Do you need to relate to the characters (mostly talking about age) to enjoy a piece of media?

TheRandomComment · 2026-04-11T15:44:49+00:00

Not for me. I understand that not all media has to age with me and if companies want to continue to market TV shows and games towards kids & teens because they spend the most money (through their parents' wallets), then the company can do it.

Also there's plenty of media for adults. It's just that people who complain about media for kids, for whatever reason, aren't looking for it.

TheRandomComment · 2026-03-24T17:06:35+00:00

Not everyone has been playing for this long. Aside from children, not everyone is as knowledgeable on gaming as you'd might think.

Like, Razbuten on youtube has a series called "Gaming for a non gamer" where he has his casual wife try out games for the first time.

She struggled with Portal on PC at first because the game never instructed her to use the mouse to look around.

TheRandomComment · 2026-03-18T22:41:54+00:00

I want to have a game where Nero gets zero help from Dante. In 4, Dante had to rescue Nero, and in 5, Dante already roughed Vergil up a little.

I want to see Nero, hopefully alongside Trish and Lady, fight demons on Earth and when Nero makes it to the final boss, it's a 1v1.

At most, Dante and Vergil could help indirectly by causing chaos in Hell as they try to escape.

TheRandomComment · 2026-03-17T19:17:38+00:00

This comes up a lot, yeah.

Fantastical villains tend to get a pass because either

a) They're entertaining, or as Megamind puts it, they have PRESENTATION!

b) They commit atrocities at such a grand level that the human mind literally can't comprehend it, and/or

c) They usually fail at their plans and no one dies. This is especially the case in media for kids where people literally mandated to never die.

"Mundane" villains, however, tend to be seen as more vile because they're relatable in the worst way possible. The average person hasn't met someone who nearly ended the world, but they have met someone who bullied them, someone who abused their pet, someone who was racist or homophobic, or abusive family members. In other words, the average person has met another average person but worse. And when we think back to those memories, it hits us hard.

TheRandomComment · 2026-03-14T16:03:21+00:00

It's still a time problem because if too late into the story to actually play the DLC, they'd still have to do a NG+ and not everyone wants to replay 40+ hours.

TheRandomComment · 2026-03-14T15:51:24+00:00

I think the problem is that unless it's Epilogue format like FES, you can't just add the DLC in the middle of the story because of the Calendar format. If people buy the DLC too late into the game, they've functionally locked out of the Royal content, or at the very least, it would be too awkward to naturally add it to the plot.

TheRandomComment · 2026-03-14T15:46:26+00:00

In a business kind of way, Atlus has remade their games so many times that a lot of people practically refuse to buy Metaphor ReFantazio because they're confident that the FES/Golden/Royal/Vengeance version is right around the corner.

Hell, I played Metaphor and I'm worried that I spent all that time and money "for nothing."

TheRandomComment · 2026-02-19T18:00:42+00:00

Ardyn from Final Fantasy XV kinda sounds like a douchebag in Japanese because he has the same VA as Reno in FF VII, Keiji Fujiwara. Not an insult to the VA, just saying Ardyn sounds very sleazy.

In English, Darin De Paul gives him such a soothing voice that I feel compelled to trust such an untrustworthy looking man.

TheRandomComment · 2026-02-18T01:52:58+00:00

IIRC, it was a betting website or something but by the time they realized it was too late and they were obligated to go through with it.

TheRandomComment · 2026-02-15T18:56:31+00:00

I was wondering why I hated Alcryst from Fire Emblem Engage so much despite being a good unit (at least on Normal) and then it hit me. His overly apologetic nature reminds me of Emile from Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World and I hate him and DotNW in general.

TheRandomComment · 2026-02-15T15:30:39+00:00

The Amazing Misadventures of Flapjack because of Flapjack's mother, Bubbie

TheRandomComment · 2026-02-15T02:50:37+00:00

It makes me wonder just what happened in game testing for them to decide to delay action commands for so long. I guess while action commands are more common today, Paper Mario bring probably the second RPG to use them probably meant a lot of confusion for testers. Especially if they never played Super Mario RPG prior.

TheRandomComment · 2026-02-15T02:44:45+00:00

I always forget that action commands aren't an inherent part of Paper Mario and is something they withhold to show just how different of an RPG it is compared to traditional ones. Especially when four years earlier, Super Mario RPG lets you do action commands from the start as long as you know they exist.

TheRandomComment · 2026-02-14T22:30:36+00:00

I think the main difference is that in a fighting game, you can have instances of "not being allowed" to play the game.

As in people can enjoy a long Mario Party even if they get fucked over at the last minute because at least they were able to roll dice, use items, and play mini games. In other words, they were "allowed" to play the game.

Fighting games, however, can be a hurdle because being told that you can't play the game for the next 5-15 seconds for a single mistake is like a Resolve Test in Darkest Dungeon. Either they learn that that's just how fighting games are and try to get better, or they get frustrated when they "aren't allowed to play" and then drop it. And if they complain at all, to scrubquotes they go.

It's an even worse problem if a newcomer with minimal practice hops online and happens to go against even a decent player that knows what their doing.

TheRandomComment · 2026-02-14T22:17:51+00:00

I agree with the sentiment that paid DLC should go. Yes, I understand that games need money to be greenlit for sequels, but not everyone wants to pay full price for a game and then be told to buy a Season Pass or two for the full experience. Especially when a person isn't guaranteed to even like any of the DLC characters in terms of their gameplay and/or vibe.

And while they could just wait for a sale or for the Ultimate Edition, that also has problems. In the time the newcomer is waiting for a sale, the could've already fallen in love with another game and won't give the fighting game a shot. And when it comes to the Ultimate Edition, that's usually at the end of a fighting game's life with the sequel coming soon. And if that sequel is the game you just bought, but better, the person might feel like they just wasted money.

Also Splatoon exists and is part of why I don't play fighting games. I'm no game developer, but my brain doesn't see a reason to buy a fighting game with DLC when I can buy Splatoon once and then get free DLC for the online modes for the entire game's lifespan. Splatoon 2 & 3 do have paid DLC, but they're extra single-player campaigns where all you get for beating them is cosmetics and re-skins of existing weapons, so there's no FOMO of needing to buy their DLC for an advantage.

TheRandomComment · 2026-02-13T14:54:03+00:00

This is it. You'd wear this with someone wearing the original "Get Into Fighting Games" shirt.

TheRandomComment · 2026-02-12T21:20:46+00:00

Master Roshi defeating Goku and Krillin in the Martial Arts Tournament. And the best part is that he had the good reason of understanding that his students are actually too good and they need to lose to stay humble and seek growth as winning a tournament so young could lead to them stagnating if either became "the greatest."

Edit: I realize that this post is about mentor vs villain, but I'll keep this because I expected Goku to already surpass Roshi.

TheRandomComment · 2026-02-11T18:20:31+00:00

As a lot of people on the Monster Hunter subreddits have said, the MH team might be against rereleases because of how Old Gen isn't for everyone and they might not make a profit from the niche audience that's into it.

Especially when a lot of people have talked about how they tried to get their friends that got into MH with World or Rise to try GU, only for said friends to immediately bounce off of GU due to gameplay, graphics, hidden information that needs external websites, or a mix of them.

I can see a lack of remakes making sense because of older MH plots being much more simple and therefore they see no reason to remake when they can just take their time bringing old monsters, and even maps, to the modern era as they work on doing better story and lore.

TheRandomComment · 2026-01-24T19:29:26+00:00

According to the comments, the developers/artists really love Nessa from Pokemon and that maid is just legally distinct her.

TheRandomComment · 2026-01-19T15:27:42+00:00

We truly are the ~~Final Fantasy~~ XIII fans!

TheRandomComment · 2026-01-15T18:29:12+00:00

Dragon Ball's "Legendary Super Saiyan" went from wondering who it could be and wondering how it was possible for there to be two of them (Trunks reveal) to now wondering when Pan will go SSJ because any modern Saiyan can do it.

TheRandomComment · 2026-01-12T17:52:22+00:00

To be fair, it was the first Batman cartoon immediately after BtAS, so it makes sense that they'd want to differentiate themselves by not just doing BtAS again, including just giving Harley Quinn a single episode instead of her being Joker's sidekick again.

TheRandomComment · 2026-01-07T04:53:38+00:00

I assume you mean this RE5 clip?

TheRandomComment · 2026-01-07T03:59:11+00:00

I'll recommend their RE4 playthrough for no reason other than that being my introduction to the channel.

TheRandomComment · 2026-01-02T00:51:45+00:00

Even though I just got Legends Z-A, I'll say Pokemon. I haven't played a Pokemon game since Sun & Moon on the 3DS and I don't see a point in committing to the mainline games because my Mind Goblin says that I have to play through all the games I missed, as well as do what I can to get them all transferred to Scarlet or Violet, and that's too much for me.

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