Hrumph!

Mostly reblogging/talking about Gundam, sometimes spicy fanart | may very occasionally talk about my own writing He/Him | 30’s

[rdmaaron]

That's just Stone Cold Steve Austin

[rdmaaron]

Yeah, I am not in any kind of mood to give Tainted Grail another shot as it turns out lol

[rdmaaron]

it’s still in early access so it’s still rough around the edges, but I liked the little bit that I played. Weirdly I get much more of Doom vibe from it than anything else, you’re dropped in with very little context or exposition. It’s much more of an ACTION rpg when it comes to combat. One of the reviews on Steam compared it to Heroes of Might and Magic, which I am not familiar with but might mean more to someone else. Looking forward to when it gets finished.

[rdmaaron]

Very important Rat Wisdom for my trans followers, you need to memorize these runes for your first transition.

[rdmaaron]

Talking Rat companion, instant points.

[rdmaaron]

this was in early access for $8

[dajo42]

it’s been ten years

[geniusoflove]

its been 12 years

[shivshivshivvyyy]

13 years

[pinkthinkspalistineshouldbefree]

14 years

[momperlman-deactivated20251022]

15 years

[dammmithardison]

16 years

[thswrtchdthng]

Loss is a dancing queen, young and sweet, only 17

[twopanelcad]

That time of year again.

[rdmaaron]

Maybe I'll give Tainted Grail another shot next. Round out the things I started but didn't finish. Maybe I'll have a better mindset to appreciate it's good points this time.

[stupidfuckingdeer]

Gundam fans will be like “Bandai we need an MG of this Mobile Suit!!” and the suit will be called “Pēnits Kùmmer” and have appeared in one panel of a side manga that’s never been translated from Japanese. Then you look up Pēnits Kùmmer and it’s like the sickest fucking mecha design you’ve ever seen

[rdmaaron]

The really exciting thing is that now I get to just pick another game to play through, and will never have to think about Gotham Knights another day in my life.

[rdmaaron]

It's done. Game is extraordinarily unambitious and is (or maybe was would be more accurate) trend chasing drek to the nth degree. At it's best it is a worse Arkham Knight, both mechanically and visually.

Traversal never gets to a point where it feels good, everyone gets their own unique and scuffed as hell version of Batmans grapple into gliding from the Arkham games and they are all terrible. Batgirl's version comes the closest to being like Batman's, but even then it never feels good. It really is just better to use the damn motorcycle.

Combat never feels smooth. Even into late game it feels extremely clunky. Like, it's stiff in a way that feels wrong.

The Bat Family is fine, but any kind of pathos is betrayed by the design ethos of the game itself. Any member of the Knights can slot into the cutscenes and very little changes, by design, at that leaves everyone lacking.

Jason quite honestly feels like the character that makes the most sense as the primary protagonist because the ultimate antagonists end up being the League of Shadows who are chasing after another Lazarus Pit, 2 things that he has the most connections to out of the entire Bat Family, and that's at least kind of reflected in his dialogue. The twist that phase 1 of the final boss fight is a resurrected and brainwashed Batman is neat, but you see it coming from a mile away once they discover the Courts connections to the Pits and Talia shows up.

There's a world where this game came together in a way that rules. The idea is there, a Batman-less Batman game is an interesting idea to explore, it has legs. It just needs to be in a package that is not being weighed down by AAA corporate, design-by-committee garbage.

[rdmaaron]

I was on the verge of just quitting to move on to something else because good GOD this game is boring, but I just checked and I'm like 1 chapter away from the end of the game so I might as well power through it.

There is a kernel of a good idea in here, but it is buried under 15 tons of modern game design foibles that I simply cannot and do not abide by at all. The only solution to make it work would be to tear it all down and start completely from scratch.

[ferhog]

It's that time of the year again!

[itsrocketsurgery]

pride month is over and i don't even have my drawing tablet so i made this on my laptop in ms paint

but anyways thats how suletta was born

[rdmaaron]

YOU know it's pride month because you look at the calendar and see it is June 1st. I know it's pride month because my G-Witch posts will suddenly get a 100+ notes.

[rdmaaron]

I do kind of appreciate that this version of Jason Todd is built like a Hired Goon, appropriate for the ex-Robin that had a villain stint. He looks like the kind of enemy Batman would need to stun first in order to combo on him. He looks like he routinely says "you got it, boss".

[rdmaaron]

This menu is why I detest a lot of modern AAA games. Everything about what I'm looking at is obnoxious and there was a period where it felt like every game had this exact kind of menu UI, right down to the ability to craft shit. Also, somehow this new suit has less "power" than my current one yet all its stats are significantly better, make it make sense.