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Looks like they made all the kith basically the same size. Eora's dead to me.
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More Avowed news. And more proof of how scaled down the game's been as development's gone on.
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2024/06/09/avowed-story-companion-xbox-games-showcase-2024/
QuoteSupporting you on your journey are four companions, including Giatta.
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6 hours ago, Wormerine said:
I can't agree. I don't think Deadfire's narrative and pivotal choice was well delivered, but there was a lot of going on in there. I don't want to judge Avowed on marketing, but it just looks so generic, and descriptive. "OOoo.. this is bad", "Ooo, but this is worse". "Ooo, this is not bad at all!".
I was talking about gameplay. Deadfire is a much easier game, even on the higher difficulties, than POE.
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2 hours ago, Wormerine said:
Avowed still looks…. Eh?
It looks so…. Basic? It is as if they concluded that PoE were to complex and subtle and overcorrected by cutting all flavour out. Hopefully the game proper fares better, but so far Avowed raises more and more red flags with each reveal.
They did the same thing going from POE to Deadfire.
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18 hours ago, Wormerine said:
That sounds to me about as likely as Microsoft acquiring Nintendo.
Nintendo's better off than either Sony or Microsoft's gaming division 'cause unlike the two 'big boys', Nintendo stays in their lane and doesn't spend ungodly amounts of money on photorealistic graphs.
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3 hours ago, LadyCrimson said:
The next goose/goat game?
Thank you for triggering my PTSD.
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Not only did Arkane's fall start under Bethesda, but Zenimax covered up how bad things were in the Austin studio so Microsoft would focus more resources on Starfield.
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Let's be honest, Arkane's last commercially successfully was the first Dishonored. Everything they've made for more than the last decade has flopped. Not sure why everyone's surprised.
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On 4/21/2024 at 12:59 AM, melkathi said:
The pony is a bloodthirsty drunkard, the wolf was raised by boars.
It's like someone split me into two characters.
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I fought my first drake the other day. I Brined it. 'cause the drake has fire breath and a lunge attack, it likes to back off if the person who's pulled it's agro is melee. I'm a fighter and I have a core skill that pulls agro so despite being up against a river, it takes flight and backs off. I stood on the bank for a few minutes while the drake's AI tried to puzzle out this situation, and it ultimately decided to land in the river. I've killed a surprising number of enemies by getting them to back off into the Brine.
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13 hours ago, Wormerine said:
Hmm, I must say, I don’t remember H:ZD story to be much more than serviceable. I cool visual design though. Alloy was likeable, if a bit too one note.
I am tempted to pick it up at some point. While Open World checklist simulators aren’t my cup of tea, Sony ones (Spiderman, Horizon) have been fairly pleasant time wasters, when I wasn’t in a mood to play anything demanding attention.I didn't like Aloy. Not 'cause she was a bad character but 'cause I bought the game to fight robot dinosaurs and her cut scenes were the stuff that happened in between the fighting robot dinosaurs.
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1 hour ago, melkathi said:
And by making it an elvish language course, they can probably get into a literacy program and have 0 expenses.
You can buy the same scroll to teach elvish in game. It just take longer to unlock that store. All Capcom games have a meta too them. Watch some speedruns of DD:DA. This is just another one. I honestly couldn't tell you what they have for microtransations 'cause I've never needed them even through I bought the Basic B!tch Edition.
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1 hour ago, melkathi said:
Does your character learn elvish at some point or do you as the player have to learn elvish, with Capcom offering two week intensive elvish language courses?
No, but you can pick an elf, give them flowers once a day for three days consecutive days and they'll give you a book you can use to teach your pawn elvish and they'll act as translator for you. On an unrelated note, I have an elven innkeeper who's quite taken with me.
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I have 40 hours in DD2. I just recently 'legally immigrated' to Batthal. Seriously though, all backdoor ways into the country are very dangerous. I honestly can't wait to see what speedrunners can do with this game.
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20 hours ago, BruceVC said:
Are you playing on PC and are you using controller or m\kb?
I'm using keyboard and mouse. Honestly, it's like they collected data on my hotkeys for DD:DA 'cause the weapon skill hold button is the thumb buttons on the mouse.
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Been playing DD2. I've got over 15 hours and I've only done one main quest. Visited the inn to heal up and rest. Woke up to see goblins running around in the city everywhere. My first thought was that the Goblin Wars had begun but figured out later that an ox cart pulled the goblin's agro and led them into the city.
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2 hours ago, Keyrock said:
Right now I'm leaning toward starting as a thief with either a fighter or a mage as my main pawn. As far as advanced vocations go, I'll cross that bridge once I start unlocking them.
I'm going fighter and using a mage pawn (heal bot). Also plan to go just my character and pawn in hopes that the XP bonus for a smaller party is in DD2 like the first game.
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4 hours ago, kanisatha said:
But surely all of this is possible to do with companions without those companions having to be shared with other players.
No, you can't. There are too many buffs, debuffs, actions, reactions, weaknesses, and invulnerabilities for an action game where you can control the pawn like Dragon Age. Really, Dragon's Dogma has always been a game you have to play to understand. It's way too in depth to summarize. Back in 1994 Capcom made Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom, a side-scrolling beat-'em-up rpg. Dragon's Dogma was a spiritual successor in that it tries to capture DnD in an action game and is the closest anyone has ever come. They'd have to slow the action down, make combat and exploration more 2D rather than 3D to make pawns full blown companions.
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On 3/4/2024 at 9:50 AM, Keyrock said:
I'm honestly surprised other devs haven't tried to swipe Dragon's Dogma's pawns system. It's a pretty ingenious way to do companions IMHO.
I saw a very recent review where the reviewer showed a bunch of footage of them abusing Throw Blasts (throwable items in your inventory) and then said she couldn't figure out why her pawn would throw items in their inventory. I think it's great how the pawns would learn from not just being borrowed, but also from just watching how the player character and other pawns play. A harpy can pick you up and then just drop you from a height, but you can teach your pawn to grab onto your legs to drag the harpy down by doing this yourself if the pawn gets grabbed. There are dozens are little things like that.
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Fair warning, both the Waylanders and Black Geyser have been abandoned due to the studios closing. The Waylanders specifically is really buggy. Black Geyser's better but both have a much smaller scope than you might be expecting if you're coming off of BG3 or PF:tWotR.
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On 2/20/2024 at 12:55 PM, melkathi said:
Best.
DLC.
EVAR!
But does the dirt turn into infidels?
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2 hours ago, Hawke64 said:
Could you please share what game it is?
Elder Scrolls Online. I recently made a new character: argonian warden. This quest was in Hammerfell where apparently they have racing lizards and this lady sells them.
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For reference, I am a lizard.
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Random video game news... Bring me a bucket, and I'll show you a bucket!
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What would've made more sense as a vestigial aspects of a 4 person co-op game is a party of four. Not four wholeass companions for the whole game.