#fuck gacha games

[weaver-z]

I want everyone involved in the creation of this commercial to die

[professional-sephiroth-scrungler]

This is probably an old topic this point but im thinking about it and feel violent to whatever lol

I’m glad that they remade Crisis Core so that new fans or people who never played the original CC got to experience it with fresh paint. But MY GOD there are a couple gripes i have with Reunion which have mounted a bit more with Ever Crisis.

1. Personal Gripe. Idk if everyone has this issue or if the game has been updated to include this or not since but when i was playing, I had to stop at multiple points and take a break because motion blur makes me genuinely nauseous. And at the time, there was no way that i could find to turn it off. I tried modding it out myself and it didn’t work. I want to 100% the missions but i don’t know if i can because after 10 minutes, I feel like death. But i like the combat system better than the og so hhhhh idk

2. This is not a criticism of the voice actors at all. I’ve gotten used to the voices and I genuinely believe they are doing wonderfully as the characters now. My criticism is at the directors of the english dub of Reunion. The original Crisis Core’s english script can already feel clunky at times. The writing and story as a whole was clunky to begin with. But it really feels like the english voice directors sometimes gave the worst directions and said “Yes! Thats the one!” to the worst takes that sucked any life and personality the OG game cast had given those same lines.

3. I love the shiny, new graphics and animations. And i think there are a few new missions and some quality of life things and it being retranslated. Other than that, i don’t think there is anything new at all. I am certain Square knows that Crisis Core’s story is clunky, sometimes cheesy, probably rushed, and not well written at times. And they did NOTHING to fix it. They didn’t add a couple new chapters to clear anything up. They didn’t add any new dialogue or something to make the relationship and dynamic of the First trio more clear. They didn’t clean up the writing of Sephiroth’s downfall into madness. For the love of everything they could’ve done some justice to a character based off a real person at least in looks and cleaned Genesis’s story and writing. No. Instead…

4. IT LOOKS LIKE THEY’RE PUTTING ALL THAT CHARACTERIZATION AND CHARACTER DYNAMIC AND CLEAN UP IN THE FUCKING GACHA GAME THAT THEY UPDATE SO GOD DAMN INCONSISTENTLY IT MAKES ME WONDER IF THERE’S LIKE 2 PEOPLE WORKING ON EVER CRISIS. ARE THE PEOPLE AT SQUARE OKAY??? IDK BUT AAAAAA I HATE WHEN COMPANIES DO THIIIIIIS

Anyways, I hope you’re all having a wonderful night.

[meru90]

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[youngerfrankenstein]

Having fun because I like numbers wheeeeee!!!

Going over the vote counts for CYL to see how the game is doing player wise!

CYL 6 Numbers!

Total votes for places 1-30 : 327,723

Votes for 50th place : 1,887

Votes for 100th place : 979

Votes for 200th place : 489

CYL 7 Numbers!

Total votes for places 1-30 : 230,364

Votes for 50th place : 1,400

Votes for 100th place : 674

Votes for 200th place : 281

With these it looks like the player base has gone down by about 30% over the last year. Definitely a lot of factors; powercreep, newer and spiffier gacha’s, the fact it’s just getting old. Which makes me wonder about the future of the game.

KEEP IN MIND THOUGH this is not hard data. Not everyone who plays votes and not everyone who votes plays. Also botting is always a possibility. This is just a very rough estimate.

Also note that gacha’s do not need a lot of players, they rely on exploiting people who are susceptible to gambling addictions and having them pay oodles of money. Gacha’s are by nature predatory and they make most of their money from a very small percentage of the player base.

This is all just for fun.

[cleophantom]

Imagine if slot machines gave you stickers when you won. Oh wait, you don't, Genshin Impact exists.

[toastersnuggets]

I'm not playing honkai star rail or whatever the fuck

[heartorbit]

so when's the wxs phantom of the opera set

[pinyatapix]

random CrossCode sketches I did months ago when I was playing thru the game. Lea my sillygirl :>

PLAY IT IT'S PEAK FICTION

this one I did purely from memory of the squad

And obviously the best one I did lol

(i sucked at drawing that thumbs up hand hhdhj)

[evostrashbin]

Call of the void

[ganondoodle]

seeing a speedrun of botw all dungeons and even like that .... its so strange how soulless totk feels to me when botw didnt, allthough it feels much flatter to me now since i know there wasnt any thought put into the things i thought were meaningful and that it will go nowhere in the end

and yet still it feels like its got soul that totk just hasnt; botw is far from perfect, like everything really, but totk to me really feels like a clunky grind game with no trust in the player at all, be it puzzles or 'story', and a fundamental missunderstanding of why botws world design and structure worked well as a whole in the end

i honestly still cant quite understand how on earth botw got totk as its 'sequel', all the things that needed work in botw where neglected or made worse totk while it also failed to follow up on literally anything in a meaningful way- when i still think the changes it needed where so OBVIOUS and the directions to follow up and expand on things to enhance not just the sequel but also botw in retrospect where so plenty and ready for the taking, it hurts me still even to think about it not being done and everything really being actively thrown away for NOTHING or things that make it AND botw WORSE in retrospect instead

i wont ever be able to forgive that, and some part of me hopes that this is the worst that they will ever do so at least we will get better games again in the future

[outism-had-a-purpose]

Her handsome hag swag has left all my clothes on the floor

[skullssy]

I have fallen in love today

[gottaarc]

Oh my god y'all the fucking angst. The terrifying feeling of morphing into what haunts you. The storyline of becoming the thing most feared, not just for yourself but to the others around you. I knew there would be heavier themes in the game because of the horror elements but I was expecting 'oh teehee look at this creepy monster design' (which it does do a bit) not something that addresses the inherent fear of being othered under a corrupt institution. And Like, I saw it coming for a long time. I think I saw it coming ever since Vagastrom honestly, lurking in the backdrop, and it's not really subtle about it but the last two chapters really just hit the nail on the head. I could probably write a whole analysis on it because that is such an interesting route for the game story to take (and I swear if they FUCK IT UP-)

[tuziehr]

Have you ever seen two men so beautiful you cried?

[technomancyshenanigans]

me, having an absolutely terrible day: "hm. i think i shall progress the story in the Despair Game About How Things Are Terrible. surely this will cheer me up!"

[heartorbit]

happy birthday, dreamer

(from the emukasa zine canvas 🎉)