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malvarez1
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I haven’t played Xenoblade Chronicles 3 yet, so I can’t really compare it, but the new Metaphor game has a lot of excellent side quests; some would say they’re just as good as the main game!
As a Fortnite player myself, I find some of the hate it gets to be unfounded. Not that there aren’t legitimate reasons, but a lot of people seemed to start hating it just because of how popular it became. |
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Greed1914
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On the one hand, I am not at all surprised at which Godzilla they used for Fortnite. On the other hand, I am still disappointed. I really liked the look for Minus One. Godzilla looked like a monster meant to inspire fear. But other than that, yeah, it's another brand collab, and the more times you dip into that well, the less special each one becomes.
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darkchibi07
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Ahh yes, the character quests in Xenoblade Chronicles 3 are great stuff for both the main party and the heroes plus all the game benefits you get out of them! The one I was really iffy on was spoiler[the quest for Sena who ended up being tertiary in her own side quest! The story itself is fine, but it fits more towards Ghondor's and Shania's than Sena's. Pretty much the best you can get out of Sena is if you're able to unlock Segiri which has quite a number of prerequisites.]
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BadNewsBlues
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Guess Darkstalkers fans finally gave up. |
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Fluwm
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Now I find myself deeply in the mood to replay through my favorite Breath of Fire game... only I can't remember which one it was. BoF3 or Bof4? Could be either one. Shame there's no go-to platform for either (and I'm a bit too afraid of seeing whether or not my Vita will still turn on to even try)... so I guess it's time to see how well the emulation's working.
Speaking of, I don't think I ever finished playing through the 5th Breath of Fire game. I kind of... lost interest in it. Maybe I should go back and give it another go, instead. ...Assuming my old PS3 still works.....
Absolutely mind-boggling that you were able to write this sentence so soon after mentioning that you were unfamiliar with the recent games. It feels wrong, somehow, that you should be able to characterize the series as not just chuuni, but too chuuni without having played through Tales of Berseria -- the most chuuni game to ever chuuni it's way into being the chuuniest possible game to chuuni. This is like accurately judging the size of a mountain range from a glimpse of the foothills. 
I will forever be thankful to Tales of Zestiria for introducing me to Superfly... whose opening was, unfortunately, cut from the overseas release of the game. (Wanted to link to Superfly's wiki page -- here's that link, by the way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfly_(band) -- but you'll have to copy-and-paste it, because evidently the forum can't handle URLs with underscores, which is... odd. But here we are.) |
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i got the shivers!
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I guess it's not surprising people forgot about Breath of Fire 6 already.
 My only reason for not wanting more Breath of Fire is I'm not sure modern Capcom would do it justice. I'm worried it'll go the Tales of Arise/Final Fantasy 16 route and try to aim for the Game of Thrones audience and also make it action game rather rather than an RPG because those are dead apparently despite games like Metaphor doing well. Which is also why I'm worried about the next numbered Dragon Quest game which is supposed to be following a similar path of being the more darker and edgier entry.
I'm not sure if Tales will ever fully recover without Hideo Baba working on them anymore. Those were some of my favorite RPGs of all time. It's a shame to see how much the series has suffered since he left. Never say never though. If you asked me over a year ago if we'd have gotten an amazing remake/remaster of Star Ocean: The Second Story I'd have said you were crazy and there's no way. Still hoping for that Blue Sphere remake using the same engine
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Nate148
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Not cut just instrumental like Karma was on Abyss. |
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BadNewsBlues
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Unless you’ve been habitually dropping it for or willfully damaging it or there’s some sort of design flaw/defect that randomly decides to rear its ugly head it should still work. Mine’s still does most frighteningly it’s worked having been left on for days even months in sleep mode more than once. Sure it occasionally needs to have it’s clock reset and menu fixed due to a DIY years earlier that was meant to fix a charging issue that also lead to me bricking it’s memory card and wiping out all the save data on it. And I’ve recently discovered the start button is acting up. But otherwise Little bastard is still hanging tough all the years on.m
Dragon Quarter didn’t exactly do it justice either hence why the series was dormant up until then. |
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Bvick00
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 I played both of these games till their EOS. Then their was Tales of Link that ended in 2018 and Tales of the Rays (I played this one as well) whose Global and Japan servers closed in 2018 and 2024 respectively.
Yeah I don't have any particular strong feelings towards Godzilla inclusion in Fortnite neither, it just the inevitable crossover into the Ready Player One-esque world that Fortnite has become. I mostly tike crossovers that makes sense like Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog (It was okay IMO, but at least I got to see my favourite pink dog after a long time), the Marvel/DC crossovers in the comics, that one time Invincible crossed over into Spider-Man's world in the comics (which sadly couldn't be replicated one to one in the animated show due to the character rights being split between Sony and Disney, so they had to make their own spoofs as stand-ins). I was not a fan of all the cameos in Space Jam : A New Legacy, they served one purpose: to be an ad for HBO Max (it is by far the most blatant and excessive case of product placements I have ever seen in a film). And as for Funko Pops, it's a mixed bag for me - I feel both a sense of grimness (they all look samey, no to little variations in poses, black soulless eyes) and a sense of amusement (if your character gets Funko Pop'd, you have hit the big leagues ). My elder brother likes collecting them and he even gifted me two of them......looks over to Funko Pop Meowth and Dobby...... gets up from my chair and turns their boxes around....even though he knows I'm not a fan of them  and that I prefer anime figurines that have different poses to them, damn it!
Considering it was a Japan only, free to play game that barely lastly over a year after it's release, it makes complete sense that people forgot about it
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Doubleclouder
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I'm not sure if you're implying Dragon Quarter was 6 or not but it was the 5th game. 6 was the mobile game that only released in Japan after many long years and people were disappointed by. Dragon Quarter was odd. I liked the premise and the idea of a limited resource/time based RPG is interesting but I can easily see why people would not like it. The only other RPG like it I can think of is Natural Doctrine where MP was a finite resource and that also had a mixed reception. |
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An Unchosen One
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That's a funny thing to say when the series suffered after he became producer; both Xillia games were rushed to point of being incomplete, and Zestiria was half the game it could have been because he forced the dev team to change who the heroine was without also delaying it. If anything, Berseria was a sign that the series would recover because of his departure, though who it's hard to say how things will ultimately go under Tomizawa. |
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FinalVentCard
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Fortnite is a fun game, I think there's something to be said about how there are so many "games" inside of Fortnite (moreso when they try to add in new mini-games for all of their crossovers). I think the biggest genuine issues are how much Fortnite has dominated the gaming space such that any game that releases is competing with it.
spoiler[Yeah, after finishing Sena's quest I was a bit surprised to see the notification for her class pop up because the whole thing really did feel like Ghondor's quest more than anything But I still really love the character stuff they do with those quests; on paper, a quest about Triton mourning an old friend shouldn't be that engaging, but the execution stuck with me. I also like how so many of those side-quests touch on major story plot-threads--like Taion's sub-quest having Eunie bring up the time she found her remains from a previous life and they start questioning what they might have been like in their past lives. I think it's fair to say that XB3 doesn't quite succeed at all of the many themes it tries to juggle, but the character writing is just superb.]
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BadNewsBlues
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Yes I know of DQ being the 5th game and the mobile game being the 6th hence my prior point of Capcom doing noting major with the series in between those two games. Because DQ’s quirky elements chasing fans away. |
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LinkTSwordmaster
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Kudos for making it through another year. |
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Nate148
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the games were the bestselling dude get over your hate mode also the zestiria lies are just 4chan shit nothing more |
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