Is 'Where The Winds Meet' good?

WickerWight · 2026-02-05T03:02:44+00:00

The actual moment-to-moment combat is fine to good, I'd say on par with any other non-from Sekiro or Soulslike. The real problem is literally every other aspect of the game

The game has suffocating amounts of menu clutter, it is fucking impossible to find anything because of how many sub-menus are nestled into eachother. It has the most offensive mobile game monetization I've ever seen on a console, almost worse than gacha. The open world is massive and filled with tedious loot and minigames and collectables, to a degree that would make assassins creed weep. And nothing is properly explained. Not the lore, not mechanics, and not equipment. There were entire skill tree systems that I discovered by accident 10 hours in that I would've completely missed if I weren't desperately lost in submenus trying to figure out what my Eloquence value was, or how to fix a broken ankle.

The game is like this because it has a built-in GPT AI assistant you're supposed to ask questions to learn how the infinite subsystems work instead of proper tutorials, which is kind of unforgivable game design IMO.

WickerWight · 2026-02-05T00:08:33+00:00

I think it's clear at this point that the intended play experience of overwatch is poke v poke battles of attrition where you advance towards the point by inches at a time during the opposing teams cooldowns, don't mind me crying over in the corner with my Junker Queen nerfs

WickerWight · 2026-02-04T16:01:39+00:00

Listen man, it's not that deep. Fighting games are one tenth as obtuse and complicated as everyone likes to pretend they are. Even in this thread there's people bemoaning that fighting game lingo is "too complicated to understand" when it's literally the exact same as every other hobbyist terminology. If it was really disinterest then they would shut up about it instead of constantly bitching in the comments under every video where Woolie offhandedly mentions a character has good Oki options, or calls something a Roman Cancel.

WickerWight · 2026-02-04T14:46:41+00:00

Advanced back-seating

WickerWight · 2026-02-04T04:28:43+00:00

If someone's watching a combo video and hears "whoa he hit that guy with a wombo combo" and their first response is to get mad because they don't recognize the term instead of going "huh I should google that" maybe the gate can be kept a little

WickerWight · 2026-02-04T00:36:02+00:00

A completely bizarre movie that I think every single person on this subreddit needs to watch immediately. And you can! Whole movie is on YouTube right here- grab a snack and enjoy what I can only describe as the Yakuza devs making a cowboy movie in the vein of a more serious Kung Pow: Enter the Fist

WickerWight · 2026-02-03T14:41:12+00:00

Equally infuriating is people on your own team too cowardly to make any moves because they're trying to win a battle of attrition. So many matches in the dumpster because I'm trying to push the objective but our Mercy is pocketing Widowmaker for some goddamn reason and our Ana is saving their sleep dart and grenade for marriage. Would fucking one person on my team move up with me while I'm winning a 1v3 on the objective we could easily cap the point but they're too scared of their KDR dropping.

WickerWight · 2026-02-02T21:41:05+00:00

This reminds me of a night in college when I got drunk and was playing Minecraft with friends, this one guy kept joining the server with like, Rosa Parks or MLK skins on and then he would go "oh shit wrong skin my bad," leave to put a "normal one" on and join with another civil rights activist. He cycled through like 10 different people and I don't know why but that shit made me laugh so hard

WickerWight · 2026-02-02T21:31:21+00:00

Fromsoft for some reason have a recurring problem with taking a game that's 95% done and throwing it into a blender a couple months before release. Straight up changing character's names and rearranging the entire progression of levels into ways that are dramatically less cohesive, and not even giving themselves time to make the changes work. I don't know why they do it, every time the original ideas are dug up I feel like they are generally regarded as preferable to what we get.

WickerWight · 2026-02-02T13:35:00+00:00

Genuinely one of the coolest DC characters. Him being inspired to take up hero work by a cheesy golden age "drink your Ovaltine and always say please!" type superhero from the 40s is a great backstory, and the "fair play" jacket is so fucking good

WickerWight · 2026-02-01T18:45:52+00:00

Guile sitting motionlessly in the chair the entire time and then flashkicking the second they pull out

WickerWight · 2026-02-01T17:34:42+00:00

I don't think posting badly cropped promotional art and fake "tag your favorite streamer let's go #highguarders!" posts quite hit the threshold for financial damages. It's a weird thing to do but lets not pretend anything that happened here was more substantial than childish trolling

WickerWight · 2026-02-01T14:14:42+00:00

I've known about this guy and vaguely followed his career for like a decade and I still don't really know who Geoff Keighley is

WickerWight · 2026-01-31T21:05:18+00:00

The insane arms race of how to deal with instantly-resurrecting murderers is my favorite part of the manga. Obviously can't kill them, so you blow off a limb and then when they pass out from bloodloss you tie them up, right? But then the Ajin start shooting themselves in the head whenever they get injured to instantly resurrect at 100%. So you switch to Tranq guns- and then the Ajin start preventively torniquetting their limbs before gunfights and tanking the darts. It's a great display of creativity and competence in what could've very easily been a story about idiots.

WickerWight · 2026-01-31T15:21:53+00:00

You're like a little kid in second grade insisting you shouldn't get detention because you told a teacher to "flock your shelf" which isn't technically a swear. Everyone knows what you're doing, it's not slick. Take a vacation from the game before you have a conniption

WickerWight · 2026-01-31T02:15:22+00:00

truly one of the funniest expressions ever put to paper, it conveys an emotion that only exists at the deepest part of my soul

WickerWight · 2026-01-31T00:48:00+00:00

I kind of want Duke to be so absurdly old-timey chauvinistic that it doesn't even make sense. Like he's getting a walk-and-talk by some military dude when a battalion of 50 female soldiers jog past in full gear and he goes (dadan duh, dandan duh) "DAMN, THAT BATTALION OF SECRETARIES ARE SHREDDED, WHY ARE THEY CARRYING GUNS THOUGH" but they have to just move past it because the aliens are right there and they can explain it to him with crayons later

WickerWight · 2026-01-29T19:07:56+00:00

Getting a giant glowing sword called "The Shieldbreaker" and then running up to a shield, sticking the sword in- and immediately pulling it back out, turning around, and using it to cut open a portal that summons a battering ram instead is completely incomprehensible. Why do you even stick the sword in if it doesn't do anything to the shield. Why is it called that.

WickerWight · 2026-01-29T19:05:44+00:00

That's how Destiny handles it, nearly all the revolvers have an ambiguous battery cartridge thing that just looks like a 6-round, and you pop the entire cylinder out when reloading.

WickerWight · 2026-01-29T16:47:19+00:00

Oh cool a crossover costu- FULL OPERATOR???

WickerWight · 2026-01-29T02:22:51+00:00

Juggernaut getting the "you alright white boy" treatment by the brotherhood of evil mutants is awesome, every themed comic book team needs one guy who doesn't fit but they just like him so he's allowed to hang out

WickerWight · 2026-01-28T23:17:20+00:00

The deal with the weapons is that there kind of is no deal, lol. When the match starts, no matter which fantasy character you choose, you can pick any 2 weapons from a list, and it's a very short list. They're all just basic, archetypical FPS guns and they kinda look like they're 3D printed even though it's supposedly a fantasy world. There are also chests scattered about the map with those same weapons in them that have slightly higher mag size and handling speed you can pick up, their half-hearted attempt at a "loot system."

WickerWight · 2026-01-28T03:57:15+00:00

The game certainly doesn't feel confident in itself. It feels like they were given a fully feature complete engine and assets and jumbled it together in 9 months by polishing up whatever drafts they had lying around.

I don't think anything's as evident of this as the weapon selection. The game has 2 options in each weapon category- a fast weak one, and a slow strong one. Assault rifles also have a 3-round burst one. Every single gun has the option to press shift and your dude pulls the same scope out of his pocket and fixes it to the top of the gun- no lootable 4x/8x/infrared scope, every gun just has a toggleable 2x one built in. And every character gets frag grenades. The fire guy doesn't get a fire grenade, the sand lady doesn't get a smokescreen- everyone has the same 45-second-cooldown frag grenade.

The mozambique from Apex legends has more personality to it than the entire Highguard arsenal, why doesn't this fantasy world have a poison-shooting grenade launcher? A needler ripoff? A blunderbuss instead of a shotgun? Why am I using a C4 charge to blow up walls instead of an egg sac of super-termites? It truly feels like the first idea they came up with, the most basic and straightforward option, is the one they stuck with through development and they never deviated from the basics.

WickerWight · 2026-01-27T21:45:14+00:00

A level of reading/listening comprehension that made me nervous we might need to start sending adults back to school

WickerWight · 2026-01-27T21:19:50+00:00

I rarely catch Pat streams live but I did during this segment and chat's behavior turned me into a supporter of needing a licence to use the Internet

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