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osby · Oct 15, 2024

I want a game that uses Metaphor: ReFantazio's same insanely well-crafted narrative system and wonderful writing...

...but it's about a young witch trying to solve the disappearance of her neighbor's cat in a small village in the Alps.

osby · Sep 27, 2024

Do you ever see someone saying that a piece of media is too unsubtle at conveying its themes and halfway through their explanation realize that they somehow missed the most obvious metaphor possible in the story?

osby · Aug 22, 2024

Just saw the latest Street Fighter VI DLC character. I can't believe Sakurai forced Capcom to add Terry to their game. First Smash and now this. When the madman will stop?

osby · Aug 13, 2024

"MOM! Phineas and Ferb are awakening the Great Dreamer slumbering in the sunken city of R'lyeh!"

osby · Jul 26, 2024

"Can you pet the dog?" style of gimmick account but with killable gods in video games.

osby · Jul 15, 2024

I love how every single DLC era Ultimate "leak" was

Fan favorite pick that shows they finally listened to the fans
Out-of-the-wall pick that's "such a Sakurai thing to add"
Character from a Switch game (there is a dirty shill pick so you know this leak is real)
The guy everyone was talking about two weeks ago
Most wanted character of the user who made the post

osby · Jul 9, 2024

One of my biggest pet peeves is when people accuse a character of being an expy of a more famous character when actually they're both references to the same guy.

osby · May 11, 2024

The way Xenoblade 2 handled it doesn't quite work but I actually like the idea of having a gatcha-style system in a regular console game only without microtransactions.

Unlocking a large cast designed by various artists is a fun concept in theory and satisfies the toy-collector side of my brain. Just make it so that I can unlock everyone by naturally playing the game.

osby · May 3, 2024

I love it when people make fanart of unused concept art for games.

osby · Apr 4, 2024

If I see another person using Oldsona and Newsona to talk about Persona, I'm punting them to the sun.

osby · Mar 8, 2024

I'm alive but also down with a terrible cold so it might take me a few days to be actually active again here.

Deleted member · Mar 8, 2024

Glad to see you again Osby... Kinda bittersweet It had to be today with the news of Akira Toriyama's passing... But know that having you here with us during this tough day means a lot for me.

osby · Feb 8, 2024

Stylized art directions are good but I wish people weren't so insecure about liking them.

I'm tired of hearing about how they "age better" than realism as if that's the only metric video game graphics should adhere to.

osby · Jan 26, 2024

With what's going on at Microsoft right now, maybe we can stop pretending that buy-outs by big corps are good actually and will definitely fix the industry.

osby · Jan 2, 2024

Pokemon Flintstones and Pokemon Jetsons

osby · Jan 1, 2024

New avatar time

(Source: https://twitter.com/BochiTiuku)

osby · Dec 29, 2023

If you have more than one cat, at least one has to be smarter than every human in the house and continuously plot your demise while the others must possess the combined intelligence of a peanut.

That's the law.

osby · Dec 24, 2023

I don't celebrate Christmas but it's so wholesome to have a holiday with a deep rooted tradition of drawing anime girls in Santa dresses.

Deleted member · Dec 23, 2023

We were robbed Osby

osby · Dec 7, 2023

Video game journalism site: "Employees were locked up, chained, and lashed in the studio to ship out games faster."
90% of the comments: "Deserved, tbh. My copy arrived 3 minutes late and I found two minor bugs. I hope they starve the devs next to teach them make better games."

osby · Dec 1, 2023

It seems weirdly common nowadays but I never understood the "this game is bad, I'm gonna pirate it" argument. If it's so bad, why even bother pirating it?

osby · Nov 27, 2023

Soul Hackers 2 is really good when you don't have Megaten fans whispering in your ear to tell you it's bad.

osby · Nov 23, 2023

“Go to hell” is basic. “I hope your hometown becomes a tourism hotspot” is smart. It’s possible. It’s terrifying.

osby · Nov 17, 2023

Persona 5: The Tacticening

osby · Nov 7, 2023

When you think about it, there are only seven types of basic plots:

Plumber fights a giant ape to save the girl
Kid collects every wildlife
Furries enter a dogfight with a flying face
Woman deals with every problem using a laser cannon
Cute eldrich monster eats less cute eldrich monsters
Dinosaur raises kids
Twink fights a giant pig to save the girl

osby · Oct 28, 2023

No more edgy Alice in Wonderland adaptations, I want a dark and gritty live-action The Hunting of the Snark adaptation that takes itself super seriously and has a bad CGI Beaver.

osby · Sep 19, 2023

Uta from One Piece Film Red is so funny to me because I don't think she doesn't fit into the series or anything but if you describe me her character arc without telling me where she's from, I'd believe that she's an Arknights character or something.

osby · Sep 16, 2023

Life hack: You don't actually need to critically interact with media to form your own opinion about it, just watch a monetized Youtube video made by a guy who hates everything made after he turned 16, that will give you an unbiased and holistic view about it.

osby · Sep 6, 2023

You're telling me a yakuza liked this dragon???

osby · Aug 23, 2023

It's interesting how teaching the player works in visual novels.

While in traditional games, players are usually expected to develop their strategic thinking or hand-eye coordination skills to surpass higher difficulty challenges.

In the visual novels, however, the difficulty (if there is any) comes from being expected to read the text carefully and critically. Some of my favorite examples are the ones where you need to take character development into account and are lead to a bad end if you deviate from the context of the decision scene.

osby · Aug 12, 2023

I feel like a lot of the "translation vs localization" discourse you see online would vanish if more people at least had the basics of a second language and realized that they might as well be arguing "apples vs apples".

osby · Jul 30, 2023

This part of the The Cyberiad feels more relevant than ever with all the talk about AI-generated "art":

The program found in the head of an average poet, after all, was written by the poet's civilization, and that civilization was in turn programmed by the civilization that preceded it, and so on to the very Dawn of Time, when those bits of information that concerned the poet-to-be were still swirling about in the primordial chaos of the cosmic deep. Hence in order to program a poetry machine, one would first have to repeat the entire Universe from the beginning - or at least a good piece of it.

osby · Jul 14, 2023

There are quite a few Smashboards Creates threads that focus on Shonen Jump Magazine but I wonder if there'd be an interest in a forum game that focuses on Jump+/Manga Plus.

It's my primary way to read manga these days and I feel like there are a lot of interesting manga in there that don't get a chance to be featured in fan concepts, which is a shame given big names like Spy x Family and Kaiju No. 8 originated from there.

osby · Jul 3, 2023

Last night, we found a magpie chick that fell from its nest. We couldn't get it back to its nest and the vet told us that it is old enough to be cared after at home so... I guess I have a bird now.

osby · Jun 12, 2023

As cool as Persona 3 remake is, I think Persona 5 Tactica might grab my attention more depending on how they handle it. P3 remains my favorite numbered title but I've wanted a Persona SRPG for ages.

Linkmain-maybe · Feb 21, 2023

Pokelego999

Baysha · Jan 20, 2023

Stunfisk.

osby · Dec 23, 2022

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Alphine Agnitio · Nov 26, 2022

Based pfp

osby · Nov 26, 2022

The top-notch recurring element in Persona games is party members of the previous games seeing the latest protag and going "hmm, your... uniqueness kinda reminds us of somebody we know" out of politeness because all protagonists are equally freaks.

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