Things that are currently annoying you

my boss is cracking down about the dress code so now i have to buy black jeans.

 

Got told literally yesterday that I need to book my own tickets for a flight to and from San Diego, so that I can take part in the household vacation that has been planned and booked since literally February of last year. Shenanigans are currently ensuing so that I can get a flight there and back at sane hours, because the only tickets that don't require mortgaging my firstborn in order to get out of San Diego on the 25th are all at times which would require probably needing to teleport from a cruise ship to an airport.

I mean, having to book my own tickets wouldn't be bad, but you need advanced warning for this sort of thing!

 

It really is astonishing how the remake of my favorite game keeps managing to disappoint me further. You'd think it'd hit bottom eventually, but they keep finding new ways to keep digging.

 

Is it really that bad? What makes it bad?

 

really bad art choices and fanservice designs, changing lines that were perfectly good in the original to the detriment of characterization, making people pay like 20 dollars in DLC to do nothing but go back to the original portrait designs, and shoehorning in new characters that don't work.

 

Technically, it's $2.50 for the original art, with a total of around $30 worth of DLC.

The original game cost $25.

Bonus: they shoved the backstory for their ~new character~ into a DLC. They're advertising her as exciting new content, and apparently you don't even get her full story without giving them extra money.

Also, fanservice DLC with naked 9-year-old.

 

That’s disgusting. This is... radiant historia? Correct? I was wondering if I should try the original someday but after that news I think I’m just gonna skip it.

 

Oh, the original is fine and good! This is a remake that they're doing that is entirely missing the point of why the original WORKED.

 

Yeah, the problem is the remake. I love the original with all my heart and soul, and I'm mad because the remake looks like a half-assed soulless cash grab.

 

Yeah, don't skip the original because of the dumb fuckery they're pulling with the remake, it's quite good.

 

It's honestly uncanny how thoroughly they've managed to monkey's-paw basically everything I've ever said I wanted out of a new release of the game.

• Alternate character expressions! New portraits are a different style, look much worse, and most of the female characters look like clones due to moe sameface. The expressions themselves also largely look terrible.
  
• Elm gets a portrait! It's generic titty armor.
• Use this one area that has really nice scenery but doesn't serve any purpose in-game! They used it for a ~hot spring~ DLC with aforementioned gross fanservice.
• Cutscene art or animation to improve sections of the game where the sprite animations are insufficient! It's mostly only used to show the female characters' boobs, even in a picture of a CORPSE. Most of the remainder looks bad.
  
• New English font! It's actually WORSE.
• Keep most of the original English script, but give it another editing pass to clean it up! They changed a bunch of lines to make them clunkier, even though they copy-paste parts of the old script elsewhere. In just the little bit that we've seen of the new English translation, they also managed to do weird things to a bunch of the characterization. (LET MY BEAUTIFUL ANTISOCIAL BOYFRIEND BE A POKER-FACED GRUMP, DAMMIT)

And then they also redesigned one of the main characters to make her look more generic, DIDN'T fix the blatant sprite errors, and didn't update the graphics at all other than the interface or character portraits (both of which look worse). I'm half-expecting it to turn out that they made the final dungeon even longer and more boring, just because I've complained about that.

At this point all it's got going for it in my mind is the chibi portrait pack (except that's another $2.49 DLC), the off-chance some of their new content is actually good, and the possibility of gameplay improvements. But they've pretty effectively ensured that I'm not going to give them any money.

 

Anyway I'm going to go get back in contact with the guy who wanted to do a romhack of the original game because I haven't heard from him for a bit and MY CITY NOW. Maybe make a note to remove a tiny bit more sexism/heteronormativity from the script, just to spite them.

 

What game are you talking about?

 

*points at user title* Radiant Historia. It's a JRPG for DS. That Goddamn Remake which comes out in like two weeks is subtitled "Perfect Chronology."

 

EVERYTHING.

But mostly residents who want to cancel conference presentations at the last minute and can't be arsed to find someone to swap with themselves, and a guy who does not understand that if he tells me not to mail his letter of recommendation until X thing has happened, it won't get mailed unless he tells me X thing has happened, because I don't want to fuck things up for him, and also, that if he keeps asking about it, people will think I didn't transcribe it, when in fact I'm waiting for his OK.

 

there are no words for how much I loathe moe sameface. #witnessed all round, but I just had to say that.

 

It's doubly infuriating because 1) none of them looked like that before, except the actual children, 2) the male characters are mostly drawn in a less (and differently) stylized way, and 3) we know for a fact the artist can draw better in every single area the remake art is weak, because he did the character art for Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia and Suikoden Tierkreis.

 

Boy I love when my coworkers don't show up so I get pushed to a really boring station at work instead of getting the least boring station with a friend. Also having to wait four extra hours before I can take a break when I'm fuckin starving here

 

It's been like a year since Lucozade changed its recipe and I STILL get angry every time I see a bottle. (Sign my petition!) I know what "hangry " is, is there an equivalent of angry + thirsty?

 

...you should probably know that that petition tells people your real name (presumably anyway) when you click on the link. (Change.org is obnoxious in many ways, sadly. If it wasn't on that site I'd sign it, although tbh I don't know what Lucozade is.)