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2024-03-30, 05:51 PMwarty goblin replied to a thread Baldur's Gate 3 III: No Plans for DLC Or A Fourth Thread in Gaming (Other)Preset protagonists are just fine, and pretty common in the wider universe of computer RPGs. In many ways I rather prefer them, as it makes the...16 replies | 718 view(s)
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2024-03-29, 08:39 PMwarty goblin replied to a thread Baldur's Gate 3 III: No Plans for DLC Or A Fourth Thread in Gaming (Other)I find it slightly funny that everybody is talking about a GoT cRPG like a theoretical exotic form of matter when it's an actual thing you can just...16 replies | 718 view(s)
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2024-03-28, 09:19 PMwarty goblin replied to a thread What Are You Playing: 9 Years since the Last Dragon Age in Gaming (Other)Reached Act 4 in Knight's Tale. As per previous act transitions, the dominant enemy has shifted from the Sidhe to the Formorians, because the game is...1267 replies | 96886 view(s)
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2024-03-28, 07:30 PMI thought he did fine for everything but the Napoleon is a charismatic general whose soldiers would follow anywhere bit. Which, admittedly, is a very...9 replies | 519 view(s)
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2024-03-28, 07:18 PMI thought the problem with Napoleon was that it was basically 1/3 of like 4 different movies; you had the history of France bit, the Napoleon is...9 replies | 519 view(s)
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2024-03-28, 06:50 AMwarty goblin replied to a thread What Are You Playing: 9 Years since the Last Dragon Age in Gaming (Other)I'd very much agree with this. If the game takes 20 hours to get to the good stuff, somebody somewhere screwed up because that's a lot of time to...1267 replies | 96886 view(s)
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2024-03-27, 07:11 PMI've never been exactly nuts about Star Wars in the first place. My favorites are hands down Empire Strikes Back and Revenge of the Sith, and it's...125 replies | 5672 view(s)
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2024-03-27, 10:05 AMwarty goblin replied to a thread Baldur's Gate 3 II: The Urge for a Second Playthrough in Gaming (Other)If you want low magic tactical depth, it's perfectly doable. You just need to get a bit more in the weeds with stuff that high fantasy treats as more...1483 replies | 116214 view(s)
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2024-03-26, 04:48 PMMostly I don't enjoy male leads like that because to me they don't make for an enjoyable story. I'm not putting my various dumbass and deranged...826 replies | 94183 view(s)
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2024-03-26, 02:48 PMI guess the thing that confuses me is that the premise isn't particularly fantastic. A magic sword quest with demons and whatnot is exciting and also...826 replies | 94183 view(s)
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2024-03-25, 04:49 PMwarty goblin replied to a thread Baldur's Gate 3 II: The Urge for a Second Playthrough in Gaming (Other)To be fair, GoT combat is sort of targeted directly at my personal biases, i.e. a bunch of big armored dudes smashing each other. Owlcat's Pathfinder...1483 replies | 116214 view(s)
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2024-03-25, 03:00 PMAn episodic style could absolutely work for Fallout, Star Trek Strange New Worlds is episodic and also fantastic. But if anything episodic shows...64 replies | 3533 view(s)
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2024-03-25, 12:31 PMApproximately zero. Games, particularly those where you control a discrete avatar, are overwhelmingly stories of heroic violence. There's something...125 replies | 5672 view(s)
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2024-03-25, 07:57 AMwarty goblin replied to a thread Baldur's Gate 3 II: The Urge for a Second Playthrough in Gaming (Other)The combat was pretty repetitive, I didn't find it worse than a lot of RPGs, and better than some. I actually finished it for one thing, which is...1483 replies | 116214 view(s)
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2024-03-25, 07:30 AMwarty goblin replied to a thread What Are You Playing: 9 Years since the Last Dragon Age in Gaming (Other)I've never found my desire to replay a game to depend much on "replayability" as generally defined, i.e. unseen mechanical or story content. If I had...1267 replies | 96886 view(s)
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2024-03-24, 07:22 PMSo today I'm gonna talk about trash. Specifically what makes trash enjoyable vs boring. What brought this to light was reading an exorable little...826 replies | 94183 view(s)
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2024-03-24, 09:23 AMThe narrative structure for a TV series has to be entirely different than that for an RPG. Most RPGs hit you with a single goal early on (get the...64 replies | 3533 view(s)
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2024-03-23, 07:54 AMwarty goblin replied to a thread Baldur's Gate 3 II: The Urge for a Second Playthrough in Gaming (Other)Yeah, it's like they come at fairly conventional ideas (often third person action RPGs) but about 30% out of phase and 50% under budget from what...1483 replies | 116214 view(s)
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2024-03-22, 04:30 PMwarty goblin replied to a thread Baldur's Gate 3 II: The Urge for a Second Playthrough in Gaming (Other)The Cyanide Game of Thrones RPG is pretty good if you have high tolerance for Eurojank*. There's plenty of ways to create variability in a game...1483 replies | 116214 view(s)
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2024-03-22, 01:19 PMwarty goblin replied to a thread Baldur's Gate 3 II: The Urge for a Second Playthrough in Gaming (Other)I'm glad they aren't doing BG 4. I really like BG 3, but the pressure to make any putative sequel stick pretty close to BG 3 is going to be immense....1483 replies | 116214 view(s)
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2024-03-22, 12:59 PMThere's a compelling idea in the repeating cycle, its just that I don't think Star Wars is remotely well suited to explore it. If you have a...125 replies | 5672 view(s)
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2024-03-21, 05:11 PMThe Jedi and the Sith don't like each other because Darth Devon didn't get invited to Master Sam's birthday party, even though it was a pool party...125 replies | 5672 view(s)
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2024-03-21, 02:49 PMHate watching is still also watching. Why would I waste my valuable time and emotional energy on something I hate? Why would I reward the people who...125 replies | 5672 view(s)
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2024-03-21, 12:45 PMThere's a meaningful distinction between the very large group of people who like something with mass market appeal like Bethesda Fallout and the...64 replies | 3533 view(s)
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2024-03-20, 05:04 PMI watched the trailer and realized something. I have attained a state of Star Wars related tranquility. Oh look, they made some more Star Wars. This...125 replies | 5672 view(s)
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2024-03-19, 08:35 PMCard cycling is not a hard problem to solve at a basic level, because at its core it's just spell slots. So just have your hand refresh on a rest or...126 replies | 7501 view(s)
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2024-03-15, 09:15 AMI think there's a quite interesting core to the card concept, however I rather suspect you'd need a substantially different game structure to take...126 replies | 7501 view(s)
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2024-03-14, 06:27 PMwarty goblin replied to a thread What Are You Playing: 9 Years since the Last Dragon Age in Gaming (Other)I continue to cleave slowly through Knight's Tale. Lancelot's recruitment mission was really, really savage. Sidhe everywhere, in really strong...1267 replies | 96886 view(s)
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2024-03-14, 09:37 AMwarty goblin replied to a thread What Are You Playing: 9 Years since the Last Dragon Age in Gaming (Other)Starfield absolutely requires a SSD to be playable. As soon as you leave the opening mine, it turns into a glitchy, weird slideshow on a HDD. ...1267 replies | 96886 view(s)
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2024-03-13, 08:38 PMwarty goblin replied to a thread What Are You Playing: 9 Years since the Last Dragon Age in Gaming (Other)I wouldn't say I found Starfield bad precisely, so much as another version of a game I got bored of 15 years ago. I really enjoyed Oblivion, played a...1267 replies | 96886 view(s)
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Blood-red were his spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat,
When they shot him down on the highway,
Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman, 1906.
When they shot him down on the highway,
Down like a dog on the highway,
And he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat.Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman, 1906.
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