Video Game General 7.0: Day Juan Ys: MoC June 9th & Wonderful 101 June 30th!

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And there it is

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YES! YES!

Yo, I want all of the streams.

The rumors about Sony buying up Konamiā€™s IP are getting stronger by the day. Please save Castlevania, Metal Gear and Suikoden Sony!

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ok, Iā€™m a glutton for all this punishment in Dead Cellsā€¦

I keep trying, but double-scythe against Giant is such a goddamn hard fight, man. Since the Scythe takes up both weapon slots, that means you have no shield. That right there is already putting you at a huge disadvantage because of how many fireballs this boss puts on the screen. Iā€™m not even sure how itā€™s possible to deal with the star-burst fireball pattern if he goes into that routine. That might literally be impossible to deal withā€¦either you have a shield or hope to kill him before he does that. The normal fireball patterns are fairly tough to dodge, and if you get hit even once, well thatā€™s it because youā€™re in for the full ride of damage. One hit leads to a chain of hits by other fireballs until you are dead. The only hope would be the ā€œemergency triageā€ passive that speeds up the pitifully slow healing animation and provides 3 seconds of invincibilityā€¦or that other passive that gives you a 5-second shield if your health drops to 20%. Outside of that itā€™s guaranteed death every time. I may try it again with 1 or more of those passives in place. Outside of that setup, itā€™s a big fat ā€œhell nahā€ every time to that fight. This last time I had a really good setupā€¦ 30 points in Survival with Scythe (R scythe doing 296k on critical!) and colorless Giantā€™s Whistle, Colorless S-rank Owl(!!!)ā€¦ I only managed to hit him twice before he went into the eyebeams with fireball follow-up ā€œTouch of Deathā€ comboā€¦I got hit with the first fireball and that was it ā†’ hit hit hit hit DEAD.

ā€¦Iā€™m curious about at what point they changed the eyebeam attackā€¦because Iā€™m sure Iā€™ve seen footage of other people NOT being hurt by those beams (or maybe those people were just cheating somehow? I mean you could see their character touch the beams with no problem). Each and every time Iā€™ve fought the giant, those eyebeams always do damage, so you have to carefully avoid them as they force you to stand in the middle of the stage and then jump with perfect precision over the fireballs coming from either side. Hahaha Iā€™d laugh at anyone claiming this shit is ā€œeasyā€ :laughing:

I canā€™t speak for everyone buy enjoyed the soft rebootā€™s timeline. Aaaand I canā€™t agree on Kronika jobbing considering how many times sheā€™s successfully rebooted the MK timeline herself without consequence. Its only during this timeline that it took a previous godlike 3 time MK champ to fusion ha with himself and earthrealms god to actually defeat her. I donā€™t think that constitutes jobbing in my book.

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Got on the Amazon deal with $50 Doom Eternalā€¦ready to rip and tear this Friday!

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Kronika so fuckin cheap. Bitch literally interrupts your combos to stop time, then attacks you with a fuckin DINOSAUR. All kinds of wtf lol

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Commander Shepard went off the rails after choosing Synthesis in ME3.

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I have to get around to playing the ME games, that reference is lost on me sadly

Honestly I wouldnā€™t even bother. ME3 didnā€™t stick the landing. As for the reference, Kronika shares her voice actress with the female version of Commander Shepard.

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Right.

Kronikaā€™s plan relies on Raiden and Liu Kang killing eachother or at least Raiden killing LK. This puts them at roughly the same power level or with Raiden being stronger.

By that time, we already know that Cetrion is stronger than Raiden and that Kronika is stronger than Cetrion.

Then Raiden says ā€œLetā€™s get fired upā€ and fuses/passes his power to LK.

FG LK (AKA Fighting Game Light Kick) bicycle kicks the vegan girl. Thatā€™s ok, they pulled a Gotenks, it makes sense.

Then Kronika absorbs Cetrionā€¦ And unceremoniously jobs. Like seriously, FG LK ainā€™t even sweating.

How?

This is exactly like Necalli.

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Sony saving Castlevania???

Please Sony, my wallet is always ready. :sob:

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tl;dr MK11 story was so bad NRS had to press a reset buttom again

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Sony snatching MGS and somehow enticing Kojima to work on a new game would be crazy. Theyā€™d give him the freedom to go all out unlike Konami

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i can buy sony licensing konami ipā€™s but there is no way their gonna sell anything they think they can make money from. sony can maybe get zone of the enders or suikoden or bloody roar or something.

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Those are all wins.

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MGS 3 might be my favorite game of all time. My favorite MGS by far and I honestly think itā€™s because itā€™s a prequel so it doesnā€™t have all the weight of the other games to bloat the story.

Honestly, it bloats itā€™s story enough on itā€™s own, but I like it because it seems coherent enough with it being all one project.

But at this point I feel like Kojima would try his hardest to retcon the shit they wouldnā€™t let him do in MGSV into the series and it would get hella sloppy.

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While it would be hilarious that Sony would backdoor three Smash reps, I canā€™t buy Konami doing it. They still make profit off their IP they just donā€™t invest to grow it outside of Yugi Oh.

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i mean i would be hyped for any of those but none of them have mass market appeal and the best case id imagine for suikoden at this point is a collection. if sony was gonna make a jrpg at this point theyā€™d look at ff7 remake and weā€™d get either a legend of dragoon or wild arms reboot in a similar vein.