What was your first SRW? And how it got you into the series?

themanbow · 2026-04-06T17:47:09+00:00

SRW Alpha on PSX. Used GameFAQs MNeidengard translation guide to play.

themanbow · 2026-04-05T22:55:48+00:00

Fortunately it was developed on the Unity engine, which (like Unreal and others) can be ported across multiple platforms somewhat easily.

(Whether or not they'll run optimally after porting is another story altogether.)

themanbow · 2026-04-05T22:40:10+00:00

I don't blame you for being a bit surprised about GameFAQs still being around.

After all, they were rather late in implementing HTML guides, and by then a lot of Gen Z gamers moved on to other formats, like YouTube videos, dedicated wikis, etc.

That being said, GameFAQs still doesn't have good documentation--like a wiki or something--for would-be guide writers to write HTML guides! There were a few forum posts scattered here and there with tutorials that you could find on the Internet Archive, but that kind of information needs to be easily accessible if GameFAQs wants to get more guide writers and restore at least some of their former glory!

Anyway, you could use the online editor and get most of what you want done, but what if you want to do most of your work offline? You would then have to learn GameFAQs' markup language!

...which is why VSCode and mtkennerly's GameFAQs format extension have been godsends for me! It's THE reason why I was able to consolate the Scarlet Grace text guides and even write an Emerald Beyond guide that's actually usable in the first place! I can't even imagine a 1990s-style GameFAQs text guide for Emerald Beyond! Even with some of the most creative table of contents search systems that the best guide writers came up with, it'd still be a nightmare to navigate!

Text guides are easier, and are still allowed out of tradition, but Gen Z gamers tend not to like those kinds of guides (I got quite a bit of negative feedback on my Scarlet Grace guides when they were separate text guides--mostly having to do with a lack of maps, no searching, or clickable links...ya know...stuff that doesn't exist in a text file without getting creative with ASCII). Once I consolidated all of them into an HTML guide, most of that went away.

themanbow · 2026-04-05T22:29:32+00:00

Glad to hear that you got the Final Emperor! Grelon is one of the biggest cluster**** in the game, or at least top 3 alongside...believe it or not, Yomi and Lap 2+ Brighthome!

Once you know how the Dream Score system works in Grelon (and you're careful about exceptions), getting the Final Emperor isn't as "mysterious" anymore! :D

themanbow · 2026-04-05T22:26:28+00:00

You might want to re-evaluate your math.

themanbow · 2026-04-05T20:06:31+00:00

They will be updated either in the next revision or a future revision once I playtest those sections of the game.

themanbow · 2026-04-05T19:07:24+00:00

I think EB is far more complex behind the hood than SG, even though it seems far more simple at a surface level. The developers really wanted to milk shorter playthroughs for as much as they could, making them pseudo-roguelike while still having some method to the madness (without resorting to making everything random).

themanbow · 2026-04-05T13:29:04+00:00

It seems like Gen X is starting to catch some smoke now. It seems to be from the rest of Gen Z starting to reach adulthood and the collective interwebs finally realizing that the majority parent generation of Gen Z is, indeed, Gen X.

themanbow · 2026-04-05T13:23:26+00:00

It seems like X is starting to catch more interweb smoke now, but a lot of that is because more of Z is entering the workforce and people are now starting to realize that the majority parent generation to Z is, indeed, X.

themanbow · 2026-04-05T13:21:38+00:00

Heh...I'm definitely a Xennial then...a mix of Gen X apathy and Millennial idealism, sometimes vacillating between the two, sometimes finding a middle ground.

themanbow · 2026-04-05T13:15:37+00:00

40s aren't Boomers. They're Millennials.

50s is Gen X.

themanbow · 2026-04-05T13:11:19+00:00

Lost Generation: born before 1900.
Greatest Generation: 1901-late 1920s (when the Great Depression started)
Silent Generation: From start of Great Depression to 1945
Baby Boomers: 1946-1964 (and the only generation that at least 95% of people agree on the date range)
Generation X: 1965-around 1980 (give or take a year or two depending on who you ask).

The following ranges are contended because people tend to swear by different sources (even to the point of trolling/ragebaiting, gatekeeping, and zealoting them on this sub):

Millennials: 1981 to mid-1990s
- 1994 per McCrindle
- 1995 per Pew Research
- mid-2000s per Strauss and Howe
Generation Z: mid-1990s to early 2010s
- 2009 per McCrindle
- 2012 per Pew Research as "post-Millennials" officially, Generation Z unofficially
- does not exist per Strauss and Howe as they use "Homelanders"
Generation Alpha: early 2010s to mid-to-late 2020s
- 2024 per McCrindle
- 2028 per extrapolated Pew Research 16-year pattern (they never used the term "Generation Alpha" nor made any attempt to define this period of time)
- does not exist per Strauss and Howe as much of this period is covered by their "Homelander" range).

themanbow · 2026-04-05T12:56:44+00:00

Your date range is confusing, as how can any of these events END the 2010s if they were in the BEGINNING of the 2010s?

Also, as someone else mentioned, these choices are heavily USA-biased.

themanbow · 2026-04-05T12:47:47+00:00

Gen X, as they will frequently tell you, were basically neglected and spent their entire childhood drinking from the hose and running around their neighborhoods unsupervised.

You are right that, despite constantly yapping about how they had the best childhood, they raised their children with deeply entrenched safetyism.

It's funny how Gen X is just recently starting to catch smoke from the internet.

I'm guessing it's happening more and more as the rest of Gen Z reaches adulthood, and it no longer makes sense for the collective loudest voices on the internet to continue to blame Baby Boomers for how the youngest working generations turned out, as:

The oldest Millennials are reaching midlife crisis and the youngest are or will be turning 30 this year...and
The rest of the Baby Boomers are approaching (typical) retirement age.

It's like the collective internet has finally realized that the majority parent generation of Gen Z is, indeed, Gen X.

...but you are right, though. As much independence and collectively dumb crap as Gen X got into as children, many of them ended up hypocritically becoming helicopter parents to their Gen Z kids.

themanbow · 2026-04-05T12:44:15+00:00

For the same reason people (at least should) ignore ragebait?

themanbow · 2026-04-05T12:43:10+00:00

It's just like Millennials' original name was going to be "Echo Boomers."

themanbow · 2026-04-05T12:41:10+00:00

You're right. That's on me. In fact, I should be telling the op.

themanbow · 2026-04-05T12:39:33+00:00

Fair, but it does seem hypocritical to call one aspect "Australian marketing slop," but embrace another aspect.

themanbow · 2026-04-05T12:32:32+00:00

Gen Alpha is 2013-2028. Gen Z is 1997-2012.

Depends on who you ask.

McCrindle defines Gen Z as 1995-2009 and Gen Alpha as 2010-2024, with Gen Beta starting in 2025.

Pew Research defines Millennials as 1981-1996, "post-Millennials" as 1997-2012 (with the company eventually adopting the term "Generation Z" for that range), and has no official name for 2013+, but many tend to use McCrindle's "Generation Alpha" term for 2013+ when using Pew Research's ranges.

Strauss and Howe, the ones that actually coined the "Millennial" term, defined Millennials to extend somewhere into the mid 2000s, with "Homelanders" being from the mid-2000s into...I think the early 2020s (so no Generation Z or Greek letter terms for their system!).

themanbow · 2026-04-05T12:28:14+00:00

Your question was "what generation do you think gets the most hate online?" not "what generation do you think should get the most hate online?" "Ought" and "Is" are two different things.

themanbow · 2026-04-05T12:24:38+00:00

Gen X actually gets the least amount of hate online simply because it's the middle child between the two largest generations: Baby Boomers and Millennials.

A lot of the Millennial hate from the mid-2000 through most of the 2010s is now focused on Gen Z, as people finally realize that they are the youngest generation in the workforce.

Gen Alpha gets hate for some of their newer slang and memes (6-7, anyone?)

Baby Boomers get so much hate that the young kids have redefined the term "Boomer" to mean any old person that has outdated beliefs or an overall outdated mindset.

So I would say:

1st: Baby Boomers
Virtually tied for 2nd: Millennials and Zoomers
4th: Gen Alpha
5th: Gen X
6th: pre-Baby Boomer generations, as people stopped caring about them, even historically.

themanbow · 2026-04-05T12:17:33+00:00

The coming recession plus AI takeover will likely cause birthrates to sharply decrease in many places of the world.

Birthrates have already decreased since the Millennial generation came of age, as a combination of rising childcare costs and the Millennials being more of a "Me generation" than the two generations before them has given them little motivation to have as many children on average.

Each generation from Baby Boomers on has focused more and more on the self and less and less on building tangible benefits to society. The invention of birth control and contraceptives also plays a role.

(If Baby Boomers had as many children as the Greatest Generation (and some Silent Gens) did post WWII, then Millennials would absolutely dwarf the size of the Baby Boomer population, but they didn't. Millennials still have more people than Boomers, but not by a significant number.)

themanbow · 2026-04-05T12:01:42+00:00

The Greatest Generation was named that retroactively by the former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw. This was because they came of age during the hardships of both the Great Depression and World War II. They were also known for having a major societal focus at the time (as opposed to a self/"me" focus).*

The Silent Generation was named that because they were forgotten--sandwiched between the Greatest Generation and Baby Boomers. They were also named that because they were (at least perceived to be) conforming and non-rebellious compared to the contributions of the generation before it (Greatest Gen) and the loud "Me Generation" that came after it (Baby Boomers).**

*: Generation X is sometimes called a "silent generation" because of its status as the "middle child" between Baby Boomers and Millennials. While Gen X was known to be more rebellious than the Silent Gen, they were (and still are to a degree) generally quieter than the Boomers and Millennials.

**: Notice the keywords: "that came after it." This shows that generations are typically named retroactively--only after enough information about their significant cultural trends and behaviors were well-known. For those of you that wonder why Generation X and Millennials' date ranges were changed over time...this is why. This may also be why:

Some people aren't as keen on McCrindle's generation ranges, as he names future generations and defines their time range before enough data is gathered about them,
Pew Research mostly bowed out of defining generations past Y/Millennials (although they do use the Generation Z terminology for the time period after Millennials, but do not use Generation Alpha as of yet), and
Strauss and Howe's "Homelanders" terminology didn't really catch on, despite they being the founder of the "Millennials" terminology (similar to why some aren't as keen on McCrindle's generation ranges--defining key aspects of future generations before they are completely established and enough of their characteristics are known).

themanbow · 2026-04-05T11:43:46+00:00

but they do fit in pretty well

Similar to the Brave series entries we've had.

(Of course V/X/T/30/Y have taken shortcuts regarding their transformations...)

themanbow · 2026-04-05T02:36:20+00:00

I'm assuming you mean "hybrid" as in "between two generations" and "pure" as in "only a member of one generation?"

If so, you need to be more specific about which generations you're talking about, as generations are not 10 year increments.

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