idk what i did to motivate the rhenoplos to hate me this much but i probably deserved it

two pages into this MH manga and they are already talking about old gen turn-around punishes this shits crazy

Hunting HR Rajang in FU and this happened lmao??? I'm glad they accounted for it at least (ft. a friend's commentary)

this hipcheck shit is free bruh

playing Dos hub it was pretty cool to see an event quest for killing three Congas in the arena that gave practically no rewards, but had a subquest for killing a D.Hermitaur that was in that arena as well. The way its setup means you have to kill the monster without killing all the Congas.

The 2nd encounter with Sol Titanion is my fav boss concept in a while. Being in the yellow areas increases the percentage until it burns you at 100, so how you avoid attacks is restricted by needing to minimize the time spent in the heat and route around returning to the shade. Pretty cool!

What a heartbreaking last message :( It is what it is, so it goes.... Rest in peace the legend, nobody can do it the way you did

They got a Solid Snake expy as a boss in this bro fights like his smash ver with the nikita missiles, mortar, and the side rolls. Crazy fun fight, def one of the highlights of Zero 4

turtle

a moot has asked me to fill out this fgc meme my type is fairly predictable i think

Figuring out how to dodge that fuck ass circular flame pattern was a fun puzzle, cool boss

Trying to cheese a boss has its consequences

oh i didn't know combat nerds were in demand right now

why is this MMZ boss Terry Bogard

Monster hunter theory

Most normal Kaiser Campaign encounter

This is the biggest issue the medium has to contend with. The designers are the taste-makers, they have trained the audience to like specific gameplay approaches, leading to a negative feedback loop where going outside the mold gets riskier with audiences more easily alienated by something new

Yeah, the modern "high skill game" player has no sense of spacing and no intuition to solve problems by *not being there*. "This boss isn't fair it has an unreactable grab" then why are you standing in its face!!!! 😭

oh i forgot to post about my birthday until it was a day too late... guess i cant say im early 20s anymore 🥳

Been making a little transformers collection and I think it feels pretty complete now.... the quality for the price of these plastic toys has gotten a lot better over recent years, feels nice to know not all things have succumbed to some form of Enshittification :P

lost in the noise

Our thesis film "Aigrefins" is finally out! Click the link down below to watch it. The team worked really hard on this and I hope you'll enjoy it.

this patch is crazy they even buffed my character's pronouns

High Master Sagyatt 😤 never got this high before...

He feels pretty tough to play He requires a lot of patience and pattern awareness. HIs tools feel very situational to use. I don't think he plays anything like old Sagat, his low tiger shot is simply too shit, but otherwise mixing between his fireballs, buttons, and spacing tiger knee is too fun

spaced 2hp on crouching opponent spaces lk tiger knee to be +2 and cant be drive impacted. Bonchan is feasting

You ever just:

me when i have a minor disagreement with someone

playing Pathologic 2

doom eternal: kaiser campaign mod

what do u guys think of this male llama i met at a farm he doesn't have a name please suggest names

oh hi jin kazama i didnt expect to see you in Tripoli's martyrs square

And some people clowned on me for calling it a parry epidemic...

My Elena has clawed her way back into 1500 MR... I am now average. Can she cook?

The mindset has changed from "this new mechanic is clearly overpowered and should be tuned" to "everything should be as broken and easy to use as our new mechanic" The ideas of Team Ninja's new devs seem to only amount to parries and trying to scale everything up to match that. Very unfortunate.

we anti-air taunting in this game

I've published the first part of my guide on how to play the best 3D beat 'em up of all time: SpikeOut! This part covers the basics, more advanced topics will be covered in a future part. (Replies to this skeet will appear as comments under the webpage) testamentenjoyment.net/spikeout/gui...

Since a lot of people were asking me for more detailed thoughts on Dark Ages, I decided to write a full review. I find that the game's issues go beyond just gameplay, but a lack of vision that encompasses the entire experience. I hope Id learns from this. rexzakel.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/d...

Since a lot of people were asking me for more detailed thoughts on Dark Ages, I decided to write a full review. I find that the game's issues go beyond just gameplay, but a lack of vision that encompasses the entire experience. I hope Id learns from this. rexzakel.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/d...

Finished Dark Ages. There are ways you could have made this new gameplay style good but what was done here is terrible imo. Creatively bereft and designed to be shallow. Its better than 2016 but I respect it less cuz 2016 was bad out of ignorance whereas DDA is intentionally bad.

Been playing City Of The Wolves and I have pretty mixed feelings on its system mechanic. It feels no less volatile than a lot of the modern fighters and the REV system is mainly to blame for that. Cranked out a post trying to put my issues into words. rexzakel.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/f...

Hunted AT Rey Dau a bunch. Him having shockwaves on attacks with fulgurite-coated limbs is obv how he was always meant to work. It fixes his inability to cover the space under him and his massive openings make a lot more sense now that the shockwaves makes them a lot smaller functionally (1/3)

wednesday fit check + cherry blossoms at UoT

This vid is exactly why IMO it's really important to push back on the idea of "fairness" in games and just directly defend unfair design on its countless merits. Cuz the arguments in the vid aren't wrong if you adapt the fairness above all framework, it's the framework itself that sucks

I have published by far my biggest article yet, attempting to critique the combat design in Monster Hunter Wilds in-depth, including analysis and clips of individual monster attacks and weapon design elements. I hope you enjoy reading it! rexzakel.wordpress.com/2025/04/12/m...

I have published by far my biggest article yet, attempting to critique the combat design in Monster Hunter Wilds in-depth, including analysis and clips of individual monster attacks and weapon design elements. I hope you enjoy reading it! rexzakel.wordpress.com/2025/04/12/m...

Updated my Monster Hunter Wilds rebalance mod for TU1 Damage of monsters is a lot higher in this update! so I decided to tone down the damage buffs a bit and remove them entirely from 8 star onward monsters www.nexusmods.com/monsterhunte... I am also working on an article about the game for my blog

This is bar none the worst patch blurb I have ever seen in my life. "In S1 this character was perfectly balanced and designed and took skill to use. Unfortunately that meant he took skill to use. To fix this in S2 we gave him a braindead mixup starter and over-emphasized his offense"