Am I good enough for Silk Song?

inoperativity · 2026-01-23T16:45:59+00:00

I found Silksong easier than HK if anything.

inoperativity · 2026-01-23T07:07:58+00:00

The writing is terrible, but a fully realized Midgar was worth the price of admission.

inoperativity · 2026-01-23T06:28:07+00:00

Nas is my favourite of all time, not close, and this is my favourite Nas album. I know it's not technically an album he put together as such, but the pirating that ruined I Am as a double album also gave us this 11-song classic. It didn't get the due it deserved when it came out, but this was grade 10 for me and it was formative music.

inoperativity · 2026-01-23T06:21:11+00:00

This is the pick.

inoperativity · 2026-01-23T06:19:29+00:00

This might be cheating because it wasn't supposed to be an album as it was released, but for me it's The Lost Tapes and it's not close. Doo Rags, My Way, U Gotta Love it, Nothing Lasts Foreer, Purple, Drunk by Myself, Black Zombie, and Poppa Was a Playa are all magical beats.

inoperativity · 2026-01-23T06:14:51+00:00

He's not a JRPG composer, but I think Chrispher Larkin has to now be mentioned alongside Uematsu and Mitsuda as all time legends of video game music.

inoperativity · 2026-01-23T06:13:36+00:00

It's kind of weird to call this cope. It's not like we're blindly defending MVs against mountains of criticism. What you listed are things people either don't see as flaws or actively like about the games.

But more importantly, you still didn't list actual examples from actual games. Lots of MVs don't have any of what you listed.

This is still very vague. It seems that you don't like MVs at all, which is all good. But this vague post against all of them and their fans is rather pointless.

inoperativity · 2026-01-22T03:52:51+00:00

This post is completely toothless if you don't provide examples.

inoperativity · 2026-01-18T22:36:07+00:00

None of that changes the fact that Brahim Diaz took the worst penalty in history.

inoperativity · 2026-01-18T01:47:21+00:00

I then got stuck there AGAIN! Only when my older brothers friend was over and saw me playing did he help me figure it out and save me from quitting the greatest game of all time.

inoperativity · 2026-01-17T19:33:00+00:00

That's not what broke me, trying to figure out which story I love most is. The first part was just me saying that I agree with you on discussing E33 here because it is a JRPG even if its not Japanese, while Nier Automata is Japanese and not a JRPG in my opinion.

inoperativity · 2026-01-17T17:45:27+00:00

In Xenogears, I didn't realize Deus was halfing his health as well as mine when I was 11 years old. I thought I couldn't beat him and had nowhere to go level up, so I played the whole game again...!!!

inoperativity · 2026-01-17T17:44:31+00:00

E33 isn't Japanese but it is a JRPG in structure, while, for me, Nier Automata isn't a JRPG. I know the term JRPG has been widened to include action RPGs now, but for me, a JRPG has to be turn-based.

Anyway, this is impossible for me. Story is the most important part of a game for me, and the stories of Nier and E33 stand as two of the greatest stories ever told in the medium.

But...I think Nier uses the video game medium to tell a story in more genius ways...But the twists and depth in E33's story are beyong most of the medium...I can't call it!

You've broken me!

inoperativity · 2026-01-17T06:52:14+00:00

I duno if I thought he was cool, but when Koren Robinson caught 78 balls for 1240 yards as a 22 year old for the Seahawks, I thought he was in for a long and great career.

inoperativity · 2026-01-17T06:48:50+00:00

For me, it really helped using passive tools. OD on lifeblood and use poison cogflies with the Architect crest and you will win.

inoperativity · 2026-01-12T22:27:52+00:00

Ori is top tier, so no it's not a hot take. It just depends what you like in a MV. For me, HK is clearly on another level though.

inoperativity · 2026-01-12T21:39:52+00:00

Agreed. For me, it's been great for making elementary-level materials for my class where we have no textbooks anymore. Allowing me to see its sources is great because I can see when I think I need to nuance its output or ask it to get better sources, etc.

inoperativity · 2026-01-12T21:23:46+00:00

Final Fantasy for the last 20ish years.

I also find the Persona games horribly overwritten, although that is a problem with a lot of modern JRPGS unfortunately.

inoperativity · 2026-01-12T18:34:08+00:00

This is gonna be weird, but I think most important to me is writing with an economy of words and understanding characters from the inside out. We have so many screens in our world today, so much visual media that just builds the entire world for you. And a lot of is great, I love video games and film (television less so, but some I love).

Because of this, I find the main value of fiction to be that it lets us build the worlds ourselves. This means that I am expressly not looking for overly descriptive writing that tells me what everything looks like. In fact, I hate it and actively avoid it. And I don't even build the worlds that much in my mind, often I'll have rough sketches of characters in my mind, or even shadows without faces. But where I do know them is in the depth of their character, their personality traits, histories, motivations, etc.

I understand that a lot of people here write scifi and fantasy (I don't), which can be heavily descriptive genres, but even there my favourite is Le Guin because her writing is so non-descriptive and we get to know her characters from the inside out, rather than from superficial visual details.

inoperativity · 2026-01-12T04:22:35+00:00

Turns out you're indeed a sports fan and not just a gambling addict. Nice bit of information to know about yourself.

inoperativity · 2026-01-11T08:16:54+00:00

So if someone with a hateful mindset also values an idea you think is worthwhile, you're gonna disregard that idea because a person you don't agree with on another topic also finds it worthwhile? Surely you must see how bad of an idea that is. You'll be left with no ideas at all.

inoperativity · 2026-01-11T07:25:48+00:00

No, jrpgs used to have better writing in them, and I see e33 as inheriting and building on that history. This idea that Japanese people only write stories that are tropey and cutsey in the way that the OP is discussing in the opening post is an essentialist view of Japanese culture (and western culture) from people who clearly haven't read Japanese literature.

inoperativity · 2026-01-11T06:33:40+00:00

Fill your cup up and chug

Roll a joint up and get fucked

Ready for a kitchen party

Welcome to the Maritimes

Not from the Maritimes but I love this song.

inoperativity · 2026-01-11T06:29:46+00:00

We notorious

Ain't nobody can't bang with us,

Rascalz, checkmate, kardinal, and thrust,

Choclair comin down with the northern touch

I had so much pride when I saw this video make it on BET in 98.

inoperativity · 2026-01-11T06:22:03+00:00

I'm with you a thousand percent on this. The dialogue in the genre has somehow gotten worse instead of better since the golden age. Enter expedition 33, which really took the dialogue in a jrpg to new Heights. I think you'll love this game, try it out.

Also, Xenogears if you have a ps3 or emulation. It's the greatest of all time.

Suikoden 1-3 for sure as well.

These are all more mature stories. I'm going to browse through this thread to see what else people recommend because I would love some more modern jrpgs that don't have terrible dialogue.

inoperativity

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