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They have talked about that a few times even on the GOTY podcasts themselves, and I agree. I'd like to see some more categories rewarding different kinds of gameplay. I suppose the fear then is that it just turns into "Best RPG, Best shooter" etc, but I have some faith that these dudes can spin som fun genres around gameplay. Just define it properly beforehand so it isn't "Best World" again.

@matiaz_tapia said:

@dudeglove: I was thinking more like this. A true monkey paw wish.

Looks like number 3 to me

When you put dialogue choices and female/male playable characters into it you've gotta pay the Bioware jank tax.

(Kidding, kidding! I do not remember AC 2 and 4 being particularly polished games, they're open world games. Quantity over quality is the name of the game. At one point in AC 4 I fell through a ship and was stuck inside it, swimming around in the sea)

Glad you liked the review, I'm happy that someone took time out of their day to read all my petty nitpicks.

Since I beat the game and wrote his blog post, I've gone back and gotten the Platinum trophy. Partly 'cause I love the game, partly 'cause it was easy. And some of my opinions have changed since then. While the combat is very simple and a bad fit for bosses and all, beating up goons in the Kingpin and Demon sites was my favorite part of the sidequest cleanup. Really mixing it up with all the different gadgets and upgrading them helped out with the tedium I felt during the main story missions. As did liberal use of knocking dudes off ledges and webbing them to walls. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the trap, if put on an enemy, can attach itself to another enemy and slam them together, which is very effective(and romantic). Most of the sidequest are, as expected, pretty dull, though. I resented finding batch after batch of corrupted college students for Philip Chang in particular(I'm amazed that even he was based on a comic book character). It was fun to see Screwball being a terrible streamer, and it was cool to see Taskmaster do my finishers on me.

About the web swinging, while holding down R2 absolutely gets you to where you want, of course I did what I could to make it more fun. Timed the X-presses, held and let go of R2, all that jazz. But for me that wasn't really enough to make it feel exhilerating. I'm not claiming to be a master at it or anything so maybe there is some unplunged depth I haven't found, but I could not make it super interesting to do. Still a fun mode of traversal, though. I don't think it's bad as much as I don't see the hype.

And yeah, the loading times are very impressive. And while the loading screens that just show Spidey in the air are a bit dull, I adore the fast travel ones. Especially that they replaced them once the Sable forces took control over the city.

Finally, I wanna plug this video by TheGamingBritShow which came out today. Me and him are on the same page when it comes to a lot of gaming stuff, and I think he gets across much of what I was saying in this blog post more effectively while addressing different aspects of it than I. Of course he's also got lots of observations of his own that I didn't think about.

@vashyron:That's alright then, sorry I misunderstood.

Thanks dude!

It's pretty fun, right? I think it's great to see all these cool artists do their own take, not just on Bowsette, but on the crown used on a variety of Mario characters. I saw a Peach version of a pool of lava yesterday. It's funny. And when it's not something funny, it's some hot porny drawing instead. Everybody wins.

We had a conversation about it in the Giant Bomb FGC discord yesterday, and @hassun offhandedly wondered when the peachification would happen to someone we knew, so I took that chance to draw a Klepekette and a Navarette. Klepekette looks ...pretty bad, if sufficiently comically erotic, but I was very pleased with how Navarette turned out. Patrick took it well.

Any canon discussion is a bit.. I wouldn't mind if Peach got a black alternate color or anything, but I think we'll see Bowsette in a game at around the same time we see Shy Gal. I would die laughing and satisfied if she got in before Waluigi though. To some degree I'm glad this game drowned out the Waluigi memes.

You can apreciate or dislike a deluge of genderbent, sexy, big-titted anime Bowser fanart without transgender anything entering into the equation. Saying "People who dislike this are bigots" about a big pervy fanart meme is bizarre, and I think people are well within their rights to be a bit weirded out about slapping porny fanart on their nostalgia(if their defenses weren't broken down by Zone flash animations decades ago). Especially when it's a huge meme you feel like you can't avoid. It's so unnecessary to paint everyone who's not into it as trans haters.

@not_a_bumblebee: I'm not super well-versed in horror anime, but I'd recommend the old Devilman OVAs. Watched those two earlier this year 'cause Crybaby was coming out, and they're quite cool. There's one covering the early bit where he becomes Devilman and one covering the turtle demon and Sirene. Besides the basics of the plot, they are hugely different, and the OVAs are really beautifully animated and grounded.

Planet With is done, and it was an awesome show. I'm considering writing my first anime blog on here just to sing its praises for a bit.

Started watching Dragon Pilot: Hisone & Masotan to fill the gap. First episode was excellent. Dunno if that's gonna last, but it was at the very least a big pleasure for those first 20 minutes. The difference in plain qualitybetween this and something like Grand Blue, which I also watched some episodes of this week, is astounding.

@sombre: Joseph Joestar is such a fun protagonist that Part 2 of Jojo might be my favorite. I still regularly watch the last five minutes of the final battle, so you've got something to look forward to.

I'd check but I just dropped my collection down the stairs

I checked up on my collections of both the Japanese and English BLU-rays, and the JP release have quite a number of fewer episodes. I'm a little unclear on it, but I think for this season, they did the work internally rather than with another company. They also did the English release first, and then did more trimming for the Japanese release. This has resulted in a sub and dub that don't line up at all - the third episode of Japanese Kai has Videl learning to fly, while the third episode of the dub has some unrelated filler stuff.

So I guess it's dub all the way this time.