I've been completely out of the loop on what happened to PM for the last couple of years. More or less gave up on them with the launch of Limbus, and the old mongolian basketweaving forum alongside it. Has anything good happened in the last three years, or is Director just coasting on whales? Got a notification from PM's youtube channel out of the blue and remembered that this was once a part of my life.Also what's with the new captchas and having to wait five minutes? Are the bots that rampant?
>>2373364Nobody uses /vst/ for PM threads, even /v/ threads are dead outside of update day. Unironically, /vg/ is the home of PM now.The pph also died out in general and the remaining posters on the big board are either severly mentally ill or underaged third worlders.Limbus gameplay isn't that good, the story is servicable and if you like manhwa slop you'd probably like it. Also don't expect the director to use the books for anything except surface level details. Most of old posters left and the ones who remain defend PM with their life. If you ask me, just turn back and forget about 4chan and PM.
>>2373634>Unironically, /vg/ is the home of PM now.Says enough by itself. /vg/ was so vehemently opposed, the ones that would migrate willingly would have to have something wrong with them.>don't expect the director to use the booksHonestly after how LoR ended I can't be that surprised. Obviously the schitzophreniac writings and theories that we came up with couldn't possibly be answered, but to take basically nothing along from the texts, that was (and honestly is) hard to swallow. I enjoyed Demian, and Camus and Kafka has become favoured authors of mine, so I can give Director some credit at least, but If I'd choose, looking back, I wouldn't have read all of Zohar and similar texts (I defended my right to call myself "mystic" back in the day, however gay it was to do so in hindsight). All of that is just a brain poison giving supposed context where none was ever intended.It's hard to process that it all surmounted to nothing, but I've suspected as much for the last couple of years. It's why I never returned I suppose. Looking at the boards, /v/ has somehow become even gayer, if that was possible, while /vst/ has mellowed out and become a slow but pleasant board. I'll probably not look at this place again once this 404's, but at least PM kept me entertained every update day for a couple of years. The flight from /v/ was very funny, and in my mind /v/ has two slow spin-off boards because a jannie on /v/ got mad and complained to hiromoot about a game he didn't know the genre of.
>>2374017I was being a bit rash with saying "don't expect the director to use the books." He does use bits and pieces of the books but its only related to the message he's trying to prop up.For example, Canto 5 is a canto based moby dick. Cantos are divided into 3 parts, but essentially part 1-3 barely have anything related to moby dick beyond the whale, sea and references to Ahab. But I will add that you can describe Canto 5 as an entire canto localized entirely within a mirror dungeon (everything ouside of the mirror dungeon was supposed to be set up for how Dante is a good manager while Ahab uses and abuses her crewmates, but it falls flat and feels more like filler.) The entire point of canto 5 was basically a retread of "revenge is bad for you" with the addition of found family. If you haven't read moby dick, this is a perfectly fine story with pacing issues. But it genuienly misses the whole religious angle where Moby dick represents God, and how Ahab and Ishmael think and interact with God. I'm mostly trying to be charitable because I've been utterly mindbroken by limbus' gameplay and how awful it is, and also because I talk to a buddy who says that hte story is real good. Also don't kick yourself for reading the Zohar, at least you've learned how people in the past viewed the world.
>>2373364This game looks interesting but I have 0 interest in spending even a nickel to support a bunch of soulless gooks shitting out gachacancer and deck building roguelite slop.
I remember when /vst/ was the home of Ruina, what happened?
>>2374851Anons used to recommend that you should pirate LC. The gameplay is very "unique" and not everybody likes it. If you get invested into the story don't 100% the game and never look into anything else made by PM
>>2374893Limbus didn't have any child porn so interest died down. One day, though. Tiphereth will be back.
>>2374893Ruina endedits no longer EA and its story literally came to an end
>>2375062But it has Laetitia, Rode Home and Servant of Wrath
>>2374893Do you have anything to say? If you're on /vst/ then you probably aren't a fan of LCB so you aren't discussing that. There is only so much wiggle-room and freedom of expression in a linear card battler and a pseudo-RTS, so build-discussion or alternate ways of play can only get you so far.
>>2377441NTA, but I regularly check here for anyone wanting to discuss making mods. The end of the beaten track is an invitation to start blazing yours from there on.
>>2374851Good think it's not a Roguelike then, huh? Why do people like you even open their mouth if they are nonna release the verbal equivalent of static noise.>>2374893Anon it's been over 6 years. And the game is not even that long for /vst/ standards. You hop in, do your 120 hours first run, maybe clear out all the achievements and that's it. Mods are an option but I dislike 99% of them.
>>2373364PMfags are still coping that the gachashit will be used to fund better games
>>2373364>Also what's with the new captchas and having to wait five minutes?You get simpler captchas after posting for a few days, still aids.>Are the bots that rampant?Not on here, vg or lit but I'm not active much on any other boards so they might be on them.
>>2373634Shame, I remember them having threads here by the dozen
>>2385278I mean people tried to keep it to only one thread, and only on update day, so once every week. But since they usually 404'd in something like six days, you usually always had a thread active and cycling OP at least once a week. I still recall how annoying the image limit became in those 2k+ threads. You'd be really happy if someone with an image post earlier in the thread got deleted, since that at least gave you an anchor-point in the endless sea of text when someone inevitably wasted the new image on Bongbong's bongbongs or Hod's HodsHell mods and OPs at times deleted threads because it wasn't update day.
>>2380612I think the only people who want to discuss ruina mods are in mod discords. Which is a shame.
>>2386659Well, I'd like to at least keep Shekinah floor development discussion here, where the original theory was born. Would be awkward to lift it and run elsewhere. That and I already recruited a potential composer from /agdg/ and indicated this place as the future meeting spot.
>>2394007I like the sentimentality, but unironically it would be more efficient and easier for you if you used steam chat or discord. Most PM posters don't even remember the shekinah theory anyway
>>2373634God I swear /lcg/ is a ward for the mentally defficient, how on Earth would anyone dedicate hours of their life shitposting ,baiting, cuckposting, erping on and on and on.It's baffling how gacha general attract the most mentally handicapped subhuman.>the story is servicable and if you like manhwa slopWhat a shame, that fat retard of a director had lighting in a bottle, and he managed to make it fizzle it out. I will never know if Limbus was always what he envisioned for PM or if it was born due to greed.
>>2373364>has anything good happenedNo. Old style PMfags are basically extinct and got replaced by gacha locusts, Roblox larpers and video essay tertiaries. Any PM threads on /v/ now resemble your average gacha thread. Limbus is a shit game and the story is only passable because it coasts off of the other two games.Also every now and again PM gets itself into yet another controversy that I couldn't be bothered to follow. I have little hope for the series.>>2400136>God I swear /lcg/ is a ward for the mentally defficientThat is every thread on /vg/.
>>2400136The absolute state of /lcg/ is easily explainable. Almsot every poster in that general comes from xtitter or discord, and they will attribute every criticism about Limbus to a poopfartschizo because it's the most generous and bestest gacha out there.
>>2400136>I will never know if Limbus was always what he envisioned for PM or if it was born due to greed.had the beginning of Limbus I'd say the former, after 4 years, definitely the later. Also we went from Ayin and Roland as main character to shuckaroonies amnesia main character, and I'm sorry I simply can't relate to that firstly and secondly I'm not sitting my ass for a gazillion years time you reveal that he is actually not amnesic or retarded. Like was it so hard to flesh out some compelling main character from the get go? Do gooks really need that bland persona character type to relate in their gachage?
i thought lobco was an interesting game. shame they failed to follow up on it.
>>2400536I wouldn't mind if Dante was actually a shuckaroonie man and acted like Takeru from muvluv. The problem with Limbus is two fold, the translation isn't good, and the actual story sucks. In the newest canto, there's this middle girl who's supposed to be young. And all of her lines are just filled with alphie slang, and when you check the KR text it's nothing like that.
>>2400577>And all of her lines are just filled with alphie slangI refuse to believe that
>>2400536>Like was it so hard to flesh out some compelling main character from the get go?Haven't played LCB, so I can't comment on if it's worse there, but X is extremely uninteresting for 90% of the game, and only really becomes interesting retroactively as you realize that he is A(yin). Hell, Ayin is interesting in part due to schitzo theories that aren't really reflected in-game. Lolando was interesting from the start, I'll grant you.>>2400136>What a shame, that fat retard of a director had lighting in a bottle, and he managed to make it fizzle it outI've for years believed that he knew as much about where his story was headed as we did. It's easy to coast when you just keep building a bigger mystery (but then I wasn't entirely happy with the ending of LoR, so I might have been a bit jaded for a while). To an extent I'd say the same about gameplay lacking a complete vision, seeing how PM constantly tweaked and several times completely overhauled LoR. I can't comment much on LC as I only ever experienced it in its complete state.
>>2400589>It's easy to coast when you just keep building a bigger mysterybe extremely suspicious of any narrative that never gives any partial payoffs
>>2373634>/vg/ is the home of PM nowno it isn'tliterally anyone who has gone there has demonstrated a lack of the most basic premise of franchise engagement and may as well be a stemfagI only stopped here because someone mentioned it, I enjoyed the thousand post threads but the dynamic is entirely different, I don't need more than the occasional /v/ thread since there aren't many questions up in the air
>>2400584Middle Apprentice Kira (not actually a member of the Middle, mind) does in fact speak this way in English. I think it's fine because it has entertaining payoffs with Ryoshu's manner of speaking and is the horseshoe opposite of Don Quixote's Fixer fascination, getting on everyone's nerves likewise. She's a punk kid.I'm not sure what the opposition to people in a moderately cyberpunk hellword speaking in semi modern parlances, is, precisely
