Personally, I don't know that I would have gotten into podcasts if they hadn't shown up on Spotify. I lasted about a year on spotify before I moved to a dedicated podcast app, and I only made the move because there were multiple podcasts that I wanted to listen to that Spotify didn't have. It's a convenience thing, if you're already used to using Spotify for other audio, might as well do your podcasts there too.
Available on multiple platforms
Play position syncs between multiple platforms
Ability to download file locally to your phone
Convenient if you already use Spotify as your main music app
Easy switching between devices in app e.g. Sonos One, PS4 etc.
There's plenty of reasons.
God I can feel Rob (and Austin) straining to want to talk about Fire Emblem without having to watch his spoilers so badly lmao
(I actually ended up recording my own spoilercast with some fellow writers as well if you care to listen! Check it out!)
(I actually ended up recording my own spoilercast with some fellow writers as well if you care to listen! Check it out!)
Does it have playback speed control and does it remove silences? Those are the two most useful Pocket Casts features for me. Listen to a podcast without them and I find it genuinely jarring hahah, I was streaming an episode of Radio War Nerd over Patreon and there were so many silences between sentences while Pocket Casts seamlessly removes them.
Heh, that's quite the stretch considering he's now a gamerdad. I wonder if Patrick will ever complete a game longer than 60 hours until his kid gets to school age?
He's only like 25 hours into a 55+ hour game (minimum) and he's already getting bored of it. Considering how the things he likes about it will eventually run dry well before the game ends... yeah he's gonna bounce off.
Hard mode is still mostly easy pre-timeskip but it's tricky post-timeskip if you opted not to do optional battles like I did because then you're locked out of the mastery classes.
Doing Casual Golden Deers playthrough is a good way to see the game the first time. Doing Hard Black Eagles seems like ideal second playthrough material.... for very specific reasons. With all the knowledge of how to optimize the mechanics I feel it will be a more fun experience. Plus I'll be trying to recruit as many students as possible.
on one hand i understand that letting you jump up to hard from a normal run would probably put you in an advatageous position. on the other hand, who cares, it's a single player game, let ppl do what they need to do. victory lap fire emblem sucks when it's the entire game.
bring back advance wars
bring back advance wars
Is this Church in the Darkness article by Cameron Kunzelman a review or post-script? The article suggests it is a review, with "Review" in the image and a review card nestled within the article. But the very first thing you see when entering it is
You need to make up your mind, Waypoint!
and it's listed under 'columns' not reviews.
You need to make up your mind, Waypoint!
It lets you change playback speed but it doesn't remove silences.
I'm on the who cares side. Started a F1 2019 career on easy because I was really bad in the beginning but just a couple of races in and I'm just flying away to the point that I could just play time trials instead. Happy I could bump it up and I'll probably need to do it again later.
They mentioned the Genesis Mini, and seemed pretty down on it, but seems to be rooted in Cado's childhood game console hangups, lol. Doesn't help that they thought Gunstar Heroes wasn't on there, when it is.
I am curious to hear Austin's thoughts on it, because I still have a preorder for the Mini, but I am not sure if I really have the budget for it anymore.
Looking forward to their Astral Chain review as well.
I am curious to hear Austin's thoughts on it, because I still have a preorder for the Mini, but I am not sure if I really have the budget for it anymore.
Looking forward to their Astral Chain review as well.
Yep.
Something like F1 2019, which let's you set about a dozen individual difficulty settings on a session-by-session basis, really shows up a lot of other games when it comes to letting the player have the experience they want.
I like to make Practice and Qualifying balls-hard with few Assists and no Rewinds to force myself to actually try to learn the track, then dial things back a little for the Race and allow Rewinds so I can have some fun racing the very entertaining AI.
A game locking you into a difficulty setting before you have even played it is bad. Just straight up bad.
Love Fire Emblem, but yeah, the time on battles and the overall difficulty wear you down.
Picked up Remnant based on Cado, Austin, and Brad's enthusiasm, and while some of the fights have felt a little cheap, I'm overall having a great time. The gun-feel really is excellent.
Picked up Remnant based on Cado, Austin, and Brad's enthusiasm, and while some of the fights have felt a little cheap, I'm overall having a great time. The gun-feel really is excellent.
It's rough to hear Rob say that. I'm playing on hard/ classic and having a blast. They seem to be otherwise enjoying it so it's sad to see their enthusiasm dampened by being stuck on baby mode.
Still working my through the podcast but I'm also struggling to keep up with FE due to the difficulty. It wasn't much of a bother in the first half of the game since I was really invested in the Monastery portion, sadly the game drops the ball with that in the second half so I have nothing to latch onto in order to stay interested.
Really? People really do get upset at any critisism. The take isn't even particularily hot, i've seen many players say the same thing. Fans and newcomers.
I think the title of the thread was "Reviewer complains game is too easy, plays on the easiest difficulty" which is just, ugh. Complaints about reviewers rushing through games, stuff like that.
I actually thought difficulty was way better during the second half. I had recruited plenty of students from other houses during the first half and wanted them all to be on a similar level so I often switched them out and I was consistently like 4 levels below the recommended level on each mission. I didn't grind much either, just did paralogues and quests other than the main missions. I found the latter half missions and specially the paralogues way more interesting than the first half.
Yeah, I finally got into the podcast since the whole KH thing they did.
It is a good listen after I dropped a bunch of other podcasts.
It is a good listen after I dropped a bunch of other podcasts.
OP
OP
I'm not sure how exactly but the thread got super active like...four weeks ago haha
After reading some of the previous pages, boy does Eva makes people get worked up.
I seriously doubt the people who come to this thread would be affected by no.3 lol.
Also my impression has been that Eva fans hated the eva discussion lol.
Also my impression has been that Eva fans hated the eva discussion lol.
Austin, officially announce a three houses spoilercast
then Patrick and Rob will be forced to finish it
you have the power
then Patrick and Rob will be forced to finish it
you have the power
I have a request, please read all of my posts in his voice
I can't, I'm only on chapter 6! This fight seems ludicrous so I haven't touched the game in a couple days.
Great now I am.
OK, I'll give it a listen today.
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