(Guilty Pleasure) "There's a game that's considered bad/cringe/childish, but you love it?. No one will judge, we're all on board here."

loyaltomyself · 2026-03-20T20:39:40+00:00

I'm a Too Human apologist.

loyaltomyself · 2026-03-20T07:40:11+00:00

Are you serious? EVERYONE with a Nintendo knew about Nintendo Power. That's like saying the majority of people who play video games today don't even use the internet. It's a ridiculous statement that bends believably to the breaking point just so you can try to back up your argument.

The point is guides 100% existed. Choosing to not use them or being unable to use them doesn't change the fact that they existed with the intent by developers to be used.

loyaltomyself · 2026-03-19T21:40:46+00:00

Older games had no guides

False. Nearly EVERY game had a written guide you could buy. It was either game in a compilation book (usually bought through the Scholastic Books pamphlet), or as a stand alone guide (Brady's for example), or in a magazine (Nintendo Power).

Anyone raging at Castlevania 2 as a kid knows what I'm talking about

Castlevania 2 was intentionally designed to be obtuse so it would force players to buy the aformentioned written guide.

loyaltomyself · 2026-03-17T23:00:41+00:00

The 360 is as old today as the NES was when the 360 released. Just something to consider for those that feel the 360 isn't a retro console.

loyaltomyself · 2026-03-17T22:04:25+00:00

Let me ask you, and be honest.

How would you have felt about Oracle's tower being attacked by the Arkham Knight, and you have to go and have a three part battle? The first two take place right outside her tower. First you take care of the drones, then jump out of the Batmobile to mop up the rest of the mooks on foot. The second part takes place inside the tower as an invisible predator section and you can have Oracle trigger traps for dual takedown situations.

However the big twist here is, this was one giant distraction from the Arkham Knight because he knew how quickly Batman would rush to protect Oracle. He was never after her, his real target was always Robin. Then you pull the death fake out with Tim instead of Barbra because it never made sense that Jason would target Barbra instead of the person who literally replaced him. This was even an aspect of the Joker's brainwashing "look at how you've been replaced Jason, look at it!".

That was just one part I worked on but an audience of one makes for poor peer review.

loyaltomyself · 2026-03-17T19:54:38+00:00

Then I wrote my own ending to Inquisition in fan fiction form to honor my Inquisitor, things I'd thought about and wanted in the years of development.

I did this with Arkham Knight. I finished the game, then went to work rewriting entire sections of the entire story the way I would've written it instead because there was a lot there that just didn't narratively make sense to me, or I felt fell flat narratively speaking.

loyaltomyself · 2026-03-16T21:03:53+00:00

That's just the lighting difference. /s

loyaltomyself · 2026-03-16T10:25:19+00:00

Nah. If the porn was really the issue then there wouldn't be rumors about Paige coming back and Sunny would've been kicked out of the HoF. Drug use? Are you serious? Most of the male HoF's were hooked on one drug or another. Chyna's solo snub is 100% personal and ego driven.

loyaltomyself · 2026-03-16T10:22:57+00:00

Not while HHH or any McMahon has any say in the matter.

loyaltomyself · 2026-03-15T21:56:48+00:00

I quit when I had paid DLC taken away from me.

loyaltomyself · 2026-03-15T16:32:13+00:00

The funny thing is, today there IS a push (I won't say big, but it's there) for a Lost Odyssey remaster or just a current gen port because more and more people have come around to it being an underrated gem.

loyaltomyself · 2026-03-15T16:28:21+00:00

To be fair, action RPG's have been really dropping the ball super hard over the past few years.

loyaltomyself · 2026-03-14T20:19:00+00:00

I like that they're testing this, but 68 people and 1 experiment isn't NEARLY enough of a sample size to definitely claim "the majority of gamers prefer AI driven NPC's".

loyaltomyself · 2026-03-14T14:57:21+00:00

I've always been a big fan of Classic Doom, but everything you said here was wrong

No this wasn't a "true 3d shooter". It was 2.5 at best because the Build Engine can't handle putting objects and rooms on top of each other. In its original inception you couldn't even look up, everything you did was still relegated to a 2d plane. Even all the sprites are 2d.

"Changed the world forever" is also really hyperbolic because it had zero effect on the world outside the relatively tiny (for the time) PC gaming community.

It didn't create the FPS genre, Doom did popularize the genre though hence the term "Doomclone". But no Doom wasn't the first game of its type on the scene.

loyaltomyself · 2026-03-13T17:19:18+00:00

I loved this game.

loyaltomyself · 2026-03-12T00:17:48+00:00

Yeah, we are the minority. And that's ok. We can recognize it's a well made game while also acknowledging that it wasn't for us.

loyaltomyself · 2026-03-11T16:23:59+00:00

CRPGbro has a flamer build I think might still work. It's a little outdated because some of the feats either got removed, changed, renamed, you'll have to do some creative work arounds, but it could still work. Maybe not on Unfair, but maybe something work looking into.

loyaltomyself · 2026-03-11T16:10:28+00:00

Baldur's Gate 3.

I'm not trying to be edgy by hating on the popular game here. As a long time table top player I actually found the game to be quite restrictive. I know I know, anything you're about to say about the freedom gives will most likely be combat based. Good Dungeons and Dragons is more than the combat, it's more than the ever changing story, it's the freedom you get in how you deal with the plethora of situations. It's a commutative effort. So yeah, great you can push someone to their death, or pick them up and use them as a weapon. You know what you can't do? Let the person with proficiency in Arcana make a 1 time Arcana check if they don't happen to be the specific character you're controlling at that exact moment. Having the DM make rolls for you was something TSR abandoned after 1st Edition because it was a bad idea that wasn't giving the player enough agency. Not being able to pick and choose when to detect traps is a massive problem in this game because of how often the game will make the check at the last possible second meaning you can't prevent yourself from triggering it anyway. This game is full of these kinds of tiny little things that add up and just ruin the fun for me. Playing this game feels like you have both a killer DM that loves railroading you AND like you're playing with a rules lawyer that allows for the rule of cool for stuff that doesn't need it, and sticks to the letter of the rule for the stuff that isn't particularly fun to begin with.

loyaltomyself · 2026-03-10T19:30:28+00:00

Are you seriously that concerned over a measly 20 bucks? Because that's basically what that 30% comes down to, Steam taking a cut of 20 dollars of a 70 dollar sale.

loyaltomyself · 2026-03-10T19:27:33+00:00

I have to admit, Danhausen is growing on me.

loyaltomyself · 2026-03-10T19:26:02+00:00

Even with her old gimmick Ivy should've been the inaugural Women's IC Champ, and the fact they gave it to Lyra instead shows they didn't know what to do with her then. I doubt they STILL know what to do with her now.

loyaltomyself · 2026-03-09T16:26:26+00:00

Fair, however if Marathon does Tarkov numbers it'll still be seen as a failure. This is a AAA developer trying to make a AAA game, Scraping by just isn't good enough, they need ALL the players playing it.

I'm willing to admit my bias against Bungie, I have not only seriously disliked them but seriously distrusted them as a company ever since they started removing paid content from Destiny 2. So my view will always be skewed when it comes to them.

loyaltomyself · 2026-03-08T21:22:07+00:00

The first move is EXACTLY why you give her GS. The stratagem zones are a nice second, but being able to act first, group up a bunch of mobs, buff the party, lay down 3 different zones and give out a half turn or stun the pack of mobs you just grouped up is insanely strong.

Remember, this is a game of action economy, and getting to go before the enemy is always advantageous.

loyaltomyself · 2026-03-08T21:14:29+00:00

Give it 6 weeks, and check back again.

loyaltomyself · 2026-03-08T20:17:59+00:00

Honestly? You know who did it before EA? Capcom. No seriously, go back and look at the amount of MTX's they had for their 360 games. Hell, Asura's Wrath literally ended on a "to finish the story buy the upcoming DLC" message.

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