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Most of the side-dialogue is bland and bad, very much like Mass Effect Andromeda
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Fucker posted:its fun op Lying to urself won't erase the shame
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Mordiceius posted:Who would you rather be stuck in a car with for an 10 hour road trip - a Harry Potter super fan or a Disney adult? potter fan, no contest
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Feb 9, 2023 22:06
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Blue Raider posted:potter fan, no contest "Mickey is obviously in Gryffindor and Goofy is a Hufflepuff but what house would Donald get sorted into"
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Manager Hoyden posted:"Mickey is obviously in Gryffindor and Goofy is a Hufflepuff but what house would Donald get sorted into" Disney adult-Potterfan hybrid Cursed
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I'm always a fan of writers not knowing how to make a villain in a universe where it should be super simple, so they just make them say stuff lifted piecemeal out of something by Marx or Lenin because it's scary to them, and then when people don't find that convincing enough they tack on "oh and they've got a dirty bomb." What's filling that role here, is the big evil guy resurrecting a bunch of evil Merlins or something? Or is it just "Goblins shouldn't be exploited and enslaved anymore" left to fend for itself? More authors should be brave enough to include far seeing worm gods who are so mad and eternal that they're barely even human anymore
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Feb 9, 2023 22:10
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My understanding is the lead goblin uses a lake of power under the hog to become a dragon to try to destroy the world at the end
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Epic High Five posted:I'm always a fan of writers not knowing how to make a villain in a universe where it should be super simple, so they just make them say stuff lifted piecemeal out of something by Marx or Lenin because it's scary to them, and then when people don't find that convincing enough they tack on "oh and they've got a dirty bomb." What's filling that role here, is the big evil guy resurrecting a bunch of evil Merlins or something? Or is it just "Goblins shouldn't be exploited and enslaved anymore" left to fend for itself? I like it when they present villains as sympathetic revolutionaries, so the villain has legitimate grievances with systems of oppression. But they dont know how to resolve that so they just go "They were secretly insane the whole time and tricking the oppressed!" You see it in a lot of children's media and it's weird because it's basically reactionary conspiracies copied whole-cloth
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Sounds like the wizards were probably mostly mad about someone else finding out about their lake of power, the help of all people to find it tooBuschmaki posted:I like it when they present villains as sympathetic revolutionaries, so the villain has legitimate grievances with systems of oppression. But they dont know how to resolve that so they just go "They were secretly insane the whole time and tricking the oppressed!" You see it in a lot of children's media and it's weird because it's basically reactionary conspiracies copied whole-cloth Didn't Bane have to have a garbage truck nuke scheme or something stapled on to his plot to make him less sympathetic?
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Feb 9, 2023 22:15
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smoobles posted:my wife is playing the Game Which Must Not Be Named and has killed about 100 goblins so far Sounds like rookie numbers to me, I think that still only qualifies as a massacre, not genocide. She better get cracking
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Epic High Five posted:Didn't Bane have to have a garbage truck nuke scheme or something stapled on to his plot to make him less sympathetic? Yeah something like that iirc
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Feb 9, 2023 22:16
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This poster is still smarter than anyone who bought this game. Unless they also bought the game.
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Feb 9, 2023 22:17
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Kwolok posted:This poster is still smarter than anyone who bought this game. Unless they also bought the game. The little mouse symbol means they own the game iirc
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Epic High Five posted:I'm always a fan of writers not knowing how to make a villain in a universe where it should be super simple, so they just make them say stuff lifted piecemeal out of something by Marx or Lenin because it's scary to them, and then when people don't find that convincing enough they tack on "oh and they've got a dirty bomb." What's filling that role here, is the big evil guy resurrecting a bunch of evil Merlins or something? Or is it just "Goblins shouldn't be exploited and enslaved anymore" left to fend for itself? This is why JRPGs typically have a better plot. You eventually end up fighting some sort of god who are also attached to an evil corporation / government / bureaucracy.
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FrostyPox posted:Sounds like rookie numbers to me, I think that still only qualifies as a massacre, not genocide. She better get cracking To be fair Orc Genocide And Horrible Mind Control 2014 was a pretty fun game.
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ImpAtom posted:To be fair Orc Genocide And Horrible Mind Control 2014 was a pretty fun game. 
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Mean Baby posted:This is why JRPGs typically have a better plot. You eventually end up fighting some sort of god who are also attached to an evil corporation / government / bureaucracy. Some of them also have Sylvando, which is the real difference maker I think
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Evolution on the Dreamcast was disappointing because the final boss wasn't God, just some emperor in a robot suit
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Feb 9, 2023 22:20
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There are doors locked behind math puzzles in the game, which is how I learned wizards call math "arithmancy". Pretentious fucks.
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Feb 9, 2023 22:21
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Necrothatcher posted:There are doors locked behind math puzzles in the game, which is how I learned wizards call math "arithmancy". Pretentious fucks. I think if they called it that in the real word more kids would be interested in math. Good job, JK Rowling.
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Feb 9, 2023 22:22
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Epic High Five posted:Some of them also have Sylvando, which is the real difference maker I think wanna play a game where sylvando shows up and summarily dismantles the entirety of wizarding society by being honest, kind and fabulous
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Feb 9, 2023 22:22
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Like they could have just had the enemy be wizards who are conjuring up a bunch of spectral enemies on behalf of some ancient villain who has returned. Instead the enemy is Jewish Marxists.
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Mean Baby posted:Like they could have just had the enemy be wizards who are conjuring up a bunch of spectral enemies on behalf of some ancient villain who has returned. Instead the enemy is Jewish Marxists. but what if the game is fun??? CHECK MATE.
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Lying to urself won't erase the shame Shaming yourself wonty earsse the lies. 
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Truly livin in a society
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Mean Baby posted:Like they could have just had the enemy be wizards who are conjuring up a bunch of spectral enemies on behalf of some ancient villain who has returned. Instead the enemy is Jewish Marxists. HP fans love to destroy Jewish Marxists. It’s why the franchise exists
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Mean Baby posted:Like they could have just had the enemy be wizards who are conjuring up a bunch of spectral enemies on behalf of some ancient villain who has returned. Instead the enemy is Jewish Marxists. I guess if they were going to do that they kind of would have needed rowling to okay an ancient villain, and then they would have had to say rowling was directly involved in the game. Maybe the "advantage" this way is they used the one extant piece of lore about the setting in the 1800s and didn't have to talk to her
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FrostyPox posted:I think if they called it that in the real word more kids would be interested in math. Good job, JK Rowling. eh why not
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My hot take on the HP situation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZRWAjuH0mU Edit: Oh godamnit I was like 2 pages behind bc my browser didn’t refresh. I stand by my statement. SnoochtotheNooch fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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I don't even care that the goblins are the villains, its just mostly that they are portrayed has having legitimate, longstanding grievances and are wrong for not just accepting their status as second-class citizens. It'd be better if they were just DnD goblins, evil for the sake of being evil
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No Mods No Masters posted:I guess if they were going to do that they kind of would have needed rowling to okay an ancient villain, and then they would have had to say rowling was directly involved in the game. Maybe the "advantage" this way is they used the one extant piece of lore about the setting in the 1800s and didn't have to talk to her Just use Bleath Beaters and random monsters.
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Mean Baby posted:Like they could have just had the enemy be wizards who are conjuring up a bunch of spectral enemies on behalf of some ancient villain who has returned. Instead the enemy is Jewish Marxists. Yeah wasted potential seems to be a feature of these franchises now, how much more interesting would a Tiffany Aching or Earthsea game be, if indeed you could even make one of those into a game I guess. Anyway this is all leading up to my real point: The world in Final Fantasy VIII is criminally underexplored by the story, which is just about how much it sucks having stupid co-workers and a sideplot of how you can still do alright if you're a bumbling mess if you've got some good friends.
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Epic High Five posted:Yeah wasted potential seems to be a feature of these franchises now, how much more interesting would a Tiffany Aching or Earthsea game be, if indeed you could even make one of those into a game I guess. It also involves time kompression and a wrist-mounted crossbow that shoots dogs at people so it owns
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Buschmaki posted:What does this thing's gameplay even look like...?
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Buschmaki posted:I like it when they present villains as sympathetic revolutionaries, so the villain has legitimate grievances with systems of oppression. But they dont know how to resolve that so they just go "They were secretly insane the whole time and tricking the oppressed!" You see it in a lot of children's media and it's weird because it's basically reactionary conspiracies copied whole-cloth Armored Core 4 Answer did this right, you join a revolutionary cause and eventually one dude says "Hold on, if the elites are the problem why don't we just kill ALL the elites?" and you do, but since there's 100 million of them it's uh, awkward
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Buschmaki posted:What does this thing's gameplay even look like...? third person shooter with a fast roll
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Buschmaki posted:What does this thing's gameplay even look like...? You can take a look pretty much anywhere, it's already one of the most streamed games of all time at this point
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