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Tedd Video Game Opinions - 030 - HD
🕑 Added 2021-07-13 04:10:39 +0000 UTCToo strong.
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♫ ONE SPELLLLLLLLLL...! ♫
In retrospect, a storyline that so heavily comments on open world RPGs and ability balance would be incomplete without at least One-Punch Man reference (second panel references a very early moment in the series).
One-Punch Man is about a man who, dissatisfied with his life, trains to become a hero. He becomes too powerful, however, and is easily able to defeat any enemy with just one punch.
It is an exploration of mental health, depression, and the struggle to find satisfaction in one's work when it has become easy and routine.
Oh, and I guess it's also an extremely violent action comedy with a fair amount of content I don't care for while still managing to be a very impactful and beloved series to me personally.
As to why I say this series would be incomplete without referencing it, I'm far from the first to compare being overpowered in a videogame to feeling like One-Punch Man. It can be great in small doses, but if I get too powerful with a character in an RPG, I'm just done with that character, if not that entire game, pretty quickly.
Comments
ijuinkun
Tedd and several of the other main cast have been confirmed to be heading to a college in Moperville--likely the same college that Diane's sister and sister's roommates attend. None of the current high school Seniors in the A or B cast have been confirmed to be headed to any school that would require them to move away from Moperville.
Harmony Petersen
Wait, I thought Skyrim was a first-person empire-building simulator?
Harmony Petersen
Unless, of course, there is an accessible college in Moperville (or a branch of a college built in Moperville specifically for a new in-training professor of the arcane arts.)
Harmony Petersen
Three comments: 1. A good way to give that five minutes without the sixth is some kind of limited overpowered. Like "Oh, hey, you can only do this because it's not your power, everybody on the planet is sending you energy for this one special moment because everyone's watching you" spirit bomb kind of thing. 2. And just overpowered beating your opponents isn't nearly as satisfying as non-violent options through careful planning. When everything goes right with a few close calls is such a rush compared to "Hulk Smash"ing your way through the opposition. 3. Is this why we haven't seen Grace's Shade Tail form in awhile?
Dan Shive
Based on some feedback I've gotten and some games that exist, it just might be ;)
Jade English
So, Tedd is on a crusade to explain...basic game balance, and seems to think that this is strange.
Seth Swanson
Fair, perhaps. But it gives me that feeling of being OP and its fun because I had / have to work for it.
James C
That's not exactly a case of "overpowered" though — you can't just wade through and tank all the damage. All you've really done is build a spec that turns Skyrim into a stealth/strategy/puzzle game instead of a hack&slash
Seth Swanson
I feel like being overpowered because you built your character in a specific creative way is fine provided you aren't ALWAYS overpowered and there's challenges for you. For example, I finally got around to playing Skyrim (I know, I know. Look, it came out on Switch and that's what I play all my games on). I've got a stealth archer who can one shot a boss before they've been alerted to my presence and it makes me giggle every time. However ... once I get noticed things can go downhill for me very fast so I have to be careful. When fights are sprung on me, it gets rough and challenging, but when I can plan, potion up and sneak in the baddies usually don't even know I'm there before they're dead. And that is a LOT of fun.
Foradain
I'm hoping that, if you continue the main story a couple of years story-time, we'll likely see exactly that. Well, one Catalina and one Rhoda. (Sooner if they become roommates at college, but that might remove them from the weirdness magnet that is Moperville)
Dan Shive
I would have gotten soooooo many "is that Tedd" comments if I did. Anytime I significantly mess with hair, it causes that sort of confusion. Removing it all together would be Catalinas and Rhodas living together.
Stephen Gilberg
As it happens, I just started watching that show. It's pretty funny, but the grossness is turning me off.
Kenneth A Graves
I can't believe you passed up the chance to show us bald Tedd.
