#feel bad for the poor fucking devs though!

[redlilyqueen]

every bit of starfield i've seen looks so mind-numbingly boring and bog-standard to me, the same shit bethesda's been releasing for eons with a different coat of paint, and, while i would say i cannot understand why people eat this shit up, i am a sonic fan so i'm well aware that many people actually find it enjoyable even if i do not. for better or worse

#christhoughts #chriscomplains #i just dont like bethesda as a company mostly #and i can never ever see myself enjoying their special brand of ... whatever the fuck it is they keep putting out #not for me #feel bad for the poor fucking devs though! #stop trying to make big games #it doesn't fucking work #i want devs paid more to work less and i am not kidding #i just remembered when fallout 4 came out i got sooo fucking sick of hearing it. 'overexposure bias' i called that feeling #probably experiencing the same thing here with quicker onset #+ again i'm inherently biased against bethesda's shit in the first place #anyways people i follow better fucking stop playing starfield i really am already sick of seeing it

[jaythelay]

I feel like TF2 had a really bad time in development hell for a while and the devs are just sick of it at this point. Stuff not working out, not making it to release, and simply put, not wanting to maintain any new ideas.

They had a medieval 2Fort and for the life of me, the only conclusion I can come to is they didn't want to maintain 2 separate experiences for the same game. MvM being a departure they...basically stopped work on eventually too. Hilariously, it being a horde-type game probably being what kept it going, much like with L4D from Counter-Strike.

Feels like alot of stuff at Valve just didn't work for a decade. and I think it's because nobody was forced to finish their work. And unfortunately that's just a simple aspect of creation that not everyone can handle, no restrictions. I imagine this also lead to people who did a lot of work, not getting full credit, or having their ideas superseded by essentially leaches who contributed nothing before, but have Their idea on how it should be.

That also would explain how the FUCK they canceled L4D3. What the fuck company doesn't get that shit finished one way or another? I can appreciate the freedom that Valve allows, but I think THAT should've been the moment an adult spoke up and said "This shit hasn't been working for literal decades."

I heard they stopped having as much freedom, and while on paper it was great, you HAVE to have restrictions in creation. Otherwise nothing gets done, nothing progresses, and nothing really even gets started past the initial planning process. The thing is, all we've seen is the broad end of both spectrums. One that doesn't work enough to get stuff out the door, and one that doesn't work either, but garbage at least gets out the door every week.

I'd like to see Valve just move a bit on that spectrum, not the opposite end in any way, just force people to Finish The Work they started. Like Left 4 Dead 3 for example. I can't imagine most people in the division that grew were happy that some idiots fucked all their work up entirely. I also, would have fired the idiots who wanted to move L4D3 to fuckin' Unreal or whatever. God damn morons don't know what company they're working at. Want to know the answer? You keep it on Source 2 because I wouldn't fucking buy it if it was on another fucking engine. No confidence in your own engine also paints a VERY poor image of literally EVERYTHING about the company, their engine, their work culture, god what an embarrassment.

Seriously though, I think people should probably chill on the "savetf2" stuff. I don't think that's gonna inspire anyone there to work on it anymore. Just kinda...annoy them that they can't say "Guys this was HELL to work on and almost nothing got out the door but cosmetics, failure after failure to get anything else out the door. We're tired, it's nearly been 2 decades. We aren't planning on shutting down servers or anything. Just keep playing if ya want to."

I'd much prefer a TF3 because I'm curious how they'll handle it. But I severely doubt we'll ever see another Valve big name title again. Which sucks shit, but what can ya do. The credit we can give, is outside of taking down TF2 clones they really don't need to take down, is that they at least allow people to do whatever the hell they want with their IPs. Do you think Valve was ever gonna make HL2VR? Honestly. Doubtful. The only reason Half-Life got an update is because of the SteamDeck, otherwise, that update would never have happened. They aren't interested in going back to Source anytime soon, they're jumping to Source 2.

Now there is a possibility they come back to other titles to give it the SteamDeck treatment, but I have high doubts of that either. HL was a blatantly obvious choice and Valve not having it work well for their own hardware is actually unconscionable. L4D is the embodiment of that meme with the skeleton under water, Portal doesn't really need much.

So I put forth a question I've pondered: Why is there even a Valve? It's not called ValveVR, nor ValveDeck, it wasn't a Valve Machine, or Valve controller, and Valve hasn't released a (good/playable) game since the 360 era. An update/total revision for Counter Strike is simply expected when it's their only real game success in years. So, otherwise, why is there even a Valve? Seems like they'd just morph into Steam by now. I also think it'd quell the fires of people wanting more games and updates.

I'd rather them NOT quit making games outright, but...like man, I've been playing L4D since I was at least 12yo, Half-Life since I was 3-4. I've been waiting. They've had the time to tell us what they're doing and thinking, them not telling us, feels like it's because they themselves don't even know or it's a total shit show. But when they do actually know what they're doing, they come out with confidence. Hardware and Steam has been their only confidence in decades. I'd rather have an answer to whether or not these IPs are genuinely dead, than have that carrot hanging in front of me anymore. Sure, I can ignore the carrot, but it's still there.

I think nearly 20 years is enough time for Valve to comment on...just...anything people have questions for anymore. I'm kinda sick of guessing what is even going on over there. This isn't a hate-post or anything, just a grouchy old man yelling at the sky sorta thing you've seen a million times before, just probably on the opposite spectrum of the main discussions. I don't want an update for TF2, I want an update on Valve. Not Steam, not their hardware, not specifically their IPs, Valve themselves, what the hell is going on over there.

#Valve #Steam #Half-Life #Portal #Left 4 Dead #IP #savetf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 #l4d2 #l4d #HL2VR #Half Life #Half Life 2 #Half-Life 2 #I have more to say but the main point is of all the things Valve has left us totally in the dark about #it's been Valve #we're pretty sure about everything else in comparison

[raxistaicho]

Edelgard suggested she might be wrong, though!

Eeeyyy, Strikes (that’s her nickname and it’s a lot shorter than butwhatifidothis, sorry) doesn’t usually make arguments anymore! This’ll be a nice break from Fantasy Invader.

Maybe.

Hopefully.

Spoilers for Trails in the Sky a ways under the cut

And uhh, that’s not an argument I’ve ever heard before, honestly, it must be a super old one. Good thing it got dropped, it’s weak.

So because Edelgard said,

It means the devs are saying, “you did wrong, tho.”

So I guess when Dimitri says he’s a monster who deserves death it means we need to ram him into something that can kill him, accept the game over, and start a new file of Three Houses?

When Joshua Bright said he was a broken person with a broken heart, it meant Estelle should have immediately given up on him?

When Velvet Crowe said she was monster and claimed she ate Seres just ‘cause, that meant she retconned reality and changed the circumstances under which she ate her?

It’s almost like sometimes people with trauma and a poor self-image say self-deprecating things that aren’t actually true.

“Which doesn’t mean Byleth is defying destiny by walking at Edelgard’s side. No sir.”

Again, the devs only said Silver Snow was the route that was made first to explore the world, not that the worldbuilding suits SS specifically. Otherwise, what the fuck is Azure Moon there for? I’ve seen it argued that White Clouds best suits Azure Moon because of Lonato and Miklan (setting aside that their respective issues were not about Dimitri’s personal tragedy but the broken state of Fodlan society), but with Strikes’ argument Azure Moon can’t possibly mesh with White Clouds because White Clouds only supports Silver Snow, according to her!

I mean... Azure Moon doesn’t mesh at all with White Clouds anyways, but that’s for very very different reasons.

I’m on to you, you red-headed, red-caped bastard.

I won’t let you invade Nohr, Ryoma >:(

Also, correct me if I’m wrong, but Byleth’s side, whichever side that is, does plenty of mowing down in all routes.

Damn, Fodlan is doomed.

Those poor celebrating commoners.

Oh no, is this Crushed Nugget again?

Now we’re delving straight into, I believe, Crushed Nugget’s Everyone is Miserable in CF set of posts, which is something I’d reeeeeaaaaaally like to dig into sometime, because it’s just a lot of petty and trivial ways to try to demonstrate everybody as being unhappy or less-fulfilled characters in CF.

These can range from the ever-popular “Lysithea doesn’t want to destroy the Empire in CF”, to “Yuri feels overworked in CF”, to “Raphael is irresponsible and happy in CF”, to “Ingrid is sadge in CF”. Yeah, being happy is bad if in CF and being unhappy is also bad if in CF.

It’s basically just her plucking at literally anything she can find to say that CF is bad in that exact moment without any regard for consistent standards. Ignatz’s is especially amazing given you know if the paintings he drew were reversed she’d instead say VW Ignatz is good for wanting to immortalize the horror of war so we never forget what war takes from us while CF Ignatz is bad for trying to cover up the pain with pretty pictures of something.

If you looked at red flags through pink lenses, wouldn’t they still look red?

Hey, you’re the one who said,

Because even the lord of the route is trying to tell the player that uhhh Byleth doesn't belong here, they're supposed to be on the other routes. Which checks with how the devs said that SS is the route the world-building is based on, and how within the game itself CF directly goes against SS' world-building. 

Don’t blame me for arguments you made!

She’s missing the point. It’s not argued that you don’t get to choose SS. The argument is that you do have to choose CF. You can’t default onto CF the way you can SS.

Another important point is how riddled with But Thou Musts SS is.

Who’s in charge of the army here, Seteth!?

So... going CF isn’t about tearing Byleth away from their proper place in SS?

If Byleth is meant to go SS, as Strikes said above, then CF is about defying fate.

If CF isn’t about defying fate, then Byleth isn’t meant to go SS.

So suddenly Byleth is more than a self-insert for the player to glom onto? That’s a bit contradictory to the usual Edelcrit line, but okay.

Since Byleth is now their own character and not a self-insert to represent the player, then Edelgard isn’t trying to date the player and the player demographics have no bearing on whether or not she’s bi, nor does her "gap moe” have any bearing on whether or not CF is a valid choice, because maybe Byleth doesn’t care about all that. Maybe they’re into MILFs.

Technically no, there’s a sequence of options that can have Byleth making no positive choice regarding which side to take.

Miss the coronation entirely, then you have a “I must kill Edelgard,” and “...” option at the Holy Tomb.

Indeed, you can spend basically all of SS being dragged around expressing discontent, and getting But Thou Must’ed into following along with the plot.

Also, again, the argument is not that Byleth can’t choose SS. It’s that they have to choose CF.

Hey, speak for yourself, I usually marry Dorothea.

Strikes is getting real fuckin’ philosophical all of a sudden about the concept of player character agency in a narrative-driven video game.

For real, this is some Bioshock/Undertale-level shit.

You know, I never considered that maybe Corvo would rather just stay in his cell and accept execution as penance for his failure to protect the Empress. He can’t speak in Dishonored 1, how do I know what his thoughts on the subject are? Am I puppetting him to commit mass murder like some kind of revenge-loving cordyceps!?

I am so sorry, Corvo :(

But actually, Strikes, how do you know that Byleth wants to fight Edelgard? Maybe they want to pick Black Eagles every time? Are you perhaps denying their agency every time you join your beloved Golden Deer? (I’m just assuming GD is her favorite route since she professes to love Claude). Are you denying their agency when you click on, “I must kill Edelgard”?

How could you do such an awful thing?

Bonus round time!

Why is she continuing her arguments in the tags??? That sounds annoying as hell.

Also, uhh,

Look at that fucking smug grin. Is that the face of an expressionless killing machine?

I have no idea where this, “Byleth reverts to being the Ashen Demon in CF” argument came from. I guess because they’re killing people the Edelgard detractors would rather they not kill, they have to be doing it heartlessly? That’s assuming a lot.

That’s... more or less exactly what it is, actually.

I know Strikes doesn’t like Edelgard being portrayed as a sad, tragic figure, but uhh... she is. Edge of Dawn is right there, it’s about Edelgard’s sorrow thinking about the future.

#Fire Emblem Three Houses #Edelgard von Hresvelg #edelgard discourse #edelgard positive #strikes #butwhatifidothis #Another thing Edelcrits don't really consider is that maybe Byleth doesn't want to rule Fodlan? Like they get upset about Byleth not getting #to rule the land in CF but maybe they want that. You can't know they don't #don't try to make decisions for them #it's mean.

[lovelessjane]

I wanted to make a simple analysis of the game and how it played with my feelings, but I'm gonna add some theories and headcanons to the mix. Sludge Life 2 spoilers ahead!

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Back when I first saw the trailer, I thought the Ciggy City and the island were two separate locations. Like, I thought the Ciggy City was somewhere far away, in some kind of dystopian civilization only the Glug employees are allowed (and can afford) to go to. The way my heart sunk into my chest when I finally gathered the courage to live the city, and saw that it was build over the ruins of the island. That part took me by surprise. Again, I thought we were FAR away from the island and that we might go back to it via ship. Visiting the island was like getting punched in the gut again and again. I mean, the place seems peaceful now, and I'll talk more on why later. But it was still heartbreaking to see the state it's in now. And not only that, but it got wiped out by a fucking nuke while Ghost was gone. Finding the statue head in the sludge with our graffiti still on it was like eating your favorite dessert only to find out it was coated with nails and broken glass. I just stood there for 5 minutes trying to visualize the layout of the map from the first game, and picturing where every building would've been. Also, I remember getting so excited when I saw a familiar bridge with a boat next to it. I thought it was the one from the beginning of the first game, the one that lead to Ghost's shipping container. But it lead to nowhere. This game uses familiar imagery and nostalgia to mess with you, and it does it so well. It hit me very hard in particular because I loved the first game. The miserable yet comfortable atmosphere from the first game made me feel at home. The island isn't the best place in the world, but it's your home. You know everyone and everyone knows you. You know where everything is, and so on. Visiting the sludge in the second game was like going back to your hometown, only to find out nothing is the same anymore. And although it was a sad sight, I'm glad the devs took this route. Because it added a whole new emotion to the experience.

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As for the residents, Glug obviously prioritized the Ciggy City and kind of left the sludge residents be. I have a feeling that the employees working at Chemico and other companies owned by Glug aren't from the sludge, and they were brought there in order to keep everything in check. Which lead to the sludge residents losing their jobs, which wasn't exactly a bad thing. Back in the first game, everyone complained about their jobs or their life and so on. If I'm not mistaken, we don't see the same negative mindset from the residents in the second game. Yeah, they're not living the best life still, but they're happy with what they have. I especially like the zone on top of the apartment complex. The one full of containers. The fact that so many residents live in shipping containers now says a lot. Back in the first game, the only people who lived in shipping containers were the taggers. Now even non vandals live in containers, because they have nowhere else to go. The apartment complex isn't as big as it uses to be back in the first game, so people had to improvise in order to not remain homeless.

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I also want to talk about the in-game races. First of all, I like to think that goblins are the native race to the sludge. That would explain why Uzzi (and his mom, by default) is so overprotective of his home. He does call it a dump in the first game, but still. Out of all the taggers, he's the one to go as far as vandalizing two important buildings in both games (the Glug tower and the clops' HQ). This is just a headcanon of mine though. But related to that, I like to think that Glug brought the humans to the sludge in order to work. Humans who probably were poor to begin with, and that's why they agreed to go in the middle of nowhere and work in such shitty conditions. Same goes for the fly people (or fly person), frog people, etc. One of my theories is that insect, and animal people in general (except for bird people, who I'm guessing come from the same place as the humans because haha pigeon person, pigeons are often found in cities, you know?), come from less industrialized places, such as the sludge (pre-Glug).

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Now about the taggers... Of course I'm gonna talk about Mosca first. First of all, his location. He's the only tagger up in Ciggy City, like one of my mutuals pointed out. And I like to think that he has multiple reasons to be there. -First of all, his dad. We see him on the roof, but given that he's an employee there, I'm guessing that he lives somewhere in the hotel. Headcanon time, but I imagine he invited Mosca to live with him in the City, but knowing Mosca he probably refused because the sludge is his home. He probably still crashes at his dad's apartment every now and then though. -Second of all, Ghost. I like to think that he roams around the City every now and then, mostly to visit his dad, but he actually spends most of his time down in the sludge with the other taggers. But the fact that we find him in the City during the events of the second game, makes me think that he was actually waiting to see Ghost. I mean, he's well aware that Ghost is back and obviously very excited to see him again, so no wonder he came all the way to the City just to see him. Judging by his dialogue, he hates the City just as much as the other taggers, but Ghost and his dad are probably the only reason why he bothers to come there. I also like to think that he doesn't sneak in like other people from the sludge (ex: Big Mud's fans) and actually has access because his dad works there. I also, ALSO like to think that he decided to wait right next to the ships just in case Ghost was going to leave soon. Like, he had no idea where Ghost was, but Mosca won't let the bugger leave the island again without saying "hello". But except for that, it's good to see that him and Ghost are still on good terms. Despite Ghost being an absolute ass and abandoning his friends for money, but whatever. One last thing though, he doesn't seem to know about granma. But the other taggers didn't mention anything about it either (and they don't show up in the ending), so the only ones who might know about it are Hans and Tia.

Hans is an interesting case. After you hit 100 tags, you get to talk with him behind the clops' HQ. He starts doubting his ways and says that Uzzi might be right, hinting that he's willing to embrace a more violent way of protesting. If the devs decide to make a 3rd game, I have a feeling it's going to follow this route. If the taggers do become more violent, it obviously won't end well for them. But it just seems like the right way to end this.

Seeing the Doubles drift apart is also very interesting. Back in the first game, selling out is what alienated them from the tagging community. But in the end, is also alienated them from each other. Also, interesting how Double (not Dolo) wants to get a glass eye.

Glad to see Uzzi is still the same and that he plays such a huge role. Should've seen this coming. Back in the first game, every tagger was unique enough to stand out, so I didn't think much of Uzzi. I even thought he might be a poser, because after talking to an NPC you find out he had been trying to reach the CEO's ship. So I thought he was just trying to escape this place, instead of tearing it down like he kept saying he would. I was so wrong. Also, I think him and Ghost grew a little. And off topic but I'm definitely going to use his "I got plots within plans within schemes" line on a daily basis, it's amazing.

Tia didn't get too much screentime, but it was nice seeing her. At first I thought she might be granma, giving that the "Granma loves you" posters have the same color as her hoodie, and that she's...old. But I'm pretty sure granma is actually Uzzi's mom. But back to Tia, she seems way more happy in the second game. Maybe it's because of the amount of weapons at her disposal, but still. Good for her! And the fact that the disappearance of King Eyes made her give up on tagging says a lot about their relationship. She dislikes him, from what we learned in the first game, but still cares. Or she might fear that she's next in like to become like him. Either way, I am so happy that we got to see her again!

I still think that King Eyes is the one who activated the nuke. I used to think that Uzzi did it, but now he know he's innocent. But King Eyes definitely knows about the nuke, since his tag is in the same room. He also vanishes after you hit 100 tags in the first game, when you can finally take his place. So maybe the fact that Ghost "dethroned" him set him off. Or maybe it's completely unrelated and he's also innocent. Who even knows?

I can't say much about the new taggers. Already rambled about them in one of my posts, but it wasn't much. They're cool and I love how one of them is an NPC you find in the first game. Buns is forgotten. I kind of feel bad for him but also kind of don't. I understand his importance in the demo and why it wouldn't have made sense for the devs to bring him to the island. Glad he didn't come back. His theme slapped but I want to beat him up, for some reason. Plus, he didn't stand out and that choice was probably on purpose. Imagine making such a cool character only to not add him into the full game. Buns can't relate. Missing his theme a lot though, the fact that it's not on Spotify is a crime.

In conclusion, the first Sludge Life has a VERY special place in my heart, but Sludge Life 2 is just as cool. 10/10, would tag again.

#sludge life 2 #sludge life #i went a little crazy #but this game hoovers in my mind like a bouncing dvd logo #typos incoming probably idk #uzzi deserves his name btw

[axemetaphor]

my dad got his hands on a copy of Sonic 06 for the xbox and asked me to be his play-tester after having a lot of trouble with that speed level right at the beginning (catching up to Eggman's ship on the beach) and i got as far as the Silver battle before giving up, so here's my notes

DISCLAIMER this isnt an invitation to dunk on the game in the notes of this post alright we've seen enough of that. i dont hate the game. no, really, i dont. i respect everything it tried to be and feel bad for literally everyone working on it because, from what i gather, they were green and facing extreme crunch time. sucks for everyone involved. anyway:

the load times on xbox were VASTLY better, which makes a lot of sense, given from what i know the ps3 has a ... strange way of storing/retrieving/loading data, but they were still pretty long and a little too frequent for my liking. still, probably not anyone's fault, tbqh. i'll have to see if the emulator my dad's working on getting on his PC (finally, he's been trying to do that for years now lmao,) has the same issue to figure out if it's a programming problem or hardware. personally im pretty sure it's just hardware.

it's much easier to steer sonic if you use the camera and his movement, but the camera will still fuck you over. this isnt 06 specific though game cameras are Always hard to wrangle lmao

the animations for this game are so strange... i dont say this as a negative whatsoever. it looks like they were mocapped, which is fascinating to me, translating human proportions onto sonic--it doesnt always work, and i personally wouldn't've made the choice to do that, but it makes me want to study it lmao

the voice acting as well is strange, at least in english; im not knocking anyone's work, whatsoever. i still really love the performances. but i think back to this one tweet i made about silver's intro dialogue where i mentioned that i loved the performance, but the poor guy sounded like he'd done a hundred takes of the audio and was losing grasp of Words themselves (As happens to everybody) and Silver's english VA not only liked the tweet but started following me because of it. this was during the trend of not actually giving VAs context for their dialogue, and not really.. respecting them at all, and it makes me sad to think that maybe they did stick everyone in a box, hand them lists of lines, and make them say them over and over until the director got whatever they wanted--or, on the opposite end, were only given enough time for a single take out of the inherent disrespect for VAs that's present in Many fields

the environments are fucking gorgeous and i was genuinely surprised by how many things i could interact with in the levels. granted, i did get stuck on them sometimes, but i doubt the poor devs got any chance to fix that shit. i liked especially ramming Eggman's Cerberus into a statue instead of the wall and watching the statue completely shatter, that's genuinely pretty cool, they couldve just had it be like the walls, static and unreacting. i also liked how the Cerberus decimated those pillars, but thats mostly because the camera kept getting stuck on them

there's very little active direction in the game, save for the floating (?)s, which can sometimes be wordy enough that ive already fucked up and died before theyre done talking. that's probably on my dumbass though.

collision physics in this game ... sure is. i cant remember if all games from the 2000s were like this given i have more experience with older games (pre-00's) + brand fucken new ones so someone else weigh in on this s'il vous plait.

the pre-rendered cutscenes are still fucking gorgeous. delightful.

so much of this game is such a lovely awkward development-stage kind of thing, like awkward teen years. the homing-attack mechanics make me grateful for the auto-targeting of later games. the way he goes from 0 to 100 is in character but hard to play (unwieldy) and makes me glad for the more measured sliding scale of other games. the sprint parts of the game, where youre just steering him, are so fucking cool but i am so fucking bad at them and im glad that in future games the sensitivity of the controls was turned down. it took me some lives to get into a proper rhythm with it, get a sense of just how much of a hair trigger the directional changes were. tails' attacks in this game definitely felt like they could've been much better (throwing the bombs is So difficult to aim, thanks to the camera and how long the animation for it is) and i'm glad they're different in other games--the bombs is a cool idea, just needed to be implemented differently imo

if you knwo more about the development n shit of this game id love to hear it, all i know is they had serious crunch time to release the game alongside the ps3 as its flagship game and had to cut a lot of steps from the process/cut a lot of corners. i attribute a lot of its flaws (and "flaws") to that tbqh. sonic 06 is not a bad game, it's a game that was failed by its circumstances. i dont know fully, im just an animator, i have never in my life made a proper video game.

also this may just be me but i have a theory that this game was meant to be like the Shadow the Hedgehog game, and not rated E for Everyone after all. the darker storybeats (sonic's murder, elise's death, silver's future etc) all feel like they'd have been better-executed at a level closer to that. it feels To Me like they were developing the beginnings of this game (script, designs) in tandem with the endtail development of ShTH, and when it received pushback for the guns, swearing, and violence, they panicked and had to neuter the story. i have a lot of respect for what the game COULD have been.

#sonic the hedgehog #sth #sonic 06 #rambles.txt #i do genuinely want people to educate me more on the game's development i know there's people on here who know more #anyways. the last bit i have there about the story is exactly why im working on an 06/johndies crossover it rly works so well man #also if you know how to beat silver. let me know. he murdered my ass a Lot #one time he threw me up against the sky boundary that was interesting JHGVFCG

[saltypiss]

The problem with bringing Conker's Bad Fur Day back is that it's got nothing in gameplay to offer on it's own, and today's standards can hardly keep the game up with modern times.

What people really want, is the artistry, voices, and characters. That, is what kept people playing. Hardly anyone truly thinks "oh yeah that was a fun moment" they're usually pissed off at the controls.

Live and reloaded proved to the world two things, refining isn't enough sometimes, and artistry really fucking matters. A more realistic depiction certainly helps to show the graphical differences between last gen and now, but it completely destroyed the artistry. The pure black darkness for shading, the bright but battered looking characters, everyone speaks like there's wood stuck in their throat.

You can write a book on how to make a mature cartoon look good with Conker's Bad Fur Day. You can show that even though everyone in the game is unlikable in personality, they're lovable as characters. You can show that voice direction matters in subtle ways, that to this day, aren't matched or tried to be.

But for gameplay? Honestly, they got the B button. And weighty but generic platforming. In terms of how Conker animates while moving, again, could write a whole book based on just how he leans bounces, drunkenly walks, etc. It feels amazing at points.

But again, really, for a game designer, what does Conker have to offer that hasn't or wasn't done better? What can you change without it being a different game?

What I really think people should do when 'demanding' a sequel to CBFD is to heavily focus on the characters and artistic values of the original game, while acknowledging it's short-comings in gameplay.

Now, all that being said, it's not like the gameplay is poor, or that it's got no value, genuinely the gameplay could only work within that world. It didn't need anything extra or fancy, it sold itself on charm and that charm is what has kept it around the public consciousness for as long as it has.

But. Plain and simple. CBFD isn't able to come back. In title alone it can. But if you watch through the entire developer commentary on YouTube, you'll come to realize, that game being created was an absolute crapshoot, had 0 realistic chance of coming into the world of the time.

The crew behind it not only won't come back, but even if they did, they wouldn't have the same mentalities.

Here's a good story that I think can show this angle best. One of the discussions they had was that the fart sounds were real, and reminisced about one of them just taking the mic and farting into it.

They also discussed how just having a group of people who mutually respect each other is incredibly healthy for a game's development, that you can throw any big name developer at a concept and it won't always be great, they themselves admit they were hardly a great dev team, just a good team.

And that is what the whole game feels like. A buncha twats shooting the shit, turning that shit into a world with life and substance, and then making a game out of it.

Honestly, without that, the game would've been shit. You can't hand the blueprints for CBFD to anyone and expect them to recreate it. But for a brief period of history in game development, there was this one group, who were allowed, somehow, to turn their child friendly violentless game, into what is still the most crude experience anyone will experience.

It can't come back.

That's not even getting into PC culture, the differences in hardware that enabled the artistry to be so grand and timeless, the fact that all it's humor was derided from the fact that for gaming, all the crudeness was incredibly unheard of. So unheard of it wasn't advertised by Nintendo and hidden behind the counters of porn stores. It sold 60k units.

This is what indie development feels like to some degree sometimes, except with professionals with budgets.

Timeless and yet not. It exists between console generations and was one of if not the last for the n64. The whole game feels like it narrowly made it's way into this timeline. It's a one of a kind experience, once in a lifetime chance, for sure.

#conker's bad fur day

[baekhvuns]

That Arsenal fan lawyer is me actually. I studied law for 1 year, I'm qualified enough 👀 Ancelotti 🍅🍅🍅🍅 get off the stage!!! My eyes are closed I refuse to see RM's stats....

Uhm I dislike Neymar, but what is this, a club acting like a bunch of bullies? Frenchies are back at it again. PSG isn't relevant enough for them to be that arrogant!

"they could unearth atlantis. they just choose not to. respect." true actually. Thankfully that photo isn't exclusive and I love that they use 🍙 for MBAPpe lmao, very kpop stan behaviour

Bestie you should be a Gooner already! Repeat after me "London is red". So many MU fans are against Gr**nw**d and Nike dropped him as well. He should go to Al Nassr, they probably don't give a fuck or maybe China. 💀

My friend won a London fan sign, she's not going to the concert though lmao. At least she has that, so I'm not mad at her! And Valenteez? Oh that Kaura thing had NFTs, hopefully there won't be any included this time....

If anyone comes for you for writing Seonghwa only I'll personally beat them up 🥰 plenty of people exclusively write for specific people, characters or ships and that's totally fine.

Take this quiz! I got Delancey

I feel so proud of the Skins cast, I grew up with them, and yes Dev, have you seen The Green Knight? I also used to live close to miss Kaya (she's an Arsenal fan too and we would see each other at the local pub). Lmao not PENG 😭 I don't say naur either, but I drink tea a lot, it has nothing to do with the UK though, I've drank gallons of tea since I was a child

Ewww I can imagine the body swap went into the worst direction in the Ryan movie, creepy shit. I read some reviews....

One thing about me is I'll choose a fictional cartoon man over a real one 😅 Tasir ❤

Boxer would get his hands bruised so easily, rip to that man! Y/N needs to mummify him

We still have no idea what's going on with Lookass, Chris Lee you fucking bitch. But Lee Sue Man??? huh how about he sues himself

Oh no wtf I had no idea Canadian schools were as bad as American ones :( I sincerely hope Mnet won't evil edit Hui or anyone... these poor guys have been humiliated enough

Wait Y/N and Hwa went to high school together in Mr & Mrs Park? I had no idea, I'm a fake Baeksussy fan.

Baekhyun looks cute, I'm glad he's back! TY the number 1 simp, he's the true user baekhvuns. And I heard Psycho, yes!

Someone said Seonghwa in the Spin Off video looked like a thundere LI in a fantasy movie, agreed <3

A much better version of Timothee akshuajaajhshsabsha. Yes Tamino is actual GOD, such a beautiful human and his deep voice ❤ ooohhh Baek I had no idea I'd awaken something in you 👁👁 perhaps his songs will inspire you to write! I'll let you know how he was in concert, I saw him once before, but sadly I was pretty sick that day so I couldn't enjoy it fully 😐 His cover of AM fucks too

They ditched my girl Kira even though she was the most relevant to the movie plot??? Fuck those werewolves! But no wonder, they didn't pay the actress enough (ekhm racist). What's the name of your avo baby?

Everyone's saying 2pm for the sex story thing?! An hour...god!?!?! Watch the story be fake though

Remember him 😭😭😭😭 - DV 💖

hello!!

That Arsenal fan lawyer is me actually. I studied law for 1 year, I'm qualified enough 👀 Ancelotti 🍅🍅🍅🍅 get off the stage!!! My eyes are closed I refuse to see RM's stats.... /// Uhm I dislike Neymar, but what is this, a club acting like a bunch of bullies? Frenchies are back at it again. PSG isn't relevant enough for them to be that arrogant!

LMFAOOO GET OUT WHDHDJCICJCK you in court “your honour, i have receipts to back my evidence up actually! going to eat my walls if he denies it tho!”

i will do the courtesy of showing the stats ☺️

i do be blaming it on ancelotti not putting vini in a better position to utilize his skills previously, he was on top of the world and now suddenly it died down 😭😭

yEAAAHH they have been doing this to both messi neymar and even verratti, booing them on pitch and their families! i think once it was messi’s wife w kids in the stadium it happened,, no srs they put psg on the map 😭 idk how much patience that man got but if it were me,,, on SIGHT! ON SIGHT SLEEP WITH ONE EYE OPEN BESTIES!

"they could unearth atlantis. they just choose not to. respect." true actually. Thankfully that photo isn't exclusive and I love that they use 🍙 for MBAPpe lmao, very kpop stan behaviour

WAIT THATS SO TRUE 😭😭😭 utmost respect to them, tbh if kpop fans collectively got together they’d end up digging cleopatra’s tomb,,, LMFAOOO THE 🍙 IS SO CUTE AND FUNNY baby mbappe was rly cute,,, if he joined bubble 😭😭😭 his representative emojis is 🍙 😭😭

🍙: hello y/n!!!

i finished my training!!!

did you think of me???

thinking of you y/n 💖!!

Bestie you should be a Gooner already! Repeat after me "London is red". So many MU fans are against Gr**nw**d and Nike dropped him as well. He should go to Al Nassr, they probably don't give a fuck or maybe China. 💀

LONDON IS RED IM WAITING FOR IT TO BE BLUE IDC 😭😭😭 man utd fans for the first time have some brain cells and collectively hold someone accountable is so wild to me, never thought i’d see it,,, FJWVDJWHKCK doubt the chinese would take that mf in 😭😭 he should just go look for another career oh wait! how can he bdnwbddo i genuinely wonder how hard it is for football players to act decent, play ur game and go back to ur family quietly 😭😭

and spurs have been on a roll?? kane’s revival arc!

My friend won a London fan sign, she's not going to the concert though lmao. At least she has that, so I'm not mad at her! And Valenteez? Oh that Kaura thing had NFTs, hopefully there won't be any included this time....

that is very acceptable, crossed out the concert experience 🤚🏻OH THATS KAURA?? 😬😬😬 it better be some pieces of printed cardboard of his face and not some email confirmation 😭😭

If anyone comes for you for writing Seonghwa only I'll personally beat them up 🥰 plenty of people exclusively write for specific people, characters or ships and that's totally fine. /// Take this quiz! I got Delancey

tHANK YOU i would love to name drop but i will hold my silence fbwnbdnjc <33 right! writing for one person is completely fine but some people 🔫✨🔫✨✨🔫 omg delancey i haven’t heard that name since charm school, i got madison!! speaking of uquiz here’s one!

I feel so proud of the Skins cast, I grew up with them, and yes Dev, have you seen The Green Knight? I also used to live close to miss Kaya (she's an Arsenal fan too and we would see each other at the local pub). Lmao not PENG 😭 I don't say naur either, but I drink tea a lot, it has nothing to do with the UK though, I've drank gallons of tea since I was a child

I HAVE SEEN IT! what an art this man is,, his work selection is amazing! NO WAY FBWMDJWK ANON BAG HER AUTOGRAPH FOR ME PLS I GO A LIL 😵‍💫😵‍💫 WHEN I SEE HER IN THE MAZE RUNNER SERIES ☺️☺️ NO DO U SAY PENG JDVWBDBC OR LENG,, you’ve drank everything except water since u were a child what is this anon 🤨

Ewww I can imagine the body swap went into the worst direction in the Ryan movie, creepy shit. I read some reviews.... /// One thing about me is I'll choose a fictional cartoon man over a real one 😅 Tasir ❤

yEAAAAH it was like dad/lawyer vs unhinged best friend (ryan) who’s single and they body swapped the night they peed in a fountain together 😭😭😭 and ryan has to go be a lawyer and the lawyer has to take up the acting gig ryan had and it’s just a porno 😭😭 so ur saying no seonghwa only tasir? nO SOOHYUK? ALRIGHT AND 20 YEARS TO HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS????? 😭😭😭

Boxer would get his hands bruised so easily, rip to that man! Y/N needs to mummify him /// We still have no idea what's going on with Lookass, Chris Lee you fucking bitch. But Lee Sue Man??? huh how about he sues himself

y/n on her way with the pointe ballerina shoes to save the poor guy <33 NOOOO BC CHRIS LEE IS ABOUT TO GET HIS ASS HANDED BACK TO HIM so basically! sm’s board directors + chris lee tried to push lsm away basically ask him to leave all together that’s why bro’s been in the states and arrived like a day ago

what sm did is that lee soo man didn’t give any of his shares to kakao ent (they tried to have sm’s share to take over them) and intrusted the shares with his nephew (chris lee) who went behind his back sold them! CHRIS LEE JAIL ERAAAAAAA

not the karina signs??? chris lee drops to a new low everyday

Oh no wtf I had no idea Canadian schools were as bad as American ones :( I sincerely hope Mnet won't evil edit Hui or anyone... these poor guys have been humiliated enough

yeah! tho most of it confined to one side of the city after rona tho it def got bitter, out downtown is in shambles and the police are trying their best to handle it so hopefully before the wc happens the thing’s all good! its in affect so it’s getting better <3 it’s mostly drügs and guys trying to be wannabe gangsters and then get surprised they have to face consequences <3 toxic 14-18yo mama’s boys <3 no yeah the guys have been humiliated enough 😭😭 they aren’t trained idols so they’d def have some inconsistencies 😭😭

Wait Y/N and Hwa went to high school together in Mr & Mrs Park? I had no idea, I'm a fake Baeksussy fan. /// Baekhyun looks cute, I'm glad he's back! TY the number 1 simp, he's the true user baekhvuns. And I heard Psycho, yes! //// Someone said Seonghwa in the Spin Off video looked like a thundere LI in a fantasy movie, agreed <3

THEY DID bdskdh it’s when the flashback of hwa hitting on the yn and yn explaining to Kai that they momentarily dated for a week until mf got heart eyes for some other girlie <3 FAKE BAEKSUSSY FAN FHWJD i am actually taeyong my pseudo was kira, im part time nct leader and full time baekhvuns! psycho supremacy actually 🤲🏻🤲🏻 HE DOES HE DOES him in a fantasy movie brb i will edit him in one rn,, he needs to be in a magically fantasy movie with a proper villain and he’s under this veil that the villain is the bad guy but then he realizes who it actually is!

A much better version of Timothee akshuajaajhshsabsha. Yes Tamino is actual GOD, such a beautiful human and his deep voice ❤ ooohhh Baek I had no idea I'd awaken something in you 👁👁 perhaps his songs will inspire you to write! I'll let you know how he was in concert, I saw him once before, but sadly I was pretty sick that day so I couldn't enjoy it fully 😐 His cover of AM fucks too

HE REALLY IS ANON IDK WHAT U DID IVE BEEN LISTENING TO HIM SINCE YESTERDAY!! his voice is omg, what a voice, so calming but so powerful omgg the talent really runs in his family, IT AWOKE EVERYTHING IN ME! EVERYTHING! HE HAS INSPIRED ME TO WRITE IVE BEEN WRITING TO HIS SONGS 😭😭😭 ur music taste i swear omg anon, u need to ppt format drop every detail of him at the concert, saw a few reviews abt it and it said he has like no voice cracks and it’s just his insane vocals and vibes omg 😭😭 he sings like lana but the male version get out the cover is sO GOOD ITS SO RUSTY ???? he sounds like if brown and emerald were a person

They ditched my girl Kira even though she was the most relevant to the movie plot??? Fuck those werewolves! But no wonder, they didn't pay the actress enough (ekhm racist). What's the name of your avo baby?

NAHH FUCK WEREWOLVES UR RIGHT DONT NEED THOSE TYPE OF FURRIES would accept hwa werewolf au- HER NAMES ACTUALLY AVOLINA!! and uh, speaking of avo,, live action 😀

Everyone's saying 2pm for the sex story thing?! An hour...god!?!?! Watch the story be fake though /// Remember him 😭😭😭😭 - DV 💖

AN HOUR??? OH MY LORD THIS DEF A DILF,, imagine going to the inkigayo bathroom and someone’s getting dicked down in the stall next to u 😭😭😭 the shit kpop idols must tolerate must be crazy,, ITS THE LEGS FOR ME FBWMDJWK

IM SCREAMING ANON FBWKDHW

😶😶

in a few days i might ask u if ur prefer a lighter dark aesthetic or a dark aesthetic for yunho if make it in the end <3

#✉️ : ask #dv 💖 anon

[sexhaver]

laundry list of actual complaints i have about elden ring so far:

it's a pc game released in 2022 locked at 60fps with occasional stutters that seem to be able to smell fear and will manifest exactly at the worst possible time to get you killed. i have a 3070 and ryzen 7, i should not be struggling with this

occasional but noticeable glitches. the worst one ive encountered so far is with Renna (the boss of Raya Lucaria). her first phase is supposed to have her levitating above a bunch of trash mobs in a yellow bubble, with one of the trash mobs singing to keep the bubble intact (indicated by them singing and having a yellow aura). she's totally invincible while levitating and you need to kill 3 of the singing mobs in a row to bring her down and make her vulnerable. sometimes, though, when you enter the boss arena, Renna's bubble just... isn't there. and neither are the singing mobs. i think you can still hit her with ranged damage but for all practical purposes the fight is unwinnable like this and the correct response is to instantly quit out and rejoin, which sucks if you summoned help already. also this happens to people fighting her for the first time who don't know it's a glitch and they waste half an hour trying to figure it out

also the glitch where you can set yourself on fire while holding a Shotel of Death and the mere act of rolling near someone in PVP will literally instakill them from full health in under 5 seconds while you stay invincible, that's fun

my friend has accidentally permanently locked himself out of Ranni's questline somehow even though online guides say he should be eligible for it and he isn't the only one

using hard souls golden runes from the item menu is such a fucking hassle. you have to look at how many runes you currently have, calculate how many more you need to afford the thing you want, look at what golden runes you have on hand, try and fail to remember how much each tier is worth, crush what you think is the appropriate amount (which requires selecting Use Selected instead of the default Use), then come up 30 runes short because you weren't paying attention to the last 2 digits. you can kind of sidestep this by pressing R3 in your inventory, which gives you the "compact" view and also stops the menu from closing between golden rune uses, but then that introduces the issue where you can't actually see how many runes you have total as you crush the items. just let us spend golden runes directly at shops or something, please.

also comparing your own armor to armor in a shop requires taking a picture with your phone. this is what the salty Horizon Forbidden West devs were talking about when they said the UX sucks

Festering Bloody Fingers (invasion item) getting used up even when you fail to find an invasion target feels really fucking bad. this is more of a minor gripe than anything because anyone deadass about invasions is going to get the infinitely reusable version anyways, but like, come on

when i pick up a new item i sometimes don't know where to find it in my inventory. is that deer skull i just picked up a helmet? no, okay, is it a fist weapon? no, okay, is it a key item? nope haha wrong it's in the first tab of your inventory halfway down next to the mimic veil, get fucked. just add a button to the pickup notification prompt that automatically opens your inventory to the item's description page

the map is kind of low-rez when zoomed in, does a poor job of conveying some vertical cliff faces, and occasionally straight up lies about the positions/existence of roads. i get that some/all of that is intended, but god damn is it obnoxious sometimes

horse platforming oh my fucking god. whoever at Fromsoft decided to make platforming sections that require a double jump and then tied said double jump to a horse that steers with all the fine precision of a blimp is the real masochist there, not whoever keeps sneaking in new variants of Poison status effects. oh im sorry, did you land on the right platform but facing the wrong direction? nope, no 180 degree turn for you, fall off the platform for even thinking you could pull that shit, do not pass Go, do not collect $200, good DAY to you sir

to be clear, i still think that even with all of these issues, this is very clearly game of the year and possibly game of the decade. i just don't want people thinking im some diehard fanboy incapable of seeing the game's flaws

#feel free to add on yourself

[grittyreadsfic]

can you tell me more about NicoJack. Both first overall picks with the weight of the world on them

okay hello sorry for the delay in answering this but i uhhh have poor time management and a tendency to bite off more than i can chew so i have been writing like 15k worth of fics for two difference exchanges since you sent this so i have been uhhhh a lil busy but okay yes nicojack

i'm not sure quite what you're asking here so i'm gonna give some context for them both in case you don't know and then just kind of deep dive into vibes/my thoughts, and you can feel free to come back if you need me to clarify/expand on anything, okay?

nico went first overall in 2017, and is the first swiss player to do so. prior to that he played for SC Bern and for the national team for various tournaments (he played with his older brother Luca who currently plays for SC Biel and with siegs who the devs traded for last season. they're roommates again this season, as far as i can tell) He also did a year in the qmjhl playing for the moosehead and did really well there. he got the a that he split with palms right around his 21st birthday and in his season debut last year they gave him the c

and for jack i'm pulling directly from my jackty primer mostly but jack hughes is the second of the three hughes brothers-his older brother quinn plays defense on the canucks and his younger brother luke isa freshman at umich and a devs prospect. their mom, ellen, also played for team usa and i’m in love with her. he went the usntdp route and broke some records there  before going first overall to the Devils in 2019.

you can read more about them / the team here in this devs primer i helped make though the other two involved def did pretty much all of the work lmao

but anyway. the vibes.

i'm not the first one to point out that the devils core at the end of last season had some major parallels to the pens when they really started their rebuild with who they talked about as their core (nico and jack as 1c and 2c like sid and geno, ty's a dman like tanger, and obvious mac comes into play like flower as the goalie) and i really cannot help but draw parallels to sidgeno and the early hrpf pairings in the dynamic we see for nicojack

they're two young first over alls (the only two in the devils history!) and the team is uh. Bad. we had three cups (95, 00, 03) and made the finals in 2012 where we lost. we've made the playoffs one since then, in nico's rookie season. they're literally meant to save the franchise, because we've been bottom of the league pretty much every season for the last decade, which is approximately when i got into the devs. my bad, you guys.

so they share that weight, and they have that really unique experience of having the weight of jersey on them-and i mean, nico had taylor hall is first few seasons to help him deal with the wait of being a first overall on a struggling team (rip hallsy he's not dead he's just a bruin) and nico had a captain in andy greene and a shit ton of veterans and a lot of really good players on the ice to fallback on, but jack got fucked over during his rookie season. no captain, the goalie he was living with got sent down, hallsy got traded, and it was uh. one of our worst seasons yet

jack's talked about nico and having him to talk to about it when he was a rookie, but it's a really interesting dynamic, right? because for all nico's second season was kind of a shitshow, i think a lot of the anger was more focused on the vets/hallsy and not directed at him. jack got called a draft bust pretty regularly through last season, and he's currently a point per game so. fuck them and fuck the nico haters because they're full of shit

back to my point: jack got a lot of shit his rookie season and nico was also growing into his leadership role-you see it more so after the hallsy trade, and you see it with him getting the a, and how he talked to the media. they've both got this incredible weight on them (the mortifying ordeal of being the face of the new jersey devils) but they've got each other to rely on.

jack said it best in this lil video: he went first overall as well. not many guys have the same path in terms of picks and playing on the same teams, leading up the nhl, you know, so. it’s been fun to become really good buddies with him and have his experiences and be a similar age with him.

unlike my jackty primer I don't have a billion links to every single time they talked about each other because my brain took one link at ty smith and has never let me have a moment of peace since, but i do have some fun odds and ends and i did do some crowdsourcing in my devs rpf server, so if i find anything else i'll reblog this and add more

-they were road roomies jack's rookie season and i believe it's in this podcast that jack talks about them just both taking four hour naps before games

-this photo of them from jack's rookie season

-this fun quote from the covid break last year because jack's really good at keeping tabs on his teammates

-this quote from last season a little before they started pretty much being the 1c/2c (and now they ARE and i'm EMOTIONAL)

-this quote from the start of this season and about zajac retiring that makes me lose my fucking mind

-this pic of them at a team bonding football game during the preseason

-still look sexy schao

-this hug from the win against edmonton the other night

-nico calling jack a star tonight

#primer #hrpf #once again y'all asked and i rambled on about devils ships #this team is obsessed with each other and it shows literally all the time

[scrawnytreedemon]

Can’t sleep, mind going precisely 56 miles an hour, so I think I’ll finally get around to writing this.

Couples days back, I went ahead and finally psyched myself up to do the Zant bossfight.

Because I’d picked up where I’d left off yesterday, which was just before the boss room, obviously I was taken back to the beginning of the area. This gave the whole ordeal a trek, if a short one, what with the Palace of Twilight’s laughable length, and me more time to think.

I didn’t want to do this.

It sounds stupid, but I really didn’t want to do this. I’d cried the day before trying to psych myself up and failing, and I’d cried then, before the boss door, stalling by sweeping away the crystal-fog as best I could-- A meagre attempt at housekeeping, and a futile one. Of course I couldn’t. This isn’t that sort of game. This isn’t a game for failed attempts at kindness, at least trying to clean this awful, awful place for an awful, awful man going through awful, awful things. I was supposed to be a hero.

Heroes don’t make beds.

They don’t wash dishes, or hang laundry, or hold a rival’s hand,

They kill.

The trek didn’t stop past the door, either.

We still had to walk up the stairs. To the throne.

To him.

And I was there, laugh-crying, wishing I didn’t have to. That I could skip this pathetic ordeal.

I tried to turn around and leave.

Despite it only looking like a larger one of the many, many doors we’ve passed through this awful, nonsensical, poorly-designed excuse for a palace that no one could ever live in, it didn’t budge. There wasn’t any turning back. I had to go forward, because this is an action game, and violence is key.

The game takes the reigns. Link walks up to the throne, sword drawn, despite my deliberate decision to sheathe it. The narrative begins again. Midna sneers, and throws a taunt at him.

Zant sits, and smiles. Smiles like he thinks he still has some form of control, or knows full well he’s lost it.

You know, when I was working through the Palace of Twilight, I’d come to the realisation that... Zant locked himself in the throneroom. From the outside. Logistically, despite the good laugh I had over this guy locking himself in from the fucking outside, where his opponents can grab the key, he could get out easily-- teleportation and all. But even that aside, it still spoke to a level of hasty panic, that he would even keep the key outside, behind a waterfall of yet more shitty fog-crytals in the hopes that would deter them. Deter us.

How long had the guy been here, alone in that room?

We all know what happens next. Despite this being my first playthrough, I’ve probably seen this cutscene a dozen times. Zant has what amounts to an overly-dramatised autistic meltdown expositing himself and his motivations. That he was upset and felt like everything he’d worked for had been taken away from him. That he was angry, angry and fed up of being relegated to a half-existence. Midna retorts, Zant wails some more.

What gets me is that, when Ganondorf visits him, engulfs him in this flaming ball of fucked-magical-fuckery, he just. Stares. He doesn’t say anything, doesn’t do anything. Ganondorf speaks as though he’s already decided that, yes, you will do, we will make a pact and rule Everything together; I will live on through you.

Did Zant even agree to this?

I think, subconsciously or not, he accepted it, but it begs the question of whether or not Zant was capable enough to partake in it.

Whatever the answer, he’s clearly not capable enough to partake in this. This fight.

It’s laughable, that I’m expected to find victory in this.

The fight was a fucking slog, 90% of the time. Some of these boss-battles I hadn’t played in nearly two years thanks to the impromptu hiatuses I’m so fond of taking, so I didn’t know what the fuck I was meant to be doing half the time-- And when I did, it lagged to shit everytime this poor bastard fired projectiles, because I was playing on the gamepad, because why on earth would I play this on the goddamn TV? It was a sad, pitiful encounter that I had to laugh my way through and also mumble “what the fuck“ on several occasions because I guess somebody at Nintendo ate cheese before bed and the dev team were so desperate to patch something together for this guy’s sudden crisis that they threw it in-- I’m obviously having a good laugh, but What The Fuck.

I knock the guy down in the last phase of the battle, the only one where he isn’t mimicking something else and dizzies himself spinning like a hyperactive child, and the game takes the reigns again. Midna prepares her hair. I look away-- I’ve seen it before, many times before, and it’s cartoonishly grotesque for a game that relies heavily on somber semi-realism. Midna has her own crisis-- And yeah, yeah bossbabe, I feel it.

It cuts back, and there’s a Heart Container on the guy’s throne.

I.

I killed a guy, and now I’m collecting his lifeforce. I stormed into the bunged-up attempt of a fortress conjured up as a last defense by a man who’s fallen head-first into insanity, tore through any meagre security measure like butter, murder the guy when he’s having an episode, he dies a fucked up death, and then I collect his lifeforce.

Is that fucked up or what?

For all of Zelda’s endless violence, rarely do you actually kill “people.“ It’s the kind of stuff reserved for the end, for Ganondorf, or some other corrupted nigh-demigod on the brink of losing their humanity, or never having possessed it.

We kill Zant.

Zant barely puts up a fight, and we kill him. Zant gets summoned from the netherworld by Ganondorf in Hyrule Warriors; we put him there in the first place.

If we were to view this from a literal, like this shit actually happened and these characters are to be held accountable standpoint, then what we did was justified-- If not wholly, then mostly. Zant got power-hungry, committed what amounts to a bio-terroristic coup on the government, disfigured his rival, a woman notorious for her beauty, then proceeded to attempt the same thing with Hyrule, leading to the indirect death of at least the people who got transfigured into Shadow-Beasts in Kakariko, and attacks you first, then yeah, no biggie?

But I’ll be fucking real with you chief, I don’t find it... I don’t know, persuasive? Effective? Compelling, would be the best word, to think of it that way?

What Zant is, is a narrative tool. One that was set up to be this big, bad interloper who you need to Take Down and Save Everything, as per usual Zelda format. The justification for why we should hate him, if I’m going to be honest, feels contrived, most of the time. He does some bad thing off-screen, Midna gets pissed, Midna and everyone within a 12-mile radius explains why we should be pissed in a way that often feels borderline developer-hand-y-- And that’s. Well that’s how Zelda usually is.

It’s justification to commit violence.

--To be clear, I don’t say this in a political sense. I mean it in the very literal “hit/kill a guy“ sense. And in all honesty, that’s kinda inherent to the ethos of action games. We enjoy catharsis-- We enjoy taking down big things, it’s satisfying! I’ve played a little Hyrule Warriors-- Loved the feel of it. Violence is inherent to even the most benign of action games, and it is what it is.

Where it falls short for me, is that with Zant, I don’t feel like I’m taking down some great foe that I should justifiably hate.

I feel like I’m a clearly more equipped person breaking into a room, and bludgeoning a mentally ill person.

I’m autistic. I may slot in easier to NT society than most, but I am autistic, and it makes me deeply uncomfortable to see something I’ve fucking gone through be used carelessly as flavour for a prelude to violence. I have meltdowns. They’re relatively rare, and mostly in my room, alone, but I’ve also experienced one out in public. It was only sobbing, but there’s a special kind of horror, of humilation in knowing other people, strangers, family, what have you, are seeing it, and all you can think is how much you failed.

I can’t fully articulate why I cried so much during this, quite frankly, menial ordeal. I’m half-embarrassed to even talk about it-- Because then that means caring too much, and I can’t care too much over a poorly-justified character that wasn’t even intended to be sympathised with and that most of the fandom laughs at. And I can’t say I blame them.

I guess at the end of the day it comes down to the ever-present pity; some strange, childish commiseration I’d indulged in ever since I was six and cooing over Bowser and how awful everything was for him, that despite my continuous efforts, I can’t ever seem to explain.

I didn’t like the Zant fight. It felt empty,

And all did was sweep cobwebs and try to turn back.

#scrawny rambles #scrawny speaks #tloz #twilight princess #zant #back at it again with anotherhgkjhgjkhgkhj #thoughts #i'm tired of how violence is used to handle everything i guess #i feel like i'm walking around with a hammer wanting to buils a little shed and maybe set it down and make soup and hand it out #but the game goes NO bludgeoning ONLY you MUST KILL ALL THE WRONGDOERS VIOLENCE IS THE ONLY WAY-- #cAN WE MAYBE??? N O T?? FOR ONCE??? #AGAIN to get onto another thing. fuckign. mnish cap. and how e/zlo i n s i s t s the only thing to do about v/aati is kill him #you know. #his child student. that HE TUTORED WHAT THE FU C K #AND EVERYONE??? THINKS IT'S F I N E?? #(slashes employed so it doesn't show up in those tagshdjjhgjkhg) #BUT YEAH WHAT EVEN #i suppose another part of this is just how. violence is glorified so much even in everyday culture. even in progressive circles. #[especially in progressive circles.] #ugh. god i really am a soppy little lawful good pacifist aren't i??? #hhgjhfjgjl #it's 12am forgive any typos

[technogeekmituna]

My Thoughts on Mammon's Birthday '21 Event

Spoiler Warning!

I don't want to say it was awful or super disappointing, because my feelings are kinda hurt from the somewhat high-ish expectations I had for his birthday event, considering last year's was really good and wholesome.

It really was kinda dodgy though. I mean, clearly the OM Devs have never heard of Chekhov's gun rule. I'm not expecting anything high standard, but really? The Mammon Instruction Manual? It literally takes a focus for half the first part of the event, plus the item Satan gives you, and then it's just never really mentioned again. It's brought back up in a "Oh, wow, you knew this thing I really liked and my exact size! Geez, is there a Mammon Instruction Manual out there?? Nah!" Like, that shit infuriates me generally, but it was such a fuckin' throwaway point that it didn't need to exist at all. The writers really were trying to just lengthen out the event for the first half.

What makes me madder is that they don't even let us view some chapters, even though they say it's so full of stuff of Mammon we might not know. Like, we've been in the Devildom, what, two years almost or something? It's pretty late to try to push something like that on MC or us as fans.

Not to mention, as a writer and fanatic about good story writing, they didn't have to include the Mammon Instruction Manual or that other hot garbage in the first part. They have a good trigger for the event but it only gets revealed and solved halfway through the second event!

The bracelet is cursed, but Luke didn't know. Neither did Mammon. There's a cost on the line for all this good fortune Mammon is coming across, but he refuses to let the bracelet get damaged or destroyed, despite the impending misery that will rebound as a consequence, because Luke gave it to him! Mammon considers Luke as a little brother, and he cherishes the bracelet. It means something to him.

This is enough to drive the event at the start, and Mammon can still run around being oblivious or not to the circumstances of his good luck. It comes to a pinnacle point where the bad luck starts happening, so he either has the curse broken by destroying the bracelet or suffer the misfortune, and Mammon would choose to the latter. He cares that much about the gift Luke gave him.

It just runs all over the place. It's unfocused. Like it seems like such a linear plot: Mammon gets bracelet from Luke > bracelet is cursed > the others are unaware of it until Simeon says something > Mammon burns through the good luck part of the curse until it starts reversing > the others try to persuade him to let them destroy it, but he refuses because Luke gave it to him > sudden ex machina (Diavolo) gives Lucifer a token to give to Mammon so he can catch it and break the curse without damaging the bracelet > Luke and Mammon have a moment and spends the rest of his birthday with MC

It just scrambles this, and it annoys me.

You as MC don't get much agency either. You kinda just tag along, and, normally, that would be fine! It's Mammon's birthday, that makes sense. Except, it's like, nothing really happens, and you don't get much say in anything. You don't even get a kiss out of him. You hold his hand or onto Mammon's arm. An oath that he'll love you. That's the best we get out of this event! What the fuck??

If I had to rank this event without thought, it would get a 6.8/10. If I look at the "Mammon's Workshop" moment (btw, what a fuckin' weird ass yet kinda cute synonym for date, but what-the-fuck-ever) and the ending to the top of the second part, then it'll get 7.3/10. If I consider the lost potential of Mammon and Luke bonding and not being tossed aside and terrible start to the first half of the event, it's 6.4/10.

I can't list a positive without two negatives. I mean, if you enjoyed it and loved it without being critical, good! I'm glad. I enjoyed it too, just very lukewarmly. I just know that it could've been better.

If they had just focused on a regular event, no fucking two optional route bullshit, and put more thought to the plot and characters, then this event would have easily been at 8 or above.

Apparently, as more salt to the wound, the cards don't have any kissing moments either, and that's fine. I'll be honest, I haven't played the cards yet, but if Mammon, the most spoiled character for romance with MC, doesn't get a kiss or affection from MC during the main event or kiss in his cards, then I'm banking the cards might be kinda weak too. If they can be good romantically and have Mammon and MC bond or just be together and have a nice time without some god awful contrivance with a poor conclusion, then I won't be as salty. We'll just have to see.

Rant over, I guess.

#jess murmurs #obey me #obey me mammon #obey me spoilers

[whentheynameyoujoy]

So the ATLA Movie Is... Good, Actually?

Just kidding, of course it’s not, it’s so bad it sucked the paint off my walls. But after ten years of people pointing out its glaring flaws, why would anyone bother talking about this garbage heap if not to go the other direction? So here’s a very brief and very superficial list of things the movie does get kinda... not atrociously wrong.

And they won’t be fake hipster pokes, like “It’s fun to laugh at”, “The Rifftrax for this is OK”, or “Kudos to the actress for managing to say we believe in our beliefs as much as they believe in theirs with a straight face”.

(though now that I mentioned it, it is fun to laugh at, the Rifftrax for this is OK, and massive props indeed.)

Rasta Iroh

Yes, I know it’s not exactly the aesthetic of the real Iroh or that it makes no cultural sense for him to sport this do when no one else in the racebended Indian “OMFG what were you thinking Shyamalan” Nation does but goddamn, long-haired dudes are my one mortal weakness and I will ogle the hell out of him.

Jesus is that a man bun I see that’s it mum I’ve been deaded

Yue’s hair

No.

Now we’re talking. Yue’s hair turned white when the Moon spirit gave her life, so it makes sense for it to go black again when she sacrifices herself to revive the koi fish. It’s a neat detail I find myself expecting whenever I rewatch the scene in the show. Yes, I realize it’d be a pointless hassle to animate since she, unlike in the movie, immediately goes on to become the Moon herself but still. I like.

The Blue Spirit’s mop

Zuko, hun, what’s with the dance-off?

First of all, I want to imagine that Zuko the Theatre Nerd was about to leave his ship with just the mask like in the show but then stuck his head into the cleaning cupboard and went, “Yeah, more coverage might be good, even though it do seem mighty fried to shit”.

Which makes me giggle. I like to giggle.

And secondly, the hair’s movement is what makes the static mess of the Blue Spirit’s solo fight scene appear at least bit more dynamic because God knows the cinematography isn’t doing it.

Any particular reason why it’s at the edge of the action, shot all boring-like?

Now, I get why circular shots would be reserved for Aang while he’s in the practice area and then used once the two join forces. What I don’t get is why Aang’s part of the action scene has a defined visual style while Zuko’s delegated to a few stationary wide shots from afar as though he’s a tertiary goon, meaning that when the time comes to combine the respective pieces of cinema language and visually convey collaboration, there’s not really much to combine.

But as long as Zuko is stuck in this static mess, it’s that awesome disaster on his head flopping about that draws the eye, helping me understand that something even is going on over there.

It also prevents me from paying much attention to how the extras are mostly just staying put and a lot of the hits don’t land, so that’s good.

The music slaps

James Newton Howard is too good for this.

Pls ignore that the word “gods” is used in the ATLA universe

I can’t be the only one who constantly uses this piece to daydream about writing specific fanfic scenes instead of, you know, actually sitting down and writing them. It’s just so good at communicating a sense of sorrow while speaking of rebirth that I find myself getting misty-eyed whenever I listen to it. Unfailingly, the soundtrack as a whole manages to break through the mile-thick crust of horrible acting, confusing writing, and uninspired cinematography and make me feel things. And considering how everything on screen is working against it, that’s no small feat.

Imagine what a powerful experience it would be if the score was used in service of an actual movie.

Dev Patel

No wonder since he’s the only one in the film occupying that crucial intersection between “is a good actor” and “was given something to work with”. It also doesn’t hurt that he breaks with the trend of actors starring in martial arts flicks despite never having done any martial art.

And all EIP-jokes about “stiff and humorless” aside, he’s a pretty decent Zuko considering how abridged this version of the character is. A while ago, I remember hearing a reviewer say that with his comedic chops, Patel should have been cast as Sokka. And on one hand, yes, god, absolutely, I need to see that asap. But on the other? He captures all layers of Book 1!Zuko, the desperate obsession, rage, and self-loathing, and at the same time gives you a peek at the soft momma’s boy dork that’s buried underneath. For Christ sakes, he exudes intensity and ambivalence even when acting against an emotionless hunk of wood that’s giving him nothing in return.

Oh, and I guess there’s a tree in the frame.

Ba dum tss

What can I say, the guy’s good.

Showing vs telling

OK, so this movie is all tell and no show, except for one single moment. And it’s the exact moment where the original goes in the other direction in terms of how information is conveyed.

See, I never liked this. The revelation is preceded by Iroh giving advice to Zuko who scolds him for nagging. Iroh then apologizes, moves in to say the line above, and is interrupted by Zuko who seems rather uncomfortable with Iroh laying his feelings out like this. And once they’re out, Zuko verbally confirms that he knew already and Iroh didn’t need to bother.

All this extraneous information and pussyfooting ends up weakening what should be a profound scene that reveals to us, the viewers, how deep the relationship between these two in fact runs.

Compare to the movie where Dadroh acts like a parent by fussing and worrying, with Sonion needing a single look to tell him and us that he understands what it’s all really about.

It’s genuinely efficient and just good.

No Cataang

Fine, a bit mean-girl bitchy from me since I only start minding the ship in Book 3. And probably unintentional on the part of the creators since there are moments where I think they’re trying to set the romance up? There’s a, well, an attempt to recreate the famous introductory shot of fateful meaningful destiny of meaningness, there’s some slight note of saving each other’s bacon going on, I’m pretty sure they’re the only ones in the film who smile, and oh, right, Katara’s shoved into her post-canon useless role where she doesn’t ever do anything, and is all about Aang right from the get go.

Yes, I will blame the “executive producers” because a) I’m incredibly petty, and b) it’s perfectly in line with their vision of the character so why the hell not.

Hilariously, none of it reads on screen because the actors are just... yeah. These poor kids are struggling so much with delivering their own lines and portraying their own characters they don’t seem to have any strength left to create something between them. To be fair, the bare-bones shot-reverse shot style of their scenes doesn’t exactly lend itself to the idea they occupy the same universe, let alone are friends or each other’s crushes.

And I enjoy this immensely because it allows me to forget the depressing horror show Katara’s life turns into post ATLA.

Yes Zutara

I need to delve into this because it’s fucking hilarious. So in a movie which fails to establish the original’s central romance so spectacularly that if Aang got lost in a crowd I don’t believe Katara would notice, SomEOnE thought it’d be a good idea to add an utterly unnecessary non-canon moment where Zuko for some reason feels the need to pause his character-defining hunt for the Avatar which otherwise has him ignore everything and snap at everyone, and explain his central conflict to an unconscious peasant he doesn’t know, complete with gently pushing the hair from the pretty girl’s the soulmate’s the Water Tribe Ambassador’s the Fire Lady’s the love of his life’s her face away, AFTER his uncle nagged him twice to find a girl and settle down.

I just wanted to make sure we’re all on the same page and this is what we really saw.

Celibate Avatars

I have no idea why the decision was made, if TPTB thought expecting viewers to understand the story through the lens of Buddhism would be too much, or if the “executive producers” already worked their retconny magic. What I do know, however, is that there’s a big shift in worldbuilding and Aang’s struggle with his role as the Avatar stops being a personal conflict defined by a) his grief for Air Nomads, b) his notion of being robbed of the loved ones in his life, and c) the selfish attachment to Katara he confuses with true love. Instead, what he has a difficulty to accept is apparently a general notion of who Avatars are supposed to be, i.e. a fantasy version of Catholic monks, no family and worldly relations, period.

I guess either someone understood the original’s portrayal of de/attachment as “hermit no freaky”, or thought the audience would so why not go there outright.

Now, do I like this on its own? No, God no, it makes the world infinitely poorer and changes the story from an exploration of ideas which aren’t all that ingrained in the West, to a cliché tropester about a Catholic priest going Protestant so that he could be with a girl.

At least I assume that’s where they were going to take this eventually.

I mean, I think the direction was “look conflicted, this isn’t the final stage of your journey”?

But consider this—the show went there, it built on the concepts of Eastern philosophy and touched upon the ideas of spiritual awakening, only to swerve in the end and strongly imply they’re bullshit and Aang should have never wasted his time with them.

So honestly, I much prefer scanty worldbuilding to an insulting retcon by a damn rock.

Multiracial Air Nomads

Probably the most substantial “no hint of irony” point on this list and a genuinely good addition to the universe’s worldbuilding.

See, the notion of the elemental nations being perfectly separate and never mingling before Sozin has always been sketchy but it’s especially ridiculous in the case of airbenders. It never made sense to me for all airbenders to be Air Nomads and for all Air Nomads to be monks and for all monks to be chilling at the temples all the time to facilitate a quick everyone-dies genocide should an imperialistic warlord ever decide to commit one.

Because committing everyone to a single way of life at a handful of places kinda goes against the central philosophy behind airbending. Like the freedom and nomadism part.

Instead, there should be more variety to the airbending culture, with some staying at the temples as monks, hermits, and teachers while others live as nomads, travelling the world and creating more airbenders, with the resulting children in turn being influenced by the non-airbending cultures they grew up in.

And thus, not only should airbenders not be modeled after a single culture to create a one-size-fits-all lifestyle, but they should have the most diverse and dynamic culture out of the four nations.

And it’d be precisely this diversity which would pave way for an eventual reveal that some of them survived, that their complete extermination is impossible.

Because they’re everywhere.

You know.

Like air.

#atla #atla movie #zutara #anti bryke #dev patel #the last airbender #anti-kataang

[seerofmike]

MY BAD I meant to put opinion on the current state of apex, gameplay and lore wise

I SEE OK

gameplay wise--just started playing again in the past ~4ish days, and i have witnessed this game in extremely broken states, but this one is somehow the most annoying. sure, not getting past the loading screen is obnoxious, but there's something particularly infuriating abt being kicked out of a match. i generally try not to complain about how 'broken' a game is/the bugs it has/server issues esp because of the pandemic right now but MAN. EA you are a billion dollar corporation who sees all of their customers as dollar signs SURELY you could afford some better servers???

other than time-out issues rampart fun. mobile shiela should fill you with fear. the octane nerf wont stop me because unlike caustic and seer mains i dont main my main because hes broken and op i main him because i think hes hot. rip to yall but im different

LORE WISE--

too many moving parts to address. i think apex has some genuinely good lore stuff buried in piles of heaping fluff. but not like the good kind of fluff. the fluff that sheds off your dog onto the nice couch you keep telling it to jump off but he INSISTS on sitting on it bad boy!!!! wait where is this anology going. right. bad fluff.

not to sound incredibly biased but i think octane's storyline so far is genuinely one of apex's best, which satisfies me because he's my favorite character. i think bangalore--my 2nd favorite character--also has some really strong lore/visible character growth that's both underrated and sometimes feels slightly undermined by the devs continuing to push her unchallenged attitude against wraith. i mean, they have a 'truce' right now but she's still horribly rude? okay apex.

aside from off moments like the bangalore wraith thing + octane's "invisible character arc" where tom casiello claimed his story so far was about him being closed-off and opening up to others (despite this not actually being Shown, like, anywhere) my 2 favorite characters have good lore. so i think i'm more satisfied than people whose favorite characters are, say, wattson or valkyrie.

that being said, a LOT of apex lore is just bad fluff. and honestly, i think it wouldn't be so bad if they had better time management. you and i talked a bit about the overtime comics being spoiled by current voice lines and potentially upcoming character moments. some panned storylines might not have been so hated if they hadn't been stretched out for so long (i.e. crypto and wattson literally being 'enemies' longer than they were ever friends).

this reply is getting SUPER long sorry but i think bad apex lore can be sorted into 3 distinct categories:

1. poor time management leading to arc fatigue or whatever the hell is going on with the overtime comics and the voice lines spoiling them

2. trying too hard to appease to titanfall fans or forcing itself into the titanfall timeline, thus fucking it up or throwing Several events into question

3. literally just soap opera tropes but without the 'stakes' or consequences of a soap opera. at least the soap opera would actually kill someone off for the drama

theres smaller sub categories but i think those are the major ones. aside from all the bad stuff, though, there are some ideas and concepts i like even if i think theyre being mismanaged. not to bring up the forbidden l*balore to u but i am a huge fan of their relationship but the love triangle just has me in a perpetual state of "get to the point already 🙄"

#REALLY sorry for the overly long and also possibly jumbled reply #i wrote this between apex matches

[cherryxmelo]

Wrt the discord convo, I'm not the only one who thinks the devs kinda had it in for Jasper? Like especially when you consider that the act 3 stuff didn't happen in the original release. Let's show yall why you should feel bad for this poor old fuck and then have him completely dissapear from the game after he totally eats shit at the tree

Oh hi there. Comparatively, maybe? At least when you notice the only real tangible difference between Jasper and Hendrik as villains was that one got a dedicated redemption arc and the other was killed off right after having a moment of enlightenment (for lack of better term). That was probably intentional though, since they’re supposed to be foils to one another right? Idk, I think they kinda realized how bogus of an ending they gave him, thus why we got the sidestory in the S version. Oh, to be a fly on the wall in the devs room…

I noticed DQ games have a sort of history with bringing a villain back temporarily to try and redeem them a little. They did the same thing with Marcello and Angelo in DQ8 on 3DS, though I don’t think it was done nearly as well as Jasper and Hendrik’s bonus ep. But that is another discussion in itself LOL.

Feel free to ping me on discord whenever you’d like to chat. 💖

#dragon quest 11 #hendrik #jasper #spectral-sentinel

[delfts-purple]

So... lets talk the announcement

I original did this as an audio file but my accent was to thick to understand so I will type it out.

I want to start by saying, if you are disappointed your feelings are vailed and okay, as well as if you are very happy your feelings are vailed. However at no point should you attack the devs, honest criticism fine, attacking is a no-no. Lets keep in mind they are just doing their jobs and they have lost a friend today.

I also want to say my heart goes out to Idol Ninja's family and friends. Losing someone to cancer is the fucking worse. I know to well. I am also so sad he never got to see the reveal. But I am glad he didn't see some of the disgusting comments. He did a lot for this fandom. Hell his patch alone for SR2 is the only reason most people on PC can play it. So rest in peace man, you did us proud and I am grateful you existed.

With that in mind let us get to it.

It is very obvious I am disappointed. I did not lie, I drove to nowhere and cried in my car for an hour. I felt like lying in some poor dude field was rude. However I am not here to just shit on it, credit where credit is due this is my critic.

I did not realise it was the Saints Row trailer until I saw one of the cars had the scorpion logo. At first I was like, wow, some kinda cyberpunk game, cool. Then I saw the logo and I was like, OH FUCK NO, BE A COINCIDENCE. Alsa, it was not. I love the Scorpion Raycaster, I am wired to know that logo.

I mean, it looks cool-ish. If it wasn't Saints Row. I would have gone 'Wow, that's interesting' for real. I also like the setting, like desert America fit nicely. It works for a Saints Row and I love it.

Seriously, why are they so focused on been on this Sci-fi shit. It frustrated me. Like that fucking rocket gun.

Like do they even listen, is how it made me feel. Then their is Kev, who is adorable but like... again with the SCI-FI cyberpunk shit.

Like I get it, its in fashion but really?

I do feel like they lost their identity. Like somewhat in SR3 but definitely by 4 it was just following trends. Like aliens are popular, lets fucking put aliens in. Hel is popular, lets make a game set in hell. Overwatch is popular, lets do something like that. Now its just like, Cyberpunk is popular, lets do that.

Like I know someone's gonna be like 'Oh, but Delfts, you like Cyberpunk.'

Yes, I do. In Cyberpunk. No fucking Saints Row.

Like remove the SCI-FI shit and I would have been like 'Yeah, I can live with this.'

Honestly, even the cast. They don't look or feel like gangster. They feel like some group of teenager friends. I mean, they are cool and if this wasn't Saints Row, I would be down but... It is and I am not.

I do see the going back to SR1 a bit in this game. I do appreciated but it wasn't enough to tip it for me.

I MEAN IT BREAKS MY HEART I CAN'T LOVE IT BUT IT ISN'T WHAT I THOUGH IT WOULD BE WHEN I LOOKED AT THAT WALL.

It isn't what I hoped for and maybe that will change, maybe as more get reviled I will change tune but right now. I feel hurt, I feel betrayed, I want to scream, I want to cry because once again, I let them take me a fool, bring up my hopes only to break my fucking heart.

I write this because I love Saints Row, so fucking much. I have ever since 2006 and I just... I don't know if it will ever been what I fell in love with and it hurts, so fucking bad. I am crying writing this.

Honest to god, I am okay with a total reboot. sure. I just don't think it meets the mark so far from what I have seen. I am hoping my mind can be changed and I will buy it. On sale. Not pre-order. I am already poor, I have more import things to spend the money on than a game I may not like. I need to be sure.

I guess this is what happens when I get my hopes up. I just feel so shitty. I wish I had never know about the reboot. I had already came to terms with it been dead to me after 4. Now I have to face the emotions of that perhaps been the case again. I want a hug. Saints Row means so much to me.

#saints row #saints row reboot

[modgirlyreposts-revamped]

Ok ok so! Feel free to tangent in the comments about your Vanguard hcs and your au and stuff :] but here's some stuff about Vanny and Jennifer (Vanessa)in my AU where they're exes, and Vanny is Gregory's sister

- Jennifer is transfem :] she chose the name Vanessa in freshman year of high school, and met Vanny in sophomore year, at first their friendship was mostly just bc they thought it was funny they were so similar and had the same name but they ended up really bonding and falling in love, they dated thru senior year and most of college

- Their breakup was really bad and it basically ruined their friendship too so they just stopped talking after Jen dumped her.

- Vanny and Jennifer are both very traumatized lol (Gregory is too lmao)

- Vanny basically steals Jen's identity, not like irl impersonating her but she like hacks into her stuff and uses her position at Fazbear Entertainment to release the virus on the animatronics. When Jen finds out she's using the alias of Vanny, she realizes it's to frame her and changes her name to avoid being linked to it

- They have a lot of unresolved romantic tension that kinda consumes their focus during the course of SB and poor Gregory's over on the other side like HEY ASSHOLES YOU CAN DEAL WITH YOUR BREAKUP LATER BUT THESE FUCKING ROBOTS ARE TRYING TO KILL ME

- Gregory called Vanny "Ness" as a nickname until she became Vanny, so when he teams with Jennifer, he calls her "Jess" because he's holding onto her as a stand-in for his sister now that Vanny is no longer safe. It takes a while before he's able to call her Jennifer bc this kid has such a shit home life in this AU and his sister was like his only lifeline and then she mURDERED HIS FRIENDS AND TRIED TO KILL HIM so he's still holding onto the idea of Jen as a new Ness, hence the nickname Jess

- uhhh that's all I got aside from that despite everything Jen and Vanny still love each other but their relationship is probably 1000% fucked bc my AUs are always dumb and angsty like th@ lmao

OMG, THIS IS JUST LIKE THEM IN MY AU (except Vanny herself is too incompetent to actually murder anyone, Vance has the animatronics he hacked do it for them)

In my AU, the two broke up shortly before graduating college, simply because they were going in different directions in life, Vanny starting to work with an indie dev team, and Breach not knowing just what she wanted to do yet, and the breakup was mutual.

Safe to say that just about any good faith Breach had towards Vanny died when she found out that it was her who stole her identity, and almost got her framed for child kidnapping/murder.

Vanny is still hopelessly in love with Breach, borderline flirting with her while she's trying to get Gregory out, while Gregory watches all of this happen from inside of Glamrock Freddy and is all like "yo wtf is going on between the weird bunny lady, and the guard?"

Nowadays Vanny is a total pushover for Breach, and sorta a comic relief. Gregory knows this, and takes full advantage of it despite the fact that she's now one of his adopted moms. He strangely does care about Vanny on some level and thinks of her as a mom, much to the surprise of Breach and everyone else. Vanny though is the type of person to absolutely melt if called "mom" (totally not cuz of preexisting issues with her own family, nope-).

Vanny would kill for Gregory, quite literally, but Breach keeps her in check.

Breach still has feelings for Vanny, but is still mad about her stealing her identity. She still loves her, and will probably kill you for even looking at Vanny the wrong way.

also Breach is the top for this very reason FSGHFDJKFHS-

#asks #answered #soapiewaltened