I can explain how manners work now if you need a lesson. Just say the word.

I hope whatever is filling you with so much bile passes soon man.

Hey, I’m not the one talking down to strangers unprompted. I hope whatever possessed you to do that passes too.

I really don’t care anymore

Then stop responding to me and move on. You’re not gonna talk down to me and say “you need to broaden your horizons” then play victim when called out.

Plenty of people do: they may call it “character action” or “spectacle fighter” or whatever meaningless name is hot nowadays, but technically speaking they’re just action games with no extra tags.

Every game you mentioned has extra tags that fundamentally change how they play: roguelike, RPG, metroidvania… etc.

You also do not even need to know any of this: I literally mentioned exactly what I meant in my comment, and if you don’t subscribe to the same definition, you could’ve just moved on. Not really sure why you had to stop and doll out unsolicited wisdom if you had nothing of substance to offer.

And telling me to “broaden my horizons” is not a normal answer, it’s a condescending one.

If you think the difference between Hades and Bayonetta is semantics, like, holy shit. I don’t even know what to tell you.

Godspeed.

And to avoid any confusion: I mean action a la Bayonetta, Ninja Gaiden II, God Hand… etc. Not roguelikes, zeldalikes, or soulslikes.

This is from my original comment. What moving goal posts? More like the person who replied to my comment ignored my original goalposts because they didn’t fit their narrative.

I’m not gonna touch this, but I’m glad it exists 😂

No need for the hostility. Hope you have a great rest of your weekend.

No hostility here. Just an appropriate response to your dolling out patronizing, unsolicited advice all while you’re misreading my comment and missing my point.

And to avoid any confusion: I mean action a la Bayonetta, Ninja Gaiden II, God Hand… etc. Not roguelikes, zeldalikes, or soulslikes.

Yet you proceeded to name a roguelike, two soulslike, and a zeldalike—all the games you listed play nothing like the games I listed (categorically different genres), but I don’t assume nuance is of factor to you if you’re going around being condescending to strangers online. Hope you have a great rest of your weekend.

How about you drop the BS and name games if you’re that confident?

IDK about western companies, but Japanese studios built their brand on weird, and I’m all for Capcom and Co. going back to their weird roots. That shit was fun.

Not really… only if you play indie genres. We get like one or two good indie action games a year.

And to avoid any confusion: I mean action a la Bayonetta, Ninja Gaiden II, God Hand… etc. Not roguelikes, zeldalikes, or soulslikes.

What about fighting games? I can probably name like 3 indies in the past decade that made it big: Skullgirls, Them Fightin’ Herds, and Melty Blood/Under Night In-Birth (And I’m being generous here by ignoring ASW’s involvement)

Plenty of weirdness in the genres you play, maybe, but that doesn’t cover every genre.

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I went back to play the PS2 game and it’s pretty fun, but I read the Steam port has tons of issues. Have you tried it?

I keep whining about the lack of new, adventurous action games and dead PS2 franchises, so I figured I put my money where my mouth is and buy Gungrave G.O.R.E.

I love OG Gungrave (wish they port it to Steam)—Overdose not so much because I found it too obtuse in terms of level design and controls.

I’m also looking at Spirit X Strike. It’s too reactive for my taste, so I haven’t decided yet, but I want to support the developer.

Maybe I’ll grab Zone of the Enders 2 as well? I don’t remember how much I liked it, gotta revisit the PS2 game first.

Been mid for a few years now, in my experience. Most of the games I bought over the past two years I did outside of the Summer sale because most discounts are all the same anyway.

I’ve been eyeing Okami and it was 50% last week and it’s 50% again now.

I pulled the trigger on The Wonderful 101 in March at 55% and I was worried I’ll regret it in the Summer sale… it’s 55% again.

Been also eyeing Lost Judgment… 70% in March and 70% again now.

I never understood why they didn’t have a mode where you could have multiple players controlling different team members.

Older PES games had that and it was super fun before Konami’s pachinko machine addiction lead to the franchise’s gradual demise.

Rematch is exclusively multiplayer, yes.

Agree with PES being a really good football simulation. I always viewed FIFA as a cynical and jaded attempt at arcadifying football—never really been my cup of tea.

I can’t be bothered with the camera management in Rematch. It sucks so bad the game literally tells you get used to no look passing/shooting because you won’t have time to adjust your camera. Even when I kinda got used to it and got to score a few goals, I didn’t feel any satisfaction—it felt too silly.

It suuuucks as a football game. Controls like ass.

Someone bring back PES or cook up a replacement, please. I’m tired of these shitty football games.

This take sucks. There’s a clear cap on what indies can do because they have a limited budget. Whatever their output is, it’s not comparable to big studios output.

What the market lacks is quirky games on a medium budget, which’s not what indie scenes provide.