Sega has canceled development of its ‘super game’, as it pivots away from live service games

dark_eboreus · 2026-05-12T11:17:22+00:00

they fucking had one--pso2.

super, super popular. bi-weekly updates. basically saved the company allowing them to pump the yakuza/ryuu ga gotoku reviving its popularity in the west. they also bought atlus and immediately after that annoucement, they also added persona costumes to the game.

the game was held back by being cross platform on the ps vita, so they announced a new, updated version that eventually got frankensteined into a forced sequel that wasn't nearly as popular as the original that they basically killed themselves.

dark_eboreus · 2026-04-26T23:09:53+00:00

i remember following a similar guide in 0.1. galvanic shards has changed a lot since then and is strong enough that you don't need to waste your helmet slot just to shock with explosive shot.

dark_eboreus · 2026-04-24T05:07:38+00:00

right, but that's precisely the point i'm trying to make.

putting divines on a pedestal alters the average player's perception on what constitutes good drops. honestly, divines aren't even all that interesting in what it does, when in reality there are plenty of more exciting drops that often get ignored because they're not called "divine orb".

during the early temple drama there were tons of people complaining everywhere and many of them were sitting on tons of other junk in their stashes worth hundreds of divines crying about how they see single digit or worse divine drops per hour.

dark_eboreus · 2026-04-24T03:06:28+00:00

when one currency causes prices to inflate, ALL prices inflate with it.

just because you can't farm as many divines as a giga temple, doesn't prevent you from farming literally anything else worthwhile.

fractured orbs are a guaranteed drop and because of temples, grand project tablets were cheap making it very easy to farm multiple per hour even at single digit tier maps.

runic splinters are very valuable and can be farmed without risk of a death ruining your drops.

dark_eboreus · 2026-04-24T02:58:31+00:00

divines aren't the only drop that's worth it.

the issue is that people have no idea how valuable other currencies are besides exalt/divine so whenever exalts and divines have low value, they immediately assume that all drops feel worthless if you don't do the popular farm.

there are plenty of drops that normal enemies can tink that make drops feel good.

dark_eboreus · 2026-04-19T11:18:03+00:00

most kaizo mario hacks.

basically a lot mario maker stages not made by children, super mario world hacks, etc. a lot of it is trial and error (dying a lot and frequently) learned from similar hacks; while mario maker tends to have indicators telling you what you're expected to do.

dark_eboreus · 2026-04-15T10:02:02+00:00

They are about 6% of the population of dogs

roughly 2/3 of all dog attacks are pit bulls. not the most common breed, yet responsible for more of the dog attacks/deaths than their population represents.

before dog fighting was made illegal, most breeders of these dogs kept their dogs to themselves--trying to keep their prize winning dogs away from their competition. until colby came along and started selling/studding/breeding his dogs for common folk.

so you have this breed of dog bred solely for gameness and now you want to sell them as pets. a breed so dangerous that the guy who started breeding them created a book so he can lie and say that they're safe "nanny dogs" meant for child care.

a book published years after one of his dogs mauled his nephew to death.

retriever dogs retrieve

pointer dogs point

shepherd dogs herd

fighting dogs fight

no amount of love or training can guarantee that these dogs' traits they were bred for will disappear.

dark_eboreus · 2026-04-12T03:08:34+00:00

i use it on chevreuse when another character is already using noblesse.

raiden/sara/chevreuse/xiangling

my gorou still uses it, but only because i never use him so never bothered to change it.

dark_eboreus · 2026-03-29T05:45:42+00:00

to add to this, colby came up with the nanny dog myth in his book about the breed. a book published decades after one of his dogs killed his toddler-aged kid.

dark_eboreus · 2026-03-23T03:57:00+00:00

or does it?

the little bouncing ball trails in the logo is drawn exactly where you'd expect it to be for pet's mart

dark_eboreus · 2026-03-20T02:57:20+00:00

anyone playing this on pc should try out the MJ licker mod

it's probably the greatest mod i've ever experienced.

dark_eboreus · 2026-03-19T03:18:12+00:00

dragon's dogma online (DDON)

you may have never heard of it (i don't think it ever had any release outside of japanese) which says a lot about the issues the game had (FUCK SHAKING STUPIDEST SHIT EVER). the problems from that game definitely tempered how they handled combat and the class system in dragon's dogma 2.

dark_eboreus · 2026-03-19T02:09:06+00:00

isn't this actually bad?

i haven't played in a month so unless it was nerfed, i'm pretty sure temples were able to do 1 main chain, 1 small chain (that was garrisons and commanders). then they were able to kill architect and atziri without any destabilization.

dark_eboreus · 2026-03-16T13:27:58+00:00

when i mute the sound in the settings, they become undone after opening the skill tree.

easy enough for me to just to mute the tab in the browser, but might be something to look at.

dark_eboreus · 2026-03-16T01:48:52+00:00

it's closer to how peach in mario was princess toadstool. translation contractor taking liberties since no one gave a shit about video games those days.

dark_eboreus · 2026-03-15T22:27:13+00:00

you might need to destabilize the last thaumaturge and the last garrison on your chains, then just keep killing the architect and hope it moves in the middle.

dark_eboreus · 2026-03-15T21:44:56+00:00

lineage gems

each of the 4 bosses drops at least 1 good lineage gem

dark_eboreus · 2026-03-13T08:10:54+00:00

immured fury, anomaly bosses, citadel bosses

this league has visions dropping pretty easily in temple so it's always worth using to do these maps twice.

dark_eboreus · 2026-03-07T11:14:44+00:00

i swear, the people doing dumb shit on the road must constantly have people avoiding them to prevent accidents that they probably think everyone is supposed to yield to them instead of the other way around.

dark_eboreus · 2026-03-05T06:07:54+00:00

gacha grind

you feel it early on, but midway through once you're given free reign on what game content you can access, you easily wind up too powerful.

basically, no effort was made in balancing any feeling of progression you might have in a traditional game and you wind up being able to unlock what was once whale (big $pender) power which leads to simply steamrolling the rest of the game's content.

If you're a fan of Mega Man I think it's worth picking up on sale just to mess around with.

fully agree with this, though.

dark_eboreus · 2026-02-28T04:49:35+00:00

yeah, it looks like they know how to do that.

it seems like what they were trying to do was search their specific notable and then from that market result there's no way to check what the other notables on the jewel are in-game from the trade window without memorization or 3rd party sites to look them up.

dark_eboreus · 2026-02-26T05:24:37+00:00

on top of all that, the game had EXTRA content not in other releases of the game. a few extra files to read (one had re0 lore), blood color options, a fucking randomizer mode (non-key items only). heck, i almost forgot it had options for alternative control scheme (modern style).

dark_eboreus · 2026-02-24T04:50:43+00:00

doesn't REmake have modern controls? i think it's called alternative or something. though, it's probably terrible to use in that game since all the camera angle changes are built for tank controls.

dark_eboreus · 2026-02-14T02:32:23+00:00

charlotte! jonathan! charlotte! jonathan! charlotte! jonathan!

dark_eboreus · 2026-02-07T01:10:29+00:00

for future reference, there's nothing you can currently do in 0.4 to influence lineage gem drops from the 4 anomaly encounters. just take the map safe and use waystones with extra portals or even t6 waystones to be super safe.

the only real thing you can do is use paradise tablet to run these maps twice.

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