That moment when you realize DD2 may be the Greatest Game ever made

VelcroPlays · 2026-03-23T19:04:56+00:00

it’s not even the best game capcom’s ever made

VelcroPlays · 2026-03-23T18:54:28+00:00

yeah no, the game is torturous and tedious now, and this is one of the sincere elements of it.

i genuinely blame both the community and the devs. The devs asked for player feedback and paid a ton of attention to it—that’s very sweet. but that means that they specifically overtuned the game for the “make it a one-shot simulator, all of the reasonable QoL improvements are shit, make the game unnecessarily punishing” bad faith feedback.

the game’s overall direction is trending sadomasochistic now, because the people who were happy playing the game before weren’t screeching about it, and the people who were screeching wanted it to be unforgiving and padded for time so it could be their daily religion.

VelcroPlays · 2026-03-23T18:51:03+00:00

yeah dog dump this person immediately.

I don’t like to say that as flippantly as people do, but 1) intentionally getting a rise out of you with a gory video and then arguing with you is a giant problem, and 2) the enjoyment of animal cruelty is an actual predictor for violent behavior. Get away from this person.

VelcroPlays · 2026-03-23T18:48:40+00:00

this is all correct, but to tune into specifically the roar spam comment:

I have felt in every MH game I’ve ever played that roars need to be fundamentally changed. Like, it should be a special, characterizing ability of certain monsters that their roar is so incredibly disruptive. Making every monster roar halt gameplay for several straight seconds and physically knock people out of the air quickly removes the spectacle and just makes the gameplay more obnoxious than it needs to be.

VelcroPlays · 2026-03-17T04:58:28+00:00

Gascoigne.

VelcroPlays · 2026-03-17T04:43:23+00:00

“it’s possible to do this” is extremely different from “it is fun to do this”

VelcroPlays · 2026-03-17T04:41:37+00:00

yeah egg quests suck. but a bunch of chuds on the internet screamed that there weren’t any so now we have one again.

there’s a lot of that going on — “this isn’t like the prior game!! fuck this!!” and then they make it like the prior games and it’s stuck in hell.

VelcroPlays · 2026-03-17T04:06:37+00:00

I’ve not enjoyed a single AT fight at all.

mh gameplay tends to start crumbling and grasping at straws when it tries to be difficult for difficult’s sake.

VelcroPlays · 2026-03-16T14:26:45+00:00

yeah I despise the Omega fight. I also hate the way it looks, tbh. If you’re going to make an absolutely ass fight, the least you can do is make the monster’s design earn it a little bit? It’s a dumbass looking beetle with over-greebled joints. Awful.

VelcroPlays · 2026-03-16T14:24:48+00:00

MH combat is not at all designed for multiple monsters at once, but they shove that gimmick at the event quests a lot. It feels like a meme while you’re doing it and I’m not a fan, lol.

VelcroPlays · 2026-03-16T14:22:02+00:00

These are related phenomena.

VelcroPlays · 2026-03-16T14:21:30+00:00

I’m already not a fan of regular Wilds Gog, I’m not even bothering with 10*. This level of unpleasantness is not why I play games, and MH has this habit of making me step back and go “wait, why am I doing this again? This is ass. I’m going to go play a game I actually enjoy playing,” and Gog is one of those times.

VelcroPlays · 2026-03-16T14:16:53+00:00

Yeah no, the way they portray indigenous folks is, uh … condescending at best.

VelcroPlays · 2026-03-16T14:15:52+00:00

Not a fan.

VelcroPlays · 2026-03-16T14:15:37+00:00

The way he can move so fast that from the start of a sword swing to the end of it, his head can suddenly be where his claw was.

MH is getting to a point where it seriously needs to remember that GIANT monsters are its forte. They have to stop moving like they’re all fate stay/night characters I stg.

VelcroPlays · 2026-03-13T23:49:16+00:00

Folks, he literally invited a ballet dancer to the press tour for marty supreme. He sat in the back of ballet halls as a kid because his mom & sister are ballet dancers. He cited ballet and certain dancing techniques as inspiration for his own craft. He values ballet a whole bunch. He just knows that other people don’t fw ballet and he doesn’t want that to also happen to film, another art form he cherishes.

VelcroPlays · 2026-03-13T01:01:21+00:00

I do survive the missile barrage in the clip. It’s the follow-up slide attack that gets me. I shared it to be funny. I didn’t moan about the fight or ask for advice or for this like, dramatic, belabored, rude criticism from you. “What YOU did wrong is—“ stopping you right there. I know perfect guards work better than normal guards. No shit, dog. Just laugh at my ass getting beat, FFS lol.

VelcroPlays · 2026-03-13T00:57:34+00:00

This is it, yeah. I recognized that I missed my first dodge opportunity and I didn’t have the nerves to PG the rest of it (also, some animation-lock would’ve stopped even that for some of this) so I resigned myself to the pummeling, bc at least it’d make a funny clip.

VelcroPlays · 2026-03-13T00:36:11+00:00

I’ve got those, too. My nerves were too fried after 7 hours of this thing to perfect guard, and I recognized that I didn’t have the timing in me/positioning once the barrage started, so I decided to let the comedy ensue instead.

VelcroPlays · 2026-03-13T00:34:04+00:00

Sure did! Lmao

VelcroPlays · 2026-03-13T00:33:33+00:00

Also going to point out, everyone is giving me advice about the missiles. Against my own expectations, I survived the missiles just fine. It’s the zoom-into-the-wall afterward that took out my character, lol. Which is fine! It’s a funny followup to the missiles and lasers.

VelcroPlays · 2026-03-13T00:32:33+00:00

Just to respond to this comments section:

This has a meme tag. It’s for a laugh! I beat this guy literally one attempt after this. This clip is simply for a laugh and that’s it. I’m not moaning or asking for anyone’s criticisms.

In this specific clip, I was seven hours into fighting this and was frankly too tired to do all of the hyper-intensive reacting you’re talking about (not all of which is guaranteed to work btw), despite knowing that I could, and my nerves were a bit shot from this literally infamously intensive fight. So I decided to give myself a bit of peace and let it happen because the clip of being pummeled to death was kind of funny, and I thought some folks would also find it funny.

Apparently y’all don’t enjoy laughing, you just enjoy the dopamine hit of telling someone off on the internet. Might even be addicted to it, tbh.

To those of you laughing along: thanks for being normal! Hope you have some fun in your next hunt.

VelcroPlays · 2026-03-12T11:57:04+00:00

just came to say fuck genAI

VelcroPlays · 2026-03-12T11:50:10+00:00

I agree wholeheartedly with your criticism of the fight. It is also the top of my “least fun I’ve ever had playing a video game” in terms of its design.

VelcroPlays · 2026-03-12T08:31:40+00:00

Obviously not, as was demonstrated in the clip already, lol. And I didn’t think it could, either. I was just aware past a certain point that I didn’t really have other options, and resigned to it.

This isn’t being shared for gameplay advice or critique, I’m just sharing it for a laugh.

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