oh, that's a good one
games
Sunday, June 8, 2025
even people who say P4 was peak, usually still really like P5
Yakuza sorta works as well, but then they did their big genre swap so it's hard to say it's 1:1 anymore
I can't agree with Persona getting better with each game because imo the Persona 2 games are way better than Persona 3
If you were around when Persona 3 came out then you definitely had the opportunity to experience Persona 2 (Innocent Sin, at least)
It got remade for the PSP. Persona 1 too
Most of my favourite games have random encounters, not that I particularly like that part though.
I am not a huge fan of the alternative of map encounters because then I just feel like I'm wasting time kiting them
Can you elaborate?
Oh yeah I really like SMT4A too.
I'm talking about games where either one, you are fighting them real-time in the overworld, or two, the game is not balanced well.
Replying to ChivesKirk #chiveskirk I'm talking about games where either one, you are fighting them real-time in the overworld, or two, the game is not balanced well.
Oh yeah, I don’t like fighting them in the overworld.
You probably haven't played the original Romancing SaGa but the overworld encounters are so abundant if you don't kite them on certain screens you can end up in very long gauntlets. What's worse is that the enemies scale to your level but not exactly, so you will typically end up in a couple of fights that are particularly strong and the enemies can two-shot your characters.
Replying to ChivesKirk #chiveskirk You probably haven't played the original Romancing SaGa but the overworld encounters are so abundant if you don't kite them on certain screens you can end up in very long gauntlets. What's worse is that the enemies scale to your level but not exactly, so you will typically end up in a couple of fights that are particularly strong and the enemies can two-shot your characters.
I have not indeed
They released the game unfinished just like most games today
Monday, June 9, 2025
I kind of opted to not do work today (was not feeling it), so if you and spooky want to fuck around with demo's tonight, I'm down
I'll be around a bit later, and will for sure join
^somehow in the top 20 of next fest
We planning an archipelago?
after you get your car
They were explaining it
big AP group game still TBD later during summer
Pika is free after the 19th
so end of this month we could do one
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
he literally canonically kills and beats gay men
There is one bisexual woman
thats the most LGBTQ+ Ultra I can think of
I have no idea, also pirate do not click this it is possibly a spoiler
Very angry at this spoiler I didn't click
Since literally every time we mention Archipelago multiple people come out of the woodwork and express interest in doing another one, I will try to set the groundwork for doing one:
For those of you who have no idea of what the hell that is, or want more info/access to what games and tools you will need, refer to this post https://discord.com/channels/723638993488576593/723638994189156429/1261783532389404684
I am locked down from doing anything until after the 19th (and I will be going back home for a month probably mid July, so if we are doing one it realistically either needs to be late/early July, or late august. Presumably weekends work best for people, so I will post a poll with what weekends work best for people.
If you are interested at all, feel free to soft commit (we can add/remove people from the roster up to the last minute since we just have to generate a new randomizer seed). Time commitment we usually aim to balance around 3-5 hours, some people can go longer until they finish or give up, and if you have to leave early we can release your items so you do not have to feel bad about screwing everyone else over. As usual, anyone is welcome other than deaddog who is banned from AP after last time.
What weekends work best for you if you want to do an AP randomizer group game night (its multi select, select all you are fine with).
- June 21-224 votes · 22%
- June 28-295 votes · 28%
- July 5-64 votes · 22%
- July 12-135 votes · 28%
18 votes Multiple answers allowed Poll closed
Also I will probably try rabi-ribi this time
I'll add, you don't need to be an expert on whatever it is you're running
but you'll want to have tested out whatever game you're playing at least once beforehand (to make sure its setup correctly), and have a rough idea of how many checks there are in it that you've randomized
aim for ~4 hours to clear, and somewhere in the ballpark of 200 checks
Yeah, poptracker (linked in the post I linked to) is useful since even if you do not know every location in your game, it will help fill in the gaps (and tell you whats in logic)
(Also I am not really restricted to weekends, I just assumed that would work the best for most people)
someone should play this
https://github.com/MarioManTAW/jspaint
Replying to Rusp #rusp. is archipelago friendslop? (edited)
Rusp, speaking of friendslop
polu, syren and I played this scrap collecting friendslop alpha
it was decent
remind me to tell you to try it when its out