first and foremost i am here to amuse myself
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i love weird and bad video games, speedrunning, professional wrestling, and rodents
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i hate computers
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bluesky for the foreseeable future, i guess
kinda want to start a series going through RPGs where people claim You Have To Grind and show off that no, actually, you almost never have to grind in a well-designed RPG, you're just not paying enough attention to its mechanics
but i'm worried i'm wrong, because all of my experience playing rpgs is trying to Do Everything, and thus i often end up far beyond the expected level for any given boss, so of course i never need to grind. i still do, though. all the time. because i like it
i was eventually gonna pick up copies of metroid dread, new pokemon snap, and whatever that new kirby game was called, but nintendo's refusal to lower prices in combination with their attack on the yuzu/citra devs has pretty much guaranteed i will never pay them anything ever again. sure as fuck not buying whatever their next console is. i'll work out some other ways to play them
if they had lowered the prices even a little bit i'd probably have bought them a while ago. but i am never paying full price for a nintendo game (or any game) (especially ever since stupid fucking sony set the $70 precedent) ($90 in canada!!! fuck off!!!!!) (there are some exceptions to this rule such as) (dragon's dogma 2 less than two weeks DRAGON'S DOGMA TWO LESS THAN 2 WEEKS)
something i love about tales games is that even when i don't think they're particularly good, there's almost always a cutscene or song in there that hits so hard i still come back to it
xillia 2 for instance has multiple really sick cutscene-into-boss-battle sequences that i regularly go watch or listen to the music from, zestiria has fucking Rising Up, one of the sickest mid-fight music changes i've ever heard in my life, abyss has the asch duel and to a lesser extent the scene where luke cuts his hair
and that's not even counting all the parts in the games that i actually like that i return to all the time, far more than i do for these games which don't really mean as much to me (relative to other tales games)
today i learned tag muffling is case sensitive. if i were to muffle #star wars it doesn't hide posts tagged with #STAR WARS even though with how tags work on here, you literally can't tag something with #star wars because that's not how it was capitalized the first time it was used