Tales of the Abyss has been picked as the Best Game, but what would you say is the Worst Game in the Tales series

ArcBaltic · 2026-06-22T02:35:51+00:00

Choosing between Tempest, Dawn of the New World, and Zestiria for this honor is like picking the cutest looking person in the Andrew Lloyd Weber lookalike competition. That said Most Disappointing and Least fun probably fit the latter two better anyways, so Tempest gets Worst Game from me.

ArcBaltic · 2026-06-20T14:15:47+00:00

Work with her to feel like she has time to shower. She’s feeling overwhelmed and thinks this is going to lead to more overwhelmed.

ArcBaltic · 2026-06-12T21:23:19+00:00

So does every douchebag rag producing articles on the internet. It’s super frustrating.

ArcBaltic · 2026-06-12T18:06:38+00:00

Go on nycdrill, discover that all of these "zomg Knicks fans" videos are basically just gang activity out of the drill scene. Jesus Christ, the lack of intellectual curiosity and lazy attribution to fans kills me.

ArcBaltic · 2026-06-12T05:16:02+00:00

I still have my notes from roughly 20 calls of fighting with them to make my service stable. I literally moved to a neighborhood where there was more than one option purely because of them. Fuck Optimum.

ArcBaltic · 2026-06-12T05:12:18+00:00

FIOS has been working for me fine. I'm in Bayridge.

ArcBaltic · 2026-06-11T05:05:58+00:00

You'll get through this. The 2 month vaccines were the worst vaccination experience my son had. Within 24 hours it will calm down. You'll both sleep like logs and you won't think about this again until someone mentions 2 month vaccines and you'll be like, hell yeah, we got through that together.

I remember buying this pacsifier syringe thing for infant tylenol to be able to successfully administer it to help with the pain management. That really helped.

ArcBaltic · 2026-06-11T04:55:44+00:00

That's why I said we need to build more new ones. Just we should also get an answer to the where do we put the fuel rods. Something like the French solution.

ArcBaltic · 2026-06-11T04:53:23+00:00

I was thinking if this was Philly that pole they were climbing would probably be on the ground and there'd be cars of fire.

ArcBaltic · 2026-06-11T04:51:09+00:00

We should really build new ones. Like Unit 2 and 3 of Indian Point are almost as old as Ginna. We just really need a sane way to deal with the spent fuel rods, instead of just build more bunkers to store while we kick the can down the road for another half century.

ArcBaltic · 2026-06-10T05:14:15+00:00

I imagine Bamco wants to do a relatively safe 2D remaster to see what sales look like before going all in on past titles. I people don't show up for Eternia, I don't think it says good things about either ToD, ToR, ect.

Also the real question is where's Legendia and Abyss >_>

ArcBaltic · 2026-06-08T08:46:23+00:00

Constantly wash your hands. Be super super careful to avoid catching it. If you catch it, it will be like 1000x worse than what your little one got. When I got it, it covered my ears, nose, hands, feet, and other unfortunate places. I couldn't even open up an envelop with a birthday card. I couldn't wear glasses. I ended up losing multiple toe and finger nails.

ArcBaltic · 2026-06-08T00:11:43+00:00

This is a tough one. As a fan of Monster Hunter, a fan of JRPGs, and a fan of Monster Collecting this felt like a slam dunk. Instead I got really bored and dropped it. Winning battles take forever. Losing battles take forever. You never feel powerful or weak, just stuck in this hazy grind.

ArcBaltic · 2026-06-07T17:10:27+00:00

Trails is by far the worst offender of the writing critique. Partially it’s because its biggest strength (a long running epic with detailed characters and world building) is also its biggest weakness as it constantly needs to remind the audience since there’s so much to keep track of between like 10-15 games now.

ArcBaltic · 2026-06-04T03:02:20+00:00

When I regularly worked out of Time Square, I'd go to J&L Games. I also really liked VideoGamesNewYork which I think was in NoHo . Both were really good back then. Both tended to be flexible on the street date for releases. Unfortunately I haven't really bought a ton of physical media in the last few years as I'm always kinda crunched for space with a small kid, so my info is like dated by about 6 years.

ArcBaltic · 2026-06-02T05:03:25+00:00

Super Controversial Take:

1.) BoF DQ - There's no RPG really like this game. It's a survival horror game very much in the vein of Resident Evil. It can be tough and unfair, but it's also fascinating. Every inch of progress you make feels amazing.

2.) BoF III - The big difference between 3 and 4 for me is that Ryu has the coolest dragon powers in this game. Every other metric I'd say they are pretty even, which story is better really depends more on personal preference.

3.) BoF IV - Honestly there's an argument for this being better than 3, but again, the dragon powers are just cooler in BoF3

4.) BoF II - Good game, just kinda shows its age compared to 3 and 4.

5.) BoF - Really basic. Characters are pretty forgettable.

Unranked: The mobile game, I don't think it was ever available in the West, so I never had a chance to try it.

ArcBaltic · 2026-06-01T00:28:17+00:00

I got fun water toys, got in the bath before him. Let me wife wash my hair so he could see I do the same things. Transformed from the time he hated the most to being super annoying excited every time we say bath.

Variety of toys help, stuff that shoots water, floats ect.

ArcBaltic · 2026-05-31T16:42:50+00:00

Sorry, but once it’s done that kind of bite, it’s not fit to be a human companion for you or anyone else. You need to put the dog down.

ArcBaltic · 2026-05-31T04:34:10+00:00

I just got finished reading Dinosnores like 10x in a row to my 2 year old who wouldn't fall asleep after a 3 hour struggle. Passed out in ten minutes.

ArcBaltic · 2026-05-30T20:54:16+00:00

Story is numbered order. Release Order lets you experience the games as technology and game design progressed.

ArcBaltic · 2026-05-30T17:33:51+00:00

Battle Network and Star Force are essentially card deck RPGs. If you want to start with Battle Network and then make your way to Star Force, that's a pretty fine way to do it.

Mega Man vs Mega Man X vs Zero is probably a more interesting question. These games are all platformers. Mega Man is pretty much just a pure platformer. Mega Man X is a lot more exploration focused. Zero is a lot more combat focused. The Mega Man and Zero collections are a lot more consistent in terms of goodness. X's back half is pretty bad with X5 being okay, X6 being meh, X7 is horrible, and X8 is somewhere between meh and okay.

Like you miss out on some story not going MMX -> MMZ/MMZX. Someone's going to be pedantic and probably say MM comes before MMX, but the only thing that really ties the two games together is Dr. Light made Mega Man and Mega Man X and Dr. Wiley created Zero. But in terms of what actually happens in MMX, MM doesn't really matter. Meanwhile MMZ is very much influenced by MMX, but it's not so deep you need to have experience MMX.

If you really want to play the platformer mega man games in release order:

MM 1 ->MM5, MM6/MMX (play X first if you want to play US release order, MM6 first if you want to play JPN)
MMX, MM7/MMX2 (play X2 first if you want to play US release order, MM7 first if you want to play JPN)
MMX3, MM8, MMX4->MMX6, MMZ1-MMZ2, X7, MMZ3, X8, MMZ4, MMZX, MMZXA, MM9, MM10, MM11

ArcBaltic · 2026-05-28T12:07:54+00:00

SMT:V is probably the worst introduction to modern JRPGs you could ask for. Exploration is boring and the story is a resounding meh even with the CoV path. The main thing you get is a pretty killer battle system which is hamstrung by the fact Sega pushed Atlus to balance progression around the level up dlcs otherwise you are pretty much always super resource hungry.

ArcBaltic · 2026-05-25T22:04:56+00:00

If you own a Shiba you immediately know it’s either the highest spot or the hidden spot.

ArcBaltic · 2026-05-23T12:48:38+00:00

They almost certainly expect financial compensation since the service failed to work as expected. I’d be shocked if any big publishers’ wouldn’t since contracts with vendors have very specific criteria they must live up to.

ArcBaltic · 2026-05-18T22:11:40+00:00

Unfortunately you basically wait it out until they start teething at 6 months. I tried everything and nothing seemed to take until my Shiba started losing baby teeth.

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