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Man, I just know Elder Scrolls 6 is going to suck balls, and likely no amount of modding will be able to fix it.
And on top of that I bet that Skyrim STILL will have no high king :kekw:

Man Skyrim was in it's base form in the end, for the most part, just a whole lot of nothing. (No satisfying resolutions, no real meaningful actions you could take against the Blades, or the Thalmor. Hell one of the main villain's of that game, Elenwyn just locks herself behind a door at the end that no key can open and no lockpick can pick) At least there are ways to make it fun and mostly playable.
 
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Oddly feeling nostalgic bout suda51 games cause as much as i shit on the fandom and the oddness of gameplay mechanics i do admire the 200s and 90s unorthodox creativity of his older games back in the day.
 
Been seeing those Kemco rpg's on both steam and gog and keep wondering if any of them are worth trying out.
(They did nes and gbc ports of old macventure games a long time ago, shadowgate, uninvited and deja vu, tried them out a few years ago and they were great)
 

Oddly nostalgic for a game i haven't played yet am getting into another developers series now with summon night damn i just love the 90s and 2000s era of gaming so much.
 
The newer Pokemon games using paid DLC to provide a complete experience is actually even worse than the old approach of simply releasing an enhanced version of the same game a couple of years later. This might be hard for certain consoomers to grasp, but you don't actually *have to* buy a game the moment it launches, especially if you know an enhanced version is eventually coming, you can just wait for that and thus enjoy the superior experience when the new version comes out, you don't NEED to buy 1 game for the price of 2. However, if you want to experience the DLC you have to shell out 30 bucks ON TOP OF the 60 bucks you already paid for an unfinished, shit game that wasn't worth that price in the first place. And the same problem remains even if you wait several years before buying the latest mainline Pokemon release.

Now, if Gen 8 and Gen 9 hadn't been so terrible, I might have actually found merit in the DLC system, but given how bad those games were, the only shot they had at becoming worthwhile would have been enhanced versions that AT LEAST represented a Platinum-tier upgrade.
 
Thank god, i'm always going to be sticking to older anime,manga and Japanese games period i'll be like this forever till im a corpse lmao games like soma bringer over saints row any fucking day if you ask me.
 
Gridlock said:
Been seeing those Kemco rpg's on both steam and gog and keep wondering if any of them are worth trying out.
(They did nes and gbc ports of old macventure games a long time ago, shadowgate, uninvited and deja vu, tried them out a few years ago and they were great)
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Kemco is good classical JRPG fun. Do not worry about it much.
 
I may pick up one or 2 of them soon.
Seems a new shiren the wanderer (The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island) is coming to pc in about 15 hours. (Well it was on switch before but now will have a pc version) if anyone is interested. (Unless they screwed it up somehow, with localization or something, but I would hope they would not screw up something so simple as Shiren the wanderer)
 
Gridlock said:
I may pick up one or 2 of them soon.
Seems a new shiren the wanderer (The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island) is coming to pc in about 15 hours. (Well it was on switch before but now will have a pc version) if anyone is interested. (Unless they screwed it up somehow, with localization or something, but I would hope they would not screw up something so simple as Shiren the wanderer)
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Spike Chunsoft did a good job on Shiren The Wanderer. They are solid on translation as is Inti Creates(they used to have a problem but they replaced the Translator with a better one) which is why I usually recommend Card-En-Ciel etc.
 
Yeah, they seem ok so far from what I have seen actually. Speaking of Spike Chunsoft, I still need to finish Way of the samurai 4 sometime, its pretty cool from what I have played so far. ("Night Crawling" with pretty much any girl in the game, and can beat random guards in a fight if one gets after you and then they will join your dojo :D ) And I do remember seeing an older version of one of the gunvolt games where in the english version they tried to say one of the bosses was "bigender" or something really stupid. Then I found out they fixed that with the steam version so that is good.
 
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Yeah, they seem ok so far from what I have seen actually. Speaking of Spike Chunsoft, I still need to finish Way of the samurai 4 sometime, its pretty cool from what I have played so far. ("Night Crawling" with pretty much any girl in the game, and can beat random guards in a fight if one gets after you and then they will join your dojo :D ) And I do remember seeing an older version of one of the gunvolt games where in the english version they tried to say one of the bosses was "bigender" or something really stupid. Then I found out they fixed that with the steam version so that is good.
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Funny enough Way Of The Samurai as a series is not censored at all. They even include Fanservice, Shota and some Lewd scenes that were in the Japanese version in the Western version on the platforms and like you mentioned, they fixed problems with the translation as a whole.
 
Good Grief that game awards show was a farce, Cant even remember that much from it and I just got done watching it, the few things That were even remotely ok off the top of my head was the steam chat shitting all over it, one of the people they brought out making what seemed like an anti-woke speech out of nowhere(that had to raise some eyebrows if any of them noticed), The flute guy, and the announcement of a NEW OKAMI. (Please, PLEASE don't fuck it up) THEN for their BIG final announcement for the year of a new game, "Intergalactic" GOOD GRIEF WHAT SLOP!
Shaved head lesbo(another man with boobs) and then I saw it was by Naughy Dog. So Neil Cuckmann (Then it all made sense) And they also announced a new Onimusha (Please do not fuck that up either)
 
why did you watch it? Are you stupid? You care what video games Rolling Stone, NPR, and Pride want you to play? This is the fucking judges panel for that show

I thought that only two kinds of people watched the game awards: actual literal 70 iq and below retards, and people who get their video game news from the LA Times
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To see how bad and stupid it was, to make fun of it and to see the chat just take a massive shit all over it. (Only saw the last half hour but that was more than enough.)
I don't care what anyone in the industry or corporate world wants me to play. Never have.

In news and gaming discussion actually worth talking about, I hope that Tokyo Clanpool getting a gog release means we can still maybe one day get pc versions of Moero Crystal H and Genkai Tokki: Seven Pirates. I have no idea why Valve/Steam seem to be waging a Jihad against anime dungeon crawlers and always ban them or force them to have to use offsite patch's and do their damndest to hide said patches existence.

We also need PC versions of the uncensored switch versions of Mugen Souls, and Mugen Souls Z.
 
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This also applies to modern gaming and games journalism as well

And another one that applies to modern gaming and this dei bullshit


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Christi Junior said:
Way less games ought to have random fishing mechanics, it's almost always really grindy and time-consuming if you want 100% completion, and the last time I ever remember fishing being a selling-point was in Twilight Princess.
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I like them in survival games where they belong. It's more exciting when you don't know if you're going to catch a catfish or some 5.56
 
Christi Junior said:
Way less games ought to have random fishing mechanics, it's almost always really grindy and time-consuming if you want 100% completion, and the last time I ever remember fishing being a selling-point was in Twilight Princess.
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I usually like fishing unless it's the stressful "press a button with lightning quick reflexes" like Trails has. It should be a relaxing pastime between the action. Breath of Fire 3 and Dark Cloud 2 are some good examples.
 
Honestly I dislike how long games are nowadays. Everything is Open World boredom

1. Too much busywork and padding with storylines and cutscenes.
2. Vast and Desolate areas with nothing interesting in them
3. Combat system and Mechanics become very tedious after awhile with no replay value or things to keep people going
4. Everything takes 80 hours to 110 hours to beat and it feels like a requirement than an option.

I would say a game is not great due to it's length but more or less due to it's mechanics, it's systems, and it's story. A good example is Xenoblade Chronicles 3. It's 65 hours long but could truly be completed in 50 hours. The game is not full of busywork, it has areas that are interesting and human scale to where it's not just a giant open world, but places that are fun to explore and come back. The combat and mechanics are remarkable and has high replay value to play the game over and over again. Also while some may point to Neptunia or Senran Kagura or Anime games being more cutscene than gameplay heavy, I will offer a counterpoint and say they are short games and you can complete them within 20-30 hours easily and has a ton of replay value afterwards that can go beyond if the user likes it.
 
If a Japanese game has a body of water, it will most likely feature some form of fishing.
It seems to be a significant part of Japanese culture that, if it is anything more than a form of meditation, I have not figured out.

I agree that games with too much busy work are more tedious than fun. Especially open world games with crafting where strength progression is less about the skills I have learned or the treasures I have found but more about what random junk I took the time to farm.
It was fine in Monster Hunter. Hunting big creatures and assimilating their parts in order to hunt bigger creatures was the game.
Not so fun in Far Cry 3 where upgrades require specific quantities of specific animal hides in a game focused more on objectives rather than animal hunting.

The second Xenoblade Chronicles has to be one of the worst time wasters on par with gatcha games.
 
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