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@surreality said in The 100: The Mush:

@Admiral said in The 100: The Mush:

I looked around at the place and there's two things that I think hurt an otherwise fine game.

1.) Lack of consequences. It's made clear that PCs can't die unless they want to die. In a survival setting like this it invalidates a lot of the risk. Even a super low risk of death from the environment/NPCs/plots/etcetera would help.

Is there a 'you're being deliberately stupid?' clause to that? Like, "I think that Reaper just needs a hug!" should definitely result in some kind of consequence.

But death is certainly not the only consequence someone can face; if it's just death that's off the table and other major consequences are in play, I have a hard time really calling this a problem.

A surprisingly low number of characters actually die on the show for what might be expected in the period of time the game is likely exploring, shortly after landing, after all. And they weren't necessarily all being the smartest tools in the shed about things.

(Not playing there, but have been considering it. Kinda a lot.)

Death can happen in combat. But it's also FS3 combat, so the dice really have to hate you and you have to be out of luck points.

Also it's been stated a couple times that you have to do something really epically, monumentally stupid for staff to decide, 'whelp, you just want to die, I guess' I agree that there should be a greater element of death, but not one to the point where you're wondering how long the alt will last and if you should already be contemplating it's replacement.

Been meaning to watch Sense8.

I also want to watch the new season of True Detective. Just finished watching the first season for the first time last Friday, while it was my gf's first time watching it. She said she felt pretty dirty after watching the last episode.

Been playing Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is pretty damn fun. They've improved greatly on the aspect of approaching every area from any particular route. More stealth options(because I'm a masochist and I love getting the Ghost bonus). Combat is still a little unforgiving, but I've always found that to be an aspect of Deus Ex, in that combat was always hard in those games.

Story is still pretty above par, and plenty of side missions to keep me interested. But a good game overall, well polished. And I feel like there's more room for exploration even if the areas seems small. Like, you don't HAVE to break into a highly secure bank that(so far)has no story based purpose, but I REALLY want the two Praxis points that allow me to buy and improve my augmentations.

I highly recommend it if you're into that cyberpunk thing.

EDIT: There was one thing I wanted to point out in the greater options for route-finding, is that usually I'd find a better route once I reached where I was trying to go and realized I hadn't explored thoroughly enough. Which is mildly infuriating and yet really cool because 'damn wish I seen that earlier would've made things so much easier' sort of feeling.

@Cupcake said in The 100: The Mush:

It is entirely possible that a second community will form made up of former Ark inhabitants that have chosen not to live under the new government. There are characters who are devoted to this idea, some who ride the middle, and others who are opposed either just in terms of their choice or as to what everyone should be doing. My own PC is still in "wait and see" mode, since the new laws have not been revealed yet. She doesn't know if they're going to be better or worse than what she's accustomed to.

And if that ends up hurting the game overall? Because then you would have three locations of RP that are now spread out across the grid. The Ark, the Grounder village, and whatever location these anti-Ark characters want. IC decisions or not, there has to come a point where OOC management of the game has to trump IC desires. Especially if everyone sees that the decision to break off has had a negative effect on the game as a whole. It will not only be up to staff to correct this possible outcome, but also on the players to understand that while it might be what their characters want, are they really willing to bring the game down as a whole because of it?

Even if I played a character that was like that(and to some extent, my character is)/I/, being me the player, wouldn't allow my character to go in that direction because when it comes to what I want as a player, I'm willing to sacrafice that desire as a player to make sure that the game keeps operating smoothly and everyone is integrated in what plot development or RP that's out there. Splitting up limits this, regardless of the IC justifications for it. It's small price to pay. For me, at least.

SGDQ, or Summer Games Done Quick. It's a week long, 24 hour speedrunning marathon that raises money for charity. I lose about a week of my life watching this twice a year. It just started, so if any of you have this odd(read: sick)fascination with watching people break the shit out of games by seeing how fast they can beat them, you can watch here.

https://gamesdonequick.com/

I love this shit, I have no idea why.

I blame @Miss-Demeanor for this, but I picked up GW2. I've been enjoying it thus far as my first foray into the MMO thing.

Eventually, I'll have enough money for something else. The PC did a number on the bank account.

Does scallops count as fish?
Because I really like scallops.

I'm crushed by this. Big Empty is still one of my favorite songs.

Really want to try out Horizon: Zero Dawn just because I've heard so many good things about.

ME: A will be a day one buy regardless of anything. Even if I'm not pre-ordering, because I don't believe in that whole 'Day One DLC' or 'Pre-Order DLC' bullshit. Not getting suckered into that shit ever again.

I can't upvote this game idea hard enough.

Watched the documentary Soaked in Bleach last night, because Netflix had my attention. If any of you were interested the death of Kurt Cobain, it's a fascinating watch in realizing just how inept the Seattle police department was at that time.

If any of you were a fan grunge and mid 90s bands(one of my favorite genres), I suggest go watch it. I guess I watched it because with the recent death of Scotte Weiland, just making me realize that more and more of the singers who I used to listen to so much are gone.

@packrat said in Original Sci-Fi?:

IT , Do @monogram said in Original Sci-Fi?:

Anyone remember OtherSpace?

I do, it was my first MUSH and taught me so many things about how a MUSH should not be run, especially after I made the mistake of agreeing to join staff and saw behind the curtain.

I feel bad for anyone who staffed on a Wes Platt game. And don't forget the trademark.

I think plenty of people are starting to wish for a Dragon Age game that doesn't involve being able to live out your personal ingame fantasy with whatever character that you believed obviously should've doing what(or in most cases, who).

Apparently that time has not yet come.

@surreality Would've totally one of those two concepts with you. That sound fantastic.

I used to draw and make monograms in highschool. Doodles mostly, but the friends in my DnD group started calling me Mono because my player's handbook was covered in them from drawing idly during class and during game.

That's about it. And I just like how the word sounds. And because I played a serial thief who'd leave monograms of houses he burgled.

Move on with life. Yet you're the person still bringing it up. We get it For someone who supposedly hates these two people so much to the point of borderline obsession, it's likely you probably wiki-stalked them, because making TFW active as a private, invite-only game with only a small handful of people isn't something people would know. Unless you were trying really hard to keep tabs on people because you hate with them an obsessive passion of a thousand burning suns.

And this whole "I'm doing it for the players" thing is bullshit. You're doing it to make them look bad in whatever way or capacity is manageable. You're doing it for you, so you can revel in 'how right you are' and feel vindicated through it, so you can drop the altruism and gif-laden persecution complex.

But I guess we all need our hills to die on.

@Thenomain said:

Second play through kind of bored me. Perhaps this is because this game was designed for people who look for "drop rates" as a primary gameplay element.

I'm glad someone out there really hates Sara, since I can no longer make fun of HR for liking DA2. Sara is the only one to call Varrik out on his bullshit. My problem with the DA:I characters is they seem to be missing dramatic conviction. It's a rather minor quibble.

My problem with Sara is that there is absolutely zero growth with her. She's childish, hypocritical, short-sighted...I could really go on and on. Her calling out Varric on his stuff is fine, someone does, but everything else, she is a horribly written character with zero depth and zero growth as a character. Everyone else, that actually do some amount of evolving from where they were when you first met them, but Sara is nothing but static. She wants everything to fit into her little world where everything caters to what she thinks it should be. If it wasn't so obscenely immature, I could maybe go with it. But it's not.

Ugh, I hate her so fucking much.

Out of curiosity. Does the game support Geist? Or if not now, will it in the future?

BESM, or Big Eyes Small Mouths. I don't know why I liked the Tri-Stat system as much as I do, and I haven't played it in awhile, but the system was just so open to make any kind of tropey character you ever wanted to. It didn't have to be based in anime, which is what the system drew a lot of inspiration off of. An example would be that I created a Yatcha(or however it's spelled, it's been awhile, but the alien species from Predator)in one of the longer campaigns I was apart of.

It's just really flexible and terribly open to allow you to just whatever, yet there for all that openness, it doesn't let you go so crazy you end up being overpowered. In which case, something just as overpowered could be thrown at you.

Still, really really love that system. I miss playing it.