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05-24-2013, 05:27 PM
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I'm listening to Joe play Persona 3. It's an interesting experience.

See, Joe likes RPGs, but he has a thing where he does everything in his power to prevent himself from losing a fight, so he'll grossly overlevel his party for every bossfight until it's laughably easy.

However, in Persona the combat system is full of spells and abilities that can charm or instant-kill your party with a 25% accuracy, so there's a 1/4 chance during the tougher bossfights that your overleveled characters might get fucked over. See, when that happens to me I think it's cool, so I will re-spec my party to block the light or dark instant-death spells or whatever, however:

Joe really really really hates luck-based mechanics. He views them all as being bad game design and artificial difficulty. So when a floor boss charmed his entire party with a Sexy Dance skill:

:
[24/05/2013 3:12:23 PM] Joe: It was still a terrible luck based boss
[24/05/2013 3:12:41 PM] Hime Hime: you're so grumpy when things don't go your way
[24/05/2013 3:13:01 PM] Joe: No, there should be a rule against all your party succumbing to one status effect at once
[24/05/2013 3:13:04 PM] Joe: If Pokemon has it...
[24/05/2013 3:13:07 PM] Hime Hime: why?
[24/05/2013 3:13:11 PM] Joe: UM
[24/05/2013 3:13:16 PM] Joe: BECAUSE IT RUINS THE GAME
[24/05/2013 3:13:21 PM] Joe: Boss casts instant die
[24/05/2013 3:13:23 PM] Joe: Everyone dies
[24/05/2013 3:13:24 PM] Joe: Wow
[24/05/2013 3:13:25 PM] Joe: How fun
[24/05/2013 3:13:37 PM] Joe: I really enjoy playing a game where I survive purely due to luck
[24/05/2013 3:13:54 PM] Joe: You can't defend this
He can get a bit twitchy.

But it's fun.
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Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
If we were girls, we could get popular by doing anything:
rock band, jazz band,
karate, kendo, mahjong, cyborg, synchronized swimming...
On the other hand, high school boys are
useless outside battle and sports anime.
But they're recklessly trying to make a slice-of-life anime about us.
Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.