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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

HerraS posted:

to be more accurate the plot and the characters was extremely my poo poo, combat was boring as gently caress because you always fight the same loving group of dudes/evil magic farts/werewolves thru the entire game

yeah the combat in pillars was a ton better, but Tyranny's setting ruled

greetings, I am here as a wandering bronze age lawyer/weapon of mass destruction distributor for the evil empire, how's your day going, please refer all complaints to the hideous monsters I call my soldiers

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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

sorry, couldn't hear you over the sound of encounter design being a thing that exists

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Jose posted:

pillars combat was absolutely poo poo lol oh no lets make combat boring as gently caress if you want to cast magic

depends on what you're looking for combat to be, tbh

if you want it to be an exercise in puzzle-solving, with different characters' different skillsets requiring different applications depending on the enemies' strengths and weaknesses, pillars is unquestionably the superior game

if you want it to be a series of nerds exploding in increasingly silly ways as you acquire more toys, and the only question being precisely how you wizard the enemy to death, you will prefer tyranny

tyranny's combat system was fun. tyranny's combat was loving awful. pillars' combat system was meh, but its combat was excellent.

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

jBrereton posted:

The puzzle of apply as many debuffs as possible and hit them with a sword, yes very good.

which debuffs, where, to counter what, putting who up front and who in back, etc etc

compare to tyranny, where the strategy is pretty much without exception "buff your weapons, giggle"

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

StashAugustine posted:

yeah i never really got into it but it was at least trying to be a good game whereas be was just civ 5 but worse in every way

the writing was just so offensively bad tho

honestly think if they'd had different voice actors say the quotes that are attributed to them in the tech/building things it would have gone a long way towards fixing the blandness

if you read the space-wikipedia bits on the techs in BE there is some characterization, but only learning who's saying something at the end changes it substantially

like, the quote about "we have found alien life, thus far we have determined like all other life it eats, reproduces, and does not understand french" is great. congratulations, you've found alien life, and your reaction is a self-centered quip. you now know a decent fraction about one of the faction leaders!

but it's delivered by the same person who delivers all the other quotes in the exact same tone, boring as nuts, and instantly skipped over

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

HerraS posted:

no one really wanted dlc about maharajas and offmap emperors in a game about being an rear end in a top hat european feudal lord but giving loving new zealand their own content before china in a game about world war 2 was dumb, dumb and loving dumb

in fairness the absolute shitshow of the british dominions on launch needed addressing

and as long as you're unfucking india, south africa, and canada, you gotta give the greater aussie area something to work with

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Fallen Hamprince posted:

you know crowsbeak i've really come to appreciate your frankness, so many of the other tankies put on airs but you've always been very clear about being in it for the legal serial killing

game recognize game

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Typo posted:

I have actually asked this question to older chinese farmers

they told me back under collectivization their village was "same as africa"

now they are proud of the fact 20% of the household in their village own an automobile, their village has transformed into a prosperous little town since decollectivization at the beginning of the 1980s

they also have a lot of faith in General Secretary Xi's promises to correct inequality and corruption

I know this is tankie internet forum with 20 ppl posting about how leftist they are but let's face it: you posters would never, ever voluntarily work as part of a people's agricultural production brigade for any longer than is necessary to virtual signal what good leftists you guys are

what did they have to say about the college left, ms. zito

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Jose posted:

sticking donnie yen in a film isn't pandering. the problem with rogue one is that its terrible and should have just been a star wars martial arts film starring donnie yen

rogue one was really good, it's just that it was one of those classic war/heist movies

where we don't bother even pretending any character is going to get an arc, you get your two lines of characterization and then your valiant sacrifice

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Jose posted:

it was really boring actually

we can't all get our kicks trying to gently caress a hurricane

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

i've tried to watch some chinese movies recently but these japanese villains start showing up and raping everything

bastard swordsman and return of bastard swordsman are quite good if you like wuxia

they hold off on getting real deep into the monstrous Japanese until the second one

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Victory Position posted:

hold on, I think I figured it out


*flips switch*

some day, Typo will realize the joke in how effortlessly his usual apologia on behalf of the people who brought you President Donald Trump transfers into apologia for someone ostensibly opposed to everything he pretends to believe.

ideally this day will come before he starts explaining why democrats tossing mexican children into death camps is less harmful to the left than aoc calling socialism a good idea on instagram, but we can't have everything

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Fallen Hamprince posted:

the chinese communist party (which is good) is definitely the same thing as the clinton era democratic party (very bad). you guys sure got typo on that one

c'mon, hamprince. where's the appreciation for an imperial authority showing those idiot rurals what's what

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006
the hell is it with today and people just going off with boredom-rage

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

LimburgLimbo posted:

I literally never once set out to own someone here and I don't even get how you can interpret it as that; not everything is ideological combat.

talking about how this particular ss unit never did anything wrong, unideologically, as one does

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

i mean it's pretty self explanatory

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Catpetter1981 posted:

Lol they locked the pyf tankies thread

rip

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

imagining a world where this actually came to pass and just smiling a little

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

FishBulbia posted:

So just to clarify, you think it would be wrong to judge Biden's policy choices? you will never have more facts about the situation than Biden personally did so how can you possibly know

Just To Clarify lol.

say what you mean you enormous baby

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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

the walmart liberal is very, very worried about china

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