melkathi

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I think it exacerbates the already existing issue with the reactive nature of player activity. Thinks happen and the character reacts to them. Of course a player can't ever be completely proactive. They will always be constrained by what the Devs were able to predict, but sometimes the writing can try to make the plot be about the player taking the reigns. Alpha Protocol tried that. And it is part of what made it so memorable. You are coming for them. We experience plot in first person, but decisions aren't made in first person. Gamedec, with the noirish narration and the deduction, gives players the feel they are in charge of where things are going. Visual novels like heart of the forest try to give options that make the player appear proactive. But most RPGs rely too much on quest givers. Even Bethesda open world games don't give the player agency beyond choosing which NPC will tell them what to do. And time skips, which seem to always simplify the player's activity over that time, really underline how the player can't do anything without an NPC sending them out to fetch a Xander root and Broc flower.

@kanisatha Did you enjoy Dragon Age 2's time skips between acts? A lot of people did not. Expeditions Rome copies it but does it worse really. It does it worse, because your character comes out of Act 1 with a mission and very possibly political ambitions. So having your character not pursue their agenda in the downtime is very immersion breaking. And the writing in general deteriorates as the game progresses. While I could replay acts one and two, the thought of revisiting act three repulses me - they may have revamped some gameplay, but unless they rewrote the third half of the game, I do not see me ever revisiting this, just as I'd never play dragon age 2 again. I enjoy the companions well enough. They each have a short story arc. Nothing important really, but they work and add to the experience. I do not find the upgrades to the camp meaningful enough to recommend the game based on them. You will try to conquer all regions in each act to get more upgrades, but in reality it is just something to draw out the length of the game.

It seems likely that GW is trying to make 40K stand for the number of novels in the IP

Dan Abnett has written more than 10 Gaunt novels alone. Add his Ravenor and Horus Heresy stuff, there are far more than 10 novels. The truth is though that the vast majority of GW novels range from trash to garbage.

Necromunda truly wasted a lot of potential with the terrible game we were given.

There was a fan made adult battle brothers style Slaanesh cult simulator being worked on at some point. But it got abandoned because GW cracks down hard on Slaanesh themed games.

We haven't had a proper warhammer RPG. As Mal said, Inquisitor was a (dull from what I read) diablo clone. I hope they make it less annoying than Pathfinder where every little critter drained your stats on hit.

Like the npc I talked to about Harvest Time.

I did find one guy in the bar and we talked about Harvest Time. Specifically about PvP... in a farming simulator...

I finally wrapped up Harvest Time in Gamedec. I found all the cosmetic items for my farm from lockboxes and bought everything you can on a fr00b account. Even got a Midnight Express Ticket. I am now in a bar trying to blend in.

Well, Coteries is a visual novel which focuses on you choosing which subplots to explore in the given time of each playthrough. The sub plots have little to do with the main plot and when the main plot concludes the question is simply if you followed specific plots to the end and therefor can ignore them next playthrough.

Their map searches are worse. They don't use geolocation (properly) so if you put in the street name of a street 200m away, it may find a random street of the same name somewhere in the world.

I still don't believe TOR is this magic thing that guarantees anonymity. Regardless of how many times you split and rerout my data packages, a request for data still has to leave my computer and get to whatever website. And then data has to get back to me. It should just be too much of a hassle for the NSA guy to go through for something trivial like a "what the latex turtle is he doing googling a site that includes mods for realistic lactation in Bethesda games?" (Disclaimer: I do not know if there is a realistic lactation mod out there. I wouldn't be surprised if someone was working on one though. There have been weirder things coded.)

I find out the darkness of the web so I can stop you from straying there. It is the cross I bear for my friends. Also, that's what duckduckgo is for.

If Bruce started downloading mods from Loverslab instead of Nexus, it may very well be.

It really ties the thread together.

I think Old World launched on GOG and Steam last week? Too busy with Against The Storm to remember

So we can all agree, Alpha Protocol was an educational game.

All three found!

Harvest Time in Gamedec is seriously addictive.

Me that I care more about being a dad than a significant other. People were talking about romance options and I was wondering how to adopt Sis.

I still wait to go on a date and the woman to say to me "I hear the Adirondack's are beautiful this time of year"

So, two people left to identify