Xbob42

Taking freedom away from small businesses?!

Randomized loot?! Oh boy, I'm a sucker for randomizers...

Thanks! That's quite the list. I'm not sure what some of it is, but it seems neat. "Game modifier system" sounds right up my alley!

Can I get a summary of the updates? I feel like it might be spoilery, and I'm still really early in the game. I only played it for about 45 minutes when it came out, before I was bombarded with higher priority games, but I quite enjoyed it. I also enjoyed Dark Souls 2, along with every other Dark Souls title. Whatever it is that makes people hate Dark Souls 2, I guess it's just not in my brain? I mean some folks point to shitty hitboxes but goddamn I could make a compilation video of the shitty hitboxes in every FromSoft game. I happily beat DS2 multiple times.

Just poking my head in this thread. If anyone's still yet to do this or having trouble... remember, you don't need to take 3 party members. You can solo it, or do what I did and take a single fighter + Aerith and just have her chain sleep the little guys while you single-target the big dude. Trying to micromanage two party members just makes it way more complicated and headache-inducing than it needs to be!

Sign me up for two then, please!

Boy I could go into what makes Yooka-Laylee worse than Banjo all day! Hell, I made a way-too-long Youtube comment about it in reply to a video defending the game 6 years ago, that fucking inexplicably enough just got a reply today. Obviously it's replying to a specific video but you can see there's a lot more than just "no soul." Video in question: Obviously I neither expect you to fully read some random ass comment I wrote from over half a decade ago or watch the video, just there for posterity. Noticing I wasn't very clear in a few parts, whoops! Well I ain't going back and editing shit! But yeah, obviously if critics are seeing something wrong, well... smoke, fire, all that. But I feel like it shouldn't be too hard. Like Jason Schreier I feel wrapped up his thoughts pretty succinctly: Obviously lacking in some minutiae since it's a Tweet, but his broader points are easy to understand and relate to, I think. Honestly, it made me want to play through the original series more, to see if I agree or disagree. For example: Will I agree that there's a strong emotional core to the original games? Will I agree that they don't evolve into tropey anime nonsense, which I feel like 99% of JRPGs do? It'll be fun to find out!

Alright, let's get everyone vaccinated globally against a certain type of virus, and then a few years later just fucking bombard the atmosphere with 20,000 strains of that virus to kill off the morons.

Did it go into more detail than "no soul"? I feel like that's shorthand for "I shouldn't be reviewing games." In casual conversation, sure, but "no soul" is such a vague, overarching generalization it really doesn't mean anything.

Harsh? I mean, some definitely were, but it's sitting at a 78, which is... honestly where most RPGs I play sit, if not lower. I'm actually running through the Suikoden games first. I had played and beaten Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising before this and based on how people talked about it, I expected it to be a grindy dumpster fire, but I found it to be a fairly short, overall pleasant little "make the numbers go up" action game with RPG elements. There was definitely a lot of back and forth fetch quest stuff, but almost all of it would let you collect the required items or whatever before even getting the quest, so I'd just go to town and have like 20 quests to turn in and have enough to upgrade the town, get new shops, spells, etc. Was a nice mellow game in my opinion. Got about 30 minutes into this, and just suddenly told myself "I should really play the Suikoden series first," so I've got 1-5 loaded up on my Steam Deck. I'll go through them as long as I'm entertained. I have Tierkris on my DS< which I did actually play upon release and enjoyed it. Dunno if there's any others, but looking forward to playing through all of them, been on a real RPG binge the last couple of years, clearing up huge amounts of my backlog and classics I never got to try before. Honestly, this is a spiritual sequel Kickstarter to a series that's been dead for almost 2 decades, I'm not expecting it to be incredible, I don't even know if I like Suikoden as a series yet! But I do find all of this interesting, and will be happy to play through it as part of the bigger overall narrative behind the series.

I've been doing this for a while. If the side of their garage has any tall bushes, you can just hide behind one and wait for them to go to work, then kind of rotate around it as they pull out and slip in before the garage door closes.

Real "anything I'm not playing doesn't exist" vibes.

The only good thing any Borderland fan has ever done. Bravo!

I can't wait! Seems like what I wanted out of Stray, which in the end wasn't about being a cat at all.