dough dog is a good dog, does he evolve into some sort of cooked pastry i must know more
I still think the legendaries looks very very stupid
I think it's funny how the Violet legendary just becomes a motorcycle while the Scarlet one is like "These wheels sticking out of me? Fuck 'em. I got legs"
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Holy shit, I just realised what I posted a few days ago in a different thread while talking about Xenoblade
the class change stuff is interesting but headache-inducing when you're trying to set up a groove. It's like if a few hours into Pokemon the game was like "Your Squirtle can now be a fire type!" and like, cool, I guess, but nrrgh my brain.
They literally just announced that. I swear I haven't looked at any leak stuff, I'm already lying down but I feel like I need to lie down harder.
Holy shit, I just realised what I posted a few days ago in a different thread while talking about Xenoblade
the class change stuff is interesting but headache-inducing when you're trying to set up a groove. It's like if a few hours into Pokemon the game was like "Your Squirtle can now be a fire type!" and like, cool, I guess, but nrrgh my brain.
They literally just announced that. I swear I haven't looked at any leak stuff, I'm already lying down but I feel like I need to lie down harder.
Does that mean my Charizard can finally be a Dragon type like it should always have fucking been?
it's unclear whether it's going to be something like "theoretically you could find ANY tera type for a pokemon" or if it's just like "very rarely, you will find a meowth that can change into an ice type. there are no other options for meowths"
it's unclear whether it's going to be something like "theoretically you could find ANY tera type for a pokemon" or if it's just like "very rarely, you will find a meowth that can change into an ice type. there are no other options for meowths"
I mean a normal type pokemon can usually learn some elemental type moves so its not completely worthless but unless theyre really revamping move tutors for guys like Eevee I dont see the point
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I have been called a boomer for asking for this already today, but I hope they add some challenge to the games. At least make the team exp share optional.
Pokémon Black is still kicking my add to this day so I know it's not rose tinted glasses I'm looking through
i don't know what the technical reason was to explain it, but Arceus' level rubberbanding meant that pokemon could seriously kick your ass even if you had a higher level party. It wasn't a hard game, and there were pretty limited trainer fights, but I was surprised at the amount that it pushed back.
i don't know what the technical reason was to explain it, but Arceus' level rubberbanding meant that pokemon could seriously kick your ass even if you had a higher level party. It wasn't a hard game, and there were pretty limited trainer fights, but I was surprised at the amount that it pushed back.
The easy answer here is that they changed how levels work in regards to stats and also the damage formula.
I didn't have anything better to do, so I threw together two diagrams to illustrate it:
tl;dr: levels matter way less and all fights are more even, hence the increased difficulty.
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it's unclear whether it's going to be something like "theoretically you could find ANY tera type for a pokemon" or if it's just like "very rarely, you will find a meowth that can change into an ice type. there are no other options for meowths"
And part of not opening the floodgates would be to ostensibly minimise broken combos, be it ever so true that I could never claim that these games are balanced with a straight face.
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Seeing a dough dog become a pokemon right after Sana's vTuber graduation... oof, the timing.
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 is definitely a Team Ninja game.
That difficulty ramp up. The first level already felt harder than the previous games. Still, I notice the level was a decent length compared to the long ass levels of the previous games.
What cracks me up about MUA3 is that you will attack an enemy and there is a sliver of damage. These are superheroes. Don't make this like an old school RPG.
I just fought Mysterio and the camera went apeshit. I do like it that you can revive heroes. I don't remember if that was in MUA2. I know it was not in MUA1.
Getting a really weird error on the Switch version of Into The Breach
Trying to boot it up for the first time since the new content, when I try to load my game I get a black screen and a message about something going wrong with "function getWeaponDrop" and I should press any key to try to continue
Ignoring that the Switch doesn't have "keys", it doesn't respond to any buttons and it persists across several restarts of the game and the console
I guess I should reinstall? I can't find literally anything about this specific issue online
edit: persists even after several reinstalls. I haven't tried hitting New Game, only Continue. will New Game erase my existing save?
So it looks like the only actual gameplay changes are new weapons and Splatfests are three teams now? And they're keeping the stupid "only two stages at a time and only 1 mode at a time" thing for multiplayer? Weak.
Hopefully they don't do the thing where Salmon Run is only playable at certain times on certain days again, that sucked ass.
Couple of new mechanics as well, but yeah nothing groundbreaking there.
Not sure if I'll pick it up or not, I played a lot of the first one but didn't get into the second as much.
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There are a whole lot of quality of life things here. Like preset loadouts (including control schemes), being able to practice while waiting for matches to load, a full replay system, better interaction with friends... Yeah. Overall it really looks like they've listened to people regarding their complaints on the first one. A lot of the specials they showed were more team-oriented as well, and they specifically called out a solo ranked mode.
Edit: Deep Cut is definitely going back to the Japanese roots after Off the Hook. More like the Squid Sisters to be sure. I don't think anyone will replace Marina for best idol (and the one that basically freed her species), but Shiver, Pyre, and the Big Man seem.. okay.
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Been slowly working my way through Live A Live, finished Wild West, and just finished Prehistory. I might have been done faster but I had to see about a certain mammoth. I cannot believe the audacity they had to look at the capabilities of the SNES and go “yeah we can tell a complete story with no spoken dialogue on this system”. But what really had me floored was the epilogue:
You end your chapter with everybody going off and fucking? In a snes game? The voice acting in this remake also leaves uh, little room for interpretation.
I feel like this wouldn’t be as shocking to me if NOA hadn’t spent my childhood trying to remove anything remotely offensive to anyone
Anyways, I started the near future chapter and this is immediately my jam.
There are a whole lot of quality of life things here. Like preset loadouts (including control schemes), being able to practice while waiting for matches to load, a full replay system, better interaction with friends... Yeah. Overall it really looks like they've listened to people regarding their complaints on the first one. A lot of the specials they showed were more team-oriented as well, and they specifically called out a solo ranked mode.
Edit: Deep Cut is definitely going back to the Japanese roots after Off the Hook. More like the Squid Sisters to be sure. I don't think anyone will replace Marina for best idol (and the one that basically freed her species), but Shiver, Pyre, and the Big Man seem.. okay.
The previous idols all had puns for names, but if Shiver and Pyre are a pun on something, I'm missing it.
My daughter is very excited about 3. She missed out on 1 as she was young and I didn't buy it for the WiiU, but she picked up 2 and it's been her favorite thing ever since.
Been slowly working my way through Live A Live, finished Wild West, and just finished Prehistory. I might have been done faster but I had to see about a certain mammoth. I cannot believe the audacity they had to look at the capabilities of the SNES and go “yeah we can tell a complete story with no spoken dialogue on this system”. But what really had me floored was the epilogue:
You end your chapter with everybody going off and fucking? In a snes game? The voice acting in this remake also leaves uh, little room for interpretation.
I feel like this wouldn’t be as shocking to me if NOA hadn’t spent my childhood trying to remove anything remotely offensive to anyone
Anyways, I started the near future chapter and this is immediately my jam.
I have been told they messed up the localization of the end of the prehistory chapter:
in japanese the character says "ai" which the translator thought was a scream I guess? But ai is the japanese word for the feeling of love, with the implication the character came up with the first word of human language, "love."
There are a whole lot of quality of life things here. Like preset loadouts (including control schemes), being able to practice while waiting for matches to load, a full replay system, better interaction with friends... Yeah. Overall it really looks like they've listened to people regarding their complaints on the first one. A lot of the specials they showed were more team-oriented as well, and they specifically called out a solo ranked mode.
Edit: Deep Cut is definitely going back to the Japanese roots after Off the Hook. More like the Squid Sisters to be sure. I don't think anyone will replace Marina for best idol (and the one that basically freed her species), but Shiver, Pyre, and the Big Man seem.. okay.
The previous idols all had puns for names, but if Shiver and Pyre are a pun on something, I'm missing it.
My daughter is very excited about 3. She missed out on 1 as she was young and I didn't buy it for the WiiU, but she picked up 2 and it's been her favorite thing ever since.
I don't see anything beyond the fire/ice pairing of the names. Marina and Pearl aren't really puns anyways.
There are a whole lot of quality of life things here. Like preset loadouts (including control schemes), being able to practice while waiting for matches to load, a full replay system, better interaction with friends... Yeah. Overall it really looks like they've listened to people regarding their complaints on the first one. A lot of the specials they showed were more team-oriented as well, and they specifically called out a solo ranked mode.
Edit: Deep Cut is definitely going back to the Japanese roots after Off the Hook. More like the Squid Sisters to be sure. I don't think anyone will replace Marina for best idol (and the one that basically freed her species), but Shiver, Pyre, and the Big Man seem.. okay.
The previous idols all had puns for names, but if Shiver and Pyre are a pun on something, I'm missing it.
My daughter is very excited about 3. She missed out on 1 as she was young and I didn't buy it for the WiiU, but she picked up 2 and it's been her favorite thing ever since.
Looks like a group of sharks is known as a shiver, and a group of eels can be known as a fry.
There are a whole lot of quality of life things here. Like preset loadouts (including control schemes), being able to practice while waiting for matches to load, a full replay system, better interaction with friends... Yeah. Overall it really looks like they've listened to people regarding their complaints on the first one. A lot of the specials they showed were more team-oriented as well, and they specifically called out a solo ranked mode.
Edit: Deep Cut is definitely going back to the Japanese roots after Off the Hook. More like the Squid Sisters to be sure. I don't think anyone will replace Marina for best idol (and the one that basically freed her species), but Shiver, Pyre, and the Big Man seem.. okay.
The previous idols all had puns for names, but if Shiver and Pyre are a pun on something, I'm missing it.
My daughter is very excited about 3. She missed out on 1 as she was young and I didn't buy it for the WiiU, but she picked up 2 and it's been her favorite thing ever since.
I don't see anything beyond the fire/ice pairing of the names. Marina and Pearl aren't really puns anyways.
Well I guess not puns, but still water/sea life related. Marina is obvious. Pearl being made by clams.
There are a whole lot of quality of life things here. Like preset loadouts (including control schemes), being able to practice while waiting for matches to load, a full replay system, better interaction with friends... Yeah. Overall it really looks like they've listened to people regarding their complaints on the first one. A lot of the specials they showed were more team-oriented as well, and they specifically called out a solo ranked mode.
Edit: Deep Cut is definitely going back to the Japanese roots after Off the Hook. More like the Squid Sisters to be sure. I don't think anyone will replace Marina for best idol (and the one that basically freed her species), but Shiver, Pyre, and the Big Man seem.. okay.
The previous idols all had puns for names, but if Shiver and Pyre are a pun on something, I'm missing it.
My daughter is very excited about 3. She missed out on 1 as she was young and I didn't buy it for the WiiU, but she picked up 2 and it's been her favorite thing ever since.
Looks like a group of sharks is known as a shiver, and a group of eels can be known as a fry.
Oooh, nice! That makes it more sensible and fun.
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I'm on chapter 5 of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and god damn Monolith are too good at their job. I started staring up at the starry night sky while relaxing heavenly music plays and just kinda lost myself in the moment. Only thing which took me out of it is that the party won't shut up if you idle. I love these characters but shhhhh.
So I guess you get a Cyclizar pretty early that you ride around on and at some point it turns into the box legendary.
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I don't dive too deep into actual competitive Pokémon (I just do the Battle Facilities), but some of those reveals seem spicy. Mirror Herb seems fun, I wonder if it activates on swagger.
In terms of action economy, it's basically Substitute and Baton Pass at the same time. Which, I suppose sometimes you wouldn't want to Substitute and Baton Pass at the same time, but for what it does it's a lot of tempo to get out of one action.
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I think it's funny how the Violet legendary just becomes a motorcycle while the Scarlet one is like "These wheels sticking out of me? Fuck 'em. I got legs"
They literally just announced that. I swear I haven't looked at any leak stuff, I'm already lying down but I feel like I need to lie down harder.
Does that mean my Charizard can finally be a Dragon type like it should always have fucking been?
it's unclear whether it's going to be something like "theoretically you could find ANY tera type for a pokemon" or if it's just like "very rarely, you will find a meowth that can change into an ice type. there are no other options for meowths"
Though I imagine Alt terra type gen 1starters are a given I think they'll do something weird with them like Ice Venusaur or something
It's Gamefreak so I'd lay money on the latter.
Pokémon Black is still kicking my add to this day so I know it's not rose tinted glasses I'm looking through
The easy answer here is that they changed how levels work in regards to stats and also the damage formula.
I didn't have anything better to do, so I threw together two diagrams to illustrate it:
tl;dr: levels matter way less and all fights are more even, hence the increased difficulty.
And part of not opening the floodgates would be to ostensibly minimise broken combos, be it ever so true that I could never claim that these games are balanced with a straight face.
That difficulty ramp up. The first level already felt harder than the previous games. Still, I notice the level was a decent length compared to the long ass levels of the previous games.
I just fought Mysterio and the camera went apeshit. I do like it that you can revive heroes. I don't remember if that was in MUA2. I know it was not in MUA1.
Trying to boot it up for the first time since the new content, when I try to load my game I get a black screen and a message about something going wrong with "function getWeaponDrop" and I should press any key to try to continue
Ignoring that the Switch doesn't have "keys", it doesn't respond to any buttons and it persists across several restarts of the game and the console
I guess I should reinstall? I can't find literally anything about this specific issue online
edit: persists even after several reinstalls. I haven't tried hitting New Game, only Continue. will New Game erase my existing save?
Gonna run with that huh?
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So it looks like the only actual gameplay changes are new weapons and Splatfests are three teams now? And they're keeping the stupid "only two stages at a time and only 1 mode at a time" thing for multiplayer? Weak.
Hopefully they don't do the thing where Salmon Run is only playable at certain times on certain days again, that sucked ass.
Not sure if I'll pick it up or not, I played a lot of the first one but didn't get into the second as much.
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Edit: Deep Cut is definitely going back to the Japanese roots after Off the Hook. More like the Squid Sisters to be sure. I don't think anyone will replace Marina for best idol (and the one that basically freed her species), but Shiver, Pyre, and the Big Man seem.. okay.
I feel like this wouldn’t be as shocking to me if NOA hadn’t spent my childhood trying to remove anything remotely offensive to anyone
Anyways, I started the near future chapter and this is immediately my jam.
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The previous idols all had puns for names, but if Shiver and Pyre are a pun on something, I'm missing it.
My daughter is very excited about 3. She missed out on 1 as she was young and I didn't buy it for the WiiU, but she picked up 2 and it's been her favorite thing ever since.
I have been told they messed up the localization of the end of the prehistory chapter:
I don't see anything beyond the fire/ice pairing of the names. Marina and Pearl aren't really puns anyways.
3DS: 0473-8507-2652
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Looks like a group of sharks is known as a shiver, and a group of eels can be known as a fry.
Well I guess not puns, but still water/sea life related. Marina is obvious. Pearl being made by clams.
Oooh, nice! That makes it more sensible and fun.
Guess Cyclizar works like Cosmog from SUMO while also being your bike/ride pokemon. Also I love the use of the gen 1 ghost.
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In terms of action economy, it's basically Substitute and Baton Pass at the same time. Which, I suppose sometimes you wouldn't want to Substitute and Baton Pass at the same time, but for what it does it's a lot of tempo to get out of one action.