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Make Your Own Fun With Optional Options

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              Le sigh. After my last post I started doing what I said I would, I jumped off my seikret and started walking around the Scarlet Forest . I found some nooks and crannies, found a nice safe campsite behind a waterfall and was able to just look at the scenery. I got to an edge of the map and started fishing and noticed a lot of splashing to my right so I went over to take a look. It was like a fish feeding frenzy, for some reason, and there were a few of the small flying monsters diving in and catching some fish. I started throwing my lure in there and was catching fish after fish and a thought crossed my mind. “Imagine having to do this for materials.” Essentially living off the land, much like the older Monster Hunters and then it kind of occurred to me. This is Capcom’s way of saying “make your own fun” much like Ubisoft did with Breakpoint but actually good.         ...

Speculation and Hopes For Next "Portable" MonHun

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  Hello. Seems I’ve kind of lied, I’m back. Much quicker than I really thought I would be. I’ve been playing Rise again, I made a new character, picked four weapons I like to use and have been using my Game of Life spinner to tell me which weapon to use each hunt. I bounce between it and Wilds and notice some differences, obvi, and just wonder what changes the next Monster Hunter may bring or what it might adept from Wilds, if anything. I was watching a Monster Hunter video on YouTube but don’t know what it was about now but the creator, author, narrator, was calling GenU and Rise “portable” games, because that’s what they technically are, and was referring to the next game as a “portable” game as well so I might refer to it as such in this post also. I was also hoping to have this post be kind of coherent and follow a linear train of thought but who are we kidding? I’ll try my best but some things may be out of place.           ...

There's More To Pokemon Than Just Battling

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              God-fucking-dammit. GOD-FUCKING-DAMMIT. Every time I make a post, EVERY TIME, I think I should be good for a while, nothing should come up , but as soon as I hit that “post” button more fucking thoughts come into my head. I had this idea for a post before but just never did anything with it but the whole Yakuza thing from last post got me thinking. If, IF they can fill this city with small minigames and shit then maybe, MAYBE I’ll be interested.             I want to do more things in the world of Pokemon. I’m tired of battling for the sake of battling, I’m over it, I’m old man. I’ve been the best that ever was so many times. Let this champ chill and retire, please dawg. Somewhere in Knights of the Old Republic 2 one of the surviving Jedi says “…traveling across planets, killing hundreds, only to become stronger. Why do you think that was?” I think for a l...

Pokemon Legends ZA Trailer and More Thoughts On Wilds

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              Hello. I’m a little sick. I can’t quite focus on Wilds right at the moment so I thought I’d write something. The meat of this post will be about Wilds but I wanted to start with my thoughts on the Pokemon Legends ZA trailer.             The Legends ZA trailer didn’t make me excited. I usually buy and play Pokemon games regardless but I’ve been losing interest. I like to have as many of the legendary and mythic Pokemon as I can get but I didn’t even get the Scarlet and Violet DLC I’ve been so uninterested. The games just have been lacking something recently. I remember seeing art for X and Y, no, it was Sun and Moon wasn’t it? Yes, art for Sun and Moon, there is a picture of a Blastoise in a bucket like truck to be used as fire truck and that really excited me. I was hoping to see Pokemon be more of a part of society but they weren’t, and they STILL haven’t....

Style VS Realism

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                 Hello. I was watching a little bit of a video review from some YouTuber and they were talking about what a “masterpiece” World was and that obviously triggered me, so here I am! Now I’m not gonna shit on World or Wilds but I think I’ve just figured out why I like the other games better and to be fair, I don’t think I’d classify any Monster Hunter as a “masterpiece.” There’s annoying things in all of them but if you prefer the W games, that's fine but if you think versions like Rise just flat out shouldn't exist, well then you're just wrong. Wilds is definitely doing a lot of things better than World.              The character creator still annoys me. They’re getting closer with Wilds but it still doesn’t go far enough. The smallest male characters are still bigger than the biggest female characters. I want to be able to make a femboy or a muscle mommy. I don’t un...

How Many Monsters From MH3U Are Really Missing?

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              Hello. Monster Hunter Wilds is upon us soon, depending when I actually get this out, and I was thinking about my ceaseless screeching about Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate monsters so I decided to take a little look at the last time some of these monsters were seen.             I’ll start with the latest games and work my way backwards. Also, like I said, I took a quick look online for these, I’m sure I missed some or some may be wrong but I’m not doing this for a job so who cares? Rise/Sunbreak. In Rise we had Barroth, Barioth and Diablos, all of which were also in World but we also got the Great Wroggi, Royal Ludroth, Arzuros, Volvidon and Lagombi. I like the Great Wroggi, I like it’s armor, I remember when we first were fighting the Aknosom the Great Wroggi was around and I immediately pivoted to fight that before the Aknosom to start getting it’s armor. ...

Nintendo Charm

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  Hello, I thought I had made a post about this before but it doesn’t seem like it. It looks like I’ve mentioned things here and there but not all together so I’m going to try my best to coherently talk about the charm Nintendo’s games and consoles have had on me. It’s the little things that Nintendo did in their games and approaching gaming differently that got me into them. Their games have a sense of personality that most other games don’t even try to do. Okay, let’s start this mess.             When I was a wee lad I remember seeing the commercial for Smash Bros . Four characters frolicking in a field and then they start beating the crap out of each other. I knew the characters and thought it was a funny commercial but I didn’t have an N64 so I never played it. Brawl was the first game I got with my Wii and it was just such a goofy game. The items, the assist trophies, tripping for no reason, bouncing off of peoples head...