Realizing
So, uh, does SquareEnix still have the Brave Fencer Musashi rights?
Seeing Japanese media regularly invoke “Esper” to mean “ESPer” makes me wonder if I was missing something with Final Fantasy 6
My first introduction to the concept of the Vietnam War was actually the NES platform-adventure adaptation of Rambo II
I'm giving you this for safekeeping:
📒🧳🗝️🦴🔪
Please hold onto it until I come back to pick it up. And don't tell anyone about it, okay?
Thank you, but I’m fine with not knowing what’s in this bottle!
Spy vs. Spy (First Star Software, 1984)
I hope that if tanks do become obsolete they get replaced by like infantrymen on motorcycles for mobility mixed with dispersal. Bring back the horse archer aesthetic
Two-man chariot teams but it’s a motorcycle driver and the guy in the side-car
I guess ATVs might actually make more sense, but that would be more of a post-apocalyptic vibe
I mean, that would be Literally Halo
is the sacred Toyota Hilux a joke to you people
Technicals are also Literally Halo, technically
I hope that if tanks do become obsolete they get replaced by like infantrymen on motorcycles for mobility mixed with dispersal. Bring back the horse archer aesthetic
Two-man chariot teams but it’s a motorcycle driver and the guy in the side-car
I guess ATVs might actually make more sense, but that would be more of a post-apocalyptic vibe
I mean, that would be Literally Halo
Favourite Final Fantasy airships? I think mine are the Blackjack from FF6, then maybe the Ragnarok from FF8 restyled a bit after the Celsius from X-2
meta-mascot adventure where Mario, Sonic, Gex, Acro the Acrobat, Bubsy the Bobcat, Crash Bandicoot, and Rayman have to team up to stop a villain who turns out to be Bonk
::realizes “if you hit all the face buttons right an otaku could kick people’s ass!” was only like the third most 90s thing about Xenogears::
Hate how I keep running across particular desert locations (usu. in range of LA and used for Western productions) I recognize from Red Dead Redemption
I’d doubt it was New Vegas that made “Big Iron” a thing again if I hadn’t seen Grand Theft Auto: Vice City canonize a bunch of ‘80s stuff already by then
Thinking about the effect on our understanding of war that RTSs don’t simulate morale, at best a crowd control effect, at best at best more effective against injured units.
Like, that you can train up the most basic armed-villager unit, immediately send it by itself into enemy territory, and then when it encounters an enemy heavy tell it to attack in a fight that’s doomed but delays and attrits them, and 100% of the time they’ll do it… that’s not really true to practice
The mons genre has a rule. Not every game follows it, but if a game doesn't, that's a flaw. Pokemon does follow it. The rule is: If You Fight It, You Can Have It.
Pokemon is a JRPG, so naturally you fight God. And then, Pokemon is a mons game, so You Can Have God.
fair enough!
You’re in the squad because of your optimized combat build and heavy weapons. I’m in the squad because they’re trying to romance me and want to hear my dialogue options. We are not the same.
The suitors burst into uproar all throughout the house
when they saw their leader down. They leapt from their seats,
milling about, desperate, scanning the stone walls—
not a shield in sight, no rugged spear to seize.
They wheeled on Odysseus, lashing out in fury:
“Stranger, shooting at men will cost your life!”“Your game is over—you, you’ve shot your last!”
“You’ll never escape your own headlong death!”
“You killed the best in Ithaca—our fine prince!”
“Vultures will eat your corpse!”
This is all Bethesda NPC dialogue
Odysseus runs out of the house and jumps in the water to cancel aggro then walks straight back in and everyone ignores him again
The funny thing is Xenosaga vs. Chrono Cross woulda been an interesting character fighter
