SatelliteOfLove
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Truth. Shit is poisonous.
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Truth. Shit is poisonous.
It's Persona 4: Dancing All Night, which originally was just gonna be made by the Hatsune Miku
roject Diva team.There. You know. You can never un-know.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Like i agree that waifu talk is dumb, and waifu culture in general has some really fucking dark and poisonous undertones that I'm increasingly uncomfortable with, but if you don't like anime characters and your relationship with them i don't know why you like persona in the first place.
EdReedFan20
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You know, I think it was mine, too. I had rented 1 and 2 and someone brought over 3. I bought Legends in 2006 (a year after it released). I bought Revenge later that same year (it was my final XBOX purchase). Then I got Paradise in 2008 and Crash via PS+ some years later. I think Burnout: Dominator (the other PSP game) is the only Burnout game I never played.
Start with RE7 then when you get too scared go beat up some punks in Yakuza.
I would say like with a lot of things, waifu talk is a matter of degrees. A good amount of it is just light hearted and joking. The problem comes when people take it too far, which happens too often, or when it comes up in the wrong place. There is no reason every damn discussion about a new FE or Persona thing has to come to waifus, but some people don't understand time and place.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Remember the time Vinny played Second Life? That was probably best UPF segment ever.
Hindenblewp
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I only pre-ordered Yakuza, so I'll be jamming while I knock punks out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StMl8GyLvXY
Blitzrules240
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I'm like 4 missions away from completing Watch Dogs 2 but I wanna grab Yakuza 0 tomorrow but I guess I could just shelf it till the weekend...
SuperSonic1305
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The teacher is secret best waifu. Charlie and bros should have banged her when they had the chance.
OdysseusVA
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Emcee please clean this mess
Hinden thought I would set off his bomb, but the damage was not done until later.
slightconfuse
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Waifu talk is so dumb, they are fictional characters.
It's kind of sad its the only reason firer emblem became popular
It's kind of sad its the only reason firer emblem became popular
that's more husbandos imo
you're only making him like Persona more now.
Genderless alien life partner-os
That's a really shallow way of looking at Awakening's success. Waifu market was part of it, for sure, but there's a far bigger reason FE went mainstream, especially in the US.
It's was the perfect storm of a new FE (not a thrown together remake) on a handheld with a reasonably big install base, a really good sales promotion in the west, and fantastic new accessibility features. To call its success purely waifu driven is missing the larger picture.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Alright, I'm gonna pull a Dan and ask a dumb question:
Is Waifu an actual word or just a dumb "It's wife but it sounds japanese-y" play on words?
Is Waifu an actual word or just a dumb "It's wife but it sounds japanese-y" play on words?
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Is the new mass effect more TPS or RPG? Because if it's more TPS I'm out.
The later
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
That actually makes me hate this discussion.
I assume you haven't seen the gameplay trailers yet.
I'd recommend not pre-ordering the game.
I assume you haven't seen the gameplay trailers yet.
I'd recommend not pre-ordering the game.
That was the only thing that made you hate it?
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
What do you expect.
Don't worry, I'm sure husbando was invented by some pretty cool dudes
brainzelda
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I mean ME2 and ME3 were more TPS than RPG. I doubt they'd swing the pendulum back now.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Dudettes probably, because you see that more in discussions of otome games.
Husbando is almost 100% a fujoshi invention.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I like how you phrased that, very eloquent. You must be quite the intellectual.
Incandenza
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How bout the part where it's a whole mode of conversation centered around ranking women by their fuckability
Twin Tails
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Sick Jeff, oh no.
I learned from the best.
I never looked at it this way, I promise.
It hasn't been more RPG since 1.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Mmmm, that's what I'm afraid of.
Honestly, I feel like I would like the ME series a lot if the gameplay wasn't some below average third person shooting.
Honestly, I feel like I would like the ME series a lot if the gameplay wasn't some below average third person shooting.
I'll take average TPS over dice roll gun shots any day of the week. Even as a huge RPG nerd, I cannot stand how ME1 felt.
The conversations at their worst certainly go that way and it's gross. I like to think of a lot of the more light hearted discussion as focused more on the character as a whole, but that's probably a false optimism.
The conversations at their worst certainly go that way and it's gross. I like to think of a lot of the more light hearted discussion as focused more on the character as a whole, but that's probably a false optimism.
Fire Emblem became popular partly due to accessibility and market share and partly due to finally going full anime and full waifu-fest with more obvious sexualization.
I'd say the fact that pairings and kids have been shoehorned into the 2 newest games probably gives away which one of those is more important as a whole.
Wouldn't surprise me if there's some milking mini-game in the Switch game.
DanLongman
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This thread...
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Really though, the switch is prime for making otome games.
Face Rubbing wasn't even liked in the original Japanese market. I don't expect to see any overt concept like that come back for FE15 (Or 16 if you count Echoes as 15)
Kids are a two fold thing. People 100% like shipping characters and I won't discount that as an aspect of the success, but people also loved the gameplay ramifications of kids as well. Coming up with the most over powered pairings for kids is a big part of what people talk about with that feature.
So, did FE benefit from digging more into the shipping side? Sure. But to pretend that was the single thing that made the series blow up is missing the forest for the trees.
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