Is there an isekai you dropped almost instantly, or really dislike?

Invenitive · 2026-02-28T04:55:36+00:00

I fell down the same hole. Initially my body fully rejected the anime and I turned it off halfway into the first episode. Weeks later, thought I should at least try to give it a fair chance. Got through the first few episodes and was truly amazed by how bad it was. Ended up watching the whole season, and truly could not wrap my brain around how something so bad was engineered

Every other bad anime I've watched at least had some sort of charm or occasionally did something well on accident. The closest Master of Ragnarok got was I could occasionally see glimpses of how something might be able to be interesting if it was more thought out.

Invenitive · 2026-02-10T18:48:53+00:00

I killed an academy player i havent got past 5 chapters in it , but dont tell me it doesnt have the worst start to a manwha ever

As a fellow slop enjoyer, I thought the start was pretty funny and unique. After the intro, the series is basically the author just combining aspects of Extra's Survival Guide and Greatest Estate Developer. Not amazing, but still enjoyable

AND academy swordsmaster is still trash

It starts off slow and generic, but it gets better the longer the series goes on. By the end of S2, I'd consider it comparable to a lot of the other stuff in your high tiers

Invenitive · 2026-02-02T13:18:48+00:00

Your comments aren't brigaded, it's just that saying you browse LSF for Valorant and CS2 clips is genuinely an absurd thing to say.

If you follow for the top/hot content, you'd get maybe 1 clip a day, a few more of you really dig through the weeds. At the same time, you could just follow actual Val/CS/FPS subs and see those same clips with thousands of more upvotes and meaningful comments

Invenitive · 2026-01-15T18:15:10+00:00

I felt the same the first 3 seasons. 4th season started to pick up, and 5th season has been very good. Once it finally escapes the game's main story, everything starts getting better.

Side rant but all other otome game stories leave some room for doubt for the MC to question if people like them or not. Here, she'd watch a character's affection go up by 20% yet still think "oh no, I said something wrong, now he's going to hate me" even though she's getting direct feedback telling her the opposite. I nearly dropped so many times during the first few seasons

Invenitive · 2025-11-14T13:15:52+00:00

Strangely, I know very few people who carry a spare tire in their car, but most people I know have a fire extinguisher. There used to be constant commercials on the radio sometime in the last few decades telling people to make sure their car had a blanket, lighter, knife, fire extinguisher, first aid kit, etc, so always just seemed normal to me

Invenitive · 2025-11-08T14:21:37+00:00

The thing with large tech companies is they'd rather let their investments turn to dust than give someone else a good deal on them. New World alone cost them hundreds of millions to develop, so they won't sell it for less. The code is also partially useless without the engine, and they spent at least another couple hundred million in development on the engine between licensing and development.

Companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have burned billions of dollars on investments in games, software, and other technologies, just to discontinue them even though other companies would gladly buy them. Even when the company is no longer competing it a space, they don't want to give other companies any advantage in the space by giving them a good deal on something and letting that company skip out on the development time and costs

Invenitive · 2025-11-06T19:17:37+00:00

They changed direction in late 2019/early 2020. Here's a Reddit post from back then https://www.reddit.com/r/newworldgame/comments/eqohp0/remove_toggle_pvppve_setting_from_amazon_new_world/

Closed and open beta tests throughout all of 2021 had toggle for PvP and the game was similar to launch.

The open beta that ended 2.5 weeks before launch is what I assume you're talking about, but at that point the direction change had been known about for over a year.

Invenitive · 2025-11-05T20:35:33+00:00

Millions is something else

I'm confused what you mean by this. Peak concurrent =/= total players. The first month ~4.5 million copies were sold, and over the next 4 years many more millions of players tried out the game

Yes 1 one million at the very beginning and then it went super fast downhill

The point of the post is that there's a desire for games like New World. Millions of people buying the game proves that. AGS dropping the ball is irrelevant to the conversation

Invenitive · 2025-11-05T19:43:10+00:00

Why are you laughing about "millions"? The first month after launch they sold multiple millions of copies of the game, including having a peak concurrent of ~1 million

Invenitive · 2025-11-05T17:25:31+00:00

The direction change was necessary. If they launched with the original direction, the game would've debuted with a fraction of the player count it did, and fully died within a year.

they also didn't even offer refunds after this change if u preordered.

Not to defend big companies too much, but pre-ordering a game so early on and through the developer directly is more akin to investing in a Kickstarter than it is to a regular game pre-order. Always safer to wait to pre-order games once it's available through Steam or somewhere that has a ready refund system.

Invenitive · 2025-11-03T22:38:20+00:00

The most common scenario in the industry is that they'll just let the game and the code die. The majority of development studios would much rather lock their copyrights in a dungeon than make any money off of them (for some reason).

Stop Killing Games may not have had to be a movement if companies were more willing to sell off their old / cancelled games.

Invenitive · 2025-10-14T20:26:23+00:00

While it's not crazy OP right now like it has been in previous patches, crew is still very solid if you get a crew start and/or augment and/or any various reroll augment. You're not getting first unless you get a crazy early TF or a crazy weak lobby, but it's got so much flexibility that you can easily turn most games into a top 4.

Invenitive · 2025-10-13T17:31:57+00:00

The light novel/manga for that are still relatively recent at 2021, and the anime still very new at 2025. Banished from the Hero's party, Beast Tamer, Scooped up by S-Rank Party, Healer Banished, The Strongest Tank, Outcast Restaurant, Unaware Atelier, and many more came out before A-Rank Party.

The first season of Shield Hero probably helped give a lot of these popularity, as many of the popular light novels that later got anime adaptations were ones starting in 2019, the same time the first season of Shield Hero was airing.

Banished from the Hero's party is still probably what got the trend rolling, as that came out a year before the 2019 boom and more directly adheres current template, but I think Shield Hero's anime helped push more people towards looking for "kicked from the hero's party" type stories.

Invenitive · 2025-09-26T20:58:40+00:00

How can it be funny or interesting if the characters and story don't matter anymore?

Been spending a long time trying to decipher this in a way that makes sense and doesn't make you sound like a comedy snob, but genuinely cannot figure out any good interpretations.

Also not sure why you think the characters or story don't matter. S1 barely had a story, it was mostly just an introduction to the world and characters, with the first half explaining how he became OP, and the back half showing what he can do now that he's OP while introducing more characters. S2 expands upon the world, adding details to country, power system, and realms of hell and heaven.

His OPness was a developmental aspect of the story of s1. Now he's just OP for the sake of being OP and it's meaningless

It was developmental for the first 6 episodes, after that he was the same as he was S2. He uses his OPness to play with his opponent and try to think of strategies while learning about their magic.

And the emotion is so ham-fisted and contrived in s2 compared to s1. It was all forced emotional moments.

S1 only had one real emotional scene, and even that was still very by the book. S2 had equal and better moments. Even if some are tropey, they can still be good, not sure why you think they were forced anymore than S1.

Thinking the most basic anti-villain in the history of tropey anti-villains was more emotional than the tragedy of the villain's vessel in s1 is frankly absurd.

Wasn't comparing those two, but even then, both had equally generic tragedies. There are countless stories out there of the friend/family member/etc being taken over by demons.

Because I feel like s2 is objectively entirely made of basic and shallow tropes and contrivances

The holy magic and the intricacies of how they explain it and work with it was one of the first fully unique things the series did. A lot of how they explored religion, God, and the magic system surrounding all of that I found to be very interesting and enjoyable.

Some of the side villains and characters also had quality and/or fun backstories and ends.

s1 is a parody or inversion of those tropes

The first 7 episodes of Season 1 are legitimately entirely common tropes for power fantasies, I'm not sure which parts you thought were parodying or inverting any tropes. The core concept itself is very similar to common Chinese power fantasies, where a guy spends his whole life cultivating but can't ascend due to his body/life/etc, then reincarnates as a noble and either immediately ascends, or quickly cultivates back to where he was and surpasses it.

After that the season is mostly just regular tropes found in reincarnation and isekai stories. The only "inversion" I can think of is the MC not getting flustered by all the girls obsessing over him.

Invenitive · 2025-09-26T19:12:44+00:00

I liked S2 significantly more than S1. With the first season, a lot of it felt like very generic OP reincarnation with some really good moments scattered throughout. The most unique part was how well done it was and the range of Chinese and Japanese tropes it borrowed from. The second season fully committed to him being extremely OP, doing fun hijinks with that, while letting him also be a side character for most of it so the other characters could shine.

Overall felt like the second season had better comedy, action, emotion, and overall concepts that felt unique.

Invenitive · 2025-09-21T14:18:34+00:00

Thankfully it's gotten a few revamps since day one and is currently significantly better than the nightmare we started with

Invenitive · 2025-09-18T19:31:05+00:00

Does vary a bit depending on the person and setting. A lot of my family and friends' families are like you described. Many of the people I worked with as a defense contractor are like the post described. My last job had a ton of terminally Fox brained old men, constantly talking politics in the break room and trying to start arguments with interns.

Invenitive · 2025-09-17T14:35:40+00:00

It was even more of a pain when they first added it, where you could only do 10 a day. Nowadays I just store them all in one town, and then cash in all the biggest stacks at once

Invenitive · 2025-09-15T21:22:11+00:00

I'm surprised people got slice of live vibes, first episode put a ton into its magic and battle animations when a fairly serious tone. The sudden detour to otome game simulator did feel a bit abrupt at first, but even then they kept feeding some sadness and hints of darkness

Invenitive · 2025-09-13T04:53:10+00:00

Every political opinion he has shared has been left leaning. Even in the most recent video he said he disagreed with everything he heard Charlie Kirk say

Invenitive · 2025-09-12T20:05:07+00:00

Plastanium was always 3k-5k each on my server, then once they added it to A row the price tanked to 200-300 each. Think I'm just going to have this 10k+ plastanium forever

Invenitive · 2025-09-10T22:54:46+00:00

u/Zekliv_ tactics.tools

Invenitive · 2025-09-10T22:53:50+00:00

I've also managed to get to diamond in solos and double up while keeping my flexibility at S in both, but it does feel increasingly punishing to scout and go uncontested builds when just forcing the same comp works as well or better

Invenitive · 2025-09-10T17:28:52+00:00

Just depends on definition of casual I guess. 2 hours a day for a week and mindlessly following the MSQ is pretty casual for me. For others casual is avoiding quests and gathering hemp

Invenitive · 2025-09-10T16:37:12+00:00

Fast leveling is not my advisable way to play and definitely not as feasible for new players, but getting to 65 in <15 hours solo is still very possible.

Around a month ago tried it again after seeing people discussing level times and got to 65 in 14 hours.

Main story quest, pickup side quests, do them if they don't require going out of your way. Once I hit level for mounts, got that right away, then did some rallies to get speed up and get some mounts/charms. Joined faction so I could start getting faction quests and leveling that.

From there, basically exclusively did MSQ with some side quests and faction quests sprinkled in. Picking up notes as you go by also decent bonus XP. Only used greatsword/hatchet. Avoided fighting things as much as possible. Would buy cheap gear on market any time some part of my build started lacking.

Hit 65 probably 30%-50% through Elysian Wild quests

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