I’ve been having a good time with Baldur’s Gate 3. As someone who’s never played D&D, I was very frustrated with the combat system initially and I still don’t think it’s good, but the rest of the game is just so damn great that it doesn’t matter too much.
I finished it on Balanced and am now playing on Tactician, but I don’t think I’ll finish this run. Playthroughs are really long and it’s probably too deterministic and solvable to keep me hooked.
I enjoyed it but you really can’t think too hard about it. In my opinion, Far Cry 5 actively suffers from being an open world game.
Not a MTG player myself but they probably don’t want the game to turn into the Fortnite of card games.
I know people who are friends with the guy who runs it and he’s cool from everything I’ve heard
I wish Princess Peach would stop sending weapons to Ganonforf
All of America’s heroes!
GenAI is gonna be huge for Star Citizen. All of their assets already looked AI-generated in 2015.
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I am vetoing this word. Such a cursed amalgamation of jargon must not be allowed.
The worst thing about the hawk tuah girl is that her name is spelled Haliey
H-A-L-I-E-Y
Undoubtedly the worst spelling of that name I have ever seen
I like that the acronym IDF is approaching SS status.
Great presentation and atmosphere but the writing was mid at best imo
ngl I can’t take people who argue against SBMM seriously. 10/10 times it’s some nerd who has spent 3000 hours playing Apex Legends and wants to feel powerful by stomping beginners. “I don’t wanna have to tryhard all the time” is the line they always say and it’s one of the most toddler-brained arguments I’ve ever heard.
I’m generally a defender of modern Pokemon games but to call the online features of Scarlet and Violet “outdated” would be an understatement. The tera raid battle lobbies are inexcusably awful. We figured online lobby systems out in the 90s for god’s sake.
Problem is that executives and capitalists are the dumbest, least creative people alive and chasing trends is all their underdeveloped brains are capable of. Just look at the bizarre AI mania.
Mandel’s successor suspended the program, noting that it had processed fewer than ten transactions.
I consider Marvel-fication to be a form of waifu-fication so I put them under the same category but we could get to an impasse there if we both held firm.
what is your definition of waifu-fication then?
I admit I checked out of Blizzard slop by that time but it sounds a lot like the bullshit Wish.com-version-of-Lovecraft that World of Warcraft was plagued with for a while, where every character was just a recipient of “corruption” until the knockoff-Cthulu was sort of yeeted away in a single patch, from what I hear.
yeah pretty much that, villain as a pure plot device
She was really one-dimensional in WoL. Problem was that they tried to give her the same treatment as Sylvanas, where they go “Oh actually she was just evil because she was under the control of the super-mega-satan villain” and try to sell her back to us as a good person, which is more marvel-fication than waifu-fication if you ask me.
Amon killed the story so hard it’s genuinely depressing. An evil so great that it leaves 0 room for any individual motivations or interesting personal conflict between the other characters, we must leave all our differences (and everything else that might make us interesting) aside to unite against this existence-ending threat. An evil so great that, once again, the only reason anyone might be on his side is fucking mind control. An evil so great that he was actually behind everything bad that happened up until this point, retroactively taking away agency and character depth from characters before his name was ever mentioned.
No room for conflict between Kerrigan and any of the Protoss or Terrans whose loved ones she killed, after all, we can’t waste time squabbling amongst ourselves while Amon is preparing to kill us all! No room for intrigue between any characters, this is not the time for personal motivations, we all need to follow the exact same goal, doing anything else would be suicide.
I really hate Amon. Like I said, Kerrigan was collateral damage of Amon blocking any character in the story from having depth.
Kerrigan was basically destroyed by waifuication in Starcraft II.
I don’t think that’s the issue with Kerrigan in SC2. SC2 was ruined by Amon and Kerrigan’s character was collateral damage. Honestly, in Wings of Liberty she was more of an archetypal dommy mommy waifu than in Heart of the Swarm onwards where she just became a dull, incoherent mess of a character.
Can’t say I agree, the version before the changes sounded just as one-dimensional except also less likable.