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AkiraKurusu

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  • AkiraKurusu
    My Hero Academia...meh.

    I liked the first few seasons of the anime, but the second half (the Paranormal Liberation Front war) was just waaaay too dark and grim for my liking, with characters being killed off left and right.

    Nah thanks; if I want some Hero Aca, I'll stick to the first half, plus the movies.
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    I didn't mind the dark side of it. It was how much of it dragged on in the later seasons that made it a slog to get through. The show could easily be condensed down by at least two seasons.
    AkiraKurusu
    Considering Marvel uses its own interpretation of Norðic mythology plus its own creations...if Ben Grimm held an assembly alongside Thor, would that make it a Thing Þing?
    AkiraKurusu
    Super Mario Galaxy 2, on Switch...it's alright. Motion controls are tolerable with the JoyCons, unlike the borked Wii.
    AkiraKurusu
    AkiraKurusu
    Managed to beat the game and reached World S's Boss Blitz Galaxy, and struggled with Bouldergeist and Fiery Dino Piranha's aggravating nonsense. Got the Star in 16 minutes, after a lot of frustration.
    AkiraKurusu
    AkiraKurusu
    ...Wait, the Prankster Comet wants me to defeat all bosses in FIVE minutes? With how luck-dependent Bouldie is and how small the attack-opportunity window is for Fiery? All the fiery crap happening?
    Yeah, no, not happening. This is where I stop, for my sanity.
    AkiraKurusu
    AkiraKurusu
    Overall...eh. Super Mario Galaxy 2 is fine. Definitely not a "masterpiece" like I've heard it described as, and definitely nowhere near as fun and replayable as Super Mario 64 DS or 3D Land, but it's mostly inoffensive until Boss Blitz. 6/10.
    AkiraKurusu
    Biscoff is seemingly everywhere these days, it seems.

    I say we need to see another type of biscuit, one that's the opposite of Biscoff - we need to see Biscon biscuits! At least for April Fools, if nothing else!
    AkiraKurusu
    I don't know if it's just me, but...I'm running Windows 11 on my other laptop (24H2), and I've got horrendous browser stability, both Brave and Firefox. Tabs keep crashing, and sometimes the entire browser crashes. Really weird.

    Probably something to do with some Settings somewhere, but no idea where to start - and I've got 64 GB of RAM, so can't be memory starvation.
    DragonMals
    DragonMals
    I don't know what it could be either, but wve since I've Backed up everything to a separate hard drive, and replace that shit with Tiny11 + Debloat11, I never had much problems going around the OS. It might just be something within the Windows side of things clogging something up BUT if you don't want to do that...
    DragonMals
    DragonMals
    Running debloat11 without having to change the OS might do something towards getting it to run better. I think...
    DragonMals
    I love saying strange compliments; they're (sometimes) my specialty. My one for today is that the vibes you give are immaculate. Hope things are going well for you and for everyone else. ✌️
    AkiraKurusu
    Is it just me, or does the Bravely series (Default/Second/Default II) have the most in-depth Job system I've ever personally encountered?

    Bravely allows you to select a primary Job for each character that influences stats and equipment affinity, along with a sub-Job to use their skills in battle as well - and each character also gets 5 ability slots too, for supplemental abilities such as Dual Wield or Dual Shields.
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    AkiraKurusu
    AkiraKurusu
    I'd love to see Bravely's system reused in more games, honestly. Each party member having their own role does help them stand out as individuals, but we shouldn't have to stick to that for the majority of JRPGs; even those with Job systems just do a more surface-level and basic interpretation, which isn't as fun.
    AkiraKurusu
    AkiraKurusu
    Bravely's casts already stand out as individuals, with their own quirks and history, through storytelling - so they don't need to stand out as individuals in battles as much.
    XFoxPrower
    XFoxPrower
    I may try it someday just for the Nekomancer job
    AkiraKurusu
    Now that Ghost of Tsushima's been out for five years, if Nintendo makes another open-world Zelda they should look to Ghost and learn from it.
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    AkiraKurusu
    AkiraKurusu
    Just doing the main stuff, huh?
    Nah - the Divine Beasts and Temples are very much simplified compared to classic dungeons, to their detriment, and it doesn't help that the Temples especially are almost identical in structure (guide regional Champion to special devices they can activate with their unique powers).
    AkiraKurusu
    AkiraKurusu
    The sheer openness also means you can do them in any order, which means there's no rising challenge at all either.
    Even when A Link Between Worlds, for example, also allows you to do multiple dungeons in any order, they're at least rather complex in terms of puzzles and layout, and have a reasonable shared combat difficulty, to make up for it.
    x65943
    x65943
    The dungeons are simple, but getting to them isn't, I consider that a part of the whole dungeon/quest

    But yeah just getting to and beating the dungeons and Ganon took up a lot of time and was fun

    I see that as the core game, the rest is fluff
    AkiraKurusu
    I lost my dear friend, my labradoodle Rusty, just over a year ago, on the 26th of July 2024 - the first anniversary was last Saturday.

    ...If you've ever lost someone dear to you, it's healthy to grieve. Don't bottle it up; just let yourself be sad, especially at home amongst people you love. That's what I'm doing.
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    We've got a pool to the side of our house, and Rusty used to love swimming, back before he got arthritis and just...couldn't, anymore. When we were in the pool, he'd rush over and jump in and have a great time.
    ...When I saw our pool earlier today, I just couldn't help but think back to that. Wish we had gone in there more often.
    AkiraKurusu
    apparently itch io has also banned all "adult" games sigh just like steam
    bloody hell puritans S T O P censoring everything
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    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    "Think of the children!"
    That sentence is a very special form of child abuse or, to put it less extreme, instrumentalisation of childen.

    Under the cloak of praiseworthy goals like child protection (not the only example) a lot of freemdom is gradually taken away. We are on a one way road to a totalitarian system. There is only one direction: More laws, more prohibition, more surveillance
    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    Easy access to low quality porn games is not the point. The point are uneccesary strict laws everywhere and pseudo-laws created by payment processors and big tech companies.

    My personal opinion: This is a lost cause. We are past the point of no return. Freedom as we knew it is already dead, just the corpse is not yet burried.
    Uiaad
    Uiaad
    Remember to focus your anger correctly, this isn't a Steam or Itch problem - this is their payment providers. Steam, Itch and any other platforms would be screwed if you couldn't pay them. I know for a fact that PayPal has been bitching about this for ages now
    AkiraKurusu
    Last time (in the chat) I recommended "There Is No Game" and its sequel, TING: Wrong Dimension - both of which are very fun, but short, games on Steam. I very much enjoyed the humour in those two, and Wrong Dimension has a decent story too.
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    This time, I'd like to recommend Bad End Theatre, another really good lil' game - this one is one of those 'reach the golden ending through multiple story paths' games, and it's got really good pixel art and decent characters. Well worth spending one workday evening going through it, I'd say.
    Xdqwerty
    Xdqwerty
    I never played the sequel.
    AkiraKurusu
    Dark mode returning is fantastic - but couldn't it be, I dunno, black instead of dark blue?
    Black is better than blue, just sayin'.
    AkiraKurusu
    Why bother with new games?
    I decided to return to Ni no Kuni 2 (2018) after not touching it in years, and I'm having quite a blast going through it again. I think I previously only finished this *once*, on my PS4 Pro, but now I'm using Steam, of course.
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    Mama Dizzys
    Mama Dizzys
    wait 2018 games arent considered new anymore? :wtf: no one can even run anything newer than that, i'm living a different timeline
    AkiraKurusu
    AkiraKurusu
    Eh, 2018 is last decade, before COVID, last-gen (PS4), so I consider that 'old'.
    Not 'retro', just not 'new'.
    BORTZ
    BORTZ
    Gaming and the absence of the almighty algorithm is where the joy of gaming returns. A friend and I started playing Outriders for the first time ever last night. I don't know much about the game other than I like looters shooters and we are having an absolute blast despite the game being four years old and never hearing much about it.
    AkiraKurusu
    Windows is so unstable, I stg - games crashing, browser tabs crashing, ChatGPT window going white.
    Planning on doing "Reset my PC" tomorrow morning, then setting it back up to almost how I have it - minus whatever weirdness is causing my issues, hopefully.
    JuanMena
    JuanMena
    If Windows 11, normal.
    If Windows 10, reinstall.

    Also, don't simply reset your pc, reinstall the OS, I think the option is "Recover" instead of "Reset".
    SylverReZ
    SylverReZ
    It's unstable because you might've installed several programs that slows down performance. Remove them and then de fragment your hard disk if you have one.
    DragonMals
    DragonMals
    Sometimes, I continue to forget that defrauding your hard drive exists. But remember to always have Christools and Debloat11 when installing a fresh new Win11 os.
    AkiraKurusu
    I've played a lot more Skyrim than I have Oblivion, and one big reason why - Skyrim had maps for caves and dungeons, while Oblivion seemingly doesn't. Not even Remastered has this.
    Why leave this out? It's so helpful!
    AkiraKurusu
    Any Spaniards here?
    I hear slumber parties can be a great way to socialise, especially for kids - so what do you call a slumber party in Spanish? A siesta fiesta?
    AkiraKurusu
    Nintendo needs to stop whoring out BotW and TotK; despite how undeservedly well they both sold, they aren't good games. They're boring and aggravating shit; they never develop or improve after the first couple hours, so it's incredibly easy to drop them in favour of better games.

    Like, for example, Link's Awakening, The Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Kirby and the Forgotten Land, Bravely Default, Xenoblade...
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    Megadriver94
    Megadriver94
    I agree with you on TotK, but not BoTW. Also, I think that WInd Waker has a weak artstyle.
    SAIYAN48
    SAIYAN48
    BOTW was a nice change, but TOTK was pointless.
    Uiaad
    Uiaad
    The problem is ... No one wants to create new games ( or IPs) as there is an inherent risk of the unknown, which is why we get movies like Snow White and Despicable Me 20002, and that's why we get a lot of remakes and reboots.
    You can justify some of them, but many of them are just cash grabs. I mean, how many times has R* re-released GTA5 now?
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