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Craig H

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  1. Last Epoch is what you’d get from the good parts of the best ARPGs and a story heavily inspired by Chrono Trigger.
  2. Regarding PoE 2, I know they’re aiming for a 2025 release, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it takes even longer.
  3. Yes. My keyboard changed Last to Lost. Last Epoch is excellent.
  4. One other opinion to make…I don’t see the use in killing that character if they decide to go in that direction. I honestly have no idea if they do or not because I’ve managed to avoid all spoilers for the game. You don’t need this to be 1:1 with the original. I’m sure some hardcore fans will disagree and say that their death is what makes that game, but I never saw that as much in my couple playthrough of FF7. I keep thinking of the LotR books and trilogy. You didn’t need or have to kill off any of the gang in that. And I don’t really count Sean Bean as being part of that gang. Even Gandolf basically died and was reborn. If you want to keep everyone alive, keep everyone alive. This isn’t a game where I think you need to kill someone off for it to have actual stakes. So if everyone lives, it’s not going to bother me and I sort of hope that happens even though I’m pretty sure that at some point in Rebirth, someone is going to die. It would be fucking hilarious if it was Sephiroth that dies just to really fuck with everyone. If they killed Sephiroth then I would have no idea where this game was going. Shit, figure out a way to pull in Kefka or something wacky like that. It’s their story. Do whatever you want. I doubt you’re going to alienate anyone. More than 1/3 of FF games are not great and yet we all keep coming back. They did an entire trilogy for X, which I think is maybe one of the worst FF games, but I’m pretty sure I’m close to being alone in thinking that.
  5. Yuffie is absurdly fast and possibly OP. I think she kind of breaks the game with how powerful she is. You’d think for how fast she is and how hard she hits that she would be a glass cannon and take damage easily, but nope, she eats a lot of damage too. I remember playing Remake and figuring out how to play Tifa and thinking something similar, that she’s damn near broken. Yuffie is waaaaay stronger than that. Everything is moving so fast with her that I can barely tell what’s happening. Meanwhile, I dedicated a lot of time to figuring out what a solid build would be for my group and slotted everyone’s materia, which was then followed by back to back sequences where I’m forced to use specific characters so I had to change things up and then remember how I had it set. In any event, without YouTube or anything, I decided I would try to figure out how to play Aerith since most YouTube videos I see have titles about her being absolutely nuts with regards to damage. I think I have it figured out. As of wherever I’m at in chapter 7, I finally unlocked her weapon ability for all 4 of the weapons I have for her. I started running around, placing wards, switching back to someone else to pull aggro off of Aerith, then switching back to her. With my wards down, I started doing the thing where I would teleport around, doing double spell damage, letting enemies come up to attack me only for them to be frozen and then teleport away to keep doing all kinds of crazy shit. It’s not…fast. And I don’t think there’s a way to speed it up. With Yuffie, her ATB meter is nearly full after a few seconds. Aerith’s fills up much slower than that. So while I can do some powerful stuff with her, it’s still a little too slow. Still having a blast with the game and I did get that one cutscene…
  6. I’m…45!!! hours in and I’m only on chapter 7. I think I’m at the midway point of chapter 7 though. A friend of mine is playing it too and he’s on chapter 9, but with only 30 hours in. I just keep hunting and hunting for materials and shit to do. It’s very Horizon Zero Dawn in that sense where in that game I spent so much time farming materials and wandering around.
  7. Speaking of ARPGs, I know you’re both talking about some older ones, but I have to say that Lost Epoch does damn near everything right in an ARPG. It’s worlds better than D4, I think the multiplayer system and easier to understand upgrade system improves on what Path of Exile does, and the combat is fun and engaging in a way similar to Lost Ark. It’s really fantastic. My hope is that they continue making enough money to improve on cinematics and other presentation stuff so people maybe give it more of a consideration.
  8. BTW, I’m also watching the Gentlemen. I’m baffled. How in the he’ll did Guy Ritchie make this as a movie that pretty much stunk, then he gets to redo it as a tv show and it’s so much better. Freddy (Daniel Ings) complete meltdown at the will reading in the first episode is so fucking hilarious. I first saw Ings in Lovesick and loved him in that. I just read the profile the NYT did on him and I’m glad he’s getting more exposure now. He’s super talented. And they somehow figured out a way to make Theo James’ boringness work.
  9. Bluey is one the best children’s animated shows ever. Even as an adult I love it, especially the episode where mom and dad are clearly hungover from New Years Eve and just want to lounge about and Bluey and Bingo want to play whale watching. That and the episode where mom and dad are chilling, but dad is focused on how the kids are never walking normally and mom then catches on as well. And the Bingo centric episode where she’s going to bed and she’s in space and it’s very dreamy makes me tear up every other time.
  10. “That living embodiment of cringe, Seth Rollins.” Damn. The Rock says some nasty stuff about Cody, but it’s kinda couched in pro wrestling stuff. With Seth though, the Rock goes in on him so fucking hard every time. Like, damn dude, he’s already dead. I will never forget the living embodiment of cringe though. I don’t know if anything tops that. It’s also how he says it, with just total disgust, like @Brian Fowler was the one saying it.
  11. I'm afraid to even try Elden Ring again. Unlike Celeste, which is one of the hardest platformers I've ever played but also one of the best games I've played, I don't know if I would have the patience or skill to do it all over again in Elden Ring or play the DLC. If the DLC were released closer to when I was still playing it, then sure, but since then my muscle memory has switched over to so many other games. And honestly, I'm ok leaving things as they were. I did it all, kinda brute forcing it half the time, I got the, uh, bad, uh, fire eyes ending, I killed Malenia, I thought the game was amazing, and yeah...It's almost like reading a really good book that was also really long. Happy to have had the journey, not really interested in reliving it. Well, unless the DLC is that huge where it's almost like a sequel. I would definitely go back for an Elden Ring 2 though just because you'd be starting over fresh.
  12. I'm on PC. I haven't had a single crash since day 2 or day 3 when things were probably at their shakiest. May just be an issue with the combination of your hardware. If you haven't, you may want to give the issue your having along with your PC specs to them on their official Discord. I doubt you're the only one experiencing this. We had some major, huge success tonight on Impossible. Everything was just clicking for us. Completed a 3 mission operation walking away with all of the Super Samples in each mission, and the final mission we somehow managed to complete the main objectives, every side objective, every bug nest, 26 common samples, 15 rare samples, and 3 super samples. We've never had that kind of success before. For whatever reason, the Walking Barrage strategem was kicking ass every time my friend used it. Honestly, the biggest help was the 4 of us all bringing mechs with us and we timed their deployments well enough that we were always able to deal with a huge bug breach. Oh, and one of us used the orbital EMS strike and another brought the EMS mortar. OH! And the major order got completed while we were playing so that ruled. Given how easy this major order was, I'm afraid they're going to say, "oh, that was so easy for you? Enjoy the next 4 major orders being on Automaton planets with Hulks that have double health and a smaller weak spot. ENJOY!" What I would really like is for them to fix or figure out cross play and cross save/cross progression just because there are times where I don't feel like leaving my couch and going to the gaming PC.
  13. Btw, this show fucking ruled. Mone’s music sounds awesome and sets herself apart from so many others. Dickhead Okada is awesome. This is fun watching him adapt his style, which was already pretty safe and close to a western style, to American audiences. Holy shit. Never did I imagine that Will Ospreay would suddenly become one of the best babyface promos in wrestling. That was fucking amazing. As big of a star as Mone came off as, Ospreay looks like he’s just as big of a star. This guy is fired the fuck up. It’s too bad that he’s about as reckless as Darby and twice as banged up as Darby. Speaking of, I’m almost happy Darby is going to be taking time off from wrestling to do something probably much safer for him, climbing Everest.
  14. I mean, it does matter because it’s data the company can point to when angling for a better deal, giving them more money, which allows them to retain or sign talent.
  15. Beyond the first couple days, I haven't had any issues with bugs or anything like that in Helldivers 2. I should say, any major issues. We ran into one issue two nights ago where when picking up the SSSD Drive, I dropped it to shoot at some bugs, then picked up again, then dropped it again, and I was T-posed. And then for about 10 to 15 minutes my friends and I were fucking dying of laughter at how ridiculous I looked. What made it better, or worse, was I could not die. I just kept surviving. The one from last night might not have been a bug. We were doing the new mission to defend the silos. We had an easy time with the first two silos, but on the third we couldn't even get it to 60% before it would become critically unstable and then reset. Other times it would just go from stable, to unstable (not even critically unstable) and it would be unstable for maybe a second before it would reset. And we went through this shit for 25 minutes until we lost. BTW, this was on Impossible. So we were feeling pretty good about things until those last 25 minutes. Then we figured, ok, lets load up on sentries, Stalwarts, and landmines while one of us grabs a mech, someone grabs the orbital laser and some other orbital shit. We got through the first two again pretty easily, got up to 80% on the last and then it reset. We then got to 99% and it reset with a bile titan in the vicinity but no bugs attacking the silo. We had 20 minutes left to go. At the 10 minute mark we were down to 0 reinforcements, 1 guy alive, and the thing would always reset at 20% or so. So my buddy is by himself just trying to survive until he can do a reinforcement. While he's doing that, he starts the countdown on the silo again and this time the silo isn't pulling any aggro or bug breaches or anything. The bugs that were there were just trying to kill my friend. So he brings one of us back, we make it to where a third one can be brought back, and the silo isn't resetting. Barely any bugs attack it and we're just running around the far outside area of it. Not far enough to not see down at the bottom, but far enough away. It hits 100%, we complete that part of the mission, go to the extraction site, and finish the thing off. It was one of the most heart pounding and agonizing and rewarding experiences I've had in a game. It felt like it was bugged, but we somehow did it. And as I was typing that out in between deaths, I noticed another bug that still isn't that big of a deal. So when using the riot shield and the submachine gun, you will T-pose if you pick up any samples or anything else really. However, you can fix it by switching to your sidearm and then switching back to your main weapon. It never resulted in a death or anything and it happened enough that I'm sure it's happening to others so it will probably get fixed quickly. As it stands, this is probably my game of the year at this point? My one complaint is that Helldive is fucking impossible and I don't understand how people can solo on Helldive. It's just tons of chargers, bile titans, and spewers. We counted 6 bile titans on screen at one point. It was a little excessive. We didn't last long, tried Helldive again, and went back to the Suicide and Impossible difficulties.
  16. And also that Miro has moved back to Bulgaria. And it was amicable. This is all per CJ. So who knows if it's a permanent move or what, but I expected this after their weird as hell angle.
  17. HHH learned from watching Succession. Deny everything, attain power, sell out your spouse, take all the power.
  18. Any of my fellow Helldivers get to serve up a hot cup of libertea in the mechs yet?
  19. BTW, Seth’s gimmick would work way better if and Becky actually got invited to the Met Gala Ball. His outfit last night looked like Lil Dicky’s from the gala episode.
  20. We’re totally getting Rock eating a Stone Cold Stunner and then overselling it at WM. The one thing that gives me pause is someone floated that Seth is secretly working against Cody and he’s in Roman’s pocket. I dismissed that at first, but man, it’s sure starting to feel that way. Only thing is that it would make Seth vs Drew heel vs heel unless Drew gets more people cheering for him and he re-signs. As much as I dislike Seth and this gimmick, him turning on Cody would be fucking lame. It’s better just to keep this as simple as possible.
  21. Yoooo…uhh, wtf is up with just letting Roman say shit like, “you gonna let this cross dresser make decisions for you?!” Segment was fine beyond that. That was just kinda surprising to hear.
  22. I love Rebirth so much. Right now I’m in Junon. I 100%’d the Grasslands and when the next area was end tunnels, which reminded me of some of the parts of Remake that were a drag, I got pretty bummed thinking Grasslands was going to be the only open world, find all of this stuff, do things in whatever order you want place in the game. And then I got to Junon and was pretty happy that the open world stuff returned there. Raziel’s words about combat should help because I was getting a little overwhelmed at all of the combat options and not really understanding them or finding a groove like I did in Remake. The other part that I feel is lacking is, well, the lack of Queen’s Blood opponents. I was probably hoping for too much that Queen’s Blood would be as big and as important here as Gwent was in the Witcher 3, even though I didn’t play any Gwent. I just remember there being a ton of Gwent opponents and high level quests revolving around that game. The one thing I need to do is break myself away from Tifa and Aerith. They and Cloud were my go to companions in Remake and other than when I was forced to not use any of them, I have only used them. I guess the good thing is that I have yet to cast Prayer once whereas I cast it often in Remake. Aerith also isn’t even a glass cannon. She’s just a glass, uh, nerf gun. I’ve seen others successful dominate fights with her by teleporting all over the place, but I don’t know how that works and her ranged attacks not only hit so softly, but she pulls aggro way more than Cloud or Tifa. I switch over to Aerith to get in a couple shots just to pump up her ATB meter so I can cast a spell. I fire off one shot with her and immediately all enemies stop what they’re doing and swarm on her. But if I don’t do that, then she just sits there basically does fuck all except for casting Cure once every few fights and that’s with having Auto Cast materia on her. One last random thing, I’m almost surprised that no one has knocked the game for not changing practically anything with summons especially after they were a high point with 16. At the same time, I appreciate them not really changing things that much because it keeps a sort of gameplay continuity with Remake. It gives me hope that since they basically have a winning formula that we won’t need to wait nearly as long for part 3 as we did for part 2. I still have no clue how big this game is or where it’s going to end, if that end will mirror a part of the original which I think it will, if it will go in a totally new direction, or really where things are headed. I do feel based on cutscenes I’ve experienced and conversations that the characters have had with each other that there really is some kind of Crisis on Infinite FF7s going on here. I hope this isn’t spoiling much, but outside of the start of the game, for saying that fate and destiny are basically thrown out the window after the end of Remake, this game so far has been almost one for one with the original. More than Remake was. With a lot of games I have a decent idea for where things are going. With this, I really don’t know where it’s going and I like that. For now…
  23. He has a match against Jay White at the Big Business show in a couple weeks and then, yeah, Darby may be off for awhile. I should probably look up just how long the wait is to climb Everest since I know there’s a queue for it, but I’m not sure how that queue works.
  24. But TK should serve everyone and have the tournament be for who will be Darby’s new partner. That is such a wrestlecrap idea that I honestly don’t think has ever been done.
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