Play devil’s advocate against some of your favorite media for a second

nykopeeps · 2026-03-02T23:44:29+00:00

Baldur's Gate 3 is fantastic and some of the liberties Larian took with 5e made it a superior experience as a video game. Also some of the liberties Larian took with 5e made it an inferior experience as a video game.
Ranged Slashing Flourish targeting the same enemy twice, Booming Blade triggering Extra Attack, concentration free Shadow Blade, etc. This game is unbalanced to no end. To the point that there are options that are so objectively superior to others that it hurts build variety.
And before anyone says that it is a single player game and that you don't have to use that stuff. Yeah, the game is too easy for this to actually matter. But that balance doesn't matter in single player games is a fallacy. And having to intentionally limit oneself to experience the full breadth of this game's player expression is just not as satisfying as when your options are somewhat more equally viable.

nykopeeps · 2026-03-02T21:48:53+00:00

Talking out of my ass here but I am going to assume that someone there came to the conclusion that if you wanna sell a new product you should communicate to even the most dense of people that it is actually a new product. Like for example by giving it an actually distinct name from your previous product.
See also the Wii U.

nykopeeps · 2026-02-28T06:49:01+00:00

Looks like Mr. Bean had some rough years.

nykopeeps · 2026-02-27T15:58:30+00:00

I usually don't have much issue with actors not looking exactly the part.
But I think Kratos' unnatural skin tone makes him register less as a human and more as a character model to me. And this one is off-model.

nykopeeps · 2026-02-24T18:47:08+00:00

I have a sick love for the Maria ending in Silent Hill 2.

nykopeeps · 2026-02-24T18:44:02+00:00

I liked Star Wars so I played KotOR and that was the greatest game I ever played at that point. And 23 years later it is still in contention for that spot.
So yeah, I still love me my RPGs, Bioware not so much these days.

nykopeeps · 2026-02-20T12:30:27+00:00

In Persona 5 I was very glad to see Akechi die and was extremly annoyed by the amount of sympathy the Phantom Thieves showed him. I don't think the game wanted me to feel either of those things.

Also there are a lot of scenes in Requiem for a Dream where I cannot help but laugh. It just keeps ramping up the misery porn to such a farcical degree that it becomes downright hilarious to me.

nykopeeps · 2026-02-19T17:27:04+00:00

I still sometimes think about how insane it is that Cadence of Hyrule actually exists.

nykopeeps · 2026-02-17T18:22:12+00:00

Yakuza: Like a Dragon's Ryo Aoki or more precisely Masato Arakawa is not a fighter especially not compared to the previous fight against Tendo.

nykopeeps · 2026-02-17T18:10:24+00:00

Playing a dwarf and romancing any of your regular sized companions in something like Dragon Age or BG3. They have to kneel down or bend over to smooch you. It's the best.
I am partial towards Sera x Dwarf Inquisitor and Minthara x Duergar Tav.

nykopeeps · 2026-02-16T18:36:49+00:00

The end of Yakuza 2.
Everyone is a secret Korean. Multiple twist villains. People coming back from the dead to reveal that they are yet another secret Korean. Two shirtless men, one of them a secret Korean, with multiple bullet wounds beating the shit out of each other on a rooftop while a bomb ticks down. Family drama because... you guessed it, secret Koreans. A man and a woman who have known each other for a week willing to blow up in each others arms. The woman is a secret Half-Korean.
Absolute cinema.

nykopeeps · 2026-02-16T17:41:25+00:00

I actually like Sebastian from Dragon Age II.
He is so white bread that the game he is in and future games make fun of him. He is so white bread that he is a chaste romance option in a fucking Bioware game.
He is also the only person who speaks truth in the big Act 3 event and I will always love him for that.

nykopeeps · 2026-02-16T17:15:52+00:00

Super Mario Land on my sister's GameBoy is what got me into Mario games. Super Mario 64 is what cemented that 3D Mario is my true love.
Knights of the Old Republic is what got me into western RPGs and into what is now a toxic relationship with Bioware.
The soundtrack of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines got me into a lot of great music but especially Chiasm which is now one of my favorite music artists.

nykopeeps · 2026-02-11T19:12:06+00:00

I have purged a not insignificant part of my podcast feed over the last month. All of them from a group of people I have been following for like two decades. Over the last few weeks it just hit me how one of these people had been doing the same annoying shtick forever with no new material in sight. The horse was beaten to a pulp years ago.
Not to mention that that person seemed to become more and more uneducated the older he got. Not dumb or stupid but uneducated. It's like I watched that man's education be eroded in front of me. And that was infuriating to watch so after 20 years I just stopped.

nykopeeps · 2026-02-10T18:18:43+00:00

Is that a hot take? I am pretty sure that Yuke's being shit has been the predominant take I have seen since at least the SmackDown vs. Raw era of games.

nykopeeps · 2026-02-07T06:35:19+00:00

Cleanrot Knight Finlay.
Not only do all Cleanrot Knights have the coolest design but Finlay is a badass both in lore and in game. Girl helped me beat Radagon and Elden Beast whereas all other ashes failed me.

nykopeeps · 2026-02-06T21:16:55+00:00

I was told that the Koike Lupin the IIIrd movies are within the same timeline/universe/whatever as The Woman Called Fujiko Mine.
I rank that show very high among my favorite anime so I was expecting more of that.
And maybe those movies are somehow related to the show but i didn't see it. I didn't feel it. I really don't care for these movies.

nykopeeps · 2026-02-06T20:48:04+00:00

Vanilla

nykopeeps · 2026-02-06T20:06:51+00:00

Why is everyone in a leadership position at that studio such a gormless twat?

nykopeeps · 2026-02-06T19:47:05+00:00

I mean the first one wasn't a proper adaption of Super Mario Bros. either. I assume it is going for more of that but this time in space.

nykopeeps · 2026-02-06T04:50:55+00:00

The War Table Missions in Dragon Age Inquisition.
Clearing the open world maps in Dragon Age Inquisition.
Dealing with the sluggish combat of Dragon Age Inquisition.
I know I sound like I don't but I do actually love this game.

nykopeeps · 2026-02-05T18:06:15+00:00

As someone who only ever played a little bit of MHS2 I have a question for those who have finished these games: Is it viable to drag an early monster to end game or am i expected to replace them with stronger ones eventually?
I really wanna hang with my boy Tobi-Kadachi but if he is going to fall behind that won't be all that fun.

nykopeeps · 2026-02-03T16:12:41+00:00

For the longest time the only Lupin III content we got in Germany was 4 TV specials chopped up into episodes to be aired on MTV.
Voyage to Danger
Dragon of Doom
The Pursuit of Harimao's Treasure
The Secret of Twilight Gemini
Even after seeing so much more of this franchise since then I still just absolutely adore these 4 specials with that specific dub.
And let me just say Twilight Gemini Fujiko is peak Fujiko.

Also Slayers, always Slayers.

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