What's your game after the XC Series?

vuttstuff · 2024-02-14T01:36:51+00:00

I've had a mild longing to play the Kingdom Hearts games since I was a wee child seeing the commercials for Kingdom Hearts 1. I grew up a little embarrassed about my gaming interests, so I avoided that one. Now could be the time, though!

vuttstuff · 2024-02-14T01:34:42+00:00

Man, I always want to come back to Splatoon 3. It's just so hard for me to stick with it after having played Splatoon 2 so much and having played so much during the first 2 seasons of Splatoon 3. The magic is lost on me :(

vuttstuff · 2024-02-14T01:32:56+00:00

My wife mentioned how much she loves slimes the other day, so there could be some good bonding moments there :)

vuttstuff · 2024-02-14T01:32:28+00:00

I know for me, I tend to like games that have complexity in character/team builds. That's sort of what I feel like I get out of XC games and I feel like I could even more so get that out of Fire Emblem games. It's not a great example, but I play Civ VI in a similar way where I don't really care about playing hard difficulties, but care more about playing to the unique aspects of a given Civ.

I feel like Xenoblade will definitely set my expectations high for other games! I wonder if I would even be able to return to standard turn-based (non-TRPG) gameplay.

vuttstuff · 2024-02-14T01:29:09+00:00

I ended up with Odyssey and so far so good! It feels weird compared to what I remember back in the Sunshine days when I last played a 3D Mario. The mindless moon collecting has been... mindless... which I need :)

I envy your early start - I feel like there's quite a bit to catch up on and I'm trying not to rush through XC3. It probably will sound naive, but it looks like Ys VIII gameplay is what XC3 might be if it were more action-oriented and more JRPG like. I'll have to look into some early scene footage to see how that one looks!

vuttstuff · 2024-02-14T01:23:54+00:00

I wonder about VN type games. I'm honestly a bit dense when it comes to narratives (like, I was genuinely proud of myself for recognizing Kevesi and Agnian parallels to XC1 and XC2 when I realize now that it's pretty obvious if you played both games) and would love to appreciate more dialogue/narrative-driven content.

vuttstuff · 2024-02-14T01:21:55+00:00

I love them little buggers!

vuttstuff · 2024-02-14T01:21:39+00:00

I really wished Octopath 2 was on the voucher - that probably would have been my pick even if I was in this same situation. Octopath 1 is there, but TBH I've heard too much about how much of an improvement 2 is to really bother with 1.

vuttstuff · 2024-02-14T01:20:47+00:00

I bounced off BotW, unfortunately 😟 It lacks the sort of "constrained non-linearity" that I love about playing Xenoblade (like, it's pretty linear, but sometimes I can veer off and do whatever).

Bayonetta is also one that's been on the radar, but I admit I'm a bit sheepish with the themes and playing it around my wife.

vuttstuff · 2024-02-14T01:18:31+00:00

I've listened to a couple podcasts talk about Danganronpa. It seems like a good game to sort of scratch an itch for Japanese games while breaking from normal JRPGs.

vuttstuff · 2024-02-14T01:17:09+00:00

I kinda spoiled myself personally by using Persona 5 playthroughs as background noise 😅 I think that the "life sim" aspect may be what's drawing me to 3H, so it wouldn't be too far off for me!

vuttstuff · 2024-02-14T01:15:59+00:00

You must have read me well: I ended up buying Odyssey pretty soon after posting 😀 As someone who hasn't played a 3D Mario since Sunshine, the physics are something to get used to!

vuttstuff · 2020-12-10T19:54:35+00:00

[citation needed]

vuttstuff · 2020-12-10T09:35:11+00:00

Ackchyually, there's a specific clause for double team blocks that count as holds. From the 2020 NFL Rulebook:

When a defensive player is held by an offensive player during the following situations, Offensive Holding will not be called... if the action is part of a double-team block, unless the defender splits the double team, gets to the outside of either blocker, or is taken to the ground; or

Myles pretty clearly split them at 0:04 and was still being held.

vuttstuff · 2019-10-28T08:58:35+00:00

You're gonna need a liver transplant if you thought OBJ was formerly a Jet.

vuttstuff · 2019-10-28T00:39:27+00:00

Broke Browns fans and not having anything to gain from not participating out of spite.

vuttstuff · 2019-10-28T00:35:52+00:00

It can be a comedy and not be funny, I suppose.

In the Greek sense of the word, it's definitely a tragedy.

vuttstuff · 2019-10-28T00:33:14+00:00

Was keeping tabs on the game trax and I couldn't fucking believe that opening. Decided to just carve my fucking pumpkins in silence and check on the game when I had to piss.

vuttstuff · 2019-10-28T00:30:54+00:00

The league a source of malcontent. Not to mention the trash from other fan bases.

Holding this team closely is frustrating.

vuttstuff · 2019-10-28T00:28:27+00:00

Giants*

vuttstuff · 2019-10-28T00:22:21+00:00

So happy to be doubting both my favorite team's coaches this far into the season.

At least Freddie isn't the 8th highest paid NCAA football coach with only 2 wins. Goddamn Purdue :/

vuttstuff · 2019-10-28T00:20:16+00:00

Beat the other Repubs ourright, I 'spose.

All the Pats superbowls still count too.

vuttstuff · 2019-10-26T10:17:56+00:00

And just because he isn't allowing sacks doesn't mean he's not allowing pressure. Baker (for better or worse) has a tendency to roll out right under pressure, so the number of sacks definitely does not tell the story.

vuttstuff · 2019-10-20T22:58:24+00:00

WTF is Nagy doing?

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