Tale

So I'm about to start a project in RPGMaker MV. I decided that one of my stories would be super cool if it had an 80s neon look. Since I think that would absolutely fail in text, I'll try and realize it in crappy sprite based JRPG format! And my first task was to build a progress bar signature in GIMP to make visual gags about how badly I'm procrastinating. And maybe actually track real progress occasionally. After 2 hours of working on it, mostly trying to figure out how to do easy boxes, I export it just to see if I'm wasting my time and realize that it will be a complete eyesore. I decide to switch to just text updates in my sig. That's called triage. Progress? Progress.

You're alive! I don't remember that song. I guess it's not Oldwalls?

I'm starting to get annoyed by the Sunset Spire just standing there taunting me. I can cheat to claim it, but I'm afraid I'll skip content if it turns out there actually is a quest that opens up later...

Hey, I love Farscape as much as the next guy but I do feel compelled, compelled I say, to point out that Farscape is indisputably set in the Milky Way rather than another galaxy. Well yes, but John Crichton isn't a member of a galaxy spanning civilization. He's thrust into a completely foreign location far from home, to a point where he doesn't even know where home is. Extrapolate!

It might be nice for a sequel to re-evaluate that and dismiss it as KIS having spent time in Sage capitivity and picked up some nonse from them, and they actually run in complex family units.

In Mass Effect, it does not take much time at all. On the scope of weeks, not millenia. If the enemies have to hide to be unknown, it sort of makes it hard for you to be the one hiding your home, doesn't it? To find you, all they have to do is stop hiding. And if they're hidden by a single nebula, they aren't very vast. Certainly nothing on the existing alliances of the Mass Effect universe.

You're not going to operate an active stellar empire in the Milky Way in Mass Effect without everyone past a certain tech level noticing you. Their transmissions and sensors are FTL with fantastic fidelity. If your new villain isn't technology advanced enough to pick up your TV signals, they're not a big threat.

I've been saying since ME3 that the next Mass Effect should go to a new galaxy. And my main inspiration for saying that was Farscape. End up somewhere new, with terrifying new villains, and do you very best to try and stop them from finding out where you're from.

They fixed the trading cards and now I have 3 Bariks. Speak up if you want to trade, because I'm selling my duplicates tomorrow.

Vague, but putting in spoilers just to be nice.

What the hey, man? You just started your second playthrough. I'm about 12 hours in and only unlocked my second tower.

PoE is $45 for the base game right now.

I'd recommend Tyranny generally speaking. But Pillars of Eternity is a longer game by many accounts if that's a factor for you.

If you think the entire game is just choosing between the Scarlet Chorus and the Disfavored, then you're jumping to conclusions terribly early.

Confirmation from Paradox that the game should have trading cards: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/why-no-steam-trading-cards.981447/

Either I've encountered a bug or something is poorly explained. One of Siren's songs is simply not available. It's the level 9 defensive song. She's level 10, almost 11. I swear I had it earlier. Checking her talents, it doesn't have the gold border. This stinks because I have her using the defensive tree and have the talents for expanded radius on defensive songs. I think I saw a post about this on the Reddit sub from another player. Edit found it, but his was even worse: https://www.reddit.com/r/TyrannyGame/comments/5cypzf/bugsirins_songs_not_working_correctly/ Already reported on Paradox, seems repro is done: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/bug-sirin-looses-active-songs-when-removed-from-the-party.982399/ Don't drop her from party.

Probably going to be up to their publishers. Paradox isn't much of a box publisher. Though Pillars certainly did have a box edition for Kickstarters. I have mine still in plastic.

Right now I'm feeling like this might be Obsidian's best game. I know I've heard complaints about it being too short, so that might temper it. I really didn't care about the PoE companions, but this lot are simply a lot of fun. Lots of strong personality in this crew. And lots of interesting people to meet and kill when they don't bow to your authority. I gave them a chance!

This is when I knew I was dealing with something special. Also, mild language warning, but it is filtered on these boards.

I actually had to run back and forth between the furthest spots about a dozen times to get it to kill me. It's very generous.

Did you beat it already? How long?

Rabble rabble rabble.

Just noticed no trading cards. I was looking forward to sprucing up my profile with a Tyranny background. Hopefully they'll introduce them later.

Tyranny makes a fantastic first impression. The Conquest sequence is probably the coolest feature I've seen in an RPG. And I'm only saying "probably" because I know someone will point out some game from the 90s I missed with something better.

Still on Nuka World. I've decided the Disciples simply must go. Nisha almost deceives you into thinking she's a fine person, but just looking around their base you can see that they're basically the worst.