Gamers Thread

[HamburgerBoy]

The original Digimon series was awesome, but the only game I had was the Tamagotchi.

 

[CiG]

I own most of the Digimon series on DVD (looking over at my Tamers box set right now) but I do feel they didn't age so well. Especially the first two series, Tamers was a blatant uptick in quality I'll admit that much. Dunno about it being a fucking masterpiece though lmao.

I think the best thing Digimon did in terms of anime was the first Digimon movie, that shit is epic.

One of the more recent Digimon series looks pretty cool, I'll probably check it out at some point. It's called Digimon Adventure tri.

 

[no country for old wainds]

all i know is tamers was written by the serial experiments lain/texhnolyze guy and was controversial for being super dark and containing lovecraftian horror and shit lol

 

[CiG]

It's definitely not as good as Serial Experiments Lain IMO, haven't seen Texhnolyze though. I think my opinion of Tamers might be tainted by the fact that I watched it several times on TV and the English version of the show is way more light-hearted and then when I finally got to watch it in Japanese I couldn't overlook what I'd already seen. It's certainly darker than the cringe-inducing first two series.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I mean the original series wasn't exactly the darkest shit around but at least as a kid it was more interesting and went further than its competition of the time. The whole second half where the Digiverse comes to Earth and the evil Digimon go door to door abducting humans to stick them into concentration camps and shit was badass. Even the interim where the kids are back on Earth and struggling to adapt back to normal life, while the baddies plot spooky shit in the background, has this surreal fever dream kind of quality to it.

all i know is tamers was written by the serial experiments lain/texhnolyze guy and was controversial for being super dark and containing lovecraftian horror and shit lol

Isn't that only on a handful of episodes? He also was involved in directing an episode or two of the original series iirc.

 

[CiG]

Don't get me wrong, loved it when I was younger and swore by it as the best of all its contemporaries but when I rewatched it as an adult I felt it didn't age so well is all.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I tried rewatching it a few years ago and certainly the animation was shitty and they waste a lot of time repeating the same Digivolve sequences over and over. I didn't finish the whole thing, but skipping around the quality seemed to gradually improve up to the end.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i was always the kid who was all THE DIGIMON TV SERIES IS BETTER THAN POKEMON FIGHT ME

they had a villain that was just an evil monkey with an elvis voice and somehow made it fucking terrifying

 

[CiG]

they had a villain that was just an evil monkey with an elvis voice and somehow made it fucking terrifying

Etemon! And he actually called himself "King of the Digimon" or some shit lmao.

New i was always the kid who was all THE DIGIMON TV SERIES IS BETTER THAN POKEMON FIGHT ME

Same.

 

[mutantllama]

Yeah I remember the second half of Tamers scaring me as a kid, that fucking blob thing taking over the city was fucking terrifying.

 

[CiG]

God damn the snowy environment shown in this new gameplay footage is epic.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

I never played the first one but this looks incredible.

 

[CiG]

 

[The Ozzman]

Bruuuuuuhhhhhhhh

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

im trying to get myself to finish up Ni No Kuni(PS3) ... but i'm just not sure i can do it.

 

[CiG]

If you can't get through the first one (I liked it) don't bother with the sequel lmao.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

yeah the game is boring me to death tbh. Might have something to do with me taking a break for a few months and trying to jump back in though. I just hate not finishing games up so im pretty much forcing myself now. Definitely not touching the sequel.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Recently been obsessed with Enter the Gungeon. I haven’t been this addicted to a game since Bloodborne.

 

[Carpe Mortem]

Got my pre-order in for RDR2. Gotta finish another playthrough of DA:Origins within.... Two weeks to get on it ASAP.

I'm preparing myself for trying not to expect RDR1, especially the plain ol' magical feeling of playing a western rpg for the first time. This second can't fly on that alone. But all initial reports seem to indicate it has plenty of independent feet to stand on.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Anyone playing Magic Arena? I've always been interested in MtG but I've never been able to play it because I've got no one to play paper magic with and it's too expensive, anyhow. But now with Arena it finally has a digital client with pricing that's acceptable and I'm pretty damn happy with it. Been playing it like crazy since it went into open beta.

@Phylactery Why don't you get off Hearthstone and play a good collectible card game?