Finally got around to playing It Takes Two, and while I had already seen various bits of gameplay and was confident it'd be fun, I was pretty surprised by just how much content there actually was. Fairly long game, tons of set pieces and creativity, and some actual challenge too.

One thing I noticed as a huge nerd though: the chess minigame you can play is programmed wrong and allows you to castle out of check.

@Ivotas said in Welcome Back! (2022 Edition):

Question about this new forum. How would we actually bring thread title requests/suggestions before the mods? Before we could use the report button but that one seems to be gone. And I don't want to press a "flag" button without really knowing what it does.

Even on the old forum, flagging or reporting a post was reserved for actual problems requiring moderator attention. That is of course still true. Definitely flag it if the title is offensive or something like that, but otherwise it's not an appropriate use of that feature.

Generally speaking, thread titles should not be changing, unless there was a mistake when the thread was originally created or some other compelling reason to update it for clarity etc. In such a case the mods can be contacted directly if needed, and it can also be discussed within the thread if appropriate. I know that long ago it was relatively common to constantly update titles with jokes or whatnot but that practice is mostly gone for a few different reasons so please don't contact the staff for suggestions of that sort.

I’m mostly curious how the puzzles will be designed. Tales struck an overall good balance for modern times, but felt rather linear and relied too much on mazes at times. Meanwhile MI2 was an obtuse mess that honestly was not enjoyable much of the time, but it has some of the best gags and dialogue in the entire series.

@Nekketsu:

I plan to do my next PLA playthrough with certain rules: no purchasing any items that are craftable, no level grinding (natural progression), no alpha or legendary in my team, there can't be more than one of the same type or types, no using revives during battle…

I suppose Gen 9 will also have item crafting since it will be full open world, so I'll also start with that same setting.

Heh that’s almost exactly how I played the first time. I mean, I had one Alpha on my team for a while but it wasn’t even overleveled compared to my main team by that point. Hard to define grinding though. Just completing the dex will naturally make you pretty strong. I guess I did eventually have one overlapping type when I replaced Glaceon with a shiny Mamoswine (Ground overlap with Gliscor) but that was in post-game.

Yeah, almost all of our banned IPs are either known malicious ranges or were necessary to counteract massive bot onslaughts. I don’t know why you’re using a VPN to connect to AP but clearly the particular service you picked is using IPs that were abused at some point. We’d be able to at least look into the specifics if you could provide some of the IPs in question.

Some mons will try to run away when they see you and still be catchable. A very select few others will sometimes attack you but still be catchable. I can think of Stantler, Pachirisu, and Sliggoo off the top of my head. Otherwise pretty much as soon as they aggro you they become uncatchable.

However, there's also a range limit with balls. If you're too far away, balls bounce off mons even if they are direct hits and even if not aggroed. And this range varies by mon. I'm convinced it's related to their max detection radius; if you're more than just a bit outside of it then the game just won't let you. I hate it. This is only possible with the long-range ball types though.

Ah yes. When I say “I personally…” that totally means “I am stating something objective.” Nothing more to be said really; more walls of text don’t change basic organizational principles, and we have in fact discussed various iterations of “should X be a subforum” in recent times with the consensus almost always being more or less what I outlined.

The Anime subforum was a lot more active back in the day, and I imagine it was warranted at the time it was created (though you'd probably know better than I would). Right now you're absolutely right; If I were redesigning the sections and sub-sections from scratch, I probably wouldn't bother segmenting that either, based on current post and user traffic. Though, there is a strong case to be made there concerning spoilers, if there are anime viewers who don't read and don't want to accidentally click a thread that spoils the show for them. That aside it would, of course, be more effort than it's worth to redo all that now.

Anyway I personally don't see any convincing arguments about why what we have is insufficient or impractical, and I do honestly think it's quite detrimental to create tons of small boxes that can indirectly end up hiding content from users, or confusing them ("where do I post this?").

I guess I can elaborate a bit

• I've been clamoring for more Fire Emblem after how addicting and just overall-great Three Houses was. To see that their choice here was to plug it into the generic Warriors series, which genre-wise is about as far as you can get from FE, was really annoying. Do a proper sequel.
• Two years of MK8 DLC is really disappointing to me. I played the absolute hell out of MK8… on Wii U. It was honestly a pretty easy skip when they ported it to Switch. I figured there'd be a new game SOMETIME soon, but now all the new content for two years is just paid DLC? "New," because it's still just recycled old tracks lol.
• Kirby looks a lot worse after this Direct. It's obviously not anything truly resembling free 3D exploration; the linear level design is all there, so it's probably just a hub world on top of that. But what puzzles me the most is these new derpy appliance transformations. Right now it's a pretty big turn-off and they're really going to have to showcase some spectacular co-op to have a chance of selling me on it.
• What in the world was that Wii Sports 2 thing lmao. They expect people to pay for it? And strap already-failing joycons to their legs?
• So, so many recycled games from multiple generations ago that really make me yawn. Though again, full remakes of Front Mission 1 & 2 were a pleasant surprise.
• XC3 announcement was nice, but overall very lacking in terms of content. For a game releasing in a few months I would expect a much larger reveal. Initial impressions are that I'm not sure about the art direction and I'm sad that XCX is still completely shunned, even lore-wise. I honestly am trying to keep my excitement in check because I've had too much sequel disappointment lately, and at the very least I have to see what they did with the combat.

Terrible Direct, but at least they announced XC3. Very surprised to see Front Mission 1 and 2 remakes, but as far as releasing nothing but recycled content, I'll take it.