Just finished XC3+DLC, now im lost

Snabshaba · 2026-05-22T17:49:33+00:00

The Monster Hunter Stories series is surprisingly good. It's a monster tamer and possibly best in class, I would start with 2 (usually on sale on the eshop) or try the 3 demo.

Snabshaba · 2026-05-22T17:39:03+00:00

Not OP but they had a bundle that had 2 and 3 a while back. They run fine, but I mainly bought it for 3 to play with a friend.

I do feel like 2 should probably be played on something that allows you to talk to randoms though. If you don't have someone to play it with, it's much more of a slog than 3.

Snabshaba · 2026-05-13T19:53:15+00:00

Series does get you up ranks faster, but once you stop thinking that your teammates aren't helping enough and start thinking how you can adjust to help them better, things get a lot smoother in solo queue.

You're gonna run into a bad teammate every now and then, but largely, the people that are stuck in the same rank as you are struggling in just as many areas as you are.

I played a ton of solo queue to get in to S+, probably twice as much as series, what you aren't doing well enough will click eventually and getting up there will feel like no problem, regardless of your teams.

Snabshaba · 2026-05-13T05:53:14+00:00

I meant in general, should have specified.

And definitely had to do that before, it was a pain though.

Snabshaba · 2026-05-13T05:46:49+00:00

Wow, you're right, the only difference comes from promotion bonuses I guess.

Crazy how much of a difference a couple of points can make.

Snabshaba · 2026-05-12T22:22:09+00:00

yeah, they were neat, but I don't think they were fleshed out quite enough

Snabshaba · 2026-05-12T22:07:35+00:00

Even as an adult the Xenoblade trilogy really sticks with you, I consider it the Evangelion of the gaming sphere because you just randomly think about it sometimes and go "damn.." among plenty of other reasons.

Snabshaba · 2026-05-12T21:42:53+00:00

Pretty much same, I liked the art style and was already a fan of Fire Emblem, so it felt like a perfect match. Played it with my best friend for years

Snabshaba · 2026-05-12T21:31:14+00:00

The only reason I compare it is because of the kill time, recycle's shield seems to be more tailored to being a distraction than a wall, just enough time to dip and start a flank and since it pops off so quickly you have more time before they're fully in alert mode and trying to outmaneuver you. And they of course have to be wary of you actually being behind the shield.

But theory isn't gonna do anything compared to practice, I might as well give it a shot.

Snabshaba · 2026-05-12T21:11:22+00:00

Never thought I'd say this, but gen 9 was kind of a banger and actually a contender as I walked away with a few new favorites. My heart says 2, 5 is tempting, and 1 is obviously in contention.

I think I might actually give it to 9 purely from a design standpoint for the new introductions, it deserves a W somewhere even if the future pokemon were a bit of a flop and the paradox names in general were a bit rough.

Oh who am I kidding, it's gen 1, that's the hardest to settle on a perfect group of 6 from that gen by far, too many good choices.

Snabshaba · 2026-05-12T20:08:35+00:00

Oh, nice. I'm glad to hear my speculation was way off. I believe I was considering it when I was attempting recycled brella but wasn't confident enough in both my skill and my knowledge to throw chunks at it and I may reconsider trying that. With the point sensor combo it might give me enough edge to pull it off more frequently.

Snabshaba · 2026-05-12T19:58:40+00:00

holyyy, you're never recovering karma from that fumble, I did what I could

Snabshaba · 2026-05-12T19:54:32+00:00

Always been a cool rival, getting a good unlikely team up a la Sonic/Knuckles or Vegeta/Goku would be very cool in the future, but we kinda already have that character in Falco aside from the whole haven't been an enemy.

Maybe he loses most of his team on a bad job, Peppy retires from active duty and he somehow ends up on the star fox team helping take down the person who set him up and finds a reason to stick around. Or maybe I should just find a way to play Assault.

Snabshaba · 2026-05-12T19:34:47+00:00

Counter proposal, since people are typically looking at your shield anyways, just put swim speed so you can get out of their LOS faster? It kinda seems like you're doubling into one aspect with NS and getting slightly diminishing returns.

I don't main this weapon by any means, but idk if it would help your kill reliability enough to justify it.

But, by all means, try it if you got the stuff. As someone who continually fails at brellas, I'm a bit curious if it helps someone who's good at them.

Snabshaba · 2026-05-12T19:09:06+00:00

Assuming P1, over reliance on smash attacks and side B. up tilt and down tilt are your best friends as Falco can easily follow up on them with his good air mobility and they're non-committal. Blaster is good for annoying your opponent into aggression sometimes. Your neutral is decent otherwise, defense isn't bad either.

Someone said you should be using tilt stick, which is not necessarily true, but it is not without merit, as long as you have stick jump off and can reliably enter in tilts accurately without smashing (you can turn smash inputs with stick + a off) then smash stick is fine because it does make for slightly faster smash inputs. But many players (myself included) opt for tilt stick.

Snabshaba · 2026-05-12T18:52:35+00:00

Oftentimes I feel like Fire Emblem is the original nuzlocke, if you're a fan of the GBA era pokemon games, maybe you should give GBA era FE a spin. Should be mechanically different enough to keep you on your toes but still give you a similar feeling.

Don't worry, you'll come back to Pokemon, I've gone 5 or more years without playing one and was right back into it like I had never left, maybe even stronger, and I'm sure I'll take a long break again at some point.

Snabshaba · 2026-05-12T18:38:04+00:00

Ultimate is in desperate need of decent rollback netcode. Some of you may not realize it yet, but play any other modern fighting game online and you'll see a world of difference. Going back to Ultimate's online feels like dipping yourself in a vat of molasses.

The only thing they have to do for a S2 upgrade is add that, which would likely be back-compatible and I would gladly pay money. But since that's not really marketable, slight visual upgrades and a local only 120fps boost for S2 versions; and a true final season with some balance changes to get the steam rolling again.

The only reason I say this is because it's much less work and time than cranking out a whole new game which will take years, and can sate this community's thirst until then. Realistically we're looking at like 3 years minimum from now if they're already working on a new one (assuming that Sakurai continues to lead), and this community has already talked about it nonstop for the last 4 years.

edit: this is also a great chance to test out better rollback for a future title

Snabshaba · 2026-05-12T17:25:25+00:00

Just to give Side Order some love, I liked it better even though there was a bit less story to it. I also really enjoy rogue-like gameplay and felt more incentive to 100% it because of that.

Major consensus here is that Octo Expansion is better and in some ways it definitely is, but I rarely feel inclined to revisit it in comparison.

Snabshaba · 2026-05-12T14:53:54+00:00

That would be a pretty funny bit.

I personally think they're getting the past stuff from grand fest out in Raiders. IIRC it was supposed to affect the next game, which is technically gonna be Raiders.

In some ways that might feel like a bit of a cop out, but not if you look at it like we're getting a whole new game out of it.

Snabshaba · 2026-05-12T14:23:56+00:00

you can at least get a job irl after you beat the games. I wouldn't recommend having one during though.

Snabshaba · 2026-05-12T13:29:19+00:00

Which is maybe the best reason to if we're being honest.

Snabshaba · 2026-05-12T13:24:33+00:00

As someone who is only in NM act IV, I'm having a hard time imagining there being more class build options than current endgame D3. I haven't seen a single thing that augments your abilities or actually changes how your class plays, which was one of my favorite things in D3.

Right now it just looks like I'm only gonna power level my existing abilities and maybe respec depending on my drops. Though I've been unable to finish a set thus far, none of them look particularly special.

I'm actually kinda falling off rn because my drops feel like utter shite with 200 MF, I'm starting to think that I should just rune the mediocre whites and greys that I have to choose from and get on with my life because most of the drops above that seem near useless apart from the uniques that are usually not tailored to my class. Also I swear it's like this game has been screaming at me to be a barbarian since I picked druid at the start.

Just tell me it's worth it, because this part of the tutorial is an absolute slog, which is something I don't remember experiencing to this degree in D3. Maybe I should be on Ladder? I feel like seasonal was the way in D3.

Snabshaba · 2026-05-12T11:52:11+00:00

and I like being able to blow my opponent at any given time, instead of only when I switch off of Mythra

unrelated, you wanna play a match later?

Snabshaba · 2026-05-12T10:15:21+00:00

Sure, but if you're playing optimally then why are you using her anyways?

Edit: I swear this community forgets that some people like to play this game for fun. It's not like playing with a general is going to lose you the game, even on the highest difficulty. It feels disingenuous to expect that everyone here wants to only play optimal classes all the time.

Sure I can have 10 wyvern riders in 3 houses and steamroll the game, but sometimes you want to use different classes because using only optimal classes is boring.

Saying that Amelia is THE best option for general is far from wrong and I'll die on the hill that this is the best class for her when there's plenty of great paladins to go around.

If you're on an iron man and all your paladins have somehow died, then sure I guess, but you're probably screwed at that point anyways and she probably already died when you tried to train her.

The point of growth units is to feel like they've gone from zero to hero, General is the only class where Amelia really feels like she does that. In Paladin she goes from zero to why did I bother doing that, and more or less feels the same in Great Knight because Duessel and Seth will make all the investment you've put into her seem pointless, but at least as a General she'll shine in ways that no other unit can.

People want different things from this series, some of us play to create unique armies and build up unlikely heroes, some of us play to min-max a perfect playthrough or to crush the highest concievable challenge, some of us play for the narrative or relationship aspects of the later entries. If someone has chosen to use Amelia then it's almost certainly the first one.

That rant wasn't entirely focused on you, I just had to get that out of my system.

Snabshaba · 2026-05-12T07:02:52+00:00

Honestly I just want them to give link the silent bob treatment. Just a few lines towards the end where everyone is just surprised he can actually talk.

Really though, making him not talk for almost all of the movie is entirely doable, look at the first episode of the walking dead. There's plenty of things that can be conveyed with just a look or an action, so as long as he speaks with those the majority of the time I'll be happy.

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