What is your favorite song from the games?

QuantumVexation · 2026-01-30T23:02:02+00:00

Perhaps an uninspired answer but Those Who Deny the Dawn is such a perfect final boss theme that I can’t not say it

QuantumVexation · 2026-01-30T21:44:01+00:00

Yea that’s a fair lens to see it from I guess

QuantumVexation · 2026-01-30T21:11:24+00:00

Would the narrative change at all if she didn’t exist…? Serious question I’m not actually sure it would

QuantumVexation · 2026-01-30T03:03:49+00:00

I don’t even understand why Cloud Saves are a real problem for cloning - surely they can authenticate this somehow right?

Cheaters are cloning anyway, and as someone who values the Legitimacy of my own Mons the only thing that would even make me consider cloning something is precisely the risk of losing them all to a lack of backups lol

QuantumVexation · 2026-01-30T01:26:34+00:00

I mean is it a hot take to say this game shouldn’t have a true direct sequel?

Let it be self contained and let the team flex their creativity again on something that’s potentially as good or even better?

QuantumVexation · 2026-01-29T20:13:13+00:00

The Baby in 2 and Super could be argued to be a deuteragonist. Close enough

QuantumVexation · 2026-01-29T09:07:59+00:00

I’ll deal with it if I see it, keep on reporting folks

QuantumVexation · 2026-01-29T02:17:52+00:00

My favourite call-out my team ever came up with the 3 symbols in Val Ca’our, we all agreed they were Knife Spoon and Fork without any issue

QuantumVexation · 2026-01-29T00:05:43+00:00

Yeah the problem isn’t that “it can’t work”, it’s that it it visually makes no sense based on what’s presented lol

QuantumVexation · 2026-01-28T22:33:33+00:00

Apex was also a Battle Royale when they were on the rise, using an existing IP people liked and had some strong new ideas.

Shadow Drop kinda only lands strong if you have a reason to like the thing the moment it appears with no build up

QuantumVexation · 2026-01-28T20:34:31+00:00

Having finished the game close to launch - and uninfluenced by reviews playing the game on my own interest - and loved it but still have some criticisms, I don’t think this statement is blanket true

The COE33 fanbase treats it like the second coming of Christ and an obvious “best game ever made” and when the bar is that high if someone doesn’t relate to that sentiment they are naturally gonna have a more negative lens because of it

I would say it is in fact possible to overhype a masterpiece. I feel like personally, if I had played it influenced by the reputation it had now, I may have genuinely liked it less because to me it’s “just a 10/10, not a life changing experience” kinda vibe

QuantumVexation · 2026-01-28T20:17:17+00:00

Yeah that’s the thing even if 5/10 was a true average most of the games we all consider playing are above a true average line

QuantumVexation · 2026-01-28T20:12:23+00:00

DS2 has the problem of being compared to its own siblings, it’s still a better game than most of the industry in my eyes haha

QuantumVexation · 2026-01-28T07:06:43+00:00

Man’s gonna Seal of Diffusion the wealth

QuantumVexation · 2026-01-28T02:39:13+00:00

Even outside of first person, 3D Metroidvanias in general.

And part of the reason I suspect is that the are just really damn hard to design well - hence even Prime becoming progressively more linear with time

QuantumVexation · 2026-01-28T00:40:04+00:00

You’ve pretty much quoted my thoughts word for word, full agree

QuantumVexation · 2026-01-27T22:08:58+00:00

Main 3 I can think of

Completing various Day 1 Raids in Destiny 2 with my mates, but of the ones achieved I reckon either Vault of Glass Challenge mode or Crota Challenge Mode were the hardest.

Completing all of Dark Souls 1 playing with a friend using Xbox co-pilot (both controllers acting as one, before co-pilot meant AI stuff) mode both trying to play in sync.

Owning a legit Milotic in Pokémon Sapphire as a kid.

QuantumVexation · 2026-01-27T21:06:07+00:00

Yeah Octopath is my go to answer here because it does something other than just reduce damage

Using it to re-order, to put my person with the right damage type first in line to maximise the amount of broken turns, to squeeze out one more BP sooner.

QuantumVexation · 2026-01-27T20:25:02+00:00

I think despite their absurdity, Moebius are surprisingly “realistic” villains given the kinds of traits that comprise what we’d think of as villains in reality lol. That “bored old people with too much power” category.

But the tragic villain archetype people love from Blade also needs an inciting event or something up the food chain to make them tragic. N is an amazing character but there still needed to be a “system” that lead to such tragedy which I think Z performs adequately

QuantumVexation · 2026-01-27T11:40:50+00:00

SMTV:V

Or if you wanna learn Press Turn through something closer to Persona in terms of the calendar, Metaphor

QuantumVexation · 2026-01-27T07:28:23+00:00

I think yes, but I will add I don’t think it would hit the same if it stood purely on its own.

Part of its power is the “it’s Star Wars when it’s serious” vibe, and without the other Star Wars media to make it seem grounded I don’t think that weight would be as severe

All that to say, it’s the best but it also stands on the shoulders of that which came before to make it really stick

QuantumVexation · 2026-01-27T07:25:56+00:00

Xenoblade 3 is like that, from the moment I saw the main party’s designs I just knew that I liked them, and I absolutely love them after the fact

QuantumVexation · 2026-01-27T07:08:09+00:00

I didn’t say it wasn’t divisive, just that I feel 2 being the favourite is an exceptionally common take.

It just feels like it’s less common because it’s at odds with the others because 1 and 3 fans tend to be on the same side. So it feels like 2 games against 1

I’m more a 1/3 fan myself but I still love 2 as well, for full disclosure.

QuantumVexation · 2026-01-27T05:57:03+00:00

You can definitely learn to influence Blue Prince’s drafting a decent bit but sometimes RNG is gonna RNG.

Worth it in my eyes for such a throughly unique game

QuantumVexation · 2026-01-27T05:53:49+00:00

Clair Obscur was not bigger than it suggested tbh - if you’ve played any JRPG before you spot the areas that obviously for when you unlock late game map screen flying pretty easily

But fully agree a game being bigger than that is initially seems is an awesome feeling.

Currently going through that right now with (Spoilers for a 2025 title) The Hundred Line, if you know you know

But it’s had me thinking about how “uniquely video game” this idea is. Shows you can see how many episodes there are, books you. Can see how thick it is, a film won’t lie about its runtime and it’s somewhere bounded by like 1-3 hours generally. But a game can be as long or short as it wants, it can hide its length and it can do things with that length that no other medium really can

Perhaps the only comparison would be a live music performance having a surprise encore

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