Fine fine, next discount I'll grab it. Although I watched a bit of a playtrough, its a bit disappointing that the moment you catch one killer a new one materialize. I think it would be better if there was one large scheme that wasn't crackable at the beginning and so you'd need to built up gear/connection before you could tackle it, and you'd do that by catching smaller crime.
To be extra fair, Capcom only has five Final Fight games. StreetWise does not count. To take it even further, they technically have seven of them. World Tour mode is basically Final Fight 4. Captain Commando (takes place during the 2020s in Metro City) was the actual Final Fight 2 for a time. So it's 5(?) now. God Hand is considered a better 3D FFi game than you know what. There's a lease 10 references to the franchise in that game.
Cool. I was wondering what I was doing of my days. Now I have meaning.
Oddly, i was about to argue the opposite : corporation-baddies don't bother me there precisely because, in the cyberpunk premise, they "are" people. They are the actors, the characters, the "sides". They are both the organized crime networks (in the sense that real life mafias are just unregulated over-capitalistic systems, so in unregulated cyberpunk they're basically legal) and the rogue states (in the sense that cyberpunk corporations replace nations). Just like nowadays everything, from games to music to films to books to letters, newspapers, cameras, etc, is a smartphone, in the cyberpunk universe almost everything, any baddie entity (cult, state, criminal organisation, etc) is a corporation. Individuals hardly have the required agency. The very premise is : corporate wars. Just like ancient Greece epics always come down to warring gods.
Well, if there was a large scheme, you'd probably end up with evil corporate shenanigans. But again, it's Early Access, and I expect more variety of crimes in the future (next update is called "cheat and liars"), with hopefully more interconnected plots at some point.
Eh, Irenicus was reasonably complex (by videogame standards) and had a cool VA. The game was still all the weird jank of trying to adapt 2.0 D&D to real time combat. The party roster was a mishmash between some decent and some following Bioware's trend of writing what I'd describe as the "annoying person at the table who has to play the most fan-ficcy character possible" (something they oddly managed to continue even in their own universes).
Well, since this is the hot take thread. I preferred the Icewind Dale games to the Baldur's Gate games. It is hard to put into words, but to me Baldur's Gate felt like playing through someone else's D&D game, with characters they created. Icewind Dale let ME craft the characters. It felt more like a D&D experience.
You see, I though Link looked like a girl in BotW when he actually goes in drag and covers his lower face with a veil. Actually kind of sad the Gerudo vai outfit didn't make TotK. It was always fun to undermine serious moments by having Link show up looking fabulous.Link really looks like a girl in BotW. I put him in the Hylian Hood (with the soldier armor because it looks cool), and I keep forgetting that Link is supposed to be a boy.
You have your point, and while I do miss Lucia, Tameem and Ninja Theory's didn't exactly handle women good at all either. In fact, they still handled female characters the worst. Keep in mind, I like Kat, but she got shafted pretty hard too. Don't even get me started on what happened with Lilith. I know she's a villain and everything, but she didn't deserve that.
The only reason that there's a lot of history revisionism, is because you got idiots that are insecure or don't want to admit that they liked more than one character in Deadly Alliance or Deception. That era of MK I wasn't too big on, but I preferred Deception, because they brought back stage fatalities, and have a lot of bonuses in the game.
I’ve never heard about Kenshi being considered the golden boy either back then or in hindsight. There’s plenty of other characters That fans have always wanted. I think with Kenshi it’s just that he wasn’t overplayed/overexposed nearly as much as most of the others.
That's a hot take? Even Nintendo admitted to making him look androgynous. You can wear a sexy blue top with exposed shoulders and an open back in Tears of the Kingdom - Link is canonically one hell of a femboy.Link really looks like a girl in BotW. I put him in the Hylian Hood (with the soldier armor because it looks cool), and I keep forgetting that Link is supposed to be a boy.
He was one of three characters introduced in the PS2 era to appear in every MK game. He was also featured in two of the reboot era games and is already confirmed for the upcoming game.
Also most non-players writing illustrated articles on the franchise presented him as "zelda".
My impression of Leon's feelings with Ada is that he thinks she could go from a "bad girl" to a "good girl" but while he holds a torch for her, he's not running around looking for her in the dark.
Yeah, I more or less feel the same. It's basically a more casual (for lack of a better term) version of Batman and Catwoman.
To elaborate, the DMC series isn't all bad when it comes to female characters. Trish's arc in DMC 1 is a bit underdeveloped and I'd say 2 is a step in the right direction when writing female characters. But Lady in 3 seems to be their peak. Enough jokes have been made about Kyrie being the kind of bland damsel in distress that Peach is often mistaken for always being. The fandom basically had to create memes about her having a fetish for Nero's demon form just to make her more interesting than what we got in the games. The issues of Trish and Lady's designs in 4 are obvious but there is the fact they contribute little to nothing of value. Lady just tells Dante about the Order being possibly malicious with little evidence to back up her claims and Trish actually helps the villains by giving them the Sparda sword.
Oh, the Ninja Theory game has its own issues with female characters as well. I'm not quite sure if it's worse than 4 and 5, though. I'd put it on par with 5, if not a few notches below and slightly above 4.
