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@Darren Had i heard about this game, I would've been so down.

@jaded I'm buying it either way, so I don't really care. Though it does seem silly to remove one line of dialogue. I don't really think it's making a commentary on immigration like a lot of people are saying it is. That's a bit eye-rolly to me.

I think it's pretty good. It's better than I expected. I enjoyed it for what it is.

It reminds me a lot of Castlevania, beyond the fact that it's the same animation company.

@bear_necessities said in How to launch a MU*:

3. The grid is complete and descriptions are done. This doesn't mean that the grid can't be expanded upon, but you should have the basic grid done with a dozen or more places for RP depending on your theme.

looks at the game he's building

looks back here

I have not been impressed with either protagonist of Odyssey. I would call Shepard the boilerplate of boilerplate default protag, and I say that as someone who absolutely loves Mass Effect(yes, even Andromeda for all it's odd faults), but either protag of Odyssey were just as bland, vanilla, and milquetoast was a touch eye rolly for me.

At least with Ezio, and that's really the last AC I played was the Ezio trilogy, you had a protag with substance, character, a background and goddamn style.

Ubisoft has tied to be BioWare during a time when BioWare can't even be BioWare. And I appreciate the attempt, but they have a bit further to go before they get there.

Speaking of the War for Cybertron trilogy, I think Siege was far better than Earthrise, but only the premise that not a lot happened in Earthrise. As much as I enjoyed Siege, there's a lot of history and backstory that could've been explored, but the creators choose to focus on the literal last day of the war. Which fine, but I feel like it was a minor cop out.

Now Kingdom on the other hand I'm actually pretty excited about because it goes back to my all-time favorite Transformers series, being Beast Wars. I'm not really sure how they're going to pull it off, but I'm interested to see what they do when it releases this week.

@crawfish This really makes me want to ask if you take commissions. I'd like something done of my Old Man cat who passed away in December that I could use for a tattoo.

My feelings on Anthem.

Things I liked:
Combat is fun.
Flight is pretty cool.

Things I didn't like:
Storyline is absolute dogshit.
Missions are repetitious. Way more so than Destiny 2.
The scenery, while very pretty, doesn't offer a lot of variety.
Load screens like whoa.
Characters are one dimension and bland.
The script is cringey is fuck.

The main campaign is gated behind four very lengthy and inane grind fests that should've been optional side quests as opposed to being something you're forced to do. And in the end, all you do after is more or less flip a switch and maybe get two or three items that are not worth the hours investment I put in just to get to that point. It was soul-wrenching.

My end thoughts is, if it wasn't a Bioware game, it'd be what I'd expect from EA. But it's Bioware and thus, my expectations, while already low to begin with, were more or less confirmed.

It's disappointingly average. When I boil it down, there's not a lot going for it, or to write home about.

@too-old-for-this I admit I get far more emotional thinking about the number of older, senior pets locked up and forced to live what's left of their lives within a cage, only to be put down eventually because nobody wanted them. I'm not taking anything away from non-profit shelters, the one I went to yesterday was really nice with a ton of play areas for the pets, both cats and dogs. And the one I adopt from will put many with foster families so a good many do get to live in a home, which I really appreciate. Trust me, if I had a house, I would already be fostering cats.

Still don't have a name for this old baby, as I was talking about it with my boss, saying "The name will manifest when it appears, you can't force a name.", my boss said "What if you named him Fester? 'Manifest'? Fester?"

I am tempted to name him that.

@jennkryst said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:

... semi-related to economies, anyone else remember when 1 gold was a month's wage for a peasant? How many adventurers were killed because they limped back to town with 3hp left and a farmer gets them with a pitchfork and doesn't have to work again for years, because this player had 100 gold on them?

This was actually a large plot point to a campaign I was apart of. One of the bigger NPCs was faking his way through the nobility of the local kingdom. He was actually a fur trapper from a backwoods village that found a very successful but also very dead adventurer on one of his morning trips to check his traps. Took the adventurers coin, sold the majority of his magical items that were too unique to keep for himself and then moved to the neighboring kingdom, claiming ancestry from a long dead line of nobility.

The NPC wasn't even evil, he just wanted to make a better life for himself. The party, when they found out, decided to keep the lie and not expose the dude. Which did end up benefitting later on.

I forgot how much fun that campaign was, but that note did remind me of it.

Also,yes. in game economies are dumb. Both in tabletop and in mushes.

@Jaded said in General Video Game Thread:

Anyone keeping an eye on Cyberpunk 2077, CDPR has stated that it will not be an exclusive for any launcher - Steam or Epic - and that they are projecting to release late 2019 or early 2020.

They have also confirmed that there's going to be a boatload of small free DLC content and at least 3 DLCs on the size and scale like those produced for The Witcher 3.

There's also been very heavy speculation that Cyberpunk isn't the only big game that CDPR is working on. Nobody knows what, but there's a suspicion that it may be Witcher-related. Not saying Witcher 4(which I doubt will ever actually happen), but my guess is something prequel to the trilogy, kind of like how the Crownbreaker War for the Gwent game worked. Although, some people really want that game based around playing Ciri as your main character, so I dunno.

I'd say expect Cyberpunk to drop in fall of 2020 and then another game to fall somewhere in 2021.

@groth said in Good TV:

@ganymede said in Good TV:

As an example of the hate, I have a friend who says all of the right things, claims to be woke and progressive, but "just can't get into" She-Ra "because of the art."

Some things are just subjective. Art direction is the primary reason I haven't gotten around to watching She-Ra.

I do believe the art is subjective thing. This more or less my reason for not watching it. It's also why I've never watched Adventure Time or Steven Universe and why I was only able to stomach Rick and Morty for two seasons before opting out. I don't know, if a visual style isn't my thing, I just can't get into it. And that's a me thing. By no means am I downplaying a shows message.

To note, my fiance is frustrated that I don't really want to watch Adventure Time for the same reasons I don't bother her when I want to watch The Expanse.

But I could watch Gravity Falls and Voltron and Avatar.

I dont believe that not liking a show because of its visual style should somehow say something about a person's ethical or social beliefs.

@l-b-heuschkel I'm in the same boat.

@Auspice Welp, Bethesda.net isn't working because Bethesda. I mean, I lost my copy of Morrowind, so it'd be nice to have a replacement, but whelp.

Sometimes you get bored on your break while working in a Covid lab.

Or phone hates me. I'll have edit at home.

Oh, I think we can put a lot of the blame on BioWare as well, especially in regards as to not having decent leadership. Or rather a leadership team that couldn't ever agree on anything. Especially when it eventually causes something that apparently is a term I've never heard used so often in 'stress casualties'. When you're taking one to three months of leave due to stress and there's a decent chance you're not coming back at all I feel is more of an epidemic and a effect of weak management and working with a shitty game engine.

Anthem may end up being a great game. Perhaps a year from now, because it's clear that the game was no where close to being done and EA wasn't budging on the pushing the release date back. This is becoming more and more common with games. That now we have multiple publisher and deveolpers talking 'road maps' and multiple week one patches. Where they know the game isn't done, so a method is created to gloss over the fact throughout a year they'll be integrating parts of the game that should've been included at launch.

Just another reason why the game industry needs to unionize.

@crawfish Oddly, I'm starting to appreciate the RL pet pictures more than the character ones. I dunno why. But that's just damn cute.

@Sparks You know what, that's fair. I have gone back on forth over the years on whether or not Inquisition was good. It really only becomes good when you add the ending to Trespasser, which ideally should've been the ending to the main game. I suppose I should take back that it's a bad game. It just doesn't hold up in regards to the first two. The first two being in that it had a stronger plot, stronger script, better fleshed out companions. In my numerous retrospections, I would say Inquisition is a game that underperforms, but is not inherently a bad game.

However, I will take my own opinion with a grain of salt because I'm a die hard defender of Mass Effect 1 and I'm under no illusions what a mess in terms of controls, combat, UI, and camera control that game is.

The reality is, to me at least, is that BioWare's quality started to go down the moment they were forcibly married to using Frostbite. Their last three games; Inquisition, Andromeda, and Anthem have either been subpar or average at best or a mess at worst. Internal BioWare struggles aside, I'd say developers working with that engine(or at least the ones not apart of DICE)are simply working with something that was never made, never mind designed to make the games being put on it. That, to me, is one of the biggest culprits to BioWare's falling quality. Not the only one, no, but one of the bigger ones, at least.

I can no longer tell if I'm being distant from my online friends or if my online friends are being distant from me.

I have to physically restrain myself from asking repeatedly what I did wrong or how can I fix it.

Problem is, I haven't done anything recently to warrant that kind of question, as I've taken kind of a hiatus from most online presence, at least in regards to game playing. Even on my own game, I'm only doing things once a week.

But the absence of people I tend to talk to once a day hasn't gone unnoticed. But I have to remind myself that maybe just everyone is busy with life/work/whatever.

Still, I often wonder if I said something. Or something I didn't say. And it just becomes a vicious circle.

@Sparks If there's anything I really enjoyed out of Ion Storm, it was Thief Deadly Shadows.

Ugh, I love that game so much.