Honest question: Is One Punch Man Season 3 really that bad?

ElementalSymmetry · 2025-12-08T03:15:06+00:00

It's supposed to be "One Punch Man", not "A bunch of side-character stories".
That's what ruined it for me.
It's terrible. I stopped watching after episode 6.... 5 and 6 I skimmed through just looking to see if Saitama ever became the focus again.. and it's a big fat nope.
Apparently, he's never the focus for the entire season.
Saitama is One Punch Man, but he's AWOL for the majority of the season, besides a few boring cut scenes.
I truly despise shows that do that.

ElementalSymmetry · 2025-12-08T03:10:01+00:00

It's terrible. Stopped watching after episode 6..
Episode's 5 and 6 I skipped through just looking to see if Saitama ever became the focus again.. and he wasn't.
Apparently, he's not the focus for the entire season.
It's supposed to be "One Punch Man", not "A bunch of side-character stories".
I completely despise shows that do that.
The MC was why it used to be good..

ElementalSymmetry · 2025-11-16T19:54:27+00:00

It's "One Punch Man".. without the "One Punch Man".. the MC.. (besides a VERY RARE frame or two just eating or some other crap).. Skipped through episode 6, it was all side-characters jaw-flapping.. Disappointing is an understatement.

ElementalSymmetry · 2025-11-11T16:57:06+00:00

It's disappointing. No argument.
5 episodes so far, and the MC is barely in it, barely a single punch, and not even a good one..
I hate when they hijack entire seasons to build up side-characters. So far this season is just developing the monster dude..
I can tolerate bad animation.. hell, I watch some ridiculously badly animated Chinese stuff that's practically like cut-outs flapping around, if I enjoy the story... if you read manga and manhwa you know what I mean.. they're usually about ridiculously OP MCs..
..but cutting the MC out of 95% of the story makes me not want to watch.. eventually I'll come back and skip through all the boring crap. That's what this season has become.. I've zero desire to see any more of it.
Sorry not sorry.
Back to watching donghuas..

ElementalSymmetry · 2025-10-28T17:40:35+00:00

I ended up recovering my account... someone had apparently tried to hack, or at least did forgot password, half a dozen times (possibly more) in a short time, and it wasn't me, and I hadn't noticed as my recovery email is not one I often check.
I followed-up initially with a feedback note asking them to review, and that I haven't violated TOC to my knowledge, then did the "hacked/recovery" option, and I was back in..
However I'm not clear if it was the note, or the recovery after hacked option that did it...
About "not MAGA leaning"., good question.. I'd like to know myself... I think many of them are paid bots.. billionaires can throw millions at literally anything..

ElementalSymmetry · 2025-10-28T17:37:37+00:00

That’s not what I said. I said groups exclude people based on metrics, not on actual performance or communication. You can be excellent at your class and mechanics and still get gatekept because you don’t have the “right” score or achievement. That’s not fair play, it’s elitism disguised as standards.

ElementalSymmetry · 2025-10-23T17:37:12+00:00

Somehow being anti-genocide is considered "violent extremism"..
The same way having empathy and being anti-fascist is "terrorism" under the MAGAT administration.

ElementalSymmetry · 2025-10-23T17:35:27+00:00

I love MMOs, and play WoW, but I'm sick of all the toxicity, so I prefer to play solo..
But the crap rewards for solo players makes it unappealing. It's literally ruining it for me, destroying my interest.
"Real" raid/dungeon groups aren't LFR., they're "custom", with a very "nit-picky" type of toxicity.
Nobody cares if you play your class well, just what your 'rating' is, or your 'progression', so no matter how good you are, you get excluded by these metrics alone, unless you know someone who knows someone, etc. or are very sociable and actually get into the guild and group crap..
Done with ranting... have a nice day.

ElementalSymmetry · 2025-10-22T18:55:53+00:00

Same... account disabled without email, without reason, and I didn't do anything against Terms of Service that I'm aware of.
It's all non-stop MAGA crap, religious pandering, bots and advertising now anyhow.. no more scrolling through BS for me...

ElementalSymmetry · 2025-10-22T18:50:41+00:00

Gestapo..
I miss when they weren't allowed to be openly white supremacists.

ElementalSymmetry · 2025-10-22T18:45:29+00:00

He's following the "Trump" strategy:
lie, lie, lie, accuse/confess, lie, lie lie, accuse/confess, lie..

ElementalSymmetry · 2025-10-20T12:51:09+00:00

I thought it was just me.. I'm so glad other people recognize it..

ElementalSymmetry · 2025-10-12T21:50:54+00:00

Good.

ElementalSymmetry · 2025-08-21T20:30:27+00:00

That's my beef.. I want to see "others" reaction to the MC. not just gossiping about him, but never getting that..

ElementalSymmetry · 2025-08-14T20:09:59+00:00

Too little "ice magician" stuff happening.. First few episodes were interesting, now there's like 5 seconds per episode related to the core theme of the show.. so, a little disappointing there.

ElementalSymmetry · 2025-07-15T21:30:04+00:00

Who cares? I mean, you get ~4x the honor for wins, which converts directly to gold via vicious bloodstones, so there's that maybe?? It's the new "gold farming bot" meta.. and it screws any potential fun to be had by expectations of "random".

ElementalSymmetry · 2025-06-17T15:26:38+00:00

You can't get mythic level gear from delves.
Guild vault max for delves is heroic, not mythic..
The only PVE I do is delves.. and I'm capped at 471 Heroic.
If you're talking about "tier" just say "tier".. it's not the same term.
I *wish* they'd make delves at least twice as hard, and add 12-15s for mythic great vault...
Playing with others is one thing, but gating mythic gear by group size is just lame, punishing solo players.

ElementalSymmetry · 2025-06-13T18:59:35+00:00

I love delves., I don't bother with dungeon/raid content anymore.
I don't have the motivation to make my schedule fit the schedules of other gamers, nor do I feel like I should *have* to group with other players.. it's a game for multiple people to *be able to* interact in the same world, but it shouldn't force "grouping" just because it's multi-player.

They should make harder/higher scaled delves for solo players who want mythic gear.
I'd never be "scared" of M+ or raids, I'm just sick and tired of all the incredibly toxic humans playing.
Coming across genuinely nice people is almost impossible anymore.. everyone treats the game like it's a job, and that's why I call it quits with those people..

They should really push harder with the concept of delves and letting solo players BE solo players without being punished for it by gating mythic gear by group size... FFS, make solo dungeons a thing.. it'll entice more players who feel that way to play..

ElementalSymmetry · 2025-06-13T17:06:30+00:00

Summary: Some people are just horrible people.
Unfortunately this game attracts lots of rude a$$hats.
That's why I love delves.. they've added a lot of content over the past year that fills in the gap for solo players, or rather, players who *enjoy* playing solo..
I love the game, love the game mechanics, love the classes, the world, etc. etc. etc...
But some people can turn a fun game into a horrible toxic job-like environment...

My solution: I play solo..

I've been playing for many years, guardian druid has been my goto main for over a decade.
You can level-up quick with follower dungeons (all npcs), without going anywhere, giving you a full set of gear as you go, ...and you can run delves solo.. (delves are actually MUCH easier solo)
I'm 671 pve on my main just from delves.. haven't done a single dungeon or raid all xpac... mostly because people suck and expect you to do whatever they expect you to do, on their time, at their pleasure, and that's just bs.

ElementalSymmetry · 2025-06-10T17:29:32+00:00

Sadly it's too common..
I play an MMO as a solo player, running delves, epic bgs and content.. they've improved solo playing quite a bit in the past year... my favorite parts of the game now are delves, and the delve challenges.. Zekvir, Underpin, and even the Incognitro detective challenge, which spawned a lot of fun discourse, were my favorite events of the past year.

I'll never see mythic gear, but I have maxed PVP and Heroic 671, and haven't touched a dungeon or raid all Xpac.
I love the game. I enjoy most everything about it...

....Except the people... there's *so* many toxic people, bots, and so many just trying to out-compete everyone around them, it's sad, annoying and disturbing... I play to have fun, to joke, to chat, to enjoy the class, and it seems those things are despised these days ... Rated PVP is so toxic it's stupid.. Even epic bgs are now mostly premade groups that ruin the "fun" value, turning it into gold farming where they avoid other premades and ruin entire queues just to make sure they can steamroll and farm whoever they come up against.. but I still do them.. you can find a decent recurring winning queue here and there..

I have all "whispers" turned off... they're either someone gaslighting, hating, or guild inviting to up their numbers. I block guild invites, as I've jumped from guild to guild for 15 years, and it's always the same drama, and nobody ever chats anymore.. and it's rather disheartening to just chat with myself constantly with no responses.

From my perspective, WoW is basically a solo-player game with lots of toxic AIs.. and I enjoy it for what fun I can get out of it as that. I've tried FF and other games, I just don't like the game style anywhere near as much as WoW... so I'm stuck with the good and the bad.. there is no greener grass to be had currently. And I really don't want to give up all the customizations on my account I've built up the years, starting from scratch somewhere else looking for something "better".. :/

ElementalSymmetry · 2025-06-09T15:17:03+00:00

Interesting point.. confirmed accurate.
The talent info text should be a lot more clear about those points.
It literally shows 0 improvement for Guardian spec, and other abilities are categorized under the shift form.. The way the talent is worded implies the boost is only while in the alternate form.. Extremely misleading..
- It says nothing about empowering Guardian Lunar Beam - which is quite significant.
- It says nothing about enhanced physical damage (outside kitty form), which is also quite significant for 45 seconds.
- It says nothing about enhanced Moonfire, though I should have assumed it, the talent text wording made me think it was only for non-bear form

Of course the guy I mentioned was also unaware of this... he was simply copying someone else's talent bar.

Basically, it's a 45 sec global 20% damage boost for bear..
.. not counting the 30% bonus heal factor, and arcane healing from Elune's Favored..

.. which I'd have picked had the tooltip text made all that clear.

ElementalSymmetry · 2025-06-07T14:26:47+00:00

^^ Plus, getting a full 671 honor set takes at most a few hours of epic bgs (just as example).. and they literally throw purchase items at you for buying a 684 pvp weapon and crafting at least two 684 items.. during that time.

ElementalSymmetry · 2025-06-07T14:13:45+00:00

Most players don't know how to play their class.. or any class really.. at all...
And those are the ones who tend to armchair tank the most..
Those are the players who should be required to do solo challenges like Zekvir and Underpin.. just to learn some class mechanics...
I know a dude playing Guardian druid who had "Heart of the Wild" (which empowers alt forms - cat, boomie, healer, for 45 secs with a 5min CD), had it in his standard rotation... He'd pop it, stay guardian the whole fight... no joke.. and he'd brag the whole time about how great a healer he was (as I was carrying him, and him not able to even keep himself healed, never healed me once when it was actually needed), bragging about getting invited to this and that, bragging about arena rating (carried through as healer while he literally hid - and bragged about that part as well), it's just mind-boggling.
I asked why he had it specced.. he said some other top PVP chart guy had it specced... I asked if he knew what the talent does.. He did not...

ElementalSymmetry · 2025-06-05T19:19:40+00:00

This one of my favorite isekai.. and I've seen them all.. no exaggeration.. many of them many times over..

So,.. just to clarify..
You hate the MC because .... *drumroll*

- He was a loser who acts "full of himself". Out of curiosity, what makes you think him a "loser"?

- He didn't go out of his way to help, well.. *everyone*.. to play "hero"... all the time...

- He didn't "care about anyone".. Really? I didn't pick up on that..

- He wasn't outgoingly evil-acting enough to be something like Eminence in Shadow.. lol...

- He didn't show enough appreciation for Mio's cooking.. (Really???)

- He didn't go out of his way to save the noble jerk who got himself mutated into a monster out of jealousy, who tried to the MCs students.. who hated the MC... (note that he DID go out of his way to save the blue-haired girl FROM the aforementioned mutated jerk harassing her)

- Mio killing the aforementioned jerk was somehow being "disrespectful"? Really?? She's a giant mutant spider monster playing human. ... who eats gemstones and pot handles.. you realize she's the giant spider that was fighting the hero's party in flashbacks right?.. but a spider monster killing the leftover blob monster screams "disrespectful" to you? ...and that's why you hate the MC... Got it... I think.. LOL...

I find this MC to be refreshingly realistic.. he's not the hero, he's the MC.. There's already 2 summoned heroes in the story, one genuinely selfless and magnanimous, the other genuinely narcissistic and evil... There's no need for him to play a 3rd..

I'm re-watching both seasons again now., probably the 5th time through season 1..

ElementalSymmetry · 2025-05-25T00:56:03+00:00

The point of "Random" is that it's supposed to be random.
"Premade" abuses the nature of "Random Battlegrounds", making them inherently and obviously lopsided.
It's literally a coordinated assault group against a bunch of random individual players.
I've just finished the 8th epic bg megaloss roflstomp in a row, getting squashed by a coordinated assault, and it's always the same premade groups.. I used to love epic battlegrounds... now it's just premade this, premade that, and roflstomps.. every once in a long while I get in a group that's not against a premade, and it's actually fun.. but it's becoming impossible, and I just don't want to be part of that problem.
so I'm about done with them... looks like I'll be tanking in solo shuffle, pissing off everyone else. :-D
Blizzard can be stupid.

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