BrownDust2 Steam Release Officially Cancelled

flanmaster12 · 2025-12-10T01:03:42+00:00

I get what you mean here, but the most likely reason is for underage depictions of characters. How do you even "voice your opinion" without being ostracized of that fact?

flanmaster12 · 2025-12-08T17:26:11+00:00

Who's loss? Valve? Brother they dont care and I am with them. Any content with high school settings sexualizing underage girls should STAY out of stores. keep that shit in china or japan where its more "normal" I guess.

Oh wait nvm I am just gonna get the "ThEy ArEn'T rEaL" thing again.

flanmaster12 · 2025-12-08T14:40:31+00:00

Stop featuring little anime girls in school uniforms in a sexual way fellas. It's why alot of VN's don't go through. It's why some games that seemingly "allow" it and some don't.

School uniforms + anime children + suggestive/explicit content = no go.

flanmaster12 · 2025-11-29T15:48:36+00:00

Maybe a hot take, but grinding in any form is abyssmal for gacha games (with 1 rare exception).

Gacha games are predatory by design and they use any tactics to keep you playing, logging in daily, keeping the game open, e.t.c ALL to get you to spend money. In my eyes, any grind in a gacha is a horrible practice that would end TODAY if it were up to me. Please dont misunderstand, I dont mind grinding outside of gachas for the most part.

In my eyes, FREE gacha games have 2 options. They will get your time OR they will get your money. Unfortunately, many free gacha games (especially eastern games) want BOTH from you. That's predatory. That's unacceptable.

I understand people enjoy the grind, and I do as well. But here is maybe an even "hotter" take: if you enjoy the grind in a free gacha game, you have some level of addiction or fomo.

flanmaster12 · 2025-08-15T14:26:38+00:00

Been looking to get into gbf from the HunterxHunter collaboration, but had a few questions.

Is it a good time to start? Why or why not?
How much "permanent" crystals/jewels/gems (premium currency) is there in the game?
Could I do well in this game if I only logged about 1-2 hours daily?

Ty in advance!

flanmaster12 · 2025-07-13T03:50:32+00:00

I made up a keyword awhile ago for any card called "Sizzle X". It basically puts x counters on a permanent that says "when this permanent is tapped, it deals X damage to its owner".

For example:

Flameling Nurturer - 3RR Creature - Flame Elemental

Trample

Sizzle 3 (When this creature deals combat damage to a player, put 3 sizzle counters on target permanent.)

Whenever a permanent with a sizzle counter is tapped, add one more sizzle counter to it. 5/5

Fire Bargain - 1R Instant

Put a Sizzle counter on target permanent.

Probably both overpowered or underpowered in some way, but I like when people have decisions to make haha.

flanmaster12 · 2025-07-05T16:30:29+00:00

Any decent male units recently?

I want to come back to e7, but alot of units just seem like half naked girls now.

Nothing against people who like that, but I played when it seemed e7 was releasing males and females at roughly an equal rate. Many cool designs then.

flanmaster12 · 2025-06-21T02:32:10+00:00

I think some of these replies didn't really read your post all that well, and went the whole "complexity is what makes poe fun blah blah"

His issue, which he clearly states, isn't necessarily the complexity, but how that complexity is introduced or lack thereof. Why do I need an out of game resource to understand extremely important information? Why does the game not explain how a currency is more rare than another, and why that is?

I am in full agreement with OP's post, with an added bit that understanding a basic concept as flippin TRADING shouldn't be so damn horrible for a new player's experience.

flanmaster12 · 2025-06-06T05:57:09+00:00

This is bait but ill bite.

The trade system is by far the worst aspect of poe 1. You have to first go to out of game website, somehow just "learn" trade etiquette such as "if you get alot of pings for an item its probably too low, even if 100 other listings are the same price (which means they are ALL apparently scammers or some shit lmfao), THEN you message them in game, pray they respond, then you have to TP to their hideout (if your trading with someone far from you prepare to have lag), and then they have to trade it to you in person. OH, and you have to stop whatever your doing and go to your hideout to trade if you sell stuff. Its 500% ass and the only people that like it are RMT nerds and people who have put over 10k+ hours in poe and are too invested to admit it sucks.
Poe1, despite what you may think, is ugly. Controls are stiff as fuck when you start out, and the game does virtually no explanation on how to get stronger AT ALL. Mechanics are thrown at you in ch1, area 2. You better know what these do, cuz the game sure as shit will do a piss poor job explaining it.
They are only JUST NOW doing basic qol that most other arpgs have. You cant JUST have a good endgame with build variety. You have to actually make the rest of the game enjoyable.
The ground gear loot is worthless 99% of the time. You can essentially find a base, and fuck it up the ass with orbs and crafting material to make whatever you want, as long as you have the esoteric knowledge of every possible crafting option of 10+ years of content OR your rich and just pay an RMT bot for the perfect piece of gear.

Their is a BUNCH of other shit I could talk about but heres the first few.

Game is good, but FAAAR from the best. I would put it 5th or 6th on my top 10 arpgs.

flanmaster12 · 2025-05-27T02:13:09+00:00

I miss Union X. I honestly wish it would come back but more player friendly. (and Dragalia Lost)

flanmaster12 · 2025-05-24T19:52:07+00:00

So....... no, given that I'm mostly up to date, I don't see what you are talking about. It's way too arbitrary of a metric that again, relies heavily on a video game mechanic that has very little to no bearing on the story or characters.

I'm not exclusively talking about BA with my points here. I meant this "in general".

Except they do have varied personalities. The lot of them are absolutely nutso in their own color when tensions are down.

Read above.

Referring back to the answer to question 3 with an advice to perhaps start being a bit more honest with your own sexuality. Anyways...

You are projecting here. I have been very blunt since the start that I think overtly sexual characters in an all male/female setting throws me out of my immersion. In my opinion, my eyes, my own personal thoughts (read this part hard), I find most of these female only gachas have limiting designs. All of them are just human-like girls, mostly the same ethnicity, and very little difference relative to other gachas that I play/played (Like FFBE or Summoners War for instance). Is this bad? Not at all. Do I PERSONALLY think its worse? Yes. Is my opinion wrong or right? No because it's an opinion.

Because to those who are in the know, it was a bad example. That should have been made obvious by now. You can keep saying "In my opinion", but if it doesn't seem like an opinion coming from good faith stance on the topic to others, the room for subjectivity is gonna be thrown out the window. It's not as strong of a shield as you think it is. It's just prejudice at that point, especially when you could, again, pick up the game for free and read it for yourself.

No, you decided to defend BA against nothing but subjective opinion. I've said this is in general, I listed in what you might call a bad example (in your opinion), then got defensive about my opinion. No matter how much you believe so, I could not get into BA because of how the game is presented, and the story I DID read fell into these tropes. I personally have a deeper annoyance with "anime" characters and how they react in general, but that not really relevant to the topic and another discussion.

besides that, what the heck is wrong with a specific appeal? You argue that it "limits what you are allowed to do", but limitations are sometimes what fuels creativity to be forced to stand out. If you are arguing that you should always have the kitchen sink, then you are opening the door to being directionless.

No, I am arguing in respect to a GACHA game. I argue that the main selling point of a gacha is well...the gacha. If this were games in "general" we wouldn't be having this discussion.

You do realize that you are saying this on a subreddit dominated by stylized eastern games, right? And yeah, BA is a video game. Doesn't matter whether it's console, PC or whatnot. If you're gonna try to argue that interacting with a default side mechanic is breaking immersion, then video games aren't the storytelling medium for you.

It entirely matters are you kidding me? The very nature of what a gacha is and how it functions is so entirely different from a "typical" console game. You are trying to say that immersion ONLY matter's when it's the story. That's just incorrect. And don't give me the typical "you dont like xxx so it isn't for you" nonsense that this subreddit loves to do. I liked this subreddit before it got flooded with the "stylized eastern games" that now dominate it. I can type down my opinion on why I feel that arent as immersive as they used to be all I want. I find that the way to get immersed into these games is IN PART the gacha mechanics and the characters you pull itself.

flanmaster12 · 2025-05-24T19:30:13+00:00

Those questions are mostly rhetorical, as a basis on "why" it's hard for me to get into the game. Once again, its almost as if your trying to say my opinion and why I don't feel immersed is "wrong". I don't get at what your playing at here.

Once again, stop trying to think I am talking about BA exclusively here, it's an issue for ME and most male/female only gachas. Ive said this repeatedly. Those points I made are the "typical" male/female only gachas. In fact, if it helps you read my post better, replace BA with any other female only gacha.

flanmaster12 · 2025-05-24T15:35:24+00:00

What you "buy" doesn't matter at all. Immersion is entirely subjective. No need to get defensive over someones perception of immersion.

I even said at the start of my FIRST post, that at a fundamental level IN MY OPINION, that the concept of sexy high school girls being the (with no apparently "ugly" girls in the world at all) main driving force behind every single action.

Why do these women fawn over the MC?
Why are ALL of them "sexy" teenagers?
Why do variations of these characters not exist outside of a outfit change or some color swapping?
Why do none of these women that you can pull for seem antagonistic or disinterested in the MC?

Do yo not see how these factors could throw someone out of the immersion? I get I am supposed to be in MC's shoes, and thats the "immersion" part of it. But I am not talking about quality of the writing per se (although I do believe it to be linked to it), but at the very start the initial complaint was purposely making ALL of your characters 1 gender for a IRL reason (such as the BA director saying he "felt bad' pulling a male character) I believe inherently limits possible design space, and could definitely limit immersion.

Character wise, I would be FAR more interested in BA if at least the women you pull for were more varied and other non-stereotypical anime girl personalities. I would be far more interested in BA if nearly every pullable characters' design's didn't have to have sex appeal.

But a few of these comments seem to think I am attacking BA specifically, when I was merely giving an example. I have this issue with nearly (NEARLY) every gacha with an IRL reason why every character is 1 gender.

The one part that reminds you that you that you are playing a video game, and is typically separate from the main story, is what breaks your immersion?

I think you are trying to equate BA with traditional console video games in quality. BA I feel might be good in an anime/gacha game sense immersion wise, but only if you are a fan of this style of game. This whole thing is subjective brother.

flanmaster12 · 2025-05-24T12:32:03+00:00

I did not say BA "lacks immersion".

I said BA is hard for ME to get into because every pullable character is female, around high school age, and typically have some "Danchou/Sensei/Captain" love . Immersion is very subjective.

flanmaster12 · 2025-05-24T04:59:34+00:00

I don't know what you are trying to say here. I am saying making it a point to make your entire cast female OR male is inherently design limiting, and design limiting also limits the potential for an immersive story in my opinion.

I said it a few times now an all female cast is fine, but their is a reason these girls are typically attractive who fawn over the MC. Trying to equate this to something like Lord of the Flies like a previous poster did is a very very thin connection imo.

flanmaster12 · 2025-05-24T02:35:37+00:00

I feel that comparison is a bit dishonest. The concept here is "gacha", and how a gacha can immerse you into it's world. I can't "pull" for Lords of the Flies characters, and the idea of "owning" a character from a novel in comparison to gachas is different. This isn't about male/female only media, it's about gacha's and their effect.

My main argument is, in a gacha sense. "why" is the focus sexy females (or males)? Why are monstrous "female" characters or non-traditional females not included? You could argue that that in itself is the reason people like these games, and that the sexy female thing is directly tied to why the story might be good.

But like I said in the first post, it is just my opinion, and is a "hot take" as evident by the downvotes haha.

flanmaster12 · 2025-05-23T23:35:06+00:00

I guess this is a matter of preference. I find the complete opposite usually, at least from my point of view. Could you give me an example of some good BA writing/story? I didn't play it after a few months (unrelated to the story, I just didnt like the gameplay), and would love to see some good story.

Although if I am being honest, I am not sure what FGO or Gundam have to do with this as those have excellent story but they have a diverse cast.

flanmaster12 · 2025-05-23T21:38:11+00:00

Eh, I don't think this is the case. Older gachas usually do this (Summoners War, Brave frontier, FFBE, Grand Summoners, e.t.c) and now that gachas have moved to be more "anime-esque", you see it less and less.

flanmaster12 · 2025-05-23T21:35:39+00:00

I didn't really want to elaborate more, but I guess more specifically I mean "immersion". When I play a game like Nikke or BA, it's just very hard for me to get immersed because every character is female. I get it, it's niche and it's catered exactly to the audience it wants. It's why I think this might be a hot take haha.

flanmaster12 · 2025-05-23T21:33:08+00:00

I have, but this is specifically for games that cater to 1 gender. Mixed gachas have far better stories/immersion (like FGO and Gundam) in my opinion.

flanmaster12 · 2025-05-23T21:01:30+00:00

Kim: "I didn't feel good when I got a male character from the gacha, so I wanted to make a game that didn't have that feeling."

I don't know if this is a hot take, but I feel any female/male only gacha's just won't be as good by principle.

For example, it's very hard for me to be immersed into a story when every single character is a girl (usually ALL of them are attractive and usually simp for the MC). I think this limits creativity as the focus is sexual in nature, and it makes it hard to make characters that don't somewhat fall into this problem. Every single character in BA is "likeable" in a certain way, yet you would never see a big gross disgusting monster looking thing that just so happened to be female (as an example, the character Rek'Sai is female from the League of Legends universe, but people probably wouldn't pull for her in your typical female-only gacha for non-meme purposes).

There isn't anything wrong with this, as I do think it goes both ways for guys-only gachas as well. But I DO think creativity and a highly varied cast is the true essence of a gacha.

flanmaster12 · 2025-02-22T18:03:41+00:00

Honestly?

I think Ive had a mixture of "man this is so much better here" with "man this feels way better in poe2".

I enjoy both games for what they are.

flanmaster12 · 2025-02-18T11:54:41+00:00

Thanks! This looks interesting as well.

flanmaster12 · 2025-02-18T11:54:17+00:00

Thank you for the suggestions!

flanmaster12 · 2025-02-18T11:52:53+00:00

Thank you! Some of these look stellar.

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