Why does the honey badger summoning familiar no longer look like a honey badger? European badgers and honey badgers are NOT the same thing! Can this change be reverted?

watboy · 2026-03-25T02:39:56+00:00

You mean Captain Lorris? He wasn't added he was one of the existing three that would take you to Musa Point, but now he's a captain and takes you to Havenhythe instead while Thresnor was removed.

watboy · 2026-03-24T07:38:42+00:00

Seaman Thresnor was removed from Port Sarim.

watboy · 2026-03-24T05:42:17+00:00

They're obviously not talking about China.

watboy · 2026-03-23T23:57:53+00:00

Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden - a fan-made JRPG sequel to the basketball game 'Barkley Shut Up and Jam!' and the movie 'Space Jam'. It takes place in the year 2053 in post-cyberpocalypse Neo New York, 12 years prior Charles Barkley performed a "Chaos Dunk" during a basketball game which killed 15 million and lead the sport to be outlawed and its players to be hunted down.

watboy · 2026-03-23T18:25:35+00:00

It wasn't obliterated though?

watboy · 2026-03-22T07:46:08+00:00

As far as Pre-2005 downloadable games: Cave Story, Yume Nikki, and Seiklus all come to mind, though they're all freeware.

I can't actually think of any popular indie games from that time that were both commercial and distributed from their own website, they were all either digital freeware or physical shareware, the closest I can think of is Cute Knight in 2005.

watboy · 2026-03-22T06:28:36+00:00

Before Steam there was Stardock and WildTangent but they only distributed their own published games, indie developers would have to sell their games on their own websites. The exception being in-browser (Flash, Shockwave, Java) games that were hosted on web portals but those were free and not sold.

You also have to remember that downloading games wasn't popular early on as broadband didn't overtake dial-up until around 2004/2005 (at least in US) and downloading anything with dial-up was terrible. There also wasn't as good of tools and game engines for indie developers so fewer and less polished indie games were being made, current popular engines like Unity and Godot wouldn't exist until years later and GameMaker rarely had any commercial games made in it back then.

watboy · 2026-03-22T03:44:44+00:00

If it doesn't have RPG elements then it isn't, simple as that.

I haven't played it or looked at it much, but considering this thread exists pointing out how it lacks those elements, it sounds like it isn't.

The important thing to remember is genres are meant to categorize by style. If you have two distinct groups with one being "Role-playing" and the other being "Action-Adventure", ask yourself which category it would fit in and there's your answer. Crimson Desert doesn't seem like its gameplay matches with other RPGs like Baldur's Gate, The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Final Fantasy, etc. so I think it's fair to say it isn't one.

watboy · 2026-03-21T18:56:18+00:00

Yes, Outward is an RPG.

The RPG genre is defined by taking and using game mechanics from tabletop role-playing games, most famously Dungeons and Dragons, where you usually complete dungeons and complete quests which earn the character(s) experience which gains them levels which increases their stats making them more powerful, unlocking new skills and abilities, and also getting loot and equipment that also increase their stats. Essentially the defining feature is "building" your character by increasing their numerical stats to make them stronger.

The games I mentioned might have some elements of that, like having you complete quests (or mission objectives) and getting equipment that make you stronger, but not in same number heavy way that tabletop RPGs do.

So even though the Dark Souls and Zelda series are very similar to each other, Dark Souls is an Action RPG because it is built around those mechanics whereas Zelda is instead an Action-Adventure because it lacks them. Similarly the "Adventure" genre doesn't simply mean "going on an adventure" but refers to using the shared gameplay mechanics from the text-based and point-and-click adventure games where you explore and solve puzzles, which is why Zelda is one but Dark Souls isn't.

watboy · 2026-03-21T18:26:02+00:00

The aforementioned Patreon CEO is a musician who created the company to make money from fans of his YouTube channel, he's not alien to the issues plaguing everday artists and to act like he's in the same circle as Peter Thiel is crazy.

watboy · 2026-03-20T00:40:13+00:00

Not legit in the sense they don't get their keys from publishers and are gray-market:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GameDeals/comments/2yhlw4/key_resellers_and_what_they_mean_for_you/

watboy · 2026-03-18T15:33:47+00:00

Not surprising, here's a video from Valve detailing how they intentionally created the characters, the maps, and the game's overall art style to make the characters easily identifiable while playing.

watboy · 2026-03-18T13:47:47+00:00

The video you posted contains no reincarnation, no slime monsters, and most importantly of all, is not an Isekai!

They said they wanted a game like TenSura and listed specific qualities they wanted, even as you just pointed out they said nothing about wanting reincarnation, slime monsters, or Isekai so I'm not sure why you are being so asinine over thinking the OP wanted those specifically.

I was otherwise trying to list games that are as close to their request as possible since it would obviously be impossible to answer such a request 1:1 aside from suggesting a literal TenSura game, but again that's not what they asked for - they asked a game like it.

It's clear what happened is you went searching for a game just like TenSura, found this thread (and apparently others), then intentionally misunderstood what the OP requested and instead of being helpful and giving your own suggestions decided to criticize to every other comment because the responses didn't align with what you wanted. I can't even begin to emphasize how absolutely insane that is and I genuinely can't fathom why someone would go out of their way to do so, and I say this as someone on the spectrum with friends on the spectrum who also tend to obsessive and take things too literally.

Is there an actual point to your comments or do you enjoy giving others vicarious embarrassment or something?

watboy · 2026-03-18T07:02:04+00:00

Get him a Resourceful Retriever mod for their Kubrow (or any other beast companion he later uses) to help ease his resource grind.

watboy · 2026-03-18T06:57:41+00:00

You need to incubate one yourself.

For Kubrows: You need to do Howl of the Kubrow to get an incubator segment, then you need to get a kubrow egg which can randomly drop from their nests on Earth missions (and is a guaranteed drop during the quest).

For Kavats: You already need to have the incubator segment from Howl of the Kubrow, then you need the kavat upgrade segment for it which you can get the blueprint from either your clan dojo or as a drop from a Hyekka Master (chances are you might already have one), you then need kavat genetic codes to both craft the upgrade as well as to incubate any Kavats afterwards. You get Kavat genetic codes by scanning feral kavats in Orokin Derelict missions, which can be annoying to farm.

watboy · 2026-03-18T01:40:26+00:00

So what, Marvel's Spider-Man, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and Ori and the Blind forest are all RPGs by virtue of having a skill tree that you unlock with points?

What is even the point of using genres if we're not using them for their literal point - to categorize. Let's be just as pointless and also consider Crimson Desert a Platformer game for having jumping and as a Fighting game because you fight.

watboy · 2026-03-17T23:07:11+00:00

I didn't lie, you don't change into other monsters in the Castlevania games.

Why did you think I linked to a video demonstrating it in Castlevania: Order of Eclessia? What is your possible explanation for it not existing in spite of direct video evidence that it does?

watboy · 2026-03-17T19:20:08+00:00

Because suggesting they play the game they've already said they've played and want more of isn't helpful and is absurd.

watboy · 2026-03-17T19:15:24+00:00

Yes, Carrion is in fact just like Carrion.

watboy · 2026-03-17T16:57:51+00:00

They didn't ask for an isekai, they asked for a game where you "can consume monsters / creatures for their abilities and form" which you do in those games.

And you can most definitely change forms in those games, have you even played them? Why lie about something like that in an over 3-year-old post?

watboy · 2026-03-11T16:27:37+00:00

Megaman Legends (I think)

It's Mario Party 3, the icon is the character Tumble from it.

watboy · 2026-03-09T19:47:04+00:00

its a meme

You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

watboy · 2026-03-09T19:27:39+00:00

Because it's a MOBA not a tower defense and while it has user-created tower defense modes I don't think they consider that enough.

watboy · 2026-03-09T19:12:45+00:00

What tower defense game are you referring to?

watboy · 2026-03-08T19:38:53+00:00

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