@mbun said in Least Favourite Videogame Characters:

Modern Lara Croft is an inhuman psychopath, and I'm ready for them to rereboot the franchise just to get away from that awful torture porn interpretation of her.

@el-shmiablo said in Least Favourite Videogame Characters:

I mean, that's literally every protagonist in a game where you have to kill people.

I like to think of this as the Nathan Drake Conundrum, lol.

I wouldn't say I hate him, but I dislike Sephiroth. Though it's no fault of his own, and it's partially due to hating my teenage self who used Sephiroth aliases too much. I think he has weird characterization. He feels like a bad guy who read a book on how to be a bad guy.

Big swords don't compensate for personality. Just sayin.

@axel It took me between 30-40 runs to beat it the first time. Funny enough my first beat was with my least favorite weapon, but my damage output was absurd. I think the third world in general is the most difficult.

You'll probably die in the fourth one, but it's easier to understand what's going on than the third world IMO.

I just completed my first run of Hades. Not sure how many total runs it will take to get the real ending, but I think I'm gonna go back to FF7 Remake for now.

Hades is def one of the best roguelikes I've played in a while though. There is so much content to uncover in Hades and somehow it doesn't feel overwhelming.

I only put it as an HM, but I still wish Dragon Quest XI made it.

Other than that, I'm really surprised that Bioshock Infinite didn't make it. I had it in my top ten.

This was the most difficult game to place for me. I think it's better than an honorable mention suggests, but it isn't groundbreaking or a must-play-game.

In fact, the progression of the game and its world is really similar to Arkham City. However, Spiderman has much more freedom when it comes to playstyle. The different ways you can combo enemies and customize your specials/costumes are fantastic. Also, it has the best open-world Manhattan. I'm really glad they didn't add other boroughs. That would have been overkill.

I wasn't a fan of the segments where you're not fighting, and instead just being human because of the story. Also, the minigames were not my thing. Since I'm splitting hairs at this point, I also wish they went with sassy MJ a la the 90's cartoon. Sassy MJ is my jam.

I'm excited about a Final Fantasy game again. 2020 is the strangest of roller coasters.

@tokyoslim said in The EZA Forums Top 50 Games of the 2010s!:

Fun fact, you cannot in fact "clear the map". It just generates fetch quests in perpetuity

Not going to lie, this fact kind of blew my mind.

Skyrim is a lot like League of Legends. It's a pain in the ass to acknowledge that both games are still fun ( to an extent ), changed gaming in multiple ways, and that they're still relevant a decade later. For League, the game is toxic, the culture and hype surrounding the game feeds the toxicity, and it's not better or worse than DOTA 2. With Skyrim, the game is janky, repetitive, and slightly empty.

And despite that, gamers still enjoy both of those games. For hours. Sometimes hundreds. Gotta respect those numbers.

I love Mass Effect 1, but that game was from such an old era of game design. Many design choices existed because RPG fans either have no issues with them or outright expected them. Sidequests that became formulaic. large empty zones, cumbersome inventory management, overlapping character skillsets, etc.

Mass Effect 2 tweaked all of those choices and felt like playing the future. Sometimes it still seems like the future. No need to explore big empty zones in order to find resources. No more picking up the same item over and over. Despite some overlapping skills, every character is unique enough that personal playstyle dictates the team choice. Also, if an area was reskinned, it wasn't as obvious as in Skyrim or ME1.

Also, one thing I like about all of ME games is that replaying them on higher difficulties is fun and feels novel.

A streamer got a Hot Chip song stuck in my head. Pretty funny video

Hot Chip - I Feel Better

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I had a pretty big classic rock phase around fifteen years ago when I was a teen. Though, I suppose you can't avoid classic rock when learning guitar.

The two most resonant classic rocky bands to me are Big Star and The Beatles. The Band, to me, is also pretty timeless.
I do also love Booker T and The M.G.'S, but I don't consider them a classic rock band.

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