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Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

Because it truly never ends. Thanks Twitter.

Lost Ark is actively being censored in the US, and they darkened many of the Asian characters skin for the US 'Muh Diversity' crowd. (Look at her fucking eyes.)

Hi, uncanny valley. How are you?

Changed Outfits (Many clothing options were simply removed from the game.)

Less content. (Less customizations presets for characters.

Also, addressing this (or any other perceived problem) will get you permabanned from the community hub.

And all of a sudden, now I know why its being defended on social media. And me thinks it has very little to do with the game's combat.

Though hilariously, it became an Amazon product only a few months before its US release. So it's another Disney situation, where a multi-billion dollar company is being blindly defended for actively making a product worse.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

Real text on a positive rated Lost Ark Review on reddit. (All about it not being pay to win.)

"To determine if Lost Ark is a Pay to Win game, you first need to know what Pay to Win is.

Pay to Win literally means you have to spend money to win.

If you spend money and lose, it is not Pay to Win."

What a bunch of absolute horseshit.

If I keep looking at people defending this game I might hate this game with a fiery passion. (Note, I didn't even actively look for this. It was just in my feed.)

@Fabricant451 Is this one right too? <.<

Because my real question/point, is you're making two separate arguments. 1. It has no bad practices. 2. Others games with bad practices are worse. (You do understand why one doesn't fit the other, yes?)

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

That twitter person is right.

@Fabricant451

The statement is vague and misses the point at best. But we'll agree to disagree. No game needs to be pay to win. To make money, or to get people to buy things in it.

1. Lost Ark isn't pay to win.

2. There are dozens of worse examples of bad monetization practices than Lost Ark.

@Fabricant451

Seems a bit contradicting in those statements. In what they're implying. But most bad monetization practices aren't so zealously defended. Like I'm seeing online. Not from you specifically mind.

You can't have sex with characters in those games, but you can in Lost Ark.

@Fabricant451

It all suddenly adds up.

But yeah, I have a feeling I wouldn't have a better time here than Torchlight. Though, it's nice that you had fun, I guess.

I mean even the people I've seen defending the game, casually talk about how it'll die down in hype and go away in a month. And for a f*cking MMO. That's NOT AT ALL a good thing. This isn't a flavor of the month indie title. A good MMO, will not die in a month.

Tell me that doesn't look like a mobile game RPG screen

I've looked up and seen one of the "cinematic dungeons" and they look nice enough.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

And saying it doesn't look better than mobile games is a bit disingenuous.

@Fabricant451

doesn't look much better gameplay wise than those Diablo ripoff games on the android.

Good thing I didn't say that. :D

But my rant paragraph structuring was bad, so I don't blame you.

I think your problem is sourcing opinions from people you deem to be paid hacks.

Okay, so. If I found a trusted reviewer in my YouTube search, after scrolling through pages of it. I would've.

But to get into part two of that rant. If Lost Ark didn't exist. I wouldn't have seen a random unfollowed user on twitter say, "Guys, some play to win games are good. And some not pay to win games are bad. Guys. Guys."

With the entire comment section grilling him for the fact he used to go after bad monetization practices, and also knew exactly what game he was defending. (And I use paid hacks semi-ironically. Youtubers gotta eat too. But it's only because the game has spent "Raid:Shadow Legends" money on advertising itself/paying people daily to play & stream it.

I think it's just because I heard some fuck with a thick accent, pretend to be excited when he could jump in an MMO. And it made me lose my mind.

I can't deny that the moment to moment fighting of enemies is solid enough to be better than garden variety ARPGs.

@Fabricant451

I've loved to hear examples of ARPG'S it's better than in comparison.

But I suppose everyone said the same thing about Tera too. About how great the combat system is. And eh? I suppose it's probably more fun to play, then it is to watch.

But the kind of zealous online defense and equal parts hatred that I'm seeing from the community about this dated MMORPG. I think I'll stick with the cash grab I'm already fooling myself into playing. Thanks.

Toontown | The Guild's #1 Stop for Cartoon Discussion

Still need to get to the other seasons, but the first season of Infinity Train is almost the perfect response/counterpart to the last show I watched.

The main character is lost somewhere unknown, and actually acts like she wants to get somewhere fast. The show does its dark and playful scenes far better. (And the character hates singing songs in cartoons as much as I do.)

Plus, almost all the jokes are dogs are cute and morbid humor. Both things which I'm a sucker for. So yeah, it was pretty entertaining/well-animated. (Now I'm just waiting for them to fuck things up.)

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If I could give my original two cents on Korra. I honestly didn't find the first season all that bad on my first uncritical viewing. (Maybe a 6/10.) Liked the bad guy in concept, and didn't care that much about the anti-climax ending that bothered others more.

But the 2nd season turned me off so fast. And I wouldn't even be able to tell you exactly why. But watching glimpses of episodes throughout while my friend/roommate watched it. I think I'd hate it for the same reason I found Digimon Frontier so insufferable to watch.

1. BAD, like VERY BAD, comedy.
2. The lead is a mary sue/stew character.
3. Your hero still loses every goddamn fight.

You know, most people like characters having to train, then overcome their battles. But if you're going to be "I'M THE AVATAR AND YOU HAFFTA DEAL WITH IT." or "Friendship. Friendship! Friieendshiip!" And be unlikeable as sin every episode, you could at least outsmart your opponents and win some battles on your own maybe. <.<'

(Don't know if its even fully accurate to Korra. But every time I looked at the screen, it was either (A.) A god awful joke. (B.) Korra being unlikeable. (C.) Korra failing.

Current Mood in One Gif

I love how unironically lazy this gif is as well. I wish I made it.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

>searches "Lost Ark gameplay" on youtube, and gets a bunch of random paid hacks with carbon copied titles of each other.

Oh. Oh...it's one of these games, isn't it?

>clicks a first impression video

"Wowie, this game looks so good and fun." (It's an empty ass map.) "Wow. There's ver-ti-cal-ity in the maps, that's rarely been done in a top down ARPG before." (Like actually go f*ck yourself. That happens in even mobile ARPGs.)

>Shows several boss fight combats that don't even look flashy. Let alone any better than any other mmorpg that I've played ages ago.

This...this doesn't even look better than Path Of Exile. (Or New World, since it's trying to pass itself off as an MMO worthy of your time.) And it...it honestly doesn't look much better gameplay wise than those Diablo ripoff games on the android.

>The youtuber's hilarious cons are that leveling your character is boring and that it's "probably pay to win".

Are you f**king kidding me?

>And one of his pros, and I quote.

"This games endgame has raid bosses, that are harder than anything else in the game previously. And hard raid boss content isn't something you really ever see in MMORPS." (Hard end game content, and raids are in basically FUCKING EVERYTHING!)

Rant over. I made a mistake being curious.

What Are You Listening To?

Spoon's New Album - More Than Fine/10 (Sounds like a Switchfoot Album. Not a bad song on it. One of the few recent albums that I've been able to get through in one sitting, actually.)

Toontown | The Guild's #1 Stop for Cartoon Discussion

Over The Garden Wall has way too much bad singing in a show about dying kids. 6/10