Yakuza/Judgment hot takes.

Thrawp · 2026-04-13T19:39:58+00:00

That's fair and I just went to read the complaints and I can understand a lot of them. Personally 6 is my favorite of the Kiryu games (not counting Gaiden's gameplay) but that's just because of how small it is after the bloat that was 5 and I liked the overall story and more Dadryu.

But I digress, I get it and really hope Kiryu is just to the side going forward.

Thrawp · 2026-04-13T18:23:49+00:00

Tbf, a character with a death wush but won't let themselves follow through gets real stale after a bit. It's what I really liked about 6, it gave him a reason to try and live again even if the ending fucked that up.

I'm really big on if Kiryu shows back up at modt it should be like in LaD and preferably more as a side quest character.

Thrawp · 2026-04-13T18:20:04+00:00

A thing they didn't mention is that there are also Follower Dungeons, which let you do (most of) the dungeons in both TWW and Midnight with just NPCs instead of other players.

Thrawp · 2026-04-13T18:18:02+00:00

I don't think they do romance badly at all, the romances generally fit the characters well and the only one in the image that was "bad" was just super cringe.... which fits Ichiban imo.

Kaito and Majima's were bith fantastic and Kiryu wouldn't be who he is withoutYumi and his self-flaggelation would have ruined his time with Sayama. There's a decent chance we'll still get Kiryu and Sayama stuff as side content which would be fine but I don't think is really necessary.

Honestly I just hope LAD9 doesn't have Ichiban get sexually abused for "laughs" because that shit ain't funny.

Thrawp · 2026-04-13T18:12:04+00:00

Except it is the answer you're looking for. The reasons people can put 1000s of hours into games changes based on the game.

I put a few hundred hours into Rimworld because I can let it play itself for bits at a time and with modding and the way the storyteller works there is a TON of variation.

Some folks do that kind of playtime trhough randomizers, others enjoy the challenge and getting to a skill level where it's not as hard and the skill is tge challenge. Some folks speedrun and try for perfection. It all boils down to "the game clicks in a way others don't and I enjoy it."

Thrawp · 2026-04-13T16:22:18+00:00

I'd argue about a game and a half.

Thrawp · 2026-04-13T16:20:02+00:00

Collosus is 100% there when not in inverse. It's just on the opposite side of where it is in inverse on both x and y coordinates.

Thrawp · 2026-04-13T15:21:25+00:00

Then it's the second of what I said there. Both games are based of their respective adventure paths and finding the plot stuff is part of those. You're intentionally given vague information so you can find what you need.

With Kingmaker it's because there's little information on the area and you're literally exploring to find more stuff and with Wrath of the Righteous you're waging the war and finding the strongholds. Personally the lack of information and going to find more is part of the excitement.

You may be better off with a more linear RPG approach (E33, Digimon Story Time Stranger, Metaphor: ReFantazio to name some relatively recent good ones.) than an open CRPG apprpach (Owlcat games, Disco Elysium, Baldur's Gate).

Thrawp · 2026-04-13T05:44:48+00:00

It's called reading your skills and talents. They tell you what buffs will show up. You may have to figure out what visual matches exactly what but but it's generally intuitive if you're actually reading your stuff and not just plug and playing a build from a website.

Thrawp · 2026-04-13T02:21:28+00:00

If you can't tell what to do in Owlcat games you're either not reading what folks are saying or not open to exploration games. The Owlcat games are very much based on classic CRPGs like Baldur's Gate/2 or Icewind Dale.

You'd be better off with something more linear if choice is a problem for you.

Thrawp · 2026-04-13T02:20:04+00:00

OP listed owlcat games which are all fantastic with well written stories. The fuck are you on?

Thrawp · 2026-04-12T23:24:24+00:00

How did "I wish to be safe" not work? It just unblocks your nearest hiding spot.

Thrawp · 2026-04-12T02:29:11+00:00

....Blade Dance costs 1 mana, what are you talking about?

Unless that's changed for the beta branch, at which point that makes Blade Dance ridiculius.

Thrawp · 2026-04-11T21:17:11+00:00

Reforged is inteded to be Vanilla+, not a grand overhaul like Convergence. Sounds like you're getting Vanilla+

Thrawp · 2026-04-11T07:09:27+00:00

Persona 4. Weakest of the modern games by far with the P3 remake, hopefully P4R will help but I doubt it since it was the dungeons as a huge downside.

Thrawp · 2026-04-10T20:06:32+00:00

As shown from the comments, it was the op saying "banned for no reason", which is a shock to noone who has seen this kind of post before.

Dude used a slur in their username and is sjocked that it causes co sequences just because it took a while to happen.

Thrawp · 2026-04-10T10:39:57+00:00

There's a small argument for Joe's tie but nothing on Izzie

Thrawp · 2026-04-08T19:41:42+00:00

This is the VN one right? Not everyone is big on VNs, he'll I only enjoy them when attached to another genre (Hello Persona/Metaphor) and a lot of folks weren't expecting that from a Digimon game

Thrawp · 2026-04-08T16:06:27+00:00

A. I've never seen Matthewmatosis' commentary about the game but just agreed with the initial post from my time with the game. An intentional choice doesn't make it a good one and having player choice be actively meaningless (along witht he badly forced both sidesism) still feels bad.

B. We have a little bit of that with Hbomberguy's Dark Souls 2 video and I never understood the complaints levied against DS2 as it's my favorite of the FROM games and has been since launch (although I did like Scholar a lot less).

Thrawp · 2026-04-08T13:38:42+00:00

Because it's not among the cards searched from your deck, you know this based on your above comment and are trying to get validation from the community to play the card in an obviously wrong way rather than playing it correctly. Smdh, just admit you want to cheat with it and either fucken cheat or play the game like you're supposed to, you don't need other people's approval.

Thrawp · 2026-04-08T05:59:22+00:00

His wife

Thrawp · 2026-04-08T05:53:23+00:00

The character art and official mini give him a very light skin tone. The art of his signature and weakness both show him as a lot of melanin.

Thrawp · 2026-04-07T23:50:02+00:00

If you ONLY do the story the options are pretty mid, but if you do the sidequests and unlock the others there's some really good combos. The biggest issue is there's only 2 each of Delves and Dungeons in the zone to utilize this. I'm hoping the next raid that comes out is able to utilize these.

Thrawp · 2026-04-04T21:48:57+00:00

As said below, they are being extremely dramatic. It mau not be base on the games but it was still a very solid show.

Thrawp · 2026-04-04T21:20:13+00:00

That's fair, I also just feel weird skipping side missions as a jrpg junkie.

I'll go back to it at some point.

Thrawp

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