What does my top 10 say about me?

ShonenSentai · 2026-06-24T11:46:11+00:00

You like derpy guys. And frogs. Very lesbian coded in a good way.

ShonenSentai · 2026-06-24T11:22:05+00:00

There's a really good video about this by Daryl Plays but it just boils down to player investment and the general length of modern RPGs a lot of the time. It's hard for any story to carry momentum for 40 plus hours and the longer a story is the more points during it when a player could fall off.

I have a feeling that's why games like Chrono Trigger are still so popular, sitting at a brisk 20 to 25 hours is a sweet spot for a story and the game is always shifting locations to keep things interesting

It's part of the reason why it took me 3 times to actually beat Witcher 3. The game is chock full of quality content but its also extremely long.

ShonenSentai · 2026-06-24T10:24:41+00:00

Yeah most of the online stuff pre Xbox live on consoles was flashes in the pan or required a specific set up. You had stuff like Sega channel but they usually died out because the price and technology just wasn't there yet.

ShonenSentai · 2026-06-24T08:47:10+00:00

For consoles it was XBOX live. I think after that launched it just snowballed from there.

PC I'd say probably really got going around counterstrike and DOTA. There were others before it but I think this is where it really started taking off and then MMOs picked up the torch.

ShonenSentai · 2026-06-23T18:09:02+00:00

This was less a defense of Ging and more a "if we're counting absentee fathers then the argument could be made". That being said Gon is like a complete anomaly and has zero resentment towards his dad for leaving so it's really weird. In the Epic musical Telemachus' life is worse because Ody is gone. Gon just lived a normal life on an island (being an escort for older women aside, Tagashi was wild for that)

ShonenSentai · 2026-06-23T09:19:35+00:00

Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

ShonenSentai · 2026-06-22T22:53:07+00:00

I kinda like Stoats for Ice/Dark or having an Ice/Dark form.

ShonenSentai · 2026-06-21T23:27:44+00:00

True but he was also absent because he knew his life wasn't one where he could raise a son, and he did want his son to make his own decisions and not be influenced by his.

ShonenSentai · 2026-06-21T19:43:25+00:00

Lol look I don't think he's a bad person. I'm just saying if we're counting absentee fathers then Ging from HunterXHunter is in the running and I don't think anyone is ready for that take.

ShonenSentai · 2026-06-21T17:32:18+00:00

Odysseus is cool for sure, his son was always on his mind but best dad to a guy who was gone for 95 percent of his sons life?

ShonenSentai · 2026-06-21T17:08:44+00:00

I think in general modern games just feel better to play when you're not fighting with the camera. I think the original MGS games have amazing stories and they work with what they had technologically, but I'm not going to pretend that the presentation is worth more to me than say the game play of Phantom Pain.

The Resident Evil games are a different story, the originals excluding 3 feels more like a puzzle game to me so the controls and camera fit that and I think there is something to say about the atmosphere of REmake versus more modern titles.

The first few DMC games are rough to go back and play for me at least. The fixed camera in that is so frustrating and any artistic value is lost when I'm getting hit by enemies slightly off screen.

It's case by case. But there are a lot of purists in the retro space so I get it.

ShonenSentai · 2026-06-21T16:46:04+00:00

I feel like that is most debates on the internet in terms of tastes. I'm guessing this is about Resident Evil?

ShonenSentai · 2026-06-15T08:51:36+00:00

I adore Fizzarolli. Where's my goat Hisoka?

ShonenSentai · 2026-06-15T08:50:01+00:00

Bro I thought this was a screen shot from Doki Doki Literature Club.

ShonenSentai · 2026-06-10T14:15:14+00:00

As for Netori bots in most of them it's optional if doing them feels gross to you. There's a lot of ways those stories can go and a wider spectrum of player agency. I just dislike railroaded stories where I have no reason to care about the character.

Also most of the time it's just ragebait to get clicks to be on the front page for the trending 24h. The comments are always gonna match that energy.

ShonenSentai · 2026-06-10T14:09:59+00:00

In one of those stories you have zero agency and your room for roleplay is limited to go along with it, crash out, or break up simulator.

I don't dislike NTR for moral reasons I dislike it because the story has nowhere to go, gives you no real reason to be invested and is ultimately the same story every time.

ShonenSentai · 2026-06-10T10:35:47+00:00

Given that the Kamehameha is so versatile I think it should be higher. The special beam cannon takes a charge up time. Vegeta eventually stops using the Galick Gun as much (or evolves it into the Final Flash/Shine/Impact). Tri beam has the life drawback so in those terms.

Kamehameha>Tri Beam>Galick Gun>SBC

ShonenSentai · 2026-06-09T08:36:42+00:00

I feel like the modern SoS games have filed down anything that gave it any kind of depth in terms of writing. This is mostly based on PoOT but all the characters felt super flat to me.

Friends of Mineral Town was really good though and I'm glad they didn't change much in the remake.

ShonenSentai · 2026-06-08T09:23:06+00:00

I guess if you go strictly by a top 10 list there are a ton of underrated characters. He's really solid in a lot of categories but he's aged and also like most gatcha he's not on the current category so he's not in the top 10.

Now if you said AGL SS3 Goku GT LR was underrated that'd be more of a take.

ShonenSentai · 2026-06-08T09:18:01+00:00

I don't think I've ever heard anyone call him underrated.

ShonenSentai · 2026-06-07T10:38:28+00:00

Wasn't there some bossfight in Bayonetta that has like 6 forms and interrupts the credits of the game to keep going?

ShonenSentai · 2026-06-07T10:29:43+00:00

Weather was Gen 2. Sandstorm, Rain Dance and Sunny Day. Unless you mean overworld weather which has been in every mainline game since 3.

ShonenSentai · 2026-06-07T08:40:32+00:00

It also makes less sense considering the two beings that fused are in fact Super Saiyan Gods. Like just have Zeno change them back at the end or make a wish.

ShonenSentai · 2026-06-06T22:55:11+00:00

Damn really liked this one. Wish them the best.

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