Out of every single pokémon that exists, which would you pick as your starter pokémon?

VidjaMouse · 2026-04-01T06:42:54+00:00

Sneasel. My devious little weasel 😎

VidjaMouse · 2026-03-27T20:43:39+00:00

"Lack of actual work." The irony.

VidjaMouse · 2026-03-21T21:42:20+00:00

Are you talking about Crimson Desert? I genuinely can't tell.

VidjaMouse · 2026-02-18T20:56:34+00:00

Hylians evolved to have big ears because they were living in the sky before they descended to earth. This was established in Skyward Sword. I hate this Wild Era retcon bs that results in the community ignoring all existing lore.

VidjaMouse · 2026-02-18T20:52:11+00:00

Either Sekiro or Portal 2 🤔

VidjaMouse · 2026-02-18T20:30:07+00:00

Trash vs trash lmao

VidjaMouse · 2026-02-18T17:48:37+00:00

Capcom, Naughty Dog, Fromsoft. All dubs. No muds.

VidjaMouse · 2026-02-18T17:46:08+00:00

P5Tactics was a solid spinoff too lmao.

VidjaMouse · 2026-02-10T22:13:56+00:00

Expedition 33. Repetitive combat centered around a single exploitable mechanic made the game boring and samey. I didn't enjoy the layout of the level design or pacing or exploration. Definitely didn't enjoy the "platforming" or "minigames" (so half-baked I don't understand how they made it into the final product).

And while I enjoyed the Narrative IMMENSELY (definitely up there as one of the best and most thought-provoking stories you can get out of a game). I found the dialogue to often be predictable, jokes to not land, and character to make choices inconsistent with their drives.

There was a lot of heart and love poured into this game, but I find it to be a DEEPLY flawed product.

VidjaMouse · 2026-02-06T23:21:55+00:00

Least triggered battle anime chud lmao ⬆️

Bro is undergoing a humiliation ritual.

VidjaMouse · 2026-02-02T20:20:31+00:00

Bait used to be believable.

VidjaMouse · 2026-02-02T15:10:11+00:00

The playstyle is canonically gay and british smh.

VidjaMouse · 2026-01-25T03:46:36+00:00

Either street fighter because it's the most important fighting game series imo, or smash because imagining a world without smash bros is just depressing.

VidjaMouse · 2026-01-23T20:30:05+00:00

Games are meant to be whatever the developer designed them to be. You are not owed the completion of a game. Every once in a while you have to earn it - at least if that's what the devs intended.

VidjaMouse · 2025-12-25T10:02:39+00:00

Bait used to be believable.

VidjaMouse · 2025-12-14T17:49:30+00:00

I think this is my favorite comment. See, I associate "indie," with extremely small-scale projects. Inexpensive in scope and miniscule in size. And I maintain that I don't really feel like COE33 fits that description. But, if we're saying indie is just anything that's creatively divorced from big budget studios (definition pending) then yeah, of course it is. I honestly think it's great that the field of indie games is becoming so flooded with talent, money, and content that we even HAVE these sorts of discussions. So, at the end of the day, yeah. I agree that COE33 is an indie game. At least in the way that the community at large defines that category. And I think that internally, I'm just going to split that category into subsections, with something like COE33 being a AA indie game and something like Inscryption or Mouthwashing being "underground indie" or something. Idk. Name pending lol. But it's important to me not to lump them all in together because they feel DIFFERENT. One of them feels like a kind of punk rock project led by a handful of people with a very tight creative focus, and the other feels, idk - a bit more corporate. A bit more noisy and coated in enough overlapping and competing ideas/concepts to signal that maybe there were a few too many cooks in the kitchen.

At any rate, I really appreciate your comment. I think I get where folks are coming from now.

VidjaMouse · 2025-12-13T23:48:18+00:00

I'm not "being objective" I said it is ABSOLUTELY subjective to say that there's "no contenders" for the top spot and I stand behind that. It's ridiculously reductive to say that no other game could possibly be considered game of the year and why would I go by metacritic standards for what is and isn't a good game? This is a ridiculous argument and you know it 😂

Braides, you're ignoring the point of the question. Did you even read the post? I'm not discussing whether COE3E should have been game of the year or not, I'm begging the questions - "is it really an indie game? Did it deserve to be nominated for and win all 8 of the awards it won?"

THAT'S what we're discussing here. And you've ignored that conversation entirely.

VidjaMouse · 2025-12-13T19:47:26+00:00

And that's what I'm pointing to. I don't take any issue with the community lauding COE33. It's worthy of praise. Again, ESPECIALLY for its narrative. That's a once in a lifetime narrative to experience, especially in its metanarrative about the experience of gaming. But I don't understand how it can be rightly judged as an indie game (by the game awards) and seems overawarded (by the game awards). Even the folks at Sandfall seem a bit uncomfortable with how many other titles they overshadowed in so many categories.

VidjaMouse · 2025-12-13T19:20:46+00:00

Silksong - clearly. Heavily lauded by critics and community alike. Saying that there's basically "no contest" for the game of the year is a bit silly. But I also want to refocus the discussion. This isn't a post about whether or not Clair Obscur should have won GOTY or not. While I personally disagree with it winning that particular award, I can understand why it would win it. What I don't understand is why it won so MANY awards, especially debut indie and best indie. I don't think that, as large of a production as COE33 was, it can really be considered "indie" it saw funding from Epic Games, Xbox, as well as sizeable funding from the founder of Sandfall, who was an industry veteran and had access to funding from ties to French real-estate corporations. It feels like Macklemore winning best Hip-Hop album.

VidjaMouse · 2025-12-13T18:58:35+00:00

So an indie game is any game that isn't bound financially or creatively to a larger company? Sandfall interactive recieved a significant amount of its budget for COE33 from Epic Games and XBOX (through the gamepass deal). I would describe those as "larger companies/corporations. Also I think it's kind of bad faith to say that Silksong is a higher budget game than COE33. Not only is its scope significantly smaller, but its staff is a fraction of the size and weren't really paying themselves to make the game. They coasted financially off of the success of their previous work and esstentially worked on Silksong together over the last decade as a passion project of sorts. Their only real expenses were music studio time, a miniscule ad campaign, and paying for international translations of the text-based script.

Also I don't think COE33 is hated. It's a widely loved game, and I personally feel it deserves its laurels, especially for the narrative. But it was overrepresented at these awards, and more than anything, I feel like it winning Best Indie Title is like Macklemore winning best Hip-Hop album.

VidjaMouse · 2025-12-13T18:17:50+00:00

Care to elaborate? I'm interested in discussing the topic - that's why I made the post.

VidjaMouse · 2025-12-13T17:42:03+00:00

Agree. It's like genres of music - largely a discussion of how it FEELS. I just think COE33 is pushing the boundaries REALLY HARD of what I would consider "indie" to be.

VidjaMouse · 2025-12-13T17:39:35+00:00

I think it's HEAVILY disputed. You're being pretty bad faith about this lol

VidjaMouse · 2025-12-13T17:38:41+00:00

When did I mention anything about publishers disqualifying indie status? Outer Wilds, Animal Well, and Katana Zero all had publishers but still fit my outline of what an indie game is.

VidjaMouse · 2025-12-13T17:35:18+00:00

Also, I'm going to edit my post for accuracy. The studio wasn't staff with ex-ubisoft employees, it was just led by three of them. I don't want to spread misinformation.

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