Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[TheMightyMollusk]

Well, just got the Bad Ending of Armored Core 6.

Killed Rusty and Ayre, the two friendliest characters; wiped out an entire sentient species that only wanted to help and cooperate; and set fire to the entire Rubicon star system, rendering the planet forever uninhabitable. And then disappeared into the flames, to be immortalized as the monster who triggered the Fires of Raven.

Time for New Game Plus. Once I can feel my hands again. Maybe not the ideal game to play after a long day of pointing steel tubes.

[Renalt]

Well, just got the Bad Ending of Armored Core 6.

Killed Rusty and Ayre, the two friendliest characters; wiped out an entire sentient species that only wanted to help and cooperate; and set fire to the entire Rubicon star system, rendering the planet forever uninhabitable. And then disappeared into the flames, to be immortalized as the monster who triggered the Fires of Raven.

Time for New Game Plus. Once I can feel my hands again. Maybe not the ideal game to play after a long day of pointing steel tubes.

I'm a fan of well done Bad Endings. Reminds me of Ogre Battle 64 in which you are banished because you apparently just love killing people, the new leader dies of unknown causes, barbarians destroy the kingdom, the bad guy that lives stumbles upon a woman's corpse and a baby crawls out of her dress and then disintegrates the bad guy because it a a God reborn.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I'm a fan of well done Bad Endings. Reminds me of Ogre Battle 64 in which you are banished because you apparently just love killing people, the new leader dies of unknown causes, barbarians destroy the kingdom, the bad guy that lives stumbles upon a woman's corpse and a baby crawls out of her dress and then disintegrates the bad guy because it a a God reborn.

I'm fine with Bad Endings, as long as they make sense in the context of the game. If it's because of something my party did, then by all means go for it.

But a badly done Bad Ending will kill my interest in the game. A monster or catastrophe or something coming out of nowhere and just eating the world because shut up. Bleh.

I give some leeway for joke endings, though. Like in the first Mortal Kombat, where Raiden's ending involves him getting bored fighting mortals, inviting other gods to join the tournament, and accidentally destroying the world. Complete with "Have a nice day!"

[Renalt]

I'm fine with Bad Endings, as long as they make sense in the context of the game. If it's because of something my party did, then by all means go for it.

But a badly done Bad Ending will kill my interest in the game. A monster or catastrophe or something coming out of nowhere and just eating the world because shut up. Bleh.

I give some leeway for joke endings, though. Like in the first Mortal Kombat, where Raiden's ending involves him getting bored fighting mortals, inviting other gods to join the tournament, and accidentally destroying the world. Complete with "Have a nice day!"

Speaking of Bad Endings...Warhawk had some wicked ones. It's all text based but MAN do they paint a picture. A horrible, HORRIBLE picture.

Here's a compilation of them.

https://youtu.be/wv8f51qHfjU?si=okZ9ikeYsv7lKfne

[TheMightyMollusk]

Never ask the internet a question unless you're sure you're ready for how the internet will answer.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I think the official answer was that Au Ra give live birth just like all of the other Spoken races, but I don't know if I want to search for confirmation on that.

[Cincierta]

I think the official answer was that Au Ra give live birth just like all of the other Spoken races, but I don't know if I want to search for confirmation on that.

All I wanted to do was find out where the best location was to farm puk eggs was for an alt's culinary job. Google thought I wanted to know FAR more than that.

[Tersi82]

Are their horns their ears? I just want to know if nibbling on their horns is like nibbling on ears. For science and stuff.

Our Horns while technically not ears are hollow and vibrations moving through them is how we hear

[Renalt]

I've been reminded why people hated Snowfly Forest..

Around and around I go. I went from hardly being able to damage these beasts to being able to take them out rather easily simply cause my weapons and armor have acclimated to beasts in this area.

For those not in the know...Snowfly Forest is an area in Vagrant Story in which your map literally lies to you. You go east and somehow pop up south somewhere else. They are disconnected. Any enemies kill respawn if you go 3 map locations away from that room...in a area that is disconnected means you have forever respawning mobs. Also the trees block vision so it's harder to chain attacks. Also the walkways are small so the enemies block your path till dealt with. I'm an hour into the forest and I have only just found and killed the Earth Dragon ( Which I was doing literal 0 damage to on attacks so I had to reflect physical damage and bait it to tail sweep me over and over till it killed itself ) and still haven't found a save spot so if I manage to die...well I'm tossing my controller.

I still have yet to take on Duane and the Dark Crusader. Which the Dark Crusader is the enemy you fight before you fight Thunder Cid in that one Alliance Raid.

[Boblawblah]

Had a squadron healer let me (Dark Knight) die on a single pack in Stone Vigil, and then two of the squad members just outright died to the final boss on the same run. Was super weird, haven't seen anything like it in dozens of runs. I love how fast Squadrons can clear, but they're so janky lol. Oh well, at least I got to use those resurrect potions they give you, that was a first.