TVTropes Now available in the app store!
Open

Follow TV Tropes

Following

Continuation: Our avatars are in a room.

Go To

ThanatoSeraph ARE WA DARE DA from The Land Down Under Since: Feb, 2012
ARE WA DARE DA
#463151: Nov 7th 2015 at 9:51:08 PM

Huh. Colour me surprised, I was under the impression it was a game with little effort put into it beyond licensing deals.

and come off your Mortal Kombat slandering

Tatsumar Since: Mar, 2011
#463152: Nov 7th 2015 at 9:52:48 PM

It's not slandering when the developers admits their block button and archaic four direction special inputs are neutered just so it can look different from street fighter.

Deer
ThanatoSeraph ARE WA DARE DA from The Land Down Under Since: Feb, 2012
ARE WA DARE DA
#463153: Nov 7th 2015 at 9:56:49 PM

not what I'm talking about, I fully acknowledge that it's not a great fighting game and I'm not even a fan of the series myself

but calling the cast of that monstrosity better than mortal kombat is simply false

HilarityEnsues Since: Sep, 2009
#463154: Nov 7th 2015 at 9:56:52 PM

the last time i checked mortal kombat, the cast was like 90% sub-zero and scorpion recolors. fights are super boring outside of fatalaties, which are basically the whole game

and now that its not the 90s where MK was actually relevant i doubt they're putting more effort into the game

that said

at least it doesn't have waifus

edited 7th Nov '15 9:57:18 PM by HilarityEnsues

WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#463155: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:00:09 PM

i don't know what any of the names on that list were but they all make me faintly uncomfortable

Tatsumar Since: Mar, 2011
#463156: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:03:59 PM

I assure you the cast of Dengeki is terrible but at least when I see a different character I can expect a different fight.

Mortal Kombat is all about every sharing the same bland normal attacks and limp special attacks. But it's got the good finishers that just draw out the game right?

Deer
ThanatoSeraph ARE WA DARE DA from The Land Down Under Since: Feb, 2012
ARE WA DARE DA
#463157: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:07:26 PM

yeah but that's irrelevant because I was specifically talking about the cast line up, in response to your line about mk's cast being worse than dengeki's

unless you mean by "cast" the "fighting gameplay character" as opposed to "character", which is what I had assumed

HilarityEnsues Since: Sep, 2009
#463158: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:08:15 PM

well to be fair mikoto is from To Aru, which isn't terrible

ive heard taiga is from a decent series too but ive never seen toradora

SAO is SAO, the very premise of Oreimo makes me uncomfortable

so im assuming everything else is awful

gameplay-wise though tats is right, mk is just

i don't know about the newer ones but the "classic" ones are some of the worst fighters I've seen from that era

incredibly lazy in almost everything

edited 7th Nov '15 10:08:44 PM by HilarityEnsues

ChrissieMcNapkins bruhonetta from the traphouse Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Hoping Senpai notices me
bruhonetta
#463159: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:11:42 PM

toradora is actually pretty fucking great

I live in a constant state of fear and misery.
ThanatoSeraph ARE WA DARE DA from The Land Down Under Since: Feb, 2012
ARE WA DARE DA
#463160: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:12:58 PM

well to be fair mikoto is from To Aru, which isn't terrible

i beg to differ personally

like, I have a test, which i do not think is unreasonable, and that manga failed that test so spectacularly that to this day i think of it as a benchmark

and what I have heard of it later hardly increases my opinion of it

toradora my friend likes but I've never seen an episode or read a book or whatever form it takes

shizuo actually is a decent character though

seriously what is he even doing there

anyway regarding mortal kombat yes I agree, my point was always separate to gameplay

edited 7th Nov '15 10:13:42 PM by ThanatoSeraph

Tatsumar Since: Mar, 2011
#463161: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:13:08 PM

Of course when I talk about characters quality I'm talking about gameplay and unique movesets.

There's actually a few good surprises here, for instance one character is kinda like a mini-Magneto that can create metal platforms to hover around and toss I-beams at the opponent.

Then there's Charles Barkley who summons her entire basketball team to beat down on you before setting you up for the three point shot.

There's no real mechanics in MK that really makes a character stand out outside of "this guy has a gun projectile so he's annoying".

Classic MK (1-3) is actually amazing and hilarious to watch but anything past that is just cringey.

edited 7th Nov '15 10:14:54 PM by Tatsumar

Deer
ThanatoSeraph ARE WA DARE DA from The Land Down Under Since: Feb, 2012
ARE WA DARE DA
#463162: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:14:39 PM

oh

in that case sure I have no opinion, they very well could be a ton better if the gameplay itself is decent

I just thought you were talking about the characters themselves

Tatsumar Since: Mar, 2011
#463163: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:16:38 PM

YO I JUST SHOT A LIGHTING BOLT FROM MY FOREHEAD ACROSS THE SCREEN AS SCHOOLGIRL MAGNETO

WHAT IS THIS

oh yeah and this game has assists as well

if you want Celty or Izaya that's where they are

edited 7th Nov '15 10:17:31 PM by Tatsumar

Deer
HilarityEnsues Since: Sep, 2009
#463164: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:17:15 PM

thems fighting words aussie boi

well not really because i think to aru is kinda meh aside from accelerator, who is a pretty cool guy

but like, here's the thing

the fact that it's going up against shows where some guy wants to do the nasty with his little sister kind of forces me to grade on a curve, i feel

ThanatoSeraph ARE WA DARE DA from The Land Down Under Since: Feb, 2012
ARE WA DARE DA
#463165: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:20:11 PM

your opinions are bad and so is to aru

and okay that's fair but

look, what I do remember from it honestly did not place it much higher than that benchmark for me

ChrissieMcNapkins bruhonetta from the traphouse Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Hoping Senpai notices me
bruhonetta
#463166: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:20:22 PM

i know one of the girls is from railgun but ive never actually watched the

the bottom tier girl is another one that wants to fuck her brother

who

is like the most

obvious audience self-insert ive ever seen

I live in a constant state of fear and misery.
ThanatoSeraph ARE WA DARE DA from The Land Down Under Since: Feb, 2012
ARE WA DARE DA
#463167: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:21:37 PM

from your description without even looking at the picture I'm guessing mahouka

Tatsumar Since: Mar, 2011
#463168: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:23:03 PM

yo this game also does have characters from Valkyria Chronicles and Virtua Fighter 5 too which raises the bar.

There's also that Spice Wolf girl too from Spice Wolf but I don't know anything about her.

Deer
ThanatoSeraph ARE WA DARE DA from The Land Down Under Since: Feb, 2012
ARE WA DARE DA
#463170: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:26:03 PM

oh shit valkyria chronicles I forgot about that

yeah that does raise the bar too from what I've heard

I bought that game but still haven't played it because 25GB download which is basically my entire internet

[up] very useful

Azure Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist from The World Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist
#463171: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:35:30 PM

Valkyria Chronicles is really nice gameplay wise but uh...well the Voice Acting is not great.

PM box is Closed, Indefinitely Friend Code: 3368-4181-6850
HilarityEnsues Since: Sep, 2009
#463172: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:36:31 PM

i probably didn't get as far into the series as you did, since the most offensive thing i can remember about it is that it has a lot of shonen cliches. i am not going to continue watching it to find out what perverse secrets it holds in the future, so it will forever be a meh/10 in my Big Book of Animoo

oh yeah spice and wolf is good

anime themed mostly around economics is an incredibly small niche too

ChrissieMcNapkins bruhonetta from the traphouse Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Hoping Senpai notices me
bruhonetta
#463173: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:40:56 PM

pyro you are correct

I live in a constant state of fear and misery.
Tatsumar Since: Mar, 2011
#463174: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:41:28 PM

Voice Acting felt very hit and miss for me in Valk.

I do remember turning Cherry into a killing machine in that game.

Deer
ThanatoSeraph ARE WA DARE DA from The Land Down Under Since: Feb, 2012
ARE WA DARE DA
#463175: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:42:04 PM

@Jam and Tats: I think the steam version is dual audio, not sure though

wait no why do I think this I have no idea

I've heard the story is supposed to be decent too

@Chris: winner

@Hil: no no

see my 'test' only extends as far as the first chapter, as it's designed for me to see "okay do I want to dedicate more than a casual glance to this"

basically what I'm talking about is when the prepubescent anime girl nun's clothes explode when the main character touches them and then she reacts in an anime girl way

the specific test failing part is the prepubescent character sexualisation, but pretty much every part of that sentence adds up to be worse than the sum of its parts for me

edited 7th Nov '15 10:43:24 PM by ThanatoSeraph


Total posts: 510,405
Top