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Re: King of Fighters All-Stars (Mobile)

 April 23, 2023, 01:30:55 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Byakko  in King of Fighters All-Stars (Mobile) (Started by lui October 21, 2019, 11:25:49 am
 Board: Gaming



lol ok not bad.
    

Re: Tekken 8

 April 04, 2023, 04:42:24 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Byakko  in Tekken 8  (Started by videoman September 14, 2022, 12:28:30 am
 Board: Fighting Games

Wait, the whole "conquer the entire world while bombing the shit out of everyone + leadership thrown out and changed two or three times" happens within a few months between Mishima Z. and G Corp ? Including Kazuya visibly aging by at least a dozen years ?

Well, if nothing else, that does explain the likes of Xiaoyu and Asuka. (what it doesn't explain is Jin going from "power is everything" to "I changed my mind, power isn't everything"...)
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Re: KoF XV

 April 01, 2023, 03:52:33 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Byakko  in KoF XV (Started by Magma MK-II December 06, 2018, 01:30:24 pm
 Board: Fighting Games

The official one without random dudes shouting over it

Goenitz at the end.
    

Re: Tekken 8

 March 25, 2023, 12:01:49 am View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Byakko  in Tekken 8  (Started by videoman September 14, 2022, 12:28:30 am
 Board: Fighting Games

The running gag is also that he gets (tragicomically) blowed up in most of his endings. Hence the creation of the next iteration.
Imagine the tragedy when he dies in a game and never returns in the next ones.
    

Re: Tekken 8

 March 14, 2023, 06:15:37 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Byakko  in Tekken 8  (Started by videoman September 14, 2022, 12:28:30 am
 Board: Fighting Games

So we're embracing the Kenshiro body now.
    

Re: New Dragon Ball Budokai Tenkaichi!!!!

 March 06, 2023, 06:26:56 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Byakko  in New Dragon Ball Budokai Tenkaichi!!!! (Started by k6666orochi March 06, 2023, 01:01:18 am
 Board: Fighting Games

To be fair, reusing the name does suggest a continuation of the system AND the roster. If you're starting over with, say, less than half the last roster, you might as well call it a new series with a system mostly inspired from the previous one but at least changed a little. Exactly like what Xenoverse did. You can't call this new game the 4th entry in this series and then badmouth those expectations, especially when the roster was the high point of the last entry, when you had the alternative of calling it Xenoverse 3 or literally anything else. Now I'm curious if they'll have the balls to reboot the roster after pulling that stunt.
    

Re: King of Fighters All-Stars (Mobile)

 February 21, 2023, 06:14:56 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Byakko  in King of Fighters All-Stars (Mobile) (Started by lui October 21, 2019, 11:25:49 am
 Board: Gaming

KOFASFOREVER
So it'll be gone soon then yeah ?
They have a lot of "we realized something went wrong" and a bunch of very vague and non specific things but nothing that remotely sounds relevant / like a real fix. Like literally "elements have become useless therefor we're adding new elements (for bosses)". At least that's a different approach than hell dungeons and its "use the wrong element and you get hit with your own damage" or "this busted unit has massive CP but low level ? You now deal a fixed 100 damage".
    

Re: The Nintendo News Thread

 February 07, 2023, 11:54:42 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Byakko  in The Nintendo News Thread (Started by "Bad News" Hoffmann June 07, 2011, 09:14:28 pm
 Board: Gaming

Direct on feb. 8, 2 PM PST for Switch games this side of 2023.
https://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-direct/02-08-2023/
Everyone's expecting Zelda which is less than 100 days away now, come the fuck on already. Maybe some kind of Metroid too but I'm not sure about a big reveal for early 2023.
    

Re: Fate/Grand Order

 January 09, 2023, 01:59:44 am View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Byakko  in Fate/Grand Order (Started by c001357 August 10, 2015, 05:42:19 pm
 Board: Gaming

I checked out the Saber Wars 2 story from the current rerun
I cannot fucking believe they redid the whole "actually Ishtar was the evil half all along" joke from Babylonia but even harder LMFAO
    

Re: King of Fighters All-Stars (Mobile)

 January 07, 2023, 03:11:17 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Byakko  in King of Fighters All-Stars (Mobile) (Started by lui October 21, 2019, 11:25:49 am
 Board: Gaming

Catsuit Ivy at A6, with maxed SC stones including star and moon, the SC set, two SC option cards, and one special card
She gets over 380k CP (without even transcending the cards - the forums had someone with transcended cards and she passes 550k)
This is fucking ridiculous. Haven't bought any ruby/token pack in a while and I think I'm done with that.
    

Re: King of Fighters All-Stars (Mobile)

 December 15, 2022, 12:58:06 am View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Byakko  in King of Fighters All-Stars (Mobile) (Started by lui October 21, 2019, 11:25:49 am
 Board: Gaming

(Compare Ryu, Akuma and EX Kyo with Lady Choi and Devil Jin and then compare those with EX Haoh and Nako)
It's the stones that are getting crazy too. I think between the Rugal stones and the SamSho stones, you can have two stones that give 30% crit damage. And then I don't know which it is but I think there's a recent card set that reflects physical damage, because I've been nailed by that a few times in absolute war and league by different characters and I can't find why.
And then, everyone is getting a whole bunch of element / ailment immunity at once, although I think that's a little better than Ryu and Akuma straight up reflecting starlight and burn (so Ryu shuts down BS Orochi and Akuma shuts down SS Kyo and fuck color advantage). The immunity is strong but IMO that's the good part of the power creep.
    

Re: Melty Blood Type Lumina has been announced!! Release date 9/30/2021!!

 December 14, 2022, 02:26:33 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Byakko  in Melty Blood Type Lumina has been announced!! Release date 9/30/2021!! (Started by Sima Shi March 25, 2021, 06:05:21 pm
 Board: Fighting Games

Gameplay
Ushi 1
Ushi 2
Dantes 1
Dantes 2
lol they didn't translate it but Ushi asks Shiki what mountain he's the son of. Because of the trope of learning magic and combat from mountain tengus. (and Shiki responds "from that hill, actually ?")
I'm annoyed that they just straight up translated cavern king like that.
Dantes has some of that Wallachia vibe, nice.
    

Re: Tekken 8

 December 14, 2022, 12:28:29 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Byakko  in Tekken 8  (Started by videoman September 14, 2022, 12:28:30 am
 Board: Fighting Games

Claudio and his organization has seemingly replaced her and the Kazamas's role as the devil gene purifiers.
Now watch Claudio not return since Jun is back to pick that up.
    

Re: Melty Blood Type Lumina has been announced!! Release date 9/30/2021!!

 December 11, 2022, 11:47:19 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Byakko  in Melty Blood Type Lumina has been announced!! Release date 9/30/2021!! (Started by Sima Shi March 25, 2021, 06:05:21 pm
 Board: Fighting Games



Dantes looks like he was made for this game, he's a perfect fit, he actually looks so good ?? Ushi, not so much IMO (I mean her style, she does look good), but hey we see another of her 5 Shanaoh Ryuuritan secrets apparently.
I like the bodysuit better, her original design is a bit too much.
Yeah, FGO just decided to not make any pretense right from the start with the practically naked lolis and it only ever got worse. At least Ushi got her model / sprites updated and it got a little better and older.
    

Re: Melty Blood Type Lumina has been announced!! Release date 9/30/2021!!

 December 11, 2022, 01:40:14 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Byakko  in Melty Blood Type Lumina has been announced!! Release date 9/30/2021!! (Started by Sima Shi March 25, 2021, 06:05:21 pm
 Board: Fighting Games

What the fuck
lol Ushi got a body suit to dodge the underboobs.
    

Re: Tekken 8

 December 11, 2022, 01:06:58 am View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Byakko  in Tekken 8  (Started by videoman September 14, 2022, 12:28:30 am
 Board: Fighting Games

I'd say it's not really out of character, it's just the way it's set up. "Power corrupts" was Harada's type all the way back since Tekken 1 : Kazuya is the young hero out to get revenge against his evil father, but when he wins, he turns out to be evil too. That smirk on the cliff, that was the whole deal. Jin was also already going this way as early as his T3 ending when he turns into Devil Jin. IMO it's actually T4 and 5 that misled us, gave us false hope, trying to make us think that Jin would end up a good guy who breaks the cycle and punishes evil, if at most the edgy anti-hero kind. And at the same time developing Devil Jin as a separate entity "just for gameplay purpose, guys !" (remember that bullshit lol) But then T6 just blew that up and Devil Jin was canon.
It's just not that interesting when everyone is evil and then at the very end the narration tries to tell us "actually it was good". Heihachi got a glory ending for no reason, and Jin apparently talks about saving people now even though he destroyed the world. It's like watching a weird kink hoping it's actually vanilla.
(on Jin's line, it seems to me that the Japanese line is slightly ambiguous on purpose, he might be saying "mom, I still can't save you", but I assume the translation is official and the actual cutscene will be more obvious one way or another)
    

Re: Tekken 8

 December 10, 2022, 10:10:49 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Byakko  in Tekken 8  (Started by videoman September 14, 2022, 12:28:30 am
 Board: Fighting Games

I also want to like the story but I agree that Harada's hard-on for the idea that "power corrupts even the hero" went way too hard in T6. I can't see him trying to find a path to redemption for Jin. I already wasn't fond of the white-washing of Heihachi going all tyrant over the love for his dead wife that tried to murder him after figuring out if he would destroy the world or not (which just looks like being the trigger to your own self fulfilling prophecy).

I like that they finally gave Paul new hair, and I'm impressed with Law's puffed up face.
And I've read somewhere that Jun means "pure" in Japanese, but thix is something I DON'T really know.
Nope, same pronunciation, different kanji.

The purification powers that Asuka displayed, I think that was retroactively tied to Jun back when she calmed Kazuya down long enough to get pregnant, yeah, and linked to the entire Kazama line from there.

What I don't like are the visuals. Every guy seems to be HIGH on steroids and all the textures SHINES as Hell. That was a detail I didn't like at allin T7 and seems it's present here too. Shiny wool, etc.
Remember back when Tekken 5 was revealed, and the first teaser was a super close up of Jin showing off the sweat evaporating from his collarbone ? Man, they still stuck to a weird obsession with that level of shiny detail.

ah right, T6 reveal in 2005. Behold the power of the PS3 !
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Re: King of Fighters All-Stars (Mobile)

 November 14, 2022, 10:47:45 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Byakko  in King of Fighters All-Stars (Mobile) (Started by lui October 21, 2019, 11:25:49 am
 Board: Gaming

Yeah, Akuma and Ryu are above 270K and Devil Jin and green Rugal are above 330K, all around lv65 with full gear. But no one else comes close to those EX. Even from SFV to Tekken and Rugal.
I skipped the rest of Tekken and everything after beside green Rugal, I'm not sure I'll do much else.
    

Re: Doctor Who Thread

 October 27, 2022, 07:01:15 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Byakko  in Doctor Who Thread (Started by Nucka January 08, 2010, 03:54:37 am
 Board: Entertainment

... Uh.
The second I saw him (well, after the shock anyway), I knew what he was gonna say, and he said it.
I'm hoping he can put a new spin in his performance, at least a little bit, rather than be the exact same character, that would be a twist... I feel it would be kinda shitty if he was the exact same.
I found that the Master gave a much better performance, I really didn't like the crazy act from the previous seasons. Is it a difference in the writing ? Then again I don't get how that one trick he pulled is supposed to work. Since when is that a thing ?? They even made the callback to when it happened to him, but this one and that one were nothing alike, how is that supposed to be the same thing ??
I feel like 13 did well but again got a bit shafted even in her final outing. At least she did finally get a bit more of a defining trait (like back when Bad Wolf Girl said 10 was the one who regrets, 11 the one who forgets + the one who's old but doesn't want to act it), which was clearly her anguish when people end up leaving, that was pushed a bit more than the previous versions. I like when they highlights those defining traits for each version, it gives "the Doctor" a character arc, a sign of some character evolution, whenever he changes.

I know, I just hope he's not playing the exact same personality, specifically to show that it's the same Doctor who just evolves and moves on with each regeneration ; this should be a new version that just happens to have gone back to the same face, it shouldn't feel like "they are different characters, and we're bringing back this previous character".
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Re: King of Fighters All-Stars (Mobile)

 October 25, 2022, 09:29:55 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Byakko  in King of Fighters All-Stars (Mobile) (Started by lui October 21, 2019, 11:25:49 am
 Board: Gaming

Is the new gimmick a costume / color swap... ?