He actually did it.
>>738212027why do you make this thread over and over? i doubt he's hurting for views
>>738212181Literally the first time I have made this thread?Better than the daily zoomeyplays, seething at crowbcat and sseeth tryhards tho
>he backs down from the bullshit in the first video now that he has clout and says the writing is complete asslmao
>>738212502TLA does add a bit of meaning to the first game's writingBut theres still a bunch of random meaningless crapFun to mess around with if you are playing and fucking around, bad for a legit story
Post MiaNow.
>>738212027Kinda looks like they're ripping a big fart
>>738212592I'm just saying, he pretended that the setup was good in part 1 and dropped the act.
>>738213838
>>738212502the first game was a lot tighter wound than the lost age. the lost age feels fucking disjointed compared to the first in so many ways. he has every right to say the second game's writing was ass. also the fact that you never even figure out who the fuck saturos and minardi even are and what their entire motivation was and they're never talked about again still bugs me.
recommend me some vidya essays
>>738212027Don't care. Call me when he makes an Evergrace video.
>>738212264>better thannone of that shit is relevant to /v/fuck off
>>738214215When you have expectations, you expect a fame to blow you away.I played chrono trigger after decades of hearing its a flawless masterpiece ans the best jrpg ever.Turned out to be mediocre at best. Like 5 good songs tho
>>738214270lamo just like the cartoons
>>738212027LOL BR
>>738214297>eceleb threads arent relevant to /v/Were you on top of the toby fox dicksucking threads too?Or you actually like that dogshit?
>>738213838no
>>738214270Grimbeard
>>738214513She would wear this
>>738214270Dosh Doshington on La Mulana
>>738214241It's mentioned in Prox (either by a cutscene or some NPC, I forget) that they were sent to ignite the lighthouses before Agatio and Karst. Why Prox only sent assholes on this mission is not explained
>>738214568She would wear it if Felix asked her to
>>738214241> figure out who the fuck saturos and minardi even are and what their entire motivation was and they're never talked about againWrong. You get to know exactly who they are, where they case from and why they did what they did.
>>738212027Is he still "taking a break for mental health" or is he just being a lazy cunt
>>738214907Pretty obvious he listened to his therapist and stopped making videos
>>738214616dosh is so fucking good, his whole catalogue is worth it. Also i'm 100% certain he is a /v/irgin he made damn sure not to mention an*bia in his potion vid
>>738215123I know that he uses /vg/ at the very least, he started out by posting his videos on /egg/ and still post them here to this day
>>738215646(Me)>herethere, rather
>first game>Felix did nothing wrong>second game>Felix GENUINELY did nothing wrong the whole time>the entire mythology is a fucking lie and the villains were right the whole timeBaffles me even now. Why did they retroactively make your protagonists from the first game a bunch of wandering murderers whose actions ultimately meant killing a group of people who were trying to save the planet.
>>738215123>>738215646Sounds like the engineering pendant to warlockcrazy, both seem to be hyper nerds in their corresponding fields.
>>738215842Being misguided and being actively evil are two different thingsSaturos and Menardi had the rigth idea but were the wrong peopleIsaac's group had the wrong idea but were the right people
>>738215842Are you retarded or just autistic
How many pesos did this individual pay you to advertise on a dying imageboard
>>738215893warlock is too mememy
>>738216103he promised me 5 canadian dollars and some poutine leftovers
>>738214805ohh, was that before or after playing the game for 40 hours before finally coming to a piece of relevant dialogue
>majuular so desperate to avoid playing Ultima IX that he'll go back to Golden Sun
>>738216248shouldnt uo be first?
>>738212027Majuular is based, love his ultima series; even though the only one ive touched is ludo underworld
>>738216207Oh shit we hate Fromsoft writing now?
>>738216453Why would he play UO
>>738216568its still a ultima game
>>738214270Steak Bentley's "Metal Gear Solid 4 Was A Mistake" is the pinnacle of the genrehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93-_r0w7ykI
>>738214143yeah i think so too
>>738212027aw man I actually liked his videos, now that I know /v/ shills him i'm gonna have to unsub
>>738214716She married Garet though.
>>738216836No this is https://youtu.be/dHP02JEC5H0?si=lSn9kfAolwY1nfnK
>>738216990Only because she can't legally marry her brother
>golden sun content>it's actually just some faggot eceleb making a shitty wikidump video essay on it
>>738217084>9 FUCKING HOURS>PART 1
>>738212027Stop posting good youtubers here.They all go to shit after becoming popular on /v/
>>738214678>Why Prox only sent assholes on this mission is not explainedProx leaders, initially first tried asking the people of vale normally but they weren't listened to, Saturos and Menardi being the retards they were, trigger the first eruption hastily without any of the others knowing, so the plan to keep negotiating almost went out the window until they found felix and company. They sent them back with Felix thinking he'd be able to convince them had he returned, but then Saturos and Menardi decided to be retarded.
>>738214270The GOAThttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH7JQtp5Jkc&t=5734s
>>738217403I rolled the cursor over embed, hoping to see what I saw.
>>738217138Felix's sister is Jenna
>>738217403>check me out I'm contrarian trash so unfunny and creatively bankrupt, I'll copy and straight up steal jokes off hbomberguy, plinkett, nakeyjakey, etc while reviewing a piece of shit that would have been better left for death nah I'm good
>>738217403Didn't this dude plagiarize word for word from hbomberguy
>>738214270wouldn't call them video essays exactly but Ross's Game Dungeon really scratches that same itch for me
>>738217780I think that's the first time I see a schizo post about Running Shine
>>738215842I think this game genuinely has no "evil" characters other than maybe Alex but we don' t really see what his endgame is, does he want to control the world? Why does he need all that power for? We'll never know. The plot is basically different factions trying to solve a problem from different points of view, even the Wise One isn't evil, he just did what he seemed was best to keep the world at peace.
>>738218081>first time I see anyone talk about some worthless wannabe 4chan cunt too stupid to come up with his own jokesWow I wonder why
For me it's ninomae ina'nis
>>738217780Nakeyjakey is normie bullshit Hbomberguy has pretty trash vidya takes but his research and writing on other topics is pretty good Plinkett is based and not comparable to the rest Running Shine is great
>>738218407Graduation soon, faggy! Look forward to June!
>>738217780as if those 4 other guys are anything of significance themselves
Gotta love how Camelot made every golden sun end with a cliffhanger so that there was never a satisfying ending. Also I’m pumped for the ultima 9 retrospective, I wonder if he will be as negative as spoony about it.
>>738217389I can't agree on the take of Saturos and Menardi being called retarded all the time, their land was already half eaten by the consumption of the edge of the world, of course they wouldn't be on the mood to have tea and bloody crumpets about opening Sol Sanctum, Isaac also wasn't in the wrong murdering them because it was his hometown that the Proxians affected on trying to fix thing they had no idea how to, and it was still Saturos and Menardi being right even after death, the Lighthouses needed to be lit, I don't see why anyone would call them retarded at any point, they were desperate and cornered into it all, also Himi sexo.
Golden Sun PvP, home.
>>738218765Alex mentions it in the first meeting of Agatio and Karst, that the reason they fucked up and cause the bolder to drop in the first place was because they were to stupid to solve the puzzles and get past the traps, same went for the lighthouses as well. They main fault was being arrogant as fuck, but they did have genuine retardation moments.
>>738218765They literally had the perfect hostage situation to make the trade that they wanted, yet never did. Also if the old fuck was eventually convinced to light the lighthouses, why was Issac considered a lost cause?
>>738219143>Pull the lever, Saturos!>Wrong leveeeeeeer!
>>738217084>a quick retrospective>aha but you see it is not so quick, in fact it is incredibly slow!I hope this person drops dead, I mean it.
>>738212027
>>738212027It irks me that he spends so much of the runtime on the goddamn plot, which is pretty damn meh. No-one plays Golden Sun for the story, they play it for the absolute 10/10 dungeon designs and world map exploration. I get there's a lot of nonsense dialogue that wastes your time because it's a JRPG, but no-one gives a fuck and it's not the reason it's remembered fondly. People remember the gameplay and music.
>>738219143Alex is a conman and a snake, he is willing to lie to save face, we dont even know if he was around in the first raid 3 years prior, he could have been the one whispering wrong solutions for the fuck of it, like when he allowed Piers to get jailed for shit he did.>>738219157Isaac had that tism of "BUT THE ELDERS OF VALE SAY ITS WRONG" and as much as Kraden would have loved to do it, he would have never been able on his own to light them up.
>>738219297must suck being so pointlessly angry all the time
Felix & ShebaIssac & JennaGaret & MiaPiers & Kraden
>>738219348lmao
>>738218701Lost Age isn't really a cliffhanger, The Wise One just pulls a keikaku on Alex and that's that
>>738217084This is what dumb people think a good analysis is like>Oh it's a billion hours. Must be really indepth!>in reality the idiot youtuber just made an audiobook of his stupid playthrough
>>738219684Piers got reverse raped by Nowell, you dumbass.
>the lost age introduces a world dotted by ancient ruins of alchemical(?) civilizations>champa forge & ankhol ruins, tundaria tower, etc.>there are also remnants of mystic traditions (garoh werewolves, gaia rock, etc) clinging to life across weyard>dark dawn paved over all of this and never followed up on it>we will never know who they were
>>738219802in most cases you would be right but he goes through painstaking lengths to actually offer some thoughts and opinions on the game, it's not just a plot summary.
>>738212027>Yfw pic related
>>738219802Pat actually does a LOT of analysis
>tfw exhausting trek into central gondowana-land in pursuit of fucking boat item>tfw find actual spear-chucking negroes living in the jungle>tfw the actual spear-chucking negroids are worshipping a giant statue>tfw they have an actual witch doctor>HE HAS YOUR FUCKING ITEMludo. kino. sovl.
>>738214270chat dis real?cant tell anymore
>>738217084How do you actually get good at analyzing games? Is it a "market" cornered by English majors who miraculously found a use for their degree?
>>738219457the plot switcheroo is absolutely one of the reasons Golden Sun is remembered at allAnd everyone who played it remembers the style of dialogue and storytelling because it's unavoidably annoying
>>738219480But Alex was still right about them being idiots.
>>738220117>that high-pitched wobbly beeping>jenna and mia yapping in higher pitched tones
>>738220091>How do you actually get good at analyzing games?Study kabbalah. Learn the sephiroth of the tree of life.
>>738214907I don't understand how YouTubers can afford breaks? Don't they have bills to pay, rent, etc?
>>738220309Monthly patreons keep that income dribbling
>>738220309Easy when you live with your parents/ your gf/bf supports you
>finally get to lemuria>it's been hyped up in both games>...>music is sad and melancholy>it's a foggy, dreary place>can almost feel the depression oozing out of the screen>nothing interesting except story cutscenes>lemuria is a giant disappointment>tfw it's actually fittingludo. kino. sovl.
>>738220309Not is you shill the all time greatest game raid shadow legends.
>>738220471>lemuria is a giant disappointmentBeing held hostage as nation, by Poseidon will do that to you.
>>738220471it really sold the "shit used to be so much better a long time ago" aspect of TLA, also, Lunpa being there was a nice thing, I liked the guy.
>lemuria is full of old men>there are no teenage girls in lemuria>lemuria is a hellish prison for oji-sans where they cannot perv and cannot die
>>738220507I like to think that if I were a youtuber I'd stick to my principles and reject sponsors for dogshit mobile slop, but iirc having ~250k viewers per video can get you a ~$10k deal for a 2 minute long sponsored segment, and man that would be ridiculously hard to say no to
So when will they admit Matt became a beankisser?
>>738220885And the online casinos are giving people massive sponsorship deals rn too
>>738220471>music is sad and melancholyWhich fits perfectly because it's the same composer who makes the music for Fromsoft's Soulsborne games. You couldn't have a better composer for "make my fantasy town sound like a depressing shithole to live in" than that guy.
>>738212027Is that spic speak or br speak?
>>738214270Dungeonchill on the vampire rpgAction Button & Punchy on Tokimeki Memorial
>>738220885>spend $5k to bot 250k views>get $10k sponsor>pocket the difference>capitalism dot txt
>>738220642>PoseidonThat fight is always a pain too.
>>738214270Kbash Bury my Heart in Booty Bay
>the moment when you find out that you need Trident>tfw you finally found out what shrine of sea god was for>tfw you realize you're going to need to land alll the way back on tundaria's other side>tfw trying to how the fuck to progress ankhol ruins
Reminder: if you didn't beat reloaded, you didn't beat the gamehttp://forum.goldensunhacking.net/index.php?topic=2779.0
>>738221224The trident part of the game was low key my favorite part.
Bluesky tourists really did take over if e-celeb posting is okay now and actually admitting to watching faggot essays isn't met with immediate ridicule.
>>738221423Stop trying to fit in little zoom zoom, you're not from the old school
>>738220951Sakuraba was much better in Tales, GS, and Valkyrie Profile, I cannot remember a single DS track of his, personally think he wasnt at his best in FromSoft.
>>738214270WHAT THE FUCK.
>>738221423I just take any opportunity to talk about Golden Sun
I never played the 3rd game. Does Alex come back? give me the tldr on anything crazy that happens in the story.
>>738214270Everything by Majuular is good. I Finished A Videogame is also really good, errs towards being positive even towards maligned entires. >>738216836Also seconding this.
>complete both games>look back at Mercury Lighthouse>no parch/douse/frost shenanigans>no water level puzzles>no Sand-like or Hover-like water travel psynergy>just some gay pipe-rolling and statue-pushing>fucking Aqua Rock was a better water dungiewater clan got done dirty desu, sucks to be the learning dungie
>>738221596Nothing happens in the 3rd game and once something starts to happen it ends on a cliffhanger
>>738217403MUST BE THE BLACKS
>>738212027Wtf is that thumbnail
>>738221282>romhack>"balanced" for "experienced" playersis this gonna be some gay difficultyhack stuff? i don't want to be super tryhard.
>>738214270I enjoy Jwlar, well researched, good presentation and, most importantly, properly structured https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16YEMiNxNCs
>>738221423>Hotline Reddityou shouldnt throw stones inside a glass house.
>>738221791I liked his daggerfall Unity video and that was about it.
>open video essay>speaker has a non-native accent>immediately close videoSorry Francois/Ranjeet/Paulo/Juan/Chang I ain't listening to this shit
>>738215123I literally can't think of another Youtuber like Dosh. Every other one I've seen gets stuck on their niche game, or is a general review channel, but he really does whatever the fuck he wants. It's a shame his Factorio videos are always more popular, his other stuff is much more interesting
>>738222029Nikrowar is the only foreigner I like hearing sperg about lore with his accent.
>>738221732Yes but no. Overall yeah it makes the game harder but the base game is so piss easy that isn't saying much. Really the biggest change is that it forces you to experiment with classes and not just rely on summon rushing which trivializes much of the original game. Personally, I believe if you're not a drooling retard you could easily play through the game like this on your first try, but you could just relegate this to NG+ if you're really cautious.
>>738217780>>738218179I'm sorry he didn't like your shitty game.>that would have been better left for deatheww a brownoid.
>>738215842Are you going to pretend that Saturos and Menardi didnt cause trouble everywhere they went? Or that Isaac and friends didnt help people?
>>738222268S&M's biggest problem was being saturday morning cartoon villains
>>738217403based, I knew what it was even before hovering
His Sseth impression at the end of the video is so spot on, is he fucking Sseth?
>>738214270spoony ultima ix
>>738222268They didn't have time to fuck around with people and their bullshit.
>>738216836Yeah but he excused the shit story at the very end because his friend almost killed himself, which hurts the rest of the video
>>738222620Sseth's cadence is pretty easy to imitate, so if you have a voice in a similar range it's not that hard of an impression
>>738222091I recently watched the interview he did with that Krydax fellow and he essentially said that he made the Marrow video that early into his Youtube career because he wanted to avoid getting pigeonholed. >It's a shame his Factorio videos are always more popular, his other stuff is much more interestingI'd say his non-Factorio videos generally do pretty decently, they just tend to take longer to snowball.
>>738223523So he's youtuber toby fox?
>>738223523fuck japan what crpg have they made
>>738223523He literally glazes tales of symphonia for being cool and anime tho?
>>738223523congrats on possibly being Majuular's first schizo
>>738223874You have been on this thread about this guy you hate for +4 hours
>>738223874never mind you're most likely just some low IQ south american/southeast asian
>>738218968How did this even work? Was there level syncing?
>>738220091>How do you actually get good at analyzing games?You just need to understand video games. It's not enough to know "this game sucks." You have to understand why it sucks. Being able to articulate your thoughts in a non-boring fashion is optional(unless you care about money then it's mandatory.)
>>738214143he's just summoning an air djinn
>>738214270Not exactly a video essay but RNDstranger's chronology on the famicom is quite nice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K9vOy2_h9U
>>738224351Reloaded 2's endgame is go farm for the drops/materials required to make the endgame gear sets and then stack complementary stuff together. For example Atropos Rod + the fire element up gear for Jenna.
>>738217403Shame he hasn't uploaded anything in years.
>>738214270Warlockcracy for some eastern european fallout mods and obscure RPGs
>>738214270vote4holt made 2 good videos on Scratches and then returned to posting letsplays. I respect youtubers uploading what they want instead of chasing popular stuff but his format for point-and-click games would have been neat.
>>73821427099% of Majulaar's stuffMandalore of courseSome Nobody has some good onesMatthewmatosis, though he hasn't made one in yearsTehsnakerer trends towards the shitty "recap with no further analysis" kind of video but his YIIK video is one of the greatest of all timeNoah Caldwell Gervais is really good but he's also a massive lib
>>738223874shut the FUCK UP LIMBAB
>>738212027VIDEO GAMES, FAGGOT, VIDEO GAMES!
>>738221534>I just take any opportunity to talk about Golden SunBASED
>hace 4 diasarriba arriba!
>>738216990Mia should have married Garet but there's no indication that Tyrell and Reif/Nowell are siblings
>>738221596Yes, Alex is in Dark dawn, he's a major antagonist again. one of the party members is his son, he apparently just knocked some chick up and bolted
>>738214407see >>738226384
>>738215842See this retarded argument is still being made, makes me nostalgic. Saturos and Menardi were absolute turbo niggers and they brought the unnecessary aggro on themselves and Felix. It's easy to explain Felix away as being brainwashed/groomed into going along with them, and of course he would know that the world would end if they didn't activate the lighthouses, so he's just going along with the other two dickheads because they're pretty much all he's got. Saturos and Menardi are kind of retarded plotwise, though, it's like they just can't help being cryptic assholes who didn't even bother trying to tell the first party what the real deal was, it seemed like they were just picking fights because they wanted to.
>>738214270WB sue these animals!
>>738225694Honestly I'm kind of glad. Could you imagine if he ran his channel into the ground and started sucking up to the moralfag highground? It'd be the pits.
>>738214528FUCK NO not that guy. Fucking reddit uwu cock sucking dweeb. Fuck that guy! One of the few YouTube channels I actually have blocked.
>>738225775Second
>>738214907dink he's a vtuber now
>>738214291He already didhttps://youtu.be/2mVkadVjHak
>>738222815had plenty of time to attack and almost kill some children though eh?
>>738214270Binged some Whitelight after trying to resist playing Mirror's Edge for the 909th time. Easy watches with some actually well written prose, even if his taste is ubisoftshit
>>738230781what children did they kill you fucking schizo?they pushed a tree, not knowing it used to be a person, and that was it, and no one from Vale died, so, who did they even kill?
>>738212027>7 hour old newfag e-celeb asslicking threadI LOVE ECELEB SEMEN DOWN MY THROATYUM YUMMMMM
>>738232471this isn't a friendsim thread anon these guys actually analyze and talk about video games
Why is there so little porn despite its popularity? Fucked up.
I'm not replying to everyone.Saturos and Menardi were never retards, nor were they ever hostile with Vale. They were sent by Prox to Vale to negotiate for access to the Sanctum because Prox was literally falling into the void. The Elders in Vale were being hyper-traditionalist, close-minded, and even grew arrogant because they refused to believe what Saturos and Menardi were explaining. In desperation, the two of them broke into the Sanctum and triggered the traps by mistake. The entire disaster in Vale was unintentional. If they were hostile, then they would have killed Isaac and Garet, and they wouldn't have rescued Felix and the three parents.Saturos and Menardi, realizing that Vale wouldn't comply without pressure, and presuming Felix would operate the same way, kept the parents hostage so Felix would work with them to give them access to Venus Lighthouse. They worked with Alex to get access to Mercury, and abducted Sheba to navigate Jupiter. The two were the champions of Prox. They were the strongest, the most-intelligent, and were willing to do anything and everything to save their people. They were what Isaac and Garet would be for Vale. They were HEROES. Even Saturos' theme is heroic, because he's fighting for a good cause.The entire point of the second game, specifically Lemuria, is to show that Saturos and Menardi were right. Their deaths are tragedy. Agatio and Karst are rightfully hostile because they lost two incredibly important people, but they AREN'T the heroes that Saturos and Menardi were. TLA explains this in its entirety when communicating with the villagers in Prox.Failure to understand this is a sign of personal retardation.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD9gHZAK29c
>>738214270Chat is this real?
>>738232828>If they were hostile, then they would have killed Isaac and Garet, and they wouldn't have rescued Felix and the three parents.That means little when they spend the rest of the game choosing not to explain anything to Isaac and Co. during their multiple interactions. Isaac's party wasn't belligerent, they gave chase in large part because Saturos and Menardi decided to kidnap Jenna and Kraden, not to mention taunting them and Isaac's party threatening the hostages' safety. It's understandable for them to be frustrated with Vale leadership, but if they could convince Felix to see things their way, they definitely could have convinced Isaac and party, especially if they got Felix to help them explain. They were just overly-prideful asshole warriors who brought death on themselves and made the mission infinitely harder by being belligerent cunts. Karst and Agatio were the same way, kill shit first, ask questions never.
>>738212264Yes and No. Does it really take 2 month to create a video? He can get away with it right now but the pace is ass. Litteraly I aged a year since his Ultima 7 review.
>an honest to goodness Golden Sun thread>started by some faggot shilling a youtuberGotta take what we can get, I guess.
>>738212027Why is he farding
>>738233193>Literally I aged a year since his Ultima 7 review.He's covered 3 other Ultima games since so I don't really understand what you're getting at
>>738214143Came for this
>>738232750Japan doesnt like it, its depressing how little japanese art exists for this game its all ugly western shit.
>>738233478This is actually OPMy brother, we only have 3 ways to start a thread.1>Actually just post GS (Dies in seconds)2>Post mia (Doesn't last that long)3>Bait (Infinite engagement)
>>738233181I have real life to deal with but the only reason they convinced Felix is because he was taken to Prox and saw the edge of the world himself. You’re also forgetting that they don’t explain anything to Isaac and Garet because neither of them ask WHY the duo are lighting the lighthouses and repeatedly open with “we’re going to stop you” which is synonymous with “we’re will let your entire people die”. They threaten Jenna’s and Kraden’s safety to try and get the two to back down, and that’s all.
>>738232439>almost kill they attack you and Garet at the start instead of just fleeing town after triggering the storm man. must be tough being a golden sun fan if you cannot read even one sentence properly
It's kinda weird that everyone is just ok with the old guy in the party, he is one of the shittiest person in the game
>>738234367I mean Isaac and Garet really have no reason to hear them out, they attacked them as kids for basically no reason and kidnapped their friend and mentor. as far as they know they are malicious actors who triggered the event that killed Isaac's Dad and Jenna's whole family, and personally beat them close to death.
>I cannot interfere>however I will turn your parents into dragon and make you kill them>actually I interfere since beginning>actually I save your parents that I make you kill ;)
>>738214270Earlybird
>>738234890The ending was rushed and nonsensical as fuck. I think I remember reading somewhere that they were supposed to have a third game, either that or that was a theory for why it was so retarded, it definitely felt like there was supposed to be more to the story and they just did a quick tie-up job because they got cucked out of doing anything past TLA.
>>738235145Dark Dawn was my first and last Golden Sun game. Same with Suikoden 4 another unlucky pick.
>>738235145>>738234890Wise One is a guardian left by ancients to watch over the lighthouses and alchemy. He cannot directly do anything to the lighthouses himself, but traps and challenges can be put in place to ensure that only the most worthy can actually get there.Its pretty obvious that the Mars Star thing was also a trick to prevent someone from trying to absorb the full might of the Golden Sun as it formed, considering that there was a non zero chance that someone would happen to be in the exact same spot as the last lighthouse was lit. That's pretty much why Isaac's entire party + Kraden might as well be demigods as of DD. So much so that they make it a literal plot point to prevent anyone from Kalay (Ivan, etc) from getting access to where the kids were during the entire game.
>>738212027Majuular thread
>>738217898I'm interested in this someone redpill me
>ah, Golden Sun, my favorite! let me watch some more video essays about it!
>>738232750Not even any real Illusion cards either, so you can't make smut that way.
>>738215842isaac and garret were sent on an adventure to stop the lighthouses from being lit on false pretenses, setting them up to light the final lighthouse while the wise one was in no position to interfere
>>738232828>but they AREN'T the heroes that Saturos and Menardi wereKarst herself is sold by Prox as having been more like her sister before learning of her death, which caused her to be more of a caustic, hostile bitch even if applying that blame to Felix was unfair. Agiato though, we're told he's a meathead gloryhound, so he definitely wasn't a good person from the start. Saturos and Menardi were decent people who took the wrong approach out of desperation and shortsightedness, and Karst is a little sister driven to hostility in mourning while carrying on her legacy. Agiato is the only one who is genuinely an ass, and probably would've fucked shit up intentionally.
>>738212027no video needs to be movie lengthif any kind of video essay, retrospective, review, critique, whatever faggy name they give it is over like 30 minutes, I already know it's a boring script consisting of narrating what happens through the entire game like a wikipedia article that repeats itself 3 times, that could have easily been shortened to at least 1/8th the length with 0 loss of information with a single edit pass
>>738236092Still better than chrono midder
>>738237132But how else am i suppose to drown out the existencial crisis that comes with a quiet room?
So when is somebody going to combine GS1 and GS2 into one game like it was originally intended to be?Lost Age already has the complete data for every single enemy, item, and song from the first game in it as unused content. All you'd need to add to the ROM is the story data and maps.I'd love to play GS1 with GS2's engine improvements and transfer characters without the need for a link cable or password.
>>738234506yet they didn't, the fact that game HAPPENS is because they didn't, retard.
>>738237528a thing that would've happened if they just ran away without attacking literal children. all that did was make the party resent them and think they are malicious in nature, causing a game long conflict that did not need to exist. they had no time for others, except for giving their eventual killers even more motivation to kill them. brilliant stuff
>>738237669Don't Isaac and Garet not even remember that encounter
>>738237669>they had no time for othersdid you forget they saved Felix and the parents? they left you unconscious to cover their tracks long enough to not be hubted down by the Valeans, they arent eciñ, they were desperate for any longshot on Mt. Aleph fixing their situation.
>>738237669Isaac an Garret resented them because they flooded their town, caused a big bolder to fall on it, killed four people (they don't know they're alive,) the village elders told them to, AND the Wise One, the closest thing they have to a god, told them to. The fact they have an explanation for everything bad that happened in Vale their first and second visits is irrelevant form their position where they think these two are trying to destroy the world. Saturos and Menardi knocking the kids out has shit all to do with their hostility in the long run next to all of this.
>>738237762they do remember, Garet is about to tell Jenna what happened after the timeskip but gets interrupted and decides to just keep quiet, probably because he doesn't want to tell her they saw the people who supposedly caused her family's deaths.
>watching hour + long video essays from a fat canadian manI can't imagine placing such little value in my time left on earth
>>738237768evil*, fucking keyboard. but yeah, they arent evil, I never saw them as such, they could have killed you a couple of times and still chose not to, and saved Felix and the parents, all while being misguided by Alex to trigger Alchemy.
>>738237789>the village elders told them to, AND the Wise One, the closest thing they have to a god, told them to.this happens after the timeskip, a big motivator for Garet and Isaac's training during the skipped time is the boulder and the attack on them. They wanted to get stronger because the people who caused the incident whooped their asses.
>>738232750It's pretty mindboggling considering how big the shipping community was. Plenty of romance fanart though.
>>738214143Yeah, came here to say that
>wikipedia or plot recap essays
>>738237890That was their motivation to train and still be hopelessly outclassed (during the second encoutner in Vale.) Their hostility is still mostly sourced from everything else I listed, recall that they barely interact with them during the second trip other than getting played for fools.
>>738237872>they aren't evil sure but they do things that be construed as evil because they refuse to just explain themselves. taking hostages, triggering a trap and instead of ingratiating themselves to the people they need help from and who suffer from that trap running away and beating on children aren't exactly good guy things. Felix turns around because he's brought to the Prox village and talks to people there, no such negotiation happens with basically anyone else. Isaac and the gang are only convinced because Felix Jenna and Kraden are doing the same work the child beaters and hostage takers were doing before they died like dipshits.
>>738237669this is truly advanced autism
>>738238005Why do you think Isaac and Garret would listen to them over god if they did stop to explain themselves to them?
>>738214270I recently did a three-part essay on the Pillars of Eternity franchise (1, Deadfire, Avowed) and how it came to fail and just completely abandon on its stated promises: 1) Have memorable companions like the Baldur's Gate games, 2) Have interesting combat encounters like Icewind Dale, 3) Have thought-provoking dialogue like Planescape Torment. Avowed is the logical conclusion of constantly straying away from their initial vision until it was basically non-existent anymore.
>>738238093Isaac and the gang don't have to listen to THEM in particular, they can use the hostages they took as intermediaries. but because the Prox bozos need to be as inflammatory as possible to everyone they encounter for the overarching conflict of GS1 no such peaceful resolution can occur.
>>738238270It's Felix's choice to be a mute masked man out of shame the entire first game, anon.
>>738237963I dunno I think there's some room for thinking they aren't totally malicious, and only accidentally triggered the trap initially, but any pretense of that gets blown away when you get beat into the dirt by them for basically no reason. At that point it seems maliciously done, and they never work to correct that viewpoint basically ever. you only understand their actions AFTER they die, when a more reasonable party explains the situation.
>>738238319>I think there's some room for thinking they aren't totally malicious, and only accidentally triggered the trap initiallyThere's room for you to think that. That is, you think that in their situation, you might think that. >For basically no reasonTo serve as a distraction. Nothing personal, or else they'd have killed them.>Correct that viewpointIsaac and Garret were never going to believe them over god. You know this, they'd have rejected them out of hand. All them explaining themselves would've done is make them retroactively look better from out outsider perspective. Felix might've been able to patch things up, but he let his own shame stop him from even trying. Alex could've used his connection to Mia to smooth things over too, but unlike everyone else he actively is a malicious dickhead, never would've helped fix things, and was glad when they died.
>>738238005anon, I think you truly have tism, Isaac and Garet sure have no reasons to trust Saturos and Menardi, but givr it a thought, why would you, as a Prox warrior, on a mission to save your homeland, why would you try to explain yourself to two goddamn kids.
>>738238425>There's room for you to think that. That is, you think that in their situation, you might think that. they literally say it outright in the first time we ever see them on screen anon>to serve as a distractionfrom what exactly? Not like the villagers were pursuing them, everyone was quite focused on the boulder and the aftermath of a bunch of the villagers getting wiped out. seemed like a good enough distraction as is, instead they fully expose themselves to some village kids instead of just getting overheard and slinking away unseen.
>>738238506you don't explain yourself to them as kids, you just run away without exposing yourself to them so nobody sees your faces. you only then later explain yourself once they start pursuing you at the lighthouses
>>738237132>No videos need to be movie lengthThis nigga never watched kino SFM animations
>>738237851I watch these kind of videos while exercising at home in a threadmill, stationary bike or just a yoga mat + dumbbells.Do you just rot in bed?
>>738238596>they literally say it outright in the first time we ever see them on screen anonThat line is about how YOU think that you would accept their story if they didn't beat you up, ignoring the personality and perspective of Isaac and Garret literally obeying a mission from god.>from what exactly?To get more people from Vale preoccupied. They're going to prioritize caring for the kids over chasing them down. There's never enough of a distraction from a village of adepts.>Not like the villagers were pursuing themDid they know that? Do you with certainty?
>>738238245Is iovara that soul trapped in the wall at the end? I remember tricking that bitch into erasing herself I WILL restore gods to their rightfull place and i WILL ignore all the atheist bullshit about how gods are manmade
>>738214143Ok cool I can leave now thanks
>>738238737>That line is about how YOU think that you would accept their story if they didn't beat you up, ignoring the personality and perspective of Isaac and Garret literally obeying a mission from god.again the mission from god comes THREE YEARS after this. They could've thought during the entire timeskip they just set off a trap by accident, and fled the scene. instead the prox bozos think it'd be a good idea to attack children for no reason after getting overheard about them setting off the trap. it's just a dumb thing to do, and only served to set themselves up for failure later because they decided to behave like cartoon villains instead of people earnestly trying to save the world. what's the point of attacking witnesses if you aren't actually going to prevent them from doing the witnessing? you're just gonna piss those people off even more, and that's exactly what they did and that's exactly why they die. >Did they know that? probably considering they stopped to talk out loud about how they totally caused the situation>Do you with certainty?yeah I'd say so we see the bulk of the village running damage control about the ongoing disaster
>>738235651Turning parents into final boss is pretty direct if you ask me
>>738238920>They could've thought during the entire timeskip they just set off a trap by accidentWhy would they think this? To the kids, without getting into a fight, it's "Those evil assholes wrecked our town to steal from our shrine!" The Vale Elders knew the real story in either case and don't tell them in either scenario. You seem to think the kids developed animus from losing a fight, not their town being nearly destroyed and people they know supposedly dying.
Does Isaac knock up Jenna in the sequel?
>>738238987you are doing the thing you are accusing me of, I think BOTH things informed their animosity, not just one or the other. you seem to refuse to engage with the idea that being attacked by them while trying to get help saving those who seemingly just died from the boulder would have zero affect on the kids personally, when we see FOR A FACT in the very next scenes that just is not true. why are you being so obtuse?
>>738239127Apparently, but she doesn't live with Issac because??????
>>738239213Oh. That's too bad. I wish Isaac had hooked up with Mia. She's cuter looking in the old game.
>>738239132It's not me being obtuse, it's me rejecting the idea that Isaac and Garret would be more positively inclined towards Saturos and Menardi, enough to listen to them explain the situation and defy god, just because they didn't get beaten up. My point is that there's enough animus there regardless, and motivation from their elders and god, not to listen. You mentioned before that this motivation was added three years later, but you forget that their only encounter with them before they get lied to is Saturos, Menardi, and Felix showing up at Sol Sanctum to nab the elemental stars and Kraden and Jenna from them. But you also formerly said they should've explained themselves AFTER this, when they were pursued, but by that the hostility and the mission from god was locked in. Did you expect them to explain themselves at Sol Sanctum? Did you really think that would work if things had been the same BUT they didn't get beaten up? You can speculate, but I don't think that would've changed anything. You might as well blame Felix instead, who instead of revealing his face and talking to his childhood friends, decided to act like a mute and insist they take his sister along with Kraden who was the one they actually wanted.
>>738238245What’s your channel then buddy
>>738212027the fact that people still have articulate discussions about this games plot 25 years later proves its a good game.
>>738238807Iovara is part of the "twist" in Pillars and what technically connects you to your Awakening (memories of a past life) while also being a Watcher. The entire theological inquires of Pillars of Eternity was already teetering on trite in the first game but it gets absolutely flattened in Deadfire by subliminally pushing you to go against the Gods. There is no mystery about the gods anymore, it's all revealed, down to how they even look like, so the primary overarching narrative of the franchise is just not there anymore in my opinion anyways.
>>738239348People remember it because it's the most unique RPG in GBA with Djinn and dungeon being big puzzle, not story that can be solved by talking normally
>>738239320You don't think getting attacked by the people who caused the death of your family wouldn't piss you off further? AGAIN, the entire reason Isaac and Garet train during the timeskip is because they were attacked. The prox shitters literally created the warriors that killed them FOR NO REASON. Felix is also to blame but to act like the prox shitters didn't behave in a way that gave them extra animosity they did not need is insane! They behave out of pocket because they need to be cartoon villains to hate for the first game, and the plot suffers for it because people need to act like morons for the mystery to remain intact until TLA. Isaac's party is clearly open to reason because they turn come TLA, so the people holding all the plot cards need to be massive stupid assholes so the game's plot can work.
>>738239342Shilling is against board rules. We can just discuss it here. Pic is Pillars' crowning achievement by the way. If there one thing that the franchise actually did better than many of its contemporaries and even now is pic, ludonarrative dissonance aside.
>>738239352Deadfire probably would've been better plot wise if the reveal that Eothas was trying to shatter the wheel came earlier, that way you can juggle your animosity with the gods with the practical concerns of ending the cycle of reincarnation that the world runs on.
>Never get to see MILF MiaThe real crime of Dark Dawn
>>738239596The whole game is revolving around Boruto squad yet only existing parent from OG party is Issac for some reason
>>738239570I'm at a very strong opinion that either it shouldn't have been the Watcher or if not (there is way too many POE1 cameos to accommodate the Watcher's return), have the Watcher actually be not strictly be a Herald of Berath and be a Herald of other Gods as well (maybe even Eothas himself). And yes, the reveal isn't even really a reveal about what Eothas is planning to do and pussyfooting around it with purple prose being narrated by a lesser VA than the first narrator makes it a slog despite the main quest technically being short. I'm not even gonna go to how fucking insane they went hard on pandering to Critical Role and its fans that it actually impacted how the game is presented.
Tune in for the next video "Golden Sun: The Dark Dawn, the misunderstood game"
Is that a brap game?
>>738239756being able to choose which god to be a herald of would've been neat, the campaign could differ slightly in that each god feeds you different quest resolutions, or they could have an alignment system where specific behaviors put you in favor with different gods. I played my only run of Deadfire as a cleric of Eothas and I thought that the main conflict being centered on his rampage across the islands was interesting, as I could embody his ideals while still opposing him. but that's kind of the problem with the games in general, they clearly want to be godwankery but also can't exactly force you into the cleric role fantasy of dedicating yourself to one god or another. it works pretty good if you are inclined to be a cleric though.
>>738239570There was an post-launch where they added a book that you carry with you to cover unanswered questions that plagued the game. It allows you to speak to Woedica in a post hoc way to literally guide the player the motivation OF THE GODS. She even goes to reveal that reincarnation was already a thing before they came along, it just wasn't "perfected yet".
>>738240012I told Woedica to kick rocks in my only run of the game so the book lost functionality pretty quick. I kind of regretted just not stringing her along for answers but eh fuck that crusty bitch
Daily reminder that Saturos did nothing wrong and The Wise One is the main antagonist. Isaac is a humongous homo.
>>738238737>Isaac and Garret literally obeying a mission from god.Now there needs to be art of the two of them as the Blues Brothers.
>>738239980I think it actually wants its cake and eat it too. The game is built around waxing theological but it narratively points you into disliking the theological narratives of the game in almost every avenue possible. Hence there are a fuckton of characters in Deadfire who just don't care about the gods or actively hate them and they are always portrayed as the right course.
>>738240075It doesn't even matter honestly. It was just interesting for a game to add in a tool for the player, post-launch, to literally answer their questions regarding the overarching motivations of the game. I have never seen a game do that ever.
>>738240258I didn't even know it was added post launch until you told me, the way they integrated it worked perfectly as a device to get you and Woedica alone so she can try to influence you in isolation by spilling the beans
>>738239980>alignment systemI thought of the reputation system they had in Deadfire and wondered why they didn't have one that's about the gods that try to actively help you or hinder you depending on your rep. I would've gladly ditched the useless sidekicks for that kind of interaction. Then I realized I am supposed to HATE the gods then it sort of just clicked.
>>738239213>because??????Dark Dawn was a mistake. Except for Sveta, she's my dogwife.
>>738240330Also, I've NEVER had a game TRICK YOU into doing a quest with either no foreshadowing nor a way to reconcile it, locking you into a bad ending slide. I actually was fucking livid about that unnecessarily antagonistic quest design.
>>738240754I'm not too sure what you're talking about.
>>738240916It's the companion quest for Maia, the Royal Deadfire Company companion you get. You send out missives to different RDC agents throughout the Deadfire which end up being assassination orders to destabilize the region. She's also, for some fucking reason, the sister of Kana Rua from the first game in which he makes a brief cameo.
>>738239348Golden Sun was like having a SNES JRPG in your pocket. That was a huge deal back then specially since the N64 and Gamecube didn't put out shit.
dont understand the doshington glaze. dudes boring af
>>738241735People unronically watch Moistkritikal, and the other FGC dude.Different types for different people.There's people that like pokemon, kirby, chrono trigger, and then there's people with taste.
>>738214270This one. A joy to watch, got this out of nowhere.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVbbEUB9lVk
>>738214616I don't know why but I got butthurt 5 minutes into that video and I never watched it again, despite keeping up with everything else he's made.not even La Mulana's biggest fan or have even finished the second game.
>>738243636The algo threw that in my face a couple days ago but I tapped out when he didn't mention Tsukihime and one of the texts in the video sounded very virtue signal-y, about one of the Dracula characters not being taken seriously in the story because she's a woman in victorian England.
>>738243943>he didn't mention Tsukihimejust realized he didnt. visual novels get shafted in game discussions all the time.
>>738214528Used to be nice but he started doing 3+ hour video that modern video essaysist are so fond of and noped out.
>>738244002Shame since Dead Apostles and True Ancestors are pretty interesting takes on what vampirism means.
Recommend me some absolute dogshit youtube essays
>>738244265Anything by Super Eyepatch Wolf.
>>738212027ecelebs aren't videogames.
>>738224836based
>>738214143LOL!1
>>738215123Did the green and purple design in Satisfactory not tip you off?
>>738214907If he has quit, I'm fine with it. His Draken/Nier videos are some of the best.
>>738224149You just pick 3 and fight with your characters as is. There's a time limit to pick your moves, but aside from that the battle plays out like any other.
>>738212027>Play first GS for few hours>Story is a low tier shounen animeI don't get the appeal. Some "Tales Of" games are more interesting than this.
>>738212027buy an ad
>>738244786>watch porn>story is mechanic fucks housewife againI don't get the appeal. Some marvel films are more interesting than this.
>>738221732It makes the fights more difficult, but gives you a lot more options to work with. You don't need to be some battle genius to beat it, but you also can't just brute force it with summon rushing like you could in the base game. Most of the classes get some kind of buff to make them able to compete with just matching elements between djinn and user.
>>738239504No one would have believed them in GS1 because all they would have had was their word of mouth compared to centuries of tradition telling them that accessing Sol Sanctum's depths and the lighthouses is a bad thing. Remember Mia also didnt want to light the places either. Not to mention that Saturos/Menardi also antagonized basically everyone along the way.Its after they explore the world for the entirety of GS1 and 75% of GS2 that they become more receptive of the idea that the world was dying. Wise One also makes sure to do a lot of rules lawyering to abuse technicalities of his programming to ensure that only the "right" people could remotely get near to the lighthouses.
>>738244915A lot of the vanilla base classes were actually mediocre or just outright bad but the base games were so easy that it didnt matter.
>>738214270I started to watch the LA Noire video by Action Button and he holds his cigarette like he never smoked a single one in his entire life. Good for him, I suppose.
>>738244325He seems to be the only person left who still does the shitty "blank black screen for comedic timing" thing, at least other people put things on it and don't leave it all black.
>>738244902>GS is as bad as pornGS fans are incapable of giving straight answers
>the exhaustion mechanic in 01And the days are not full enoughAnd the nights are not full enoughAnd life slips by like a field mouseNot shaking the grass
>>738246590uh, wrong thread lol
>>738212027Is this some favela shit i'm too white to understand?
>>738221635It had such an unfitting theme too.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz-12WeL9JENo water element energy just creepy funhouse vibes.
>>738221635Saturos solo fight was the coolest and had arguably the best theme out there.That alone saves that whole section.
>>738241735I enjoy the lack of ADHD editing for zoomers
>>738244786The combat is pretty cool, the djinn system is novel and the puzzle in the open world interacting with the skills you use in combat is super neat. Nothing wrong with low tier shounen story if the dialogue wasn't so tedious and repetitive
>>738212264>and sseeth tryhardsLeave my boy Reggie alone.
>>738251746Alright, I'll give it a go. How would you compare it to other JRPGs that you've played?
Why does this guy keep making majuular and dungeon chill threads daily, all of a sudden?I think he must have been in the thread a week or two ago where someone recommended them and now he's being some kind of insufferable faggot. What's the logic in doing such, though? Is this a pajeet thing?
>>738251934Story/Characters are the weakest link imo, as long as you don't mind that too much, the game will be enjoyableGameplay/Puzzle/Soundtrack still holds up, probably one of Sakuraba's strongest work I do recommend the reloaded mod since the base game is WAY too easy >>738221282The game misses some QOL so you'll have to backtrack quite a few times for sidequests/djinn after you unlock a new ability similar to a metroidvania
>>738214528Reddit pandering tranny lover.
>>738217084His Morrowind video is good, but this one is clearly completely unedited.>"I am now going to tell you about the problem with XYZ.">*Gets sidetracked yapping about something else*>*Explains a point he already explained 45 minutes ago again.*>*Explains that point in a slightly different way a second time in a row just to belabor himself as much as possible.*>*Forgets to explain the problem with XYZ*He obviously got fucking lazy and complacent. The Morrowind video obviously had a script, and he did research for it. The Skyrim is just him just riffing like a twitch streamer, it's obviously just unscripted rambling and he keeps repeating himself over and over, circular, hypnotic. I don't mind length to a video if it's actually valid content, but fucking WELL over 2/3rds of that videos runtime is him just repeating himself over and over on a redundant loop and wasting everyone's fucking time.>"Actually, let me stop talking about Skyrim or half an hour and whine about my YouTube philosophy and how you're not allowed to criticize me for 45 minutes."Hard to understate how alienated I am from this fag, even though he had already won me over after Morrowind. He had one good, successful video, and he decided he never needed to put effort into another one. It's obvious all he wants to do is Twitch stream for an audience of sycophants these days.
>>738214270Warlockracy. He's a faggy lib and a draft dodger but you only pick up on this by really paying attention to certain details, he doesn't spend much time on it. And man, his stories about eastern bloc vidya culture are kino.
>>738244265Most things by Grimbeard, especially his older ones where he reads low user reviews of the game he's talking about and goes "LMAOOOO THIS PERSON DOESN'T LIKE TRANS PEOPLE, GAYS, OR FEMNISTS, WHAT A LOSER AMIRITE REDDIT?"
>>738217898>>738235746Hbomberguy devolved into a seething leftist that always looks like he's on the verge of crying, so nobody who isn't a weirdo reddit cuck watches him anymore. I liked a few of his videos like 6+ years ago before he contracted TDS and decided to convert into a political drama channel.The problem with weirdo reddit cucks is that they're sycophantic cocksuckers, and you can't really trust that their bitching is valid. If they decide you're right wing and you're a rival to the king of whatever faggot community they're from, all of a sudden it's, "He said the elevator scene referenced Elisa Lam, and HBOMBERGOY SAID SO TOO!!! HE'S STEALING!!!" and it won't matter that it's a retarded complaint.
>>738244265I refuse to watch any video essayist who has a british accent and a smug tone.
>>738254479I liked his older stuff, when he'd actually keep the fucking video under an hour and stay actually on topic, but he's just gone off the deep end recently, and by recently I mean like the past 5 years since he barely makes videos anymore.
>>738244265Ross's Game Dungeon: GothicIt's not his takes that are dogshit, it's having to watch him play the game so goddamn dogshit that the entire video is infuriating.
>>738222819snake already suffered enough, as shit as the story is at least I'm happy to get some peace at the end, as convoluted as it is
>>738220471Lemuria was based and made me genuinely feel "you arrived 100 years too late"
>>738254882>>738244265>open video>voice-changer troon >close videothat one retro visual novel video
>>738256181Piers will never see his mother again. Lunpa the Righteous Thief will never be able to properly instill virtue into his descendants. Poseidon cannot protect the city anymore.Do you really want to live forever?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLyop3YmdIg
>>738237456I think that's way harder than it sounds. You could do stuff like what the Pokemon ROM community does and make a special expanded version of the vanilla ROM to account for all the extra data, but the hardest part is gonna be porting scripts, flags, and all the under-the-hood shit. You'd have to rewrite a ton of scripts to point to new addresses and the like, make sure nothing added somehow conflicts with the previously existing data, etc.As far as I know, there hasn't been a GS mod that bothers with massive event rewrites, and this would be an exponentially more difficult project.
>>738257129>*lick lick lick*
>>738212027Brap lol
>>738239569Yeah man I love it when an RPG makes it optimal to make your Barbarians intelligent while making Might the Wizard stat.>ludonarrative dissonance asideThe whole point of an RPG system is to establish ludonarrative harmony and Pillars of Eternity missing that point makes it a complete failure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=149gkBykH3o>>738258145Correct take.
anyone get into competitive tla?
>>738244786Puzzles, Djinn system, combat, and Psynergy/summon visuals are the main draws of the game imo. The story starting off is nothing to write home about and there's not much character development; what's frustrating is that the lore and worldbuilding are top notch, but they don't truly come around until halfway through the second game.
>>738258695It's bizarre how Weyard goes from "generic fantasy setting" to "realist shit ever" from one (1) long conversation halfway through the game.
>>738238005I KNEW WE HAD THIS CONVERSATION BEFOREI DIDN'T FORGETI'M NOT A SCHIZO
I made a thread about golden sun a few weeks ago and beat it last week. just started lost age myself, not very far yet just beat the pirate guy. the games have been decent so far, but nothing too special
>>738258804Right, and there's still so much that was never explained even through Dark Dawn, like the Ankohl civilization and how that tied into Obaba's forge and Eoleo's Psynergy. Still kinda fun to think about what Camelot could've done all these years later.
>>738214528Dude has never said a single interesting thing about a game. Like literally I don't think the guy has ever had an original thought about a game in his life.
>>738244265Any video essayist that doesn't devote time to the development of a game and how it correlates to the final product is just a dipshit doing a vlog.>>738254805His Tallarico video was good up until the very end where he straight up lies about why Japs were credited under aliases, which wasn't to diminish the role of heckin women in gaming, it was to prevent devs, male and female alike, from getting poached by other studios.
>>738259910Once the map opens up after you visit Africa, if TLA doesn't click for you, then don't do it. You probably won't enjoy the world trek to Siam and Antarctica to be able to kill Poseidon.
>>738260118oh no I like them well enough, otherwise I wouldn't have beaten the first game and then moved on to the second. they just seem kinda... standard, I guess? nothing super special, not too great, not too bad. the classes based on equipped djinn is neat and then the risk/reward of having to unequip them in battle and losing the stats and class bonuses in order to do big summons is definitely unique, but for a casual first time player like myself the tradeoff seems really scary. though from glancing at this thread it seems like I've been gimping myself by not abusing the fuck out of summons and they're absolutely worth the stat penalty, but that's fine. I beat the first game's superboss without much in the way of summons by sheer brute force, but I hear that's not gonna cut it in the second game, and that super boss does not fuck around
>>738260497Yeah, Dullahan is a fucking asshole. Ironically his stats are so borked that playing on Hard Mode makes his fight easier to deal with. Imagine that!
>>738260615lmao does one of his stats overflow or something?
>>738260749His HP hits the game's coded hard cap in hard mode. Hard multiplies enemy HP by 1.5. Dullahan has a base HP of 16,000. The game can only allow an HP maximum of 16,383, so he will only gain 383HP. Even though his attack and defense go up, the fight is easier because his HP is still the same and you're a much more intelligent player so you know how to abuse Shade/Flash/Granite for the fight.
>>738215842Seeing the map like this tells me the retard behind the world map has never seen actual nature since every portion of land has massive rivers cutting through it instead of having significant chunks of pure land. The only instance to the contrary is the literal desert. Retard needs to look at a map.
>>738260975lmao a stat hitting a binary cap, it truly is a classic jrpg
>>738261079This is the most exquisite bait in the thread.
>>738260615>>738260975You as a player not being a retard the second time around doesn't mean that hard mode makes his fight easier, you dumb nigger. Holy fuck.
>is the most dogshit companion in your path
>>738214241>the first game was a lot tighter wound than the lost ageNo it's not. It's a series of stupid fetch quests and TLA is literally just more of the same. The only weirdness is Saturos and Menardi being swapped for Karst and Aguila because they needed a final boss for game 1. Karst acts and is treated like she's Menardi, down to her crush on Felix that would only make sense as a Menardi thing from their time travelling together.
idk what y'all are talking about but just wanted to drop in and say i fuckin love golden sun
>"surely if i troll harder the oldfags will take my bait and give me the attention daddy doesn't">>738261935Me too!
>>738260497The most unfortunate thing about the games is that the systems allow for so many cool unique tactics and setups but there aren't enough hard or even just large scale extended fights to take full advantage of it. When you first unleash and then summon with the same djinn within the same turn your third eye opens.
>>738262825Briggs goes from "hardest fight of my life" to "so easy the music didn't loop" because of this.
>>738261378I will not take any slander against Diamond Berg.
>>738263285If the fight lasts long enough for Piers to even have a turn, you've fucked up. He is DOGSHIT. At least Garet can be a useful Ronin or Paladin. Piers being a Mercury adept means he's FUCKING USELESS.
>>738262825>When you first unleash and then summon with the same djinn within the same turn your third eye opens.
>>738261935Many are saying this.
>>738262825so you have to have the correct number of djinn on standby before a fight to use a summon right>no actually you can put a few of them on standby and then use djinn with high priority to get their effects and then use the summon you wanteddoesnt that invalidate the complexity of the game?>blow it out your ass
>>738263405>Garet can be a useful Ronin or PaladinGaret was the best bro and always has the consideration and safety of his friends (and Jenna) as priority when Ivan and Mia wanted to help random strangers.
>>738260497The only reason Dullahan is difficult it's because he has some ridiculous stats and if you fuck up your strategy once things can spiral out of control.Other than that it's just another boring fight, this time extra long.
>>738263776why are fire adepts so hotheaded
>>738262825This is why Reloaded mogs the originals in difficulty. I almost got a gameover against the first overworld Jupiter djinni in TLA.
>>738244265https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP39YJ2EMbY This guy makes some terrible stuff, the FFV one in particular since he tries to call Faris a tranny and relate the story of FFV to the japanese economy's bubble bursting in the 80's.
>>738264045elemental baggage
>>738259910Boomer here, listen up young zoomies.The whole point of these games is being portable.Nobody had smartphones back then, so being outside, which was the style of that time, and be able to play a (mediocre) rpg was really really cool.
>>738260975>abuse Shade/Flash/Granite for the fightDULLAHAN CASTS DJINN STORM
>>738264074One of these days I'll have to check it out. I spent so much time in the Battle mode back in the day just seeing how far I could get with different class combos and it helped make up for the main game as far as challenge went.
>>738264514I am 34 years old. I already had pokemon yellow and gold and super star saga, I had plenty of portable rpgs that were also fun
>>738264646Try it, the class sets for the characters along with the corresponding skillsets makes it more interesting. Debuffs and buffs actually fucking matter and magic scales (with max psynergy points) so mages don't fall off early on.Garet ended up being my MVP in the first game with the new toys to play with because he can actually take a hit while Isaac of all characters ended up being the filler slot.
>>738264714That's like 60 hours of entertainment. You'd beat that in three weeks if you are a child with unlimited free time. I'd say my favorite GBA games were Golden Sun, Pokemon, MegaMan Zero, Fire Emblem and Advance Wars
Pixel DD remake when?
>>738264826>Debuffs and buffs actually fucking matter and magic scales (with max psynergy points) so mages don't fall off early on.This is one of the worst design implementations I have ever read.
>>738264646some fights are really hard
>>738264975we didn't have a lot of money around when the gba came out so I didn't have a bunch of games for it. trying to remember what I had, I know I had nightmare in dreamland, lttp, supertar saga, yoshi's island, and advance wars 2. and that might have been it? I got put onto emulators at a pretty young age, so I did a lot of my gaming that way
>>738264045if I were a crypto billionaire I would've funded an anime studio to adapt Golden Sun
>>738265016I meant magic damage aka the nonexistent "int" stat scales with max psynergy points.
>Issac's son is a furrywtf
>>738232439Are you pretending the boulder they set free killing a significant chunk of the town wasn't their fault?
>>738214270https://youtu.be/aUXEqRGn1hs?si=NiwurIc97d9Ge5rD
>>738226384you know jannies hate you more than off topic posters?
>>738241083Oh, yeah that's a skill issue I'm afraid I got her on my ship but never actually finished her quest because she was pretty open about her work being for the faction so I blew her off because I wasn't gonna help them. She's an affable person but it was clear she was also a company man, so her tasks went undone.
>>738259548not me, but it's nice to know someone else thinks the reveal in TLA retroactively makes the first game's main conflict dumb.
>>738266041In what RPG do you ever NOT do quests given to you? There was also a similar problem in the first Pillars game during Defiance Bay where new players were accidentally locked in into choosing the Dozens because they meet them first and do their quest progression, without knowing that it'll lock out the other faction questlines no matter the reputation they have with the other factions.
>>738265478It's not nonexistent you silly billy, Elemental Power is what fuels the damage of psynergy, which already has a base power level. You gain EP by wearing certain items OR using Summons. The entire Summon system is meant to enhance spellcasters once their tiered spells fall off but they haven't leveled up yet to get a higher spell tier. At no point do spellcasters "fall off" like what is being claimed in this thread.
>>738266476Also, the only saving grace there is that you can salvage it by making them work together with the Crucible Knights. The Doemenels however, are gonna be hostile forever.
>>738266476>>738266559I dunno man if the game has a faction system you should probably pay attention to the alignment of people you are working with so you don't accidentally screw yourself with a faction you may not agree with.
I beat the games without realizing you could put any djinn on any character. Just equipped them all on their like-typed character and spammed the summons. I remember the final boss being rough but still beat him 1st try.Wish the games were harder and didn't have 20 minute long "cut scenes" otherwise I'd probably replay them regularly.
>>738266641>pay attention to the alignment of peopleThis is obfuscated by the fact that you can do all of the faction quest's initial questlines (not including tasks) but the moment you accept their second questline it triggers the lock out where you can no longer complete uncompleted tasks and the quests of the other factions. Deadfire actually addressed this issue by actually communicating to the player to PLEDGE their support for the faction, along with the other factions being said to be hostile when you don't. AND THEN at the end of the two-part DLC, it LOCKS YOU OUT for the resolution needed to convince the Eyeless for things most players reasonably arrive at (regulating animancy, doing the forge knight quest, etc) as a narrative "gotcha!". I fucking hate that.
>>738213838She's not even the hot one; Jenna's the hot one.>>738214485>>738237456Mein negers
>>738212027man is avoiding ultima IX like his life depended on it
>>738214270https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de-8Vz5Ng0A
>>738268068I like Marsh but he very much is just someone who plays a game then narrates his playthrough. not much analysis going on
