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    Video Game Discussion Thread vol. 2

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    10 minutes ago, Darc_Requiem said:

    I have a ways to go myself between the side quests and Queens Blood, I'm just about to Chapter 10. I guess I'm about 2/3rds  of the way done.

    I just got to chapter 7 myself. Outside of weekends I only get about 4 hours of free time a day if I’m lucky. So while the lack of playtime hasn’t been great it’s also making me appreciate the game a lot more. 

    Video Game Discussion Thread vol. 2

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    1 hour ago, Darc_Requiem said:

    The game does a far better job than the original of explaining the dynamics between Junon and Shinra. 

    The remake trilogy is making FF7 what everyone has thought it’s been since its initial release. A story full of rich world building, great lore, character arcs, great thematic sequences, interesting dynamics and great character developments and relationships. 

    I will forever argue and die on the hill of OG FF7 is not a good game. It has glints of greatness here and there but overall it’s incredibly shallow and just genuinely not very good. 

     

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    2 hours ago, Wellman said:

    If only you had just gotten into one of the FF7 mobile efforts... Then you wouldn't start blasting until it got cancelled a year or less later.


    Hurts bad doesn’t it? Square is way too quick to cancel shit in the mobile space that doesn’t see immediate returns. It’s why I don’t support anything they do related to

    mobile. Iirc that’s why Dragon Quest Tact stopped receiving support outside of Asia. 
     

    Im surprised the Octopath mobile game is still up and running. I don’t know anyone or have spoke to anyone that has ever played it but apparently it’s incredibly successful. 

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    3 hours ago, Hecatom said:

     

    this video is annoying as it broad strokes too much stuff or it feels like it leaves out a lot. Like he did bare minimum research and didn’t talk to any actively competitive players. 

     

    the cards they rotated out (all the cards from BlackWhite Block and XY Block) are for Expanded Format which was around 1% of the player base. That extremely small percentage was *kinda* growing thanks to a community made format called Gym League Challenge but it still didn’t matter much. Expanded also isn’t supported by Pokemon TCG anymore so there was no reason to keep the option around. 
     

    Setting up online tournaments has been harder but quickly figured out. 


    the economy is better off as you can just upgrade the rarity of your cards with relative ease. You upgrade the rarities through a currency system that’s easy to acquire at a very fast rate.
     

    Everyone HATED the economy cultivated through Online because it was just ridiculously unbalanced due to how unbalanced the codes Pokémon distributed were among other factors. Pokemon Online made getting the game next to impossible because of it. 


    Also with every new physical set that comes out the app give you *tons* of free cards and pre-constructed decks. Most of which are just a few cards away from being tier 1 meta decks and feature meta cards from the newest set. 
     

    The battle passes are beyond easy to clear. You can get to that months max rank in less than a week if you play consistently. The premium battle passes aren’t hard to unlock either. You’re always getting the various forms of currency needed to unlock things. Whether playing or redeeming codes. 
     

    The new app has destroyed any barrier  of entry the game had due to the above mentioned. 

     

    the app has gotten better with every update. It still has a lot of issues but what app doesnt. It still feels barebones in terms of different ways to play as there were varied tournament modes in Online but it’ll get there, I’m sure. And if it doesn’t? Alright. 
     

    Most competitive players like myself use online for play testing. 
     

    Also Pokemon isn’t even remotely coin flippy. People always discredit Pokemon for being ‘easy’ but it isn’t.
     

    I’ve seen so many people over the years (I’ve played Pokemon TCG since the very first set) from other games like YGO and MTG say Pokemon will be too easy for them only to get washed in Pokemon every event they go to. Even after grinding for months. 

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