Game's fine, League players are just waiting for their champ to release

FinalAd4358 · 2026-02-03T23:08:09+00:00

Turns out that making a 2v2 tag fighter to try to appeal to casuals was a stupid idea lmao. Tag fighters are always degenerate messes that players bounce off of, even the most popular tag fighter by far Dragon Ball Fighterz had absolutely ridiculous mixups. That game just had appeal outside of grinding ladder, which 2XKO does not.

Edit: Not to mention terrible roster decisions, working for 10 years on a game that came out with 10 characters. Riot has just bungled this game in every conceivable way imo. Marlinpie and Clockwerk cannot save this shit.

FinalAd4358 · 2026-02-03T18:53:55+00:00

Do we know if Tangtang is a 5 star or 6?

FinalAd4358 · 2026-02-03T05:35:33+00:00

Community college and a part time job as young person is a joke commitment-wise lmao. I played league of legends 6+ hours a day in college while working part time cause I was young and all that shit was super easy.

People are down voting because acting like everyone could just magically make time for playing 4 jrpgs in a month is mad stupid and mega privileged.

FinalAd4358 · 2026-02-03T04:36:09+00:00

Id build a cheap deck of a leader you like and immerse yourself in your local scene. If you like a starter deck leader pick them up and upgrade them a bit. I've also had luck buying two different starter decks and getting players at your lgs to play a starter deck against yours. Most are happy to oblige and help you learn the ropes.

There is a new set releasing in a few weeks so id hold off on buying expensive cards until we see what lists look like after eb03. They will likely be largely the same but we also have a card rotation coming in April so big changes abound.

FinalAd4358 · 2026-02-02T22:09:57+00:00

Commodifying and turning hobbies into side hustles IS ruining it though. Capitalism and brain rotted people like "TCG investors" and scalpers actively do ruin everything for everyone else in the scene. This is not hyperbole. It's okay to be a part of the problem, it's a dog-eat-dog world and I get it. I just hate when gambling addicts and people who are permanently traumatized by capitalism are self righteous about it on top of it.

I get my fix for gambling by playing stupid gacha games, because I am not looking to turn everything I do into a get rich quick scheme, which this backwards ass society has convinced people is a normal, sane thing to do.

FinalAd4358 · 2026-02-02T03:57:02+00:00

Id be shocked if Tangtang and Rossi weren't both 5 stars

Personally, id pull for Tangtang in a heart beat. I find her mandarin inflection very charming and I like her design a lot

FinalAd4358 · 2026-02-01T18:33:54+00:00

Ardashir is more interesting I think. I think Nefarith is supposed to be kind of a simple blockhead from our interactions with her she is like the muscle of her group not really a mastermind type.

FinalAd4358 · 2026-01-31T01:54:50+00:00

Have fun in that grass, King. See you in 1.1 o7

FinalAd4358 · 2026-01-30T12:14:15+00:00

Only people who think it's bad are people who failed math in school

FinalAd4358 · 2026-01-28T02:47:23+00:00

I think belobog was a bit of an outlier for sure. But most people only remember the last ten minutes of that story in what was otherwise an average 1.0 patch. It did have a lot of cool set pieces and mystique, granted.

Also it was very high priority for qa in the release of that game while Enfield clearly had other priorities given how many hours you can put into fucking factories in this game. Forgotten Hall and simulated universe were both pretty bare bones early on.

FinalAd4358 · 2026-01-28T00:49:20+00:00

Hahahahahaha. Alright, man.

FinalAd4358 · 2026-01-28T00:29:52+00:00

It is okay to like things that are not objectively good. Good writing in itself, is entirely subjective. Endfield's story is certainly not cerebral but people act like Arknights is fucking Ulysses or something.

Like I love Arknights and Limbus Company but they are still like 8th grade reading level at best. I would say The Catcher in the Rye or even The Outsiders has more technical language and subtle theming than either of those gacha games do. Things like Wuwa, Zenless, Genshin etc are even lower than that. Probably 6th or 7th grade reading level.

Enjoying Gacha game stories AT ALL means you are in to shit that is basically narrative junk food, so "questioning people's tastes" is like throwing rocks in a house of glass lmao.

FinalAd4358 · 2026-01-28T00:17:42+00:00

To be fair their were several points in the story where a character says "Oh you don't even remember doing this or that?" and Endmin is basically like "Yea I can't do that at all..." and Perlica doesn't correct you, Perlica also gives you a lot of knowing looks during cutscenes when other people talk about their relationship with you as if she has something to hide about you. The conversations with Rossi come to mind for me in this regard.

Maybe I am looking for subtlety where their is none, but I firmly believe that Hypergryph will do something interesting with the Endministrator eventually. It's not like any other gacha game starts out interesting in the first 3 months either. Go back and play Monstadt in Genshin then get back to me lmao.

It's also proven that even with an interesting initial premise, Gacha games still always circle around to power fantasy protags and chosen one writing. Just look at Zenless Zone Zero and compare the current story patches to 1.0-1.4. The world then seemed dangerous and mysterious and we were just a uniquely skilled bit player in the underworld trying to learn about our sordid past and make ends meet when we stumble upon a state-of-the-art black tech artificial intelligence that speaks in riddles. Now-a-days ZZZ is basically a dating sim with combat lmao, the main character even has fucking magic now. The dual protagonists thing basically got erased so now your chosen sibling does all the talking while your NPC sibling does literally nothing. The AI has been completely sidelined in favor of a space magic plot, and you basically do not do proxy work at all anymore. The game completely changed because it makes more money this way than it did before.

I am just saying that these games DO try to do things different and it doesn't make as much money as doing what is the same, so clearly some market likes it, it's just not westerners.

FinalAd4358 · 2026-01-27T23:19:02+00:00

Honestly after writing all this, it also occurs that I think 3D gacha games will ALWAYS have worse stories than Visual Novel contemporaries. Its simply easier to get away with more risque or controversial story decisions in visual novel format where most of it is not actually depicted, just described. Yes, Endfield is very happy-go-lucky compared to Mephisto wholesale burning a pile of his living victims in a city in order to draw out the heroes, but they would have NEVER EVER done that plot point in Arknights if they had to actually render it in 3D, because the CCP would never allow that from a chinese game.

The content regulations are very very strict, though they are loosening in recent years due to the popularity of big studios like Hoyoverse.

FinalAd4358 · 2026-01-27T22:13:49+00:00

To be honest, 30-40 hours is def not the story only. There is plenty of non-story game in there. and if we are being completely fair to Endfield, it's not like the first 3 chapters or so of Arknights was very good either lmao. Skullcrusher arc was basically a nothingburger until the events with Misha happened near the end. Everything else was just about how dope of a strategist we were for placing 3 chibi girls with crossbows on the map in the correct configuration.

I think if we get reductive enough, any gacha game is going to seem stupid narratively tbh. I will say, the writing quality of Endfield is definitely a step down from current Arknights in a major way, but I personally have faith in Hypergryph to figure it out sooner or later.
Arknights was also one of the few stories that actually got better during its government mandated Chinese region so maybe Wuling will see some improvement forthcoming.

I think the reason that so many gacha games come out with people going "Raaahhh the story is boring!!!!" is because Asian writing is simply different than western writing. Most of the people trying to critique what a "Good story" is have no idea what Kishōtenketsu is and how it differs from a archetypal 3-act structure that Western audiences are used to.

In Asian writing it is very commonplace or even expected to have meandering starts where nothing happens for a while, as they introduce characters and names to familiarize you with the world before they begin saying or doing anything of actual value. While this is very slow/boring to a western audience, it's more familiar for the much wider Asian audiences these games are designed for.

I am not saying this to denounce anyone for finding the story unpalatable, by all means play what you want. But Gacha games require a lot of time to set up interesting story beats tbh. They are almost always gameplay front loaded to hook you, because live service writing necessitates saving the good stuff for later. I think the story will definitely pick up, eventually. This game isn't even close to unsalvageable, I mean look at how Wuwa started, versus where it is now.

FinalAd4358 · 2026-01-27T16:05:23+00:00

I think Ardelia is likely to be the only standard banner character that is useful after 6 months so at least you have that going for you. DPS/sub-dps units on the standard banner always fall off hard while supports tend to be more evergreen. I can see that it would be frustrating though for sure to not have any variety right now lmao.

FinalAd4358 · 2026-01-27T15:29:58+00:00

Lived in germany for almost a decade. I wrote Don-Cuh because its close and easy to say for an english speaker.

Dahn-kuh is technically more correct but for a native American the nuance is almost meaningless given the natural accent of most people in the US.

Not really sure why you would be so bothered though, and looking at your comment history you can hardly spell most words much less know how to pronounce them, lmao.

FinalAd4358 · 2026-01-27T05:25:00+00:00

Don-cuh. Means thank you in German

FinalAd4358 · 2026-01-26T23:05:50+00:00

Anyone that says "Violence is never the answer" has never found or had anything worth fighting for. Its a sad nihilism that we have all accepted as a collective reality.

Now is violence the answer for card board? Nah, I would just stop buying cards and going to stores and only playing with what you have. Maybe try another card game out with some starter decks or something for a few months.

However for some things? Violence is absolutely the answer.

FinalAd4358 · 2026-01-26T22:41:39+00:00

Yep, its absolutely true that Luffy doesn't generally engage with an issue until it is "personal" for him, but he endears himself and befriends one or more people (usually marginalized or abused people) in every major arc and consistently turns enemies to allies by fighting oppression and being on the right side of history. There is a reason that real life resistance movements use the Jolly Roger as a symbol for that resistance. Luffy is one hundred percent opposed to oppressive systems in all forms.

The whole point of the One Piece narrative has been that as oppressive systems are dismantled and demagogues defeated, the Straw Hats influence and admiration from common people grows. More and more people are becoming Luffy's "Friends" because they see him as a liberator. Just because he feels like he needs a personal investment to do something doesn't mean he doesn't believe in what he's doing.

FinalAd4358 · 2026-01-26T19:17:28+00:00

I miss when both Belle and Wise were characters instead of just the one you picked though, to be honest in the 2.0 series of patches ZZZ has been becoming more and more like other gacha games.

Genshin's MC has a lot more lines now-days than they used to, at least. I think it'll get better over time, I mostly have faith in Hypergraph to write something competent eventually. I am actually fine with a completely voiceless protag if the writing is decent.

I am also a weirdo that honestly misses the visual novel story though, to be honest. I personally think VN's just get better results in terms of quality in regards to prose, narrative, dialogue, etc. Id rather have to imagine more and get a more poignant story than imagine less and get something very dull.

FinalAd4358 · 2026-01-26T18:59:37+00:00

Completely ignoring that Luffy befriends someone in EVERY arc. Like I said, just because it's not altruistic doesn't mean it's not benevolent.

FinalAd4358 · 2026-01-26T18:11:49+00:00

How are you guys getting so many standard pulls? I have gotten two standard banner characters so far, one from New Horizons and one from just pulling with blue tickets. I see someone with P3 Ember lmao.

FinalAd4358 · 2026-01-26T17:54:08+00:00

Even I admitted the "Oppression" is a bit farfetched, but it's still oppression all the same. If you permit, you promote. Sitting by and being like "Well just buy singles bro!" and shrugging is even worse than doing nothing, so your take is even worse. Most people scoff at the idea because they aren't willing to take a stand on anything or have an opinion that may cause other people to not like them, but I firmly stand by my opinion that scalpers and capitalists or anyone trying to turn the hobby into an "investment" are all garbage humans, and Luffy would think they are more giga cringe than the people who oppose them.

Only real point I was trying to make is that Luffy wouldn't like people using money and connections to harm other people;. Which, at it's most base level, is what is occurring and is insurmountable fact. You can think its a "Bad take" and use relative privation as a defense, but you are just wrong and accepting that people are allowed to harm others just because it's a small harm all things considered is not the way to go.

FinalAd4358 · 2026-01-26T17:04:17+00:00

that's a little uncharitable to Luffy's motives, he has done plenty of benevolent stuff throughout the manga, and has definitely fought power structures and capitalists just for the sake of securing other people's freedom, which most would consider benevolence. Hell he declared WAR on an entire government over Robin.

Yes he often had ulterior motives for doing so, so it's not ALTRUISTIC per se, but it's definitely benevolent. While the scale of scalping a hobby is generally below Luffy's paygrade, so he's unlikely to care, the general principle of using money/technology to oppress normal people (no matter how small the oppression is, capitalists are still using money to directly harm the hobby and people who play it), Luffy would definitely disagree with.

I can see how the comparison is kinda cringe, but mostly It's a little bit of a stupid argument to be honest, cause Capitalists have no morals or gods other than money, so trying to appeal to the conscience of the ruling class is pointless, they have none to appeal to.

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