To be clear the 20% of better restaurants are WAY better and blow panda out of the water. But whenever I get mediocre Chinese food, I sadly think to myself that I should have gotten Panda instead. Which as @Death_Strandicoot points out, happens way too often (by the way, do you have a favorite in Phoenix outside of Great Wall? Mesa is another story ofc)
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white boy orders Original Orange Chicken in perfect English
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Need that lol reaction for posts like these
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I think I want to order Chinese food tonight.
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seeing “(post deleted by author)” itt…truly chilling
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I came away from Chrono Trigger feeling pretty sour.
I reached the end boss (space hedgehog) but my party was under-levelled. Apparently I needed to do lots of side quests, but I literally could not find where to go next.
After several hours of wandering Ii gave up.
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We picked up Chinese food tonight and watched a couple episodes of Severance.
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I loved Dark Souls and enjoyed Dark Souls 2 when I played them about a decade ago. Since then I’ve started Dark Souls 3, Bloodborne, and Elden Ring but fallen off after an hour. They seem good! But they aren’t connecting with me. This leads me to confess: maybe I subconsciously am less interested since the series has become so popular?
And it has me wondering too, when will the current style of From Soft action game go out of vogue? Or maybe it won’t? But this is part 2 of my confession: I’m barely excited by anything with From Soft on it now, especially following that Nintendo Switch 2 Direct. A few years ago I’d say Dark Souls was my favorite game, I love its world/level design. But now I wonder if I’d still say that.
Which leads me to my third confession: I don’t think I have a favorite game.
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I feel pretty similar, it’s been diminishing returns in terms of enjoyment since Dark Souls, and I didn’t even pick up Elden Ring. I think it’s just that they have squeezed the concept for everything its worth, and they’ve done it really well, but it can only be interesting for so long. Clearly the population at large has a high tolerance for repetition and minor iteration, but I… don’t think I do.
I think a lot of devs and fans have taken the wrong lessons from Dark Souls as well, which has created a whole universe of aggresively mediocre soulslike games and features that just don’t work taken out of the original design and pasted into more conventional games.
Ps: Thinking about how annoying certain soulslike features are in other games, I thought of Duolingo, and how it is designed around that pressure of ‘losing your streak’, how scrambling to maintain it minutes before midnight feels a little bit like going to recover your lost souls at the end of a play session; I just checked and the app launched two months after Dark Souls. Coincidence? Probably, yes.
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just because it’s a good game doesn’t mean it’s good
Somehow I agree with this.
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Artistic competence and moral rightness are worlds apart.
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Didn’t the movies thread go over this a couple weeks back?
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we talked about bloodborne in the movies thread?
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I don’t like Bloodborne.
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My maple story account in middle school was “hacked” this way
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I thought Bloodborne was too scary/dark and Sekiro was too hard, still accomplished games just not ones that I could grab onto
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I always related to Jasmine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fl7lMaL6Zk
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I relate to Larissa re: Bloodborne
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