Dynasty Warriors Origins is like Dark Souls if you were 500x stronger than in Dark Souls

This is funny to me. It’s like trying to posit that Lincoln was so fundamentally anti-slavery through sheer principle that he would inspire anti-slavery movements in any scenario removed from his presidency in America. It’s like they had to give him some special effect so they just gave him the thing he’s most known for doing like it was his life’s work or something

Symphony of the Night were catastrophic game design mistakes

Oblivion I think has the perfect mix of dialogue options and voice acting. Once you get over the fact that everyone in the world shares like 5 voices, it feels more natural. Morrowind I think is better written and its lore and questlines make more sense and are more fleshed out, but goddamn are those motherfuckers longwinded. You’re telling me I can walk up to someone and barrage them with questions and they’ll spout a wiki worth of information at me? Nah, I like Oblivion’s more limited options. You can ask the average person 4 or 5 questions before they’re like “Okay now get the fuck outta my face and do the job, chump”.

Namek after Frieza’s attack but before his death

Yeah considering just asking “why is Liquid doing this and how did he do it?” Require thesis-length explanations. It’s not Liquid is just a terrorist who wants to nuke the world and rule the ashes. Everybody involved in this plan has multi-faceted ideological motivations and their life events themselves that SHAPED their ideologies have far reaching historical implications. Liquids mere existence is a vast conspiracy implicating the darkest secrets of the world’s superpowers.

The thing that disappointed me is how bleed seems to still be optimal and it’s never more apparent than

I’ve been saying this. Assassinating two cops to start a brawl where you dance through 15 other guys cutting them all down like an Italian John Wick is so much more fun than slamming a sword into a guy’s face 8 times because “oouuugh he’s 3 levels higher than meeee”

On one hand, I agree because it’s so cliche to have every villain come back over and over in a saturday morning cartoon fashion. On the other hand, I love Bison and Urien’s design and how they play so I would very much enjoy them being included in every game as long as it’s a flashback version or something and they’re not actually in the current story arc because they live forever or have revived for the 3rd time or some stupid shit

They’ve been excluding Dudley for 2 games in a row now and they even removed Balrog because they’re patting themselves on the back with Ed who is just about the worst boxer archetype they’ve made yet.

Sheesh there’s just way too many to narrow it down to my “favorite” so I’ll try to give two interesting answers rather than just listing all the ones I enjoyed most.

Way of the Samurai is the PS2 game I’d like to see remade most out of all the games that haven’t been remade already. It was jank but the combat had a lot of hidden depth, and the story could be changed by so many small compounding choices. It has insane replay value. Also the soundtrack is fucking great. Same composer as Tenchu and it shows. I’ve been whistling “Brutal Heart” and Tamagawa’s theme to myself for years.

The PS2 version of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed I think is baffling better than its PS3 counterpart you’re meant to like more. It has a lot more content than you’d expect for an inferior version made for a dying console, they absolutely did not phone it in. The PS3 version I think has a more cohesive story with a lot more fluff trimmed though and it feels more like an original modern Star Wars entry whereas the PS2 version feels like its firmly stuck in the discarded extended universe where all the non-canon stories die

I loved this game when I was a young’un, I played this, Alpha 2, and Tekken 3 with my older brother and have been obsessed with fighting games ever since. Capcom’s PS1-era spritework is immaculate and even modern indie games struggle to match it.

I’m biased in favor of Charlie Nash but I have to give it to Cyclops because it schmooves too fucking hard even though I hate him as a character. Shame him or his theme didn’t survive for Marvel 3.

There’s no way I would be able to go through that whole self-serious movie and not crack a rib laughing at the scene way at the end where Kadaj transforms and Cloud’s reaction is “Sephiroth . . . . Whaddya want?” Like he just answered his mother’s 3rd phone call that day

I fought the overturned Bahamut simulation in Remake so I want to throw Chadley under the train in Midgar

Advent Children shows us that Rufus no sells that somehow

Akiyama’s battle theme in Y5 is so good I can’t even concentrate on fighting I’m just going

And speaking of Kiryu the remix of Rolling Eyes Fall that plays during that scene is godlike and made me shit my pants

Xrd and Strive have immaculate aesthetics but I’m a Tekken/Street Fighter weenie and I cannot abide GG’s controls. It makes me so mad

I still whistle the track Get It Together to myself lol. It’s like the first level’s track or something

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Yeah like every dialogue you have with the Corpse Brigade before you defeat them has the player going “Yeah hmm they’re kinda cooking Ramza you are a spoiled blue blooded punk that serves the interest of the ruling class at the expense of the common folk you rob but call thieves”.

But of course, the revolutionary forces are colluding with the temple knights who are secretly colluding with and/or are actual literal demons so they have to die to protect the royal families!!! We have to grease the economy with peasant blood or else everyone and everything will die!