Posts made by Mbun

@yoshi I don't think they sound alike at all.

@yoshi Lou Albano was a treasure, and I won't hear otherwise.

@sheria They likely are, and this is work that'll be touched up to carry over to it.

@dipset said:

I can't think of very much off the top of my head but I recall playing P5 on Easy or Normal and just breezing through the game. Then there was this boss with paintings for body parts (like eyes, mouth, nose are all different painting frames) and the fucker just one shot squad wiped me. On second attempt, I mopped the floor with him. Idk what happened.

I think this happened to alot of players. I can't remember if you learn to target a threatening part first after it wipes you the first time or if the boss has some kind of counter move you learn to avoid, but it is one of those if I remember correctly.

@jdincinerator I didn't think that boss was that hard, besides not understanding I could move near the end. Now Octo Expansion's secret boss, that was a hard fight.

I only ended up halfwatching this while playing Fall Guys, but it seemed like it had some cool stuff. I'd rewatch it, but I know we'll likely see a bunch of it many more times before release, so I'm not going to bother.

@jdincinerator Besides the minigame enjoying crowd, I foresee people getting tired of these very quick with having to rely on the extremely inept and weird rental Pokemon only. The game is already very hard without half your Pokemon's Moves being nonsense you'd never want to use.

VAPORWARE REBORN ANEW

@jdincinerator It isn't even close to exclusive to Shooter weapons, but weapons that are better at covering Turf do tend to be better at Turf Wars. That said, splatting players prevents them from inking turf while your team has time to recover inked turf, so it is still helpful in Turf Wars to take people out. It is just harder to then recover inked turf if you are trying to use a weapon that's bad at that, so you're more reliant on your team having an even composition, so there's people to reclaim it while you focus on taking opponents out.

Like you said though, basically all the Ranked Modes are about an entirely different thing, which lends more room for some of the weapons that aren't very good at inking turf. Also, Salmon Run exists and is full of bosses and general situations where each Weapon excels differently. You're forced to use different stuff each Round of it, so it is good for getting used to a bunch of different kinds of playstyles and learning their strengths and weaknesses.

@jdincinerator Nice to see Nintendo didn't go the pretentious route and call it Breath of the Wild Part II.

@dmcmaster welcome back SunSoft

@jdincinerator Good luck trying to beat the story mode of either with the Rental Teams.

@dmcmaster Sakurai posted bragging about his DVD Masters of the episodes. Thought it was funny, especially that he had to specify that they're not for sale.

@jdincinerator said:

do you think we'll ever see a third game?

Probably never. The devs have straight up said that'd be pointless to make today, since the mainline series is now on console essentially because of the Switch.

@yoshi Does that include the Squid Sisters / Off the Hook ones?

@yoshi I'm sure they just don't want to split the playerbase up too much, which would lead to slower matchmaking times.

@yoshi Least Salmon Run is always available now instead of going away for a couple days.

@yoshi Weird. I thought it was great and packed with cool stuff. Very few nitpicks like every Special not being new anymore and less diversity in the new hub than the subway in Octo Expansion. Other than that little stuff, it was sick.

@mbun said:

Apparently the Splatoon 3 eShop page right now claims it'll support Cloud Saves, which previous ones did not because you could exploit Skill Acquisition RNG through abusing Cloud Saves.

This is now confirmed via the website, which has a ton of extra information if you're interested.

Online Splatoon 3 data—like player level, ranks, items, and gear—is automatically stored in a server and connected to each player's Nintendo Account.

Since things like progress in Story Mode don't require an internet connection, they can be stored via the Save Data Cloud Backup service included in Nintendo Switch Online subscriptions.

@dipset said:

Either way, I just never really understood the appeal of Avatar. I had very little to latch onto.

No knock against people who like it, but like many are saying, I always felt like the hype for Avatar was pretty undeserved. Always felt like an okay but not great movie. The ending is especially plot armor thick, and I was not able to suspend my disbelief for the good guys winning the day with all they were up against, nor can I believe the military wouldn't immediately clap back at them after all that happened.

In general, I feel like it was just one of those movies certain types of people normally would never watch, but because it became mainstream zeitgeist, it got people who normally never watch stuff like that to see it, which lead to the results we saw with people raving about something kind of average to people used to that kind of fantasy setting. Really not that different than people growing up on Harry Potter versus any other fantasy with magic.

@dmcmaster I don't follow Avatar, but that seems like a generous guesstimate for when the 4th one would come out considering the second one isn't even out, and it has been 13 years since the original.