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Post by Mozenrath on Sept 13, 2022 19:25:03 GMT -5
I really tried with getting into Octopath but I just found its disconnected structure extremely hard to get invested in. It sucks because it's absolutely gorgeous, but yeah, that really hurt it so much. Hopefully something they address with the sequel. Give the stories some clearer connections, have the characters interact more substantially, and it'll be a hell of a lot easier to not get checked out.
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Post by Mozenrath on Sept 13, 2022 19:36:04 GMT -5
Front Mission 3 was lowkey the big thing for me here. f***ing love that game. The way of getting the alternate path in Front Mission 3 is one of my favorite "Makes sense, but also, the sheer audacity" things in video games ever. {Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW}Did you check your email? You get one path. Didn't? You get the other.
Like, it makes perfect sense, but I bet some players get so angry about that due to not realizing they're making an actual choice at all.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Sept 13, 2022 19:38:57 GMT -5
Front Mission 3 was lowkey the big thing for me here. f***ing love that game. The way of getting the alternate path in Front Mission 3 is one of my favorite "Makes sense, but also, the sheer audacity" things in video games ever. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW}Did you check your email? You get one path. Didn't? You get the other.
Like, it makes perfect sense, but I bet some players get so angry about that due to not realizing they're making an actual choice at all. Not familiar with the game but that reminds me of a bit in the first Corpse Party. You find a newspaper and are told not to read it; every other time in the game if the game tells you not to do something then don't do it, but that time if you don't read it you're locked into a game over shortly thereafter, and pretty sure there's a save point in-between. It's very early in the game but it's still pretty cheap, especially given the rest of the game afterward doesn't follow that same precedent.
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Post by Mozenrath on Sept 13, 2022 19:42:33 GMT -5
The way of getting the alternate path in Front Mission 3 is one of my favorite "Makes sense, but also, the sheer audacity" things in video games ever. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW}Did you check your email? You get one path. Didn't? You get the other.
Like, it makes perfect sense, but I bet some players get so angry about that due to not realizing they're making an actual choice at all. Not familiar with the game but that reminds me of a bit in the first Corpse Party. You find a newspaper and are told not to read it; every other time in the game if the game tells you not to do something then don't do it, but that time if you don't read it you're locked into a game over shortly thereafter, and pretty sure there's a save point in-between. It's very early in the game but it's still pretty cheap, especially given the rest of the game afterward doesn't follow that same precedent. It's at least not that harsh. It's more I guess that the two paths require the main character to do certain things to branch the story into a different direction than the other, and he wouldn't realistically choose to blow off someone he knows who needs his help unless he just doesn't know she is requesting it.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Sept 13, 2022 22:42:43 GMT -5
Something I could see happening that I really hope doesn't is them putting up Harvest Moon 64 but only in Japan, since they did it with the original. Love that game to pieces and it'd suck having it so close yet so far. WELP. Plus side the game's simple enough and I know it well enough that it should be plenty playable in Japanese anyway but it's still disappointing.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2022 1:39:38 GMT -5
definitely my favorite direct so far, shocked we're getting ib of all things
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Post by Mozenrath on Sept 14, 2022 2:09:39 GMT -5
Something I could see happening that I really hope doesn't is them putting up Harvest Moon 64 but only in Japan, since they did it with the original. Love that game to pieces and it'd suck having it so close yet so far. WELP. Plus side the game's simple enough and I know it well enough that it should be plenty playable in Japanese anyway but it's still disappointing. Wish Nintendo just wrote Natsume a check themselves, though I guess Natsume and Marvelous still would have had some issues with the arrangement.
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Post by Fundertaker on Sept 14, 2022 3:26:00 GMT -5
Front Mission 3 was lowkey the big thing for me here. f***ing love that game. The way of getting the alternate path in Front Mission 3 is one of my favorite "Makes sense, but also, the sheer audacity" things in video games ever. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW}Did you check your email? You get one path. Didn't? You get the other.
Like, it makes perfect sense, but I bet some players get so angry about that due to not realizing they're making an actual choice at all. Not just that, but you also have to decide if {Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW}you go deliever the Wanzers with Ryogo (Emma/USN route) or not (Alisa/Da Han Zhong route)
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Post by chrom on Sept 15, 2022 20:44:20 GMT -5
Earthworm Jim, Beyond Oasis and Alisia Dragoon announced and available for Sega
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Post by The Ichi on Sept 15, 2022 20:47:19 GMT -5
Earthworm Jim, Beyond Oasis and Alisia Dragoon announced and available for Sega Beyond Oasis is so underrated.
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Post by Mandarin Dessert Version 0 on Sept 16, 2022 7:04:43 GMT -5
Kinda weird that the way it is set-up now, you have Earthworm Jim in the Sega Genesis collection and Earthworm Jim 2 in the SNES collection.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Sept 16, 2022 9:06:00 GMT -5
Earthworm Jim, Beyond Oasis and Alisia Dragoon announced and available for Sega A top tier batch
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Sept 16, 2022 11:21:37 GMT -5
So the Battle Network Collection will have essentially its own Vtuber (Yes, NetNavis I know)
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Sept 16, 2022 14:35:20 GMT -5
I really tried with getting into Octopath but I just found its disconnected structure extremely hard to get invested in. It sucks because it's absolutely gorgeous, but yeah, that really hurt it so much. Hopefully something they address with the sequel. Give the stories some clearer connections, have the characters interact more substantially, and it'll be a hell of a lot easier to not get checked out. I wonder if they originally wanted to do a thing like Live a Live with a bunch of characters with their own story... but they all have similar references and stuff to themselves.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Sept 16, 2022 18:20:32 GMT -5
So the new rage online is this belief that Nintendo is neglecting Mario all of a sudden because no Odyssey 2 or any new mainline game. Even with the direct still showing a lot of Mario stuff on the way, mainly through DLC and the N64 server along with Mario + Rabbids 2 out next month.
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Post by BorneAgain on Sept 16, 2022 18:24:32 GMT -5
Something that's a bit forgotten about is that mainline Mario has had dry periods before.
Heck between July 96 and April 2006 (almost 10 years) we had one new mainline Mario entry in Sunshine. Plenty of ports, spin-offs, and Mario adjecent release, but very little outright new content either 2D or 3D.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Sept 16, 2022 18:28:24 GMT -5
Honestly I don't really even see what need there is for much new mainline with Mario right now. There are still ample amounts of spinoffs coming out regularly and the Switch at this point has a wealth of old ones to pick from, both 2D and 3D. And really I don't think there's much that'd be meaningfully gained from another Odyssey or New Super Mario Bros. any time soon because the former already strains under the weight of prioritizing quantity of content over quality making it kind of hard to go back to (and pretty much inevitably due to sequel expansion that problem can only become worse in a direct follow-up) and the latter has a port with over 160 levels in it and there's Mario Maker on top of that. Plus we just got the 3D World port last year and it both significantly improved the main game and added Bowser's Fury on top of it.
Probably the best things they could with the series for now would be see about porting TTYD, SPM, and Galaxy 2.
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Post by BorneAgain on Sept 16, 2022 18:29:24 GMT -5
Honestly Donkey Kong is far more need of a new game than Mario anyway.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Sept 16, 2022 18:30:47 GMT -5
Honestly Donkey Kong is far more need of a new game than Mario anyway. I'm in a position where I'm looking forward to Metroid Prime 4 entirely to clear the way for a new Donkey Kong Country and have zero interest in actually playing it.
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Post by CMWaters on Sept 16, 2022 18:32:50 GMT -5
Besides, didn't we technically get 1/4 a new mainline Mario with Bowser's Fury?
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