#game rant

[cockroachparty]

currently playing infinity nikki for the first time (as well as my first time playing any gacha game) and i am. so perplexed by this girl.

she is nonconsensually ripped from her home and sucked into some other universe. the annoying rat is taken with her and they end up in some dark souls esque world. she now has the powers of levitation (?!) and shooting objects from her hand (?!) that can only harm bad guys and completely miss everything else in the environment. are these powers conscious of who it can hit or does nikki just have really good aim? after she meets some lady who has been chained to the ceiling for who knows how many years, a "heart" of some sort is forced into nikki's chest which gives her weird pains (no shit) from time to time when she witnesses emotional or "whimsical" displays.

anyway, im traversing this new land, in shock that this poor girl opened a simple wardrobe and is now in what appears to be some alternate universe where clothes have magic powers. if that were me, i'd be freaking out and wondering where the hell i am, what planet im on, and if im dreaming

nikki, though?

nikki is having the time of her life

i mean, shes casually introducing herself to dada and giovanni like shes just some girl from the next town over; no! youre not supposed to be here!! youre essentially an alien and youre fooling everybody!!

this girl is catwalking miraland like stuff like this happens to her ALL. THE. TIME.

which, if it does...

is nikki ok??? should she be put down???

[ohowthemightyhavefallen]

I'm quite upset

Soon I just wanted to rant on here because I don't see any other discourse abt this-

I don't know if you've heard of Mazm games, but they're a company that's released some really impressive games based off of history and classic literature on Google Play and Steam.

Anyways, after Phantom of the Opera and (Thy Creature I think?) I hadn't seen any more new releases from them. Then Metamorphosis came out. I thought the art looked great at the time, but when I played the game, it was GOD AWFUL.

There's no game.

It's just a visual novel that gives you a false sense of choice. That's not to say that the other games like Jekyll and Hyde or POTO didn't have that either, but they brought more to the table. They had those little chibi missions where you could complete minigames and collect items- THAT WAS THE GAME ASPECT.

I didn't even get to find out if Kafka has that because you have to watch like 5 ads to get to the next chapter and there's no saves. Like what???

They introduced a new subscription system- which won't work if you giving your subscribers mediocre content, in my personal opinion.

Then they released Black Cat- same issue, they didn't even try with that one. They're releasing Romeo and Juliet next.

What worries me is the change of artstyle and the lack of passion and theming. That's what drew me to those games in the first place, and I'm sure that's what attracted others too. The original Mazm games took everything into account- music, font, the homescreens, the loading screens, inventory, pausing screens, you name it. Overall UI was great. But now, it's just a list of chapters in like Arial font with these new games.

AND THE ARTSTYLE OH GOD THE BEAUTIFUL ARTSTYLE

Now it's just slowly devolving into generic anime artstyle # 3

LIKE LOOK AT THIS

WHAT DID THEY DO

Like, I understand cutting back a bit, especially because these games are for a certain niche, and may not bring in a lot of money but this IS NOT IT

If they cut back on character design they could at least keep the chibi minigames so it would still be a game????

I hate this. I honestly hate this. They're alienating their target demographic- people who like classic literature and art, as well as puzzle games.

They really had something going, and this new direction is making me really sad.

Because I ADORE classic literature. POTO and Jekyll and Hyde were great games- I loved them because it was rare for me to come across content for books like that. Sure, they had their bugs, but you could tell that there was genuine thought and passion put into them. There's none of that in these new releases.

[richardarmitagefanpage]

Castlevania: Best Trevor Belmont Quotes, Ranked by Game Rant.

[ilhamiman]

A little ZZZ rant a bit.

Ok, after Hugo's story, we did learn a bit about Lycaon in the backstory but I still not satisfied. Yes I know, Hugo's episode was focused on him only, I get that but still, Hugo has history with Lycaon and they were friends before the fallout. But what giving me more question is why Lycaon's story is still a mystery? Sure, he was a former member of the Mockingbird and once friend with Hugo but that's it. I looked into his official wiki page's trivia and it said that in his name, Von, is a particle used in German names to indicate a noble lineage. It means "of", his name is literally means "of Lycaon". I'm not sure if the dev just give him a fancy name or (this is a big OR) Lycaon is actually came from a noble family. This is my own guessing but Lycaon and Hugo's situation might be a bit similar. I mean think about it, Lycaon's first name never been mention yet and his name has a Von in it and Von is indicate a noble lineage. Hugo is came from a rich but evil family that his own mom willing to give him away to his crooked asshole dad. Ugh, if only the dev give more story about Lycaon cause he has quite the mystery character that I really wanna know so badly. Like in Hugo's backstory, he ran away from home of his evil dad and met both Jack and Lycaon. I was like, "Wait, Lycaon's already with Jack before Hugo?" That made me think that Lycaon could have run away from home as well but in different situation maybe. I hope after Vivian's story, dev better planning and releasing Lycaon's actual past, like way before he met Jack and Hugo so I can rest my case.

[silver-focus-lining]

WHOEVER WAS IN CHARGE OF THE DIFFICULTIES FOR THE GAMEPLAY OF JAK II, I HOPE THAT ALL YOU HAVE LEGOS ALL OVER YOUR FLOOR!!!!

[disturbingstar]

18 Resident evil villains ranked by game rant

18. Nikolai Zinoviev - Resident Evil 3

17. Chief Irons - Resident Evil 2

16. Alexia Ashford - Resident Evil Code: Veronica

15. Marguerite Baker - Resident Evil 7

14. Lucas Baker - Resident Evil 7

13. Jack Baker - Resident Evil 7

12. Osmund Saddler - Resident Evil 4

11. Bela, Cassandra and Daniela Dimitrescu - Resident Evil Village

10. Mr. X - Resident Evil 2

9. Ramon Salazar - Resident Evil 4

8. William Birkin - Resident Evil 2

7. Eveline - Resident Evil 7

6. Mother Miranda - Resident Evil Village

5. Lisa Trevor - Resident Evil

4. Nemesis - Resident Evil 3

3. Ozwell E. Spencer - Resident Evil 5

2. Alcina Dimitrescu - Resident Evil Village

1. Albert Wesker - Various

My personal ranking

18. Neil Fisher - Resident evil: Revelations 2

17. Chief Irons - Resident Evil 2

16. Jessica Sherawat - Resident evil: Revelations

15. Alex Wesker (The Overseer) - Resident Evil: Revelations 2

14. Jack Norman - Resident evil: Revelations

13. Eveline - Resident Evil 7

12. Mother Miranda - Resident Evil Village

11. Nemesis - Resident Evil 3

10. Ozwell E. Spencer - Resident Evil

9. William Birkin - Resident evil 2

8. Nikolai Zinoviev - Resident Evil 3

7. Jack Baker - Resident Evil 7

6. Ramon Salazar - Resident Evil 4

5. Bela, Cassandra and Daniela Dimitrescu - Resident Evil Village

4. Alcina Dimitrescu - Resident Evil Village

3. Mr. X - Resident Evil 2

2. Albert Wesker - Various

1. The Zombies!

[imthepunchlord]

You know what would be a cool though tense Monster Hunter game? It being a more research game instead of hunter. Essentially PLA for MH, where it's more stealth, survival, and some elements of horror game. With you going out to study and learn monster behavior, with people having very little knowledge and they're actually terrifying, and you're going out with minimal to no combat skills.

All you can really do is try being a ninja researcher, sneaking around, making use of the items you have, and throwing them out to discourage or distract monsters. And if you're successful, you'll get to see new animations, terf wars, more MH lore, the world, and ecology; and a lot of tense moments as these are huge, deadly creatures that can easily overpower you.

And maybe as you level up, you could either go more hunter and adopt some protective tactics, or maybe you wind up befriending a monster and they'll guard you or let you ride them for a quick escape.

Not sure if it'll ever come to be, but I love speculative Monster Hunter ecology, and potentially getting some of it confirmed and having a game circle around it would just be awesome, and getting more of the world and how beautiful and scary nature is, and I think it'd be a really cool but also terrifying game.

To add to it, they can bring back underwater sections to study underwater fauna, which so far, is the least covered of the monster biomes, and I would love coming back to underwater just to see more as they only scratched the surface of what exists and some of the most diverse life is underwater. Also, these monsters can move much faster than you and you'll be more limited in what you can do. Delightfully terrifying.

And ultimate top tier post game content/challenge mode could be trying to observe, sneak around, and study Elder Dragons. Can you just imagine trying to study Fatalis' ecology? The most mystical of all Elder Dragons and it's only known purpose for living is just ending all of humanity. It'd be hard to study, but I would love to see what Fatalis does when they're just vibing.

This is a speculative Monster Hunter game I'd love to play, and I'd be so scared and tense, but it'd be soooo cool just having something that delves more into research than fighting and be more stealth oriented.

[funkii4-blog]

stupid rant about this anomaly season that surprisingly has nothing to do with the alt esper bs

inhales

WHO THE HELL AT THE DEV TEAM THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA FOR THE TURN LIMIT TO DECREASE AS DIFFICULTY INCREASES FOR EACH HEX CHALLENGE WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU

YOU ONLY GET 35 TURNS FOR FLOOR 45 AND ENEMY TURNS STILL COUNT ON TOP OF THE BASIC ABILITY DAMAGE RULE THING!!!! WHY

..sorry I’m just angry about it because I’m stuck

[iolaussharpe-24]

I hate these articles.

ScreenRant, GameRant, Comic Book Resources, and so many others just like them do absolutely nothing but spout nonsense and pretend that it's legitimate. Then, the few times they may actually have something to say that isn't garbage it's because the information was just stolen from someone else who bothered to sit down and do the research.

Seriously, I can't even tell you how many of these articles I've found that are so obviously stupid even in the context of what they're saying. This article talks about how Marc's trauma is from Randall's death (it was his mother's abusive reaction to it), Jake was a third personality that came out of nowhere for no reason other than shock value (he's from the comics, and there are several hints to his existence throughout the series), they complain about how not enough time was given to the emotional gut punch that was episode five in favor of the climactic final battle in episode six (I don't agree but I guess I'll allow it), and the final conclusion is that... it should have been a movie instead???

How the hell do you go from "the six episode series didn't have enough time to flesh itself out" to "this would have been so much better as a single movie" in the same sentence? Do you not see the contradiction? I don't know how long each episode is off the top of my head (and I'm too lazy to go look), but bingeing it beginning to end with my family took all day.

I'm stupid and feeling petty now. Instead of looking up the runtime, I'm gonna do some math.

Let's say Moon Knight was a movie. That would be, on average, an hour and a half to two hours long. Let's say two.

(Again, still not checking the actual runtimes cause I'm too lazy.) Let's say all six episodes are thirty minutes each. I know they're not, but let's say they are. Put together, that would be three hours long.

Let's say they're all an hour long, which feels more accurate to what they probably are for real. That's six hours long.

Let me ask again, HOW WOULD MOON KNIGHT BE BETTER OFF AS A MOVIE WITH A SHORTER RUNTIME IF YOU CAN'T STOP COMPLAINING THAT IT DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME AS IS???

In conclusion, I demand a second season. I also demand that these stupid ass clickbait articles die off as soon as possible.

[jennygeistvids]

NEW VIDEO! In January, I made a video titled “The Geek Content Mills Ruining the Internet.” In November, that video disappeared. The reason why? Screen Rant's parent company, Valnet, sent a cease & desist letter to my house. So… let's go over that. It's quite the situation.

[cockroachparty]

i feel like papergames really missed the ball on not making infinity nikki an mmo. i have no knowledge on gatcha games and im just now getting into the nikki fandom, so forgive me if this doesnt make sense in the realm of these types of games, but i wholeheartedly believe that:

by making it an mmo, youre opening up the game to an even broader audience. people likely wont think "oh another gatcha game" they'll say "oh! a gatcha game that i can play with other people?!" this is a good way to get players and to keep players because many wont utilize the gatcha tactics that the game offers, so allowing the player to make friends will keep them playing and will eventually incentive them to indulge in the gatcha system.

2. the game is dominantly female player based. women/girls LOVE to socialize. i played so many mmo's growing up (and still do) almost purely because of the social aspect. theres something so charming about being able to meet new friends while you're on an adventure. this game is just BEGGING to be an mmo, it'd be like a tinkerbell pixie hollow crosses genshin impact type of game.

i initially thought the game was an mmo and was disappointed when i figured out it wasnt! now, not everyone wants to socialize, so for this hypothetical i think itd be great to have a solo gameplay option, too, so youre not having to deal with other people all the time.

what do you guys think???

[somelonelywordmonger]

Animal Crossing: New Horizons being dropped like an iron paperweight has left us with some truly hilarious attempts at clickbait.

[trains-of-thoughts-that-lives]

I don't know why I forgot about my short obsession with the fatal frame game. I was watching every gameplay I could find of the fatal frame game and was deep into the lore. I can't personally play horror games cause ya girl is a scared of the supernatural yes I believe in the supernatural.

Love the series cause it talks about grief and loss in a way that I could not fathom deeply enough. I love it to bits. My favourite would be the fatal frame 2, 3 and 5. See how Miku is in half of them, but like my ultra fav is 3. The story line and ending, gah, it shooked me to the core.

One thing for sure I don't like is how goonery fatal frame 4 is lmao like you're out here fighting ghosts in bikinis?? 😔😔 running with kitten heels??? Lmao. Personally I don't like how uhm.. sexualised the characters are sometimes. But other than that fatal frame 4 lore was an interesting one, and the ones easier to follow imo.

[rubikx107]

Chun li @chunli @chunlispringbeauty @streetfightersource

[wingedrobot]

I started playing Marvel Snap because of the Marvel property, but I'm staying because it's the first card game I've actually enjoyed playing. I find deck building to be annoying and frustrating in most other games I've played because of the sheer number of cards needed to fill a deck, and understanding how much of what kind to build in for which strategy etc. is just a lot to have to learn.

By contrast, Snap only allows 12 unique cards in a deck. Each card has a unique, thematic effect and are generally designed around a few core play styles. With the games themselves being quite short, it's really easy to play around with deck composition and quickly find out what does and doesn't work.

Snap has both really good and really shitty monetization, though. The good is that there are plenty of ways for free players to keep up. The bad is that their prices for most things are exorbitant except for the season pass. The good thing about the season pass, however, is that it's way easier to complete than other season passes in most other games.

Honestly, if someone made a game based on Snap's gameplay and was able to keep it afloat with less shitty monetization, I'd probably switch in a heartbeat. As it stands, this is the only ccg that really calls to me (digital or otherwise), and I'm really enjoying playing it.