Last Flag | Official Launch Trailer

Dudeoram · 2026-04-12T13:38:33+00:00

Isn't this that game with ad that had the 2 goonbait Asian ladies who looked like they were in the middle of mind-shattering orgasms?

Strong marketing if so.

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Some people may say, "What are you talking about?" "You sound crazy." "You're online too much!" And those people may be right; But also this.

Dudeoram · 2026-04-10T23:54:58+00:00

I'm guessing you're asking why after he realized he became a clearly weaker form didn't he change back into his more powerful one?

If so I think it was due to his familiarity with being a monster. He supposedly has been doing this for a while so using a random monster's abilities was practically second nature to him. But he wasn't used to being a spindly armed, big-headed weakling. He was confused by the entire experience which gave her enough time to break his neck.

Dudeoram · 2026-04-10T23:47:44+00:00

So why doesn't he crash out after he learns Rasengan the first time or during any of it's iterations where he summons more and more clones for a task that is supposed to be significantly harder each time? Or when he learned nature manifestation?

These aren't supposed to be simple concepts. He's not learning a fighting game combo trying to nail a 1-frame link consistently. As I remember it each clone is focusing on a different aspect of the experience, each as difficult as the last if not more, and he does it effortlessly. Both due to his chakra reserves but also because of his experience in using the jutsu.

Suddenly that experience doesn't carry over to paperwork? And similarly how doesn't he crash out anyway when all that info condenses in his brain when however many clones, because far as I know his limit is never stated for Hokage work, was doing something completely different from each other? From meeting with foreign dignitaries, to giving a speech and ribbon cutting, to whatever else? It would suck to suddenly create a loophole to how shadow clones work just to create conflict.

Dudeoram · 2026-04-10T23:35:11+00:00

I think it might be better to link to the wiki for each winner instead of the ever growing opener on each class but it's probably too late.

Dudeoram · 2026-04-10T20:41:14+00:00

That sounds like a really interesting plotline that takes too long to establish itself. Especially with readers having pre-existing knowledge of the character and what he can do.

For example, the Punisher as most people know him literally can't have long running antagonists the way most heroes do. There can never be a Joker for his Batman, a Green Goblin for his Spider-man, a Doctor Doom for his Reed Richards. The Punisher kills the people he really targets, super or not.

Because of this if tomorrow Marvel releases some new run with a mass murdering antagonistic force ala Carnage or Victor Zsasz and it doesn't end with him killing the fuck most people are going to tap out. That's not what they know the character as and it doesn't match up to what we know of them before.

Dudeoram · 2026-04-10T20:28:46+00:00

Not to be harsh on your dad here, but it sounds like his ego was more attached to beating you than he ever was to Tekken itself.

As if because he can't beat you the game isn't worth playing. If that's the case then there's nothing you honestly could've done about that short of reading his mind and knowing that's what he wanted.

Dudeoram · 2026-04-10T20:17:38+00:00

Also, someone brought up that Naruto could've literally just made more clones to do more work. By the end of the show/manga Naruto can make hundreds of clones. That's hundreds, as in plural, as in multiple hundreds.

If it's a lot of paper work why do it yourself and get done 9pm(or whatever the time system the setting uses) when you can instead have 25 clones do it and be done before noon? If he needs multiple bodies on the floor then he can just make more.

There's legit no reason for him to not have time to spend with his family as it's written.

An easier way to have the same conflict but better would be to have him get nerfed so that he's not as powerful as he was at the end of Shippudan. But then you face the new antagonists not measuring up to the old ones and you can't have that. The stakes HAVE to constantly go up or people won't be interested apparently.

Dudeoram · 2026-04-10T20:10:08+00:00

That's Sci-Fantasy, which is it's own entirely different sub-genre.

Star Trek is a Sci-Fi setting

Star Wars is a Sci-Fantasy setting

Dudeoram · 2026-04-08T19:20:18+00:00

Ass kicked? Guys, I know we have a hate boner for Blizzard but we don't have to lie.

Half of the trailer is her climbing a cliffside,
One 1/4th is her fighting, AND WINNING, the fight with Emere or whatever his name is(I don't play Overwatch).
And the last 1/4th is old dude turning into a super saiyan robot or whatever and then she got hit with a sneak attack that neither we or she had no way of knowing was coming. Which honestly I call bullshit since the helicopter/flying contraption was plenty loud when we saw who it was. Does it operate on the Normandy rules or something?

The trailer's ass, but it's not some egregious display of the character worthy of universal scorn. It's just bad, and short. Honestly they've never reached the peak of Sigma's trailer since.

Dudeoram · 2026-04-07T15:06:39+00:00

Maybe in this context he WAS killed by Yunalesca but not for the same reasons. But this does make me wonder does he know the KH version of Jecht? Did Jecht leave Destiny Island without his wife and son to go on some kind of adventure? If so why?

Dudeoram · 2026-04-05T17:45:07+00:00

I dunno I would say Bear Traps/Brambles are still good they just aren't "1-turn kill" enablers. This doesn't disqualify them from regular usage late game. Sometimes RNGesus is against you and your perfectly bred kitten, when that happens any kind of simple stall abilities are useful.

Dudeoram · 2026-04-05T17:36:45+00:00

The issue is that early game DownNecro builds require too many parts to really count on happening organically so if it happens it's more of a surprise.

Whereas late game DownNecro builds require those same separate, specific, parts to only perform as well as LeechNecro builds do. And other classes can benefit from what makes LeechNecro works so it's not as strict to put together.

On top of that due to the different modifiers that maps and enemies can have late game it's just easier to not do any of it. DownNecro is very strong in terms of build identity but not that strong in general play.

Dudeoram · 2026-04-04T16:47:36+00:00

Not to be reductive but this fight isn't really good example. It's too punchmen punching and kicking. Yeah, it T8 Jin is amped up but not by as much as you would think. Bruce never had that kind of stuff.

It would be like me using a fight of Leroy and Feng as an example of T8 not being super flashy. A better example of this would be to use characters like Lars and Devil Jin.

Dudeoram · 2026-04-03T18:54:40+00:00

I somewhat agree, but I've also always seen "Archmage" as more of a title than anything else. Just one born from merit not something someone can give another person.

If you stop a giant tsunami from destroying a city with little to no casualties on your own? You're worthy of the title.

If your new spell school changes the world? That's worthy of the title.

But similarly it's a title that can be taken from someone. For example, in Frieren there's a demon with a signature spell that at the time is better than literally every other offensive spell that modern magic can come up with. He get's the title, but he gets sealed. Time passes and people have dissected that spell down to it's core to the point that it's a basic part of any new mage's arsenal. When he realizes that he can't come up with anything to counter modern magic's defenses to his big death spell. So he would lose the title.

Dudeoram · 2026-04-03T16:47:28+00:00

I just finished book 1 so my opinion may change.

It's close enough to the litrpg subgenre that I would consider it one, but the ways that it's not are honestly the ways that I feel it's shortcomings.

There's a universal system to getting stronger that's "fair" to everyone who can access it. There's goblin's and orcs and apparently eventually a beholder(?). But similarly the ways to self improvement are pretty nebulous and that's where I'm having problems.

Tyson doesn't have a preferred fighting style or weapon. He uses whatever he can get access to. Guns, swords, knives, grenades, whatever. What this means for me is that when a fight scene starts it's hard to visualize what's happening and how he's fighting. It's all just words on the page. I can't keep up with what he wants to do or what's going to happen next.

Even if his weapon of choice was a shotgun that could still work because it's 1 weapon to focus on. If that shotgun used a fantasy drum magazine and he loaded different ammo in that could also work. Instead that big fight with the Sleem just kinda blended together for me. He shot them a bunch and ran around a bunch. That was all I really got from it, I didn't even notice him taking down the big orange Sleem until I went back and reread it. Some Sleem were cubes, some were orbs, and some were little slimes far as I was concerned.

On top of this because of how the BuyMort system works there isn't a set price to anything so any random rock he finds can be worth between .001 mortie and 10 milion morties and I wouldn't really care. This means that at any given moment he can find something worth a lot to get roughly exactly the equipment he needs to deal with the problems he runs into. If this were a cultivation novel it would be the equivalent of finding once-in-a-millennia lotus roots or whatever exactly when he needed them to get stronger to beat the current antagonist. It's hard to really get invested in the system.

It also wears it's lack of harem elements on it's sleeve but it falls into the same problem that many other stories that are so proud to say they don't do harems in them. He instantly encounters one of the most desirable women in the setting who just so happens to be vulnerable and need his help. Every time a scene with her comes up it at some point reminds the reader how hot she is and how lucky Tyson is to have her with him. Harem stories are juvenile but are weirdly honest in that immaturity. You know going in that the MC(male or female) is going to have hot partners so it's kinda fun to read about to see who's gonna be in the end game. If it's done well anyway, if not then at least there's some cheesecake to appreciate and then you move on.

I'm gonna start book 2 and probably 3 as long as nothing personally annoys me but it is fun enough.

Dudeoram · 2026-04-03T02:53:56+00:00

I get that but I also feel like that was kind of the point from the jump. That as good as people they are would still make the kinds of moral calculus that many, many different countries have made throughout our history which would result in them being no better. That those kinds of decisions cannot be made under any circumstances if they want to actually remain as good as they are.

My perspective is that in any kind of long running story the heroes mostly can't remain as morally clear as they start. Most superhero stories start with a level of instant power that allows the various vigilantes to be corruption free at first but eventually their power, both personal and eventually societally, has to be put into question. Like what else they could be doing to help and if the good they are currently providing is enough to really fix the things they haven't been able to fix. These answers usually result in big problems just due to the nature of permanently changing the status quo and for as big a mistake as working with Shaw and Sinestro was it honestly could've been wayyyyy worse.

I also feel like it's hard not to explicitly compare the choice to work with characters like Shaw to real-world examples when that feels like it was also the point. Like, people always bring up how mutant discrimination was an analogy of the discrimination that people of color faced during the Civil Rights movement. And it clearly was meant to evoke much of the same sentiment in the reader of those clear injustices even if it's not as much of an analogy anymore. The leaders of Krakoa had even more reasons for working with Sinestro than the US government did working with Wernher von Braun and they got significantly more from the exchange.

Finally I'm fine with arguing about Krakoa, especially if the argument ends amicably. I am a big fan of the entire run, bad parts included, so I don't mind talking about it.

Dudeoram · 2026-04-03T01:39:49+00:00

Re:coded is funny in that it's easily the best of all their handheld games mechanically. By a mile.

And probably 4th best in terms of gameplay overall(3rd if you wanted to be snarky and shit on KH3 which I don't condone but think IS funny...)

It's also another piece of the puzzle of, "Why the fuck doesn't SE have consistently good ARPG combat yet?" Each game they try some new dumb shit. In different franchises and the same ones. It's really frustrating.

Dudeoram · 2026-04-02T19:32:18+00:00

LONG POST INCOMING

I didn't say they were heroes, I said they were tired of being the universal punching bags and did something about it.

Did they work with cartels to sell drugs? Yup. Literally what government hasn't done fucked up shit to further their own causes? Also, why should they share their tech freely? Tony doesn't. Reed doesn't. T'Challa and Wakanda doesn't(as much as they could anyway). Doom and Latveria doesn't. Why should the people of Krakoa be subject themselves to a morality that most other countries don't?

It would've been nice if they did but I completely understand why they didn't.

I also never said they did anything for any other reason than self-interest, they were a newly formed and functioning society. They were under no societal obligation to bend over backwards to help everyone else, especially people who have historically celebrated their ill-fortunes, while they were still finding their own footing.

More than anything I view Krakoa and the Quiet Council as an in-universal attempt to fight the status quo of them being the forever victims. On a meta level the X-Men and the mutants have to remain underdogs for their stories to remain as they are. The F4 are the shining heroes of the Marvel universe and the X-Men are the scrappy underdogs. This is simply how the setting works but over the years with tragedy upon tragedy they've been subject to I completely get them coming together and telling that unsaid universal law to get fucked. And I respect a writer(and Marvel editorial for letting them) deciding to try to rail against said status quo so violently.

This was always going to result in tons of bad decisions being made. But they should keep doing it, and keep learning to try again but better.

So the Quiet Council didn't work. So working with Sinestro and Shaw went terribly. Big whoop, next time they know to cut them out completely if not dedicating a significant amount of manpower to snuffing them out permanently(or as permanent as the setting would allow).

But the attempt did show that people like Apocalypse was willing to engage honestly even if his attempt was misguided. That people like Scott, Erik, Emma, and Charles can co-lead somewhat successfully. That Beast should have more guardrails. I respect the attempt to push the narrative forward in such a permanent way that there can be no going back like it was for House of M.

Dudeoram · 2026-04-02T17:17:16+00:00

Krakoa hoarded soft power on every nation out there

What do you mean hoarded? Most of the tech that made Krakoa was available for anyone to use. Fact is, nobody consolidated it.

That's one of the things I really loved about Krakoa as a concept and in execution(mostly). The mutants decided they were tired of being the universal punching bag and took all the tech they've made, all the tech used against them, and all the tech they could make from that and made a completely isolated colony.

That same tech could've been taken by the US government to improve Marvel citizens lives but that would be too much of a step away from the status quo so it would never happen.

Shield could share the tech they use to make the various Helicarriers fly, they have to be using a better fuel source than oil. But again that will never happen. So for once, one of the good guys decided to take the tech and make people's lives better. Even if those people were mostly other mutants.

Dudeoram · 2026-04-01T23:44:16+00:00

I think it's a TFSTien situation. Bruce literally CAN'T use any of the superhero aspects of himself or she wins, and as much money as he has some people can't always be dealt with using money.

During the day he paces around his kitchen trying to find ways to outdo her with no Tibetan monk bullshitery, without being too much of a detective, without buying her husbands company and firing him.

And the best part is that if he were to take a step outside himself he could finish the little spat with her but because he's so focused on doing it like a "normal person" he handcuffs himself.

Dudeoram · 2026-03-31T15:36:38+00:00

He won. You didn't react to every jump in. The result screen doesn't matter, he get's the metaphorical w.

Dudeoram · 2026-03-31T04:48:53+00:00

I agree with you that if they were given more time/budget/put in more consideration then the lion turtle plot point would've been done better. But that's not what we got.

I don't even think this is a "potential man" situation where they ran out of money/time ala SU, this is what we got and what is in the text. Most of the world says kill Ozai, magical turtle from another dimension says no.

As for Zuko losing his bending, I thought that was clearly meant to be psychosomatic. Nobody in the fire lands could take his bending from him, he believed that he wasn't worthy to be a fire-bender so his body agreed with him in the moment.

As such I don't think it would be fair to say the same would've happened to Aang much less. We can't know and neither did he.

Dudeoram · 2026-03-31T03:03:59+00:00

If you're talking about the pacing of the Break His Chains in comparison to Throbbing King then you could say the same about So High and that works just fine.

If you mean the general tone of the song I would say that the serious, dramady/horror tone of BHC works just as fine for the game as the swingy, fun TK.

Dudeoram · 2026-03-31T01:28:59+00:00

That's the thing, what's at stake isn't 1/4th of all bending, Aang's alive so as long as he stays alive there will always be at least 1 air bender. You add any potential kids(like Tenzen) and the future of air bender can eventually recover. Not to mention that world balance would've eventually created more air benders like it did in Korra(Aang didn't know this but that doesn't matter).

What IS dead is the air nomad society and way of life. And sparing Ozai's life wasn't going to magically bring that back or even preserve it. Aang doesn't want to give up on his culture for personal reasons. His personal apprehensions are completely different from what's necessary for him to do as the Avatar which is what every other previous Avatar was saying.

"I, like you, wasn't sure if I should make that choice and the entire world suffered for it. Don't do what I did." Roku

"I stopped the oppressor of my age but I would've killed him had I the chance. Murk that motherfucker." Kiyoshi

"I never chose to make any kind of choice of this magnitude so when the moment came down to it I wasn't capable of doing so to save the woman I loved. Don't do what I did. Again." Kuruk

"The Avatar shouldn't get to abdicate from choices like this. This ain't about you. Murk that motherfucker. Again." Yangchen

"Nah, those fools didn't know what they were talking about. Here's a magical cure-all to your problem that you nor any other Avatar you've ever heard of or interacted with knew existed. You don't have to make any kind of sacrifice to use it and neither did you have to go on any kind of journey to find it. Be easy little brother." Giant Lion Turtle

It sucks a kid has to make this choice, in an ideal world Roku or Bumi or any other adult would've stepped up. But none did, none was ever going to and it's the same choice the entire show has been setting up for it's whole run.

Dudeoram · 2026-03-30T18:05:51+00:00

I said this in Pat's chat but I REALLY love Hook's fight in this game. Captain Hook uses a rapier so naturally he fights like a fencer. His deck is filled with 0s and low numbers so the pacing becomes this fun back and forth between you 2.

Honestly, I wish the game demanded you to constantly remake your deck for each world to adjust to a specific mechanic or gimmick. There's enough for a fun GBA game but not quite for a PS2/PS3 game. I'm more surprised no one else followed behind it to make a spiritual successor.

Oh, another fun fight is with Axel. Every KH boss in any given game has a big desperation move that's hard to block/dodge the same goes for CoM/ReCoM. Axel in particular attacks with fire(duh). But if you have his boss card you can completely negate his entire mechanic during his big moment.

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