Quantity OP
It balances out the AI being able to support 100+ mercenaries and being incredibly in debt without apparently worrying about eventual bankruptcy. Iāve seen Ottomans in something like 8k in the red after some hellwar with Europe (and then being unwilling to join offensive wars afterward because of it but perfectly happy going to war for themselves the selfish bastards).
The West Will Never Get Kyoei Toshi and that is a Crime.
I just stole a Harley to escape a bridge collapsing because Mothra and ?Evil Mothra? Were fighting. I also bought some Lawsonās chicken that was going bad and need to inform a dad his now definitely dead daughter and boyfriend wanted to get married. The BF was a video game developer but wanted Dad to know it was just a normal office job.
Also I am a lesbian and with my girlfriend.
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Iām upset that this exists because I know Iāll never play it.
If I canāt have it, no one should.
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i played axion verge over the weekend. itās ok. by the numbers metroidvania with wildly variable art. thereās plenty of bad stuff in it but i dont think itās worth thinking about so iāll say: i like the bullet sponge bosses. they hit the pattern recognition part of my brain good
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This Game is Incredible.
battra?
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how playable is it if you donāt know any japanese?
I think the answer is ānot at allā
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profound sadness
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i felt myself approaching burning out on code again so i decided to take a few days break and play some videogames. was in the mood for rockemsockem robots so i got around to trying front mission 5.
thereās a fan translation patch but i decided not to play it in english. finding the jp rather hard to read; not because itās difficult, but because they decided to choose the jp equivalent of Comic Sans for the font. for a Serious Military SF Game. also the é type kanji, and only those kanji, use traditional chinese glyphs instead of japanese glyphs. look at this nonsense!
thatās å„éćē„ć, which is to say itās wishing me good luck, but look at that second kanji! my brain hurts.
so far itās very dull even by FM standards, itās just You And Your Military Bros Talking Shit While Excuses For Fighting Happen. protagonist characterās a jerk. i think heās supposed to come off as friendly-joking but it read more like heās just giving back-handed insults to his friends. then [event] happens and he turns into a jrpg protagonist where he speaks entirely with ellipses. and oh look would you believe thereās a super soldier program who would have ever guessed that.
the combat is kind of not that interesting. the main focus appears to be link skills, where you cause nearby allies to join in the combat, because you do basically nothing for damage without them, so most of your ātacticsā boil down to āget everyone to pummel on one enemy while spread out enough that aoes donāt kill them all.ā
really this just makes me want to play fm3 again. fm3 was a good videogame and had a good fake internet on it.
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Is 3 unequivocally a/the good one? Every time Iāve dipped my toe in I got an insultingly slow and simple tactics game supporting the neat customization.
iāve played 1 and 3
i donāt hate 1. itās brisk and fun and full of dumb gundamy pathos. itās not complicated or anything.
3 isā¦ i wonāt say itās deep because itās not, but thereās a lot of interesting things going on with the meta-level. the whole fake internet thing, the weird places the story goes, the characters being nonsense caricatures, the two paths thing (protip: play emmaās path, not alisaās path)ā¦ itās a fun romp and takes itself roughly as seriously as it should.
itās definitely more on the easy side of srpgs. which is actually why i picked one, i wanted to shut my brain off for a bit!
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Iām about to wade into microtransaction hell and shell out money for some gems in Cartoon Network Matchland 
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the best front mission is gun hazard because itās a goofy mecha sidescroller and itās bafflingly pretty for an sfc game
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te only good far cry is blood dragon
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i got all excited to play the new MONSTER HUNTER that all the kids are talking about and got my copy ready and then, went onto steam and reinstalled all the Fallout games instead. and played through most of 1 in a day.
i mean, probably no one here needs me to tell them that Fallout is good, but MAN Fallout is good. i really like that it is less of an āopen worldā game than 2 (scare quotes because itās technically true but very different from what open world means now) and more of an adventure game with dice rolls. Thereās optional content, but itās very contained, and there are only about a dozen areas on the map.
i also like the move to make your first objective timed, so that thereās always some urgency to gathering information and chugging around the world map. Itās almost a little disappointing that they compromised on the second time limit and removed it, especially factoring in the risk/reward of hiring the water merchants.
(Also: standard small guns/lockpicks/speech character, if anyoneās curious. i didnāt feel like any gimmicks, though i might run a hand-to-hand fighter for 2)
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Minimum Luck and Jinxed 4 a good time
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in defense of an untimed second objective: by that point you are heavily invested in the world. You donāt need more motivation to see the world because you want to see it now. Fallout 1 is one of the few open worlders that doesnāt feel like a lawnmower sim because it convinces you to look at the content of its world by the quality of that content and not by a constant nagging reminder to clean up the map.
I donāt think that Fallout is like an adventure game with dice rolls so much as āthe closest we have come to putting a tabletop rpg into a video gameā
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So I got around to play Spec Ops: The Line due to it being free. Itās a nice game, the controls are wonky and the shooty part has not a lot to it, but fortunately the game is short enough it doesnāt get very samey.
But is nice to see a āUS soldiers making things worseā even if it cheats a little bit to achieve it.
Other than that, stockpiling stuff to emulate after taking a break from games. Kinda want to play some PC-88 and 98 stuff, but most of it is untranslated. Maybe this and reading mecha manga is what makes me learn japanese. I mean, it beats spending nights reading catalogs of pigments. Which Iāve done.