I would play an Atelier if they increased their ambition and devoted like 3 years to make the ultimate Atelier game.
But I get the impression the series has stayed alive for so long precisely because they don’t gamble with the studio’s future like that
Warriors Orochi 3 released originally on the PS3 iirc, and the PS4 version was just a GotY re-release, so kinda of correct there?
But then Samurai Warriors 4 was the PS4 erabl gem, so yeah, kinda can agree w/ that notion 
musou is pretty dead again though unfortunately at least on koei’s part, you just get to play shitty licensed anime ones now
i think they’ve hit the modern game time and budget scaling problem. dynasty warriors 9 is a big open world game, and it took ages for the empires spinoff to come out.
though i don’t think anyone else is making them either. in the 00s and early 10s, there were a few imitators. the most recent imitator i can think of is fate/extella and that was long enough ago to be an internetional vita physical release
i mean everyone else fuckin hated dw9 which is why dw is dead in the water, dw9 empires was just castle sieges because they were so afraid of pissin people off again and then nobody liked it anyway because what the fuck is that shit
they’ve also got “the sonic problem” where youtubers and ign and people like that have spent years telling everyone how bad musou games are and people will just absorb that and believe it. and one of the criticisms is that every musou game is exactly the same (which isn’t true anyway), and it seems like dynasty warriors 9 was an attempt to counter that? i thought it was fine.
someone i used to play a ton of dynasty/samurai/gundam warriors co-op with a decade+ ago now refuses to even humour the idea that the entire genre isn’t unplayable garbage.
game designer Laralyn McWilliams died and I remember her saying that she had never made a game for herself, as of 4 years ago, and im wondering if she got the chance to do that before she passed
late to this but i love baldies
Either the Switch 2 or the Steamdeck 2 need to have some sort of powerful dock situation.
Spent a stupid long time yesterday trying to figure out why ImgBurn seemed to have stopped automatically naming my iso rips. Turns out some PS1/2 discs just have no volume label ;’ P – Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution, for instance (but VF4 vanilla did).
Meanwhile other discs may have just weird names, like Kitchen Panic’s (PS1 JP) “KITCHINPANICK.” ; D
I guess the volume label was not something Sony cared about, so it’s a bizarre wild west as far as these disc names go, woo!
we were playing halo and i said im getting fucked more by the invisible WALLS than by the invisible WARRIORS and it was probably the most angry videogame nerd shit to come out of my mouth and i cant stop thinking about it. my own personal crigne comp is just all the times ive sounded like AVGN
at some point i said “as an american i love it when we shoot the officers first” and every time i play halo now i think about how i meticulously kill the officers first in every single combat encounter, it’s been haunting me constantly
thinking how it would be cool if an immersive sim protagonist was like rummaging through a bathroom trash can and found a post it note that said “go to PROPULSION-LAB H13” and then there they’d see another message written on a wall that told them “MED OFFICE EXEC LEVEL NEXT” and they’d go from room to room in the dungeon until finally they enter some janitor closet and directly in front of them written on the wall is another message that says “lmao you eat out the trash”
kids would do this in textbooks when i was in school
So between Diablo 4, Midnight Suns, and Grandblu Frantasy I’m tired of seeing Lilith as a villain. I don’t want to say you can’t use women as villains, but using Lilith in particular just has inherent baked-in misogyny which is present in all these games.
Midnight Suns doing the most to combat that theme at least. Diablo is just being miserable about it like it is everything else. Then Granblue is being vapid about it like everything else in that story. I love the game, but the writing is horrible, I try not to just discount writing as horrible, but in this case, it just is.
I’m not sure I have a super deep thought yet, but it is really bugging me.
Lilith is my go-to in Darkstalkers 3, she rules. ^ _^
I’d actually pretty much forgotten about the mythological figure. = o
Thimbleweed Park kinda has a variant of that.
The second screen you visit is a long road with a lot of items on the side. As an adventure gamer you’ll probably pick up five or six before realizing you’re literally collecting roadside trash.
It then serves as a tutorial for how the dustbin you find at the end of the road works, allowing you to discard useless items and declutter your inventory. Trashed items actually return to their original spots.
Of course you’ll have to revisit the road much later, because you most certainly discarded all trash items at that point but it was a setup, the joke is one of them is actually needed for a puzzle.
diablo’s lore is literally that lilith’s pussy is so good she makes you go evil mode lol and that all the men in the sin war books doing war crimes are doing it because they are seduced by the demonic power of a Hot Woman
inexplicably these books came out in 2006 and not 1997 like you’d expect from that classic blizzard.txt ass storyline
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