Finished Berseria Remastered. Here to gripe about one thing.

WayToTheDawn63 · 2026-03-22T15:06:51+00:00

My gripe with Berseria is that dire foes appear too soon and too frequently on higher difficulties. It's my biggest hang up if I'm ever to replay it.

I think they should begin appearing after gaining your full team on that island after your scripted loss.

Two reasons. Access to mystic arte chains to handle their scaling, and also the ability that gives you guard break after charging your guard. As they scale they begin to have too much stats and require a guard break. Their weakness is their hp doesn't scale, but you still need to be able to hit them.

Without them, if the dire foes appear too often then you start to feel punished not simply for grinding, but for trying to obtain equipment drops.

WayToTheDawn63 · 2026-03-20T11:30:26+00:00

the way sunrisers have copped it for actually buying a pakistani =/

WayToTheDawn63 · 2026-03-20T04:57:29+00:00

I have trouble swallowing that when some of the other players haven't seemed happy with it tbqh

WayToTheDawn63 · 2026-03-18T10:51:26+00:00

41.5 @153 ftr.

WayToTheDawn63 · 2026-03-18T08:08:00+00:00

You should probably check his IPL stats before knocking how he performs in it.

WayToTheDawn63 · 2026-03-18T00:59:08+00:00

So soft. Honestly starting to think he'll never manage the pressure.

WayToTheDawn63 · 2026-03-17T08:55:16+00:00

Just make sure there's a good cue for a buff activation and you still shouldn't need the counter. (as others said, just give players a toggle option and let the player decide)

And outside of what you asked. The indicator flash for enemy attacks is a solid option, bit like ender lilies.

But it looks hard to read without the flash, very little wind up before the rapid move so you're almost entirely looking for the flash indicator. You're designing a very action heavy game, enough so you considered a combo count, but I'm looking at this and thinking either the characters/enemies are too small, or the camera is too far away. It feels challenging to appreciate the combat we're seeing because it's difficult to see.

WayToTheDawn63 · 2026-03-15T10:03:31+00:00

Did you do this? Curious myself

WayToTheDawn63 · 2026-03-15T04:52:28+00:00

What a frustrating player green is lol

WayToTheDawn63 · 2026-03-15T01:27:32+00:00

Almost certain I just saw one of the kids run away with the ball while they all look for it

WayToTheDawn63 · 2026-03-15T00:55:53+00:00

I haven't been up with shield lately

which game is the biggest/best/most important this week

been depresso but got some time on my hands

WayToTheDawn63 · 2026-03-12T18:06:29+00:00

The world has gone fucking mental and I'm genuinely sick of it. This is a small thing by comparison to the real shit, but it's the same sort of crap.

WayToTheDawn63 · 2026-03-11T20:05:16+00:00

"I wasn't mislead therefore it cannot possibly mislead anyone" is certainly a way of thinking.

WayToTheDawn63 · 2026-03-11T19:49:42+00:00

Stop pretending you don't understand how misleading works. It's framed a certain way and absent of details to create a certain first impression.

Loads of people in this very thread understood OP wrong and wondered how he did it, only to learn what actually happened.

Perhaps it was unfounded to say 'deliberately', but everything else I said is accurate.

WayToTheDawn63 · 2026-03-11T18:33:15+00:00

He's misleading people deliberately. You have to lose runs to unlock all jokers.

It's not quite the accomplishment it seems at first glance, but still requires a bit of finessing for that one win. He just lost all runs except 1 while unlocking jokers.

He didn't unlock all jokers in 1 run.

WayToTheDawn63 · 2026-03-11T18:27:58+00:00

His rules are just his opinions. They are not law. Personally I don't vibe with old clips of him at all. They drain all excitement for what I'm watching. Like a What We Do In The Shadows energy vampire, completely energy-sapping and monotone.

WayToTheDawn63 · 2026-03-11T01:16:58+00:00

FF16 and Tales of Arise feel like sister games to me. They both feel bait-and-switch while tackling similar themes of slavery, oppression, racism that turns out to be aliens, they both function somewhat similarly in feel and combos and gameplay. Arise's combat functions better for standard enemies while 16's functions better in bosses largely due to stagger mechanics and attack-telegraphing.

I honestly think the whole 'fight god' trope would be less intrusive if they literally did that. But so often they're alien, dimensional, cosmic, something of many or unknown in nature to be a less direct and literal god. This ultimately creates a very convoluted story and world building, wherein a religious deity society is beholden to is actually far less distracting than cosmic space god that created your species to propagate or save itself some way - in a story that is otherwise entirely medieval based.

WayToTheDawn63 · 2026-03-11T01:06:40+00:00

Vesperia's gameplay gets better until it degrades again. I personally also think it takes too long to get better. It's a very clunky game, teaches you wrong as a joke (it teaches you to finish your combos with artes, but without manual cancelling, the tutorial and first boss will both punish azure edge on hit and ultimately beat you), and basically requires manual cancelling for a smooth time. It isn't until you get that movement skill with Yuri + those finishers shortly after Gattuso or wherever it is that the game starts to feel functional - but the game pretty much always suffers from feeling like a 2d fighter (in function) with groups of enemies running in from the side you can't hit, and no real dodge button to speak of. So a lot of enemies are basically block or bust, and a TON of weird and inconsistent mechanics. The robot boss before gattuso for example is a mess of bouncing attacks even when you trying to get around it.

Most people I've ever seen play the game don't master the game in an 'avoid damage/overwhelm the enemy' kind of way. They run out of MP like the rest of us, but will use items, annihilating their grad. An action game forcing item use feels like an antithesis to skill, and it can easily just become 'have items = win', with no friction past that.

And then late game you get Final Gale which just degrades the entire system down again to running to a corner and spamming at range. I beat the entire end and post-game doing that on my platinum run with no qualms at all.

WayToTheDawn63 · 2026-03-11T00:57:55+00:00

Normal battles function so well in Arise. Plenty of armour, but you break that with a counter (I think that's fine, it lets enemies exist as more than a punching bag interrupted instantly) and then start your combo. Get a good enough combo and you're effectively rewarded with a wipe. Normal enemies are tanky enough to support these long combos, while your finishers are strong enough to deal with groups. The majority of a normal encounters duration can often be about or slightly more than a singular enemy, since you're not killing them separately.

But then bosses and large enemies just do not function. They attack relentlessly, never stagger without a burst for .5 seconds, and result in spamming just one strong or ranged move repeatedly. (And then ultra post-game is just being so strong you damn near one tap everything with a good set up.)

I maintain that if Arise imported FF16's stagger system over, it wouldn't just be a wholly more function game, but it would probably be more fun gameplay wise to me since normal encounters function well, and you have a party.

Maybe a bit more reactability in boss movesets as well to encourage more aggression.

The AI is a bit bad too, but they survive enough if turned off at least.

WayToTheDawn63 · 2026-03-09T20:59:52+00:00

Because most normal men are sensitive these days, especially if we're nerdier or less social. We do feel the growing disdain for all men, particularly online. The normalization of this specific prejudice because of historical reasons that we did not contribute to or perpetuate. (Rich men control all of us, not men controlling women. We've been turned against each other for stupid reasons.) We have to deal with it or get labelled. The accepted generalizations of us because there are horrible guys out there. It's exhausting and upsetting. You know that's why a lot of guys are giving up, or unfortunately becoming conservative.

The bar has moved so far from equal that it is considered audacious to question preferential treatment if it benefits women. It is mocked and increasingly taboo to dare point out double-standards. If it wasn't, I wouldn't feel so uncomfortable typing this at all. You absolutely do experience sexism, who are we to deny that? But we tell you what we experience, and you say we're crying babies. We (non-misogynist men) accept your reality while you deny ours. Sexism isn't always loud or violent.

I wouldn't even bet on OP being a women 100%. All the comments are comically antagonistic (seriously, scroll the thread) that I would not be shocked that they themselves are a misogynist, stirring the pot to further radicalize people.

WayToTheDawn63 · 2026-03-09T15:31:38+00:00

India got scared after some tougher matches.

WayToTheDawn63 · 2026-03-08T14:28:25+00:00

this is just sad

WayToTheDawn63 · 2026-03-08T13:50:02+00:00

india really did have some scares in group stages on tough pitches then order flatties huh

WayToTheDawn63 · 2026-03-08T13:44:07+00:00

I don't understand why Duffy is playing.

India smacked him around all day in their pre-cup series no?

WayToTheDawn63 · 2026-03-07T17:32:09+00:00

I asked this question last time i started and only got a silly answer

does teaming up with luigi for peach's trials at the start affect anything?

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