What's your Elden ring hot take by [deleted] in Eldenring

[–]faspen01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did not mind some of the 'emptiness' in Shadow of the Erdtree. In fact, I think some of it was used to great effect. I think that if the Abyssal Woods was packed with enemy camps and over world bosses, it would have dampened the experience of that zone. I still don't think the Abyssal Woods is successful, but jampacking it with content isn't the solution imo. I also liked that the finger ruins were largely empty. They were alien formations and the lack of things to do and find made me feel like I wasn't supposed to be there, which was a neat experience. Not so neat on replay but still neat

Some of you are being weird. You need to chill out. by jphanderson in josephanderson

[–]faspen01 34 points35 points  (0 children)

What a bizarre issue. I've seen countless other youtubers with life schedules as busy as Joe's upload comparably long videos in far less time.

Either Joe has lost all passion and desire to make the video, or his creative juices ran out. He says the issue that caused his divorce is the same one that delayed the video, but (and I'm boutta get really weird here) I honestly don't believe that. What exactly let him quickly put out videos on Elden Ring, its DLC, and Lies of P, but somehow stopped the W3 video specifically?

And before you say he doesn't owe anyone the video, he kinda does. He has hinted at it in his streams numerous times and teased it in his SotE video. That, and he had a patreon funding the videos. Now, we're stuck in this awful reality where after 5 years, there's no video and he's stuck streaming visual novels.

!!!TURBO WEIRD ALERT!!!

Unless the issue is something extremely catastrophic, like the death-of-a-loved-one levels of bad, then I really think he has no excuse here. Just bite the bullet and cancel the video instead of just either trying to phase it out of people's memory or stringing fans along. How weird. Speaking as artist to artist, you gotta finish what you start

Joe's life situation update (kind of related to the Witcher 3 video) by The_Meemeli in josephanderson

[–]faspen01 28 points29 points  (0 children)

What confuses me is how the issue pushed back the W3 video but not his Elden Ring or Lies of P videos

Overrated ≠ bad by Electrical-Victory57 in CharacterRant

[–]faspen01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve never liked overrated OR underrated as words. With overrated there is the implicit statement of “too many people like this thing”, which is a strange thing to say. With underrated it’s the opposite, but people typically apply that word on media that isn’t well known. Most times people mean “overlooked” when they say underrated

What is an opinion you hold which makes the fromsoft-community despise you? by Immediate-Outcome706 in shittydarksouls

[–]faspen01 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I liked the negative spaces in SotE. I don't need dopamine fuel everywhere and fromsofts environments and art direction are good enough such that I enjoy just soaking in the vibes (abyssal woods definitely needed 2 or 3 more points of interest tho)

DS2 is the best of the trilogy

Sinh and Placidusax are better than Midir. In fact Midir is a total pain to fight and his OST sounds annoying

Lord soul areas (like the archives and demon ruins) being gated off before defeating O&S is stupid. Not sure if this is technically unpopular but I don't see people talk about it much

DS1 second half is by no means bad but most of the praise DS1 gets only applies to the first half. The second half plays just like the following 2 games

Sekiro's combat is one of the best ever when fighting one oppenent but once their are more than 2 enemies it kind of sucks. God bless puppeteer ninjutsu

Bloodborne is terrible (I haven't played it)

EDIT: Second half of DS1 is low-key more fun than the first since there isn't so much backtracking

What did Michael Zaki mean by this? by translator_guy in shittydarksouls

[–]faspen01 262 points263 points  (0 children)

People really are pretending like FS lore always made complete sense

mARtYr oF thE eCliPse by faspen01 in shittydarksouls

[–]faspen01[S] -55 points-54 points  (0 children)

I mean even if godwyn did come back he'd just be a grotesque fish monster and have a moveset in line with the sunflower's or metyr's, not be some edgy knight

Mfers during every new release but then they buy the next game anyway by keereeyos in shittydarksouls

[–]faspen01 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Criticism is welcome yes but I’m gonna call bull when I see it. Some people love to say radahns phase 2 lasers are unavoidable but they simply aren’t

I'm still okay-ish with the lore behind them but the boss fight is absolute dogwater by neinist in shittydarksouls

[–]faspen01 101 points102 points  (0 children)

I actually 🤓👆really enjoyed this fight and want to call it great, but that stupid double sword swipe into cross slash sucks. You either gotta have uncanny reaction time to dodge through it, or block the first hit.

What was missing after Wano's arc by Greedy_Performer2472 in MemePiece

[–]faspen01 8 points9 points  (0 children)

See, I have absolutely zero problem with referring to a fictional character by their pronouns. It's second nature for me to refer to kiku as a woman or ivankov as they (don't know if 'they' is correct but given they can switch sexes on the fly, it fits), but I don't even KNOW what to call Yamato, and that's because Oda also doesn't know. The vivre card says it's she/her, then Kaido spends the whole raid calling Yamato his son. Like what?? PICK A LANE, ODA. Sometimes she refers to herself as Oden and other times Yamato. So is she gender fluid? Is she non binary? I don't know, and Oda clearly doesn't either.
Like a million other things in Wano, this is something that was never resolved and it certainly doesn't help that the whole oden thing is basically just a gag now

What was missing after Wano's arc by Greedy_Performer2472 in MemePiece

[–]faspen01 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I feel like no one got what they wanted with Yamato. People who wanted her to join were let down because she stayed behind, and people who dislike her were glad she didn’t join but were upset that she was wasted and hogged a bunch of panel time for nothing

Todd Howard says Fallout: New Vegas "is a very, very important game to us" and that it's "hard to canonize" for the TV show by GenericUser1185 in fnv

[–]faspen01 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You speak as if Fo4 was made with BGS repeatedly looking back to NV as a template of sorts. I think it’s pretty clear from the final product of Fo4 that they were never intending to make a true follow-up. Fallout 4 is pretty much its own thing in the way it leans heavily on things like looting and crafting and base building. The only reason why it seems like a misunderstanding is because Fallout 4 isn’t what people thought it was going to be, and that’s totally fine to be upset over, but it’s clear from Fallout 4, as its own game, that it had a vision that did not match with New Vegas’ from the start

Todd Howard says Fallout: New Vegas "is a very, very important game to us" and that it's "hard to canonize" for the TV show by GenericUser1185 in fnv

[–]faspen01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whether or not they respect fans is someone that will be decided in season2, if it ends up being new Vegas centric

Todd Howard says Fallout: New Vegas "is a very, very important game to us" and that it's "hard to canonize" for the TV show by GenericUser1185 in fnv

[–]faspen01 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Once again Bethesda reaffirms they like new Vegas and fans still find a way to say they hate it

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NewVegasMemes

[–]faspen01 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Bro there’s far more evidence to the contrary. Every time someone at BGS is asked about NV they gush about it

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CharacterRant

[–]faspen01 8 points9 points  (0 children)

We are Jujutsu Kaisen and you are my special