u/Avillahan

FFIV is probably my favourite FF game. It has everything, along with the best music. A few secret bosses along the way could've been cool once you got the airship, but ah well.

I love the character Cecil. Probably just my favourite FF character, next to Galuf, but he does commit some major atrocities.

The Mt Ordeals scene was always powerful to me, but thinking to it now it's not that strong.

Cecil climbs a mountain, along with every other character, and then he renounces his wicked ways. But, that's sort of it.

From the very start of the game he's remorseful about his actions, so him not attacking the 'Dark Knight Cecil' isn't really surprising or powerful. It's not like he was a killing machine that held back, he was always an okay guy who just did terrible things.

After that scene, nothing he does throughout the game is particularly 'Paladin-like'. He's just on the adventure like everyone else is. Yang and Cid at least make sacrifices; those that they believe will lead to their death. Nothing really qualifies Cecil as a hero over any other character.

Any and all thoughts are welcome.

Is the primary boat simply too slow to dodge its attacks? Hard mode so I can't take too many hits as is and I'd rather not just die to lack of knowledge.

The walls are so weak, and the enemies fight constantly offscreen. I was searching the wilderness for a while, came back, and the natural caves are now just a complete mess because of all the infighting.

I've built a moat around our base now; I assume I just need to clean up floor spawners, but I assume with how much monsters fight (And seem to randomly mine themselves) that everything outside of the base/moated area will need its own protection too?

I'm not complaining honestly, it makes the world feel alive in such a cool way, but damn I didn't think the whole starting area would be such a battlefield lol

Is there a way to look like I'm wearing a certain armour, but actually be wearing something else?

So I'm a big Terraria fan, and in that game you can create artificial biomes that also change the music when you enter them.

Is it the same for Core Keeper, or are there music boxes or anything that'll let me have a certain area (A house for example) play certain music when I enter it?

Trying to create a cosy home atmosphere at my base.

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I been replaying Resi 5 with a randomiser with my cousin, and then doing some Mercenaries coz damn Merc is fun except when the enemies decide to hide away from you on the temple map.

But Sheva got done so dirty in this game!

She matches Chris on actual plot usefulness, she's cool as hell in her acrobatic attacks, she puts herself in danger to help Chris continue his mission. She sees Wesker go into bullet time and STILL she runs out and pulls a knife on him in order to protect Chris. It's a looked over moment too but damn when she shoots the chain off of Chris when he's being pulled around by the bike, ahh.

She absolutely needed her own "Separate Ways" chapter or something to give her more backstory.

I know her lines are ass. I don't blame the VA at all, she has a great voice and it fits the character, but hot damn whoever wrote her lines is whack.

I know Resi has a "haha voice acting" meme, but the performances were all really solid in 5. 5's Chris and Wesker are THE Chris and Wesker to me, this is their peak; Just her lines are so hammy. "That was for our fallen brothers :D " Who the fuck talks like that? Who wrote this?

Bring her back! Give her love! Don't let Sheva be remembered like this!

Skyrim had ass combat but made up for it with having quests, but once the good quests were done it fell off.

Elden Ring was fun but was really unrewarding (Beat a long dungeon for a weapon you're never gonna use anyway and the same boss fight that you've already done) so it made me not want to explore.

Zelda BotW felt really unengaging from the go. Just a whole boat load of mediocre content scattered around a needlessly oversized map.

I know expecting good content and a massive world is a big ask, but there must be one game out there, even a hidden gem, that did it well.

But why do Stalchildren have such weirdly shaped skulls? I don't know if I'd describe them as canine, but they're definitely not humanoid.

Part of becoming a Stalfos is that your skull changes shape and then reverts back later?

He clearly doesn't like it, he never shows any actual passion for becoming a SeeD, he's being educated and trained for a job where every mission shown requires teamwork.

If he had even a single line of dialogue that showed passion for the work, then sure. But the closest he gives is a line about how he can take care of himself, which is ironic considering he's literally lay in a bed provided by a school.

Am I missing something, coz it just seems like really lazy, 'we wanted an edgy teen' writing?

A few grottos, and Poes. That's literally it all it has, and if you're just main pathing it you aren't gonna interact with them either. I've played this game for like 15 years and I didn't even know the Poes had fixed spawn locations because I've never been enjoying myself enough to chase them.

Epona doesn't even feel fun to ride coz she just randomly doesn't wanna make jumps. Even having her feels like the dev's were giving players a mercy and speeding up traversal a little.

Replayed OOT recently and am now playing Majora's Mask, and it's night and day.

MM has magic bean spots, rupee rewards for movement, side quest progress, grottos, unique enemies, varied enemies, interactive songs on walls, different enemies based on day/night, chests.

Just take Zora River, a fun area, copy it, make it bigger, and paste it over Hyrule Field.

The area you visit most should not be this boring.

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The only bad experience I ever had with a party was with a mentor that warned us not to mess up on a certain boss in the dungeon because he had no patience for said boss and messing up would result in a kick vote, but he was a donkey and the boss he was talking about was in a different dungeon. They were both ice themed so I guess that's where he went wrong. When I called him a donkey for it he didn't take it too well and threw a tantrum. I screenshotted, and he lost his mentor status before the next fortnight rolled around.

And that's it. But somehow you guys manage to find, consistently, the coolest temperature IQ players, and though you don't mean to, you're taking a bullet for the rest of us, and I just wanted to show a little appreciation, and despite having to deal with these people I hope sharing your stories gives you some relief from the experience of being grouped with players like this.

Nightstalker (me) with pos 4 Clock vs Kez Lich

1 on 1 NS can just sustain and knock Kez out of lane with Q spam, but for that he needs exp, not to be level 4 when the Kez is level 6 from eating Clock's corpse 5 times.

Very few people queue as support to actually support, most are just 'Fuck I got support. Might as well choose a hero I like and have fun!', and having fun requires them leeching exp so much that they hit level 6 on the same creep that I do.

If you can't lane, then pull. If you can't pull, then gank. If you can't gank, then stack. But no, these people sit with you so long you start wonder who the support is.

I do get it, because getting levels is at least reliable and 'safe', but it's so awful sometimes and I don't have the time every match to have to write out an essay to my 4 just to convince him there's something more productive they could be doing with their time.

if we lose lanes I just lose the game coz farming back up is actually so boring and there's no way in hell I'm sitting in base waiting for creeps to dribble into our base.

what hero should i pick to just run at people 24/7 regardless of the game state?

I mean like actual animal, just run run run run run

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And if you could show me how to stop my mid from first picking Dark Seer. I've not learned that yet.

Early game is great, I hit timings earlier than D2PT.

Mid game-late game, I farm like a support.

I play around my other cores because I've got a big ult that we might have a chance to pop, but playing around them means that they've got farm priority and they farm crazy fast compared to me, especially in the day.

I can't go push lanes solo during the day because AT BEST I'll be forced to survive by popping a defensive ult.

Feels like if at any point our team drops tempo and I stop getting kills, I just end up with awful GPM.

Shard is an option, but unless I'm against PL it really doesn't feel like it does anything in fights.
If I get it really early, I have a weaker early game presence.
And whenever I do pick it up, it's basically a Midas that's purposely a waste of gold until it's paid for itself, which is hard to calculate.
And if I do pick it up I also have to grab a Soul Ring or Echo Sabre just to keep up the mana cost of spamming it.

Farming at night is fast and good, but why would I want to farm when my hero's capable of fighting?

I've watched replays, and the teams around NS play around his ult a lot, whereas my cores play way more for farm, so it just leaves me having nothing I can really do.

My supports don't want to follow me into a potentially 3v5 fight obviously, so I'm just sat there jacking it.

They get a force staff or a eul's or ghost and if you chase or wait for them their team arrives.

BKB's fine, but it does nothing against phys damage so I find myself having to let a lot of kills go, especially recently against the rising amount of Drow pickers.

So then there's this kinda useless 5-10 minute phase where you're having to just farm nullifier