Posts made by Arkandel

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@rucket said in The Wheel of Time:

@arkandel said in The Wheel of Time:

As, I imagine, you - or others - wouldn't like the vision that I have of what a WoT game should be about.

I'd make a L&L take on the Wheel of Time. Set at the time of the books leading up (but never quite reaching) Tarmon Gaidon, probably around book 3-5, focused either in Andor or Cairhien.

No playable book characters but only where they would enhance the plot in some way as NPCs. All of the 'rules' from the books being active. Asha'man and male wilders are playable but application-based. Female channelers more open but on a shorter curriculum - it shouldn't take nearly as long to go from Novice to Accepted as in the books dur to gameplay reasons.

That gives every playable 'good guy' faction. Nobles of course but also Aiel, Aes Sedai and Warders, Asha'man, tua'thaan, Whitecloaks, Band of the Red Hand and Dragonsworn.

I'd allow darkfriends but heavily controlled by staff-controlled, NPC Forsaken. Some IC paranoia is good.

Do I think that's the 'best' way to do it? Of course not! It's just how I would do it.

Another fun way would be to set it six months after the last book. The politics, major Houses, the condition of most factions etc are still known - players wouldn't need to figure too much out on their own - but with the whole Last Battle thing out of the way there'd be more room for plotting and scheming, especially in a world wrecked by war. It'd be harder to figure out how to keep the tension going without the constant threat of being eaten by monsters, though.

@runescryer said in The Wheel of Time:

Yeah, I think the best way to go with a WoT game would be to sell it as 'a different Turning of the Wheel'; which is basically what the show is doing. Have a lot of the basics (The One Power, the Dark One, the Dragon, the Forsaken, etc.), but also make some changes for the game to be more playable (men can be Aes Sedai; both men and women can be corrupted by using the One Power, just not as severely as in the books...)

There is no best way. It's a way. For example I really don't like several of the notions in that very list you mention.

Not that there's anything wrong with them, but they don't fit what I'd like to play. As, I imagine, you - or others - wouldn't like the vision that I have of what a WoT game should be about.

Thinking of going back to WoW since friends are asking me to.

They do treat employees like shit. Flipside: the entire video game industry does.

They did lay off/fire/have some bad apples move on. Flipside: it was pretty obviously done to cover their asses.

Choices, choices.

@dvoraen said in The Wheel of Time:

This thread makes me want WoT MU*s to be a fad again.

The problem with WoT MU*s is that we as fans disagree on just about everything about how they should be done.

Which Age (or where in the timeline) should they be set at? Playable canonical characters? Allow male channelers? Hell, even allow diverting from the books in any significant way?

You ask ten well-meaning fans, you'll probably get a variety of answers on all of the above and more. And for many of us any way other than what's in our heads is wrong and we won't play it.

@misadventure Yeah good catch. I didn't notice the quoted part hadn't been properly spoiler-ized. Edited now.

Double post! I'm just gonna leave this here.

@derp To be honest I thought it was a given. The first movie was pretty successful.

@rucket said in The Wheel of Time:
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I wonder how badly New World players were impacted today.

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I wonder which/how many characters are going to be amalgamated... or have already been.

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This is probably going to be necessary though. As a non-book reader it may be hard to keep track of all these freakin' people especially in a somewhat short first season.

We do need a sword-training montage at some point though!

Not for the first time.

<notices the toothpaste tube is pretty thin>

<buys a new one, puts it next to the current one until that runs out>

... Three months later...

<the current tube still looks pretty thin... but lots of paste comes out when I squeeze anyway>

What the actual fuck, does it regenerate in there?!

@derp I don't think this has anything to do with the guy's religion, whatever it is. He certainly doesn't go advocating RL world principles to anyone. He's probably influenced by his background or upbringing but who isn't?

It does have to do with... well, whether readers like that style of writing. There's nothing wrong with it. He's already one of my favorite authors; would I like it more if there was more chemistry between characters in certain ways? Yeah. Would I like him to focus a bit less on the 'magic systems' that he creates? Yes.

But is he really talented and, quite importantly in this day and age, does he actually produce new books on a regular basis without sacrificing their quality or making them all feel and read the same? Hell yes.

I absolutely loved The Way of Kings.

Most of Sanderson's books are at least high quality despite him putting new ones out like a machine gun.

My one complaint is that he lets his mechanics and plot take over from characterization. Especially his romantic relationships feel shallow (to me).

Bob Dole passed away.

@runescryer Well, and that little issue of settling who the Dragon Reborn is.

Frankly at this point I don't quite understand the online furor about it. It's pretty obvious they aren't changing that character's identity, come on.

@rucket Can anyone tell yet whether everyone - whether they can channel or not - can see weaves, or are they visible to only us as viewers (and, presumably, other channelers of the same gender) ?

@tnp said in Critters!:

I could never foster. I'd get too attached and not want to give them up. Don't know how you do it.

I'm at 0/2 so uh, I don't know either. Someone please explain.

Without spoilers this time.

I enjoyed Episode 5 - in fact I think it was the best one yet. This was for a simple reason; they finally started to slow the fuck down and let the characters breathe, develop and interact with each other.

It was also the first time I thought Warders - although we haven't quite seen the Gaidin per se yet - was characterized differently than the books but it felt more like fleshing them out than just departing from canon.

The one lingering concern; there are two episodes left. How will the pacing work to close the season out?