“most modern games” got my gears grinding
it always has sorry
i dunno if youve noticed but i constantly always use hyperbolics and superlatives all the time
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yeah but usually they’re more fun than that
part of the problem is that yknow, videogames are expensive and i play them on a console so I don’t really have that much leeway to try out weirder stuff because people don’t talk about it and I don’t have the money to gamble without something like steam refunds. at least with mainstream games everybody never shuts the fuck up about them even if they’re some angry twitter person who hates AAA videogames so i at least get an idea of if it’s something i would like. either way it’s a conversation about mainstream videogame genres so???
we talk about it!!!
Felix you should add a button to this website that says “I’m Being A Cranky Old Man Again” that automatically collapses your posts for like an hour or whatever you need to take your heart pills and calm down again
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I mean, at least in the later games, you can see people on the street and try to avoid them. 1 and 2 just had actual totally random JRPG battles and that shit was nuts looking back on it.
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they make the most money they might as well be most games 
posting on SB has definitely helped me find games I like I would’ve been unsure about otherwise and probably never played for the reasons I cited above because people on here are talking about them when no one else is so I do appreciate that about this place
I miss being able to go into the BUDGET GAMES section at fucking wal-mart or whatever to pay 20 dollars for some incoherent Russian FPS from 2005 and not feeling like I got ripped off the way I do with 90% of mainstream games that cost 3x that amount
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i love random battles because they emulate the way i feel when 309483298439 people stop me to talk on the street EVERY TIME I LEAVE THE HOUSE. i understand peoples beef with them though, because there are definitely games that make me pissy when the encounter rate is too high
i do appreciate when a game with random battles has just enough. shadow hearts had just enough.
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Oh I don’t totally care about random battles, but it was hilarious in YKZ 1 and 2, where like SOMETHING PLOT IS HAPPENING and you are running down an empty street and then OH NO FADE TO BLACK TO FIGHT SOME RANDOS.
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reminder that if you grind too much in romancing saga 2 it will literally spawn a superboss in most of the dungeons who will stalk you, give you a line of “i know what you’ve been up to and i’m not impressed” dialogue and then probably kill you
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The two major genres are ASSCREED and WARCRIMES. The two minor genres are JRPGS and MUSEUM INSTALLATION PIECES
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i just want to say im probably the most under a rock havent heard of anything because i dont pay attention to things irrelevant to me ever, odyssey was my first assassins creed game and i didn’t play minecraft til last month. whenever a politician says something i go ‘who’ and the only marvel movie ive seen is blade
but i interact with humans on the daily, and they have interests i dont care about, and hearing about them i can gauge a mainstream interest that i realize influences my descisions ( positively or negatively). for example felix you would not be playing the new fire emblem if everyone didnt scream about it over and over making it popular and on your switch
so you’re not really an outlier you just actively resist things that you think arent interesting, which is what everyone over 30 does anyway
jrpgs rule
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Can you elaborate on this?
If Kingdom Hearts were turn based, I would have played it.
This site is very good at introducing games to me that I wouldn’t have even thought about trying before. This board’s enthusiasm for DQ and Earthbound convinced me to play those games. I don’t think I truly engaged with a JRPG until well after college, but I ended up loving both those series.
And more recently, Outer Wilds enthusiasm and the interactive fiction thread introduced me to a games I’m fairly certain I wouldn’t have tried at all.
This board’s strength is in curation; whether it be a mainstream game or not, when a group here likes a game there’s a pretty high chance I’ll like it, or at least get something out of it. I think we all have tendencies to be dismissive sometimes, and this board can be like, “hey, maybe there’s something more to this thing that you’ve dismissed out of hand.” I appreciate that a lot! I have a pretty consistent level of trust for people’s opinions here without much caveat, and that’s not true for me anywhere else.
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Yeah I can’t fuck with Platinum stuff. Give me action but make it weighty and tense and slow
Like my beloved gunlance in MHW
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you know what, yeah. the camera was awful and the only interesting combat was in the end of 2 when you had to use the MENU to do a critical hit on a certain enemy. and that was the ONLY time they did something weird and neat with combat in the whole game
so i obviously wasnt interested in that mechanic cuz its a neat late game design decision that subverts a familarity with a system, i just missed dicking around in menus during fights
well, okay its both
a lot of AAA games seem interesting on the surface to me but then I play them and it’s like, oh here’s another Health Bars and Levels games-as-a-service thing that never ends which is completely uninteresting to me in every way. I’m very bitter about the fact that they started radically changing Assassin’s Creed Odyssey like 2 weeks after it came out to the point where it’s no longer the game I actually liked, which sucks because it’s probably the first Assassin’s Creed game I have ever given a shit about and I would have liked to actually finish it before they layered a bunch of bullshit on top of it. I think the majority of AAA games I’ve bought in the past few years I haven’t finished because they’re boring and endlessly long which is why I don’t buy them anymore. I guess I just miss weird lower budget b-games that were always interesting even if they weren’t always good.
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