No.14292
Previous thread.
>>143What are you playing right now?
No.14296
>>14294I really like krisbowl (ALLxKris) though I consider kris a girl so its mostly NL or GL ships when it comes to her. As for BL ships I like Tenna x Spamton and the mike trio.
Although I haven't played chapter 5 yet I've already been spoiled on some of the characters
I think Asgore is cute and I secretly hope he's the uke to that flowery twink… No.14297
With recent news, I definitely won't buy digital games on the PS5 and will try to get physical copies for games I'm interested in soon even if I won't be able to play them right away. I need to check if I haven't missed out on interesting games on the PS Vita as well, but as soon as I see recommendations for cheap retro games on the Vita I either already bought them long ago or they're not in the European PS Store in the first place. After that I'm done. I already refuse to get a Switch 2 for many reasons, and the PS6 isn't even on my radar and will never be. I own plenty of games I would like to (re)play already so that's not an issue at all for me. Maybe someday I'll get into emulation but I want to play what's in my backlog first.
On a more positive note, I just beat Unicorn Overlord and I will either start Zelda BOTW or Raidou Kuzunoha on the Switch. I have travel plans for later this year which means I most likely won't take my Switch with me for a few months, so I'm trying to prioritize this console first. Besides that right now on the Switch I've stopped playing SMT3HD long ago because another game interested me more at the time and I then moved on to more games, and I also have the FF Pixel Remaster compilation but I only started FF1 and died so soon in the first dungeon it pissed me off kek. Unicorn Overlord is pretty good, it's easy but I'm not very good at that kind of games so that wasn't a problem for me. I unlocked a new difficulty setting, I don't see myself trying it. Don't play the game for its story or potential fujobait though, the story is very simple and generic even if it's not bad at all, and there's no fujobait at all (unless maybe with some very specific guys in optional dialogues I've missed?)
No.14298
>>14297Why do you even collect so many consoles? You can get all of the games either on PC or through emulation.
No.14299
>>14298I'm not some 15 years old kid who's collecting consoles and games on a whim since last week, I'm in my 30s and I've been into video games since I was a child so I've purchased games and consoles little by little and often for cheap when they were second hand copies before I could get a pc.
No.14300
>>14297The idea that you really will never own a game again is dystopian. Needing an internet connection and an account to play a $80 game reminds me of that old service OnLive. Which got shut down in 2 or so years and nobody got refunds for their purchases. I got a disk specific PS5 because I actually like finding used games on the cheap.
I've got a collection of PS2 titles just because they were like 0.15 USD.
This is so troubling because I can see physicals being mass bought up to be resold 5x their value like the original Project Diva for PS3. Emulation is basically perfect now so it's not as hard to get as it was, but that does not make it right.
No.14301
Playing tomodachi life and getting my otps to get together. It’s such a pain sometimes because they’ll fall for some other random mii kek.
I also bought the ninja gaiden trilogy on sale recently and I'm slowly getting through them. I love hack and slash so the gameplay is super fun but I wish ryu had half the personality that dante or raiden or travis touchdown have. He has no charm at all…
No.14302
>>14299Fair enough. Not buying a console second-hand is behaviour akin to burning money.
No.14303
>>14302I haven't bought a lot of consoles second hand. It's usually either thanks to gift cards for christmas from my father's job
we were three, and then four siblings so that meant three/four gift cards a year or thanks to sales than I got consoles, besides the Switch. I waited from the 3DSXL to have become less expensive instead of getting the OG 3DS for 250€ and I waited for the PS Vita as well, which means it was less expensive than during its release date and it included a memory card for free. The PS Vita memory cards were ridiculously expensive so that was a big deal back then.
As for games though, I think well over half of what I own are second hand copies, and some of what I bought as a teenager were crazy cheap compared to what you can find now after covid and scalpers ruined everything for everyone. I think even most of the DLCs I've bought, and that's not a lot, were on sales, for instance I got FE Fates with both main versions second hand for cheaper than the initial price, and then I got all the DLC during the only week of sales the 3DS FE games ever had in Europe because I refused to give too much of my money to Nintendo after their American localizers ruined the story and half of the characters on top of removing gameplay features.
No.14305
>>14296Rare to see someone who sees Kris as female. Spamton/Tenna is great I also like Tenna with Mettaton.
I NEED more Flowery/Asgore asap No.14306
>>14305This post just reminded me I forgot to gift Tenna to Hapstablook in my backtrack save file whoops Σ(°ロ°)
Hopefully I can make up for it in chapter 5…. I also find Tenna/MTT pretty cute!
No.14307
>>14305NTA but I see Kris as female too. I've heard most of the fandom sees Kris as a guy but with most Krusie and some Kriselle artists they seem to portray her as a lesbian TIF so I've never seen male Kris. Unless I'm on an entirely different side of xitter kek.
No.14314
>>14310It's basically and excuse for an AU fanfic right? I'm interested in it, Chiaki is dying chapter one calling it now.
No.14315
>>14310>Danganronpa 2×2 lets players experience Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair in two different modes. Players can choose between the revamped scenario in “Original” mode, which retells the story from the 2012 release with enhanced visuals and updated presentation for modern game systems, and “Slayhem” mode which features a new scenario based on Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, but completely different storyline. Paypiggies will want that extra route.
>>14304>BUT ITS WIRELESSbroke me. And still there will be people who propel the model with their cash. I don't get it.
No.14317
>>14310V3 was the pretty perfect ending to the franchise so this whole thing feels like a shitty cash grab
No.14367
>>14315I see some people thinking it will be an entirely alternate version of the story with different murders for each trial but there's no way they put that much effort into it right? The name makes me think it'll be some crack route with the cast
regaining their memories of their Ultimate Despair selves and going crazy killing each other over it. No.14382
>>14306Have you seen the dialogue that you get during the festival when you do give him away in chapter 4 yet? It made me kyaaa hard, I can't wait to see where their subplot is going to go. Mettaton was my fave back in the day and seeing him finally get a decent yaoi ship (besides unserious, toxic mettapants) is refreshing. I hope they kiss
and all the papyton shippers fuck off to Blue/Yellow. Please don't let me down, Toby.
No.14388
>>14367I think it will be super-short, regardless of content.
No.14435
>>14433I've watched the animated ova, it's basically a story about what if you can summon demons with a computer, kinda reminded of the movie hackers with the same cyberpunk style and intrigue about the internet.
No.14445
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/tales-of-series-producer-apologizes-for-the-long-wait-on-new-entry-says-development-team-is-hard-at-work/>Tomizawa says one challenge the series currently faces is diminishing opportunities for players to interact with past titles and their characters, especially given that there haven’t been any live-service Tales games to keep the playerbase engaged.There's a whole bunch of dead mobile games in their past, right? Kinda embarrassing.
No.14447
>>14445Look, I love the tales of series but I'm a serious nostalgia fag when it comes to them. The older titles spoke more to me… Although tales of vesperia was my favorite. I loved fluri/フレユリ…
No.14448
>>14445>Tomizawa considers the foundation of the Tales series to be games and characters that players can “love for a long time,” and is determined not to compromise on that ideal.The key to long term engagement is filling your game with insane homo vibes that fujos decades later still draw/write about it. Men just don't want to engage with stories/characters like women do unless it's in the form of patreon gooner bait and quality 18+ doujins.
No.14589
>>14588Isn't that exactly what happened with SNK? It was bought by the exact same guy too? Who was involved in the torture and murder of a journalist iirc? Everything about this is fishy.
No.14591
>>14588Not looking forward to when this starts happening to IPs I actually play. I hope the boycotts are effective.
No.14711
I randomly remembered Blue Omen Operation, I never backed the Kickstarter but I was really looking forward to this game coming out. It had a cool aesthetic and the combat system was inspired by the Mario and Luigi series, which is one of my favourite combat systems in any turn based RPG ever. They asked for money in 2017, got the funds, and then in 2023 said they're gonna stop updating to work on a smaller game instead, and they have been radio silence since then
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1483273190/blue-omen-operation-a-stylish-and-hot-blooded-rpg/posts/3732512The only saving grace is that they released a demo for the Kickstarter and that one is still a lot of fun, but what it could've been man.
Do you nonas also have Kickstarter/Indiegogo disappointments? Be it that you backed it or were looking forward to them. Another one I also feel really disappointed with is Thems' Fightin' Herds, but at least that game released even if incomplete. That one is another rabbit hole tho.
No.14712
>>14711>Another one I also feel really disappointed with is Thems' Fightin' Herds, but at least that game released even if incomplete. That one is another rabbit hole tho.Yeah I backed that one because at the time I was a FiM fan. It's unfortunate how it went from a success story to crashing and burning. This also reminds me of a pair of games I had never heard of before until recently called Armed Fantasia and Penny blood. They're kickstarter games inspired by retro playstation properties that also seem to be duds at this point.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doublekickstarter/armed-fantasia-and-penny-bloodhttps://www.reddit.com/r/JRPG/comments/1jg0gt9/the_armed_fantasiapenny_blood_situation_is_so/For me personally it's a massive red flag to see a kickstarter for two games at once so I'm not surprised to hear that it didn't end well.
No.14713
>>14712I was so close to doing the big bundle for these because I love artbooks and Shadow Hearts+Wild Arms. I did back Sunset Devils, which has a good demo on Steam and I believe in my heart will be a solid game one day.
No.14715
>>14712I heard about these two projects because I followed the character designer for Armed Fantasia ##because of her Xenoblade 2 BL art## and she tweeted about it from time to time. I was kind of looking forward to that one game at least.
No.14716
>>14712One of the core staff members spoke about Penny Blood still being in the works around January, but I don't have high hopes since it doesn't seem like they've secured any other funding.
>>14715Her DBZ and Skies of Arcadia doujin are some of the best out there.
No.14752
>>14750>mpreg gunsNona, I'm going to need you to elaborate on this one.
No.14754
>>14752Its based on a books series where there's 22 pathways to divinity, one of them is the "mother" pathway that's centered around birth.
With bullets that are blessed with characteristics of the pathway, the effects make bullets that shoot anybody, men or women, pregnant.
Also some pathway shenanigans will just make men pregnant.
No.14761
>>14754>With bullets that are blessed with characteristics of the pathway, the effects make bullets that shoot anybody, men or women, pregnant.This sound like absolute shit. I'm not touching it.
No.14794
A friend of mine reminded me to get the Pokopia DLC and it's so addictive when you have a whole new area to explore. I raised it to habitat level 10 pretty quickly cause I got in a trance of just unlocking more pokemon and then giving them new homes and gifts.
No.14811
This is a videogames and random thoughts crossover post but I've been watching some Hollow knight and Silksong lore videos just to pass time and despite what canon says I imagine the hollow knight MC humanised as a cute little shota and the actual hollow knight as an emo Alucard-coded anime bishonen with dead eyes like eastern european gay porn.
No.14812
>>14750It looks 80% AI generated
Not touching that
No.14839
>>14292Kino Elysium because it's indeed fantastic and had the most popular game related gay ship with canon gay character that I have seen in 10+ years. Started late, despite gorillions of shipping artworks and (male) friends hyping it up though, but now that I'm in I am enjoying it a lot. It also has the exact types of adult eccentric dudes and worldbuilding that I'm into, kek.
Also playing Look Outside for the umpteenth time for the OTHER surprise gay dude (actually ex-human-now-spider-thing but whatever). I'm still missing some achievements and a few character scenes respectively story bits anyway. I'm a huge Lovecraft fan so I always half-jokingly said that I desired a game where you could romance an eldritch. Well, it's no romance game, but MC can kiss Lyle, let him live in his apartment (he already stole his key anyway), make him blush, choose that he's "cute" when he thinks about him and get a somewhat good end in which Lyle gets better and is still hyperfixated on MC, so close enough for me.
Bless his fat spider ass, insecure yanhomo are such a rare species.
No.15134
I indirectly brought up Valkyrie profile in another thread and it just occurred to me that after Persona 4 this is the second game that introduced me to a piece of shit incel character whom I ended up liking anyway because he's entertaining. I only played Lenneth's game so far but I want to play the second game too.
No.15135
>>15134>piece of shit incel character whom I ended up liking anywayLezard mentioned!!! I really liked 2 despite how lowkey it was at the time of launch. If you like Lezard it's worth the time. I remember there being some goofy RNG and an obtuse requirement for certain party members, so if you care much about that I'd look at a spoiler free guide.
It sucks how the series is in spinoff/mobileshit hell. I bought the latest one on sale a little while ago but haven't gotten around to it, I read it was fine.jpg.
No.15136
>>15135Yeah I only got introduced to this series recently and it was unfortunate to see its current state. I guess not all games series need to stay alive forever but apparently fans were hoping for the third Valkyrie sister to get her own game which would only be fair.
No.15156
>PlayStation Cancels Deal With Hideo Kojima, Burns the Last of Its Gamer Good Willhttps://gizmodo.com/playstation-cancels-deal-with-kojima-burns-the-last-of-its-gamer-good-will-2000809938>Since the completion of Death Stranding 2, Kojima and co. have been working on a project called PHYSINT, which reportedly features similar stealth-based gameplay to the Metal Gear Solid series. Sharp-eyed Instagram followers of the director might have noticed he’s been spending a lot of time in the US over the last few months, and this week we just learned why: PHYSINT won’t be developed in collaboration with Sony.>This time, it wasn’t Kojima who walked away; as per Kojima himself, Sony cancelled its participation in the PHYSINT project in June. Since then, Kojima says, “Determined to keep the project alive, we have spent the last three months searching tirelessly for a new partner.” They found one: XBOX, which Kojima describes as “a partner with whom we share a common vision for the future,” a description that certainly seems to come with an implied “unlike Sony.”>For its part, XBOX certainly appears confident that it’s in business with Kojima for the long haul. In the official joint statement announcing the partnership, XBOX CEO Asha Sharma says, “[Kojima’s] ambition to challenge conventions reflects the kind of creativity we want to support at XBOX.” The relationship will also extend beyond this game—and their shared love of inexplicable capitalization—with “XBOX and KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS collaborating across film and television to bring new stories to broader audiences.” No.15157
>>15156Someone said sony thought the game was called PHYSICAL so they had to drop it kek!
No.15216
>>15215this is so stupid, one option with voice lines already existing is better than none
No.15217
>>15215It's a very stupid excuse. Using Kanji or Teddie as examples would have made a lot more sense than Adachi, a serial killer/rapist who's depicted in a very negative light for trying to coerce a teenage girl into doing whatever with him before he changed his mind and murdered her. It's not like showing him trying to groom a teenage boy would be any better, and even in P4G's bad ending where Yu destroys evidence and lets Adachi gets away with his crimes, Adachi laughs at him for being a retard instead of looking like he cares for him or is grateful what he did. And it's an especially bad example because in the original game he didn't have a social link at all. His popularity with fujoshi has nothing to do with whether he should be a romance option or not.
I haven't followed this debacle all that much, but I've seen some fans speculating that Atlus totally misinterpreted their wish for a Yosuke romance option and assumed they wanted a FEMC route with brand new dialogues for several social links like in P3P, with Atlus' answer implying that no, it's too much work so we won't do that. Even then I'm not sure it's believable since they did make P3P after all so even if they wanted to make a female protagonist with different dialogues and social links they could. They added an anime only character that nobody gives a fuck about in the game though!
>>15216They think it's unfair if there's just one character who's prioritized, they disagree with you and me both.
No.15223
>>15215I'm disappointed, but I've already decided I'm not getting this game since I don't want to monetarily support remake culture, so this doesn't actually effect me.
From what's shown so far it just seems like Golden again with 3D, if they aren't going to add anything new there's no reason to play.
>>15217Tbh Adachi is my favorite P4 character but I've never gotten into shipping him with MC, I can see toxic one-sided crushing from Souji which is then abused by Adachi, but nothing actually "romantic" so it doesn't appeal to me.
No.15224
>>15223>I'm not getting this game since I don't want to monetarily support remake cultureI'm really feeling this too. Both with Persona 4 and Trails in the sky I don't understand the people clapping like seals because they're offered a game they already could've played on steam but this time at triple A pricing.
No.15225
>>15217>His popularity with fujoshi has nothing to do with whether he should be a romance option or not. Why not? Should Atlus pander to fujos, or not? Adachi and the MC are the second most popular ship in P4 outside of shuhana, so I understand why Wada would at least make this remark and consider it as an option.
>Adachi, a serial killer/rapist who's depicted in a very negative light for trying to coerce a teenage girlYou don't know this for the majority of the game, though.
No.15226
>>15225Don't be delusional either. Yudachi's popularity compared to Shuhana has a very wide gap.
No.15229
>>15225It's not a matter of popularity, it's a matter of staying coherent in the whole game. It's not because we don't know about Adachi being a violent pervert until the end that he isn't one from the start. The point of the story is to find out the truth and making the MC date a guy who doesn't even want him and manipulates him defeats could work in theory but would make no sense when it comes to what the true purpose of romance in P4 is, which is ACTUAL romance and not a grown man manipulating a teenage boy's feeling to destroy evidence and get away with murder. Likewise, he doesn't even like the MC all that much. Making Yosuke an option barely changes anything, you just give him a second version of his 10th social link like with the other girls. Rise is already jealous of him and sees him as a serious threat to get Yu's attention so no need to rewrite that kek. Even making Kanji and Teddie bi would be less work than making Adachi bi. And don't even compare Yu/Adachi to Yu/Yosuke in terms of popularity.
No.15230
>>15226This isn't ship wars, and both are popular enough to merit being mentioned. Adachi already having a special ending himself would make him the most likely contender besides Yosuke to get some extra bait (whether or not the subject matter is to everyone's taste).
>>15224I'd be willing to shill out for a remake that had a better or more accurate translation than the localizations of the 2000s, but that's never the case. It's all shiny paint on worse content.
No.15232
>>15230>This isn't ship wars, and both are popular enough to merit being mentioned. In a way it is by you mentioning how popular Yu/Adachi is. One ship makes sense with them core themes of P4 and the other is just wishful thinking on a character that in canon does not care about the protagonist. P4 Ultimax makes it clear Adachi really can't be arsed to like Yu and has more fondness for Dojima as a person than anyone in the IT. And like
>>15229 said, Yosuke's inclusion as a love interest doesn't change anything except a single SL rank and maybe an added Christmas/New Year scene.
No.15234
As a shuadafag I've never really cared whether Adachi would actually be romanceable or not and I never asked for a romance option but the fact that they genuinely considered it even as a passing thought is making me genuinely curious as to how they would've tried to make it work. Like, not even in a 'shippy' way, I'd be genuinely honest to god curious if they would actually do something like
>>15229 with portraying Adachi as a legit groomer or if they would've gone for the fujo fantasy of somehow 'fixing him' for such a romance.
Persona team isn't nuanced enough to portray their age gap relationships in a negative light (I say this as someone who likes them) so it would've been a disaster though
No.15236
>>15230>I'd be willing to shill out for a remake that had a better or more accurate translation than the localizations of the 2000s, but that's never the case. It's all shiny paint on worse content.That's a good point. I've been wanting to play older games recently but sometimes I'll see comments about games like Xenogears being censored in the west.
No.15237
>>15234Yeah nobody at Fatlus has the writing chops to make the accomplice ending also a "romance".
>>15236It's easy to just look up the translation differences, especially with something as well documented as Xenogears. I mean, they left in the implied child molesting priests bit and Billy being solicited as a child so it's not like the game was completely gutted 4kids style.
No.15240
>>15232>In a way it is by you mentioning how popular Yu/Adachi isThat anon (
>>15230) wasn't even me, though. I have no dog in this fight, genuinely–I don't even want a shuadashu romance despite it being my ship, because I don't care for Persona romance and prefer to use my imagination. I understand some people care about it a lot. However, it still makes perfect sense to me that Wada would mention it offhandedly. I mentioned the "pandering" to fujos specifically because there's some nonna in these threads always whining about how Atlus hates women, and it's interesting to me that Wada would call out Adachi by name specifically over any other SLs.
Frankly, you're the one flinging ship war bait, saying one ship "makes sense" over another due to the "themes of the game." I would argue that Adachi does care about Souji, but I see we disagree already.
No.15242
>>15232This post
>>15230 was me, and I'd like to add my point was not that I think Adachi is the most realistic choice story-wise, but that if Atlus did decide to pander he's going to be one of the big options fujos might want. That's literally what Wada is verbalizing in the interview. One could argue his ending already doesn't fit the supposed themes of P4, or the characterization that Yu has in a lot of side material, but many still enjoy the concept of it.
Yu 'finding the truth' of what it means to enable Adachi, and the consequences he'll have for seeking that personal truth over the well-being of Inaba. I don't think it's hard to imagine how they could expand on that in the vein of VN bad ends at minimum.Besides, modern Persona games are already full of fanservice that goes against the idea their stories are trying to explore (P5 is awful for this), and this entire thread argument spawned thanks to diversion that Atlus is trying to use to hide the fact they have no interest in committing to any gay romances period. "Sorry we can't make everything" instead of "we don't actually want to" while they throw us in like hungry dogs in a pit.
No.15243
>>15240>Frankly, you're the one flinging ship war bait, saying one ship "makes sense" over another due to the "themes of the game." Because Yosuke had an actual romance that got deleted. Is it really me throwing ship war if that was the actual case with Yosuke? The other characters don't hold as strong with the canon or deleted material. The game's theme is to seek out the truth and be your true self. Don't know what else to tell you.
>I would argue that Adachi does care about Souji, but I see we disagree already.I go by what the games say. I can concede perhaps Adachi does care a little, but not to the extent of a viable romance. A fucked up grooming situation, sure, but not love.
No.15245
>>15240I'm kind of intrigued as to why you think he likes Souji? I got the impression that he cares about the Doujima's and is actually upset during the hospital segment but finds MC and the rest of the investigation team annoying.
I actually think his relationship with Doujima in particular is super important to his story which is why I ship them instead.