The Videogame News Thread

[Ideofago]

I swear to christ strive is the biggest scrub quotes maker possible
They'll shit up everything that made guilty gear, guilty gear, just to put in every single noob trap and rage quit inducer humanly possible
I don't know when, but there'll be some point they'll put in every toxic character in it and just start making new ones that are even worse, and that'll be when I start respecting them for the sheer walk of pain that the noob gate hath been made into

[pinetree]

Bro Testament was not this hot before holy shit
The Strive character designers are too powerful

[Ideofago]

I was gonna say they're a dude, but then the wiki page says they're non binary

I mean they're hot either way, but it felt like a particular case of femboy art making gender lines very blurry, in a very specific way.

[pinetree]

From edgy cultist weirdo to NB goth bombshell, what a glow up

[ResidentSeagull]

From what can be seen they did remove all the bullshit invisible traps that the character had before, so...maybe they won't be as bad now, who knows.

On the topic on the redesign they're voiced by Yu Kobayashi in JP so they know what they're doing.

In any case they are indeed way hotter now. The scythe is also much cooler than it was before.

[Mattias]

From what can be seen they did remove all the bullshit invisible traps that the character had before, so...maybe they won't be as bad now, who knows.

I think that's the problem Tem has, that they're taking bullshit mechanics and dumbing them down.

[ResidentSeagull]

I think that's the problem Tem has, that they're taking bullshit mechanics and dumbing them down.

If that's the case then I misunderstood. My bad.

[Ideofago]

I think that's the problem Tem has, that they're taking bullshit mechanics and dumbing them down.

Kinda. Strive does away with a lot of stuff that's at the core of Guilty Gear, mainly things such as not being punished by getting an opponent into the corner, free-form gatling paths at the expense of linear street fighter bullshit, being able to do things without meter, an usable airdash, stuff like that.

Testament's main game is just filling the screen with bullshit and watching you die, and in +R especially he is hell to fight against without matchup knowledge, in the worst, most rage inducing way. So, if Strive is to be the beginner's entrypoint to anime fighters:tm:, then if it does include the most horrid of the most horride bullshit tier characters, then all the merrier.

[Mattias]

Well we won't know for about a week, but given Strive (and every game since Xrd, honestly) I don't think they're in the habit of putting in bullshit boss characters and letting them rock as is.


Fuck do I miss the gattlings though. And classic Jack'O playstyle. And Ram.

[Ideofago]

You miss League of Legends nexus? Also, Testament isn't a boss character. That would be unbalanced Justice and Kliff.

[Mattias]

Yeah, flooding the screen with bullshit given half a chance was a real interesting gimmick. As for Testament, they were basically the Guilty Gear version of MK's Goro.

[Ideofago]

Okay, so apparently, re-examining the recurring characters, it seems they're taking the noob traps and nerfing them down. I now dislike Strive more.

[Mattias]

Well if you want you can always play KoF 15, now that broken Omega Rugal is back.

[Ideofago]

The world must truly be ending if KoF is the one not shitty game.

[Comun]

What fighting game do you like?

[Ideofago]

Melty Blood Current Code. Guilty Gear +R is pretty good too. Haven't had much of a chance to play Xrd since the netplay is complete balls. I checked out BlazBlue a bit when rollback was first added and it was okay, I just haven't gone back to it. FigtherZ seems neat, but it may be marred with a lot of questionable design decisions new fgs have been taking, and it seems that Lab Coat has really fucked the meta over, so either they're waiting on a massive balance patch or ArcSys and Toriyama had a big fight.

[hayate]

Ladies and gentlemen, I just played fortnite.

:facepalm

Yeah, and I'm actually bad at FPS games.

[Laserman]

April Fools’ Day 2022 compilation

[LegalLoliLover]

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/20220331-10997/ Doesn't seem any different from Mortal Kombat's Nightwolf to me.

[Mattias]

April Fools’ Day 2022 compilation

I like that Guilty Gear one.

Expect to be seeing one of them soon.


Also Tem, Testament is pretty fun to play if you like mid-to-long range zoners. Not as absurd as Dhalsim in SFV, but normal S and HS beat out most May normals, and they have some great zoning tools like a Under-Night Hilde 'fuck you're out of range, I'll hit you anyways" attacks and a repukkken/anti-air reppuken waves. No clue on bigger combos, because I'm way too sloshed to pull off anything more than a qcf, but still I really like the distance that's only really matched by TOTSUGEKI (I also managed to stuff a few of those to make me feel extra good, alongside going 5-0 maining Baiken against a newbie). Also the motherfucker hits like a fucking truck to counteract the distance disadvantage. Or at least it feels like it. I'm verrrrrry drunk right now, so take it6 for what you will.

You should totally get Strive though. Even if it's less hyper than Melty, it's still really fun. And every few months the will be an update that make you want to know what this new fucking weirdo does, to bring yo back.