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I was talking about having a soft spot for FF8. Well, FF12 is also really underrated. Lot of people dislike it because it's got different mechanics. Well, it's a very solid game on pretty much every level. Visuals are unique, sound is awesome (same composer as FFT), the gambit system is actually...

As someone else said already, the main problem with the show is that it constantly mentions immortals getting "power increases" from their foes, but never explains how that actually works. At the end of season 3, Duncan defeats this really powerful menace after an entire story arc, and at that...

The grainy black and white swordfight is near the beginning of Season 1. The first 60% or so of Season 1 is generally regarded as really bad, though the Mountain Men episode and the Die Hard ripoff episode are both fun enough. "Band of Brothers" is the episode where the show suddenly gets good...

That sounds like a keeper

It's really egregious how Goldberg wasn't even looking as he threw the kick. Just a wild kick out into space, "he'll know what to do" As a Goldberg fan, I really wish we'd gotten Goldberg vs Warrior in WCW. Preferably in 1998 when it would have been huge and really mattered (but Hogan had to...

Naw R-Type 3 was just ridiculous. The first level wasn't bad, pretty standard. Then it just puts the pedal to the medal. Level 2 is super hard but a kid with tenacity could get through it eventually due to the infinite continues and continuing from checkpoints. Good luck getting much further...

And yeah, there's also this aspect. This show is already almost inevitably going to underperform, and they'll put the nail in the coffin by having the show preach about racial issues within the first couple of episodes. (Usually the first episode is really good to get people on board, then it's...

Probably this, yes. It doesn't have to be "another crack in the foundation of the West", it's just somebody trying to cash in on an old show that was wildly successful. This'll probably last one season and then quietly go away, like so many other reboots ("24" is a good example because they did...

I always thought The Powers That Be wanted all of us happy/complacent/distracted by entertainment media. "Panem et circenses" and all that. Given that Americans are some of the least-rebellious people of all time, it worked. This idea that they actually want us miserable is a new one to me, and...

Gradius 3 is incredibly difficult. Did you play it on that new PS5 Gradius Collection that quietly dropped in August? That has the best version, the arcade version. If not I'd recommend picking that up and playing the other Gradiuses. If emulating, SNES has Space Megaforce (insanely good...

80 year olds really shouldn't be driving

What's this about? AI datacenters are delaying the PS6? I've been wondering why we haven't heard anything about it, since we're like a year away from Sony's usual seven-ish year system cycle being up. PS1 - Five years as their main system PS2 - Seven years PS3 - Six and a half years PS4 - Six...

FF8 I'll always have a soft spot for. It came out the first week of High School. The characters going to what was basically a high school / military academy was something I could really relate to. ....unlike now, when every third fucking RPG takes place in a Japanese High School or equivalent...

Are the DLCs worth playing in Nioh 1 or Nioh 2? I played through the DLCs in both Stranger of Paradise and Wo Long, and I kinda hated most of them. In both cases they had 3 DLCs and the first was pretty cool, only to fall off a cliff with the 2nd and 3rd. SoP had so much gear-flation that you...

Xenoblade 2: Come for the huge particle effects and numbers obscuring everything, stay for the constant yelling clips from all of the characters all at once as you have 8 characters acting in battles. Good luck hearing the music over their cacophonous din of not being able to shut the fuck up...

Rebirth is so, so much better than Remake. I say this as a big Midgar fan who wished the original had done more with it (before FF7 came out, I thought the entire game took place in Midgar, and was disappointed when we left after five hours and never saw the upper level or 80% of the overall...

I picked the electric bird at the beginning instead of the Brute. Got a couple hours in and have yet to see another Brute spirit, they're all just Feral. Considered starting over, but it probably isn't necessary.

I spent quite a bit of time duping items in Elden Ring. Do multiplayer, drop a bunch of things, then reload a cloud save and do it again. Was able to get a massive amount of souls and two of every major DLC weapon. Was awesome. FF12 is IMO a much better game than FF9. FF12 has MMORPG style...

Feels like Nioh 2 enemies track you way more than Nioh 1. Like the first couple bosses would take these giant swings, hesitate, and actually rotate following my character all the way around before they slammed the attack. It's a ridiculous amount of tracking. I'm guessing you're supposed to rely...

What's a good weapon to main in Nioh 2? And what Guardian Spirit to take at the beginning? It has some serious "paralysis by analysis" at the beginning, giving you 11 weapons to pick from and 3 Guardian Spirits. What is this, Pokemon? I really wanted to try the Spear in one of these, and Low...

I always do this. Always. Then I end up not using the consumables, or maybe using a few of the healing ones towards the end, never anywhere near all of them. There was one exception to all of this: Lies of P. The final boss was so much tougher than the rest of the game (and you can't summon for...

Nioh 3 has summons? Like Elden Ring ashes? Is that a thing in Nioh 2 as well, because Nioh 1 sure didn't, har. When playing Nioh 3's demo I used the blue phantoms a couple times for tough spots, that was a welcome assist and kinda like a summon. Nioh 3 is getting SUPER good reviews. People...

Gunther is getting the push I was hoping would go to Rex Steiner (who inexplicably got renamed Bron Breakker). In Highlander terms, he basically got the Quickenings of Goldberg, John Cena, and AJ Styles. Outside of retiring Austin/Rock/Roman/Brock I don't know that there's any bigger set of...

Yeah, people getting factual shit wrong is an epidemic. The LED lights and crowd-dimming made it look empty. It was full. Crowd-dimming is my least-favorite trope to come out of the NJPW/AEW generation. Triple H likes it to "put focus on the performers" so it isn't going anywhere. AEW...

The whole thing with Moxley being a murderous bastard was that he would stop at nothing to be champion again, even killing off his closest ally. Suffocating a guy with a plastic bag isn't very "wrestling" but it was something that hadn't been done before that actually felt brutal and...

In Nioh 1 I went with Type E controls just to have the attacks on R1 and R2. What drives me fucking nuts is that there's no way to have Guard on L1 and attack on R1. Each type has one but not the other. So there's actually no way to play with the normal Souls controls that people spent years...

I'm building Str right now for that Bandit Axe (and whatever else I find), but I can respec later when I have that weapon mod. Managed to pool High Stance bonuses onto the axe so it's got like an extra +20% damage on it with everything already. I already respeced enough times that the respec...

Got a Bandit's Axe from the store, fused it with the best hammer I had to bump up the attack 10% or so, re-specced and moved points from Heart to HP and Str. Got over 2000 HP now and working on Str next (it's 13 which is a meh downgrade but I figured HP was more important). Learned the High...

As Tuco said, boxing is the way to go if you want to have a decent time going through the expansions. Unless you're dead set on being a Bard, I'd main an SK and have the Bard be backup. Add a Shaman and you can pretty much do anything ,(3x rogue mercs would shred). However SK + Bard would be...

Yeah, that was my thought here. It seems like Nioh adds more and more as it goes on. PS5 remaster version. Looks really freaking good. I can't tell the FPS difference between 4K Mode and 120 FPS Mode, so I wonder if those are holdovers from the PS4 version and they're all 120 now, or my brain...

This Kebab guy is so out of his depth here. Most folks on here "support" Trump insofar as they hope he does a good job / the country does well. Which is a real fingers crossed sort of thing. That's about it. It isn't a fan club, but we also don't look for stupid shit to get upset about.

Agreed. This and maybe LOTRO for a huge Lord of the Rings fan (and even then, just one character to run through the content once, like a regular game). I can't imagine dedicating time to any other MMO as an adult, besides EQ. WoW was fun for a while but it's so easy and cartoonish that after...

Nice, I'll give all that a try. Is Nioh 2 easier to get into, in terms of giving tutorials and whatnot? Was considering giving that a go and if I figured out what I'm doing there, I could swing back to Nioh 1. Probably not a good idea. My main problem with Nioh is definitely the button...

John Carpenter? That old fuck needs to not be doing whatever this is and get The Thing 2 done.

The main problem is I'm not sure what gitting gud actually entails with Nioh. What does the game expect from me? Sekiro I had to git gud at deflecting and breaking posture, Wo Long I had to git gud at parries at precise times, Bloodborne I had to git gud at rolling through attacks. What the...

Yeah the Switch 2's flatness doesn't feel good in the hands, feels like something that'll result in carpal tunnel before too long. When it comes to gripping, we men like things that are bigger and rounder, not flat. PS5 DualSense controller is probably the most comfortable controller of all...

Final Fantasy: Stranger of Paradise had a similar thing where you could farm a high-level Marlboro or something and get super-strong equipment drops, breaking the game before too long. Didn't the same people make that game as this game? The Samurai/Ninja switching in Nioh 3 is literally the...

Anyone getting Yakuza Kiwami 3? Seems like it's getting a lot of negative press out in the mainstream for being low-effort compared to the first two Kiwamis. Also not sure why a Kiwami 3 was even necessary. The first two Kiwamis were resurrecting games that were, at the time, over a decade old...

I ended up in the central crucible area and couldn't get out of there, some sort of ruined city. It's where the Hamamatsu Incident directed me to go. Looked into it and the demo is about 6 hours long, the reward for beating it is this helmet: Ehhh. I dunno. Unless it has some huge stats, not...

The Girl on the Third Floor - CM Punk's horror movie. It's a decent suspense movie, if a little slow. Kinda hard to see Punk as anybody except himself. His co-star (the girl in question) is super hot. It's a haunted house movie (which becomes clear very early) and one of the creepier ones I've...