I decided to try rec room because I’m not already nauseous enough all the time and got the “angry 12 year old yelling in my ear” experience for the first time in many years while I figured out how to shoot a VR bow and he constantly ran in front of me then carried on about team kills and just who did I think I am joining his team and not pulling my weight in the very important task of shooting jerky gerblins and I can’t say that I’m proud that I turned voice on just long enough to say “does your fuckin mother know you talk to strangers like that kid?” in my adult voice but he did stop yelling and the rest of the gerblin shoot was more peaceful?
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I probably shouldn’t play multiplayer games
Like 100% completely
It’s ‘we bought one Smithsonian branded book on armor and watched enough youtube sword nerds to get a vague idea of how you’d fight with a longsword,’ so idk where that falls on the shrug scale.
I’m finding the single player pretty charming because the clear lack of non-multiplayer assets and general ineptitude gives it the feel of watching a 7 year old action figure puppet show. Everyone wears their armor (and helmet, saftey first) at all times and there’s a lot of like, looking out the window to discover a big ol army and giant siege weapons thirty feet away and people you talk to once being your best friend and shit.
I also like the game’s take on knightly vows, which is to say the main character of the first arc goes through life with reluctance and resentment. People are always like, ‘Hey, you wanna fight this duel for me?’ and she’s like, ‘I’d do it anyways but I guess I don’t have a chocie because vows!’ or they’re like, ‘Hey, I’ve seen you kill like a hundred dudes before, wanna go protect some people?’ and she’s line ‘UGH FINE’ and when you get there it’s all,
‘Did you come to protect us?’
‘Shit, I guess I did’
‘But! How will one lady knight kill like 100 dudes!?’
‘Oh my godddddd who cares? I’ll either hit them all with my sword or die.’
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I like a lady who approaches her life of murder with the same attitude I approach do my laundry
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after being thoroughly disappointed by front mission 5 and giving up on it a bit past the halfway mark, i went back to playing through fm3 again for the first time in a decade.
this game is so much better it’s not even funny.
i felt like FM5 was going for some kind of Top Gun like aesthetic where the protagonist is just this Cool and Collected dude, and that for a good chunk of the game your home base is a US aircraft carrier seems to play into this.
whereas in 3: you play someone who is basically a hotheated idiot who’s sheer dumbassness turns him into a war criminal on the run from basically everyone. this is actually a fun ride. there are two story routes. Emma’s route is the way more interesting of the two imo, has you siding with the USN and tromping around SE Asia helping a rebellion, who are honestly about as shitty as the government they’re rebelling against.
you can knock dudes out of their mechs, jump into them, and then kill them with their own mechs. this is also one of the primary ways of getting new mech parts! it’s satisfyingly dumb, and much better than fm5’s “hey, go grind the arena until your brain falls out.”
weapon balance isn’t great. experience gain is relative to parts destroyed, so characters that don’t use shotguns noticeably lag behind. that being said, you’re more likely to be able to capture mechs with non-shotgun weapons, so choose accordingly.
the Fake Internet is exceedingly 90s and every website feels like it’d be on geocities. it’s great, more games need this. there’s an entire side game centered around surfing the net and unlocking tools for your computer.
game has some awful loading times and is kind of sluggish at times though. emulator speedup key is a nice thing to have sometimes…
edit: also the music has a lot more flavor to it. instead of the somewhat generic marches of fm5, there’s a lot more variety and some of the tracks sounds like they could be straight out of ff7 or fft. good battle music all around, honestly! good old 90s squaresoft.
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Every game needs an FM3 Internet incl. the game of real life
The FM3 skill system is still mind boggling to me but it’s far and away the best of the series I think
i’ve just been trading the arms with the pilot damage skill to everyone and stocking up on like 4 copies of it so i can just murder people in their mechs randomly
it’s pretty great
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FF5 is the best one
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FM3 skills system is easy!
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Uhhh yeah of course
Wario’s picross is more fun to play but the actual pictures are way less endearing
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難しい‼︎
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Front Mission 3 is the best to play.
FM4’s story had a great hook but the gameplay was such a letdown that I never got far enough to see if it went anywhere interesting with it.
I just got Evergrace for free. When it comes I’ll report back
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Since I got Xbox live gold for my 360 I decided to turn it on for guardian heroes expecting nothing to happen. I picked the one character I’ve never played before too. Well shit someone joined my game right away and we played through more than half of the whole game (I suck). It was fucking awesome.
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i started a low level game of ff5, but now i want to play front mission 3
as a kid the first game had this kind of mythic quality because i read super play’s 100% ‘best game ever’ review & all of their obsessive coverage of it
Watched @landroverattack just blast through Ranko Tsukigime’s Longest Day. It still rules. Y’all should buy Short Piece and play it on your PS3. Don’t look up anything about it. The game is about 90 minutes long!
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We also Got Turbed in Sengoku Turb. A 19 year mystery solved. Had a much better time with the unplayable Japanese Only Magic The Gathering Game with Exclusivr Cards that are BROKEN AS SHIT and The AI exploits that.
4/4 Flying Angel: if this card is in your graveyard during your upkeep you have a 1 in 4 chance of putting it into play.
The AI went second took two zero action turns to discard two of these bastards and then wait for them to destroy me.
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