#capcom you fucking idiot

[blackened-angel]

Recently I came across interviews with Adi Shankar and guess what, he's still a liar and a narcissist.

Some time ago he said in a podcast (source: AEW’s Kenny Omega & Adi Shankar Breakdown “Devil May Cry” on Netflix) that he was unhappy that Capcom were making DMC5 because he wouldn't be the one to revive the "dead" franchise.

Recently, he bragged, because, after all that's what he's known for, that its because of him that DMC5 reached 10 mil copies.

While it is true that people bought games because they saw the shitty cartoon (not gonna call it anime, even he said that it's not anime in one of the interviews), it doesn't change the fact that he is a fucking loser who wants you to think that he achieved something grand for Devil May Cry and that you should be grateful and praise him. Unfortunately, he will not be getting that for me, because I don't don't stand for narcissists like him, especially making a mockery of a franchise I like. He can keep saying dumb shit and we have the right to call out his stupidity.

Also, he got community noted, like DMC5 was close to 10 million units before the show came out, if only they counted the sales for Special Edition according to what it says.

It still doesn't change the fact that he's pathetic because I checked his Twitter and oh my God, he had quite a few posts where he was congratulating himself. He wants you to believe that he's now some authority figure that has made a massive contribution to DMC and wants to be credited as if he took part in the creation of the series and whatever happens for DMC, like I dunno, collaborations or merchandise or you have to thank him because he made them happen T_T

Look, I know he's a dumbfuck who only does rage bait and wants attention. It still doesn't change the fact that not everyone will consider it cute and that we should cut him slack. Him saying idiotic stuff isn't a good strategy.

Shankar wasn't happy that he couldn't be the savior of Devil May Cry when he heard about DMC5, that he took the opportunity of that announcements regarding the units sold to tell people that you must be grateful for him.

Like I mentioned in the beginning, some interviews have been made and I've pointed a contradictions that I've made before.

I will only use his own statements and you are free to contradict me. I wouldn't have made this post without having receipts. You can verify the websites I mentioned and if you have seen other interviews, you can mention them because I'm not that crazy to read stuff about him. I just saw some excerpts on Twitter and I looked into them.

Okay, so there are 2 recent interview, one from Deadline and Esquire.

What I noticed is that he changes his story about how he got the rights for Devil May Cry. I wrote about this before but I'm mentioning again here. It has been established that Shankar only brags and wants us to regard him as a savior and when I read what he said in the Forbes interview, it fitted with his behavior.

A long time ago he said in this Twitter post that he wanted to make an adaptation for Dino Crisis but it was Capcom who suggested Devil May Cry and Shankar didn't even knew that DMC was on the table, as he said.

But in the interview on the Forbes website he claimed:

Again, wanting to present himself as some kind of warrior, that he fought for us...

Moving on, there are other statements that I found weird about this story regarding how apparently his mission was to get rights ONLY for Dino Crisis but in other interviews he claims that it was always about Devil May Cry.

It was Capcom who came with the suggestion to offer DMC, not that he asked from the start. That's what I gathered from the interviews.

You may think it's unimportant, but I still find it weird why the story is changed.

Now, I want to move on to comment on his fucked up statement that should convince you-although there have been many signs where he proved to be unprofessional and come off as a douchebag who didn't want to produce something out of love for the series.

This is from the Esquire website interview.

Why the fuck is he comparing the shitty cartoon with Arcane? There shouldn't be any comparison with another IP!

It's obvious what were his intentions. This is why I don't have any respect for him.

So many must have coddled him only to be repaid with lies and a product that I can't say it was made for the fans.

I think what I posted on twitter when is relevant. I made this when I heard what he said in that podcast.

To those who got introduced to DMC through the adaptation, while you may enjoy it, just know that you got an inferior product that wasn't made with respect to the series and its fans.

As a final note, can we stop calling it anime? Shankar said it himself.

You may not like the only anime from 2007, but I prefer it to the product made by a narcissist that wanted to make something to surpass another product unrelated to the series and told lies.

At least the anime had Bingo Morihashi, the scenario writer for the games (3-5).

So yeah, let me know your opinions.

[sapphire-weapon]

Okay, and with this, I am officially done spamming about this scene.

Just some Leon smiling at and being comforted by Ashley's touch.

And some forbidden handholding, because Capcom said it wasn't allowed. All of Capcom. Every single dev at Division 1 didn't want them holding hands, including the director whose idea it was, the actors who mocapped it, and the animators who rendered it up in the game.

[solosergiohd]

[TF2 15.ai] The Mercs argues about their favorite 2005 video games

Medic: Shut the fuck up, Demo! No one even playing that anymore!

Demoman: Says you! I doubt the world would be the same without it, unlike your spin-off game garbage!

Scout: Hey, what's going on, fellas?

Medic: Demo is underselling the art of suspense and intrigue of my favorite 2005 video game.

Demoman: That's because it's utter garbage, ya bleeding goddamn idiot!

Medic: You are the idiot here, Demo! Can't you see the depths and intricuses that weave its plot together?

Scout: Whoa, guys. You haven't even told what it is yet.

Medic: While Demo is attacking my opinions, he's busy defending "Resident Evil 4"!

Scout: What, you mean Leon Scott Kennedy? I thought those were just Capcom horror games.

Demoman: This is what I'm saying! You're all uncultured! "Resident Evil 4" was a survival game to save Ashley Graham!

Medic: Maybe so, but I haven't met a single person who played "Resident Evil" Not a "Village" version! That entire games is just made by Capcom who made a horror games to gamer chumps like yourself!

Scout: I mean, he's not entirely wrong.

Demoman: Both of ya can go to fuckin hell!

Scout: So, Medic. What was your favorite 2005 video game?

Medic: Why, it's the greatest 2005 video game of all time. It's-

Demoman: It's "Crash Tag Team Racing".

Scout: Ugh, gross! Medic, what the hell? That game is such bullshit!

Medic: Says you! It is full of interesting racers, tracks, and minigames are excellent to play.

Demoman: No way. "Crash Team Racing" on PS1 is better! But "Nitro Kart" is pretty good too of my childhood instead of "Tag Team Racing"

Medic: Oh, and I'm sure that "Resident Evil 4" leaves tons of weapons for its characters between all of the world! Right, Scout?

Scout: Honestly? Both of 2005 video game fucking suck. "Shadow The Hedgehog" is leauges better.

Demoman: You can't be serious!

Medic: Unbelievable!

Engineer: What seems to be all the ruckus?

Scout: Medic and Demo are arguing about some goddamn random crappy 2005 video game.

Demoman: Be quiet, Scout! "Shadow The Hedgehog" is such a basic pick! Shadow trying to be good to find Maria Robotnik or be evil with his father space demon named Black Doom.

Engineer: "Shadow The Hedgehog"? I can't fault it for being good at what it does, but it's no longer the G.O.A.T. that you think it is, Scout.

Medic: That's right! "Crash Tag Team Racing" has a much better plot-

Demoman/Scout: Shut up!!!

Engineer: I think y'all need something a bit more morden, don'tcha think? What about "Chibi-Robo!"?

Scout: Ooh, that one's really good.

Demoman: The GameCube game is so stylish!

Medic: Chibi-Robo is just a tiny robot with tail plug is endearing! He ran out of his battery until he dies every time I play it!

Engineer: See that? Everyone loves "Chibi-Robo!", so there's no reason to argue.

Medic: Although, Telly Vision fucking sucks as character!

Scout: Ugh! Demoman: Boooo!!!! Engineer: *grunts*

Sniper: Lads, lads, calm down! I could hear your weeaboo yammering from my Sniper's post!

Demoman: Medic hates Telly Vision! This is a crime against all of 2005 game!

Sniper: I couldn't give two shits about what character Medic does and doesn't like. Why don't you just play a game with multiple characters that draw you in the same way that Chibi-Robo does?

Scout: Like what?

Sniper: Numerous games! Ones that let their characters shine! Like "Pac-Man World 3" or "Ty The Tasmanian Tiger 3: Night Of The Quinkan".

Medic: Or like "Crash Tag Team Rac-

Demoman/Scout: Stop it!!!

Engineer: Wait, "Night Of The Quinkan"? Isn't that the one with the Australian aliens?

Sniper: Yeah, what of it?

Demoman: Hahaha! And here I thought you were just Australian like Bluey, but now you're into-

Sniper: Don't you even dare, Demo! "Ty The Tasmanian Tiger" who uses a boomerang. He's from Australia, I am Australian, It make sense. And how many boomerangs with Ty to defeating a evil cassowary guy? It's brilliant. It's tearful. It's-

Spy: It's stupid, that's what it is.

Sniper: Get out of here, Spy! You have no idea what you're talking about!

Spy: I do, and I'm right. "Ty The Tasmanian Tiger 3" may be good, but it is nowhere near the best.

Engineer: Then what do you think is the best, Spy?

Spy: Personally? "Star Fox Assault" is undoubtedly the best 2005 video game of all time, bar none.

Scout: What? No Way! That worst stupid ass "Star Fox" character named Panther trying to be love with Krystal the entire time!

Spy: Clearly you have never played it, otherwise you would know that "Star Fox Assault" is much more that just talk! It's suspenseful furry and Landmaster is genius, and Fox McCloud X Krystal is god-tier! like Mr. Wolf X Diane Foxington.

Medic: Exactly! It's just like "Crash Tag Team Ra-

Demoman: Don't you even fucking dare!

Soldier: I heard everyone ships Mr. Wolf X Diane Foxington in "The Bad Guys 2", and I came running! What's happening right now?

Spy: Favorite 2005 video game, now!

Soldier: Oh, uh... Probably "God Of War"

Engineer: "God Of War"? But that game is just a Greek action adventure guy named Kratos who kills monsters and troops.

Soldier: Yes. And every games is worth it! The composer is a true genius at the Sony PlayStation headquarters. He manages to tie together plot points that you almost never see coming! Not only that, but Kratos is one of the greatest ghost of sparta in PlayStation history!

Sniper: But what about Hercules?

Soldier: You have something to say, Sniper?

Sniper: Nothing. It's just that I don't like my 2005 game with filler goddamn garbage.

Soldier: Garbage?! Why you-

Soldier/Demoman/Scout/Medic/Engineer/Sniper/Spy: *arguing*

Heavy: Everyone! Stop now! How about "Kingdom Hearts 2"?

Demoman: Yeah, that's pretty good. Scout: No arguing for that. Engineer: That was great. Sniper: That's a good one. Spy: No argument now. Soldier: Love that game.

Medic: Yes. This one's pretty good. But nowhere near as good as "Crash Tag Team R-

Demoman/Scout/Engineer/Sniper/Spy/Soldier/Heavy: NO!!!

[lemmylemons]

thank you for being a sane tekken fan and dmc fan calling out the incest bullshit in both fandoms. seriously so sick of seeing lee being shipped with his adoptive siblings, i want more paul x kazuya or bruce x kazuya or bryan x kazuya. i wanted some wholesome lars x alisa fics, not lars fucking his adoptive brother. jeez these ppl have the same mindset as the stupid er*mika shippers in attack on titan, "uh lee isn't actually related because he's adopted mikasa was adopted not blood related" SHUT UP both lee and mikasa were adopted so it's still incest!!! don't even get me started on dmc fangirls, they are especially notorious for being horrible when it comes to shipping my man vergil with either his brother or son. making weird omegaverse fanfic theories on how nero is actually the result of vergil doing it with his bro- ugh it's awful (yeah, capcom doesn't tell us much about nero's mom but STILL). it's painful searching up dmc fanart while worrying if the artist is into that gross bullshit. i really only ship vergil in crossover ships like say Vergil x Morrigan from darkstalkers or Vergil x Sephiroth from FFVII. my boi vergil deserves so much better than this insanity.

Hope you have a good day, now go on. let me know what you think about the idiots trying to defend dmc yaoi.

PEACE

REAL REAL!! THANK YOU, NORMAL PEOPLE, REVEAL YOURSELF TO ME, I NEED MORE SANE PEOPLE TO TALK TO!!!

I fucking HATE certain Vergil shippers, it's disgusting with Nero, it's disgusting with Dante and I fucking hate it with V, I don't care - it's really weird, V's literally HIMSELF, I don't like selfcest... I heart Vergil, he is my fav DMC character and I heart him. I have an OC that's the lady in red and such, but I don't really have DMC ships besides Dante, Lady and Trish (I also hate Nero and Kyrie, it's kinda weird)

BUT YOU ARE SO REAL FOR BRUCE AND KAZUYA GRRR

I am a Paul and Marshall shipper to the end and I heart Furynov, but I can 100% see those ships, especially Paul x Kazuya

[pocketbelt]

Monster Hunter Wilds (PC {Ryzen 5800X, Nvidia RTX 3070, 64GB DDR4 3200 MHz RAM, Windows 10})

It was the best of Monster Hunters, it was the worst of Monster Hunters.

This feels like it had two teams working on it. One, whose goal was to improve the core combat and its mechanics from World without using Rise's wirebug mechanics, was successful, very much so, and the game is great for it.

The other's goal was to surround the core combat and all of the other non-combat mechanics and systems of World and Rise with Western AAA Ideas and Concepts, and they were, to the regret of everyone and to the damnation of the world, also very much successful.

On the one hand, Wilds is a significant improvement on World; ranged weapons (the bowguns and bow) have had their movesets and even controls revamped in ways that make them much better and more comfortable to use without sacrificing what makes them work, the basic movesets of most weapons have integrated some ideas from Rise (dual blades perfect dodge mechanic!), and the awkward and un-fun tenderising system of World: Iceborne has been redone as the Wound system, where just beating on specific parts of a monster (what you do already) will cause a wound to rupture open, boosting your damage for a bit or letting you "cash in" with a Focus Attack to instantly destroy the wound and stop/stagger/knock over the monster with an immediate damage burst. Dual Blades benefit a lot from this, and as my main weapon that pleases me greatly.

On the other hand the first 10-15 hours of Wilds are a fucking miserable slog with occasional spurts of joy (the battles) and even after that you are constantly, constantly, constantly besieged by Capcom's belief that you are a fucking unbelievable idiot, you have zero ability to remember things, and that you need to be prodded and jabbed constantly with vocal reminders pitched to be as annoying as possible to pick things up or build camps or use environmental objects. Control and tutorial pop-ups will flash at you, obscure monster animations and hide things you want to see to tell you how to use the fucking capture net or will override the Focus button to seize camera control to make you look at a campsite that you don't want anyway and it never fucking stops not even 70 hours in.

"Turn them off!" I did, you stupid asshole. There are two options for tutorials: one to merely reduce them, and one to stop repeats. If this is the reduced amount the normal amount must be so psychotic you can't even see the game or play it and the option for stopping repeats explicitly tells you there will still be repeats. Because Capcom wants the Sony First Party AAA audience and the 20 million people who already came in with World can fuck off and die, I guess.

Because Horizon: Zero Dawn was clearly the chief inspiration, as the characters never stop fucking whispering "hints" and "advice" and plain directives to do things you don't need to do or don't want to do but the developers have decided you have to and the "UX" team will start cutting themselves if you don't. Your Palico now constantly tells you to look at this or to do that, the handler barks at you to carve small monsters or pick up slinger ammo or on and on, and now your own hunter now speaks just to whisper at you to do shit you already do or don't need to, on top of combat barks and other shit they added in Rise.

At least Rise let you turn off the combat barks specifically: Wilds does not, not for any of this. You cannot stop the tutorialising and the hints and the suggestions that you're a fucking idiot who can't do anything without being told, and again, it's almost always pitched to be as annoying as possible. The hunter's own hints are always that aggravating, insanely infuriating whisper tone used in Horizon (I cannot believe anyone actually plays those games like that, I genuinely cannot understand it, I think something has to be fundamentally wrong with you as a person to tolerate it).

It got so fucking bad I turned off voices entirely. I set voice volume to 0 early in. This also applies to cutscenes but subtitles are forced on (which would be good except in this hellish circumstance) so I still could read the plot at least.

Palicos now default to human voice-acting instead of cat meows because they want you to hear more fucking "tips" - there's also no Monster Hunter Language dub, because that isn't Cinematic or Prestige and Sony would fire people who would suggest such things, so Capcom can't do it either. That's another thing with Wilds - in this AAA-ifying, Sony First-Party design-fronting process, the soul of Monster Hunter is clearly beginning to sheer off and the outer bits are starting to vanish here.

Tied to all of this is the first 15 or so hours being the Low Rank quests and the extremely forced story mode. You are tied to the railroad and attempts to wander off it are met with slaps: you will sit through walk-and-talk sequences where you must zoom in and look at things to proc dialogue and attempting to make your own way to a place will see you stopped, turned around and walked back because There Is Only One Ordained Road and the dev team is very upset that you will not take it. Just sit there and be spoken at by these cardboard cutouts babbling through chaff dialogue for this completely barebones story that nonetheless takes forever to go through and is committed to so hard that the game will do things like force you into back-to-back hunts with no warning or just remove the blacksmith for a while so you can't see or use the gear from monsters you just hunted for a while.

Incidentally, this has a bizarre knock-on effect, too: far and away one of the biggest criticisms of World, if not the single biggest, was that you could progress in multiplayer without doing really awkward shit. The devs set it up such that you had to see a cutscene with your hunter in it discovering each monster, and flagged it such that you were banned from letting anyone in til you saw the cutscene, whereupon multiplayer was opened. In other words, to do a quest with a new monster in multiplayer, you had to go in, see the cutscene, then quit the quest and gather up. The extremely baffling part is the obvious solution - just show everyone the cutscene with their own hunter - existed in the game for the big Zorah Magdaros setpiece quest but just wasn't applied to anything else.

Rise fixed this by just showing everyone the cutscene. Wilds is back to World's system of denying all entry until you've seen the cutscene, and the story railroading between Low Rank quests also makes that even stupider and fussier, and things like the back-to-back hunts also prevent it. They just made one of World's most touted problems worse, which means I do not feel good about their ability to understand player feedback or desires. I actually really dread what Wilds' sequel is going to be like, but we aren't going to see it until the 2030s anyway.

You are railroaded through a bad, braindead story with paper-thin characters for a dozen or more hours, the tutorials don't ever stop and actively hinder the experience, the characters never shut the fuck up because AAA games have this disease where silence is to be religiously feared and someone must be talking every 3 seconds, the game treats you like you can't do anything by yourself without being told, and the fun special elements of the series are slowly vanishing. The game launched with numerous issues, too, like a weird glitch where a floor triangle somewhere would flip out and start rapidly blasting all over the screen in a way that seemed like a genuine epilepsy risk, though that has been fixed, and its performance is fussy on all but the beefier hardware - not as bad as feared, but still too much for how the game actually looks.

Even with the core combat being great, and the experience when being freed from the rails is great (I'm going back after this to concoct a new armour, I'm Hunter Rank 102 and 70 hours in), it is a struggle to recommend Wilds at this point for anyone unless you've already devoured World and Rise to their fullest extent and are fiending for a new one, like me. Those two still being available and more cheaply for both PC and current consoles will always make a brand new MonHun a harder call for all but the dedicated, but Wilds' problems make it a hard call even for those.

It didn't have to be this way, but alas. At least Capcom will be updating and tweaking this for like four or five years, like with World and Rise, so we may well see the more odious elements walked back and fixed, but we'll see. My dearest hope now is just as Wilds is basically a "World 2", that the Switch 2 gets a "Rise 2" from whatever the second or other team config is in Capcom for MonHun games. Rise, certainly, is to be far more treasured now having seen what Wilds has done.

Now to make my new armour, and then set this on the backburner for the post-release monsters.

[abrthephantomq]

Playing the DLC case of SOJ and I just

Fuck me, the sexual tension between these two fucking idiots.

Capcom make Wrightworth canon you cowards.

[agentangeles]

hello everyone please enjoy the first post i've made in my writing blog in easily 6 months and it's just to yell about the fucking center venn diagram point for two big fixations

now you might be wondering "angeles when you start moving towards other fandoms will you still be nootboots" and the answer is yes, its my brand, but also ace attorney has a fucking vice grip on my neurodivergent mentally ill ass

as a side note i am too much of an idiot to remember to read the manga but i know Points Of Interest and when I can sit for a good bit and consume it I will, so bear with my anime main knowledge

Anyways consider the concept of family clans in JJK and the Sahdmadhis and their shit in SOJ. Obviously, we see how shit happened with maki her sister and how that works, and clearly the clans are structured differently depending on the family (what the fuck is going on with gojo. love that funky little manic twink but. What.)

And yes, AA and JJK get to hold hands because of Higuruma, which means I now get to think of both of them and daydream about crossovers, and y'know what? In the JJK verse, you can reasonably explain so much shit, especially w/ Khurai'inism and bloodlines, because Khura'in's designated holy figure being a super cool badass hundreds of years ago with an equally badass sister? Sorcerers who kicked ass. Hella sorcerers who kicked ass. would be special grades without a doubt if they were alive today.

and like cursed techniques having genetic tie ins ALSO FUCKING SLAPS because that's a huge factor! you can also explain why the feys and the sahdmadhis have spirit channeling because *it's the same fucking bloodline* and it's not a stretch to say someone was kicked out of the clan, fucked off, and then those traits started popping up again in later generations

that aside, clan hierarchy also gives a nice port over from an actual extra country that capcom decided now exists, because instead of a ruling kingdom family it's a Big Fucking Clan With A Lot Of Weight To It

(And also makes sense then why when the revolution starts up, nobody steps in to do shit. interfering with another clan's family drama? no fucking thank you. not my paygrade.)

also i just think nahyuta would be really fun as a sorcerer and their rosary beads would DEFINITELY be a weapon for cursed spirits and their title as "last rites prosecutor" would doubly fuck

Unrelated to SOJ but still on the AA train, this also means that Simon Blackquill is just. Always busting out cursed techniques. And since nobody can see it they think he just slices shit with his fingers. And that's fucking hilarious to think about, the idea that someone probably got after him for it and he went "Consider this though: who is going to ask questions with the everything else i have going on", because Simon "Definitely Uses The >:3c Emoji When He Is Texting" Blackquill refuses to fucking listen to people.

"You're going to expose sorcerer society to the masses" Wrong. Everyone is going to think he can cut shit with his fingers because he's a scary samurai man who went to prison for murder and clearly this is something that tracks for that persona.

[crowtrobotx]

Howdy! 🫰🏼

7. Least favorite headcanon?

21. Favorite fic trope?

7. Least favorite headcanon? I am not entirely sure if this one is meant to be an "in general" fandom question or specific to whatever one(s) you're active in now (not your fault, the question itself is just vague haha) so I will answer both! Specific to RE8, I cannot for the life of me fathom the "Heisenberg made the tank for Ethan" head canon. I think it irritates me so much because it's constantly stated as fact and yet I have yet to see someone point to exactly where they found this supposedly watertight evidence? If someone has some I am happy to eat crow and admit my mistake but like? Mutated Heis even has a taunting line where he accuses Ethan of using his hand me down, which I have to assume means the tank... The whole situation is so stupid because the tank itself is such a crappy, lazy bandage Capcom slapped on to explain why their overpowered Lord couldn't just crush you immediately like a bug so I guess I can't get too mad at folks but it's also one of those things that seems like it's constantly brought up in service of shipping and people will get so fucking mad at you for being like "okay but that literally didn't happen" lol. It's just left a bad taste in my mouth over the years because it comes out as one of those "the whole fandom agrees!" things and I'm sitting here just ":) I do not but fuck me I guess." Overall, I think a headcanon I see across fandoms that irks me is whenever people get a little too gleeful with their "x character HATES WOMEN!!!" thoughts, even if it's joking. Idk if this is a new meme with the youth (I've seen it in the context of 'x character is gay because they like men, y character is gay because he hates women) but it's very gross the way it's presented imho. Like there are definitely times and ways to unpack a character's canon misogyny but laughing about it and getting all weirdly excited in this context is just.... euughhh. I don't understand the appeal at all of slapping hideously awful systems of belief onto characters who often don't even present them in the text. It's yucky. 21. Favorite fic trope?

Okay, so I have to admit I am a huge sucker for "there was only one bed." I know, I know lol. I can't help it. It plays into my favorite relationship trope as well of "idiots in love" aka people who refuse to admit their feelings for one another either because they think they're unrequited or they're too emotionally constipated to do it. The one bed situation can be amazing as a boiling point - whether you want that to be raunchy as hell or a good old fashioned cuddle sesh.

I am also hugely fond of huge scary guy and his tiny, immensely scarier murder daughter (adopted or biological.) I think if you follow me, you don't need me to elaborate at all lmfao.

[redphienix]

I tested weapons for like 6 hours and played the beta for all of like half an hour for wilds and instead of saying any of the positive I think it's way funnier to say just the negative so it looks like I hated it

Congratulations Capcom on deciding for us that the next monhun would be open world instead of the tried and true format- that's okay- that can be really cool- but congrats on doing that and somehow making joining your fucking friends a 40 step stupid inconvenient and unintelligible process lol

Instead of just. Joining their hub. And then you go hunt. Now there's Lobbies which... don't put you with your friends. Link Squads which.... don't put you with your friends. And "Join Environment" which puts you with your friends, but now you can't do quests and can only free hunt. I recognize that with only half an hour of play and 3 people mashing buttons to get to it as fast as possible, I am left not understanding the nuance of ANY of these- and that knowing how I play games, I'm going to become extremely intimately familiar with how all of this works- but the fact 3 people who have played nothing but monhun for years were frozen in confusion at this basic feature is a GREAT JOB CAPCOM! Fantastic work! Idiots lol

2. Took away directional encores for hunting horn.

3. Fuck you and fuck your stupid chocobo that never stops fucking moving I hate this thing so much, I hated the dog in Rise and you guys somehow made a MUCH FUCKING WORSE dog, SO MUCH WORSE, and then designed movement around them so unlike in Rise where you can quickly traverse as fast as or even faster than the dog with smart wirebug movement- you HAVE to use your fucking shitty ass bird in this and I hate it, thanks, great work! :)

Also funny that turning off the "explore" setting for the chocobo doesn't fucking stop him, you are running forward forever, fuck you.

4. You guys couldn't optimize yourself out of a paper bag and you're decision to make the game like this is a disgrace, you're pathetic.

[possessionisamyth]

hiii im. not used to ask resi fans abt dynamics pairs or something BUT i wanted to wonder something that peeked my curiosity and you write your analysis very well and yeah !!!!.

Ummmmmm, if given the chance of ada and ashley meeting (not only before the rocket scene), what do you think their interaction would be like ? dynamic, too, maybe ?

I saw a specific artist who drew that as a cat/mouse dynamic even if they dont interact, and was curious about that

They fuck.

Haha! Just kidding! The serious answer is they fuck, no, wait hold on, they fuck. Oh my god, my keyboard, it's working against me-they fuck! NO! THE LETTERS THEYRE CHANGING ALL TO THEY FUCK, AH THEY FUCK, THEY FU-

Okay, but seriously. There's like 3 ways multiple interactions would go between Ada and Ashley. The Capcom Way. The how I'd want capcom to write it way. And finally, the how I'd write it way.

Capcom Style

They have exactly one interaction prior to the final scene. It's Ada acting like she knows everything that's happening as usual, but giving no answers that Ashley is looking for. Maybe she says one comment that could be easily taken out of context, and Ashley gets offended. The part of the fandom who already hate Ada would start foaming at the mouth at the comment, and use it to slander her further in order to protect the poor little white woman.

How I'd want Capcom to write it

They meet twice before the final boss fight. Ada is scrutinizing Ashley seriously in the first interaction. Not out of maliciousness. She's just noticing any traits she pretended to embody for Leon when they'd first met in '98, and also checking on her to see if Luis is right about being able to save her. The first interaction is selfish. The second interaction is contemplative. She asks Ashley easy questions that are non-committal and arbitrary. Ashley's able to relax more around her as a result before Ada is gone again.

How I'd write it

Ada flirts with her each time they run into each other. I'm not an idiot. I know capcom would never commit to making any of their recurring characters any letter on the LGBT spectrum, but this is for me. I want this train of people being into Ashley (Leon making her smile, Luis hyping her up) to be added by Ada making her blush. I want Ada to tip her chin up in that last encounter and say "Did you take care of yourself?" and when Ashley replies yes, Ada smirks and says "Good girl," before she uses her grappling gun to fly off again. I'd make the first interaction between them having Ashley go "SHE'S BISEXUAL? I DIDN'T KNOW THAT?" and the last interaction having Ashley go "I'M BISEXUAL? I DIDN'T KNOW THAT!!!"

So yeah. :)

[blueempty]

I cant see shit when I take pictures facing the sun, its a miracle theyre often in focus

Had another late rise today. I hope I find the strength to wake up at 11am again soon. Today was good because I was not at jury duty. Thats all I can really ask for

I'm gonna start trying to learn one kanji a day on top of practicing my kana and numbers, and first one I picked is probably more complicated than I should have chosen, but I have a history with chinese characters so the complexity of the particular kanji isnt really a concern for me

Today I went with 願 (ねが ne ga), because I was going through my lessons again and like the first thing they teach you is introduce yourself! Say "onegaishimasu" and then I look up to read the kana and it says お願いします, and I'm like come on bro. So I learned that one. Maybe thats how I'll choose, I'll just go by whatever pops up next in my lessons lol. Its 19 strokes but I sat there and did it over and over for like 10 minutes and I think i got it. I actually like learning stroke order and stuff. I always preferred writing chinese over speaking it

I really need to get back to streaming, which i say all the time, but speedrunning and goofy challenge runs would be good for streams. Im trying to beat Onimusha without upgrading weapons or using healing items right now. The trick with that is if you kill enemies with an issen strike they always drop health souls, but issen are very hard to pull off. It forces you to really learn every enemies attack animations well, which is something I love doing

A big point of contention with me and my friends rn is they dont get how I can just sit and play Monster Hunter for multiple hours at a time. My brother has admitted many times now thay he is never paying attention when we play, he just auto pilots fights because he doesnt find enjoyment in fighting them once hes basically seen everything they can do. But like thats the fun, is learning how kill things faster and more efficiently. I can play for hours on end because its fun to react to something a monster did and cause it to fall out of the air mid jump because you knew your weapons hitboxes well enough to hit it backwards while it was above you. And then he points out thats the fun of fighting games and asks why i dont wanna play those anymore, and I'm like because I fucking hate other humans and the way their minds work lol. I want to abuse a poor helpless CPU player that cant even stand on two legs. The lizard men in Onimusha raise their little cleaver and I go haha idiot, and I instant kill their ass. Thats what sparks joy for me. Thats also why I've been playing games alone for two months I guess hehe

Anyways, thats not really me complaining exactly, I'm trying to be aware of my negativity you see, thats all to say that I love the slop Capcom puts in my trough. It's good slop. I'm also so fucking excited for Splatoon 3 Side Order (i guess) but more importantly HYDLIDE 3 COMES OUT TODAY YAHOOOO

Heres my kanji for today cuz the night sky hasnt been very photogenic around here. With and without guides

Live Long and Prosper

[southerndragontamer]

Ok. Ok OP I hope you don��t mind me grabbing your post by the shoulders and shaking it- because oh my gods I’m about to annoy the friend that I’m reblogging this from XD

Nero, by his own words had people that cared about him. He had family, yes it wasn’t easy, it was difficult and he very well was almost like Vergil if the hadn’t been adopted, I’m not denying that either as it’s a big part of how he is how he is. But the fact was he was adopted, he had family he had support and good shit.

Dante? He had none of that after the tragedy of the attack. He was an eight year old boy who had lost his brother, his mother, and his father all at once, or thereabouts, he had seen his mother die in front of him! He was the only survivor of the fire, as that’s what it was to human knowledge at least, and as a result of all of this trauma. He was mute.

Let me repeat that for the people in the back. He was rendered unable to speak and on top of that he clung to a sword as a teddy bear and an amulet as a blanket.

And what happened to Dante after this? It’s obvious really. He was put in foster care. As a disabled, traumatized eight year old, that humans had no idea was a half demon. In, what was likely, the late 80’s to 90’s.

Dante was most likely shifted around from home to home when they couldn’t coax, coerce or force him to speak, when he refused to socialize at school, when they couldn’t get him to leave the sword for long, when he panicked about his amulet being taken. When he first showed his fangs or his eyes went red. When the exorcisms and prayer did nothing to ‘help’ because they were fucking scared of a boy who was more then what they understood or wanted to understand.

He suffered like this for a decade or nearly ten years I bet before he ran away from whatever ‘home’ he was in or he was kicked out of it or the orphanage he was in at the time. And then he was homeless, for we don’t know how long,until he became a mercenary with a temporary home with Grue and his girls-because fuck off CAPCOM it’s my comfort series I pick the timeline it has- before that fell apart.

Dante is the furthest thing from a man child, he acts like an idiot, he acts the fool, he pretends to be dumb. He was called dumb and likely worse, when he was a child, why not give the humans what they expect? He’s pretended so long it’s become part of him and I don’t know if he knows how to take the mask off.

He has had no certainty of anything since he was 8 until he managed to get his own office, his own home but even then with how often it’s destroyed and he needs to rebuild it he likely doesn’t even expect THAT TO LAST. All he knows is as Sparda’s son everything he has is in danger of being destroyed or killed or taken from him and he doesn’t have any stability unless he carves it for himself and clings with every fiber of his fucking being to keep it.

It always annoys me when people make fun of Dante for not being as well adjusted as Nero despite being significantly older than him and calling Dante a manchild and stuff.

Like ok Nero obviously had a rough life and it shows with his anger issues and how he often feels the need to put on a tough guy act in front of anyone who isn’t Kyrie. But he had people who supported him throughout his life and helped guide him. A dev (I think it was Itsuno but I could be wrong) even said Nero would’ve ended up just like Vergil if he hadn’t met Kyrie.

Dante didn’t have that kind of guidance growing up, and the people who he could actually trust always ended up dead so from a relatively young age he was taught that everyone he gets close to will die just because he’s Sparda’s kid. He never had anything even vaguely resembling a normal life past the age of 8 so no wonder he is the way he is. DMC has this heavy theme about how people are often shaped by their experiences and I wish more people understood that.

Again, NOT downplaying Nero’s difficult childhood. Just explaining why he comes across as better adjusted than Dante.

[sapphire-weapon]

Hey so, full disclosure but I was that anon who talked about the poll and Barry and Hunk's positions in them. Normally I don't ask stuff in anon but I was feeling spicy today (I did it automatically because I'm a fucking idiot and didn't feel like re writing everything lol).

Anyway, polls. I know polls. I did really stupid daily ones for several months starring various Resident Evil characters. I've also been in the fandom for 26 years and have seen the popularity of characters sway and fade.

Now, something I really need people to understand about popularity polls is... ranking means way less than you think. It's the actual AMOUNT of votes that is most telling. Here, I'll post the image.

Out of approximately 51,000 votes, Ashley got 473. That's a little less than 1% of total votes. Keep in mind she was also a big player in the fantastic remake of the most loved Resident Evil game that is currently the most recent mainline title in the remake timeline.

Rebecca was in an ok movie recently and Hunk... people like to snap necks I guess. Or they like his mask (me). Barry's dad bod got him his spot.

Basically, these kinds of polls are more along the lines of "The top 5 or 6... and then everyone else".

And as for my "Combat Ashley" comments, I was responding to the ask right before mine that wanted her to come back like that. That is the only way I ever see people suggest that she come back and it is so out of character for her.

Claire is my favorite character and I hated it when people would say she was more "mature" at 19 because she could fire a gun. Weapons won't make Ashley a fully realized version of herself. Me saying Ashley should stay true to her character doesn't mean I dislike her. Maybe the people that want to change her character so drastically do though...

Ffs I'm an OG Ashley defender! I LOVE HER!

And speaking of Claire, Capcom already has a hard enough time finding a spot for her now that she took a more pacifist route.

And she has 3,926 votes.

And is in 4th place.

So...

Yeah.

man i've seen this poll before, and it still fucking blows my mind that luis and steve are tied

and lbr it's not even "the top 5 and then everyone else"

it's leon and then everyone else. jill isn't even in swinging distance of him.

let's make this easier to see.

this is just the top 10.

[probablygayattorneys]

[After PLvsPW came out]

Capcom: Hey! You turned Phoenix into some bumbling idiot while Professor Layton always solves the puzzle, like some genius!

LEVEL-5: yea

Capcom: That's not fair! We're - we're not going to stand for it!

LEVEL-5: what exactly do you think you can do about it?

Capcom: We're... We're going to name our big bad serial killer in our next game "The Professor"! That's what we're going to do!

LEVEL-5: k

Capcom: And... and we're going to take the designs! Yeah! We're going to reuse Espella's design! You can't stop us!

LEVEL-5: wasn't trying to.

Capcom: You really aren't bothered by any of this?!

LEVEL-5: we're kind of busy with something else right now

Capcom: What could possibly be more important that this conversation!?

LEVEL-5: actually maybe you can help us with it! we're trying to come up with a name for our seventh professor layton g- oh, wait. you wouldn't know anything about that, now would you?

Capcom: ...

LEVEL-5: .............

Capcom: Okay, fuck you for that one-

[breezeinmonochromenight]

My apologies for the stupid question: What if Capcom left who Nero’s father was ambiguous? How do you think this would have affected the game/story? (My apologies I’m not good at writing sentences)

You’re fine! And tbh it’d have probably had no major effect on the story (save for the obvious reveal in 5) aside from making it a lot less juicy/dramatic and causing Dante’s character to take a bit of a hit.

Like. There’s little breadcrumbs here and there that make you think Nero already suspects he’s related to Dante and is curious about him, but he doesn’t bring it up for fear of rejection/wants Dante’s approval/etc. Plus, Dante all but spells it out for Nero in DMC4, so Nero would have to be an idiot not to put 2 + 2 together. So it’s way more of a one-two punch to have the guy you consider a father figure (and probably want to be your actual father) call you dead weight only to turn around and reveal that your suspicions are confirmed — you’re related but he’s just your uncle… and the asshole you that ripped your arm off is your dear old dad. It’d also probably be a lot easier for Nero to disregard/want nothing to do with Vergil if he doesn’t have some kind of confirmation — it’s easier to emotionally detach from a relative (especially a shitty relative) you may or may not even be actually related to.

You could totally have fun with that kind of ambiguousness with the right writers, though, ngl. But like… I personally don’t think DMC is the a series that’s deep enough/coherent enough for that lol. No point it muddying the waters even more, imo.

The only thing I can think of being affected isn’t even in the game tbh. Because there was a period of time from DMC4’s release in 2008 to 2015 (when the 3142 artbook released that confirmed Vergil and Nero’s relationship for the first time) where some fans loudly refused to acknowledge any blood relationship between Nero and V or D despite it being spelled out for them and it was just… a super fucking annoying experience when you’d run into them, to put it mildly. It was kind of the equivalent of running into one of those people from the ‘Vincent Valentine is Sephiroth’s REAL dad’ crowd that are convinced they’re correct because they straight up can’t fucking read subtext is hard, I guess. Leaving V&D’s relationship to Nero ambiguous would have just let the DMC version of that crowd chug right along.

[azumasoroshi]

DGS 2 London Side DLC

just started watching like. the one video translating these and OH MY GOD IS SHOLMES GONNA BE THE DEFENSE LAWYER FOR IRIS AGAINST BAROK????? WHAT???????????

and ryuunosuke gets to be the competent judicial assistant this time i'm assuming

this is gonna be great i can feel it

omg iris gets her own hold it?? or at least i assume it's a hold it since it's not iyai

OH NOOOOOO WE DONT GET SHOLMES' PERSPECTIVE goddammit

ryuunosuke i love you but PLEASE i need to know what's going on in sholmes' head

i guess they don't want to reveal that he's actually a genius or show his real thought process to keep the mystery of whether he's really smart or a fucking idiot but i was excited for that :( oh well

"What on earth are you doing here, amateur detective?"

"Whatever do you mean? ...Reapy."

im telling you there is SOMETHING up with the way they talk to each other it's the exes energy i swear to god

oh my god it definitely wasnt a murder trial was it ahskdgJHDJHGSD sholmes is giving off real phoenix wright energy right now

"For the [impropriety?] of reaching for the Lord's chalice after failing to find another outlet for my anger...I beg for your indulgence."

ahh so that's the more direct translation of "forgive the discourtesy of filling my hallowed chalice"

we are 3 minutes into trial and this man is already done six ways from sunday

not ryuunosuke telling sholmes to look at the court record when we're not even in control of him asdkhgKJDHGSDKJKHJHJDS

OHH yeah i guess he's saying it to sholmes but hes really saying it to us cuz we have to look at evidence n stuff

omg the notes on each evidence are in sholmes' perspective too

why is the pocketwatch in the evidence lmfao i dont think ryuunosuke gave that to you sholmes

watch him just grab it from ryuunosuke's pocket when it's needed

oh barok's name is translated as baroque that's kind of interesting

oh something was stolen from van zieks office?? if it was wine im gonna laugh so hard why would you convict a ten year old of stealing wine

LMFAOOOOOOOOO sholmes' perception of the world is so fucked

"terrifying" help oh my god

I CHOKED he knows barok fucking hates him

aww the person playing said this is basically all we get of hurley's perspective that's so sad ugh

"The only suitable punishment for such an atrocity would be submersion in hellfire!" damn barok really said gay people belong in hell

racist and homophobic what's next capcom

"Looks like we were too late, Mr. Naruhodou. He already threw his first chalice." like 7 minutes into trial dawgggg this is the worst day of barok's life second only to The Incident while Sholmes is having a fucking blast

"[Iris' charge] was...um. Serial murder!"

"It sounds as though you've got yourself a rather thrilling roommate, great detective." are they ever going to refer to each other by their names or what

i love how herlock is like "i look forward to hearing what weird thing you'll say next" if you get the answer wrong bkjDGKSJDGhsd literally encouraging you to make the wrong choices we stan a good dad

"Honestly, what must [Iris'] parents be like if this is how she turned out?" BAROK........BUDDY.............….thats such rich kid dialogue he’s such a rich kid

"[Reapy], I really don't think you should say such things so lightly." SEE EVEN HERLOCK OBJECTED TO THAT AHSUDGKSDJH barok come on man

is he taking personal offense to that as Iris' basically-dad or is he taking offense on iris’s parents’ behalf

"The item that was stolen was incredibly special to me." i have a feeling it's related to Him but for now im still sticking to it being wine

imagine if it was a black pocketwatch the chaos that would go down

Barok: "[The girl I saw] was, without a doubt, Iris Wilson."

Sholmes: "Are you sure about that? She doesn't have many distinguishing features, after all."

bro have you seen your daughter

oh it was his chalice :sob: yeah that's basically his wine

barok maybe you just tossed more than one chalice into the fire than you recall maybe that's it

oh it was his FIRST court chalice i seeeee baby's first time being drunk on the job

"I guess there can only be two types of memories associated with [your chalices]. "Should I throw it", or "Should I crush it"?"

[Barok throws his chalice right after crushing his last one two animations ago]

"I can't anticipate what the truth will be at this point in time. But we musn't allow that ruddy criminal to get away with this!"

was it sholmes. did he steal the chalice

that line sounds kind of sus ngllllllllll

"Sholmes-san sounds pretty confused..." homie doesnt even know what a cross examination is oh god

(source: x)