F#%k Your SSRs, Gimme The Nikke Grunts | Castle Super Beast 265 Clip
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Woolie: "I bet they have short hair under their helmets."
They God damn better!
Some do. But others you can see their hair.
I mean, Ocean does.
@@RavenCloak13Elegg too.
something tells me he would like Delta. Short hair plus military gear
Pat when he did the free Nikke tutorial rolls yesterday
"Its amazing how bad Woolies taste is"
Did he actually say that? True regardless, but not surprising after hearing Woolie act like the original spiderman India’s design was better
@@gameb9oy I mean the grunt designs in this game do go hard but that spiderman india thing is wild lol
Was pat saying that him saying the grunts looked bad? Cuz if so thats wild. Like yea the ssr's are gonma be insane but the grunts looked dope af.
@@George04957 rewatching the part, he said that mid roll after he got, Mica, Delta, ,Belorta and (Pinne)
So it as a comparing SR to R, which yeah even those girls got "more" going for them than the MPs
What Woolie doesn't realize is that the Nikke community _also_ loves the mass-produced Nikke. Every time a mass-produced Nikke appears in a side story we all collectively get worried that something INCREDIBLY fucked is about to happen to this precious cinnamon roll, and it happened FIVE TIMES. There are Commanders out there who are _dedicated_ to their Mass Produced squads and will clear high level content using the most kitted out Mass Produced Nikke you've ever seen.
Which is to say, this isn't really a controversial opinion. It isn't even a lukewarm take. _Everyone_ loves mass produced NIkke.
Pinne's truely the mvp of grunt Nikkes.
It's great that they're getting worked into major plot characters
@@Joseph_Sirithe 7th goddess
There is also era_sub. That guy draws almost exclusively Mass Produce Nikkes and it rules
a true shikikum
Pat playing Limbus might be heartbreaking. It’s an incredible game with a great story, and the combat isn’t nearly as unintuitive as sending someone a 20 minute tutorial video off the bat makes it seem. It’s complex, but it pretends to be simpler at the beginning, and then goes “surprise! I’m a fully-fledged single player rpg, with all the combat complexities that entails!”
it was a bit disappointing, yeah. he kinda bounced off of it before a single real fight
i've also never heard someone yap OVER the characters instead of just listening, lmao
We need to have a LONG conversation about recommending any game to Pat. Fans of Limbus should know that its audience is niche while also knowing that Pat is one of the least fair, patient people you could've recommended the game to. He was an old man in his 20s and even more so pushing 40.
On one hand, Pat is coming off of the AAAA and AAA gacha games, but on the other hand, he was completely correct in his assessment, you cant expect a player to just remember the color affinities for each sin after you show them the screen once, it should be available at all times, ESPECIALLY in the tutorial. It's also strange how the tutorial treats Resonance and Absolute Resonance as this big deal when it actually means "the second skill is 3% stronger" and "the 3 skills are 9% stronger(and gain +1 Clash Power) respectively. He was waiting for the "special super strong attack" to happen and nothing happened, while I could see he gathered enough Sin to use EGO.
The game has come very far in terms of QoL but the tutorial still has a lot to be desired. The game has a balancing act of either frontloading the player with 10 different mechanics or going VERY slow, and introducing a different mechanic per turn, and it chose to do the latter, while still not fully explaining all the details in the screen.
@@maddlad_l5257 As a limbus fan I'm wondering who the hell even wanted to recommend him it. And why they thought shoving 20-60 minutes of supplementary material saying "oh this is what you need to know to play it" was a smart idea. I don't even watch his streams and know he HATES being given homework or told what to do to "properly enjoy" a game that can be enjoyed by just playing the damn game. This isn't even a kenshi scenerio. Twitch viewers can be so stupid istg.
Yeah the tutorial is notoriously bad and it does not help. For reference, I beat Canto VI and have only been able to stay afloat because I have friends and the discord server is helpful.
Woolie: "I'm not like other girls"
Oh, you mean weird.
@justinl8791 What? No, he's saying that Woolie is like every other players, but just believes he isn't. Most people love the grunts.
Someone needs to show Woolie the Nikke who just has a sword and nothing else, so she's constantly "shooting" Judgement Cuts.
Scarlet is genuinely cool. And there's 2 versions of her.
Scarlet? Woolie is Scarletless.
And you heard him, the tits and ass repels him. He just acts like a child at it and points and giggles and ignores it to hang out with the faceless mooks.
@@Machiroablemakes sense considering scarlet takes a while to show up in story and Pilgrim Nikke have an extremely low drop rate and you can't wish list them.
@@Darthwin1 I got really lucky then lmao
Been playing Nikke since launch and listening to these chucklefucks since the 2BFP Machinima days. Been waiting for Woolz to mention it for a year and a half.
My day is IMPROVED and my HAPPINESS is immeasurable.
Grandma Liter getting mad in the corner of that thumbnail 😂
Yes, kind of the most absurd Nikke to use in the thumbnail given her personality and being an OP Nikke.
she never leaves my team unless I have to
In fairness, Nikke-phobia makes a lot more sense when you consider that every single one of them is a weird undead zombie robot girl who literally died and their brain was preserved. To go an extra step, any Nikke not mass-produced looks like either their former, living human self, or a fictional, idealized version of herself just to add to the ‘uncanny valley’ that people must be experiencing when looking at them.
Let em know!
Or that we live in a world where racism exist and no, most people WOULDN'T think a girl with animal ears is actually cute but is a Hellspawn that needs to be purged.
Elves alone would be seen as monster that need be flayed and experimented on.
The idea that humans wouldn't be opposed to something we see in fiction all the time and think we know what it feel like if we saw it IRL is such a bias and misplaced take.
Not to mention the NIKKE actually were treated well in the beginning but then a mass campaign of making the populace NOT treat them like literal Goddess began because you can't have the soldiers be treated better then the heads of state.
People really want to pretend racism doesn't exist when we talk about this stuff. Like animal girl ears, elves and so on.
No, no your bias. Humans WILL hate the different. However small. Especially if its visual thing cause our brains are still hardwired to see different as something to be wary of.
This will never not be the a thing.
People pretend racism doesn't exist when they talk about this stuff.
Nevermind the actual reason was the government leaders didn't like the soldiers were being treated like actual Goddesses by the populace and can't have soldiers be treated well.
@@Lemp1ra
People pretend racism doesn't exist or propaganda existed when they talk about animal ear girls, fantasy races and this.
Nevermind that in-universe the government leaders were mad the human populace was treating the soldiers as literal Goddesses. Can't have soldiers be treated better then the heads of state. So they sabatoged their own soliders.
Woolie in his attempt to be as much as a hipster as possible has one of the coldest takes on NIKKE, everybody loves the grunts.
Yeah but let's be honest. Nobody likes them MORE than the SSRs
@@MidgarMerc
They want them to BE like them though.
@@MidgarMerc i would if they gave em stories
Shout outs to all the gacha players who plow through the game with their grunt teams and free characters. They’re the REAL gamers
I see Woolie likes his mecha musume.
The nikke generics are really nice design wise, woolie's right. Wish they had their own game or some SSRs with that design metric.
Like how the best armor sets in Dragons Dogma are the mid tier shit. Things get too Gawdy afterwords
Gacha Games' relationship with "Well Designed High Rarity Characters" is over, now "Well Designed Lower Rarity Characters" is their new best friend
The CEO Mustang is the goat. Head of the company with the most Nikkes.
also, his fakey french is fucking hilarious
Fuck it's a shame you guys probably didn't get to try the original China exclusive version of DMC Peak of Combat. Not many of us outside China did and as someone who put a couple hundred hours into it, both in the first closed beta and the later open one that game was console quality and among other things it took 4 SE Lady, used her as a basis and massively expanded her moveset into one of the most fun playstyles in the genre imo. The mobile game version of Lady objectively made her console counterpart look like a half baked prototype. The version we got over here is beyond dissapointing as someone who spent 2 fucking years hyping people up about how good that game was.
Oh that's disgusting. I wish they would just put that version of her in a real game then, but they wont even send the real fake mobile thing?
Peak of Combat is legitimately one of the most disappointing games I’ve seen in years if you followed it throughout its development. Literally everything about it aside from I guess the graphics are worse now in every conceivable way.
Forget DMC2, it’s the new worst game in the series. They had a legitimately great game and turned it into a scam gacha piece of shit.
Nikke actually does have a limited time event archive like Pat is describing. Only the crossover events are excluded from it. You also generally have to wait a few months for an event to be added.
Also, I don't know if other gachas do this, but Nikke has a wishlist function that actually allows you to up the probability of pulling specific SSRs, if only slightly.
the wishlist function actually makes it so that any SSRs you roll on that specific banner are guaranteed to be one of those Nikke OR a Pilgrim (Pilgrims are the strongest Nikke in the game, or at least are supposed to be)
@@Iffem That's probably a better way of wording it. I was trying to convey that it doesn't increase your chances of getting an SSR.
while patt's brain might be too smooth to have understood limbus's 4 utterly incomprehensible tutorial at least he has enough taste to love the mass produced nikkes. Pinne and Lumi is gonna break his heart.
Ofc Toadman Woolie would like the mass produced Nikkes. We've long known he's like the grunts
Grunts or Boss characters. Woolie deals exclusively in extremes
0:30 - 0:34 Ngl, that had me scouring around my computer to see what i accidentally disconnected
Delta is the best in her military gear.
But I certainly wouldn't turn away a bunny outfit.
I personally felt like I got sniped when Pat said "Doctor"
arknights players that watch csb all ripping off their shirts and turning into werewolves because pat triggered their arknights mentioned microchip
@CaptinSpyke That's me and I'm out a perfectly fine shirt now.
The thing about Limbus Company that has so many people on it is:
It's writing (which is directly tied to ProjectMoon's 2 other games, Lobotomy Corporation and Library of Ruina)
It's cast (ranging from "normal people with issues" to "insane/violet people with ISSUES")
and it's OST (many of the tracks from ProjectMoon's games are amazing, most notably the tracks made by "Mili." Look them up if any of you have the time).
The gameplay is a different beast because... I still don't know how to play this. I haven't watch its fan-made tutorial and I don't blame people who drop it bc if its in-game tutorial being a mess.
Pretty good gacha system though. You already have all the characters right off the bat, you're just rolling for alternate version of the same cast. They're all useful in situation but not 100% necessary through a good chunk of the game.
People were insane for reccing it to Pat, he had a hard time grappling with Star Rail and Limbus is weird even for people who played Ruina.
But yeah, very much a shame he didn't like it. I hope he will eventually try Ruina eventually though
@@BNik92 I didn't even bother watching Pat attempt it. I've watched him since the RE2 LP in the old channel and know full well that he'd hop the F off Limbus almost immediately. Only the more naïve would've recommended PAT to play it.
I really hope one f them will try library of ruina since its a full rpg compare to limbus but I'm probably coping
Ignore the colour combo tutorial, focus on using T2 skills, that's how ya play.
Ignore the colour combo tutorial, identify and use T2 skills, that's how ya play Limbus.
For anyone who doesn't care for Nikke or gacha gamed in general, I will still shout out the Soundtrack by Cosmograph on UA-cam. It has NO business being as good as it is.
I would recommend Bulletstorm or other great tracks. I often listen to soundtracks of games I never played because good music is good music.
fr tho, I'd put Nikke's OST up there with Tekken's.
Yes it does.
That's very easy to market.
It's the most normal thing for the highest rated gacha games to have.
I literally saw a Dragon Ball Fighterz AMV with one of the NIKKE songs and it fit so fucking well.
Moving Fortress (the Train's boss theme) is a banger and a half
choo choo, motherfucker
@@Schlachthaus999 funny because Ajurika (the composer behind Heat Haze Shadow and others in T7) also composed music for Nikke and it goes just as hard
Reminder, barely 3 some chapters into NIKKE's story, you can find a lore bit on the map thats a propaganda poster that asked females in the range of 6-25 age to voulenter (and then drafted) into being turned usually into a mass produced NIKKE that talks about the ACTUAL problem that even Ghost In The Shell doesn't address of dissociation when your in a different robot body when we already have people take psychological treatment for facial reconstruction or limb loss. Also regular memory wipes along with personality rewrites.
One of the first side story contents you get at the Base is a story about an elevator... That ends up being one of the more emotional points of the story as it brings up philisophical questions of the soul, sacrifice, religion, the paradoxical nature of humans and having the chipper and bitter girl of the group says "No, i'm just thankful there is a place for us to go after we die".
This then gets more tragic for Woolie because it involves the mass produced NIKKE and a future story event that makes it sadder.
What the fuck man Asia? Why you make me feel things?
My man knows what he wants and i agree
5:30 if woolie doesn't make a joke in this Nikkephobia segment about "those damn nikkers" then idk what's happened to this channel
"Commander Woolie get out of here I'll hold them off."
No.
"But I'm disposable just go."
NOT TO ME!
Nikke's story is so much better than you'd expect. You see the characters and think "oh, its that type of game". But theres genuine quality throughout.
No, it's as soon as I see this I was expecting this story because that has been the standard for 10+ years now.
@@RavenCloak13 I mean, even the stories in gacha games that are darker than Nikke, tend to bat so much for that side that it gets exasperating (Girls Frontline and Arknights have “better stories” but they can get annoying in how edgy they go). I feel that Nikke is more balanced than most of this kind of Post Apocalyptic waiifu gachas.
One thing i learn from gatcha games is the art direction and music is holding them up like atlas and the world
Even the good ones that’s true for, though will put “amazing character and story writing” is also nice when it’s there. I swear, hoyoverse’s writing is amazing at times
Sort of a double edged sword too because the more I see the artstyle that I like the more I just subconsciously associate it with gambling even when it's a completely different kind of game...
@@gameb9oyFor Starrail. Genshin's story is dogshit 90% of the time.
patt got filtered SO DANG HARD by limbus
it was hilarious and painful to watch
Did he like PGR at least? That's literally the only gacha that I would be fine with recommending to other people.
The fact that I didn't hear any mention of DISSIDIA Final Fantasy Opera Omnia just crushes my soul; if you wanted a Freemium game that went EOS due to having too much Game and not enough Gacha, that was the one. 3D modeled, voiced, unique animations with trademark moves, huge list of characters and something I don't recall seeing many other gachas do: CHARACTER REWORKS. Not re-releases of characters with an EX or NV at the end, but a full-on character revisit, turning trash characters into powerhouses or even just becoming viable. By the end, it was honestly rarer to have a non-viable character than a character you could feasibly clear even the highest tiers of difficulty with (SHINRYU). In a cast of 175 (179 in JP). That's NUTS to me.
Yuna went from an honestly-forgettable support character to a damage-support hybrid monster. Yda went from a meme from how bad she was to a meme about how she inevitably wins any fight she goes into as long as she can BREAK the target. Tidus was saved from the junk bin by HIS rework that propelled him into a monster damage unit for his era.
While it was nice to have my favorite characters become viable with updates, some of the changes did feel weird to see in combat. Particularly seeing a character whose attack hits a single target, and for some unseen reason all the other enemies also take half the total HP damage or some such. That has got to have been the most severe case of "sympathy pains" I have ever seen in anything! 😆
...Still sad the game was shut down before I could have my dream team of Yunalesca (FFX), Yuel (FFXIII-2), and Mikoto (FFIX) become a reality.🥲
and you could tell it was higherups at square that shut it down, and the team wanted to keep going... especially with the loadscreens during the wind-down that poked fun at stuff like Rikku from FFX never being added
5:30 they really put the "everyone is so mean 2 me" meme in the game
Facts to the tittle Soldier EG looks the coolest.
woolie didnt gotta do gramgram dirty like that 😔
21:52 I was hearing the audio version of the podcast and I just had to come to video to see what happened lol
Woolie's hipsterism taking over again lol
Makes it a little funnier knowing apparently he’s not as unique as he thinks he is. A lot of the fanbase likes the generics apparently
I always try to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that he's just exaggerating his hipster/normie mindset for content and audience engagement
@@otonoko1001 same here as well
@@otonoko1001
He isn't. He really thinks people don't like this because he hears the word gacha.
I started like a week ago. Got sword lady within like a couple hours. Apparently they're one of the best in the game, at least that's what my super pissed friend told me in rage. Good game, 10/10.
yeah, that's Scarlet, and she is
and she's from a group that's purposely made rarer than everyone else BECAUSE they're strong
52:30- Woolie, the answer from my understanding right now is Limbus Company. That game is so easy to hop into without dropping cash it's weird that it even makes money.
You ever see generic soldier armor in game and want that over the whole anime protag armor over one shoulder skull helmet look?
Yeah. I agree with Woolie
No, because I want effective armor. Not something that dies to a stiff breeze.
If the generics are his favorites then he'll probably like Missile's Nikkes, which are more technology based, specially the Matis squad, Syuen's personal hero team, but he'll probably hate Syuen herself, like most people do, he may also like Elysium's Nikkes, which are more military based, Tetra's Nikkes would be his least favorite, since those are the more aesthetic based ones, everyone likes the Pilgrims tho, specially the Vergil's drunk daughter, and I wouldn't be surprised if Nihilister ended up being one of his favorites. XD
Like that he put liter in the thumbnail because not only is she SSR but shes also a Meta Nikke aswell. ignoring her because she doesnt fit his style is such a woolie move.
Even though she actually does but her helmet isn't covering her eyes, she has a bigger personality then his stunted and mind wiped personality reinstalled faceless drone ones.
For what it's worth I've played several gacha over the years and never had a "you got me" moment.
As an avid Nikke player if you're not hooked by fomo you can thrive as a free 2 play player. The drop rate is really solid so PvE is possible for all players.
True. Not a total f2p player (I get the monthly $5 sub from time to time), but after like 5 months, I have every Nikke I wanted.
Woolie with the trash fire takes (though he is right, Nikke is good). Also this game might have one of the most generous gacha systems I've seen. If you do the super quick events and dailies you can easily f2p get pretty much every character. I've never spent a dime on it and I have 90% of the SSRs. You can even get them from the Friend Points or the purple/gold gems you get for doing various activities. Pretty much the only thing you actually HAVE to spend money on (if you want) is character skins
Funny thing is, the side events have started focusing on the mass produced Nikkes (specifically individuals among their number).
They’ve gone from playing a significant role in one of the main character’s mental breakdowns to being the core part of the Nier collab.
Can’t wait to see more.
Glad Woolie has seen the light of truth of the world, of Nikke Goddess of Victory
21:56 welp, time to photoshop 🐓s into pats mouth
Has a day 1 player, we in the Nikke community love our Mass Produced Goddesses and hope something horrifying doesnt happen to them. Protect them at all costs.
Getting to the end of one of the events and seeing a Mass Production Type take their helmet off had everyone losing their fucking minds
21:49 Oh No
lol
Ah yes, a similar situation to Blue Archive having a whole set of "mob" characters be Sukeban and with such a loving fanbase of just them. There's a whole market for C level and even "generic/plain" girl waifus that it's just as much a measure of a game to let you buff all the no-star girls to have has much stats as any other meta pick
@@CLoN_GLoKo
The anime came out. We might.
WE MIGHT.
Limbus Company goes so hard, like every episode is better than the last.
But I 100% knew Pat could never xD
Any gacha without pvp, co-op or big, unique rewards for doing challenging content (that wants $$$ spent to do realistically without a bunch of RNG) will feel less scummy and usually have a happier player base.
To me that's basically mihoyo's secret. Toxic players are filtered by there being no pvp/in-game rewards for completing content at the highest levels. Anybody who is mentally well is only doing anything in their games, including spending money, because they find it to be fun. For the mentally unwell, gacha is always to be avoided entirely with no exceptions.
Limbus company and nikke are pretty cool
Limbus is easy. Win rate+ and that`s it.
The issue with Arknights is that tower defense as a genre needs a certain amount of zoom out to work well. The characters being 2D and chibi is necessary when you have certain stages with like 50 enemies on screen at once, 3D would be a nightmare to see everything with any semblance of visual clarity on a phone so they'd have to lower the numbers to compensate, like some of the 3D arknights ripoffs did.
And a lot of stages are really zoomed in, too. Half the time a stage is really small is a full 'oh no' because it means there's going to be all of 9 dudes showing up and they are going to Fuck You
It's probably fortunate for me that Nikke made a story decision around chapter 11(?) that I hated to the point of quitting the game. I would be a poorer man today if it hadn't.
Nikke hype. Full playthrough of Nikke soon!
based Nikke chad
Nikke is the move, scrublords
Just you wait until Woolie does the Overzone event...
Yep I really hope Woolie and Pat if they stick with it get to that event it’s so damn good and Red Ash too of course.
They definitely won't play enough to even find the archives. But yeah, they would like it
Ironically nikke basically announced the "nikke made for woolie" that will be given out in the half anniversary next week for free in the form of Kilo, a nikke in a mech.
I wonder if Woolie knows about the HUD opacity setting so you can appreciate big anime robot ass jiggle effects. With all that jiggle it almost could be considered as ripple effects.
I've been playing this game called Isekai: Slow Life. It's a City-builder Management simulation game. It's...alright, it has good unit portraits, and this game basically ONLY character portraits. It did have a Moonlit Fantasy crossover, but the odds to get the characters...were not good. It also has fishing
ive got through nikke buying only a couple battle passes getting most of the limmited time events. my one regret with nikke was not droping cash to get Power during the chainsaw man event.
My one regret is not playing Nikke until after the NieR collab was over.
@@darksuntoggafhd9947Rip man the Nier event had a lotta love put into it too even fully recreated the hacking mini game into it and the music was sooo good too as usual.
@@darksuntoggafhd9947 yeah I was ready for that one so I had plenty of pulls saved up. managed to get everyone. I had came in on the chainsaw man on so I was racing the clock and i didnt know about the golden tickets at the time . normally I quite good at getting every pull i want for free when it comes to gotchas if I've got the time.
I thought everyone was saying niqué (nikke) as a joke like race wars. But no.
Woolie talking about Nikke of all things was not on my bingo card for 2024.
If he sticks with it he might get to see the new super mecha nikke that got leaked
Punishing Gray Raven sounds like the title to an Inti Creates game. Like, I can hear Maxwell Powers say it in his usual goofy trailer delivery voice, the same one he uses for AZUUURRRE STRIKER GUNVOLT.
I'm certain that if Woolie likes the massproduced Nikkes, he will like Snow White. Design-wise she's basically that but as a "real" character. We love the hungry walking war machine
One of the fairest gacha games I've played is Action Taimanin
You can get the premium currency super easily for free, and the only gacha in the game is for support characters and weapons. The supports give you special abilities and effects, and the weapons are self-explanatory.
There is a stamina system, but you get items that fill the stamina back up super easily.
Woolie would probably like pgr if he gave it a shot
If Pat wants VN murder mystery that isn't as over the top as DR he should maybe try 999.
Woolie putting up the lolibaba ssr like his ass didn't check out Volume--
Actually, you know what? Volume might actually come off aa a poser lol
Pat pogged too hard!
Nikke works because the people who make it are gay for women. Idk how else to describe it. They also love their camp.
punishing gray raven sounds like KoF desperation move
It's a cool game.
In regards to a good Gatcha, I enjoy Monster Super League. The energy "exists" but it's basically a joke. I quite literally have over 40k energy over the max of like 10. But every single "monster" can be ranked up (their star value) and evolved (using duplicates to turn them into a stronger form/appearance). Since the game primarily relies on the Gems that you install to buff stats of your choice and passive abilities the monsters have, any and/or everything can be used late game. The game is also extremely generous with the currency that you CAN pay for due to the many free ways to get them. Practically just using functions of the game like evolving gets you free stuff. It's a fun time.
Woolie has good taste. Booty is amazing, yes, but those grunts look like Power Rangers. Like, hello?!?
Since it was brought up, FGO's gameplay is pretty standard turn-based jrpg fare with cards to semi-randomize your available attacks. It's passable, but nobody really plays FGO for the gameplay, most are there for the worldbuilding and character interactions.
You go to Limbus company for it's cool story and writing, it's gameplay is kinda secondary and REALLY benefits from you having played Library of Ruina first. It is, after all, the third game in a series...
Not exactly a game I'd recommend to Pat in the slightest without an asterisk.
I feel like I've had this same experience in a number of other gacha games where my favorite units were typically the lowest tier. Goddess of the void with huge story implications? Nah fuck that, I want the character who's just a rookie trying his best and it's clearly not good enough.
I started playing like a week ago. crazy timing
Honestly the gameplay in Fate Go is pretty good.
It's a simple turn based game with 3 types of cards, attack, magic, crit.
And that's it.
But getting a full hand of one type gives bonuses.
And every character has 3 unique spells on cooldown and a super attack charged by using magic cards.
The VN part is great for Fate fans, but generally very basic until REALLY late into the game.
If FGO had 13 Sentinels quality VN that would be AMAZING
Elegg or bust
Another Eden is seriously a great game, literally from some of the same people who made Chrono Trigger and some of Xenogears
I don't play Star Rail, & have no intention of it. However, I will say I respect systems & efforts to negate FOMO. I remain a free to play player, & only put my time & focus into one gacha at a time. My phone doesn't need more of my attention than it already gets. Right now, I'm fiddling around in Ever Crisis.
I was so disappointed you couldn't actually use them no matter what you try, since they are so weak.
Bit late here, but still holds merit to mention it. I'm surprised that no one in comments have spoke of Last Origin even once. It's all the things that beastlords have talked about in the segment: it is unabashedly lewd, front and center(half of the art is made by hentai artists), it's not a gatcha game despite it looking like one(it just selling skins for set amounts of money/ingame currency), and it's a pretty good game. I would assume someone would speak about it but I guess it's not that known/popular.
Nikke's story and character writing is way better then it has any right to be.
Nothing in this episode about Ross Scott's campaign to stop publishers from killing video games? Not relevant enough?
ARKNIGHTS MENTIONED
If Woolie pays any attention to the actual story, he would probably love the mass produced nikkes even more.
Arknights is a great mobile game because it's not TRYING to be a Ps5 game. Meaning all kinds of phones can run it and the controls actually work properly on a touch screen. These games that people just play on their PC monitors with controllers are probably fun... but I need a game I can play in the break room at work without killing my phone's battery. That's what a MOBILE game is. When I'm at home on the PC, I can do BETTER than a free to play title with gacha monetization. This really is simple...
I'm surprised that Woolie didn't get into KOF All Stars of Street Fighter Duel instead.
I'm still waiting to see if pat immediately gets put off by blue archive but that one's nice about the gachashit and they have "immortalized" events for ones that have rerun for so long that you can just do it and get the units without having to wait for em now. also the actual field combat is a bit zoomed out but you can see plenty of character interactions, voicelines, all that jazz and the artstyle is consistent through the whole game. Also you can do the story without having any characters since it gives units scaled to the chapters and you don't have to do missions to unlock em any more. you'll only be grinding or going for meta shit for the high end bosses if you care about em.
On the topic of "fairness" i generally view games with fewer types of draw currency.
Like you can have free draw tickets that don't give you anything good, but if i see "Paid Tokens Only" that's 2 out of 3 strikes for me to uninstall
some recommendations for Woolie of gacha games that are "more game" than gacha, I feel Guardian Tales is perfect for this. You can play so many hours without even touching the gacha. And its hella fun, while having 2D Zelda gameplay.
Having seen Pat's stream of him just absolutely dying through all of it minus Nikke, it went about as expected. Very very few Mobage do onboarding for passing real gamers, just a lot of Mechanic dumps to prep the passing Gacha addict, so him sitting through a good 2 hours of badly translated Limbus company with chat absolutely blasting it sure was like watching a public flogging.
Also side-shivers, Another Eden used to be the absolute ideal "fair" gacha game since every event is non-limited, including the Collab events, making it one of the very few survivors of Persona 5 collab deaths, and it even had collabs with Chrono Cross and the Tales series cuz of past dev experience. And those are free units that they just hand you that let you coast through like at least half of the completely free 80+ hr JRPG.
It also is worth noting nearly all the big SSRs can be obtained more often as a 4* varient so F2P can grind hard to upgrade to their 5* version, so it's gacha rates for characters almost balance out the now super bloated cast, but it's ALSO made back up with them constantly re-updating older characters so if you got 1 good unit like 5 years ago (like me) you can still just grind her new upgrade and you're back up to speed without any new gachaing.
It's sadly only recently they've started putting in battle pass, subscription, Ad bonus gems and now a "Banner Bonus Power-Up" when it used to be arguably the best bang for no bucks until Genshin since again, it had like a full 80+ hrs of JRPG content before you hit anything remotely a major Gacha road-block, but again, that's also after 7 years of surviving and thriving so I'd say it's had a pretty good lasting power if you like a PG-rated Chrono Trigger type deal. Which hey, if the worst the monetization gets is an honorary subscription battle pass I can't tell if that's less or more a success or a damnation of the genre to pay it's own bills
6:07 people who hate stellar blade
accurate especially when maxim korea called them out