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Drinkfist
Aug 2, 2005



Anoia posted:

I stopped watching One Piece after the time skip. The male members of the crew all got to look cooler, the two female members both got giant tits and cabana outfits.

I miss Nico Robin's cowboy outfit and reasonable figure. :smith:

They do a costume change every arc. Also the boobs just came out of nowhere. It just crept up on everyone until finally they reached insanity and everyone called Oda out on it.

Doesn't matter though because brook will always be the best dressed. :yohoho:

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Drinkfist
Aug 2, 2005



Pladdicus posted:

is reading one-piece a cool idea or naw?

also kingdom hearts is fun because of its story, not in spite of, poo poo is hella entertaining packin' in the most friendship speeches per minute of any anime

but mostly it stands up as a pretty great action rpg series with tons of flash and dialing poo poo up to 11. you get a transformation that lets you fly while wielding three swords at once.

also yoko shimomura composed most? if not all of the music and she's fantastic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGNccio7Jo4

I preferred Tension Rising.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQFHv4GOwlM

The whole era of RPGs during Playstation and Playstation 2 was great. Now any kind of decient RPG release is super rare. The reason for this I blame on the quality of graphics that the newer consoles demand from their playerbase. Remake any of the JRPGs now and it's budget would go though the roof. Most of those games had 80+ hours of playtime in them alone with constant scenery changes and dialogue/action cutscenes. Now even with a giant company backing a game you can only expect at 10-30 hour game at best save very very few special cases. Hell we experienced the power creep of graphical progression firsthand recently with the new Metal Gear that surpassed its previous game in budget by tens of millions of dollars and produced a vastly unfinished game. loving art assets we expect now are insanely expensive in both time and money to produce that it has killed a great degree of storytelling in big named companies and now can only be found within the indie market with callbacks to SNES era graphic styles.

The only reason we got an announcement for a Final Fantasy 7 remake is because its literally a money printing machine but I highly doubt it will surpass the original in terms of freedom of movement. The story has already been done as well so playing such an rpg is going to be hella weird when compared to first playthoughs of any rpg like its kind. I know a good number of you ate that poo poo up with titles like Xenosaga, Wild Arms, Dark Cloud, Final Fantasy 7-10, SMT Nocturne, Persona, .Hack, Suikoden and Shadow Hearts. Those games had some serious mileage but making those games today with our current demands for graphical quality would only be attempted if it was a sure thing (Like Persona and Final Fantasy) so all the shots in the dark that these once were is dead.

Shame. Good JRPGs are dead.

Drinkfist
Aug 2, 2005



quakster posted:

if you wanna read a long rear end shonen, one piece is probably your best bet. either that, or jojo

so yes, reading it is good and the only good way to experience it

http://kissmanga.com/Manga/One-Piece/One-Piece-1?id=7172

They also got One Punch Man!

Drinkfist
Aug 2, 2005



Broseph Brostar posted:

Franky is the best character and even though nobody likes him in Japan, he still gets plenty of screentime because he's clearly Oda's favorite.

He gets a giant robot after the timeskip and reaches peak anime



Probably because he isn't Japanese. Oda designed all the straw hats after national culture identities.



So Franky being an loudmouthed speedo super masculine gun nut that runs of cola is American as gently caress.

Drinkfist
Aug 2, 2005



lets hang out posted:

There are in fact good jrpgs coming out all the time

Really? Where? Please tell me them because I honestly thought the whole genre was one foot in the grave.

The last one I saw is Dark Souls. But they are beating that horse so loving hard right now.

Also I was more looking at the turn based/ active based battle system games that feature parties and long rear end storylines. Dark Souls is a Roguelike RPG that is really good poo poo but not in the same ballpark as what I was mentioning before.

Drinkfist
Aug 2, 2005



lewtt posted:

Maybe the tales of series? If you can handle the FRIENDSHIP

i saw a "tales of zesty" on steam actually

Every Tale game after Symphoina is total dogshit. Most of them literally just loving end storywise out of nowhere and then start up on some unrelated second act which is weird as gently caress. I refuse to give them any more money in hopes that it will make up for the piles of poo poo they got me to buy back in the day.

poo poo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_Legendia

Super poo poo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_Abyss

Unholy poo poo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_Graces

Boycotting from this point forward OMEGA poo poo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_Xillia


Ekster posted:

Uhh the Souls series is not a jRPG.

For one it has gameplay.

Created by the Japanease company responsible for Armored Core. It doesn't get more Japanese game dev than that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FromSoftware

The game is formatted around third person movement with gear and stat leveling and a grand backstory.

It's totally a JRPG.

Drinkfist fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Sep 28, 2015

Drinkfist
Aug 2, 2005



lets hang out posted:

The secret is playing it when you're twelve years old

This helped a lot. But I have recently done some revisits to the games of my childhood with emulators and discovered that not all of my childhood games were poo poo given todays standards of what passes for a video game. Hell I want to shower a lot of them with praise for such incredible polish due to the lack of non-volatile memory access and internet connections. Patching not being an option forced a great many companies to polish the poo poo out of their products and not take a poo poo on our chests to fix later like our games today.

Drinkfist
Aug 2, 2005



Motto posted:

during gen 7 a whole bunch moved to DS/PSP because consoles gradually stopped selling in japan while handhelds remained popular. They're giving the ps4 a chance, but they're still leaning on mobile platforms with stuff like dragon quest 11 being PS4/3DS.

Yeah but I don't know if Japan is still making games like they used to.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln7MBdwH3SM

Drinkfist
Aug 2, 2005



Eonwe posted:

Recommend me animes to watch the 1st episode of

I will pick one and do a trip report

Powerpuff Girls Z
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerpuff_Girls_Z

Everyday Life with Monster Girls
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Musume

My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreimo

No Game No Life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Game_No_Life

Lesbian Bear Storm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurikuma_Arashi

Tell us what you think after your first episode.

Drinkfist fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Sep 29, 2015

Drinkfist
Aug 2, 2005



The Taint Reaper posted:

You just described Tales of Xillia 1 and 2 FYI.

poo poo games. Both of em.

Drinkfist fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Sep 29, 2015

Drinkfist
Aug 2, 2005



lewtt posted:

im watching this ghost stories english dub thing while playing elite dangerous

why cant all anime be like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsYeeNywXL4

That is priceless. Here try my favorite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGw9MvK6Y6g

Drinkfist fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Sep 30, 2015

Drinkfist
Aug 2, 2005



Eonwe posted:

gently caress I forgot again

Make sure you watch the one with the Japanese schoolgirl is running to school with toast in her mouth and then bumps into something.

Or the one where a child finds a mech suit and gets in it to save people.

Or the one where :insert historical or mythical character here: goes and blends in with the community.

Or the one at combat superpower high school where everyone thinks the weakest kid with almost no powers is garbage but is in fact the strongest ever.

Drinkfist
Aug 2, 2005



Bringing this thread back to life.

Is there anything I should be playing/watching. This month has all been Grim Dawn and One Punch Man.

I know there is a update to 7 Days to Die coming soon so I might dive into that. Speaking of diving there is Helldivers i suppose but on higher difficulties you really need a guy that can toss a reenforcement beacon before he even has the radio out of his pocket like SovietBoat does.

I think Ghost in the Shell Online announced they were finally doing their open beta and I enjoyed the closed so Ill have a ok shooter on my hands.

Literally just counting the days till Xcom 2 and Persona 5 at this point. God Help me.

Drinkfist
Aug 2, 2005



This thread for me.



I tried.

Drinkfist
Aug 2, 2005



Pavlov posted:

Drink, I don't got a cell phone, what does your qr code say?

It says ThirdWorldReggin is a human being.

Drinkfist
Aug 2, 2005



Pavlov posted:

drat, should have guessed that.

Also Gunz gave me tendinitis from all the all the button-mashing animation-canceling. Fun timewaster though.

Gunz 2 was a great Anime game. It hits all the dumb and terrible checkmarks.

Drinkfist
Aug 2, 2005



I am not totally sure but I think the Koreans don't have the kind of marketing problem that we do in the USA.

Compare the Ghost in the Shell online Trailer from a year ago when it was announced in Korea:

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

To the current trailer announcing in USA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eEmwrahtVs

Its super sweet and all they managed to get the English voice actors back for Ghost in the Shell but I can't quite tell but something seems ... Different.

Its almost like the first video makes me interested and the second makes me not want to even be associated with it. Wonder what caused that.

Drinkfist
Aug 2, 2005



So you kids I bet are excited about Devilion and Blade and Soul this month.

Holy poo poo Bad Anime games galore.

Drinkfist
Aug 2, 2005



ITS FINALLY OUT

http://7daystodie.com/alpha-13-status-and-release-notes/

Drinkfist
Aug 2, 2005



Pavlov posted:

I know it sounds like I'm making poo poo up, but I had a history professor who made an explicit point about that.

I had a history teacher once tell me the Romans were the greatest civilization to ever walk the face of the earth. Clearly a madman. History teachers love blowing smoke up your rear end. Like did you know that Jesus was a jew?

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