
Cyberpunk is a open world shooter in a cyberpunk setting as the name implies, I would be lying if I said I enjoyed it, I think it's a pretty mediocre and messy game
The plot is about your protagonist accidently getting stuck with a chip in their head that allows her to see the spirit of johnny, a terrorist who lived 50 years ago. However, this is not sustainable as the protagonist is going to die unless they get the chip removed. The whole plot is the protagonist trying to remove the chip.
This by itself is not a bad concept, however it's not explored that much. In fact, most of the cyberpunk nature of the world isn't really explained. The game sells you on this idea of replacing parts of your body with mechanic implants, in fact the whole anime is about this, about the consequences of doing that and the biological limit. There is a lot you can do with this idea, and the game kinda hypes you up into expecting pretty crazy cybernetics. But that is really far from reality
This is really barely touched on the story, in fact, the only real thing that the story really uses is a fucking pdf viewer that everyone in the world has, you can load an usb in your head to see information and also connect to computers via your arm. The actual cybernetics are all very boring, you can't really go to any extremes, you can't just replace your hand with a fucking massive gun for example. The cybernetics in this game are just "you regen hp faster" or "you have increased movement speed after engaging in combat", and that cybernetic limit that the anime revolves around is only a gameplay mechanic, I don't think it's ever mentioned in the plot???, in fact, when you get a cybernetic that is required by the plot, guess what IT DOESN'T EVEN COUNT FOR THE FUCKING LIMIT
but well, you can hack other people's body, that's cool right?. Again, mostly a gameplay thing with very little impact on the story, hacks works as spell basically, you press tab, selet a enemy, and then choose from a menu if you want to apply a status effect or do damage.
You also have that cyberpunk arquitecture with lots of ads in buildings and stuff, but again, it's just something in the backgroud, it has no weight. The story of cyberpunk 2077 is one that really doesn't rely very hard on the setting at all which is surprising for a game called CYBERPUNK
In many ways it feels tone deaf, it feels like it's trying to do this homage to the cyberpunk genre by having a large portion of the night city population be japanese, so you have japanese writing and japanese themed zones, in fact you can get the bike from akira, but this game is nothing like akira. What makes akira akira isn't the bike or the general visuals, it's the story surrounding all of this weird tech and their consequences
in fact, it's so tone deaf that in night city, a dystopical american city, there are fucking PACHINKOS, something that would only make sense if gambling was banned but like what the fuck how would that ever fit into the setting
The game advertises itself as an choice-driven RPG, this is not the case at all. The only real choices you have in the game are just at the end mission and at the end mission of the DLC. And in fact, you often don't have much option in conversations where they give you multiple dialogue options because they're often than not very different at all. It's often like 4 different ways to say yes. There are also timed dialogue options, where you only have a very short span of time to read them and respond. What happens if you just decide not to answer?, nothing really, it either autoplays the choice that will progress the plot or the dialogue would continue as normal. For a game that markets itself as choice driven you kinda do feel a little bit powerless in what you can say.
There are also some dialogue choices that are locked behind skill points in certain skills. This make senses, for example in disco elysium your skill points don't only give you gameplay advantages but they also help you understand the game via it. In many ways, disco elysium is always rolling die to see if any of your skills activate and you get to learn more about a certain thing, maybe opening up new gameplay options. In cyberpunk this isn't really the case, not only because it doesn't matter if you choose that option or not, but because you can always see the option even if it's locked. And by reading what that dialogue option is, you learn about that part of the lore and you get that perspective even if your character shouldn't be able to know. So if an option is like "omg are you the guy that killed this other guy???" and that option is locked because your character shouldn't be able to know that, you, the player do end up learning that since you read the option and you now know that the guy that you're talking to killed the other guy, it's just that you can't get your character to say it
The game has so many gameplay systems and honestly none of them really matter at all. Like, you have like 4 different xp systems, one to unlock skill trees, one to unlock skills in those trees, one dlc one that is a separate skill tree that requires a different method of obtaining, and also "playstyle" specific XP, that gives you advantages in those playstyles, except it really doesn't matter, because when you kill enemies they often drop usbs that give you xp in the other playstyles you're not playing so like lmao. Thing is, none of the skills really impact the gameplay at all, they're not really transforming your playstyle, many of them are just stat buffs, and stat buffs don't matter when the enemies scale to your level, so if you become stronger, your enemies will also become equally as strong which means the gameplay experience at level 1 and max level isn't very drastic.
The game is very bloated in general, there are so many activities that you can do in the map but a lot of them aren't very engaging, the one I find most outrageous is the tarot cards, you just go to a place, scan a grafitti and you get a tarot card added to a menu. These don't really have an use. It feels like they just exist to pad the playtime if you want to do 100% and add more map markers to give the illusion of a city that is alive. In fact, the dlc skill system I mentioned is kinda identical to the graffitis, you go to a place, connect to a terminal, you have a new skill point, and it's just so boring
I get the vision of having A LOT to do in the city, so that you're walking along the road with no specific goal and there are so many things around you that you can get dragged into or engage with. But this isn't really how the game is played, you're not finding the activities naturally, you're opening a map, putting a marker on it and then driving to it. And in that context a lof of the activities feel very repetitive.
In fact, this also clashes with the plot. The whole plot is that you have a bomb in your brain that is about to expldoe and you need to remove it as soon as possible, in fact, during story missions your body will stop responding during scripted segments and it will show you that the protagonist is FUCKED but then the gameplay is totally different. You're killing hundreds of guys and taking billions of bullet without consequences. It's very funny that when it's a scripted segment the protagonist is dying and then you get to shoot guys and then you're in peak physical condition.
Your body is operating fine as long as you're not in the main story, it doesn't feel like you actually have a timer that you're racing against, you're not having to choose and pick what side quests you do to get you the best probabilities to survive, there is no rush or urgency at all. In fact, it's not only that the whole plot stops existing the moment you look away, it's that the game rewards you for doing things that would make no sense if you were actually playing in character, multiple endings of the base game are locked behind doing sidequests which as I said wouldn't make much sense to stop and do if you actually had a ticking bomb in your brain. This is peak ludonarrative dissonance. At least with the DLC it was framed as "this is going to help you remove the chip from your brain"
Bosses feel pretty boring, nothing much to say, in fact in the dlc, phantom liberty, they barely have bosses because I think they realized they're not the best part of the game. Also I find funny that a boss has like a helmet that disperses bullet and makes it really hard to hit them but such technology is not ever mentioned in the story at any other point
I also take issue with this game visuals. It generally doesn't look that striking, the only real segment I went like "woahhhhhhh that's cool" is like the ones where you're in like this digital world with this really weird camera effect, that part I liked, but the rest of the game just looks eh. I get that I was playing with the graphics on low but this is not a resolution problem, this is a general art direction problem.
There is also little to none graphical progression in terms of weapons and cybernetics. Often I would upgrade to a better gun only to find the model to be more rudimentary instead of cooler and more techonological. With the implants, there are characters that just have insane movespeed at times but there isn't really anything in their body that would make you instantly go like "oh this guy can do that"
Talking about the weapons, the gameplay defines that the actual damage and stats are mainly placed on the weapon, so why am I the only one with a good weapon while the other ones are carrying shit guns?, why do their guns instantly turn 20 times better when I pick them up?, I get this from a gameplay perspective but it's still peak ludonarrative dissonance.
About the DLC, probably best part of the game, the last mission was actually good, didn't like how the president of the US was pictured tho, as she was written basically the exact same way that you would write a leader of a corporation or anything, not to mention that she doesn't seem like a politician, and more like a heavily trained solider.
Played in C tier
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haven't seen the movie that abraker requested,
next, fallout 1
The anime was way better ngl
Cyberpunk is a open world shooter in a cyberpunk setting as the name implies, I would be lying if I said I enjoyed it, I think it's a pretty mediocre and messy game
The plot is about your protagonist accidently getting stuck with a chip in their head that allows her to see the spirit of johnny, a terrorist who lived 50 years ago. However, this is not sustainable as the protagonist is going to die unless they get the chip removed. The whole plot is the protagonist trying to remove the chip.
This by itself is not a bad concept, however it's not explored that much. In fact, most of the cyberpunk nature of the world isn't really explained. The game sells you on this idea of replacing parts of your body with mechanic implants, in fact the whole anime is about this, about the consequences of doing that and the biological limit. There is a lot you can do with this idea, and the game kinda hypes you up into expecting pretty crazy cybernetics. But that is really far from reality
This is really barely touched on the story, in fact, the only real thing that the story really uses is a fucking pdf viewer that everyone in the world has, you can load an usb in your head to see information and also connect to computers via your arm. The actual cybernetics are all very boring, you can't really go to any extremes, you can't just replace your hand with a fucking massive gun for example. The cybernetics in this game are just "you regen hp faster" or "you have increased movement speed after engaging in combat", and that cybernetic limit that the anime revolves around is only a gameplay mechanic, I don't think it's ever mentioned in the plot???, in fact, when you get a cybernetic that is required by the plot, guess what IT DOESN'T EVEN COUNT FOR THE FUCKING LIMIT
but well, you can hack other people's body, that's cool right?. Again, mostly a gameplay thing with very little impact on the story, hacks works as spell basically, you press tab, selet a enemy, and then choose from a menu if you want to apply a status effect or do damage.
You also have that cyberpunk arquitecture with lots of ads in buildings and stuff, but again, it's just something in the backgroud, it has no weight. The story of cyberpunk 2077 is one that really doesn't rely very hard on the setting at all which is surprising for a game called CYBERPUNK
In many ways it feels tone deaf, it feels like it's trying to do this homage to the cyberpunk genre by having a large portion of the night city population be japanese, so you have japanese writing and japanese themed zones, in fact you can get the bike from akira, but this game is nothing like akira. What makes akira akira isn't the bike or the general visuals, it's the story surrounding all of this weird tech and their consequences
in fact, it's so tone deaf that in night city, a dystopical american city, there are fucking PACHINKOS, something that would only make sense if gambling was banned but like what the fuck how would that ever fit into the setting
The game advertises itself as an choice-driven RPG, this is not the case at all. The only real choices you have in the game are just at the end mission and at the end mission of the DLC. And in fact, you often don't have much option in conversations where they give you multiple dialogue options because they're often than not very different at all. It's often like 4 different ways to say yes. There are also timed dialogue options, where you only have a very short span of time to read them and respond. What happens if you just decide not to answer?, nothing really, it either autoplays the choice that will progress the plot or the dialogue would continue as normal. For a game that markets itself as choice driven you kinda do feel a little bit powerless in what you can say.
There are also some dialogue choices that are locked behind skill points in certain skills. This make senses, for example in disco elysium your skill points don't only give you gameplay advantages but they also help you understand the game via it. In many ways, disco elysium is always rolling die to see if any of your skills activate and you get to learn more about a certain thing, maybe opening up new gameplay options. In cyberpunk this isn't really the case, not only because it doesn't matter if you choose that option or not, but because you can always see the option even if it's locked. And by reading what that dialogue option is, you learn about that part of the lore and you get that perspective even if your character shouldn't be able to know. So if an option is like "omg are you the guy that killed this other guy???" and that option is locked because your character shouldn't be able to know that, you, the player do end up learning that since you read the option and you now know that the guy that you're talking to killed the other guy, it's just that you can't get your character to say it
The game has so many gameplay systems and honestly none of them really matter at all. Like, you have like 4 different xp systems, one to unlock skill trees, one to unlock skills in those trees, one dlc one that is a separate skill tree that requires a different method of obtaining, and also "playstyle" specific XP, that gives you advantages in those playstyles, except it really doesn't matter, because when you kill enemies they often drop usbs that give you xp in the other playstyles you're not playing so like lmao. Thing is, none of the skills really impact the gameplay at all, they're not really transforming your playstyle, many of them are just stat buffs, and stat buffs don't matter when the enemies scale to your level, so if you become stronger, your enemies will also become equally as strong which means the gameplay experience at level 1 and max level isn't very drastic.
The game is very bloated in general, there are so many activities that you can do in the map but a lot of them aren't very engaging, the one I find most outrageous is the tarot cards, you just go to a place, scan a grafitti and you get a tarot card added to a menu. These don't really have an use. It feels like they just exist to pad the playtime if you want to do 100% and add more map markers to give the illusion of a city that is alive. In fact, the dlc skill system I mentioned is kinda identical to the graffitis, you go to a place, connect to a terminal, you have a new skill point, and it's just so boring
I get the vision of having A LOT to do in the city, so that you're walking along the road with no specific goal and there are so many things around you that you can get dragged into or engage with. But this isn't really how the game is played, you're not finding the activities naturally, you're opening a map, putting a marker on it and then driving to it. And in that context a lof of the activities feel very repetitive.
In fact, this also clashes with the plot. The whole plot is that you have a bomb in your brain that is about to expldoe and you need to remove it as soon as possible, in fact, during story missions your body will stop responding during scripted segments and it will show you that the protagonist is FUCKED but then the gameplay is totally different. You're killing hundreds of guys and taking billions of bullet without consequences. It's very funny that when it's a scripted segment the protagonist is dying and then you get to shoot guys and then you're in peak physical condition.
Your body is operating fine as long as you're not in the main story, it doesn't feel like you actually have a timer that you're racing against, you're not having to choose and pick what side quests you do to get you the best probabilities to survive, there is no rush or urgency at all. In fact, it's not only that the whole plot stops existing the moment you look away, it's that the game rewards you for doing things that would make no sense if you were actually playing in character, multiple endings of the base game are locked behind doing sidequests which as I said wouldn't make much sense to stop and do if you actually had a ticking bomb in your brain. This is peak ludonarrative dissonance. At least with the DLC it was framed as "this is going to help you remove the chip from your brain"
Bosses feel pretty boring, nothing much to say, in fact in the dlc, phantom liberty, they barely have bosses because I think they realized they're not the best part of the game. Also I find funny that a boss has like a helmet that disperses bullet and makes it really hard to hit them but such technology is not ever mentioned in the story at any other point
I also take issue with this game visuals. It generally doesn't look that striking, the only real segment I went like "woahhhhhhh that's cool" is like the ones where you're in like this digital world with this really weird camera effect, that part I liked, but the rest of the game just looks eh. I get that I was playing with the graphics on low but this is not a resolution problem, this is a general art direction problem.
There is also little to none graphical progression in terms of weapons and cybernetics. Often I would upgrade to a better gun only to find the model to be more rudimentary instead of cooler and more techonological. With the implants, there are characters that just have insane movespeed at times but there isn't really anything in their body that would make you instantly go like "oh this guy can do that"
Talking about the weapons, the gameplay defines that the actual damage and stats are mainly placed on the weapon, so why am I the only one with a good weapon while the other ones are carrying shit guns?, why do their guns instantly turn 20 times better when I pick them up?, I get this from a gameplay perspective but it's still peak ludonarrative dissonance.
About the DLC, probably best part of the game, the last mission was actually good, didn't like how the president of the US was pictured tho, as she was written basically the exact same way that you would write a leader of a corporation or anything, not to mention that she doesn't seem like a politician, and more like a heavily trained solider.
Played in C tier
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haven't seen the movie that abraker requested,
next, fallout 1
Wanted to reply to this but too lazy lol, game is good though you should play it more 
Topic Starter
idk if it didn't grab me by the point I had finished the game I don't think much more playing it will change my opinionKarmine wrote:
Wanted to reply to this but too lazy lol, game is good though you should play it more
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The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
it's like groundhog day but without the whole sexual harassment thing
This movie is a light hearted, sweet, romance time loop story, two persons get stuck, they find each other and then the plot develops
it's not the most ambitious movie ever made, in fact I would say it's closer to the opposite, it doesn't really try very hard to be anything new, but this is a cute romance movie, so often that isn't really needed as long as the feelings are there, but I just personally didn't really feel it
(spoilers except not really if you've ever seen a romance movie) This movie pretty much follows the same formula as every other american romance movie, they meet, the guy makes the moves, girls seem kinda unwilling, not really because she doesn't want it, but because there are external factors to the romance, then there is some angst, and then everything gets fixed, they kissed and happy forever
In this movie they kinda try to tie the external factor to the time loop, it's tied to the actual reason for the exitance of the time loop and how to break it. And I just don't think they handle it well
Basically they try to go into a "time loops are actually horrifying and morally grey" type of territory, but that commentary just ends up being very shallow, they don't go far enough, when they tell you about how awful time loops are, you just go "ah yeah that kinda sucks". In many ways they try to do some of the same plot beats as in stars and time, but while that game felt like a fucking nuclear bomb being dropped in your head, this movie just feels like a small bonk with a plastic toy. Everything is WAYYYY more sanitized in this movie than in stars in time
the general time loop is poorly constructed, the idea is that they need to find every perfect moment, but the perfect moments are entirerily subjective and there wasn't really any indicator that it was what they had to do. In many ways, it's not like they're in a time loop and they just happen to fall in love, is that the whole time loop is built around the romance and I just don't think it works that well.
However, it's not like I dislike this movie, I think it was cute, and I did like it more than groundhog day (I hate groundhog day), so I guess played in C tier?
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nothing else to watch
started fallout 1, good so far
Eh was hoping for at least B, oh well
Watch Wolf Children
Watch Wolf Children
Topic Starter
sureabraker wrote:
Eh was hoping for at least B, oh well
Watch Wolf Children
Topic Starter
Fallout 1
man this game really shows it's age
I wanted to play fallout 1 and 2 because they're made by interplay and black isle games, the same people that worked on planescape torment a few years later, and planescape torment FUCKS, however, this is their first game it's kinda tough
fallout 1 is a CRPG like baldurs gate, CRPGs where actually a pretty big genre back during that era. I really see what they were trying to do in fallout 1, it's marketed as a apocalyptic RPG, and that is very much true, it very much feels like a tabletop RPG. Just running around the wasteland and doing quests for people, it's an extremely open game, which is both good and bad
first of all, they still haven't figured out that probably being able to mark your quests is a good idea, there is no such thing as a journal in fallout 1, and often you have use a guide to know where to go, as actually wasting time is penalized given that the first quest which will last for around 3/4 of the game has a timer attached to it. Since you can kinda just go anywhere from the start the balancing is really bad which makes the later parts of the game feel very overtuned
I feel all the skills don't have equal importance either, unlike planescape torment where you can beat most of the game without ever fighting, fallout 1 is very much combat oriented.
There isn't really a overarching plot, as I said you kinda just run around and do quests for people, which is a bit of a shame since the writing of this company is actually really good. But I guess it wasn't on the vision on the game which I understand
Placed in C tier, really felt hard to approach
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have yet to watch wolf children
next: fallout 2
man this game really shows it's age
I wanted to play fallout 1 and 2 because they're made by interplay and black isle games, the same people that worked on planescape torment a few years later, and planescape torment FUCKS, however, this is their first game it's kinda tough
fallout 1 is a CRPG like baldurs gate, CRPGs where actually a pretty big genre back during that era. I really see what they were trying to do in fallout 1, it's marketed as a apocalyptic RPG, and that is very much true, it very much feels like a tabletop RPG. Just running around the wasteland and doing quests for people, it's an extremely open game, which is both good and bad
first of all, they still haven't figured out that probably being able to mark your quests is a good idea, there is no such thing as a journal in fallout 1, and often you have use a guide to know where to go, as actually wasting time is penalized given that the first quest which will last for around 3/4 of the game has a timer attached to it. Since you can kinda just go anywhere from the start the balancing is really bad which makes the later parts of the game feel very overtuned
I feel all the skills don't have equal importance either, unlike planescape torment where you can beat most of the game without ever fighting, fallout 1 is very much combat oriented.
There isn't really a overarching plot, as I said you kinda just run around and do quests for people, which is a bit of a shame since the writing of this company is actually really good. But I guess it wasn't on the vision on the game which I understand
Placed in C tier, really felt hard to approach
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have yet to watch wolf children
next: fallout 2
Topic Starter
Wolf Children
this is really good
Wolf Children is about this girl who has children with this human-wolf hybrid (so human, but still have wolf instincts and can turn into a wolf), which end up also being wolf-human hybrid, the dad dies and the mother has to raise the two kids by herself
The story is really well executed, all of the characters are likeable and developed, it really emotionally hits. Seeing the sacrifices the mother had to make while the kids don't realize it's tough, the constant parallelism between the two siblings is really interesting, which then basically contrasts the difference between living as a wolf and living as a human
however, all three main characters (the mother and the two kids), while living completely different lifes and taking very distinct paths, all of them end up happy, finding meaning in their lifes. It doesn't really stop at saying that there isn't a single correct path in life, but the situation of the mother kinda tells me that it's okay to make mistakes in life, that there can be accidents or find yourself in a really shitty spot and still be able to push through, that there is always a way out and be content with yourself
The story has a lot of subtelty with a lot of it's themes and messaging, I really liked souhei, and I don't think it's a coincidence that the movie finish shortly afters yuki opens up about herself to souhei, as that kinda represents the climax of this character arc of yuki developing feelings of loneliness and finally learning how to trust people. I don't think it really matters that much that souhei could smell the yuki, I really think that the experience yuki had with souhei would really translate into later aspects in their life, it may have been very easy for her to approach souhei, but now that she has done so, it's a lot easier to approach people in general, even if they're quite different or opposed to her
The animation is really great, the actual drawings aren't that detailed but it really does feel fluid and dynamic, the scenes where some objects are in motion with like the wind moving certain objects really do look beautiful
this anime is just really good, placed in A tier
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nothing else to watch
started fallout 2
this is really good
Wolf Children is about this girl who has children with this human-wolf hybrid (so human, but still have wolf instincts and can turn into a wolf), which end up also being wolf-human hybrid, the dad dies and the mother has to raise the two kids by herself
The story is really well executed, all of the characters are likeable and developed, it really emotionally hits. Seeing the sacrifices the mother had to make while the kids don't realize it's tough, the constant parallelism between the two siblings is really interesting, which then basically contrasts the difference between living as a wolf and living as a human
however, all three main characters (the mother and the two kids), while living completely different lifes and taking very distinct paths, all of them end up happy, finding meaning in their lifes. It doesn't really stop at saying that there isn't a single correct path in life, but the situation of the mother kinda tells me that it's okay to make mistakes in life, that there can be accidents or find yourself in a really shitty spot and still be able to push through, that there is always a way out and be content with yourself
The story has a lot of subtelty with a lot of it's themes and messaging, I really liked souhei, and I don't think it's a coincidence that the movie finish shortly afters yuki opens up about herself to souhei, as that kinda represents the climax of this character arc of yuki developing feelings of loneliness and finally learning how to trust people. I don't think it really matters that much that souhei could smell the yuki, I really think that the experience yuki had with souhei would really translate into later aspects in their life, it may have been very easy for her to approach souhei, but now that she has done so, it's a lot easier to approach people in general, even if they're quite different or opposed to her
The animation is really great, the actual drawings aren't that detailed but it really does feel fluid and dynamic, the scenes where some objects are in motion with like the wind moving certain objects really do look beautiful
this anime is just really good, placed in A tier
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nothing else to watch
started fallout 2
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