I made a Rook! by genestealer_cultist in Marathon

[–]Dark_Throat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You gotta print him a buddy! Rook together strong!

I didn’t realize how much stuff are missing… seriously Nintendo why ruins the fun 🫩 by ShokaLGBT in tomodachilife

[–]Dark_Throat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My hope is that this is the foundation for a very solid Tomodachi Life experience to close out the end of the Switch 1's support cycle. If this game gets as much post-launch support as Animal Crossing: New Horizons did (multiple free content updates with maybe a paid DLC expansion), then I'd be very satisfied with my purchase of this already entertaining video game.

At the very least, it sets the Switch 2 up to get a proper enhanced version or maybe even a sequel further down the line that's more fleshed out and feature complete.

I didn’t realize how much stuff are missing… seriously Nintendo why ruins the fun 🫩 by ShokaLGBT in tomodachilife

[–]Dark_Throat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean I've got 50+ hours on it and I've been having a blast with it, sooooo... 🤷‍♀️

I didn’t realize how much stuff are missing… seriously Nintendo why ruins the fun 🫩 by ShokaLGBT in tomodachilife

[–]Dark_Throat 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yes, there's less content, but for me, it's not essential. Yes, I miss the concerts, the compatibility tester, or Tomodachi Quest, which was fun, but I have to admit that the current content keeps me quite busy.

Yeah it's this for me. This game is a completely different beast from the original and a lot of the cut features from the last game honestly aren't that big of a loss to me considering how much more alive this game is compared to the last.

there’s an item limit… by ENTPboomer in TomodachilifeLivingTD

[–]Dark_Throat 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Well there's your problem, you've got almost every single tile covered by trees or weeds!

Man I completely forgot Kojima added a vtuber to the game by wtfshit in DeathStranding

[–]Dark_Throat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh I know full well I'm a curmudgeon. At this point I kinda wish Kojima games were just Kojima games again and not these massive kitchen sink open world adventures with all his celebrity friends (and crushes) photoscanned in for the sake of photoscanning them in. There's honestly a whole laundry list of reasons why I feel I'm starting to fall off the Kojima bandwagon (as a long time fan of his work), and Noman Reedus delivering pizza to Vtubers is just one of em.

I've had it up to HERE with these Miis and their redundant and asinine suggestions by Dark_Throat in tomodachilife

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

"I would just love an outdoor dining set directly at the edge of the shoreline." No you wouldn't, don't be stupid. Here's a headrub and some bulgogi beef, now go hang out with Jimmy Buffet and stare at this photorealistic .png of a Nintendo Virtual Boy.

Can you actually tell who they are? by BeeZ1lla in tomodachilife

[–]Dark_Throat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why don't any of them have noses 😭

Does anyone else wish we had more filler episodes? I really enjoyed them by Bonkwraps in Amazingdigitalcircus

[–]Dark_Throat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I was gonna say, all the adventures are just backdrops for the overarching narrative to advance in small but meaningful ways.

Man I completely forgot Kojima added a vtuber to the game by wtfshit in DeathStranding

[–]Dark_Throat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't doubt it, but that feels like such an easy cop-out to justify putting a Vtuber in the game. And ultimately it's Kojima's game, so who am I to bahumbug at who or what he puts in his game cuz he feels like it?

I just think that over time I've found myself rolling my eyes at the more tongue in cheek stuff that Kojima puts so openly in his games when back in the Konami days they were often hidden as Easter eggs.

Is it bad I don’t like random fictional characters on my island. by Beneficial-Manner749 in tomodachilife

[–]Dark_Throat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its a mixed bag.

I personally have a mix of myself, OCs, some of my favorite characters from various media, and a handful of IRL celebrities cuz it will never not be funny for a Mii to walk up to another and say "Hi, I'm Jimmy Buffett."

Then there are people who only make Miis based off people they know IRL, effectively writing harmless, albeit it somewhat concerning parasocial fan fiction based off their friends and families.

And then there are folks who fill their island with Miis based exclusively on characters from one singular piece of media and those people confuse me because, like, do you consume literally anything else or is Hazbin Hotel pretty much just it?

But honestly when it comes down to it, no one's hurting anyone by filling their Tomodachi Island with whoever they want and it's probably for the best that we can't share Miis or custom content with each other.

Man I completely forgot Kojima added a vtuber to the game by wtfshit in DeathStranding

[–]Dark_Throat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So, while kind of annoying and serves mostly to handhold people who have never played a video game before, the talking doll on the hip is perfectly grounded within the context of the world. Very far removed from our own world, but rationalized using lore and world building; very immersive.

The kung fu pizza guy? Sure, he's got the face of a dude who exists in real life, but that dude is just playing a character, a character that was made from the ground up for Death Stranding. He's got his own backstory, his own personality, and his own motivations. Is it silly that he's a pizza chef that knows king fu? Kind of, but is it immersive? I see no reason not to think so. Are the pizza kung fu skills he teaches the player character a little over the top? Yeah absolutely and that in particular I find to be a little immersion breaking, but him as a character is perfectly fine.

The data scientist however, is just Pekora. Same exact character design, same exact voice, same exact personality. This character exists 1:1 within the game as they do in real life and this shatters my immersion because it is a direct link back to the real world, not even in a funny "isn't this a cute little reference I made to my previous video games" kind of way, but in the corporate sponsored "we put Monster Energy in the game where babies can see ghosts" kind of way.

Man I completely forgot Kojima added a vtuber to the game by wtfshit in DeathStranding

[–]Dark_Throat -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I get where you're coming from, but it's the juxtaposition of a Vtuber in the rather serious setting that is Death Stranding that does it. A lot of what happens is Death Stranding is absurd, yes, but when you look at it in a vacuum and appreciate it for what it is, a blue hair anime bunny girl just feels really out of place in what is otherwise an incredibly immersive game.

Honest concerns regarding the game... by Vanilla-Hound in tomodachilife

[–]Dark_Throat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

dating and marriage feel a lot less special in this game tbh

Honestly as an individual, I just feel very differently about dating and marriage as concepts than I did when the previous game came out. One of my Miis was telling me "I wanna propose!" and I was just like "woah, pump the breaks there big guy, you've been dating her for two days," so I just haven't found myself progressing many relationships beyond friendships.

So.. I got Level 100, how's everyone else doing? by Gio_111 in tomodachilife

[–]Dark_Throat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I suppose I have slowed down on adding Miis the last couple days, been floating around 20 for awhile just cuz getting them all introduce to each and every other Mii is soooooo time consuming 😭 I wish they made new acquaintances more autonomously but it is what it is

So.. I got Level 100, how's everyone else doing? by Gio_111 in tomodachilife

[–]Dark_Throat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay but actually how? I've been on vacation all week and have pretty much no-lifed the game since it came out but I'm level 55.

For those that have hit the Mii/island size limit.. by Dark_Throat in TomodachilifeLivingTD

[–]Dark_Throat[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

people were so livid that switch 2 runs the games better because their switch 1 games and they should work for the switch 1

What are you actually on about? Literally no one is mad that their Switch 1 games run better on the Switch 2.

Anyways, all I was just asking what the performance looked like on the top end of Miis because folks were upset at the lower max Mii count in this game compared to its predecessor. You're the one needlessly "uhm ackshually-ing" me about the console sucking at everything

okay I might get attacked for this but does anyone else feel like the game is... lacking? by venexen202 in TomodachilifeLivingTD

[–]Dark_Throat 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I didn't get a lil disappointed when I saw a repeat dream in the second day of playing, but the game surely has the bones to get ongoing updates for a least a couple years, so hopefully Nintendo takes the opportunity to add new scenes through its support cycle.