u/suitcasecat

Platform doesn't matter unless it's a PS5 exclusive (since I don't have a PS5)

I am in the mood for a game that'll wreck me. Leave me sobbing like nothing else. I find that an emotional game is leagues above an emotional show or movie or comic because of the interactivity and because it can get away with a way longer runtime.

Examples are OMORI, Until Then, the Danganronpa series to an extent (mostly V3). But yeah mostly OMORI and Until Then.

Music is a really important part of games for me and if a soundtrack gets the tears streaming down my face (alongside the story) I absolutely want to experience it. Something story first obviously, I don't mind lackluster or basic gameplay.

I watched through season 1 a year ago and haven't gotten around to after story for some reason.

Anyways I kinda remember it. I remember Tomoya hated his father and moved in with Nagisa. I remember he chose her after all. I remember them being awkward dating at first. I remember the story being largely about Tomoya helping girls at his school who all fell in love with him. I remember he used to hate school until the last episode.

I remember Nagisa was trying to get a drama club set up but then she froze up until her dad Encouraged her. I thinkkkk I recall the important stuff? Is there anything I'm missing?

Is there a way to compress games so they remain playable? CompactGUI on windows let me compress games and they still stayed playable after being compressed and I was wondering if there was something like that on Bazzite and how I would be able to use it? I've never used Linux before and just downloaded bazzite on my Ally X for the first time

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I bought the entire DMC series of games on steam on sale because I figured why not, 20 something dollars for every game in the series.

I decided to play DMC 1 first and skip DMC 2 as people online have been recommending others to do. To be completely honest I didn't like DMC 1. Most of it was an alright game but the last quarter feels like it was just plain unfair and having to replay an entire mission to do a boss fight was just mind numbing. By the end of the game I was happy it's over.

I was frankly scared to try out DMC 3 because the first game didn't set a good precedent in my mind for the series. Even so, fans online have been praising the third game for being amazing and I figured I should try it out.

I finished DMC 3 earlier today and I think it's one of my favorite games ever. It feels so smooth, so electric to play. I liked the story a lot especially the brotherly connection between Dante and Vergil.

But the combat hasn't aged a day and I often forgot the game is from 2005. Everything feels like it just worked. After finishing the game I feel the urge to replay the whole thing again (although I'll probably think about replaying the games only after I go through all of them once, with maybe the exception of the second game)

I got into the series a week ago max but I gotta say, I feel like I'm gonna be a fan for life because no game made me feel as amazing playing it as DMC 3 did

Guy put SteamOS on his Rog Ally and he sold it and I just bought it. The game mode language has been changed to English however Desktop Mode is completely Chinese. How do I change desktop mode to be English as well?

Is there a way within SteamOS to reset it perhaps? I found "reset to factory settings" but upon further research it'll delete SteamOS from the Ally and bring back windows 11 and I don't want that. Is it possible to just set up steam os from scratch again? Idm doing that since I literally just bought the Ally

I need to preface this by saying I'm on issue 152. I know people generally consider "the death of spider-man" an incredible arc and ending. Even if it's 10/10 as an ending, that doesn't erase any of the other issues I have with the comic. I didn't read it but that fact doesn't make my issues any less relevant.

USM had an incredible beginning. It took spiderman's origin and expanded upon it. Amazing Fantasy 15 was one single issue but the first USM arc was 7 issues and it was so good. The way it dramatizes Peter Parker's origins invested me. The way everything was expanded, given so much more depth and emotional impact. It hooked me in immediately. Everyone knows Spider-Man's origins and I can't say USM had some wild twist like... Well USM (2024), but the little ways the 2000 comic expanded on the origin made me care and was a banging start.

The momentum was quickly carried in the future arcs. Every new villain introduced in their arcs topped the last. Wilson Fisk, Green Goblin, Doc Ock, Venom. Every arc revealed a new thing about the world and the characters and moved the story along.

If I were to talk about every arc in order I'd just be gushing about the comic. It had a perfect structure. It wasn't afraid to spend an issue (which would be a month in real life time) of Peter and May watching an old tape of their family just being in the park as they reminisce and tear up. Even if the most exciting part would be spiderman beating the bad guy, USM wasn't just about spiderman, it was also about Peter parker just as much. (Not saying this is UNIQUE to USM but it worked for it so well)

Peter and MJ's dynamic was great as well. Their support of one another, and hell even the first breakup between them felt human and real. And when they get back together you really see how they better one another. Why they work so well together. The scene where MJ runs from her family and hides in a shack and Peter comes to comfort her is stuck in my head as one of the most beautiful moments from the comic.

Not every arc was a masterpiece, hell some kinda sucked (like the weird ass Spiderman wolverine body swap thing), but they were flukes. Almost every arc built on the last, had something to say about Peter or the other characters in his life, and at the end of the day, was just plain fun.

Some writing choices were strange. I think the way they broke up Peter and Kitty (the x men girl he hooks up with after his second breakup with MJ) was kinda sad and shows Peter as kind of a really shitty guy. I think the way they handle Jeanne De Wolfe just kinda sucks. We learn that she is a double agent for Fisk who tries to have a happy face for Spider-Man. You'd think this would eventually lead to a great confrontation later but in annual 2 she was killed off and we don't even get the confrontation between Peter and her. All we get is seeing him he frustrated with Fisk. Even so, no story is perfect and the median quality was way above average.

This legendary run continued for 111 chapters where Brian Michael Bendis was the writer and Mark Bagley was the artist. Countless beautiful scenes were delivered. The story kept evolving and never losing what made it great. The Hobgoblin, Carnage and Clone Saga arcs in particular remain as highlights as highly emotional arcs where consequences stick and which change Peter Parker. The comic was highly successful and it's clear why. Because it simply worked.

After issue 111 though, Mark Bagley left the comic. He felt like it was his time to go. Bendis decided to stay being a writer and he kept writing for it for another hundred or so issues, bleeding into his Miles Morales run. I won't focus on MM, cuz I haven't read it, but I feel like maybe Bendis should have followed suit and ended the comic shortly after because the foundation was getting shaky by this point.

Now, from here on out USM would have a bunch of different artists come to it, most notably David Lafuente. Now I know people hate his art a lot and miss Mark Bagley. If I were to give my 2 cents, I think his art is overhated but doesn't fit the comic that well, that said I don't think Bagley's art is flawless too especially the faces. I love how Lafuente draws Gwen anyhow.

Anyways, the art is the least of the issues with post Bagley USM. I think the writing slowly but surely loses itself. It's subtle at first, like writing "the Death of Green Goblin" as an arc where HARRY DIES and they focus on it for like... A single chapter afterward. The arc is still good but something about it feels off. Like it doesn't stick nearly as much.

The highlight of the comic are still there. The Ultimatum chapters are excellent. I haven't read Ultimatum proper, and don't really wanna considering everyone says it's terrible, but the spiderman issues were some of the best chapters the comic has ever seen. Spiderman desperately trying to save the people of New York was so cool to see. And then you think he died and we get the Ultimatum Requiem chapters with Jameson and his speech about how Spiderman makes the world a better place and I nearly teared up.

Spiderman was supposed to die in Ultimatum and that sounds like a terrible idea at first but now I think maybe the comic would have been better off for it.

So Peter is found by Captain America to have been alive and we get a few months timeskip where... We completely skip over the reaction of his loved ones who thought he died. He and MJ break up off screen (they don't tell us why btw, all we know is that MJ was the one who broke up), he and Gwen start dating (who treated one another like siblings all throughout the comic btw), and then Aunt May invites like 4 other heroes to live under her house.

So Johnny Storm and Bobby from the X Men now live under Spiderman's roof and they are now a trio.

Now Idm the idea of a big status quo change and this is conceptually neat I feel. Johnny has been likeable in the comics so far and I love his and Peter's friendship.

And Bobby... Is annoying as shit. Ok I have a huge issue with this trio, mostly because their dynamic is off.

Peter is the goody two shoes who's down on his luck. Johnny Storm is arrogant and a tad annoying and loves women a lot but is generally a good guy. I think their dynamic is nice, they're like brothers. Bobby is... ALSO arrogant and a tad annoying and loves women a lot. He's on the surface exactly like Johnny, which already sucks for the trio dynamic when 2/3 of the members both kinda do the same thing.

Except Bobby is an annoying piece of shit. He's introduced as Kitty's ex boyfriend who's kind of a douche. And then we see him fight more in the comic and wow he really is a piece of shit.

There's an arc early on when Liz Allen realizes she's a mutant and Bobby remarks that he was able to see her naked because she burned her clothes off. And from there on everything he says is about wanting to date and fuck women. He hardly has redeeming traits.

Our first introduction to Johnny in USM is that he's a superhero guy who looks up to spiderman, wants a normal life as a teenager but accidentally fucks it up by turning into the human torch. He's a flirt but he seems like a friendly guy, you know?

Bobby starts as a perv and he hardly does much to change his perception. And why he and Peter and Johnny become a trio is beyond me when there's 2 dudes talking about how much they wanna fuck women and no one to juxtapose them because Peter, while he doesn't encourage their behaviour, doesn't do much to discourage it either.

I can't say the comic becomes terrible from there on but it just loses everything that made it so good. If you were to let me read the post ultimatum issues as my first impression, I wouldn't be hooked. The clever way spiderman's entire mythos is adapted and changes Peter as a person slowly drains away. Relationship drama goes from real to a bad soap opera. I can feel the heart and care put into the comic that made it so good slowly wither away for a comic that throws things at the wall and seeing if they stick. USM went from a masterpiece of superhero writing to yet another superhero comic that tries so hard to interest you. Like it's trying to recapture its magic when it didn't need to do so before.

Even if the final USM arc is amazing as everyone says it is, the buildup from the end of ultimatum to end of the comic is a mess that just leaves me wanting to end it as soon as possible with a few good chapters (like the 150th issue which feels like an amazing celebration on everything that makes teenage spiderman what he is)

I'm replaying Spider-Man 1 on PS4 and whenever Jameson talks he doesn't seem to have a single supporter

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On the streets everyone says "omg spiderman I love you"

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Even at a police station the cops are civil towards spiderman, within the game spiderman is treated really well

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Maybe it's because I'm reading the Ultimate comics from the 2000s alongside replaying the game but it seems like in the comics spiderman is mostly polarizing while in the game he's nearly universally beloved.

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On Jameson's talk show it's like every other episode a spiderman fan argues with him and Jameson just shuts the conversation down

Spiderman 2 is a PS5 exclusive at least as far as consoles go. My PC cannot run the game and I only have a PS4 pro.

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However, I know that using the PS Plus premium subscription you can stream PS5 games, but I don't know if that means you can only stream PS5 games to other PS5, or if you can stream PS5 games to PS4? Or at the very least on another PC?

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So, is it possible to stream PS5 games to PS4 with PS Plus? I want to check out SM2 but I don't have the hardware so I'm looking for other ways

Started this thread as a result of the TADC movie however this question has been on my mind for years.

Let's say a piece of writing delivers one of the most emotional, powerful stories you've ever seen in fiction, but in that endeavor it's willing to bend it's own past rules. Not to a shameless amount, but enough so that when you try to analyze it objectively, you can't really call it "well written".

The TADC movie has me feeling like this honestly.

>!On one hand, I was crying throughout the film, ESPECIALLY Jax's flashback and his eventual hug with Pomni. And then later when it Caine opens the circus for everyone, it at the time felt like the most perfect finale of all time.!<

But once I look at it from the side, man, >!Jax ATE all the screentime, series long mysteries were never answered, Caine's redemption was rushed, Ragatha's character didn't get any arc throughout the show, Ribbit was punished for doing the thing that Pomni was told to do by Kinger. The writing has so many little issues all throughout!<

The emotional impact was great and I was left loving the ending

But when analyzing it's consistency, I can't call it well written

But what matters more? I mean, I watch fiction to care and to feel something, however there are many writing rules that have to do with just plainly not setting things up and never elaborating among with not contradicting your own world.

One Piece is also super guilty of this. It LOVES it's emotional moments but especially in recent years, it has no issue retconning decades of lore and story to bring those moments. Nika comes to mind.

But man, that Gear 5 battle with Kaido was just plain cathartic. Do the small plot holes even matter that much when on first viewing I was nearly jumping out of my seat at Luffy vs Kaido?

What do you guys think?

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They give me error 80710A06 and I cannot for the life of me find a fix. What is it? Did CFW cause it? How do I fix it? I can't sign into PSN even after disabling sys calls or even connect to internet

They give me error 80710A06 and I cannot for the life of me find a fix. What is it? Did CFW cause it? How do I fix it? I can't sign into PSN even after disabling sys calls or even connect to internet

After running HDD Compatibility Partition Fixer, the Xbox became ridiculously slow.

Logging into my profile takes an entire minute when it took like 10 seconds beforehand.

How do I fix it? I don't know what specifically caused the Xbox's speed to plummet to the ground