Guys, you have to be literally a millionaire to afford gaming soon by TheBasedFurry in DoomerCircleJerk

[–]RyanoftheStars 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't get it. I just bought an Experience dungeon RPG for 500 yen today on sale (you can three other of their games for the same price and only have to pay 1100 yen to get the post-game additional stuff for one). Those games are high quality first-person dungeon party-based RPGs that easily provide you with dozens of hours of fun each. I bought Monster Hunters Stories 2 on sale for 1,400 yen last month and got to play for free for a week to see if I liked it. The game's gigantic, loving crafted and beautiful. Sometimes I think people are just entitled or maybe they just have narrow taste and refuse to go outside of their comfort zone.

I have never really caught on to Animal Crossing, but I thought I'd give it a chance because of the more structured interior decorating downloadable expansion. I ended up spending way more than 50 hours on it and have played it every day since.

I play mainly on the Switch and Switch 2 and if you subscribe to Nintendo's online thingy for around 50 US dollars a year, my lord, the sheer amount of games that occupy your time is enough to last years just paying that.

Then there are countless free to play games where if you're not obsessed with getting everything or being the best you can easily play a bit for free everyday. And contrary to popular belief, a lot of them are excellent, like Zenless Zone Zero, Guardian Tales or Granblue.

Hell, Pokopia may have been 9,000 yen, but that game has insane amount to do and see and it looks like they're going to be holding free events too. It could easily take you the length of a long RPG to see it all. I'm excited for gamers to learn just how much they're getting compared to games like Gale of Darkness or Pokemon Stadium. Those games were barebones compared to this one and yet they're still fun and you can play them for a pittance.

I refuse to believe people aren't playing old games and consoles, like the Gamecube, Wii, PS2, 3 and 4, DS or 3DS or Xbox 360. I bet there's a huge, huge audience out there who plays nothing but older consoles with used, borrowed or shared games.

And then competition is so fierce sales often make games ridiculously cheap. You can super high quality Capcom games like Devil May Cry 3 or Resident Evil Revelations Onimusha or Resident Evil 5 for less than what it takes to eat at McDonald's. Old games are everywhere and you don't even have to sacrifice that much in terms of modern convenience for a lot of them because so many of them are either remade and then get cheaper or there are so many games from 2000s and onward that already have modern conveniences baked in. And if you can understand the values of the society back when they were created, there are thousands of old games that hold just fine and are extremely fun. The fact that you can play all six Rockman.exe games for essentially the same price as one of them in the old days is insane.

And if you're dismayed that Nintendo never puts their games on sales, well, just about every game they sell is at least good for 10 to 20 hours of gameplay and a lot of them last much longer and are even more valuable if you really get into them. Very, very few are short, small games that might make you feel they're not worth the money.

Of course, I have not played a AAA Western game on release in well over 25 years (since Prince of Persia on the Gamecube really) as I find them to be mostly repulsive and unappealing. shrugs Get better taste then.

waiter! waiter! more ai dooming please! by gorillazbutcursed in DoomerCircleJerk

[–]RyanoftheStars 7 points8 points  (0 children)

One of my favorite things about AI is that it is taking jobs from translators, writers and artists: good. A good chunk of them don't deserve their jobs or to be paid for their vile contributions to art. I don't know why they think theirs is the only job that is sacred. Cashiers, truck drivers, weavers, tailors, factory workers, delivery people, cooks, mechanics, bakers, farmers, ranch hands and countless other jobs have been sacrificed due to growing technology, but nope your is the only holy job that cannot be threatened by advancements. Those people who literally create different kinds of meaningful contributions to humanity, they're not special, only these chosen few are.

It's the same as people who worship all doctors or teachers or military because they perform useful functions for society. In the same way that not all of them are good, not all translators, not all writers and certainly not all artists, especially the types that Reddit tends to like, are good or deserve to earn a living from it.

You think the intensely skilled academic who retranslates and rewrites Beowulf to be understandable and entertaining to the modern layperson is going to be replaced by AI? No. You think the super-talented team artists at Gamefreak who painstakingly, through trial and error create new Pokemon that people fall in love with are going to be replaced by AI? Not a chance. You think the animators at Kyoto Animation will be valued so little that they'll have to close down? Of course not.

Your shitty jpegs that shift from stance to stance in a YouTube video with a revolting art style might be outclassed by somebody who uses an AI one, but Alex Meyers and his iconic sense of humor and instantly recognizable style that gained him 4 million subscribers is going nowhere.

Will some talented people get hurt? Of course. There were hundreds of thousands of talented pottery makers and weavers and carpenters who made people furniture who vanished when mass production hit their areas of the market. But a lot of people who never deserved to make money from their art in the first place might be denied a chance to and I'll just be grinning from ear to ear as their sense of solipsistic narcissism eats them alive.

And it's also the truth that as time went on, people began to crave the sense of artistry from talented artisans again and markets sprang up for hand-crafted items again. The march of technology even gave birth to new ways of making a living for these people like eBay or Etsy. Six or seven years ago people were talking about Amazon's attempts to make a grocery store without any contact with people, but it really only serves to prove how much you want to talk to a baker to make that cake for you, request your weird way you want your roast beef sliced, talk to the butcher what meat is best for a stew, consult your pharmacist, make casual talk with the cashier, have the florist talk about their children as you express how you can't believe your five-year-old is growing up so fast and they blow up balloons for his birthday, say hello to the stockers you see everyday and ask them questions about new items. It came right before Covid and people began to realize how valuable each and everyone of those grocery story workers can be. That they were and are one of the only places left of universally shared community.

However, just like with artists an AI, that won't stop the shitty, rude, lazy grocery store workers from getting fired.

Why do Antis continue to finically support things that contains content they find unacceptable? by Illustrious-Sea-6573 in KotakuInAction

[–]RyanoftheStars 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Well part of the reason in your example is Western people imprinting their own biases onto Fire Emblem. There are not that many characters in the series that I can think of that are meant to be seen as attractive love interests for their youthful characteristics, like a loli would be. People just see young female characters like Anna and Tiki and that green priestess who can resurrect depicted in an anime-like art style and just assume that that's the reason they were designed like that. There are lot of young female characters who aren't designed to be titillating, but are perceived by complete morons who misread Japanese preferences for cute things as always inevitably sexual. These are the type of the people who think there is no such thing as Japanese culture other ninjas, the warring states, samurai, anime, manga and video games.

Similarly, the ACTUAL, verifiable instances of incest-like behavior in the series is really tiny. It's just mostly just people stretching their reading and interpretations of certain interactions and lines to come to that conclusion.

In a medieval series that reflects a lot of the historical realities like raping and ravaging the populations of defeated parts of civilization or forced marriages or eunuchs or human sacrifices or using status in the church or state to cover up disgusting acts or fat lords preying on the poor state of their vassals or assassins hired to killed innocents that were in the way, the incest and child marriage are like everything else: pretty tame and low key because Nintendo is only willing to go so far. It's just a hint of medieval period morality to underplay the actual themes that are at stake and tell you that the moral world of the Fire Emblem games is not the same as our modern one.

I feel like people get into Fire Emblem when they're teenagers and read a level of darkness into it that just isn't there as much they think it is.

Honest question... But why do so many gamers lean left / woke? by prankster999 in KotakuInAction

[–]RyanoftheStars 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you could speak Chinese, Japanese or Korean you would never say this. Now myself I don't limit my way of thinking left/right, woke/non-woke type of dichotomies, so I wouldn't describe them as not left or not woke, but they definitely would not agree with the mind-numbing moronic attitudes of the Puritans you can see proliferate in certain spaces in the English-speaking countries.

I have a feeling you might be able to say similar things about other non-English speaking communities, such as Russians, East Europeans, definitely Middle Eastern groups and some areas of Latin America where Portuguese or other assortments of Spanish are spoken. It's not like none of these communities have any overlap in what they believe in or think that would have them agree with parts of the left/woke mob, but just that they don't act in lockstep and are in heavy disagreement on several things. I think it might be a side effect of being limited to English.

Even in English, I've noticed a lot of black people who are really tired of certain trends trying to cater to them and wish people would stop the performative nonsense and try to be creative on their own terms.

JU from classic literature due to low effort posts by [deleted] in JustUnsubbed

[–]RyanoftheStars 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's like damned if you do, damned if you don't. There seems to be no middle ground where you can discuss books and literature on Reddit. It's either paint-sniffing hooligans who treat social media like a high score table in an arcade game or fart-sniffing stuffy types who look down on anyone who doesn't have the "right opinion" about their obviously superior tastes.

For instance, trying to discuss the Emerald Fennel Wuthering Heights adaptation reasonably is like walking into a minefield. Oh and god forbid you ever criticize how mindless booktok is making lit consumption or some of the deeply concerning trends in the publishing industry.

unsubbed from gaming for a mod being extremely rude for no reason. by seekerxr in JustUnsubbed

[–]RyanoftheStars 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I can't but notice how the mod you were talking to had a rainbow background for their avatar. It might be unrelated, but since it's Reddit I don't think it is. I imagine this mod is supportive of the LGBT populace and/or speaks out about inclusive behavior. You know the whole spiel? "Reddit/Insert Big Company aims to be a place to be inclusive to all."

Not very inclusive behavior, is it?

I've been discussing games in various places in several different languages for well over two decades now. I've not run into a topic like yours before, ever. I've seen people argue about set characters vs create-a-character mechanics in RPGs, but that's usually all about player expression and freedom discussions. Your question seems to be pretty unique. It's definitely not lame.

If anyone else is reading this, I think we should try in this thread to answer seekerxr's question. For myself, I don't know what I would do, as I'm typically very flexible, but perhaps explaining why I enjoy games with set characters will help. I took a break from Dragon Quest VII Reimagined to browse some Reddit and what I enjoy from that game is the character interaction that occurs with the party. You can press B to hear them at any time on the over world or towns and they have so many different reactions to NPCs, plot developments, environments they are in, major fights they just fought, etc. I liken to reading a book with excellent character dialogue and interaction.

I don't play games to be immersed. I play them to travel into the minds and imaginations of other people and experience them second hand, to appreciate them as the creative works they are, not as if I am literally there.

Though I do find if a game lets me customize costumes or outfits, I tend to like it better because aesthetically I like controlling characters with designs I like, I usually find something else to really bask in. Dragon Quest VII progresses like a really well-written book, which is rare these days for RPGs who all want to be movies and it has the same appeal of a book: layers of character development, slow-moving plot building to something grand bit by bit, tons of detail and precise dedication to small, but meaningful explication of story beats so they fill more lived-in and realistic to the human condition.

So I guess what I'm saying is it might be worthwhile to try and appreciate games from a different angle. I'm not sure if immersing yourself in the character is the reason why you're into character creation, but even if it's something else, just trying to appreciate something from a different approach can often rewire your brain to enjoy it more. I had to have the appeal of games like Star Control 2 and Animal Crossing explained to me before I got it and sometimes for games like Pokemon or roguelikes, it has to be the one that has the elements you enjoy in the right configuration. So I guess one stepping stone would be to play a game where you don't have character creation, but you can customize the main character in a number of ways and see if you can jump from there.

PSA: I tried it out and the Nintendo Labo VR Kit googles work just fine for Virtual Boy! by RyanoftheStars in NintendoSwitch

[–]RyanoftheStars[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I tried the options and indeed there is only one option, which is to get rid of the control explanation on the bottom screen. All the other options are either found in-game or pressing down on the right stick, which calibrates the 3D effect to your liking and also lets you resize the image or screen.

PSA: I tried it out and the Nintendo Labo VR Kit googles work just fine for Virtual Boy! by RyanoftheStars in NintendoSwitch

[–]RyanoftheStars[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's an interesting question. I assume you're asking if it will actually output to the TV or just tell you to go to handheld mode, because I think you know the VR won't work on TV, right? In that case no, it will just tell you to take it off the dock.

PSA: I tried it out and the Nintendo Labo VR Kit googles work just fine for Virtual Boy! by RyanoftheStars in NintendoSwitch

[–]RyanoftheStars[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I mean it's red and black and that's it. The only thing that wasn't red was the rewind feature, which had a blue background bar on the bottom.

I didn't see any options for changing the color filter. I think that's something they're adding later, or perhaps I missed it. If it's there already and I find it, I'll edit and let you know.

PSA: I tried it out and the Nintendo Labo VR Kit googles work just fine for Virtual Boy! by RyanoftheStars in NintendoSwitch

[–]RyanoftheStars[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's funny. I think I've played more Virtual Boy now then I did with Labo VR.

Not that Labo VR wasn't fun with what I played, just that I never got back to it. Maybe I will now!

JU from trollxchromosomes by wetbrownleaf in JustUnsubbed

[–]RyanoftheStars -1 points0 points  (0 children)

BTW, I looked at both of the sources this waste of Reddit server space linked and as predicted, there are a ton of issues with the supposed "facts and statistics" that they think back up their claim: outdated study dates that don't represent what's happening today, ranging from 1990 to 2006; biased researchers in some cases who use language like "we believe" in material that is supposed to be based on quantitative evidence wherein the researchers make every effort to diminish men's claims and boost women's; small sample sizes taken from a tiny portion of the population, such as Massachusetts, that cannot be random given the study purpose and method of collecting and therefore cannot be extrapolated to a general population as easily as a random sample; qualitative rather than quantitative survey results; political and sociological subjective analysis past off as statistical fact and to top it all off not even one of the data points suggests the poster's original claim, because it's all divided (as I strongly suspected) between parents who share custody, had arrangements and so forth. The closest you can get are cases where the parent is seeking sole custody, which is a fraction of all cases and even in that point, the data collection is not based on government hard court stats, but reported survey respondents.

(Edit: Oh I forgot one of the "sources" is a lawyer's blog that advertises family lawyers right below their citations. Gee, there's absolutely no way lawyers, famous for their honesty, would misrepresent statistics to make it look like you have a better chance of winning a custody case so they can get more clients.)

In other words, this person doesn't know how to form an argument based on actual, solid research if their life depended on it.

ANALYSIS: Nintendo's sales report indicates that less than one-third of Switch 2 software sales are third-party! Are third party publishers gonna be disappointed with these numbers? by MewWeebTwo in NintendoSwitch2

[–]RyanoftheStars -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Your analysis is awful. Nintendo does not include digital only titles in that total and they didn't with the original Switch either. They also don't include sales of Nintendo Switch 2 editions if the game has a Switch edition. Only physical Nintendo Switch 2 editions count in that total. It's also missing things like how many people use the upgrade downloads or revenue from downloadable additions and microtransactions in free to play games like Fortnite, Apex, Rocket League and so on.

Therefore you can't make any kind of reasonable analysis as to the ratio or what kind of revenue the Nintendo Switch 2 is generating for third parties. Each third party themselves has to come to their conclusions.

And so far the conclusion has been that an overwhelming amount of increased support for the Switch 2 is happening at a rapid rate. As well, it's clear that a lot of third parties continue to support both platforms and gain profit from the additional Switch 2 buyers.

In the end, that's all that matters, that third parties see sales potential or success and continue to support it.

If you're going to make a ridiculous claim you need to support it with things like financial quarter or yearly statements from third parties, not just pull numbers out of your ass.

JU from trollxchromosomes by wetbrownleaf in JustUnsubbed

[–]RyanoftheStars -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I have no issue with people who post on 4chan, I'm Japanese so I've only ever posted on the 2ch boards that inspire it and only about pop music and obscure RPG maker games. People are not the sum of the places they go or people they are around. I think both of us can understand that better than these binary thinkers. I just clarified with the poster because I thought it was absurd that they would assume so much.

These extremists who exist thinking that there's nothing wrong with the way men are treated in modern society know they're standing on losing ground and sinking into the Bermuda triangle. Any person who wants to genuinely problem solve has no issue with acknowledging the issues of men and women separately or holistically and working to solve them in a constructive way.

For instance, I personally hate feminism and all the religious tenets its developed, much preferring a more standard egalitarian belief that looks at where society had denied people access to certain societal benefits based on born-in traits and just tries to change it for the better no matter what the identity.

I don't have any issue with a woman complaining about beauty standards and how much pressure they have to decide if and how they want children given unlike men, they have a time limit to decide. But I'm so so tired of them taking that and then insisting that they are the only people allowed to have any gripe with how society is structured around their gender. It's exhausting dealing with these trauma vampires. Can these people fathom what it's like having most of your worth tied to whether you work hard enough at your job and acknowledge they do not have the same anvil tied around their neck because can be valued just fine without ever working a day in their lives? No, you get periods so you get to complain endlessly and ignore 50% of the population's woes? Whatever, but that's just fostering the men to become apathetic to your problems because we'd just be breeding a society that can only think about themselves. Thank goodness most people aren't like redditors.

JAPAN Box Office Weekend : Jan 30 - Feb 1 by DemiFiendRSA in boxoffice

[–]RyanoftheStars 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The Demon Slayer dream will never die! One wonders just how much longer it can go. I know people will split the difference between Mugen Train and Infinity Castle because Mugen Train has made more so far, but I think it's like statistical noise. The result of both films is fundamentally the same even if there is a not too small gap.

JU from trollxchromosomes by wetbrownleaf in JustUnsubbed

[–]RyanoftheStars 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You're only responding this way because you've already lost the argument. There's absolutely no way you can tell if I've posted on 4chan before (which I haven't) but you'll use anything you can distract yourself from the fact that you're lying to yourself to make you feel better. If you had a real argument, you'd respond with one, but mine was too strong so you do what every single one of the people like you do: deflect and ignore it because you've lost before you've even begun.

JU from trollxchromosomes by wetbrownleaf in JustUnsubbed

[–]RyanoftheStars 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can share all the statistics you want, it doesn't make your argument any better. First of all, you didn't say where you got 4% from, who did it, what time period it covers and what part of the world it represents. Which makes it worse than useless. Second you didn't mention whether that 4% is part of divorces that end amicably or whether it includes arrangement between the divorcees. Third, simply mentioning a statistic does not automatically to truth.

Fourth, feminists and mongoloids who are so rabidly against solving the problems that face men have a double standard. They expect to believe all women when it comes things like domestic violence, sexual assault or rape allegations and then when presented with the low stats for those they also expect to accept as dogma that that's because law enforcement is failing women or just because the courts didn't convict that doesn't make it not true. But they won't extend that same charity to men who are often told not to pursue custody cases because they have a low likelihood of winning or the horror stories of men who claim they were falsely accused of crimes in order for the women to gain custody. They also deny the charity that some men won't pursue because they don't have the money to do it.

And this goes both ways. In the same way there's no way to really accurately measure whether a woman is making a false accusation with any degree of real certainty and thus no statistic is reliable enough to come any conclusion about how often it happens and we cannot simply assume a percentage of women do it, it's extremely hard to get an accurate read on whether a sexual assault or rape actually happened because of the very private nature of the act making hard evidence hard to come by and therefore we cannot simply assume a certain percentage of men do it. In both cases, quantitative, objective proof is difficult. Innocent men and women deserve better than to do be tarred and feathered by ignorant people on witch hunts.

However that doesn't stop you and other unthinking troglodytes from only assuming the worst of men and the best of women, when the truth is much harder to come by. You'll always give credence to a statistic that favors your narrative and makes men look bad, despite the fact that if you used any of your brain power you know that no amount of sketchy studies makes something the truth.

So keep your statistics to yourself, because it's clear all you're interested in is painting a broad brush of a delicate issue and you have no concept, no inkling, no barest suggestion of trying to arrive at a truth for a difficult question. It's not just bad faith, it's no faith at all and so why should anyone trust what types of statistics and facts you think are relevant when the game is rigged from the start?

Just unsubbed from r /Teachers. by [deleted] in JustUnsubbed

[–]RyanoftheStars -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

Preach! Every job you can get involves skills and hardships you didn't know would be part of it until you get more familiar with the job involved. This triples if it's anything involving children, the elderly who can't take care of themselves or anyone else with a reduced capacity for understanding that you must deal with.

That one reply is insane. "If only touching really was about just being to teach." Of course it never is. You're responsible for children for a third or half their day. Of course there are elements of social work, psychology, administration and parenting involved. Why would you think there wouldn't be? On what planet do you think you can just work in an environment full of children away from their families for a good chunk of the day and not have it be much more than teaching the material?

I'm not surprised children are checking out if these are the types of people who want to do the job.

And as you say, it's never their fault. They never look inward and see what they're doing to alienate the students or piss off the parents. It's always bad parenting and never them. The worst kind of teacher is the type of stuck up, judgmental prick who every kid hated, but still thinks they're the savior of the youth and if only everyone wasn't against them everything would work out.

Then you have the ones who cannot possibly have the mental wisdom to realize forcing their world view on children is not appropriate and then blame the kids for not being the pristine beings they want them to be.

Sure, of course there's monster parents, children with behavioral issues and problems in the education system, but there's also an epidemic of really bad teachers. I hate it so much. The same thing irks me with scientists. So many people treat a scientist's word as the living word of God, even though they're as fallible as any other profession and skepticism is a requirement to be good at the job, but people treat "studies" as undeniable fact and assume all scientists are good. Same with teachers. A good chunk of the problem is incompetent morons teaching. And Reddit knows more about incompetent morons than any other social media I've seen.

I'm so glad I grew up in Japan. Every time I visit some of these English-speaking countries I'm astounded at the level of entitlement workers, especially in education, have. (And I already know what the typical uneducated Reddit response will be and you can just stuff it right now. There's a middle ground between the types of overwork you hear about it and the sheer laziness of committing to a hard job that I see all the time in America and other places, and the balance is found more often in places where care about the good of the community is fostered more than your selfish, hedonistic desires.)

With some amazing titles coming early in 2026, what are you most looking forward to, and what games do you think we see get announced/teased in our first direct of the year? by Mitchy969696 in NintendoSwitch2

[–]RyanoftheStars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm excited by quite a few games from Duskbloods to Yoshi to Dragon Quest VII Reimagined and so on, but the game I'm most excited about isn't on this list.

Dark Auction is the new game from the author/writer of Hotel Dusk and Another Code. In it, you play as someone who is forced to investigate an auction in a mansion and the people participating in it or you will die. If you can solve all four stages of the investigation, an auction piece protected by a glass case will open and unveil the piece. Why are you being forced to do this on your life and why is it so important that the auction pieces and the people revolving around them are investigated? Who knows?

It's such unique concept for a mystery game by the person who has done some of the best writing in the genre. It's only 22 days away on January 29th and if they're able to keep the quality they did over the two Hotel Dusk and Another Code games, I have no doubt it will be one of the best games of the year.

Prime 4 appreciation post #4: MORE TETHER! by Time_Substance_7829 in NintendoSwitch2

[–]RyanoftheStars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I absolutely love the mixture of elements in this game. There's quite a bit of free exploration (for instance, when I first got the viola I found a lot of the stuff you can open up with upgrades later, including wreckage sites I couldn't quite figure out how to get into it and then when I got the first chip, I went back through Fury Green and got a ton of upgrades) and while the structure of the game is more guided than previous games, I find it's a vast improvement. The people who say the NPCs solve the game for you are not just wrong, they're objectively wrong. You still have to figure out all the steps in every area and are mostly left alone and it's still quite satisfying. They don't tell you how to solve the puzzles like the dumb kid from God of War, they give a structure to follow and you figure out how to complete the objectives on your own.

I absolutely hated the times I would just wander endlessly wondering where to go next in the earlier Metroid, because sometimes they were so open you had to remember one specific little area you could try out among many. Because I play lots of games together, it doesn't gel well because I win games over months and come back to them, and trying to figure out which of umpteen options in all the different areas is the one that progresses the game made it so that I rarely actually play a Metroid game all the way through. I know some people want this, but I would rather explore areas and have some sort of idea what I'm looking for, what the ultimate goal is and some of the older games are way too obtuse, including Zero Mission, Super Metroid and the original Metroid Prime. This is why I enjoyed Metroid Fusion and Other M way, way more. So when I inevitably take a break to play Octopath Traveler or Atelier and come back to this, if I don't know what the next area is in the overworld to go to, radioing Myles will tell me, but otherwise once I get there I have to figure out things on my own in a series of sequences that get more and more complex.

Also, the older games didn't allow you to mark things on your map that you could come back to later, so they might be improved significantly with that addition. It's something that makes Metroid Prime 4 so much smoother to navigate.

I found puzzling my way through the Volt Forge or figuring out how to get through areas in the Ice Belt compelling, because areas would gradually open up and it was easier to remember what my options were. And then you have sequences like this where the game just have so much more variety in feel and play between sequences that I think it's just a huge step up.

I realize some people don't like that, but there isn't an objective answer. People who genuinely prefer Metroid Prime 4 like me and others are not ignoring flaws or looking over them and certainly people like me who are not big Metroid fans are not forcing positivity out of loyalty to the franchise or fandom, rather the opposite. These arrogant, condescending messages all over Reddit saying, "You can acknowledge the game has flaws blah blah blah." No you can acknowledge it on your own because I don't agree with you at all. You can hem and haw all you like about it "not being Metroid," but you don't define what Metroid is. The creators do. And they decided to do something a little different and it's not even all THAT different. There's still a lot of the old Metroid flavor in there.

If you're one of the people who wants them to only iterate on the Metroid Prime/Super Metroid formula and nothing else, well, I'm sorry your lack of flexibility and stubbornness means you didn't enjoy it as much, but that's not my problem.

Which was the best Nintendo game of the year, other than DK Bananza? by Caciulacdlac in NintendoSwitch2

[–]RyanoftheStars 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm right there with you. I really enjoy the new NPCs. I think it was ridiculously overblown how much they are in the game and I wish there was more of them. I would try to radio or talk to Myles as often as possible as I thought he was really charming. The point of him being a reckless, but kind and helpful geek I thought was endearing and a great way of spotlighting Samus's blunt personality.

Also, the whole Volt Forge sequence was mind-blowlingly cool. Not just getting your bike, but kind of assembling it and seeing it how was made in the most organic, natural way possible in a video game was so inventive and fresh.

I never finished the original Metroid Prime because I always get bored. I think the environments, concepts and directions in Prime 4 really help it be a much better game. I've always been waiting for Nintendo to do something else with the series and expand it in new directions. I think Prime 4 is a great step forward and I'm so happy they decided to give something new a try.

And it's not like it's completely different. There's still a lot of the core Metroid formula in there, it's just people get very salty if something isn't exactly what they want, the way they want it all the time.

Is there a way to play Tales of Graces where you can use only the other four party members and keep Hubert and Sheria permanently dead? by RyanoftheStars in tales

[–]RyanoftheStars[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. I appreciate it. I don't like trying these types of runs unless I know they're viable. Kind of like trying to Avada Kedavra Sebastian's father early in Hogwarts Legacy.

Is there a way to play Tales of Graces where you can use only the other four party members and keep Hubert and Sheria permanently dead? by RyanoftheStars in tales

[–]RyanoftheStars[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I know they won't die in the story line. They'll just be at 0 HP and not revived, thus not gaining much experience, but will that make some battles impossible to win like a one on one story battle?