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Super Best Friends Thread 17: I don't have Bloodborne or Monster Hunter... Uhh...
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Banana Aeon
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To be fair, the Souls games are barely RPGs. It's way more Metroidvania than it is RPG.
DoktorEvil
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How do you figure?
He's right, but then again that's what an Action RPG is, an action game with RPG elements, not a Pillars of Eternity or Morrowind.
skLaFarebear
Member
To be fair, them not enjoying the game as they go through it has never really caused them to just drop an LP, otherwise Evil Within and TWD S2 would have been dropped super hard (or any bad game for that matter). Also, the game still has 3 episodes left, more than enough time to change their overall opinion of it. I don't think they've completely dismissed the entire game because they didn't like 1 episode.
RecursiveFault
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Dark Souls is actually the best Castlevania game
DoktorEvil
Banned
skLaFarebear
Member
Something about this makes me really salty, but I'm having a hard time finding out why.
Phantasmal Repose
Member
It might not be as catchy as Metroidvania, but Metroid-like would have been a way better term for the genre.
Banana Aeon
Member
I'm fine with this.
You're salty because it's true.
RecursiveFault
Banned
I'm gonna go play Bloodborne with the whip cane always in whip mode and just whistle Castlevania 1 music.
I've never played SOTN-onwards
DoktorEvil
Banned
You'd have to acknowledge SOTN as lower tier than Dark Souls?
It might not be as catchy as Metroidvania, but Metroid-like would have been a way better term for the genre.
But it is though
Which is weird because it's more like SOTN than the others.
Phantasmal Repose
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Not when Castlevania 1, 3, and Rondo of Blood exist.
RecursiveFault
Banned
For sure, with the RPG elements, I know it actually fits the later games and not the early ones as much.
I should really play Rondo.
Castlevania 1's pretty good.
DoktorEvil
Banned
We doing this?
Dark Souls is the Super Castlevania 4 equivalent.
Demon Souls would be Castlevania 1.
DS2 is Castlevania 3.
Bloodborne is Castlevania: Rondo of Blood.
Dark Souls is the Super Castlevania 4 equivalent.
Demon Souls would be Castlevania 1.
DS2 is Castlevania 3.
Bloodborne is Castlevania: Rondo of Blood.
Impending jimmies rustled in 3...2...1...
Banana Aeon
Member
Only Castlevania game I like it SOTN...Which is pretty much a Metroid game.
Probably will never finish it tho.
Probably will never finish it tho.
I will fight you.
DoktorEvil
Banned
SoTN is great. I also enjoyed the first game starring Soma Cruz (Aria of Sorrow?) since the Souls system was new. Circle of the Moon had that card mix system but it was only okay, and that run animation, eesh. Order of Ecclesia is the best handheld Metroidvania hands down. Never played the others (second Soma game or Portrait of Ruin). Never played the earlier Castlevanias either, nor Rondo of Blood or the other one starring the lance wielder.
NCR Redslayer
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Star Ocean 5 announced. Hopefully it will be as good as Star Ocean 2.
I think the choice was made in Episode 3. I think it's when
blobman who I forget the name of grabs Claire. You can mash the button for Claire to grab the gun or switch over to Moira. Moira can then crawl over to pick up the gun. This is way worse in coop though since Pat just started mashing while Matt sits there thinking what do I do? That's why afterwards Matt was thinking he could of done something, but Pat was too quick to mash for them to know.
Glitchesarecool
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skLaFarebear
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Catching up on the LiS LP and so far it seems pretty good. Usual SoL drama with a sci-fi twist with the time powers, but I can see who the audience is for this and why they would love it (even with the sometimes cringeworthy dialogue). Also, getting Matt and Liam to LP it was great, but part of me would love to see Pat here just to see how he'd choose decisions, but I guess he has his hands full with all that Bloodborne and Monster Hunter crack.
I need to play SO2, heard so many good things about it.
I need to play SO2, heard so many good things about it.
DoktorEvil
Banned
The LP benefits with Matt and Liam getting extra salty over the slight pretentiousness. Oh and Shin-Liam.
E_Darkness
Member
Woah fucking jeez. All the Bloodborne spoiler in the podcast. When do they end?
How spoilery are we talking about here?
E_Darkness
Member
I dunno, I just tapped out when they started talking about stuff.
E the Shaggy
Junior Member
Archie vs Predator: it's the story for our generation
Archie vs Predator: it's the story for our generation
Did Tina stand him up?
Glitchesarecool
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Go monhun!
I don't think they mention anything specifically beyond where the LP is other than some vague stuff. Liam does go a little into detail about stuff that happened to him in chalice dungeons though, but refrains from talking about specific enemies that Pat and Woolie haven't encountered yet
RecursiveFault
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DAREALGUMMY
Member
What needed to happen.
Oh stop.
I really don't recall Matt praising it, more like reserving judgement
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Really? Maybe I'm just old and forgetful but it already left my brain.
I don't have a link to the post, but I think Pat originally got on board with it through The F Plus podcast episode. I'm unsure of the exact posts though.
And then squish found it. You should probably still listen to that episode anyway.
ArclightBorealis
Member
They're fucking 3rd Person King's Field games, god dammit!
Finally watched and caught up with Bloodborne. It's been really entertaining so far and I've even though I know whats going to happen and what to do I don't find their mistakes annoying or anything. Only thing that does get on my nerves is when Woolie has next to no health and doesn't pop a blood vial immediately. One of the reasons he keeps dying so easily.
Currently treating their DS2 LP as a podcast as I play through DS2:SOTFS for the first time ever.
Currently treating their DS2 LP as a podcast as I play through DS2:SOTFS for the first time ever.
Phantasmal Repose
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Liam please. Why would you need to get a game genie when you can just use the light bulb trick.
liam didnt write it, he referenced it during the podcast for the Variations section at the bottom of the FAQ
DoktorEvil
Banned
Banana Aeon
Member
Come on man, Liam wasn't alive in 2003.
Imperfected
Member
There's nothing they say that's the least bit significant as a spoiler, people just got really dumb around here about what qualifies as a spoiler for this game.
The name of a boss that isn't a character you met previously in the game is not a spoiler. Ebrietas! I can say Ebrietas all day long, because you don't ever hear the name until you're staring right at the damn thing, and it doesn't mean anything by itself, so it's not a freaking spoiler.
Cainhurst! Oh god, now you know there's a place called Cainhurst. Based on your extensive knowledge of the etymology of fantasy names, you can now deduce exactly what that place is and what happens there, and why it's important to the story. You know, or you know nothing, except that there's a zone called Cainhurst.
There are a few things you can spoil in the game, mostly in terms of recurring characters, or area/boss names that (at least with a minimal amount of context) can really give major story clues. The "just spoiler tag everything" mentality of the community is laughable, though. There's maybe four actual, meaningful spoilers for this game, and three of them are things people rarely bother to tag in the thread. Otherwise we just spend all day blacking out the name "Blood-Starved Beast", because oh god, we don't want people to know there's a beast that wants blood in Bloodborne/Beast Souls.
Glitchesarecool
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Was mega babies some weird fucking canadian only cartoon? I consider myself fairly knowledgeable on 90s western cartoons and I don't recognize it at all.
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