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Yet in mobas it's expected to have the carries underperform in early game while the support players put in the work until late game where the carry player gets the reward. It's not only acceptable, it's the most popular style of game on the world. There's a pretty big difference between a game wher...

When you grind Magikarp or Abra up in level to evolve them, it is you putting in personal effort to get a reward. When you grind a Pokémon in a table top RPG you are making all the other players put in the work of watching you grind and carrying your underperforming ass, and then you get the reward...

Fire Emblem was the most voted game, woot!

Also Riot's announced an action platformer and a turn-based single-player game. At this rate I think they'll just crash and burn trying to make so many different games at the same time.

Yeah, that event seems odd to me thematically. I get the flavour, but the Bishop General you get is a H2 which means he worships your God and can even grant your Gods blessings. I'd expect him to be a good General, so you want to use him, but a Heretic as he preaches the supremacy of Ind's Pretende...

Currently, the board is exploding because of the VGA's that are happening later today. For whatever reason, everyone there seems to think it'll be some Xenosaga character named KOS-MOS. Why? Who knows. Other commonly speculated newcomers are: Reimu from Touhou, Geno from Super Mario RPG, and Tony H...

Derp, you're right. Also I'm in a mp game with Ind (and Na'Ba too) and just got hit with an event in my cap where there's a giant wall of fancy text basically going "you should totally worship Ind's pretender, he's totally the best, here's one of their envoys as sign of Ind's infinite generosit...

Speaking of Na'Ba's great spells, seems like Na'Ba can summon Satan Shaytan which in turn has the corruption ability (aka seduction agains all genders), but that's also a blood spell and the nation has no recruitable blood mages. They also have the Houri who's a sexy chocolate genie lady that can se...

So Illwinter released two whole new crazy nations with lots of abilities in the most recent patch and no comments here so far? One has everything in their cap being a sacred priest including the troops that can auto-bless themselves and you can recruit one extra sacred per temple. And that's just th...

Heh, good luck with that since the rommers are already working on 2D sprites for the new Sword and Shield mons besides implementing the new mechanics. Not the ones I already have and play, and I see no particular reason to get other ones. Checkmate. Maybe for now, but you'll eventually go looking f...

If you're allowed to strike Detective Pikachu from the record books, I declare the same thing happen for the entirety of eighth generation or the Switch in general. The last Pokemon game to have been released is USUM and people are looking forward with some interest to what the future may hold. Heh...

FrankTrollman wrote:The bizarre tininess of Pokémon is very much a video game continuity thing.

In other continuities, big Pokémon are just allowed to be big.

Hyper big Pokémon are in the main games now too!

According to certain... kinds... of fanfiction, you can catch humans in Pokéballs and then teach them moves. In Pokémon Go there's a scene where a rival starts chucking pokéballs at you specifically asking to become theirs. A competent Pokemon system would tell you that Porygon can hack things, you...

There's plenty of out-of-combat utility for Pokémon. Cut, Flash, Surf, Fly, for starters, then the games also have electric Pokémon powering machines and Erika making beauty products with the help of grass Pokémon. In the anime indeed things gets a lot more crazy, there's even a school for teaching ...

The Black Arrow fired from Bard's bow after the thrush pointed out Smaug's weak spot was very much not a magic item. It was an incredibly well-made arrow - forged by Thrór himself, last King Under the Mountain, an example of the greatest of dwarven craftworks from Erebor. By Middle-Earth standards,...

Why is it so weird to imagine that Dragons fight on or adjacent to the ground because they are more effective that way? Because in Lord of the Rings the dragon will rather fire strafe you to death. Because in Game of Thrones the dragons will rather fire strafe you to death. The big classic dragons ...

Data and accounts of WWII aerial dogfights... the top ace of WWII says he only started firing when within 20m behind an enemy plane that didn't know he was there. Shots above 100m are rare. That's only because they were trying to hit an extremely high speed target (while moving at high speed themse...

I'm not familiar with the laser guided rocks portion of the rules, I'm assuming they still require a roll to hit, unless this is some area of effect rule for rocks in particular that I'm not aware of. Yeaah, that's the thing. Objects that fall upon characters deal damage based on their weight and t...

@maglag https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/012/491/a13.jpg Look, I get it. Realism gets unduly shat upon by many gamers. Discarding verisimilitude shouldn't be done lightly because anything that makes intuitive sense to the players is one less thing you need to explain and hash out as...

You keep bringing the underdark up as something central to the minigame, and lava flows/fluorescent fungus don't turn off every dozen hours or so. Conquest and development in the underworld is certainly a thing you might want to do. And yes, the Grimlocks will sometimes poison the glow fungus in or...

Then aren't you falling into the "caster rulez, everybody else droolz" field? How exactly is magicless general supposed to keep up with the mage general casting battlefield-wide super darkness that can only be countered by magic? Battlefield wide super darkness wouldn't be something that ...

But dwarves have darkvision. And elves like drow would have even better darkvision. And devil archers would have infinite range darkvision. See this is the kind of shit that you mostly don't have to worry about at all. Dwarves and Droaw see in the dark but they don't see in magical darkness and in ...

That's where I'm coming from with the idea of "cohorts." You can have a cohort of Archers that can be a mixture of Halfling Slingers, Dwarven Crossbows, and Elvish Longbows - but it's collectively an Archery Cohort and it has simple numbers. The fact that it's an Archery Cohort means that...

There's not even competition between Diablo Immortal and 4 since lots of fans made it pretty clear that they had zero interest on a mobile-only Diablo. People went to Blizzcon, to lap up announcements from Blizzard about things they'll buy no matter what because they love Blizzard. It's a self-sele...

What would this BlizzCon probably have looked like if they hadn't fucked up with Blitzchung? Probably more information on Diablo: Immortal, a longer presentation about Shadowlands, maybe teasers about Overwatch 2. There wouldn't have been a fucking whisper about Diablo 4 because they wanted Immorta...

Xiaomeng "VKLiooon" Li is the first woman to become global Heartstone champion!

Also Diablo 4:diablo harder, Overwatch 2: 1 new champion, and Warcraft remastered's campaign won't have any story/mechanics modifications after all.