Ammy it's a good thing you said that (previous post), because I was about to explode over what I saw as defending Rizado for awful reasons. Woop.
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Well, it's YOUR opinion that they are broken. And in MY opinion they aren't.
Two opinions are not given equal weight just because they are opinions. You can't just hide behind "it's my opinion!" and expect that nobody can touch you; that isn't how discussion works. If you want to be taken seriously, give actual reasons why people should think your opinions hold any ground. An opinion means nothing without information behind it.
Why I said not to blame SakuyaA and MarisaB? Because you said it like YOUR opinion is universal truth and they MUST be nerfed.
I never said my opinion is universal truth or anything of the sort. What I did do is state what parts of each shot type were off-balance in relation to the output of the other characters and their individual ability to crush the game. If you really wanted me to, I could back all of those statements up with data and replays. It would waste a bunch of my time, but I could. The point is that any sufficiently-aware player, and by that I mean any player who's been playing Touhou enough that they actually have the ability to compare and contrast the pros and cons of certain shot types (basically, Normal players), should be able to come to these conclusions themselves just by playing the different characters, or by watching other people play them. I shouldn't even have to explain this, this is so silly.
MarisaB's bomb is utterly broken on Lunatic and is still abuseable on Hard, as shown in many many videos already. It isn't abuseable (at least so far) on Normal and Easy. My suggested solution was to put a limit on the bomb such that
only the abuses themselves are affected. If you have an issue with this suggestion, please let me hear it. I'm not going to brush you off because you play a lower difficulty, but so far you haven't said
anything to back up your stance.
I also don't think SakuyaA is broken, and I never said it was. Unlike some other Touhou games, there isn't a massive power difference in shot types so far. If SakuyaA stayed the way she is, it wouldn't be a big deal. She's just very strong, and she also has a ton of utility. Generally, shot types with a lot of utility (i.e. Homing Reimu) are the weaker shot types, because that's just how you balance power and utility. If you didn't, it would overwhelm other shot types and would be able to easily crush the game.
Then I pointed that it's just MY opinion, but you anyway trying to critisize me because of it. What's your problem? We all have opinions on some things. Why I can't post my thoughts and you can only because my opinion is different?
Because you read my post and basically said "You're wrong, stop picking on these characters". It was a flat-out content-less reply in disagreement with a post I actually put thought into. It's an insult.
You can post your thoughts and opinions all you like. If I disagree with those opinions, I might reply to them by posting my thoughts and opinions. That's all fine and dandy, but as I said above, you need to actually back up your opinion, or it means nothing. If you weren't actually replying to me and had just said "I like the shot types how they are" or whatever, that's fine I can just ignore you. But it's like you're poking a beehive with a stick and then go "why did the bees sting me I was only having fun poking their hive with a stick".
Don't want to use MarisaB bomb? Then don't use it, it's not big deal. Game is already finished and I'm sure that ZUN didn't change game at all (in terms of shottypes and characters).
This is the same thing 7TC7 said and it's an absolutely empty argument. I don't even know where this sort of argument comes from out of people's heads, it's so silly. The fact that a shot type or bomb or whatever is unbalanced, just because it's on the player's side, doesn't mean it gets a free pass from criticism-land. If by explosion the shot type were instant-homing and killed every enemy on the screen and canceled bullets, would it still be fine as long as players who thought it was a terrible idea just ignored it and played pacifist? No, jeez. Just don't use the bomb? Well crap, now you don't have a bomb to use at all anymore. (Which, by the way, is my current problem, as I mentioned before!) If the exploit is super-duper broken like MoF's MarisaB, since the community will see that you weren't playing with the same rules, they won't acknowledge any accomplishment with it as equivalent to others anyways, so the whole argument of "just don't use it and let other people do what they want" is shallow and redundant of a suggestion at best. Even having all that said, it doesn't even matter that some people want to have an even playing ground, it's
still friggin busted.