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Re: Clair Obscur Director Says Turn-Based JRPGs Are Still Seen as 'Uncool'

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Some people might recall that Expedition 33 wasn't the first to put in the parry/ dodge system in a turn based rpg. We had Vagrant Story in the PS1 era. Even though I'm fully enjoying E33's gameplay the story pacing has been extremely annoying as I've got more than enough games on my plate where the characters are doing a lot of talking but not saying anything meaningful and in a world with such dire a setting I'd be doing a lot more slapping or violently shaking people for more information.
There have been so many other great elements and mechanics added to turn based over the years in various games. I'm guessing people just didn't play those games so they are unaware making it sound like the genre has done nothing but stagnate. From White Knight and Valkyria Chronicle to Resonance of Fate and Tales of Symphonia there have been some real gems all sporting their own unique takes on the genre and with great writing to boot.

Re: Ubisoft Reckons Microtransactions Make Games 'More Fun'

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Of course greedy corporate stooges would spout this kind of nonsense. I'm old enough to remember a time when these MT items were all available for free when you bought the game and just had to do challenges to unlock them. Those were some fun times. Some of the worst culprits today are in fighting games trying to coerce players into paying for palette swaps. Truly shameful times.

Re: Street Fighter's Dhalsim Is, Like, Super Sexy Now

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He looks skinnier than Dhalsim. I guess that's in line with all the other skinny people playing my favourite characters. I'll stick to the games and animes thanks. At least the 94 film treated them on the silver screen as the satirical adaptation that it was.

Re: Preview: Way of the Sword Reforges Onimusha for a New PS5 Era

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It doesn't make sense that he has a stamina bar seeing as the Oni gauntlet is what's supposedly making him strong enough to wipe out armies of Genma unless they've changed that. Plus for someone who probably sliced thousands of bamboo before breakfast in his life having a stamina bar that will most likely be at 0 after 4 hits is dumb.

Re: Random: Stellar Blade Dev Gives Insane Anatomically Accurate Explanation of Why Butts Are Beautiful

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This is such a joke. I remember over the years there have been articles and host shows based on which male actor showed the best butt on screen. It's all well and good when women do it but for guys it has to be creepy? Grow tfu. I still recall Orlando Bloom and Dicaprio (in their 20's btw) being slobbered over by any woman who could produce saliva. Same with Chris Hemsworth and I always thought each to their own. It's annoying as hell that guys have to keep justifying their perfectly healthy prefrences.

Re: Mortal Kombat 1 Dev Finished with PS5 Fighter, Moving to Next Project

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Liu kang was the champion but was always a tool. The next MK will probably rewrite his universe as a side story seeing as his actions spawned an entire multiverse of Titans. Raiden will be back at the helm and MK will flourish again.
I'm keen to play a new injustice with more fluid mechanics and controls. NR finally fixed the "I get knocked down but I get up again" when a characters HP reaches zero bug and after the travesty that was suicide squad online I'm sure the WB execs are breathing down their necks seeing as injustice 2 still has more cc players than Suicide squad.

It's most likely just me but I would like to see a War Gods remake now that gratuitous violence in games is a norm. That and Bloody Roar.

Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 582

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Wuwa side story update and cubies gonna cube tower. Yareli prime farm on Warframe and legendary galactic baseballer on HSR. I was hoping to see some capcom fighting collection 2 responses on here to tilt me towards getting it after cancelling my pre order. Guess it was a miss for respondees.

Re: Bungie Leaders Reportedly Pitched Destiny 2 Subscription, But Got 'Vehemently' Shut Down

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Can someone explain to me how Destiny 2 is 'Free 2 play'? I started at witch queen and there were a host of planets to visit and alerts to do but that was it. Everything worth doing or owning was behind a paywall. I couldn't even land on the ice planet to get the powers without paying. It was just a demo and that's what it should be called imo. Warframe is F2P, First Descendant is F2P. This is not.

Re: Mortal Kombat Fans Are Fuming MK1's Support Appears to Be Over

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Khaos reigns was a terrible dlc. Having him as the boss was a dumb idea. He's barely even a character worth mentioning normally besides his absurd abilities. Using multiverse to make everyone super saiyan was extremely lazy writing especially since out of the big 3 MK had the best stories.

Re: Just Like the Game, The Last of Us 2's TV Adaptation Is Getting Review Bombed

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I don't give 2 f's about orientation or gender etc in games so long as they're solid characters. For this franchise that was Joel I immediately lost interest after what happened in part 2. There's no fun to be had when the MC is unavailable. Like a Street fighter game without Ryu and Ken or MK without Sub and Scorp which they did before and caught high hell for it.