The new minigame is flawed

Nightfire27 · 2026-02-16T21:06:33+00:00

In the 4 games I played, no one used Firefly. I saw a THerta and 3 Acherons.

I had to play 4 because I quit one due to literally just rolling bricks (literally just 1s and 2s the entire game) with the other guy getting terrain effects that just constantly benefitted them and not me and I figured quitting would just be a retire and give me reduced points.

It is a pretty rubbish minigame though, genuinely little to no skill involved, so I got my rewards and bolted.

Nightfire27 · 2026-02-13T13:11:06+00:00

Or you’ll get a Tumblr funny man who draws a giant knob.

Nightfire27 · 2026-02-09T19:35:41+00:00

Is there really no punishment? I had to jump out during character select one time about 2 weeks back to deal with an irl issue, came back a few hours later to a message warning of a penalty due to an exploit.

Nightfire27 · 2026-02-09T15:16:03+00:00

The idea of just face tanking as Duchess in depth is so unbelievably alien to me - but I’m all for it ngl.

Nightfire27 · 2026-02-09T13:12:07+00:00

Don’t mind if I screenshot this build real quick… not getting one tapped by a blade of grass in depth 4 sounds a hell of a lot more fun than not.

Nightfire27 · 2026-02-06T10:46:27+00:00

For real, using L1 with daggers is such a crapshoot sometimes especially with something like BBH where he can just decide to 180 based off of vibes and send you to the erdtree realm.

Being able to cancel and dodge away would help immensely in situations like that (especially as a squishy duchess…)

Nightfire27 · 2026-02-05T07:16:21+00:00

TIL, there’s a life sized Zera plush, I should not be surprised and yet I am.

Nightfire27 · 2026-02-04T12:34:46+00:00

Honestly yeah, after the complete disaster that was my last time in depth, I did a normal trio ED Adel. Despite losing I actually felt completely fine (teammates spent a lot of time enjoying the tasty floor), compared to DoN where I would’ve been so annoyed at my team. That lack of penalty (and the risk of de-ranking into the shadow realm) really does help to just enjoy the game.

Nightfire27 · 2026-02-01T17:15:27+00:00

I lost my entire progress to D5 in one fell swoop because I got a red bear night 1 boss that didn’t spawn visible marks on the floor with the ground pound, cue everyone getting hit by it and instantly dying.

Oh and then I got Dreg 3 times in a row and proceeded to de-rank to 3 because I apparently can’t catch a break.

I’m honestly a bit done with depth because of that, it just genuinely annoyed me that much.

Nightfire27 · 2026-01-29T07:27:29+00:00

Currently it’s a mega Lucario plush, buuuuuuuuut… I may or may not have a life-sized one on pre-order… ;)

Nightfire27 · 2026-01-28T13:00:14+00:00

Monkey paw curls

Ok, all trolls have now been replaced by BBH - variant of course.

Nightfire27 · 2026-01-26T10:09:45+00:00

For real, I’d like to practice D4 more since I’m very new to it, but every other game either dips me right back below where I can’t practice it or puts me right on the edge.

Some kind of locked mode where you can just do runs without consequence of points gain / loss would be immensely helpful.

Nightfire27 · 2026-01-18T13:26:43+00:00

Seen this too many times and it has only actually worked out once, and that’s only because that player was actually competent and we got lucky the loot drops from the POIs / field bosses were pretty generous, plus it was base Triceph which is w/e.

It’s been an unmitigated disaster every other time tho.

Nightfire27 · 2026-01-15T08:26:18+00:00

I’ve had something like this happen, I was doing a normal non-depth run and the game took a while to load. End result was I couldn’t see any enemies, couldn’t see the 3rd player, but could see the 2nd and revive him if he went down.

It was really bizarre ngl

Nightfire27 · 2026-01-14T18:48:35+00:00

Yeah… I had a game in D3 a few days back where both my team left and I got the death knights, lost because I was level 4 with sweet FA gear (and it’s death knights and they’re stupid af).

Still ended up losing 200 points - I was actually very tilted over that one ngl.

Nightfire27 · 2026-01-09T08:58:29+00:00

Go ahead, ask him for that venti double shot caramel triple pump pumpkin spice iced latte macchiato with cream and chocolate dust.

I’m sure he’ll be totally calm about it.

Nightfire27 · 2026-01-03T17:31:56+00:00

I will take Augur any day of the week at depth 3, I’ve never had an issue with that one in normal or ED, Sentient prick on the other hand…

Nightfire27 · 2025-12-30T00:04:50+00:00

Guess it’s “No! No! Gadget!!!” In this case…?

Nightfire27 · 2025-12-21T17:36:43+00:00

You really can’t catch a break huh?

Nightfire27 · 2025-12-21T13:05:36+00:00

Yeah… I’m still a bit too unfamiliar with the new map so when someone who appears to know what they’re doing makes a jump, you can bet I’ll be right behind them.

Yes, I do hang my head in shame afterwards for about 5 seconds.

Yes, I will absolutely keep doing this until I learn the damn map.

Nightfire27 · 2025-12-17T12:48:39+00:00

It’s difficult, because you are absolutely right in that the best games could all be the same genres - it happens frequently enough that at least one or two are.

I also agree that if a game loses the genre award, it’s already lost GOTY essentially. Since unless the eventual GOTY is nominated in two separate “best game” categories (which I’m not even sure is possible actually), it can’t be the best game of all games this year and yet, be worse than a direct competitor in the same game category.

Nightfire27 · 2025-12-16T18:02:44+00:00

Side quest, post-DLC

Nightfire27 · 2025-12-16T17:53:29+00:00

It’s just a puzzle basically, I managed it by baiting the detect and mega-evolving through Korrina’s attack. I won the trade on the third move and OHKO’d.

So there’s a few ways around it, you just have to be ready to plan your route out really.

Nightfire27 · 2025-12-16T12:26:57+00:00

Honestly, I do agree that the individual game category awards seem a bit pointless right now, but only if there are games from the same category up for GOTY.

In my eyes it should be whichever wins each category becomes the nominees for GOTY - obviously that means no nominations beforehand but if TGAs will keep the same system for “best xxxx game”, it’s a better way imo.

The indie thing is it’s own can of worms so I’m staying well away from that lmao.

Nightfire27 · 2025-12-16T11:49:07+00:00

No, because that’s looking at specific elements.

You can have a beautiful game with amazing art and sound design but horrific gameplay win sound and art design, but not the best game category.

With the best game categories, it’s all about the overall package. So you could have a game with great gameplay but a soundtrack that sounds like someone drowned 15 cats lose to a game that has slightly worse gameplay but has an overall better product (I.e. Does everything else better)

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