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[Azint]

I love this new Krypt. Shang Tsung's Island is a genius move to place this whole museum/unlockable puzzle map. It's surprisingly nostalgic to be able to freely walk in and around the setting for so many of MK's original stages, and I am always looking forward to returning to it whenever I stock up on gold.

As absurd as it sounds, I come to Mortal Kombat for the story it tells. I only just finished the story mode, and while I have mixed opinions on the ending, it made me realize that for as stupid as it can get, Mortal Kombat's story is very underrated.

They have been telling a continuous story for the games 27 years. Between between publishers and even reboots, it has kept going. It has every bit the amount of complexity as the Metal Gear series. And yet has managed to tell it through a few slide shows, cut-scenes, and pre-fight banter. It has incredibly deep lore. Nearly every character has long complex backstories and motivations. The world/worlds are all fleshed out. Each with their own look, rules, customs and cultures.

I'm rambling, and its hard to say what I am trying to say. The story MK11 tells somehow manages to turn what seemed to be a mess of fun, ridiculous ideas into an actual, for real, epic...

It's a little surprising to see in hindsight that Mortal Kombat took a somewhat Legend of Zelda route in explaining their entire shared continuity. I don't think the overall story is impressive, here or then, but the game and the series as a whole is too damn charming to dislike. It still revels in its early 90's goofy-edgy-comic book behavior, and I hope that the people who continue the franchise never lose sight of that.

I would never bet that Mortal Kombat would end. This is just the latest chapter.

[TheodoricFriede]

I would never bet that Mortal Kombat would end. This is just the latest chapter.

Then whatever comes next is going to be very VERY different.

[Alienmorph]

I see it being more the end of the loose trilogy that NRS started with MK9. Whenever a new game comes out, it HAS to be radically different. Hopefully in good way rather than in a "we ran out of nostalgia pandering and so now we have no clues what to do" one.

Meanwhile in Mortal Kombat 11, Aaron Black still does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

His ladder ending is hilarious.

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He just gives no fucks and throws the Sands of Time in the River of Blood, so that nobody can reach them anymore, and the timeline remains all messed-up, so he can get some more good fights. He literally refuses to become Lord of Time because he likes it better being Generic Gunslinger lol

[TheodoricFriede]

I see it being more the end of the loose trilogy that NRS started with MK9.

But that story is a direct continuation of the events of MK1 up to Armageddon. The story never stopped.

The fact that that whatever comes next will be wildly different, assuming it will come at all, is essentially the end of an era.

I dont know how to explain it. I'm probably the only one who cares. It is the end of something that has been with me since as long as I have been cognizant. Im not upset, I'm just trying to process the end of that.

[Alienmorph]

Oh no, you're definately making sense. Been there myself with a few other series.

[TheodoricFriede]

Meanwhile the data-mined DLC character list is about 30% "meh..", 50% "neat!", and 20 % "HOLY FU-- REALLY?!?"

[Vol]

I live again. Fully paint the interior of a 2 story, million dollar beach house in 3 (long) days and some wrap up this morning. I found that constantly eating snacks every few hours plus large meals at the standard times helped me keep going, so it seems my issue all this time was insufficient calories. Met 3 very friendly dogs at the place we stayed at, one of which was a big golden girl. But when I lifted her up in my arms she went totally still, which was cute, and just like my last cat. Made some good money too, ate hearty, wasn't a half bad work-trip.

I see this place hasn't burned down in my absence. No pots of boiling spaghetti being launched while people play tug of war with the Union Jack and throw snowballs and so on and forth.

[Mazder]

I live again. Fully paint the interior of a 2 story, million dollar beach house in 3 (long) days and some wrap up this morning. I found that constantly eating snacks every few hours plus large meals at the standard times helped me keep going, so it seems my issue all this time was insufficient calories. Met 3 very friendly dogs at the place we stayed at, one of which was a big golden girl. But when I lifted her up in my arms she went totally still, which was cute, and just like my last cat. Made some good money too, ate hearty, wasn't a half bad work-trip.

I see this place hasn't burned down in my absence. No pots of boiling spaghetti being launched while people play tug of war with the Union Jack and throw snowballs and so on and forth.

Why would we play tug of war with the Union Jack?
That'd imply someone wants it!

[Dragaros]

But that story is a direct continuation of the events of MK1 up to Armageddon. The story never stopped.

The fact that that whatever comes next will be wildly different, assuming it will come at all, is essentially the end of an era.

I dont know how to explain it. I'm probably the only one who cares. It is the end of something that has been with me since as long as I have been cognizant. Im not upset, I'm just trying to process the end of that.

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That natural direction seems to be to just explore the new timeline God Liu Kang makes, whatever form that takes. The best ending mentions that they cannot plan for every possibility, that mortals will have free will to make their own choices, and new evils will probably arise.

Maybe he sincerely tries to make a better timeline, but he's not perfect so his work is not perfect, and the changes he makes inevitably create unintended consequences, classic Butterfly Effect scenario style, so there's someone else causing trouble to fight against even if guys like Shao Kahn or Shinnok aren't around anymore or are living radically different lives. Or maybe in his newfound divine wisdom, God Liu Kang realizes as tempting as it would be to remove evils like Shao Kahn or Shinnok from the timeline or remove certain tragedies that befell his friends and allies, doing so causes chaos in the fates and destinies he would weave to architect a better history, and so the new timeline is very much the same as the previous, only with a few minor changes here and there, but allows for new character arcs and storylines to play out unimpeded by previous canon.

Plus, Kronika most likely isn't the only Titan out there; there might be others who now have Earthrealm on the radars thanks to all this temporal craziness. Perhaps even the One Being mentioned in the background lore could finally be able to manifest an avatar and take center stage, tired of waiting for the realms to all merge together so it can resurrect itself in totality.

Or maybe MK12 will just be a hard reboot and they can do whatever they want on a total clean slate, allowing MK11 to be a grand finale and sendoff to the Klassic Kontinuity, and everyone on team good guy got happy endings thanks to God Liu Kang. There's a lot possibilities at play, many roads NR studios could choose. The sky's the limit, really.

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD0DGnuPQwk

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhPf8anO-aQ

[Dragaros]

NEW Fire Emblem: Three Houses Details / Class Changes, House Differences, & More from Famitsu

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[Dragaros]

[Dragaros]

[Alienmorph]

But that story is a direct continuation of the events of MK1 up to Armageddon. The story never stopped.

The fact that that whatever comes next will be wildly different, assuming it will come at all, is essentially the end of an era.

I dont know how to explain it. I'm probably the only one who cares. It is the end of something that has been with me since as long as I have been cognizant. Im not upset, I'm just trying to process the end of that.

► Show Spoiler

That natural direction seems to be to just explore the new timeline God Liu Kang makes, whatever form that takes. The best ending mentions that they cannot plan for every possibility, that mortals will have free will to make their own choices, and new evils will probably arise.

Maybe he sincerely tries to make a better timeline, but he's not perfect so his work is not perfect, and the changes he makes inevitably create unintended consequences, classic Butterfly Effect scenario style, so there's someone else causing trouble to fight against even if guys like Shao Kahn or Shinnok aren't around anymore or are living radically different lives. Or maybe in his newfound divine wisdom, God Liu Kang realizes as tempting as it would be to remove evils like Shao Kahn or Shinnok from the timeline or remove certain tragedies that befell his friends and allies, doing so causes chaos in the fates and destinies he would weave to architect a better history, and so the new timeline is very much the same as the previous, only with a few minor changes here and there, but allows for new character arcs and storylines to play out unimpeded by previous canon.

Plus, Kronika most likely isn't the only Titan out there; there might be others who now have Earthrealm on the radars thanks to all this temporal craziness. Perhaps even the One Being mentioned in the background lore could finally be able to manifest an avatar and take center stage, tired of waiting for the realms to all merge together so it can resurrect itself in totality.

Or maybe MK12 will just be a hard reboot and they can do whatever they want on a total clean slate, allowing MK11 to be a grand finale and sendoff to the Klassic Kontinuity, and everyone on team good guy got happy endings thanks to God Liu Kang. There's a lot possibilities at play, many roads NR studios could choose. The sky's the limit, really.

Personally I'm both very curious and very worried to see what the future holds for MK now...

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On one hand, the story ending does indeed open a whole lot of possibilities. And some of the endings of the Ladders also show a few intriguing possible future worlds. On the other, I fear it might be another case of a pre-existing property being hard-reset so that it can be remade into something "less offensive and more inclusive", which seems already something they have started doing in MK11 if you look closer, tho the good outweights the bad very significantly still.

Even if an hypothetic MK12 turns out to be a poorly made reboot tho, 11 was still an hell of a good sendoff for the old MK kanon tho, and had a lot of fun and kool battles and karacter moments. And overall, like I said previously, it makes a pretty neat trilogy story-wise with MK9 and X. Like seriously, most of my gripes with X's story now are completely kaput, since they turned out to be buildup to a more interesting overarching plot. Sucks Mileena staid dead for good, even despite the time-travel shenanigas, but oh well, can't have everything.

Again, I have worries for the future, and a few gripes with the latest game, but I still really liked most of what I've seen of it, and I'm not trying to hate on anything.

[TheodoricFriede]

I am at a loss for the amount of people complaining that Mortal Kombat female characters actually have costume design now, and aren't just wearing bikinis.

Like... For fucks sake, I love looking at women's bodies, but this is actually getting kind of gross.

[TTTX]

I am at a loss for the amount of people complaining that Mortal Kombat female characters actually have costume design now, and aren't just wearing bikinis.

Like... For fucks sake, I love looking at women's bodies, but this is actually getting kind of gross.

I'm not really the guy on mortal Kombat as I have only played a very few of their games, but from what I understand Mortal Kombat have been about extreme violence and sexed up genders (at least a good portion of the characters) while fighting.

So I don't think it's about Bikinis, but more about the women being less sexed up in this Mortal Kombat while some of the male characters don't even where shirts and still look like Arnold from the 80's, while the women have gotten more covered up and have reverse boob job (if you compare it with Mortal Kombat 9) on top of that and let's be honest it comes as cross as being hypercritical at least by the developers.

[Vol]

These throwback Chef Boyardee recipes are actually quite good. They taste like someone made a real meal (with cheap ingredients) and poured it into a can. I'm impressed, and hope they keep selling them so I can stock up.

Oh, hello, Alien, why yes, proper Italian food _is_ easy to make, tastier, and possibly cheaper.

[Alienmorph]

Hey, I'm not judging. I love my country's cousine, but I eat waaay too much crappy food to scold people for their personal tastes.

[Alienmorph]

I am at a loss for the amount of people complaining that Mortal Kombat female characters actually have costume design now, and aren't just wearing bikinis.

Like... For fucks sake, I love looking at women's bodies, but this is actually getting kind of gross.

I'm not really the guy on mortal Kombat as I have only played a very few of their games, but from what I understand Mortal Kombat have been about extreme violence and sexed up genders (at least a good portion of the characters) while fighting.

So I don't think it's about Bikinis, but more about the women being less sexed up in this Mortal Kombat while some of the male characters don't even where shirts and still look like Arnold from the 80's, while the women have gotten more covered up and have reverse boob job (if you compare it with Mortal Kombat 9) on top of that and let's be honest it comes as cross as being hypercritical at least by the developers.

Yeah exactly. The excuse they used is that they had to make the character looking more believable and wearing something more "practical". Yet most of the the male kombatants still go around either half-naked, covered in robes, or in ridiculously bulk and ornate armors and their design staid very much konsistent through the history of the series, even not considering the time travel factor. There seems to be a bias on who can or not show some skin and that's what's annoying people.

Also, it's just one of many points of kontentios that make people worry the MK staff is getting overly-woke...

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There's also the "must save the refugees!" subplot in the main story mode (which could have worked with the Shokans since they're more of a warrior race ala Klingon than pure evil, but... doing that with the Tarkatans? Really? They literally EAT people! They have a stockpile of skinned human bodies in their camp ffs... ), stuff like the "Wakanda Ending" Jaxx's ladder gets, and the fact they literally gave Shao Khan orange skin and make him growl "Make Outworld Great Again!" in one or two of his kombat intros. Not really subtle there...

[TheodoricFriede]

I am at a loss for words.

[Raga]

I am at a loss for the amount of people complaining that Mortal Kombat female characters actually have costume design now, and aren't just wearing bikinis.

Like... For fucks sake, I love looking at women's bodies, but this is actually getting kind of gross.

I've never understood the "the game is ruined because there's no chainmail bikinis" line of argument for much of anything. Bayonetta I guess which is so ridiculous that it's literally a parody of itself and is completely self aware on that front.

Cannot take seriously. It's the game equivalent of these:





Like, sure, people read those. More power to them I guess. But does anybody actually confuse these with, you know, *quality?*

(Will move to politics thread beyond this).

[Vol]

I've never understood the "the game is ruined because there's no chainmail bikinis" line of argument for much of anything. Bayonetta I guess which is so ridiculous that it's literally a parody of itself and is completely self aware on that front.

Symptom of a larger problem. If romance novels began having plain men with baggy shirts and too tight jeans on the cover, there is nothing wrong with that, but it's indicative that the creators are becoming less interested in giving their audience what they want out of a product ostensibly for them and in practice exists because of them. And the resulting complaints are as valid as their wish to change markets, even if one does not exist.

Started Sekiro. I'm mixed on it so far. I like the setting, some freshness into the Souls formula with the new systems. But I don't know how the game wants me to play. At times full stealth is possible, or evasion via grappling, other times you straight up have to fight a bunch of mooks, but the combat system isn't clicking because I have a few hundred hours of muscle memory with Souls and in this they changed some key functions to other buttons.

The shinobi hunter monk, took me way too many tries to beat him, because the timing on the Mikiri parry seemed inconsistent with his thrusts, and having the sweep-parry require a double jump ensured I never once landed it, and with only 2 heals from the bonfire to him, it was rough. I do like the alternative ways to solve problems tho, shield fags, didn't have the axe yet the first time I met them, so I ash bombed them and they were properly stunned.

But the game has been spewing oil and fire resists at me, and I assume it's a "hint" to use them, but no enemy is worth it because of their speed and fragility, and the combo doesn't seem to actually work half the time. Got to the big, drunk boss, it staggered him good, but if I'm supposed to be able to keep my samurai bro alive during that fight, i'd love to know how. Keep reflexively hitting dodge instead of parry too, muscle memory is fucking me, heh.

[TheodoricFriede]

What the fuck are you people even talking about?!? The women are still wearing skin tight body suits showing cleavage.

They're just not wearing string bikinis anymore. Fucking seriously. This has started to genuinely concern me. What even do you people want?

"The men are shirtless!" Um no they fucking aren't. They are wearing the exact same amount of clothing as the female characters. Because they actually have costume design now, and not just "Green bra and panties, purple bra and panties, blue bra and panties."

"Mortal Kombat has always been about sexualized women" no it hasn't. In fact it always seemed weird and out of place in a game where you rip limbs off.

This has become gross. Like for real gross. You people seriously need to think about this for a bit.

[Mazder]

Like, this is weird.
I'm all for string bikinis as an Alt skin or an unlockable but this shouldn't be the default in any sense of the game unless it's literally beach volleyball and even then I'd call it a stretch.

[Raga]

Symptom of a larger problem. If romance novels began having plain men with baggy shirts and too tight jeans on the cover, there is nothing wrong with that, but it's indicative that the creators are becoming less interested in giving their audience what they want out of a product ostensibly for them and in practice exists because of them. And the resulting complaints are as valid as their wish to change markets, even if one does not exist.

But who is this hypothetical audience that buys games principally for the chainmail bikinis? Seriously? There's like hentai games for that. If the romance novels cease to have sexy dudes, they stop being what they are: superficial titillation fests for (mostly) middle aged horny housewives. Is that really what the "audience" of games is principally comprised of? Some specific horny demographic subset that mostly wants games for titillation? Because it doesn't appear to be. For all the complainers on the internet, huge hordes of people still go out and buy games sans chainmail bikinis.

Games *aren't* romance novels. That was my underlying point. Romance novels or hentai games without sexy, titillating people cease being what they are. Fantasy/sci-fi novel covers and games that lose chainmail bikinis stay what they are. They just become notably less silly.

(For real moving to politics thread after this).

[Raga]

Starting replaying Pillars of Eternity with the intent of *finally* playing through Deadfire, which I never actually got around to playing.

Apparently Deadfire was a massive flop in sales and only sold like a couple hundred thousand copies, which really sucks as as PoE goes is probably how the isometric RPG renaissance goes.

I looked around to see what is still in development along these lines and it mostly looks like a bunch of drek other than Wasteland 3. The success of Divinity makes me hopeful it won't go extinct.

I'm hoping there's enough of us RPG fogies willing to shell out money left around to keep the trend alive.

[Alienmorph]

This has become gross. Like for real gross. You people seriously need to think about this for a bit.

*shrugs*

Every day there's a new b.s. controversy about pop culture. It's just another Monday as far as I'm concerned. By this time next weekend there will be people complaining we should ban another offensive emoji, or that Green Lantern should be a genderfluid asian.

I still very much believe there's a far more to like in MK11 than there is to get complain-y about, for what's worth.

[Vol]

Starting replaying Pillars of Eternity with the intent of *finally* playing through Deadfire, which I never actually got around to playing.

Apparently Deadfire was a massive flop in sales and only sold like a couple hundred thousand copies, which really sucks as as PoE goes is probably how the isometric RPG renaissance goes.

I looked around to see what is still in development along these lines and it mostly looks like a bunch of drek other than Wasteland 3. The success of Divinity makes me hopeful it won't go extinct.

I'm hoping there's enough of us RPG fogies willing to shell out money left around to keep the trend alive.

Is that taking into account backer purchases or not? I imagine Pillars 1's massive lore dump at the start turned away a lot of people, as well as the general decline in untapped nostalgia for the genre. There's plenty of isometric RPGs out now, some far more accessible than Pillars 2. Though I did like Deadfire a fair bit more than the first, the setting and new systems were nifty, albeit it suffered from a lack of focus towards the end. As much as certain groups like to joke about the gay fish companion, the characters were in general better written, albeit Obsidian does not know how to write romance.

[Rune]

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[SciFlyBoy]

I said to myself I wouldn't play it again, but I actually might pick it up despite the 100 hours id have to repeat.

Besides the skill tree and major choices you make, how much different would the second time around be, you think?

[TTTX]

This has become gross. Like for real gross. You people seriously need to think about this for a bit.

Theo, this is basically current social politics at this current moment in time.

People are fighting over such stupid stuff at the moment and as Alien said by the time next week they'll be fighting over something else, probably a twitter comment by someone famous.

[Deano]

Besides the skill tree and major choices you make, how much different would the second time around be, you think?

That's it really, I don't think their will be that much to change. I got all confidants to max rank last time. Waifu would be the big change I guess.

[Alienmorph]

This has become gross. Like for real gross. You people seriously need to think about this for a bit.

Theo, this is basically current social politics at this current moment in time.

People are fighting over such stupid stuff at the moment and as Alien said by the time next week they'll be fighting over something else, probably a twitter comment by someone famous.

Exactly... there is LITERALLY new bullshit people get outraged at every 10-12 hours.

I've seen all sort of of crap just trying to follow things that I like. From people claiming that Superman should have always being black, because it makes no sense for alien to look like a white caucasian man, to MeToo supporters wanting to ban a funny edgy anime because one of the the villains of it is a princess that falsely accused the hero of the series to have raped her, just for shits and giggles, to PETA demanding that Games Workshop discontinues their Space Wolves miniatures and every other character that wears animal skins or fur over their armor.

And I will admit now and then I come across a controversy that pisses me off more than it should (comics are a particularly sore spot for me, due to my background) but ultimately I am aware that most of it is fucking pointless, and whenever there's good characters and good stories, eventually the work of fiction under fire is going to outlive all the bullshit online buzz. As it should be.

I'm pretty certaing MK11 will be one of those cases. I even like some of the redesigns (I'd say Cassie and Sheeva are my favorites) and even stuff like fucking Shao Khan shouting "Make Outworld Great Again!" is stupid and on the nose... but ultimately, who cares? If anything it's hilarious that the people doing that kind of crap think it's some kind of meaningful commentary, when instead is just childish and petty and doesn't accomplish a damn thing.

[TheodoricFriede]

Here's the deal. YOU are the people complaining about it.

If it was just some random internet nonsense, fine whatever. But I'm getting it from people I actually, regularly, interact with.

[TTTX]

Here's the deal. YOU are the people complaining about it.

If it was just some random internet nonsense, fine whatever. But I'm getting it from people I actually, regularly, interact with.

Well I was trying to explain why people are upset (which is more of a result of the current social political climate at the moment as extreme sides are well just doing stupid shit).

I haven't played a Mortal Kombat game since MK9 and I have no interest in playing the next 2 in the series (as my interest in fighting games have well dropped a lot since then.) so I have no interest in the matter, but I guess I didn't manage to express that in my post, but then again writing isn't what I'm good at so ehh guess that's my fault for not expressing myself well enough.

[Alienmorph]

Here's the deal. YOU are the people complaining about it.

If it was just some random internet nonsense, fine whatever. But I'm getting it from people I actually, regularly, interact with.

All I said is that the changes in costumes are there and noticeable, and that there's a bunch of people mad because of that, and a bunch of other dumb woke nonsense. And then said multiple times that as far as I'm concerned I find the game has too many good things going, for that stuff to "ruin it" in my eyes.

Maybe I just didn't explain myself well enough. In that case, my bad.

[TheodoricFriede]

In that case then yes, I have misunderstood.

[Alienmorph]

Sorry for grossing you out, then. Let's close the book on the matter.

Soooo... about those Traitor Legions?

[Vol]

Medieval 2 is still better than all the new titles in most ways. That core gameplay with "more" of most things, no concern about REALISTIC GRAPHICS or overly produced UIs, that would be a masterpiece.

Seems like most vidya companies in general lost their way around that game period, to lesser or greater degrees.

[Rune]

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[Raga]

Is that taking into account backer purchases or not? I imagine Pillars 1's massive lore dump at the start turned away a lot of people, as well as the general decline in untapped nostalgia for the genre. There's plenty of isometric RPGs out now, some far more accessible than Pillars 2. Though I did like Deadfire a fair bit more than the first, the setting and new systems were nifty, albeit it suffered from a lack of focus towards the end. As much as certain groups like to joke about the gay fish companion, the characters were in general better written, albeit Obsidian does not know how to write romance.

I think part of its problem was its assbackwards ruleset and combat system. This is like my 4th playthrough and it's only now that I feel like I sorta, kinda understand what most stats and modifiers and whatnot do. I have gotten into some interesting scraps with some RPG purists on other forums about it. I thought *I* was a hardass on RPG purity, but no, I don't hold a candle to some of those people. The longer I talked with them, actually looked at the ruleset and considered it, and looked at Obsidian's own statements, the more I came to the conclusion that while the series was ostensibly fueled by Infinity Engine nostalgia, in reality, it's principal purpose was only about 50% nostalgia but was also about 50% in creating a generally clunky, unintuitive, and arbitrarily hamstringing ruleset to justify the "isometric RPG master race" bragging rights of any lunatic that devoted sufficient amounts of flagellation by PC game manual to actually become good at it.

I keep coming back to the fact I beat Baldur's Gate at age 12 with 0 background in video games that weren't like Oregon Trail or Crash Bandicoot. 12 year old me could not beat PoE on Normal difficulty. I don't think there's any 12 year old out there that gives a fuck about PoE, but by completely killing the possibility of that reality, I think the devs fundamentally misinterpreted a large part of the appeal of the Infinity Engine games. They were about a whole lot more than generating ideal character stat spreadsheets.

From what I've read and heard, Deadfire seems to fix a lot of those problems, but it probably was too late to bring back the curious newcomers who had wanted to see what all this Infinity Engine game hoopla was about or many like me who wanted the nostalgia sans masochism/superiority complex. I have a sneaking suspicion the first game shed people in those two camps in droves.

[Dragaros]

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[Dragaros]

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[Dragaros]

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[Dragaros]

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[SciFlyBoy]

That's it really, I don't think their will be that much to change. I got all confidants to max rank last time. Waifu would be the big change I guess.

How did you manage to max all the confidants? Did you use a guide?

I would play (I can't afford to) a second time just to pay attention to the little things, like if something happens with the couple at school where the girl originally stalked him and other background things.

Did you collect all the room decorations you could? I think I only had 5 or so and I didn't get one from Makoto and I waifued the crap out of her.

[Deano]

How did you manage to max all the confidants? Did you use a guide?

I would play (I can't afford to) a second time just to pay attention to the little things, like if something happens with the couple at school where the girl originally stalked him and other background things.

Did you collect all the room decorations you could? I think I only had 5 or so and I didn't get one from Makoto and I waifued the crap out of her.

Yeah I did for some parts after following a friends advice. I don't think so no, you have to sacrifice certain confidant levels to get them all I believe.

I hope they will make reaching max rank with everyone a bit easier, it will depend on how many new events they add compared with the amount extra days they have.

I went with Kawakami because teacher waifu.

[TheodoricFriede]

How did you manage to max all the confidants? Did you use a guide?

I would play (I can't afford to) a second time just to pay attention to the little things, like if something happens with the couple at school where the girl originally stalked him and other background things.

Did you collect all the room decorations you could? I think I only had 5 or so and I didn't get one from Makoto and I waifued the crap out of her.

Yeah I did for some parts after following a friends advice. I don't think so no, you have to sacrifice certain confidant levels to get them all I believe.

I hope they will make reaching max rank with everyone a bit easier, it will depend on how many new events they add compared with the amount extra days they have.

I went with Kawakami because teacher waifu.

Its also waaaaaaay easier to max out confidants on a second playthrough. Because you'll get items that allow you to max out previously maxed out people quicker, and don't have to deal with stuff like studying or whatever to build up your stats.

Also Futaba 4 Life.

[Vol]

The crusade of middle class women against stained wood continues. In 2 weeks, two different jobs where we're made to paint big overhead beams from a nice, light stain to white. If it happens again, it must mean someone famous did it first, every year has a trend like that.

@Raga: PoE was my first isometric RPG, I beat it on Hard, and I did not fully grasp all the systems by the time I finished. It was balanced well enough that what I _did_ understand, mostly the best spells to keep around and plenty of consumables, was enough to make it through. Now, I suspect in Deadfire if you go big dick and make the hardest possible run with Magran's challenges, you have to absolutely understand every little system and prepare consumables and prebuff for every fight and shit. But if I can beat every fight in the game while employing brute force, is that a failure of the game design or a success of balance?

Sorta moot, since Microsoft bought them out, but we'll forever wonder if it'd done better if they could've stay afloat.