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Rei Yasumura · 2mo
Is there a notable game or series that you've tried to get into, but for one reason or another just didn't click with you?
Probably the two biggest ones are Xenoblade and Digimon. I'm offering 2 mainly because I just complained about Xenoblade 3 and the chain attack bgm recently so bringing it up again felt like low hanging fruit.
Xenoblade drove me a bit wild. I remember a lot of the commotion over 1 when it first came out and realizing there was a portion of people talking it up because they hadn't played a JRPG in like 10-15 years--I would liken it to some of the response that Expedition 33 got. Er, except maybe without some of the occasional implied racism people had when discussing E33 compared to "actual" JRPGs. The Operation Rainfall stuff might be partially to blame for this maybe...? I don't really remember since it was so long ago. Anyway, I thought it was a very nice looking game with some pretty environments, a plot I was totally fine with, a lot of subsystems to poke at, aaaaaaaaaaaand I didn't like engaging with the gameplay even one single bit. The pseudo-MMO style stuff just did not work for me and I tapped out like 70% into the game because I realized I was resenting having to play the game.
I didn't play XB2. I think the gacha stuff would have annoyed me. I like some of the character/blade designs, though.
I did play and finish XB3 when it came out and I kinda ended up feeling similarly burnt. Half the classes felt like they didn't matter, the broken damage classes were ridiculously good compared to some of the lesser ones, chain attacks got really tedious halfway through the game and there's the BGM overriding issue.. when I got to the final dungeon I decided I didn't want to actually, like, -play- the game anymore so I just set it to easy mode, finally dumped all of my bonus exp into the party, and would let the AI just slowly beat bosses to death.
XBC was... interesting. I think it's a fascinating game, I really enjoyed the feel of surveying the game world and all the sidequests and stuff. The nighttime song for NLA is awesome. I only played the Definitive Edition which unfortunately mechanically is completely broken so none of the gameplay matters, which is... rough. The skells feel really bad in DE due to the quick cooldown stuff you can do on foot, which is just a really big shame. They're big robots!! They should feel cool!!! (They do get to do the quick cooldowns or whatever they're called too, but that's literally only after beating the game, so...)
Digimon was something I never had any background with as a kid or basically never engaged with any of its games until literally Cyber Sleuth and I was just never able to mesh with a lot of its early-to-midgame monster designs... I did like Cyber Sleuth for what it was despite the occasionally jank translation but mechanically it felt really messy and hard to really mess around with all the digimon without some of the cheesier ways to get a billion EXP. Time Stranger I just bounced off of entirely after 10-15 hours which I feel bad about since it seems like people quite enjoy that one but the combination of my party being a revolving door of Digimon I had no real attachment to and getting hit with the 'oh, you picked the girl MC? she's now a silent protag and you have to listen to the male one instead since he becomes a plot NPC, enjoy' was a pretty big debuff. Alas. Maybe I should try other Digimon games.
Anonymous · 2mo
So who would be the most cuddleable in the Langrisser franchise?
I don't have enough familiarity with 5 so I'm excluding that by default. Liana's the easy pick here if we're going by an objective measurement of most cuddleable but honestly that bores me, so I'm going to answer the question I want to answer and say that I'm down for Listell.
Anonymous · 2mo
So instead of desert Island tracks. What is your guantanamo bay track they use to torture you?
Xenoblade 3's Chain Attack BGM because I harbor an intense life-long grudge about how that game has five billion unique boss BGMs that all get overwritten by it.
"But it's a good song"! Yeah sure once you hear it the first couple dozen times and then you realize you have to hear it in every single boss fight ever for the rest of the entire game in place of whatever the original bgm for that fight was.
Anonymous · 2mo
Have you played Beeny yet?
I haven't! I didn't know it existed at all, actually. I don't tend to play platformers too often (not that I hate them, they just don't come to mind too often as something I want to play) so I guess that'd make sense...
Anonymous · 2mo
Oh you actually played granblue. So other than Siegfried who would be best in a wedding dress?
There's too many good options so I'm going to say Noire if only because I want to see her in a wedding dress with her fucking gigantic sword.
Anonymous · 2mo
So can you rank you top 10 sword wives in granblue or would that need to be extended to a higher number?
I'm just going to do this off the cuff by looking at my inventory of characters sorted by SSR->Sword->Female/Other. This is specifically anyone with a sword spec, as long as it vaguely makes sense (i.e. I'm not counting Fediel, where Summer Fediel is in fact sword spec, because that's just silly lol)
Black Knight. Dark Angel Olivia. Alexiel. Yuisis. Vira. Gwynne. Rosamia. Katalina. Indala. Golden Knight.
Anonymous · 2mo
What do you think or perms and wolf cuts?
Perms - They're fine. Not my personal preference. They can look really good! (To be clear, this is not being said in a "oh if someone had a perm I wouldn't think they were beautiful or it'd downgrade their attractiveness" or anything like that. It's just a hairstyle preference!!)
Wolf cuts - (suddenly staring into the camera, completely unprompted) Oh, I'm normal about them. Okay, but seriously, it depends because I've seen some really rough ones that seemed less like a wolf cut and more like an entire wolf was adorning the person's hair, but on average I'm a fan.
Really, the only hair I hate is my own.
Anonymous · 2mo
Which final fantasy character would be the best mount for ff14?
Fat Chocobo. Well, assuming the lad's actually up for it at all. Maybe he just wants to chill out...
Anonymous · 2mo
you know who Suzanne Vega is? do you like Tom's Diner?
do-do-do-do do-do-do-do do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do
Technically no, I mostly know her because in that one question on voice stuff I was grasping for straws and asked my girlfriend for a rough equivalent of the kind of voice I like since I wasn't about to name the actual specific person I was thinking of. But Tom's Diner did come up in that discussion! She seems pretty good.
Anonymous · 2mo
What is your target time for Virtual Hydlide?
Honestly? I was discussing this very loosely with a couple of people today. I'm not a speedrunner. I kind of got into this as a "bit" except the bit is that it's fun and I'm having a good time doing it but I'm still... like, not a speedrunner, in the sense of I'm going to sit here and grind out 40 hours of runs chasing an impossible high. Does that make sense? It's fun, I'll definitely try to improve it, I may even stream some of it if my main focus of the stream is complete early but I don't want to end stream just yet, but I'm not going to grind hard at it or go ballistic if my time gets beaten.
ANYWAY, that said, I'd like to see sub-35 on any% random seed. Perfectly plausible and it's a nice round number to shoot for. The previous WR was about 44, mine was 42 and change, my new one that I just submitted today is 37:40, and there's definitely room to fix mistakes there. Once we hit below 35 minutes? Well... that starts getting a lot murkier, lol, since good seed RNG plays a pretty huge factor into things.