ZEELLO'S PROFILE

author=Darken
The other extreme is the absolute point of no return, always going forward, rarely ever able to backtrack. RPGs (being exploration and progression based) doesn't always fully commit to this. The only RPG I can think of that commits to this idea is the RM game The Way.

My game does this. (°▽°)/

I started Borderlands 2 and gave up near the very beginning. (BoomBewm kicked my ***) Apparently I suck at FPS and never knew it before? Currently playing Pre-Sequel, but I don't imagine I will be playing it for long seeing as I've given up on the first two games in short time.

Other updates
- I own Breath of the Wild and Three Houses but haven't started them yet.
- I own Bloodstained Ritual of the Night but I get fed up at having to sit through a full on blank white screen for like half a minute each time the game starts up. I can look partially away from the screen so it doesn't hurt my eyes as much, but I still find it generally triggering and assaultive.
- I decided to properly play the Dragon Quest 11 demo to the end. Of course I underestimated how long the demo was going to be. Ended up with a save file over 5 hours. I might get the full game at some point, not sure. It's nice to have a long game I can binge/grind in when I want to kill time or relax, and which isn't overly intense, but I already have Pokemon Shield for that purpose. (At least now I have something I can get if I'm ever done with Pokemon Shield.)
- Mario Odyssey marks the first 3D Mario I've sat down and properly beaten. Also, the game is amazing.

Good Idea, Bad Idea! I remember that! I actually was wondering why it hasn't become a meme..

Speaking of names, one time there was a character who shows up later in the game who ended up having the same name I gave my character. It was kind of confusing in conversations but also pretty darn funny. =P Although it made me wonder if games should take into account somehow, by renaming the other character behind your back, or by letting you know about it before finalizing your character. Maybe it isn't really needed, but it would be nifty to see a game go the extra mile like that.

Anyway as for the topic I may have to sit on it for a bit, as it's hard to come up with things to post where the good idea isn't just the absence of the bad idea, or vice versa. (e.g. "Good idea: not having microtransactions. Bad idea: Having microtransactions")

I was bored by Batman & Robin even as a kid. Like, why was there smoke everywhere? I couldn't figure out if they were on the streets of Gotham or in some kind of basement or warehouse with a broken valve somewhere.
It was also tedious watching Robin and Batman arguing with each other all the time. When they started actually fighting each other, despite Poison Ivy being right there, what little likability they had left went out the window.
Bane was an incredibly dumb villain even by kid standards. Mr. Freeze was also. Nothing made sense. I think I started to tune out not even halfway through the movie.

And this is coming from someone who thinks bat credit card was kinda funny. :p

edit: What about Spider-Man 3? It was my first time watching it this year, but I could not even get through it.
After all the memes and such I thought it would be "so bad it's good". It isn't. It's just really, really boring.
On the bright side, its badness was almost educational. The scene at the french restaurant (when Peter was about to propose) was more entertaining than the rest of the movie. The fact of that really interested me. Really turns on its head what one would conventionally think makes a good movie, or if nothing else, I guess I'm personally just more into that kind of scene as opposed to action scenes.

I'm trying to get into FE but it's a lot of stress deciding the right difficulty as the choice could make or break the experience.

It also appears that most games in the series do not even have grinding which is kind of disappointing. Because without it the game basically a glorified Advance Wars without really much point in having a leveling system. At the very least it forces me to research which games are the exception, from what I understand Awakening is one, Birthright is another. I forget whether Echoes is. I didn't research Three Houses but I figure there must be some way to upgrade or tailor units in between missions or else what's the point of having a classroom.

I already bought Birthright and planned to get the others but maybe I should bail. I should wait until if and when I beat Birthright and decide then if I still want to bother with the other titles in the series.