Post B1Qlc2PzRmjdkZMBFo by karn@clubcyberia.co
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(DIR) Post #B1QfezPUUJqVZ49CIS by john_darksoul@ariamispainted.world
2025-12-20T04:53:33.699681Z
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Watched part of a Persona 3 Reload review from one of the bigger atlustubers. His review was like an hour long but I only got 10 minutes in. He kept talking about how they missed “the spirit” of persona 3 and his first example was that the other characters could be controlled instead of using the tactics system that everyone fucking hated. He even says he was a hater originally but it “grew on him” after playing reload. I think these “original was better” takes just generate more views. I can believe they missed on some stuff but giving the player party control in a jrpg is bad now? Give me a fucking break. Nigger.
(DIR) Post #B1Qi65SEK8L42NTfAe by NowDrawHerGivingMirth@poa.st
2025-12-20T05:21:45.641048Z
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@john_darksoul Nah he's cooking, Dragon Quest 4 was objectively better in the original version where the otherwise best healer would exclusively spam the group-target instant death spell against the immune final boss
(DIR) Post #B1QiK2OEVw6qaTGBX6 by john_darksoul@ariamispainted.world
2025-12-20T05:23:23.042932Z
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@NowDrawHerGivingMirth I think you just like when jrpgs are bad
(DIR) Post #B1QikAylCbu4ksoENc by NowDrawHerGivingMirth@poa.st
2025-12-20T05:29:00.337987Z
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@john_darksoul I just think it's funny. The explanation is, iirc, the following: DQ4's AI works in a way where it "learns" about enemies over the course of a few turns. Enemy resistances are one of the last things learned, so you can expect allies to make some awful moves early in a fight but after a few turns they'll start being less retarded. Kiryl favors his instant death spells, often over healing,so he tends to start boss fights by being useless for a few turns before "learning" that the boss is immune. Unfortunately, the final boss has like 7 phases. Each phase is brief, but also treated as a new monster. This means the AI has to "learn" its resistances all over again. Thus, Kiryl will throw ineffective instant death spells for the entire fight.
(DIR) Post #B1QivMHVWLfSzhuUJU by john_darksoul@ariamispainted.world
2025-12-20T05:30:07.995775Z
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@NowDrawHerGivingMirth Having a priority for instant kills on any boss is either garbage AI or garbage boss design. I would literally kill a dev if I met them after playing that game.
(DIR) Post #B1QjA5OUackAxlCSSO by NowDrawHerGivingMirth@poa.st
2025-12-20T05:33:41.211822Z
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@john_darksoul It's actually annoying in random encounters too because while throwing out a group instant death and having it land on however many enemies is cool and all his MP really can't hold out
(DIR) Post #B1QjMHy5fIQ9R5fYu0 by NowDrawHerGivingMirth@poa.st
2025-12-20T05:35:53.391494Z
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@john_darksoul I'd say "just play the remake" but Squeenigs decided to skip remaking 4-6. I guess they decided the DS remakes were good enough.
(DIR) Post #B1Qkr2o0BoUjLCBD7I by Labubu@shin.mugicha.club
2025-12-20T05:50:22.376915Z
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I think you always have to ask yourself with jrpgs “what is the actual gameplay“ and “is it even fun” for most jrpgs, definitely all atlus ones im aware of, the answers are “basic addition and subtraction combined with rock paper scissors“ and “no” so the obvious follow up is “so why am I having a good time” and the answer is that they’ve piled on a bunch of secondary factors that are very stimulating, flashy effects when you do your math right and use your rock to hit scissors e.g and etc, constant progress metrics with level ups and new gear from chests and shops and power ups that all make your math a little nicer, and of course cute girls and stories and characters and other things that exist mostly independently from the gameplay but playing with the game systems lets you see more of them, all that shit is the same in both versions. So does tard wrangling make the game better or worse? I think its probably better, I think not having direct control makes outcomes less predictable which makes things more exciting because it deviates from simple math and rock paper scissors, a lot of people feel differently they like knowing that they’re always going to win everything as optimally as possible in every single fight in the game. I get that perspective too, but ultimately I think the difference is somewhat slight, and the real redpill is that the best way to experience JRPGs is to ignore all the mainstream franchises like persona and final fantasy and instead hunt down obscure ones that only a few autists care about, also don’t play those, but read what the autists have to say about the crazy and retarded design decisions Japanese devs were making from the Famicom days until the ps3
(DIR) Post #B1Qkx9fFbLgoLo04au by john_darksoul@ariamispainted.world
2025-12-20T05:52:52.035288Z
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@Labubu >hunt down obscure onesI understand completely.
(DIR) Post #B1QlJ0mXJ5dPAmpWZU by karn@clubcyberia.co
2025-12-20T05:57:40.155830Z
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@john_darksoul @Labubu they are called jrpgs because the jr stands for junior (they are for children). However I am retarded so I still play them. Thank you friend.
(DIR) Post #B1QlRT5nvqOnIHsJM0 by john_darksoul@ariamispainted.world
2025-12-20T05:58:20.500016Z
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@karn @Labubu What am I gonna play a senior rpg? Maybe when I’m 60.
(DIR) Post #B1QlYKHB6t1ZydStaS by karn@clubcyberia.co
2025-12-20T06:00:23.665216Z
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@john_darksoul @Labubu SRPGs are for OLD PEOPLE! So true!
(DIR) Post #B1Qlc2PzRmjdkZMBFo by karn@clubcyberia.co
2025-12-20T06:01:06.631698Z
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@john_darksoul @Labubu the C in CRPG stands for Czech so you can only play them if you're Czech. Sorry
(DIR) Post #B1QlifnFxoYTbkP452 by NowDrawHerGivingMirth@poa.st
2025-12-20T06:02:21.035093Z
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@john_darksoul @karn @Labubu You and I both know what an SRPG is and they're famously just as bad as JRPGs
(DIR) Post #B1Qm25cEBL83CCVG2y by john_darksoul@ariamispainted.world
2025-12-20T06:04:57.743125Z
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@NowDrawHerGivingMirth @karn @Labubu SRPG I thought was sex rpg which is what persona games are so I’m a little bit confused now
(DIR) Post #B1QmGWeIT9Zr5nM31s by NowDrawHerGivingMirth@poa.st
2025-12-20T06:08:28.041364Z
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@john_darksoul @karn @Labubu No a sex RPG would actually have sex in it so it would be something like Mass Effect
(DIR) Post #B1QnDMIoa3yI5ZMP0y by john_darksoul@ariamispainted.world
2025-12-20T06:18:12.244104Z
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@NowDrawHerGivingMirth @karn @Labubu I only played 3 and I don’t remember having sex with anyone. I’m more of a casual srpg gamer though. Stuff like Meet ‘n Fuck Kingdom.
(DIR) Post #B1RS0tj5MeyMZha1Hk by NowDrawHerGivingMirth@poa.st
2025-12-20T13:56:14.863324Z
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@john_darksoul @karn @Labubu I notoriously played through the entire Mass Effect trilogy without ever having sex, but apparently that was an unusual experience
(DIR) Post #B1RYARNODtbDGnMikC by karn@clubcyberia.co
2025-12-20T15:05:10.149129Z
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@Labubu @john_darksoul the A in ARPG stands for AARP. You have to be retired and on social security to play them
(DIR) Post #B1RqQBLlNGtbNEGCy8 by DrRyanSkelton@shin.mugicha.club
2025-12-20T17:53:21.720380Z
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AI taking control of the decisions can only be a positive if those decisions wouldn't have mattered had you made them. Which is true in Persona. Why are you being subjected to so much combat where the decisions don't matter? It's a very long story but the short answer is customarily JRPGs suck, and they love those customs, and they do nothing to teach people to reach beyond those customs. To go beyond that requires you to research all those crazy and retarded old design decisions that inform all the crap going on in the genre.SMT is considered a hard franchise by JRPG standards and the only strategy it has is "Use blue attack on the red guy and put the green guys away from the red guy's red attacks and use buffs and debuffs to the maximum allowed."
(DIR) Post #B1RqQCoVvrUJugigQC by Labubu@shin.mugicha.club
2025-12-20T18:04:11.044145Z
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I like in TMSFE when the girls randomly add on to an attack by singing and dancing an excerpt from one of their idol songs but I’m not smart enough about game theory to say why
(DIR) Post #B1RqQE0FViT9bNDZLs by DrRyanSkelton@shin.mugicha.club
2025-12-20T18:09:13.766985Z
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I did indeed clap like a chimp when my wife Kiria did her song when I lined her up for a Concentrated, fully buff/debuff favored fire attack on the final boss in the midst of 20 turns of everyone yo-yoing from half-dead to all dead and standing them back up