#also i changed the difficulty in the game

[gentle-hero-blog]

My favorite thing about other m is all the times it accidentally answered questions nobody in the world was asking

Why come Samus no have Gravity at the start of Fusion even though the whole conceit of the SA-X is that it's you at full power? Because she turned it into the Gravity Feature (which also has implications for why Gravity disappeared so much in past titles)

By not using the fucking beautiful Zero Mission-esque Power Suit model that they just had for a single flashback cutscene and instead using yellow varia and saying "oh uh it's because legendary power suit" they instead gave a reason for prime 1 power to just have orange pauldrons for no reason, it's because that's what base power looks like with the legendary power suit, something SR then sets in stone by also doing it

There's also the really funny bits of accidental Prime consistency despite this being around when they tried decanonizing them like having the Seeker Missiles return or my favorite useless detail from Prime 2, the unused bottom hatch on the Gunship

ALL OF THIS LMAOOOO. My personal favorite “burning question answered by Other M!!!” is Why Does Samus Do 👍?? like. do we really actually need a backstory behind giving a thumbs up. do we really

^^Me when I tell the teacher BAD morning 🐺⛓️🥀💔

Gawdddd you really can tell they were trying to cram as many ideas into this game as possible. And that they wanted it to be a movie

[revvethasmythh]

there are a lot of things that make me2 combat feel more fun than in me1 but the fact that my mini map is not on my screen at all times IS going to drive me mad, especially in combat

[cheaploafs]

if i opened veilguard and started my playthrough all over again would i get stoned (joking)

[thefirstknife]

The funniest/most annoying thing about Destiny sweats bithcing about the game needing to be harder and that they shouldn't be forced to do self imposed challenges is:

Like literally no other gaming community is.like this. Self imposesd difficulty challenges is a tried & true & beloved asoect of many game communities.

From Pokemons Nuzlocke challenge, so many WoE, Runescape, and other MMOs, even notoriously hard games like FromSoftware projects to Cuphead and Celeste like

Those communities not only love self imposed difficulty but the ones that achieve it and master it are celebrated!

Like I'd be more impressed with Streamers choosing a stupid loadout and taking on a Raid and winning then some Career gamer having the most optimal load out

Yeah, literally. Same.

At the end of the day, no matter how much they want to deny it, these people just want to keep their place on the top and to retain their prestige and power. They want things nerfed because they have infinite time, professional gaming rigs and their pro buddies and it doesn't affect them. They don't want an even playing field and they don't want anyone else to have fun or get achievements. They mald over more people getting an emblem. Who give a shit. Grow up.

To me, Day 1 races are just completely off-putting to watch at this point. They all just mute streams, blur half of their screens and there's literally no content. To me, these events should be us watching the best players mess around, trying to figure out how to solve puzzles and entertain us while they go through content that's too hard for most other players. lt should be a light-hearted contest that's fun to watch. But no. Now it's just sweats basically streaming nothing while they read datamined guides and run full god roll meta loadouts that they later complain about making things easy.

Bro. That same loadout doesn't make the game easy for 99% of us. I'm glad you can do solo flawless Ghosts of the Deep in 40 minutes with bonk Titan, I can't. It took me three days and 60 deaths per run and a 3 hour run to just do the solo. I copied the "god roll" loadout. It didn't make shit easy. It doesn't need to be nerfed. And if that's easy to you, do it with a different loudout. It being "easy" literally only affects 50 people.

These guys would never survive playing any other game tbh. I guess Bungie should just give them difficulty options, but no special rewards for them, that would defeat the purpose. If you put a beautiful shader or adept weapon behind the hardest difficulty option, then people will want it and it will be deliberately gatekept and the gap between the pros and the rest of us will just widen. If you truly just care about the gameplay experience and experiencing super hard content, then simply experiencing that content is your reward. I've ran GMs for fun for zero rewards before because I just enjoy the challenge. I ran duo GMs for fun only. I've re-run master raids to help others despite there being nothing in it for me. Literally it's so easy to not be a babyman gamer bro. You guys play games for a living, you scored a jackpot, take your privilege and shut up.

[tsuchinokoroyale]

[itzphynix]

My brain is so full of Bees about Post-Shift 2.

It's a fan game that was delayed for 4 years -- by the time it released, fnaf fangames as a whole were not as popular as they had been, & most people in the scene had forgotten about Post-Shift 1, so not a lot of people heard about it/played it.

Worse still is the people who did talk about the game. Pretty unanimously, the consensus was this: this game is the craziest, most insane fnaf fangame. It's overly difficult with mechanics that have no rhyme or reason to them & tutorials that are wordy, unhelpful, & sometimes actively mislead the player, meaning you need to comb through a lot of text only to be misinformed. It's not as infamous as some other fangames, but it definitely was talked about very poorly.

In general, I think most of these criticisms were blown up out of proportion, but I can't really disagree with most people's problems -- it is difficult & wordy, & rather hard to understand. I think, however, that the game is still 1. Really fun, 2. Not a bad game at all, &, most importantly, 3. Is a free fucking game that was clearly a passion project. Most damn fangames never get off the fucking ground when made in groups because the creators will never make a red cent off the thing -- this game was made by one dude for 4 years & delivered to people for free. It didn't ask anything of you except to accept it as a difficult game & to not go in with wild expectations. The dev just wanted to make a game that was rough, but he also wanted to make a game that felt unique & was fun. & It is fun, too, is the damn thing.

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

okay! made another game, enjoying playtesting it so far. have gotten much better at keeping clean, streamlined notation anytime i adjust rules, fix flubs in play, etc.

this one seems to work best for me at about 20 in-game days per session (without added narrative) before i need to set it aside for a while, mainly because it's designed to be tightly strategic with a lot of two steps forward one step back and there is a point in each sitting where it starts to get Frustrating instead of just keeping you on your toes lmao

[wereh0gz]

I'm gonna be honest I'm so tempted to just look up a playthrough or cutscene comp of final horizon and unblock the tags bc I really don't want to keep playing it lmao

[frobby]

i know atlus said they're not making another mainline etrian odyssey game but if somehow they did i would love a wait button like in labyrinth of refrain/galleria

[cursedthing]

.havign lots of thoughts about how npcs are portrayed learning about the nature of their universe in works

[planet4546b]

a very strange side effect of playing nier (and also parts of bbs) is that i’m feeling retroactively justified in my frustration with destiny’s difficulty scaling. which i always felt under qualified to comment on because i thought i was just a person who didn’t like difficult games in general so i didn’t have room to comment on it. but i Do like difficulty in games i like it so much. and past me was right and destiny’s difficulty scaling kinda sucks

[dravidious]

You're really awesome

PROBLEM: I want to make magic decks with my cards irl, but I have no one to play them against.

SOLUTION: Make an entire custom deck that can play itself to more or less replicate an opponent.

I decided to put the rules in card form as conspiracy cards, but it turns out that rules should be written as rules, not cards, so I had to make extensive notes about each of them (except Industrial Expansion, that one is actually effects instead of rules). I also just enjoy talking about my design choices.

Notes: Creating waste tokens instead of playing lands is basically free card advantage, as well as preventing mana screw/flood. The bot is supposed to have more raw strength than the player, so this isn’t a huge problem, but the starting hand size reduction and 5 land limit are still needed balance it.

Also, I know wastes isn’t actually a basic land type, but it makes the card so much cleaner so "Wastes token" is a predefined token here just like Treasure and Food.

Notes: There’s probably some awkward edge cases here too. I fixed the only one I could find (involving Recycle Bin), but there might be more. The main guiding rule in playing the bot is "don’t make it do obviously dumb stuff." The cards are balanced around the rigid rules, so bad decisions are okay, but sometimes there are plays that are so worthless or actively counterproductive that you really ought to step in. Edge cases should be resolved in whatever way makes the bot play best. Ideally, you shouldn’t have to think too hard about what the bot does; it’s supposed to be automatic, after all. The other guiding rule is "make this similar to a normal game of Magic."

Notes: Much, much simpler than Defense Protocol. Still some vagueness, but good enough to prevent swinging into the opponent’s 4/4 with a 3/3. It applies on a creature-by-creature basis; if you have a 3/3 with flying and a 2/1, and your opponent has a 4/4, the 2/1 won’t attack, but the 3/3 will. If you have a 2/1 and a 5/4, only the 5/4 will attack since the 2/1 can be fully blocked by the 4/4.Non-lethal battles are tricky; if you have a 2/1 and the opponent has a 0/3, you shouldn’t attack because then you’re just tapping down your 2/1. But if you have a pair of 2/1s, you should attack for the free damage. You could reinterpret the "such that they lose no life" bit, but that would result in the rules telling you to swing your creatures into into a 4/4. Basically, use your best judgement; this stuff is too complicated to write out. You’re smart enough.

Notes:

This card would be a fucking nightmare to properly template. Good thing it’s a rule and not actually a card. The vague wording can probably result in lots of edge cases, but this card is basically meant to say "The bot makes the best blocks possible" so use your best judgement in those cases. Activated abilities that boost a creature should be taken into account if mana is open for them. A version of the blocking rules not in card form is given below.

Priority 1: If you can block in such a way that your life total remains above 0, you must do so.

Priority 2: If a blocker can deal lethal damage to an attacker and survive, it must block that creature.

Priority 3: If a blocker can deal lethal damage to an attacker, or if it can survive, it must block that creature.

Priority 4: Don’t block.

Misc 1: If multiple attackers are tied for the highest block priority, the blocker must block the creature with the highest power. If tied, highest toughness, then highest mana value, then choose randomly.

Misc 2: Multi-block an attacker only if it has menace or a similar ability, only with the minimum number of blockers, and only if it falls under a blocking priority (ex. it’s threatening to win the game, or it can be destroyed, or both your blockers survive). Anything else could be a nightmare to calculate.

And that's all the rules/conspiracies, which should allow for playing against the bot while making as few decisions as possible. Here's the cards. The bot's deck consists of 4 copies of each card for a clean 60 deck, compatible for testing against mill.

[kalosian-woods]

16. Deepest darkest secret they won’t even admit to themselves

18. What they’d go to see a therapist about

37. What they really think about themselves

50. A memory they’ve blocked out

Going to go for the Rival Squad for this one!

16. Deepest darkest secret they won’t even admit to themselves

The erasable pen that Shauna found on the floor 5 years ago and lost a year later might've actually been Trevor's heh. Okay but seriously, I'm not necessarily sure if this counts but the fact that she might just be a better battler than a Performer. She sometimes stumbles upon glittering stones that have amazing power and her Pokemon are sometimes a little too strong when it comes to practice. The fact that doing double and triple battles comes more easily to her than a simple round of Freestyle. The way she spends hours trying to make her Pokevision videos good while calling out commands feels so natural. She's not going to give up on Showcases, not a chance, but still... sometimes she wishes that she could trade talents sometimes. If only for a moment. Just to see how it feels like.

18. What they’d go to see a therapist about

For Sawyer, it would be the entirety of his journey in Kalos itself lol. I know that citing the Crisis is obvious and all that, but I really feel like that would instill in him this need to help others because of his strength and this crippling fear of not being ready at every moment. In the middle of the world crumbling because of the selfish ambitions of one man (which followed the conclusion of the League where bro got into the semi-finals/top 4), he must've felt like having to prove his worth and use his abilities for others. The fact that he was stuck in the Centre with every other guy would've been suffocating after all the development he went through (to try something new, embrace different strategies, analysing everything and using it to your advantage). I mean he does get out eventually and gets to help afterwards, but that's gonna haunt him for a while, and once he's settled back in Hoenn that's going to be a change/issue that's going to stick out the most.

37. What they really think about themselves

Tierno sometimes feels like he doesn't have a clear enough view when it comes to his journey. Sure, he loves dancing and doing it with his Pokemon, but there always seems to be this sense of more, of lacking. Incorporating fluid movements into battling is nice and all, but is there something more out there? Something that will truly represent the beat in his soul? No matter how confidently he carries himself, he'll always feel just a bit more hollow for it. But it's fine! As long as his friends are happy and his feet can still carry a rhythm, that's all he needs.

50. A memory they’ve blocked out

For Trevor, the day that his parents left for the last time. It's not that he holds them in bad regard or anything... just that the argument with his sister and his young age has made it more blurrier than usual. They were... going to travel in another region, right? With some strong Pokemon? That's all he has. (But that doesn't matter. He'll just go on his own journey and fill out the Pokedex and have his own fun. And of course still talk to his sister, he's not going to leave her behind after all that she's done for him. They're a real family, just the two of them, and he's content with it staying that way.)

[twohundredtwenty1b]

I accidentally put my p5r save on safe difficulty when I was fiddling with the settings but I'm to far into the game to want to start again

[deathemayor]

my pitch to fix the turnwheel mechanics in fire emblem (since they seem to be here to stay) that im surprised hasnt been toyed with since the introduction of it is to just have it rewind by turn instead of individual action

so if you make a mistake you would have to either backtrack an entire player phase (perhaps losing lucky crits and dodges along the way) or wait out the rest of your current player phase in order to redo it the next, letting you get accustomed to your new loss, or perhaps finding future opportunities that come about as a result (idk if i explained that well)

but i think it would still give players the flexibility to try different approaches in case something doesn't shake out in their favor (with limited charges, of course) while still not encouraging complicity in an undo button or the urge to rewind for a single whiffed attack.

and idk, some people have suggested the return of player rank or tactician stars at the end of the campaign that keep track of your use of rewind mechanics, and thus giving you a worse score if you used it too much (could perhaps affect new game+ files, should that feature return)

[imunbreakabledude]

wild how addicted i am to nuzlocking now lol i expect this period will abruptly end at some point in the future but i was like "lemme just finish inclement emerald so I can drop this fixation and do other things" ... then promptly started renegade platinum instead of doin anything else.

sidenote after radical red (and to a lesser extent, inclement emerald), all other games feel like torture for nuzlocking. it's absurd how much time proper level grinding takes without infinite rare candies/auto cap function. like there are tons of other great QOL features i got spoiled by in those roms (especially radred) and I know renegade platinum is a good bit older so it makes sense that it's different. but i'm like i surely hope everyone who makes romhacks now just makes at least an optional setting for infinite candies and infinite repels at the bare minimum. those features alone make the game feel so much better.