System Wars Lounge v69-The "verbtex is not kill" Edition!

Nice to hear. I heard it has currently a 100% rotten tomatoes rating.

Do you know if it is closer to Disney's Version or the original novel?

Seems to be a very common complaint about the combat. It simply put lacks any weight. Which makes hitting the enemy very unfun.

I honestly expect the game to be very mediocre. The team has suffered from serious problems, with the team making some heavy switches, to the point of switching out over half the team. Switching of hardware, overambition are too other issues. In fact, if the game ends up being rushed, it will face all the same development issues that plagued this masterpiece,

Oh, so it's Bayonetta.

So it turns out what I thought was the herb in question (in Earthbound) was actually not the same herb and therefore STILL had to hoof it all the way back to Twoson. But all's well that ends well; I am now in Threed.

I have somewhat high hopes for this film. Though I am disappointed they did not CG Christopher Walken's face onto the body of the monkey. Missed opportunity if ever there was one.

Well I think this Jungle Book will be a much better improvements then from the early 90's live action Jungle Book movie. The trailers got me all hype up as it is but for now, I'm just gonna focus on Hardcore Henry this Friday.

@Blabadon: Not really, more like Kingdom Hearts if you've played those games.

I didn't think to compare the two, but now that you mention it I think I will. The 90s version (I'm assuming you're referring to the one starring Jason Scott Lee as Mowgli) was closer to the original novel, which was a refreshing change all things considered. I'm eager to see this new one's take; closer to the Disney version, or classic?

Good word of mouth this early is nice though.

@Maroxad: It's closer to the original rather than Disney's adaptations.

@mmmwksil: I'm pretty pumped for it. The voice talent is pretty good for it too, but I will probably watch this in Hindi, as I think they got the original soundtrack as well as voice actors from the 1980s-1990s Jungle Book cartoon back for the Hindi dub.

it also launches in India this week, which makes me happy.

@93BlackHawk93: Goat

Gents you two are confusing the enemy itself getting stunned, with me saying the gamefeel is straight up limp. I'm saying the slashes down to any visual and immediate feedback be it your controller or audio fucking suck. Shit's limp, it's lifeless, it has nothing going for it. And no the enemy being giant and iron doesn't fly as a defense, because that type of enemy has been in good video games, and basic game feel strengths are visible in those games, because well they were good games, not made by glorified hacks. Which is Square Enix.

@jg4xchamphas a point. It's not the monster in question, it's the game's combat in general.

It's crap. It lacks any sense of tension or urgency, despite all the flash of warping around and summoning a million different weapons at will. This was also an issue with the Duscae demo; what combat the demo threw at the player was not only sloppy to partake in, there just wasn't any reason to fear for the safety of my party.

What fascinates me about this is Square has done this kind of combat before. With Kingdom Hearts. And while that game isn't great, at least it was far more engaging than anything the Duscae demo had. Not to mention it played MUCH better. It makes me wonder if someone at the company doesn't want similar ideas being used in multiple franchises.

Side note: the same thing happened back in 2006-2007 with Kingdom Hearts 2 and Dawn of Mana. Both developed in house by Square, both the same kind of game. I seriously think the teams have no communication, or aren't allowed to communicate.

Well you guys would know more then me, since I haven't played it ahaha.

I see what you mean now though Champ, about the feedback. I just really want this game to be good, it looks cool but yeah I guess Square has been pretty shitty for a decade now. We'll see if they can redeem the game by launch I guess.

The problem is there aren't enough stretches to really mess with regular mooks like that in the demo, would like to see the guy in that video against vanilla enemies. Just to see if you can launch people n stuff.

Okay, I've kind of changed my mind on one of the Smash DLC characters I had VERY ranty thoughts about before and decided to buy her (primarily because my siblings wanted more characters). Why? Well, ask this R-rated Marvel comics character that managed to still get in something as family friendly as LEGO.

The FF demo just feels awful. Even beyond the gameplay, it looks like a last gen game with current gen lighting. Some of the videos out there look great, but the demo itself is just so damn underwhelming.

I'm not going to write the game off simply because of a poor demo, the FFXII demo was also garbage and I ended up enjoying that game very much.

And I'll definitely pick up the full game eventually, I've played all the main series titles so it just feels like an obligation at this point. Hopefully it turns out good. I'll probably hold out as long as I can to see if there is a PC version because that aliasing and performance is just fucking lulz.

Really though, I just don't get the hype. Saw all these "ZOMG GOTY" comments recently, but tbh if this game didn't have the FF name I doubt we'd even be talking about it.

If this demo is in any way indicative of what we'll be getting in the final product then we've already had plenty of better games this year.

Unicatdograbit is cool though.

@CountBleck12 said:

It's done, now to draw like this for upcoming illustrations.

I'm interested in seeing the final project.

@charizard1605: That is great. I loved the original book. Disney sure is on a roll as of late, First Zootopia and now this.

@jg4xchamp

Unrelated, check this out.

@charizard1605: number 6 is already so good, just a reason writing in this medium will continue to suffer as long as writers and gameplay designers clash on the length of their experiences.

Good find.

Finally, my BenQ monitor has arrived!

F**k the walking dead. Been waiting all this season to see who dies at the hand of lucile but no amc had to do a cliffhanger.

I'm such a wiiabuu. Took me forever to get these at a good price.

Just finished Steins;Gate.

That was... damn.

@charizard1605: True ending?

Yep. Got the other five first, then went for the True Ending.

Speaking of which, the first time I played it, I played it blind and got the Suzuha Ending, and that is... rough. Yikes.

@charizard1605: Amazing isn't it? Now go watch the anime!

I finally got around to trying Earthbound Beginnings. Game feels a bit unresponsive while exploring, but I assume that's a NES charm?

Also, the game is pretty brutal. But I'm having fun.

I don't know if the anime can recapture the way the game is, lol. This sort of non linear storytelling works best in games.

@charizard1605: In all honestly it doesn't. Even the art style doesn't translate well and other aspect loses some of the charm in the anime adaptation but it still is a joy to watch. You'll get something out of it for sure and don't worry; English cast is great. S;G is the number 1 rated anime at myanimelist and that's saying something.

Might watch it just for the English dub- shame the game didn't have one (I just turned off the voices, because foreign language voices really distract me).

@charizard1605: That's actually the reason I went out and bought the blu ray. Even as a wiiabuu I prefer my native language over the original source; especially in an animation when both all languages are technically dubs. Only in live action is when I understand the argument of dubs vs subs.

Kurisu in English = <3

Found a copy of Pokemon Soul Silver. This game is harder to find than a quality NathanDrakeSwag thread.

@Gamerno6666: has to be Eugene or Abraham.

S;G is number 3 while Gintama and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood are number 1 and 2 respectively.

It updated? I sworn S;G was 1 followed by FMAB and OG Gintama. Wasn't even aware there was a new Gintama...

@93BlackHawk93: You need to play Steins;Gate (please do it before the anime)

@charizard1605: I want to buy and complete the Steam version of Clannad before going into another meaty VN.

What is Clannad, what is it about, and would you recommend it?

@charizard1605: no, no and no.

My two cents.

A coming-of-age story about a jaded teenager tired of his daily school life.

I recommend. Dunno if you'd like it though.

Why so?

Not a stellar job of selling me on it :p

I think my boy here answered that question.

If you like slice of life stories, then Clannad is one of the best (anime wise at least). I watched the show, didn't play the visual novel, but I think the show is based off of the novel (not sure which came first) which I hear is really good.

There are definitely gut-wrenching emotional moments to be had there. It's a mix of happy, sad, funny, basically a bit of everything.

You guys just don't like bittersweetness.

You will not find a bigger fan of the Slice of Life genre on this board. (Maybe).

Clannad was garbage.

No uh.

How so? I thought Clannad was amazing! What would be an example of a good one? (anime or visual novel)

After watching Clannad I wanted to watch more slice of life anime, but from what I've heard, nothing else is as good.