I'm not saying Card Games are bad but an actual action RPG would be way better. I've played many hours of Slay the Spire but I dunno... a Marvel card game just doesn't sound fun to me.
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Granted the first pure cinematic trailer wasn't helpful for setting expectations... but it was always out there that this was a turn-based strategy game of some stripe.
Also Guardians of the Galaxy is right around the corner, even if not running natively on Switch. I also feel like it's getting short shrift due to Avengers but it appears to be about as different as can be short of cartoon graphics.
Literally knew nothing about the game before watching that trailer so I didn't know it was made by Firaxis. I immediately skipped to the half way part of the trailer just to see the actual gameplay so if their name is displayed anywhere I didn't see it.
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It could still be fun I guess but I'm definitely less excited by the idea now
I feel like Marvel, in licensing all these games, is maybe underestimating the association that people have between the actors in the MCU and the characters they play?
What I mean is, comic fans are more likely already mostly fine with, say, Doctor Strange looking different from game to game, media to media, because any given artist can result in dramatically different looking characters, in different runs, on paper; so it is already a thing.
But all the people brought in via the MCU? Not-Chris Evans Cap feels like knock-off Cap. It just feels sorta cheap.
What they probably should have done, at least via some sort of short form media, if not in a game, is use all the multiverse stuff they're already doing with the MCU and just have a little transition thing for folks to see, where there's MCU characters with the characters they're using in these games, with some sort of hand-off or message that "hey, it's cool, this may not be the characters you've seen on the big screen, but it's still them!
I dunno, I'm probably over thinking it. But based on the reception of the Avengers game, maybe I'm not.
I think GotG actually addressed this well by making Starlord look more like Cyberpunk 2077 cover guy than Chris Pratt. And it seems there's less uncanny valley for the rest of the cast since they are slathered in CGI and makeup.
Being realistic IMO is fine. The mistake is trying to look remotely at all like the actors.
I feel like Marvel, in licensing all these games, is maybe underestimating the association that people have between the actors in the MCU and the characters they play?
What I mean is, comic fans are more likely already mostly fine with, say, Doctor Strange looking different from game to game, media to media, because any given artist can result in dramatically different looking characters, in different runs, on paper; so it is already a thing.
But all the people brought in via the MCU? Not-Chris Evans Cap feels like knock-off Cap. It just feels sorta cheap.
What they probably should have done, at least via some sort of short for media, if not in a game, is use all the multiverse stuff they're already doing with the MCU and just have a little transition thing for folks to see, where there's MCU characters with the characters they're using in these games, with some sort of hand-off or message that "hey, it's cool, this may not be the characters you've seen on the big screen, but it's still them!
I dunno, I'm probably over thinking it. But based on the reception of the Avengers game, maybe I'm not.
well the avengers game has some particularly "cheap knock-off" designs. They could have distanced the characters from the actors a lot more.
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The problem with that is licensing actors appearances. That is not cheap even with low budget actors. Licensing Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey Jnr, Chris Evans and Mahershala Ali? That's not going to be cheap at all.
And if they go that route, you'll have people complaining they didn't throw in Hugh Jackman, Wesley Snipes Blade, Nicholas Cage, and any other character that's had a Marvel movie, since the whole Multiverse thing is happening now.
Actor appearance licensing alone would bankrupt 2k Games if the game doesn't sell in the tens of millions.
The positive initial reception to Guardians of the Galaxy years ago, combined with the positive reception to The Suicide Squad (the new one), tells me that people might enjoy the wackier, more creative, less established unknowns of the Marvel back catalog.
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I like the look of Midnight Suns a lot, but I wasn't expecting an XCOM game that somehow beat ideas like permadeath and such into a Marvel format. The card based combat system is interesting to me as well and frankly, if they want to do something weird I would much rather them do it with something like this than try to make card based XCOM combat.
I'm not saying Card Games are bad but an actual action RPG would be way better. I've played many hours of Slay the Spire but I dunno... a Marvel card game just doesn't sound fun to me.
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I want MUA3 with real scalable difficulty. That game was bullshit.
I like the look of Midnight Suns a lot, but I wasn't expecting an XCOM game that somehow beat ideas like permadeath and such into a Marvel format. The card based combat system is interesting to me as well and frankly, if they want to do something weird I would much rather them do it with something like this than try to make card based XCOM combat.
The cards seem like an answer to the question "why doesn't X hero just use their most powerful attack every time?"
Finished off Twewy on hard including another day. Going to skip the extras simply because I've got too much in the backlog at the moment but I'm really glad I got to return to the Twewy universe.
Another Day Tsumugi was a pretty damn hype fight once I got my head around the insane bullet spam. Probably my favourite fight in the game.
Not really sure why so many people hate the Ayano fight. For me it was probably the easiest late game fight (original and Another Day). Though it definitely pays to pack a ranged focused pin deck, if I had tried to push through with my standard set it would have been a process. The instant kill got me once in each but was pretty easy to deal with the second time around. Actually turns out the set I threw together for Another Day Ayano worked so well that I stuck with it for the rest of Another Day.
Susukichi was a rough fight the first time round. I was pretty worried about his another day version until I realised there was no second form. Those exploding enemies were pretty bullshit though. Hide behind a car for his lightning attack and suddenly one of them rockets into you and destroys you outright.
Shiba actually went down first try. Which was a nice change from his original form. Dying to his spam attack in the second phase and having to replay all that dialogue and the Crossing section (which to be fair was really cool... The first time) was not so fun.
On that note, I did die a few times to the story boss but other then a significantly shorter intermission than the Shiba fight the dialogue didn't hold up the fighting so it made for a much cooler fight.
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I'm not saying Card Games are bad but an actual action RPG would be way better. I've played many hours of Slay the Spire but I dunno... a Marvel card game just doesn't sound fun to me.
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I want MUA3 with real scalable difficulty. That game was bullshit.
You know what's really funny? My 6 year old son has been playing the SHIT out of the game. Beat it on normal difficulty and got everyone to level 70.
Then got bored and restarted the game from scratch and is playing through it again. It's insane. He loves that game so much.
I like the look of Midnight Suns a lot, but I wasn't expecting an XCOM game that somehow beat ideas like permadeath and such into a Marvel format. The card based combat system is interesting to me as well and frankly, if they want to do something weird I would much rather them do it with something like this than try to make card based XCOM combat.
The cards seem like an answer to the question "why doesn't X hero just use their most powerful attack every time?"
I like the look of Midnight Suns a lot, but I wasn't expecting an XCOM game that somehow beat ideas like permadeath and such into a Marvel format. The card based combat system is interesting to me as well and frankly, if they want to do something weird I would much rather them do it with something like this than try to make card based XCOM combat.
The cards seem like an answer to the question "why doesn't X hero just use their most powerful attack every time?"
That reminds me of watching Voltron in the 80s. Every episode they would fuck around with individual lions for no good reason, then they'd form Voltron, but still save the blazing sword thing for the end. Why not form Voltron and whip out the sword right away? (I know the real reason, of course. But kid me wanted better in-universe excuses.)
I like the look of Midnight Suns a lot, but I wasn't expecting an XCOM game that somehow beat ideas like permadeath and such into a Marvel format. The card based combat system is interesting to me as well and frankly, if they want to do something weird I would much rather them do it with something like this than try to make card based XCOM combat.
The cards seem like an answer to the question "why doesn't X hero just use their most powerful attack every time?"
Not really. Cooldowns and mana exist. I absolutely hate card games. Nothing turns me off more than basing a system around luck. It's a shame, cause I was very interested in Xmen Xcom, but now I have negative interest in this.
I like the look of Midnight Suns a lot, but I wasn't expecting an XCOM game that somehow beat ideas like permadeath and such into a Marvel format. The card based combat system is interesting to me as well and frankly, if they want to do something weird I would much rather them do it with something like this than try to make card based XCOM combat.
The cards seem like an answer to the question "why doesn't X hero just use their most powerful attack every time?"
Not really. Cooldowns and mana exist. I absolutely hate card games. Nothing turns me off more than basing a system around luck. It's a shame, cause I was very interested in Xmen Xcom, but now I have negative interest in this.
At least with cards, you can look at your hand and know where you stand. In XCOM XCOM, you run your guy over, miss your 95% shot, and that's XCOM, baby.
While I probably won't be getting the new Marvel game, I will hold off any judgement until I see how the game actually plays. I've played a lot of Slay the Spire and similar games to know not to write them off too early.
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I like the look of Midnight Suns a lot, but I wasn't expecting an XCOM game that somehow beat ideas like permadeath and such into a Marvel format. The card based combat system is interesting to me as well and frankly, if they want to do something weird I would much rather them do it with something like this than try to make card based XCOM combat.
The cards seem like an answer to the question "why doesn't X hero just use their most powerful attack every time?"
Not really. Cooldowns and mana exist. I absolutely hate card games. Nothing turns me off more than basing a system around luck. It's a shame, cause I was very interested in Xmen Xcom, but now I have negative interest in this.
At least with cards, you can look at your hand and know where you stand. In XCOM XCOM, you run your guy over, miss your 95% shot, and that's XCOM, baby.
Yeah I think I'd probably prefer cards over Xcom "90% chance to hit annnnd miss".
That's why I appreciated Mario + Rabbids' 0%, 50%, 100% system. Win condition, block condition, gamble condition. Takes a lot of the sting out of missing when you only had a 50% chance.
That's why I appreciated Mario + Rabbids' 0%, 50%, 100% system. Win condition, block condition, gamble condition. Takes a lot of the sting out of missing when you only had a 50% chance.
I like the look of Midnight Suns a lot, but I wasn't expecting an XCOM game that somehow beat ideas like permadeath and such into a Marvel format. The card based combat system is interesting to me as well and frankly, if they want to do something weird I would much rather them do it with something like this than try to make card based XCOM combat.
The cards seem like an answer to the question "why doesn't X hero just use their most powerful attack every time?"
That reminds me of watching Voltron in the 80s. Every episode they would fuck around with individual lions for no good reason, then they'd form Voltron, but still save the blazing sword thing for the end. Why not form Voltron and whip out the sword right away? (I know the real reason, of course. But kid me wanted better in-universe excuses.)
Huh... That never crossed my mind as a Kid watching that, Robotech, Starblazers, and Battle Fever J back then. It was just natural for the good guys to fight with one arm tied behind their backs and blindfolded till they felt it was time to end the episode fight. Now that you mention it, I have to watch everything again and laugh at how silly it is. Imagining all the old cartoons and shows ending as quickly as the battle in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Now I need to go and watch those speed runs of Breath of the Wild where they use the glitches to finish it with only 3 hearts.
That's why I appreciated Mario + Rabbids' 0%, 50%, 100% system. Win condition, block condition, gamble condition. Takes a lot of the sting out of missing when you only had a 50% chance.
I like the look of Midnight Suns a lot, but I wasn't expecting an XCOM game that somehow beat ideas like permadeath and such into a Marvel format. The card based combat system is interesting to me as well and frankly, if they want to do something weird I would much rather them do it with something like this than try to make card based XCOM combat.
The cards seem like an answer to the question "why doesn't X hero just use their most powerful attack every time?"
Not really. Cooldowns and mana exist. I absolutely hate card games. Nothing turns me off more than basing a system around luck. It's a shame, cause I was very interested in Xmen Xcom, but now I have negative interest in this.
At least with cards, you can look at your hand and know where you stand. In XCOM XCOM, you run your guy over, miss your 95% shot, and that's XCOM, baby.
That was ALSO bullshit. In fact, it may have been worse, since it was actively lying to you.
The problem with that is licensing actors appearances. That is not cheap even with low budget actors. Licensing Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey Jnr, Chris Evans and Mahershala Ali? That's not going to be cheap at all.
And if they go that route, you'll have people complaining they didn't throw in Hugh Jackman, Wesley Snipes Blade, Nicholas Cage, and any other character that's had a Marvel movie, since the whole Multiverse thing is happening now.
Actor appearance licensing alone would bankrupt 2k Games if the game doesn't sell in the tens of millions.
that's my point though. don't bother paying for likeness and make the characters look like their many appearances in the last 50 years.
they COULD have made the avengers look a lot better AND less like the actors.
they chose the worst option, cheap knock-off "brazilian crazy bus" dancing people.
The problem with that is licensing actors appearances. That is not cheap even with low budget actors. Licensing Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey Jnr, Chris Evans and Mahershala Ali? That's not going to be cheap at all.
And if they go that route, you'll have people complaining they didn't throw in Hugh Jackman, Wesley Snipes Blade, Nicholas Cage, and any other character that's had a Marvel movie, since the whole Multiverse thing is happening now.
Actor appearance licensing alone would bankrupt 2k Games if the game doesn't sell in the tens of millions.
that's my point though. don't bother paying for likeness and make the characters look like their many appearances in the last 50 years.
they COULD have made the avengers look a lot better AND less like the actors.
they chose the worst option, cheap knock-off "brazilian crazy bus" dancing people.
Iron Man having his visor up when he's in his suit always annoyed me. I know they did it in the movies because of RDJ.
The problem with that is licensing actors appearances. That is not cheap even with low budget actors. Licensing Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey Jnr, Chris Evans and Mahershala Ali? That's not going to be cheap at all.
And if they go that route, you'll have people complaining they didn't throw in Hugh Jackman, Wesley Snipes Blade, Nicholas Cage, and any other character that's had a Marvel movie, since the whole Multiverse thing is happening now.
Actor appearance licensing alone would bankrupt 2k Games if the game doesn't sell in the tens of millions.
that's my point though. don't bother paying for likeness and make the characters look like their many appearances in the last 50 years.
they COULD have made the avengers look a lot better AND less like the actors.
they chose the worst option, cheap knock-off "brazilian crazy bus" dancing people.
Iron Man having his visor up when he's in his suit always annoyed me. I know they did it in the movies because of RDJ.
Well, that and it's easier to connect to the character. Remember the Green Goblin in the original Spider-Man movie?
The problem with that is licensing actors appearances. That is not cheap even with low budget actors. Licensing Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey Jnr, Chris Evans and Mahershala Ali? That's not going to be cheap at all.
And if they go that route, you'll have people complaining they didn't throw in Hugh Jackman, Wesley Snipes Blade, Nicholas Cage, and any other character that's had a Marvel movie, since the whole Multiverse thing is happening now.
Actor appearance licensing alone would bankrupt 2k Games if the game doesn't sell in the tens of millions.
that's my point though. don't bother paying for likeness and make the characters look like their many appearances in the last 50 years.
they COULD have made the avengers look a lot better AND less like the actors.
they chose the worst option, cheap knock-off "brazilian crazy bus" dancing people.
Iron Man having his visor up when he's in his suit always annoyed me. I know they did it in the movies because of RDJ.
Well, that and it's easier to connect to the character. Remember the Green Goblin in the original Spider-Man movie?
I like the look of Midnight Suns a lot, but I wasn't expecting an XCOM game that somehow beat ideas like permadeath and such into a Marvel format. The card based combat system is interesting to me as well and frankly, if they want to do something weird I would much rather them do it with something like this than try to make card based XCOM combat.
The cards seem like an answer to the question "why doesn't X hero just use their most powerful attack every time?"
That reminds me of watching Voltron in the 80s. Every episode they would fuck around with individual lions for no good reason, then they'd form Voltron, but still save the blazing sword thing for the end. Why not form Voltron and whip out the sword right away? (I know the real reason, of course. But kid me wanted better in-universe excuses.)
Huh... That never crossed my mind as a Kid watching that, Robotech, Starblazers, and Battle Fever J back then. It was just natural for the good guys to fight with one arm tied behind their backs and blindfolded till they felt it was time to end the episode fight. Now that you mention it, I have to watch everything again and laugh at how silly it is. Imagining all the old cartoons and shows ending as quickly as the battle in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Now I need to go and watch those speed runs of Breath of the Wild where they use the glitches to finish it with only 3 hearts.
Robotech wasn't like that, I don't think star blazers was either. They instead had actual plot contrivances preventing them from using the I-Win big guns, generally. Or they did use them but they caused Complications.
I like the look of Midnight Suns a lot, but I wasn't expecting an XCOM game that somehow beat ideas like permadeath and such into a Marvel format. The card based combat system is interesting to me as well and frankly, if they want to do something weird I would much rather them do it with something like this than try to make card based XCOM combat.
The cards seem like an answer to the question "why doesn't X hero just use their most powerful attack every time?"
Not really. Cooldowns and mana exist. I absolutely hate card games. Nothing turns me off more than basing a system around luck. It's a shame, cause I was very interested in Xmen Xcom, but now I have negative interest in this.
While they could give everyone mana, I bet plenty of purists would be upset because "only Dr. Strange is a spellcaster robble robble Blade should be able to use all his abilities as much as he wants." Making it a card system lets you unify powers in a way that has a longstanding social understanding of it being an abstraction.
I like the look of Midnight Suns a lot, but I wasn't expecting an XCOM game that somehow beat ideas like permadeath and such into a Marvel format. The card based combat system is interesting to me as well and frankly, if they want to do something weird I would much rather them do it with something like this than try to make card based XCOM combat.
The cards seem like an answer to the question "why doesn't X hero just use their most powerful attack every time?"
That reminds me of watching Voltron in the 80s. Every episode they would fuck around with individual lions for no good reason, then they'd form Voltron, but still save the blazing sword thing for the end. Why not form Voltron and whip out the sword right away? (I know the real reason, of course. But kid me wanted better in-universe excuses.)
Huh... That never crossed my mind as a Kid watching that, Robotech, Starblazers, and Battle Fever J back then. It was just natural for the good guys to fight with one arm tied behind their backs and blindfolded till they felt it was time to end the episode fight. Now that you mention it, I have to watch everything again and laugh at how silly it is. Imagining all the old cartoons and shows ending as quickly as the battle in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Now I need to go and watch those speed runs of Breath of the Wild where they use the glitches to finish it with only 3 hearts.
Enter Super Robot Wars to flip the entire dynamic around. You typically open with your strongest attack and the weaker attacks are the finishers to save energy/ammo on low health targets.
(Incidentally Voltron/GoLion was also in SRW but its only appearance was SRW W)
I like the look of Midnight Suns a lot, but I wasn't expecting an XCOM game that somehow beat ideas like permadeath and such into a Marvel format. The card based combat system is interesting to me as well and frankly, if they want to do something weird I would much rather them do it with something like this than try to make card based XCOM combat.
The cards seem like an answer to the question "why doesn't X hero just use their most powerful attack every time?"
That reminds me of watching Voltron in the 80s. Every episode they would fuck around with individual lions for no good reason, then they'd form Voltron, but still save the blazing sword thing for the end. Why not form Voltron and whip out the sword right away? (I know the real reason, of course. But kid me wanted better in-universe excuses.)
Huh... That never crossed my mind as a Kid watching that, Robotech, Starblazers, and Battle Fever J back then. It was just natural for the good guys to fight with one arm tied behind their backs and blindfolded till they felt it was time to end the episode fight. Now that you mention it, I have to watch everything again and laugh at how silly it is. Imagining all the old cartoons and shows ending as quickly as the battle in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Now I need to go and watch those speed runs of Breath of the Wild where they use the glitches to finish it with only 3 hearts.
Robotech wasn't like that, I don't think star blazers was either. They instead had actual plot contrivances preventing them from using the I-Win big guns, generally. Or they did use them but they caused Complications.
That's part of what I love about Fist of the North Star, "Hokuto Hundred Crack Fist" straight away, blow their fucking head off straight away!
After giving them a chance to just give up, of course.
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I like the look of Midnight Suns a lot, but I wasn't expecting an XCOM game that somehow beat ideas like permadeath and such into a Marvel format. The card based combat system is interesting to me as well and frankly, if they want to do something weird I would much rather them do it with something like this than try to make card based XCOM combat.
The cards seem like an answer to the question "why doesn't X hero just use their most powerful attack every time?"
That reminds me of watching Voltron in the 80s. Every episode they would fuck around with individual lions for no good reason, then they'd form Voltron, but still save the blazing sword thing for the end. Why not form Voltron and whip out the sword right away? (I know the real reason, of course. But kid me wanted better in-universe excuses.)
Huh... That never crossed my mind as a Kid watching that, Robotech, Starblazers, and Battle Fever J back then. It was just natural for the good guys to fight with one arm tied behind their backs and blindfolded till they felt it was time to end the episode fight. Now that you mention it, I have to watch everything again and laugh at how silly it is. Imagining all the old cartoons and shows ending as quickly as the battle in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Now I need to go and watch those speed runs of Breath of the Wild where they use the glitches to finish it with only 3 hearts.
Robotech wasn't like that, I don't think star blazers was either. They instead had actual plot contrivances preventing them from using the I-Win big guns, generally. Or they did use them but they caused Complications.
I honestly can't remember what the reasoning was behind the limitations, but you might be right they did make something up. Been a while since I watched them.
The Macross cannon used a tremendous amount of energy and they didn't have allies or a support system to get safely filled back up. Their attack ship was also their home and the home of all their families, so being very careful just makes sense.
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Well that is a cool surprise. Wasn't the last Big Brain Academy for the Wii? Nice and easy game to slip into the holiday slot along with Advanced Wars. Gives a couple of great options for people to grab as gifts.
The original on the Wii and DS were both very charming and fun.
I was gonna say I guess Dr. Kawashima doesn't want to lend his likeness to Brain Training anymore, except then I found out it was released on the Switch in Japan and Europe only!
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Granted the first pure cinematic trailer wasn't helpful for setting expectations... but it was always out there that this was a turn-based strategy game of some stripe.
Also Guardians of the Galaxy is right around the corner, even if not running natively on Switch. I also feel like it's getting short shrift due to Avengers but it appears to be about as different as can be short of cartoon graphics.
What I mean is, comic fans are more likely already mostly fine with, say, Doctor Strange looking different from game to game, media to media, because any given artist can result in dramatically different looking characters, in different runs, on paper; so it is already a thing.
But all the people brought in via the MCU? Not-Chris Evans Cap feels like knock-off Cap. It just feels sorta cheap.
What they probably should have done, at least via some sort of short form media, if not in a game, is use all the multiverse stuff they're already doing with the MCU and just have a little transition thing for folks to see, where there's MCU characters with the characters they're using in these games, with some sort of hand-off or message that "hey, it's cool, this may not be the characters you've seen on the big screen, but it's still them!
I dunno, I'm probably over thinking it. But based on the reception of the Avengers game, maybe I'm not.
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Being realistic IMO is fine. The mistake is trying to look remotely at all like the actors.
well the avengers game has some particularly "cheap knock-off" designs. They could have distanced the characters from the actors a lot more.
And if they go that route, you'll have people complaining they didn't throw in Hugh Jackman, Wesley Snipes Blade, Nicholas Cage, and any other character that's had a Marvel movie, since the whole Multiverse thing is happening now.
Actor appearance licensing alone would bankrupt 2k Games if the game doesn't sell in the tens of millions.
Make a game with Polka Dot Man in the lead role!
I want MUA3 with real scalable difficulty. That game was bullshit.
The cards seem like an answer to the question "why doesn't X hero just use their most powerful attack every time?"
Not really sure why so many people hate the Ayano fight. For me it was probably the easiest late game fight (original and Another Day). Though it definitely pays to pack a ranged focused pin deck, if I had tried to push through with my standard set it would have been a process. The instant kill got me once in each but was pretty easy to deal with the second time around. Actually turns out the set I threw together for Another Day Ayano worked so well that I stuck with it for the rest of Another Day.
Susukichi was a rough fight the first time round. I was pretty worried about his another day version until I realised there was no second form. Those exploding enemies were pretty bullshit though. Hide behind a car for his lightning attack and suddenly one of them rockets into you and destroys you outright.
Shiba actually went down first try. Which was a nice change from his original form. Dying to his spam attack in the second phase and having to replay all that dialogue and the Crossing section (which to be fair was really cool... The first time) was not so fun.
On that note, I did die a few times to the story boss but other then a significantly shorter intermission than the Shiba fight the dialogue didn't hold up the fighting so it made for a much cooler fight.
You know what's really funny? My 6 year old son has been playing the SHIT out of the game. Beat it on normal difficulty and got everyone to level 70.
Then got bored and restarted the game from scratch and is playing through it again. It's insane. He loves that game so much.
Mana has existed too lol
That reminds me of watching Voltron in the 80s. Every episode they would fuck around with individual lions for no good reason, then they'd form Voltron, but still save the blazing sword thing for the end. Why not form Voltron and whip out the sword right away? (I know the real reason, of course. But kid me wanted better in-universe excuses.)
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Not really. Cooldowns and mana exist. I absolutely hate card games. Nothing turns me off more than basing a system around luck. It's a shame, cause I was very interested in Xmen Xcom, but now I have negative interest in this.
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At least with cards, you can look at your hand and know where you stand. In XCOM XCOM, you run your guy over, miss your 95% shot, and that's XCOM, baby.
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Yeah I think I'd probably prefer cards over Xcom "90% chance to hit annnnd miss".
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Huh... That never crossed my mind as a Kid watching that, Robotech, Starblazers, and Battle Fever J back then. It was just natural for the good guys to fight with one arm tied behind their backs and blindfolded till they felt it was time to end the episode fight. Now that you mention it, I have to watch everything again and laugh at how silly it is. Imagining all the old cartoons and shows ending as quickly as the battle in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Now I need to go and watch those speed runs of Breath of the Wild where they use the glitches to finish it with only 3 hearts.
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I'm sorry your only options are 0%, 50% or 100%
That was ALSO bullshit. In fact, it may have been worse, since it was actively lying to you.
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that's my point though. don't bother paying for likeness and make the characters look like their many appearances in the last 50 years.
they COULD have made the avengers look a lot better AND less like the actors.
they chose the worst option, cheap knock-off "brazilian crazy bus" dancing people.
Iron Man having his visor up when he's in his suit always annoyed me. I know they did it in the movies because of RDJ.
Well, that and it's easier to connect to the character. Remember the Green Goblin in the original Spider-Man movie?
Yeah.
He was cooler with the helmet on.
Robotech wasn't like that, I don't think star blazers was either. They instead had actual plot contrivances preventing them from using the I-Win big guns, generally. Or they did use them but they caused Complications.
While they could give everyone mana, I bet plenty of purists would be upset because "only Dr. Strange is a spellcaster robble robble Blade should be able to use all his abilities as much as he wants." Making it a card system lets you unify powers in a way that has a longstanding social understanding of it being an abstraction.
Enter Super Robot Wars to flip the entire dynamic around. You typically open with your strongest attack and the weaker attacks are the finishers to save energy/ammo on low health targets.
(Incidentally Voltron/GoLion was also in SRW but its only appearance was SRW W)
That's part of what I love about Fist of the North Star, "Hokuto Hundred Crack Fist" straight away, blow their fucking head off straight away!
After giving them a chance to just give up, of course.
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I remember when I had time to be good at games.
I honestly can't remember what the reasoning was behind the limitations, but you might be right they did make something up. Been a while since I watched them.
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Well that is a cool surprise. Wasn't the last Big Brain Academy for the Wii? Nice and easy game to slip into the holiday slot along with Advanced Wars. Gives a couple of great options for people to grab as gifts.
The original on the Wii and DS were both very charming and fun.
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