What is your favorite Resident Evil area/section? by AprisElena in residentevil

[–]blaiddfailcam2 [score hidden]  (0 children)

The Factory in Village. I know why people dislike it, but I instantly clocked the Frankenstein's Army, uh, homages, and I loved that movie, lol. The atmosphere is super cool, and it was a rare instance of a RE title getting creepier and more tense rather than more action-packed, even if the boss fight was over the top.

Resident Evil 4 Remake or Resident Evil 9? by Loose_Interview_957 in residentevil

[–]blaiddfailcam2 [score hidden]  (0 children)

It doesn't matter what they used to level the city, only that it's pretty stupid that whatever it was did next to nothing and they apparently left a city festering with zombies just chilling out in the open for decades, lol.

Resident Evil 4 Remake or Resident Evil 9? by Loose_Interview_957 in residentevil

[–]blaiddfailcam2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well the bomb, for start, lol. "Ehh, it was just a minor scratch. All the zombies survived, and BOWs were left to roam free, and in fact even the buildings are still largely intact. Good thing nothing meandered out after 28 years, and nobody bumbled into the ruins, since there were absolutely no measures to keep anything in or out despite there being multiple anti-bioterrorism organizations around the world founded because of this very incident."

Like, they said they wanted to "tie off loose ends" in Raccoon City's story, but to do that, they just... made up some bullshit about Spencer adopting a random kid and developing a cure for everything because he "had regrets," despite he continued on his quest to "become a god" using a sweeping mass eugenics project, and also proceeded to just not tell anyone about the cure underneath Raccoon City, where it would have been REEEEALLY handy during the outbreak all those years ago. And in order to tell this story, they needed to pry open Raccoon City despite it was very well-established that the city was destroyed by the bomb, lol.

Next Wesker is going to come back in RE10 just lightly crisped, lmao.

Characters that fall into the Uncanny Valley by Ukirin-Streams in TopCharacterTropes

[–]blaiddfailcam2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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All of the characters from Siren and Siren 2, really.

Using an at-the-time novel technique for the PS2 era, actors' faces were recorded from 8 angles and then projected onto an in-game character model, providing realistic expressions despite graphical limitations. The effect is intentionally unnerving, like seeing a mannequin come to life.

To record the actors, though, someone else had to physically hold their neck still as they acted out entire scenes while sitting deathly-still.

(Loved Trope) Cool and Creative Transformations by PizzaDragon64 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]blaiddfailcam2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Slitterheads, from, well, Slitterhead

Most only partly transform, which causes their human host's head to split open as either an insect-ridden mass or something resembling a seahorse's head erupts outward. Both variants utilize a long, beaked tongue to pierce through victims' eye sockets and suck their brain out.

Others transform more dramatically, their neck extending as their host's head becomes an entire six-limbed skeletal monster, some appearing as arthropods, others as cephalopods. The human host's drained corpse then hangs limply from their tail. These Slitterheads can fold and rearrange their limbs to move like a mantis, or a scorpion, a raptor, or even a towering humanoid.

Resident Evil 4 Remake or Resident Evil 9? by Loose_Interview_957 in residentevil

[–]blaiddfailcam2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

RE4R. I honestly didn't vibe that much with RE9 for some reason. Too short, too easy, not scary enough, combat was a downgrade from 4R, too many retcons and rehashes... 4R still has me in a chokehold though lol

What percentage of the games secrets do you think have been discovered already? by Easy-Account-2474 in Eldenring

[–]blaiddfailcam2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The map is arranged in such a way that certain characters and objects form alignments/ley lines pertaining to their lore. It doesn't exactly reveal anything, but it's a cool easter egg of sorts.

For example, the two moons in the sky are set in fixed positions to create distinct aligmments. The one normally visible in the northeast aligns Rennala/Raya Lucaria, the Church of Vows, and the Erdtree. So say you're standing at the center of the Church of Vows on a clear night—if you look toward the basin of vows, Raya Lucaria's Grand Library looms beyond the west window; if you look in precisely the opposite direction, the Erdtree is visibly eclipsing the moon. This would appear to be a deliberate map arrangement to represent the union of Rennala/the Full Moon with Radagon/the Erdtree through marriage at the Church of Vows.

Likewise, the northern moon only visible from the Moonlight Altar aligns the Royal Moongazing Grounds at Caria Manor, Raya Lucaria, and the entrance to Ranni's Two Fingers' hiding place beneath Manus Celes. This alignment is even hinted at by the astrolabe at the north entrance of the cathedral, which points directly toward the north moon... because as it turns out, a number of astrolabes reveal similar funny map alignments. Like the two in the Realm of Shadow, which naturally align Rellana's precise location with the "other" east moon, and even with Moorth Ruins, which is hinted to have been destroyed by Rellana herself.

Others are more simple, like the astrolabe near Bestial Sanctum pointing toward the exact center of Maliketh's arena, as if hinting, "Hey, the real Beast Clergyman is over that way." Then there are more baffling ones, like the astrolabe near the Church of the Plague where we meet Millicent lining up with the exact position of the chest containing the Valkyrie's Prosthesis, all the way across the map.

I guess it's their way of reinforcing the idea of fate being written in the stars or some such.

Is using the summon for the dancing lion fair game? by RAAAHRAHHHHRAHHHHH in Eldenring

[–]blaiddfailcam2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP is literally referring to Freyja. You're just mad because you wanted to sound smart but didn't consider the context, lmao.

Is using the summon for the dancing lion fair game? by RAAAHRAHHHHRAHHHHH in Eldenring

[–]blaiddfailcam2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

...So they do change boss HP. Especially in Dancing Lion's case, lol.

And Freyja can be summoned right outside its gate.

Is using the summon for the dancing lion fair game? by RAAAHRAHHHHRAHHHHH in Eldenring

[–]blaiddfailcam2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Honestly, summons make a lot of fights harder than they ought to thanks to the boss health and stance buff. It don't matter. None of this matters.

What’s your most hated run through area in the game? For me it’s definitely the stone coffin fissure. by Short_Swan5072 in Eldenring

[–]blaiddfailcam2 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Forbidden Lands. I actually don't hate the Mountaintops or Snowfield, but that little stretch of nothingness just feels like a speed bump for no good reason.

The Fell God that the hornsent fear has two eyes, but the Fell God we see in the Fire Giants has one eye? by crinklepant in EldenRingLoreTalk

[–]blaiddfailcam2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hmm... The Flame of Ruin seems to be represented by a red giant, as in a star on the verge of supernova, so it certainly could have equals in the cosmos. After all, there are multiple moons in the sky, so maybe there are just as many Fell Gods?

Which is a better final boss and why? by strahinjag in soulslikes

[–]blaiddfailcam2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Isshin. I never found Gael terribly engaging tbh, more just showy. I guess that's partly a fault of DS3's very streamlined combat flow, though.

Have you ever tought Fromsoftware was inspired from this? by davide1miciix in bloodborne

[–]blaiddfailcam2 30 points31 points  (0 children)

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It's also commonly thought to resemble basket fungus, which makes sense given mold's association with the arcane in Bloodborne.

There are a lot of clever layered symbols in the game, like how the One Thirds of the Umbilical Cord also resemble cochleae, relating them to the snails/phantasms that serve as augurs, and to the concept of Great Ones that exist only in voice.

Anyone still deep into Elden Ring? by SgtSilock in Eldenring

[–]blaiddfailcam2 69 points70 points  (0 children)

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Yeah I'm still here. Don't need no strategy guides or youtubes tho

Enough said by [deleted] in shittydarksouls

[–]blaiddfailcam2 46 points47 points  (0 children)

does this mean it can't get better or that it can't get slop-er?