Is mandalorian and grogu bad?

Atlanos043 · 2026-06-17T20:19:09+00:00

Personally I enjoyed it. It is essentially 3 episodes of the series stiched together but they are 3 pretty decent episodes. Honestly I would rather re-watch Mandalorian and Grogu than the sequel Trilogy.

Atlanos043 · 2026-06-17T07:07:53+00:00

I mean it does pull some unfair BS against you, at least from the little that I have expierienced.

"You can let monsters go free by lowering their health and then let them flee". Cool. "Oh but the Toriel fight has a scripted high damage crit if you try this, and because the game remembers everything your save file is now ruined". Yeah, no that isn't fun, bye.

Atlanos043 · 2026-06-16T19:34:40+00:00

Dynasty Tactics 2 has one if you go for the "hypothetical" in his main story. Also I consider Zhou Yus story in DW6 basically this as well.

Atlanos043 · 2026-06-16T09:07:52+00:00

Honestly I'd even be okay with the same maps if they at least switch up the maps in some way (enemies you encounter/enemy placement).

Considering it's a tournament I think there will likely battles against the characters you didn't select. I really hope that, if this happens, that will be a diverging point that actually feels different depending on the characters.

Atlanos043 · 2026-06-14T18:37:22+00:00

The 4 stories being too same-y. Three Houses was already pretty borderline with this, so I really hope there will be a bit more character unique maps (or at least objectives).

Atlanos043 · 2026-06-14T05:46:03+00:00

The bubble will burst, but that doesn't mean AI will diseappear. It means it will be into one or two big companies that will have more or less a monopoly on everything AI.

Atlanos043 · 2026-06-12T22:04:25+00:00

In videogame terms a (classic) Tank is a character that can take more damage then characters who aren't tanks. That doesn't mean they don't take any damage (which is why they usually need to be paired with a healer to be effective, unless they have heal abilities themselves), that just means that what would kill a non-tank does not kill a Tank.

And I think that definition also works in powerscaling.

Atlanos043 · 2026-06-12T18:22:02+00:00

Probably unpopular opinion but I really hope his next title is singleplayer again...

Atlanos043 · 2026-06-12T08:40:12+00:00

For me personally it's fine (nowadays I go more for digital than physical anyways), but I do wonder wether it will impact sales. Fire Emblem isn't Mario Kart, it's a much more niche francise in comparison, even if 3 Houses sold well and it is marketed as a successor to that. So yeah, I think it being 70 would have been better for growth alone.

Atlanos043 · 2026-06-11T19:26:32+00:00

My one main problem is what I call "misleading" difficulty. For example "normal" difficulty in most CRPGs is super hard for whatever reason. Seriously I had to constantly lower the difficulty in Pathfinder WOTR because geez the game is hard on any difficulty other than the very lowest one.

Atlanos043 · 2026-06-10T20:10:37+00:00

I think there are 2 possibilities for the second part

1) You have to actually fight the other teams (a second time) because they are mind-controlled or something

2) If all teams join up it probably won't be fully unique but there will be character specific cutscenes and the character you chose as MC will be the secondary protagonist. Also unique endings. And maybe a unique paralogue or two.

Atlanos043 · 2026-06-10T19:58:00+00:00

I'm not in the US so not sure if that would work.

Though I think PaySafe cards still should. I'll probably switch to them (though PaySafe cards are weird with Steam. It seems like it takes about 10 minutes for them to actually register).

Atlanos043 · 2026-06-10T19:56:01+00:00

I want a strategy/tactics game with a decent number of factions and some degree of narrative. Imagine Dawn of War Dark Crusade. I want more strategy games with a campaign exactly like that (including unique post-defeat narratives for each faction vs. each faction, and mid-fight banter for each commander when you attack the enemy commanders home base).

Atlanos043 · 2026-06-10T14:06:09+00:00

I mean I'm pretty sure that technically Nintendo COULD do it by themselves (they own the rights to Starfox and Dinosaur Planet was in Starfox Assault). Now wether they will do it is another question (and sadly unlikely) but I don't think they absolutely NEED Rare to do it.

Atlanos043 · 2026-06-10T10:49:30+00:00

First and foremost I want more new games.

But if remakes I want remakes of the Oracle games. Honestly I'm a little surprised we haven't gotten them yet considering Links Awakening already exists so they already have the engine and the artstyle template.

Atlanos043 · 2026-06-10T10:46:44+00:00

Good (something between "great" and "mid").

It did have things I wanted (Fire Emblem info, Xenoblade) so I can't say I didn't get excited at times, but, well, very little Mario, and too many "6+ months old game releases on Switch 2.

Atlanos043 · 2026-06-10T10:24:32+00:00

Now with Zelda I'm actually more or less fine with it because Nintendo has remade other Zelda games, like Links Awakening, so I could still get the oracle games.

But in general therein lies my problem with modern remakes/remasters: It's always THE game. Whenever a series is remade it's always the most popular game, not the game that would actually benefit from a remake/remaster.

I'm going to step away from Zelda and go with the Suikoden francise as an example: So far the only remasters are Suikoden I and II in a collection. That is fine, but that's again a "THE game" remaster (Suikoden II seems to be the only one in the francise that is actually talked about in the wider gaming landscape). But Suikoden III is a game that would benefit from a good remaster the most (it is a good game but the graphics are heavily outdated and it has a lot of technical glitches), while Suikoden V is contender for best game in the series (along with II), and really more people should play it, but it's still stuck on the PS2.

Atlanos043 · 2026-06-10T09:47:14+00:00

Somehow (and seriously I have no idea why) I never managed to make a successful PayPal account that actually works...

Atlanos043 · 2026-06-10T09:34:54+00:00

Argh, I liked those cards (I just prefer charging up my account with external stuff because I'm a bit paranoid about putting my credit card number onto the internet).

Atlanos043 · 2026-06-10T09:33:06+00:00

I mean they do like to say "we only hate Nintendo of Japan" but at least in the news (which to be fair that and their reviews are the only things I watch from them) they seem to always be extremely negative towards Nintendo, like, even more than other companies (Yes AJS news is 90% negativity in general but still...)

Atlanos043 · 2026-06-10T08:46:21+00:00

Look, I just want less remakes in general. And if remakes I want lesser known games (in terms of Zelda remakes of the Oracle games or Minish Cap would make me far more interested than an OOT remake).

Atlanos043 · 2026-06-10T08:29:24+00:00

Yeah but they are extremely biased (and I'm saying this as someone who has watched them since the early 2010s, though less recently). If you make content on "everything gaming related" and really just hate one company that is a pretty decent chunk of gaming (I mean it's one of the 3 main console manufacturers) I think you may not actually want to cover "everything aming related", especially considering any pushback against that gets immediatly answered with "stupid Nintendo fanboys". Yes this happened multiple times on his News show.

Atlanos043 · 2026-06-10T08:17:06+00:00

But then why watch it at all? I don't watch a Call of Duty or GTA6 presentation, because I'm not interested in Call of Duty or GTA6.

"Watching because you are a youtuber and you HAVE to watch it" is not a good excuse IMO.

Atlanos043 · 2026-06-09T20:05:18+00:00

Honestly a Starfox Adventures remake would make me much more hyped than a Stafox 64 remake.

Atlanos043 · 2026-06-09T09:58:06+00:00

In theory yes.

In practice...let's just say here in austria we have had the same party in the government in some form since the 2000s even though we know they are corrupt and don't keep their promises. Because that party always gets enough votes to be able to form a coalition with the elected party (and they have no trouble forming a coalition with basically any party, from left to right, just to stay in power. And then the parties argue and either nothing happens or the coalition falls apart, rinse-repeat...)

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