Raithe

I've dabbled my way through it now. It's a very odd feeling to play. It's got got an interesting story and some characters I would like to know more or have things happening with. But, you don't actually get that much engagement with the characters apart from a lot of fetch quests. It's got a really atmospheric downtown section of city.. that has almost nothing to actually do in it. The representation of Clan Disciplines is yet another weird blend of I both like parts of what they've done and loathe other elements. So it's a lot of disjointed sensation. But the combat mechanics annoy the bleep out of me, and has pretty much nothing positive for me to say about it. Plus, the way they've done the ending is disconcerting. You have all sorts of build-up on characters reacting to your conversation choices throughout the game "was irritated by that" "was pleased by that" "found that interesting" kind of thing going on, and then for the whole last sequence you have no engagement with any of those characters and there's some arcane logic of which one of 6? endings you get depending on some combination of those results, but no real suggestion of which did it. And apparently, a couple pretty much overwrite everything else you choose to do. And the ending themselves get presented in this incredibly shallow "60 second review of the aftermath" with no interesting details of surviving characters you met along the way.

This thread really is quite slow when I'm not around... So, quote for the day: "In America you call it the Alt Right. In Germany, we call it 'Why Grandpa lives in Argentina Now.'"

https://www.ign.com/articles/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2-review?

https://www.eurogamer.net/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2-review

Well, that's all looking a lot more like an Arkane Dishonored rather than an rpg based Bloodlines...

Renato Casaro https://deadline.com/gallery/reanto-casaro-film-poster-artist-obit/a-fistful-of-dollars-us-poster-art-clint-eastwood-1964/

If you all remember, I raised that a couple of years back because my attachments are full (too many funnythings threads filled) and I couldn't wipe them clear I don't think anyone figured out a response to it back then and nothing's changed since that has been flagged to me.

They never beat Lambert's dirty chuckle for Raiden.

De-stressing from life and dealing with house valuation and the work juggle by grinding survival on Arrakis in Dune Awakening. Solo'ing around and exploring the world as I can.

Well, I'd gotten to the Vermillius Gap, I was wearing a whole ton of unique schematic gear, decide to follow the next path that leads north.. The my sandbuggy jumped a dune, landed me in quicksand which I hadn't realised was a thing there, and as I'm trying to get the bike out a Sandworm eat me. Everything gone. Then spent a couple of hours doing the grind to re-equip myself and build a new Sandbike, decide to head in a slightly different direction, carefully avoid some drumsand.. and then 3 sandworms pretty much dogpile me. Found myself being chased by one, then a second emerged in the ground ahead of me, and as I start to turn to run for another area.. the third freaking sandworm crests a dune and landed on me. One more unto the re-equip grind. Solo play is definitely a touch longer...

I picked up Dune Awakening to to a little bit of dabbling with when I get some gaming time. I spent a fair amount of hours with Conan after all and thought the PvE might be an enjoyable time sink. Didn't really think about whether PvP was a demand of the game or not. I shall continue puttering around and exploring it as is, and see where it takes me and what point I get to be blah over it...

"Krennic is a great villain because he's relatable. He's not a space wizard or a mystic knight. He's not a brilliant scientist or genius engineer. He's not a super soldier or a tactical commander. He's not a political leader, wealthy, or well connected. He's an evil project manager. He runs around, telling everyone how upper management is upset and how much trouble they will be in if they don't get on schedule. He pontificates during long, boring meetings. He makes people do work they hate. He gets angry about your data security. He tells you all about the meetings he has with the CEO, and complains to his supervisors that he's not gotten enough credit. No one likes him. He annoys everyone. He completely buys into the company mindset, even when its clearly evil. He's the worst manager you ever had. And you're so happy when he finally gets what he deserves."