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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So you'd have to join team Angels and thus get aesthetic rewards that don't appeal to you. There is more, but those were the BIG things that just made that expansion the fucking worst.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Finally was the Covenant system and it's utter failure. Basically you had to join 1 of 4 factions that are all aesthetically different (Angels, Vampires, Undead+ and finally Fae/fairies) But each of them gave you an exclusive ability. So you might want to be on team Vampire but their ability sucked

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

per weak. And people had to go there *daily*. There was also Torghast, which was a rogue-like pastiche that is novel the first time you do it, but you had to do it weekly to grind a resource for your Legendary armor, which some speccs couldn't function without a specific version.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It was also in the peak of Dark Souls' popularity before Elden Ring, so made a whole zone with the dropping souls mechanic but the area was just miserable since it was super bleak and depressing. You couldn't mount there, everything was dangerous, and you could only kill a certain amount of mobs

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There are a lot of story reasons people are talking about, but mechanically it was essentially a triple down on a bunch of systems that were *really* getting old, particularly Artifact Power, which acted as a second level you had to grind just to be viable for high end raiding or M+.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't believe they put Vergil in a Jet. That's just not fair man.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Random encounters in RPGs are great because they inspire something that a lot of them are lacking in my view. Fear. While some on-screen encounter games can get creative with ambushes, the fun tension of "Can I really keep going or do I need to head back" doesn't really work without them.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

That lighting is 100% going to end up in retail at some point. Probably after The Last Titan.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Partially, but I think it's due to zero sum thinking: If Blizzard is spending resources on *their* thing, they aren't spending it on *my* thing. It's a big reason why whenever something new or different comes out (I.E, Housing) one of the most common things you hear asked is "Who is this for?"

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

All I can think of about the new Zelda remake is what the hell is Dead Hand gonna look like. Gonna be some real Capcom shit.

An image depicting what was many children of the 90's first experience with horror: The N64 Ocarina of time Dead Hand Boss battle, where Link is being pinned down by a gaunt hand as the creature is about to take a bite out of him.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

One must imagine Wily Coyote happy. That movie is really fucking good.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I think it's supposed to be Diahran but they nerfed it for Normal mode. Hard Mode restores it to a scripted cast after you get him below 40k.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Only the combined talents of Ushikoshi and Kadokawa could open a story with a character who is the equivalent of a brick shot out of a rail-cannon in the face in terms of abrasiveness and "ickness" and end up with me caring about and totally seeing how they ended up that way. Honestly impressive.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Guys, if we stick together and believe in ourselves and eachother, we can achieve anything! *Proceeds to slaughter and maim his enemies with the edgiest fucking scythe I've ever seen.* ...Alright Ushikoshi. I'm interested.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

You can't do that, man. An orc's shoulderpads are like their whole reason to exist.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Yogg'Saron and C'thun both left bodies, so have it emerge from their corpse like a fleshy phoenix.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I think the problem with that is how often do they come back? If it takes too long it doesn't matter. But if they do then it kind of turns into Diablo where there's so many of them that the narrative ends up revolving around them over and over again. I'd say do a Wrathion and have a newborn.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Stuff like this and the blue petaloid event in 4 is what makes EO great. "Fuck me I guess" is what makes games great.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

They could make running difficult. Either the odds aren't great (Not like Nocturne Hard levels but maybe like Lunar 2) or make it so running costs an amount of MP. Could also make it so if you are running the enemy gets a free round on you. Kind of depends how sadistic they want to be.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

How did we go from praising cubes (The Companion Cube) to slandering them? (God of Cube). Society man...

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I'm not as big a hater on Reforged as most people. I view it more as a lost opportunity thanks to corporate ratfuckery. Like you can see places where you can tell the developers tried with all of the sticks and harsh language they were left with. But then you run into stuff like this and just bruh.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Is it just that Reforged's models can't made absolutely black like the old ones can? Or is it just that since the model is too detailed, you could tell if they tried the same trick and decided "Eh, fuck it." and decided to turn Gul'Dan into Warcraft's first and only found footage horror director?

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

But Reforged decides instead to just shove a Doomguard into your face and shake the camera going "BE DISTURBED!!!!". Which is just...hilariously dumb and ruins the scene. youtu.be/N-vjFUm1LAY

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BE DISTURBED

YouTube video by Ardailec

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

In the original, the camera pans up over him to show *something* in the mist. It's a doomguard model, but it's pure black. It's meant to imply that it could be Sargeras himself mocking him. Or it's just Gul'Dan hallucinating and crashing out at shadows and mist.

A screenshot of a scene from Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne. It depicts an ancient temple shrouded in a blood haze with a shadowy demon surrounded by blue flames.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I don't think I can make a better case for modern games have a difficult problem with doing the unknown than Warcraft 3 Reforged. Specifically, there is a scene in Tomb of Sargeras where Gul'Dan is lashing out because he's gonna die alone in that tomb and he thinks he sees something in the dark.

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Gravity Circuit - SEQUEL ANNOUNCED! @gravitycircuit.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

You know for how huge Attack on Titan was, I find it kind of disappointing no one took the "Organic Mecha" concept and went further with it. I mean, Kaiju 8 exists but it lost all of the stuff that made it interesting by the end of the first season.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Man the 8 year rule really does exist. Though I will give them credit, the *start* of BFA had potential. Blizzard just understandably dropped it once they remembered that the war between Alliance and Horde can never really end in a victory.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

It's always good to take a step back if you just aren't enjoying it. I ran into a similar feeling back during Warlords and Shadowlands.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

You'll also gain the need to wear bigger and spikier shoulderpads.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Start the game on Hard Mode and get 1 shot by the tutorial Preta. The true Nocturne Experience.

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Spookydoof @doofivirus.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

SaGa-styled Sephiroth is fucking insane

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Won't this just result in the writers banding together in private and just...hiring a botter to inflate their views? This feels like something that's going to backfire in odd ways.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I get these guys aren't exactly artists but the phrase "Eat, sleep, drink content" legit feels like one of those phrases that tells a lot about what they think of the concept of creativity.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

You should check out this classic sound novel. It's a foundational piece of literature. *Looks inside.* Sub 10 second audio loop of the loudest seagulls and crashing waves you have ever heard repeating non-stop for about an hour.

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🔥 @yoltablaze.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Operation 1: Awakening #P3Just1FileAU #persona3 x #persona4 x #persona2

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

To be somewhat fair to Chiaki...she had her arm *ripped off*. Of course she'd probably snap at the chance to go from a preppy blue blood into "ONLY THE STRONG ARE WORTHY!!!" after fusing with Gozu Tennoh.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I don't know what's better about Dazai, him trying *so* hard to be like Vergil or him basically going "We need to go back to the way YHWH had things! How could he have been possibly wrong?!" When YHWH was fucking *DEAD* in the Creation timeline.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Is that the original line? Because I thought that the uh...source for the pills don't exactly make it to maturity.

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