Now back to your regularly scheduled tangent already in progress...
Reimu:
There's so many leaves falling I can't see through them all... Can I really make it all the way to the mountain like this?
Huh? I smell something tasty...
Minoriko
Even though you're a shrine maiden, you want to eat a god? How ridiculous! What insolence!
Reimu
Who said I was going to eat you? But is that delicious smell coming from you?
Minoriko
Gods always put a great deal of care into their odor. Oh, by the way, I'm the harvest god.
Reimu
Mmmm, so that's why you smell like half-baked sweet potatoes.
Minoriko
Freshly-harvested sweet potatoes make up my perfume. Do you think I'm going to let a shrine maiden eat me!?
Seems like an overly epic title for a game like this. I mean, with a name like "GOD EATER", you'd expect some heavy shit to go down. Eating gods is not something one does on a day to day basis. You don't bring a sack lunch of roasted god thigh and Jello to the office.
Where do you go after playing the "devourer of deities" card? That's pretty much the tip of Badass Mountain. They blew their load on the title here. You can't top eating a god. It cannot be done. Everything else can only be a downhill slide.
"Yeah, I'm shooting monsters with a huge gun, but I just ATE A GOD. This feels empty now. What am I even doing with my life at this point?"
Edited by ShaggE: Cracking Eggs Of Wisdom at 12/15/09 3:08 AM
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@ShaggE: Cracking Eggs Of Wisdom: Maybe... maybe the god eating happens at the end? They should name it after the sesame street book and go for "The God Eater at the end of this game."
So the entire game you are supposed to be thinking "What god? Who eats the god? How the hell do you eat a god? Is it a euphemism? Is someone going down on Zeus again?" and if you are Chronos, you run around panicking the entire game waiting for the creature that will eat you, only to realize the god-eater was you.
@Ghede: Wow. My mind... blown. You have cracked an egg of wisdom right on me, friend. I am so refreshed that I could eat a god myself right about now. I hear Osiris tastes great on rye.
@Ghede: I remember that book. It was Grover all along. I used to love how the illustrations looked like he was trying to keep you from turning the page.
But back to the game, with a name like God Eater, I was thinking it must be about someone/thing bigger than Galactus. I mean, he was a god and only ate planets...
Guys, please stop using every monster hunter related thread to complain about MH controls. If you can't handle the controls, you can always go back to galaga (1 button) or Pac-Man (no buttons). Monster Hunter is praised becuase the controls need to be mastered. You do not become a pro overnight and the game does not allow itself to be dumbed down so your gameplay gets easier. You have a right not to like it but this is a characteristic of the game and most people that enjoy the game would not want it any other way.
@lars18th: All I'm saying when I complain about the controls is that the combat seems unfairly balanced in favor of the monsters; how come I get stunned, knocked down, and half my life taken off when a monster BRUSHES past me even when it's not attacking, but I have to hit him 60 or 70 times for him to go down, if he doesn't run away and I have to chase him halfway across the fucking map? I don't have any friends with the game, so I have to solo, and the boss fights are just punishingly unfair when you're soloing.
Maybe I just need an Easy Mode, but that is not the way to indoctrinate new players into your combat system.
how come I get stunned, knocked down, and half my life taken off when a monster BRUSHES past me even when it's not attacking, but I have to hit him 60 or 70 times for him to go down, if he doesn't run away and I have to chase him halfway across the fucking map?
In the slums of a city made entirely out of containers and flat-surfaced backdrops
Generic-looking anime kid A walks stumbles into the office of Long-haired bishonen and receives a God-given quest...to fight
With a colorful cast of other generic-looking anime kids, Generic-looking anime kid A is thrown into a world of danger and oversized beasts, and can only depend on himself, his companions...and their oversized penis-compensators.
Looks like Monster Hunter but with a plot and without the annoying control concerns I mentioned last time. If this comes over here, I'll give it a try.
As for stories...well, for one, I'm a writer. It's what I do. Also I just like story modes. I like progression and campaigns. I don't really enjoy playing a game if I don't feel I'm getting anything out of it, and I rarely feel rewarded while playing multiplayer. It's a nice bonus, but aside from fighters I will not play a game if its only focus is multiplayer.
@Archaotic: so youre a writer huh? thats pretty cool.. i dabble in that a little bit. i have a ton of characters that need to be fleshed out better, im more likely to create a short plot for my worlds and characters than to actually write the whole script. im an artist, and i draw them up and then create their background after.
nice collection too.. heres mine: [club.ign.com] its missing some stuff because ive been too lazy to update it... pretty much this whole year lol. its probably a good 30 titles behind... i used to have about 40 - 50 more games.. but i sold them all in 2001 because they were lacking the instructions and/or cases.
It makes me wonder how much fun these games would be in the states if we had a similar culture to Japan's and we could easily find other people to game with.
"Entertainment, namely providing a computer game that may be accessed network-wide by network users via mobile phones and computers; providing computer games via network between communications networks and computers"
...If I'm ever near a teleprompter I'm going to terrorize an anchorman with this one.
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Now back to your regularly scheduled tangent already in progress...
Reimu:
There's so many leaves falling I can't see through them all... Can I really make it all the way to the mountain like this?
Huh? I smell something tasty...
Minoriko
Even though you're a shrine maiden, you want to eat a god? How ridiculous! What insolence!
Reimu
Who said I was going to eat you? But is that delicious smell coming from you?
Minoriko
Gods always put a great deal of care into their odor. Oh, by the way, I'm the harvest god.
Reimu
Mmmm, so that's why you smell like half-baked sweet potatoes.
Minoriko
Freshly-harvested sweet potatoes make up my perfume. Do you think I'm going to let a shrine maiden eat me!?
#touhou
(related screenshot attached 20 times, but being this site, image uploads fail as a rule for me... hopefully the hotlink works)
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Where do you go after playing the "devourer of deities" card? That's pretty much the tip of Badass Mountain. They blew their load on the title here. You can't top eating a god. It cannot be done. Everything else can only be a downhill slide.
"Yeah, I'm shooting monsters with a huge gun, but I just ATE A GOD. This feels empty now. What am I even doing with my life at this point?"
This game depresses me.
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With a name like that, I expect a xenogears related game. No not xenosaga.
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So the entire game you are supposed to be thinking "What god? Who eats the god? How the hell do you eat a god? Is it a euphemism? Is someone going down on Zeus again?" and if you are Chronos, you run around panicking the entire game waiting for the creature that will eat you, only to realize the god-eater was you.
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But back to the game, with a name like God Eater, I was thinking it must be about someone/thing bigger than Galactus. I mean, he was a god and only ate planets...
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Well, awesome and maybe a little blasphemous. But it kinda fits...
02:42 AM
Not to say I am not now eagerly awaiting this title.
Weren't D3 doing a similar game too? How did that turn out?
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Color me interested.
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Monster Hunter is praised becuase the controls need to be mastered. You do not become a pro overnight and the game does not allow itself to be dumbed down so your gameplay gets easier. You have a right not to like it but this is a characteristic of the game and most people that enjoy the game would not want it any other way.
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Maybe I just need an Easy Mode, but that is not the way to indoctrinate new players into your combat system.
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how come I get stunned, knocked down, and half my life taken off when a monster BRUSHES past me even when it's not attacking, but I have to hit him 60 or 70 times for him to go down, if he doesn't run away and I have to chase him halfway across the fucking map?
You are a man.
It is a Dragon.
Do the math.
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In the slums of a city made entirely out of containers and flat-surfaced backdrops
Generic-looking anime kid A walks stumbles into the office of Long-haired bishonen and receives a God-given quest...to fight
With a colorful cast of other generic-looking anime kids, Generic-looking anime kid A is thrown into a world of danger and oversized beasts, and can only depend on himself, his companions...and their oversized penis-compensators.
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/Jack Thompson, CEO of Microsoft
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/Jack Thompson, CEO of Microsoft
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I'm actually wondering how many games you have, because story tends to be placed on the afterburner in most games.
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[club.ign.com]
That should answer your question.
As for stories...well, for one, I'm a writer. It's what I do. Also I just like story modes. I like progression and campaigns. I don't really enjoy playing a game if I don't feel I'm getting anything out of it, and I rarely feel rewarded while playing multiplayer. It's a nice bonus, but aside from fighters I will not play a game if its only focus is multiplayer.
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nice collection too.. heres mine: [club.ign.com] its missing some stuff because ive been too lazy to update it... pretty much this whole year lol. its probably a good 30 titles behind... i used to have about 40 - 50 more games.. but i sold them all in 2001 because they were lacking the instructions and/or cases.
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Their swords are made of Aerogel like substance that can through anything!
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...If I'm ever near a teleprompter I'm going to terrorize an anchorman with this one.