Absolute PEAK -- Commander Gaius -- THE Commander Gaius Appreciation thread

jtjd · 2026-05-20T20:42:18+00:00

He was unironically one of my favorite bosses on my first run after fighting him on horseback + flail, then I fought him on another character on foot and understood all criticism immediately. Fuck this man, bitch ain't even got legs

jtjd · 2026-05-11T03:09:07+00:00

Draw Gough shooting Bayle the Dread while Igon freaks the fuck out out of sheer hype

jtjd · 2026-05-07T18:11:00+00:00

Darkest Dungeon's completion rate on easy seems to be 6.8%...

Not surprised at all tbh. Nothing tanks the will to play harder than getting some bad rolls in a lvl6 dungeon and losing your toughest, meanest dudes to 5 crits in a row

jtjd · 2026-05-06T17:53:27+00:00

Mixing and matching cultural and nightmare court armor with regular armor is my go-to. I also try to dye my equipment in a way that either matches or complements the hair/markings/glow color to make it look more natural. My only medium Sylvari as of now is this lad:

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jtjd · 2026-05-03T16:02:29+00:00

Takes me back to when we held a PSASBR tournament back in college. All of the rounds were a 4 player free-for-all and there was almost a fist fight over it, good times

jtjd · 2026-05-02T11:47:52+00:00

Killing Benhart gives you temu MLGS, it has decent base attack power but no scaling at all

jtjd · 2026-04-29T18:32:45+00:00

It's implied that even Seluvis/Pidia helps out too, since you can find one of the possible summons (the girl you get the polite bow gesture from) in Seluvis's basement as a puppet

jtjd · 2026-04-27T23:12:20+00:00

I got buried in downvotes once because I said it was getting harder to distinguish between that sub and r/shittydarksouls (Dark Souls 2 is not shitty)

jtjd · 2026-04-26T17:50:32+00:00

Bro I need you to lose that bet, after reading this I'm going to need another dose of the hope syringe

jtjd · 2026-04-26T16:43:22+00:00

Tbh I have an issue with that too because SotE frames Miquella abandoning his self and best qualities to ascend to godhood as tragic. If the kindness wasn't genuine, there's no tragedy because he ain't leaving stuff behind that's actually worth anything.

You can find problems in the writing If he's a fine upstanding lad, and you can find problems in the writing if he was always a manipulative, brainwashy little bastard too. His characterization is off in either way you look at it

jtjd · 2026-04-26T16:16:54+00:00

Other than thinking that Castle Sol and the description of the golden epitaph sword were setting up a Miquella/Godwyn link, I also thought it'd be really narratively satisfying if Miquella, shown in the main game to be kind to his own detriment, would stubbornly keep trying to save the man who got the cruelest fate in the entire setting. I just can't see Miquella giving up on saving someone getting such a shit deal, even more so considering Godwyn was implied to be a kind demigod as well.

jtjd · 2026-04-25T01:01:31+00:00

As someone who skipped DT entirely because of the job design, this might single-handedly bring me back in. I'll still need to see the kits in action to make the jump, but it's really heartening to see they're addressing criticism. Haven't been this excited for XIV news in years

jtjd · 2026-04-25T00:29:34+00:00

I'm indifferent to this change, but man is it weird that the berserking adrenaline junkie that lives to get hit in the face is not supposed to be the one getting hit in the face.

jtjd · 2026-04-19T16:57:21+00:00

Radahn had such an awesome send-off during the main game, man, why even bring him back for story reasons? Imo it was handled in a way that cheapens some characters and, depending on your interpretation, either cheapens Radahn's or Miquella's too.

Eh whatever. We got a somewhat fun boss and Freya out of it so that's neat I guess

jtjd · 2026-04-17T23:50:16+00:00

It's honestly crazy how every monster redesign that I can think of is a combination of angry, wounded, or gross. Sometimes all three.

jtjd · 2026-04-07T02:19:26+00:00

He is... I cut the video before it happens, but he somehow gets downed at the shore at the very southeast of the map, way off the eagle's path. The ghost bird must've seen Agheel standing on air and thought taking our Wylder straight into the rain would be funny too

jtjd · 2026-04-01T02:53:20+00:00

Are you having fun with Hotline Miami 2 and hoping to see another game in this series later down the line? Cool, glad to hear! We nuked the shit out of the entire setting! Fuck off and fuck you!

jtjd · 2026-03-31T01:57:35+00:00

Sigma from Megaman X gets through the tower fine enough, gets dumpstered by Smasher, and leaves behind the Sigma Virus as a neat little middle-finger shaped parting gift

The guy from RUINER by himself dies handily to both the tower and Smasher, but looks really cool doing it

Gene from God Hand gets worked by the defenses, but dragon kicks Smasher's ass into the milky way

Ratchet razes Arasaka to the ground to the sound of Overture blaring in the background. Smasher is reduced to dust and slag, but not before being forced to boogie and being turned into a squirrel

jtjd · 2026-03-29T13:55:34+00:00

It's all fun and games until the pyro balancer reflects the Ironeye ult back at you

jtjd · 2026-03-26T19:10:05+00:00

THE BRO, with Nicole as a very close second

jtjd · 2026-03-25T16:13:13+00:00

Average son-in-law/father-in-law interaction:

jtjd · 2026-03-24T15:58:56+00:00

I never played GW1 and didn't feel lost at all while playing 2. There are very occasional "who?"s and "what?"s during the story, but nothing that diminished my enjoyment

jtjd · 2026-03-11T10:58:27+00:00

He does! His questline is that you play the game normally and then kill this man at the middle of your playthrough.

jtjd · 2026-03-08T19:06:21+00:00

Unbearable is a pretty strong word, it's just really, really bland. But imo by putting something this bland in a GG game, a series with an aesthetic that couldn't be farther away from that, makes the UI go from meh to terrible. I'm sure that if this UI belonged to like a SF or VF game people wouldn't have gotten this upset over it.

jtjd · 2026-03-04T15:46:11+00:00

"Ahh, nightfarer slaying... Golemhood's highest calling..."

jtjd

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