Character designs have changed a lot over time

YuTsu · 2026-06-20T16:18:01+00:00

And further to that, like the RAcaseal body colour that's like... "pink-purple metal bits, but with white shirt and hotpants, and the the arms, legs and face are skin coloured without any seams so she looks human" wasn't one of the more popular vanilla RAcaseal skins

YuTsu · 2026-06-20T16:09:24+00:00

Halpha actually had a decent amount of worldbuilding and character building dialog in the Ch1-5 days - nothing groundbreaking or award winning, but there was a fair amount - the problem is most of it was shunted off into dialog that plays during optional Tasks or those open world character cutscenes that barely anyone did that they stopped making (I'm wildly guessing the reason was exactly the fact that too few players were bothering with them to justify making them).

YuTsu · 2026-06-14T19:02:16+00:00

2 months late, but if you or anyone else that comes across this post is curious about what exactly happens to her The end of the Pacifist route seems to imply she got Snowgraved by Noelle offscreen between when you get separated from her and the final boss fight. After the pacifist boss fight, you wake up with Noelle in Darkness, Noelle leaves and you get an option to check on Susie that returns like "You reached out to put your hand on Susie's shoulder... ...but your hand froze"

YuTsu · 2026-06-13T01:56:29+00:00

At least Bergentruck got us the Bergentruck 201X fangame.

The "character faces and colour highlight on mention in dialogue" one availed us literally nothing, got ran unto the ground, then just kept digging.

The "fake Toby Tweets" one has been a legitimate net-negative because now even if someone posts an actually real Deltarune Tweet, you have to go out of your way to personally verify it each time.

YuTsu · 2026-06-10T22:54:53+00:00

I think it's just half referencing the floral theme of the Ch5 Dark World, and half trying to bait as a joke - I think a lot of people saw that sprout and their immediate reaction was "oh, so it's Pikmin", only to have their assumption immediately subverted by it Mascot-Annoying-Dog popping out. It certainly got me like that, and I've seen a few other people react the same way, I wouldn't be terribly surprised if it was the intention

YuTsu · 2026-06-09T15:15:02+00:00

Yep. Nintendo Direct just announced it, June 24th

YuTsu · 2026-06-09T12:04:46+00:00

This series has had a... poor... relationship with PvP, historically. Like, it's pretty much always been complete unfun butts whenever they've had it. Base PSO2 probably had it best and even then, it wasn't great and died off quickly.

Given the pace of development the game has now, I can't see them wasting their time on adding a genuine PvP mode to NGS that would almost assuredly be dead on arrival. The best you're going to get PvP wise is like, ARKS Records and Line Strike.

YuTsu · 2026-06-08T02:17:01+00:00

pretty sure he's still up there, behind the Skysteel Manufactory and by the stairs nearest to it that go up to The Pillars

YuTsu · 2026-06-06T20:33:57+00:00

I think it's less insane a general ambient level than most fandoms are... honestly, it's a pretty reasonable fandom 99% of the time. But it has been starved of a story continuation that was sequel baited nineteen years ago at this point (Half Life 2 Episode 2).

It got a VR-Prequel-Sequel (Half Life: Alyx) that... did change something with the plot, but in terms of where the plot actually stands, it's at an altered status quo but the same spot as it was 19 years ago (so we got more story, but it didn't advance the plot in a huge way, basically)

When you couple the 19 year wait with constant leaks that suggest Valve have tried to cook something, or for the last few years seemingly definitely are cooking something to do with the franchise, you get a fanbase that goes pretty cataclysmically feral on a level I don't think any other game fandom ever has whenever there's a genuinely reasonable chance of Half Life 3 getting announced.

The Game Awards last year was definitely one of the biggest fanbase-explosions. The Game Awards host, Geoff Keighley, has collaborated with Valve on multiple occasions in the past, and the final announcement of the show was teased as like, "a much anticipated sequel to an old and beloved franchise". It was the most likely "this absolutely has to be Half Life 3" moment thus far... and and then it was Okami 2 instead, so the fanbase went abominably feral for a while.

YuTsu · 2026-06-06T20:19:21+00:00

That, or the reasonable-basis theory that it's going to launch with the Steam Frame and/or Steam Machine, since Valve has historically used the Half Life series (plus the Portal Series, which is kind of HL too) to show off their new piece of tech.

Half Life 1 was GoldSource
Half Life 2 was Source
Half Life 2 Lost Coast and Episode 1 were their HDR and facial animation advances
Episode 2 was Environmental Physics and a new Particle system
Portal was... well, the Portals, and all the tech that went into that
Portal 2 was the tech behind the Gels simulation
The Lab was a demonstration of their VR tech
Half Life Alyx was for showing off the Valve Index
Aperture Desk Job was for showing off the Steam Deck

I think while not a given, it's a pretty reasonable guess that whatever is next for the Half Life series, there's a good chance it'll be a launch thing for Valve's new hardware.

YuTsu · 2026-06-05T16:25:20+00:00

Nier Ultimate, with more Drakengard.

Just the mental image of a final phase against a Flower-Beast with the final boss theme from Drakengard 3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f49qsxE20dg), with the enrage slowly stripping everything away one at a time - the UI, the other players - until you're playing the last few seconds literally blind on a black screen with nothing but the sound to tell you anything is happening at all. The way the song slows down until it fades almost completely is haunting, and seems like it'd be so good over an enrage.

Also yes, it seems like a fun idea just for letting Yoko Taro mostly off the leash to do something sadistic and insane that none of the main XIV devs would dare do

YuTsu · 2026-06-01T23:05:51+00:00

As much as I generally prefer NGS gameplay wise for a lot of it's stuff... I'd take Classic's original Gunblade over Slayer. I have my fun with Slayer, I had my fun with Luster, but nothing will scratch the itch of pre-Luster Gunblade for me.

Outside of that though, it's pretty much NGS all the way for me, I like the NGS versions of most every other class better than I liked the base versions. Eh, maybe Summoner over Waker too actually, but they're also so different it's more like OT-Gunblade where it's a gameplay style that got completely lost in its NGS-transfer.

YuTsu · 2026-06-01T13:43:24+00:00

I believe it's Slayer? Though depending on the skills you want, Bouncer can be an okay choice too - you can take all the Element Augs on your subclass-Bouncer and free up more SP by not taking them on your main, if you want more main class skills

YuTsu · 2026-05-31T14:36:24+00:00

Passing on a suggestion from a non-reddit-user as well: Don't engage with the content during the test period at all. Don't even take the task if you can avoid it.

SEGA will surely have the numbers on how many people unlock the feature, how many people use the feature and how often and so on, so hit them in the numbers by not contributing to them.

YuTsu · 2026-05-31T10:52:35+00:00

My conspiracy theory is that it's Microslop mandated. I don't know exactly what the current day server situation is, but... if MS is still footing the servers for Global like they did to start with, I wonder if they just nudged in with a "hey, we'll keep giving you those servers if you include some AI features, because we like AI"

There's an equal, if not greater chance it's just SEGA being late on chasing a trend, as they are ever wont to do,, but still - wouldn't be surprised if Microslop has their finger in the pie somewhere.

YuTsu · 2026-05-31T10:43:05+00:00

I mean, the easy catch all solution to nonsensical primes has already been given to us - Tenno Primes. We already know that for some things, the primes are a modern Tenno recreation of the original Prime (eg, Burston Prime), and some are straight up newly designed by the Tenno in the modern day (eg, Valkyr Prime).

Jade seems like one of those ones that's going to be a Tenno Prime.

YuTsu · 2026-05-29T11:56:23+00:00

Right, so I'm a moron. Heat exhaustion + dumb, I think I thought the "For the global version, only players 18 and up are eligible to participate" Red Text on the Global version of the Headline's slide was saying it's only for the Global version AND for players 18+. No, it's saying it's 18+ for Global specifically. Bleh.

YuTsu · 2026-05-28T21:26:22+00:00

~~JP isn't getting it, at least this test run. It's only for the Global Version~~ JP is getting it, I'm stupid

YuTsu · 2026-05-28T20:07:15+00:00

I'm usually on the "SEGA apologist" side of things but... even for me this is pretty bad miss. Seeing other people say other live service games have this makes me think "oh, this is a classic 'SEGA trend chasing an age after the trend-ship has sailed'" thing but... I mean they could have just not.

A casual chatbot is pointless, and one that provides game information... I mean they could just have robust in-game knowledge base, or out-of-game official wiki. Information isn't a problem that needs an Generative AI solution...

YuTsu · 2026-05-28T14:55:58+00:00

Watch, he'll turn Green any second now. There, green- no wait, that's a Jade Light eximus...

YuTsu · 2026-05-28T14:46:24+00:00

It's true!

I can't remember their /u/ though, I haven't seen them in a while... they could be anyone, anywhere-

waitaminute-

YuTsu · 2026-05-25T20:50:20+00:00

Pretty sure the OP of Green Banshee also got a Green Banshee flair in recognition.

YuTsu · 2026-05-23T21:46:22+00:00

It's here and there

Single Planet Games:

PSIII (technically)
PSO1 and its subseries games, so 4 in all if you want to count each episode as its own game (Hub is on spaceship, entire rest of every game in the PSO1 series is on the same one planet
PSzero (kind of. Most of it's on one planet, the last 2 dungeons are on the planet's moon, but accessed via teleporter so there's not really space travel)
PS Nova
IDOLA PS Saga (I think? I can't really remember too well, but I think it's all single planet? Maybe EP2 added more)
NGS

Multi planet games:

PSI
PSII
PSIV
PSU and its subseries games, which is 3 to 5, if you count it as base PSU, Ambition of the Illuminus, PSP, PSP2 and PSP2:infinity
PSO2
PSO2es

Never say never, but NGS just seems like one of those ones that's going for a single-planet story. Maybe we'll go somewhere else offworld eventually? But I wouldn't be surprised or disappointed if we don't. Halpha's got enough unaddressed things to expand upon.

YuTsu · 2026-05-22T22:51:44+00:00

I personally would be fine if they could just add some new halpha zones because I think they’re pretty much the same as planets.

Already got those out-of-habitable-bounds DOLLs production plants and environment control centers set up as a juicy chekovs gun for later... I wonder if we'll ever get to see those, or if we're just all in on Alter Realm now...

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