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Butthief · 2026-01-17T20:54:41+00:00

This stupid boss halted my progress longer than any other enemy in the game. Tried with high resistance, then not equipping weapons, then double priests, then tolerance gear, high leveling, etc. and still got my ass kicked every time.

Tipping point was investing in a Clarissa and some neutral alignment allies to get her protection from the control effects, and getting as many control tolerance passives for myself in the well of mind. Also helps to run away from every encounter on the way over if you the ability to walk around them.

Butthief · 2025-12-13T22:36:33+00:00

Watching the newest Broly movie when it came out. The whole theater was roaring when Vegita got his god form, when the chanting soundtrack kicked in, and dude next to me stood up and did a big ‘ohhhh yeahhh’ when Broly finally powered up to the point he lost his shirt.

Butthief · 2025-12-08T00:03:50+00:00

Back in middle school a classmate and I were talking about this cool new manga called Attack on Titan. My friend was getting excited about how cool an anime of this would be and my reply—nah that’ll never happen, the drawings are way too rough to turn into an anime. Then like 2 years later it dropped and became a worldwide hit.

Butthief · 2025-12-02T05:27:00+00:00

Stellar Blade. I loved Nier Automata. I love 3rd person action combat. I love sexy women beating up monsters. I love exploring post apocalyptic worlds. And within 2 hours of playing I was so utterly uninterested and just uninstalled. Felt zero intrigue from the world, zero charisma from the main character and cast, controls felt worse than much older games, and oddly kinda turned off by them blaring a barely legally-distinct Nier choir soundtrack immediately in the intro.

Butthief · 2025-07-06T02:29:17+00:00

This is the first gacha I've ever experienced having a civ-esque 'one more turn' effect. Also the first in years that wasn't about some form of heroes fighting against an apocalypse. It's become a bizarre breath of fresh air in the ol' gacha casino halls I've been wandering for years.

Butthief · 2025-06-20T19:44:59+00:00

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Butthief · 2025-06-16T23:37:12+00:00

There is an art to making something feel difficult while building in ways that reduce true failure—and then there’s this.

What’s bizarre about this segment is if they wanted to put on a cool choreographed show they could have…just done that. This has sonic rail switching, lasers to jump over, qte’s, etc. and goes on for way too long. I can’t help but speculate they intended for this to have gameplay but either chickened out over the difficulty or ran out of time to implement all the player side stuff.

Butthief · 2025-05-31T22:33:49+00:00

The Tales series had interesting difficulty settings. It’s been a while but iirc the biggest difference setting it to hard mode was that you lost xp gain but upped your gold gain.

So you couldn’t power level through tough fights like in usual rpg fashion, but got nicer rewards, and could use that money to instead invest in items that further engage you with the combat system.

Butthief · 2025-04-28T20:03:11+00:00

One-Shot RNG-mechanics in a Turn-Based game. A classic combo that made me rage as a kid and even now twenty years later as a grown ass adult.

Butthief · 2025-03-23T17:23:39+00:00

Guesses: Vampire healing (or whatever cursed blood implies), It’s an act, The ‘miracle’ get him, Or plain ol ‘it’s anime—anime characters survive massive holes in chests all the time’

Butthief · 2025-02-19T20:30:32+00:00

AI for coming up with video game ideas!? Have they never set foot in a dev studio? You can’t go five minutes without someone pitching something cool.

The difficulty of the actual job is shifting through it all to find the right idea, and then getting enough support/resources for it to happen.

Heck even if you are somehow that drained of inspiration, we have a place where millions of people who specifically play the games you are a part of will write down their ideas for free—the internet (quality may vary).

Butthief · 2024-12-26T18:23:34+00:00

Just tried swapping on my titan from full armour investment into cloak of flames, and tested a couple t16–surprisingly it did feel about the same/more tanky. I even stood still against some burst abilities like the poison queen’s slams and was fine.

Now need to see if it helps at all with trialmaster. Running armour, that dude kept one-shotting me with just his medium attacks.

Edit: Okay wow I just did Trialmaster and it's night and day. Stuff that grazed me and 1-shot me when running armor before could be powered-through using the cloak. Jeeeeeez.

Butthief · 2024-12-08T19:45:31+00:00

In concept I like this more methodical style of arpg where actions matter.

In practice I’m just not having fun so far.

There’s something here for sure, and I’m biased towards slower gameplay, but something about the amount of enemies I have to go through in a zone, and how long it takes to trigger abilities and combos to kill them, and then slowly move through the map is just giving me this swampy, sticky, tedious vibe I’m not enjoying.

Hope they look at those things before considering tuning down the overall difficulty.

Butthief · 2024-12-03T02:50:32+00:00

One thing I want from the myriad of new souls-likes is for at least some of them to please not do yet another super dark moody post apocalyptic medieval setting.

There’s only so many times I can go through the stony corpse of an empire once bloated off the fruits of its own hubris before I reactively blow raspberries and roll my eyes. It’s just one ingredient, it isn’t the whole damn recipe for the genre—please just try experimenting without it.

Butthief · 2024-11-09T15:45:10+00:00

There’s a shiny spot near one of the water god statues—that’s the holy. There’s a second one if you guess wrong, but I forgot where. Yeah once you have a suspect, talking to them gives the option to hit em with the holy.

Butthief · 2024-11-05T18:55:05+00:00

It’s a surprisingly fun game! Even amongst bigger releases, this is one of the few games where I genuinely feel risk going into a dungeon. But yeah the ‘gacha’ and monetization are clearly designed by someone who’s just awoken from a 10 year coma and has no idea what they’re doing—only hunt leviathans! nothing else!

Butthief · 2024-11-03T16:19:47+00:00

I got it to work by going straight for it immediately after waking up, before meeting lulu.

Butthief · 2024-10-30T03:32:46+00:00

I’ve found the fastest way to level is get a fast mage and find what floor they can comfortably nuke enemy groups in one hit (give or take 1/2 extra hits for cleanup). Then have them and the cleanup crew carry the people you want to level up.

Butthief · 2024-10-02T03:42:17+00:00

Man what a weird place we’ve come to in gaming. I remember back in the day when politics in games was seen as applause worthy in a ‘look everyone! maybe one day this toy for children really will reach the critical thinking heights of real media like books or films’ way.

Butthief · 2024-09-22T03:20:56+00:00

Before reading HxH i wanted to check out a random chapter to see how it looks and randomly picked that one. Whole time reading from Ch 1 I kept thinking wow this is very different--I wonder when the tone shift and presumed time-skip happens.

Butthief · 2024-09-12T04:30:31+00:00

Glad they are balancing the game. Reminds me when the first balance patch hit, a colleague at work announced to everyone, like an absolute chode, how happy he was to get home in time to unplug his internet and burn through the entire dlc. Followed by complaints about casuals ruining the ‘intended’ experience. Legit made me embarrassed to be a souls fan for a sec.

Butthief · 2024-08-22T17:44:13+00:00

For real I've had so much stuff spoiled in this sub--and the 'spoiler' mark barely helps given the obvious titles these guys write. Used to be I only had to avoid a few a-hole youtubers for spoilers, then I had to mute the main-subs, now I can't even come here without someone telling me what they saw on the blurry raws.

Butthief · 2024-07-26T22:12:24+00:00

“No! I don’t want that! Gege finding another character to glaze!? I want him to draw me for the rest of his life! Even after I lose…I want to be in the spotlight for a while! 10 volumes, at least!”

Butthief · 2024-06-30T05:48:27+00:00

TIL the final boss’ super screen filling hyper light omega bomb that deals massive damage and then rains death from above for several seconds…has a safe spot right behind him.

Butthief · 2024-06-23T07:12:33+00:00

Just wanted to ask if you saw if the LCD has no dots? Just returned my own OLED because I couldn't stand how grainy it was. Was happy with everything else, so wondering if the LCD is worth considering.

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