The Some Like It HOT TAKES thread

Hobear wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:

Gilbert Gottfried as the voice of a protocol droid tho...

Ask me how many languages I know?! You're gonna be FLOORED by the number of languages I know.

This sand makes me so angry I'm MOLTING!

Hot take: the movie "Groundhog Day" was the first modern rogue-lite.

The main character repeatedly plays through a sandbox simulation, which is unwinnable due to a hard time limit and unavoidable fail states. But then the player realizes that they can use playthroughs as a resource - i.e. they can ignore game objectives and just grind XP for later runs. After reaching level cap in all skills (piano, french, and ice sculpture), they do one final run, achieve max score in a single playthrough, and thus win the game.

I’m starting to think Dark Souls 2 might be the best Dark Souls. (I talk about this in the latest CC.)

Granted, I’m only a few areas in. But I can’t deny the feelings that are there.

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TheHarpoMarxist wrote:

I’m starting to think Dark Souls 2 might be the best Dark Souls. (I talk about this in the latest CC.)

Urg. So much wrong with this opinion that I don't even know where to start...

Joking aside, my over-generalized take is that DS2 tends to be either a person's favorite Dark Souls game, or their least favorite. You love it or you hate it. And for those who like it the most, it was usually their entry point into the series (this is apparently not the case for you, though, so I find that interesting).

I have 99 hours in DS3 and many hundreds in DS1, and I hated 2. Hated it. I tried to give it a fair shake on two or three occasions and can't do it. Tying rolling and Estus drinking to a stat... shaving down my health every time I die... ganking me with ambushes every five seconds... the muddy and low-res graphics that remind me of much older games (I get serious Fallout 3/Morrowind vibes)... those GODDAMN turtle knights...

Sigh.

I haven't listened to the CC this week, so I'll look forward to being further outraged.

The DS2 barrier of spending a solid 15 to 20 hours to really get a character going can be a challenge. It's a brutal beginning a gread mid to late game. The DLC is amazing.

Said this on twitter and saying it now. DS2 is a game I enjoyed far more than DS1 (except perhaps in the inter-connectiveness of its environment which is a bit lacking). And yes it has by FAR the best DLC in the series!
Its also the one that i tend to go back to if I feel like playing a "souls-like"

(Although that said I'm actually doing a NG+ run on Dark Souls 3 now and have realised i've forgotten, like, 90% of the game! Plus i've not played either of the DLCs for it yet)

I don't know that I articulated this on the podcast, but as I've been thinking more about it: its easy to recognize how innovative and special DS1 is - particularly in level design. But I definitely find the early areas of DS2 each individually more compelling and interesting than the early areas of DS1. The interconnectivity isn't there, but the places themselves are so evocative. And that Majula theme absolutely slaps.

TheHarpoMarxist wrote:

And that Majula theme absolutely slaps.

I highly recommend the firelink and Majula theme for chill ambient music. Majula is just perfect for hanging out.

Hot Take: Dark Souls 2 should have been called Demon's Souls 2.

Dark Souls 2 feels like an evolution of Demon's Souls, in the same way that Dark Souls 3 is an evolution of Dark Souls 1.

Huh, hadn't thought of that before.

Hot take: the users here are are much too old and too reasonable to make a good Hot Takes thread.

Malor wrote:

Hot take: the users here are are much too old and too reasonable to make a good Hot Takes thread.

actual hot take:

YALLZ IZ OLD AF AND WOULDNT KNOW A HOT TAKE FROM A THING WHAT YOUNG FOLKS DOES!!

Malor wrote:

Hot take: the users here are are much too old and too reasonable to make a good Hot Takes thread.

Fine, fine, fine, I'll do one.

Intel > AMD

RawkGWJ wrote:
Malor wrote:

Hot take: the users here are are much too old and too reasonable to make a good Hot Takes thread.

actual hot take:

YALLZ IZ OLD AF AND WOULDNT KNOW A HOT TAKE FROM A THING WHAT YOUNG FOLKS DOES!!

Hot take: I may be old as fork, but I know enough to not come in here with that lukewarm bullshirt.

GET OFF MY DAMN LAWN!

UpToIsomorphism wrote:
RawkGWJ wrote:
Malor wrote:

Hot take: the users here are are much too old and too reasonable to make a good Hot Takes thread.

actual hot take:

YALLZ IZ OLD AF AND WOULDNT KNOW A HOT TAKE FROM A THING WHAT YOUNG FOLKS DOES!!

Hot take: I may be old as fork, but I know enough to not come in here with that lukewarm bullshirt.

GET OFF MY DAMN LAWN!

MOTHER-FORKER!

Hot take:

It doesn't matter what beloved classic character they bring back or whether they got the original actor to reprise their role. The next nuTrek will suck just as bad as the last nuTrek, because the creative team doesn't understand character or story structure and the franchise is still under the overall control of the illiterate moron who wrote Transformers and The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Babylon 5 >> All Star Trek

(did I do that right? Also...i do actually feel that way...)

Roo wrote:

Babylon 5 >> All Star Trek

(did I do that right? Also...i do actually feel that way...)

This is an utterly accurate and correct take; WRONG THREAD.

I am presuming we're talking about halfway through season two through the end of season four. Let us not take about the rest.

B5 is rough because that first season is legit BAD, but every episode sets up something that will pay off later so you can't just skip straight to where it gets good like most Star Trek.

But yeah, I'd put seasons 2-4 up against any three consecutive seasons of Trek. Heck, you could cherrypick three seasons' worth of the best non-consecutive episodes of Trek and it would still be close.

"He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else."

“The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.”

"Who am I? I am Susan Ivanova, Commander, daughter of Andrei and Sophie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth ... I am Death incarnate, and the last living thing that you are ever going to see. God sent me."

I've never seen B5, but none of these quotes are rivaling Commander John Crichton's "Cross my heart, smack me dead, stick a lobster on my head."

"I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look into your lifeless eyes and wave like this. *waves* Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?"

Grenn wrote:

"I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look into your lifeless eyes and wave like this. *waves* Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?"

Spoiler:

And then he f*cking does it.

HOT TAKE: No one should be surprised Balan Wonderworld is crap, because most of Yuji Naka's games are.

Just finished re-watching the modern Planet of the Apes trilogy. Am I crazy or is that one of the best series of movies of all time?

That series of 3 movies is incredible in so many ways. They basically made 3 art-house movies about a plague and talking apes with machine guns and somehow it has more emotional resonance and beauty than most modern films.

DSGamer wrote:

Just finished re-watching the modern Planet of the Apes trilogy. Am I crazy or is that one of the best series of movies of all time?

That series of 3 movies is incredible in so many ways. They basically made 3 art-house movies about a plague and talking apes with machine guns and somehow it has more emotional resonance and beauty than most modern films.

I adore those movies.

Higgledy wrote:
DSGamer wrote:

Just finished re-watching the modern Planet of the Apes trilogy. Am I crazy or is that one of the best series of movies of all time?

That series of 3 movies is incredible in so many ways. They basically made 3 art-house movies about a plague and talking apes with machine guns and somehow it has more emotional resonance and beauty than most modern films.

I adore those movies.

And yet you never hear about them anymore. It's super weird. Maybe it spoke too much about ourselves.

Instead we need more...... Avengers! It has so many stars and one liners!

A Kong chooses. A Donkey obeys.