u/Electrical_Cress_956

Just like you can never teach a dog the difference between Canada and the USA, no matter how hard you try, no matter how much effort, even with the correct answer in your head, it is impossible to make the dog grasp and understand it.

That analogy is what made me wonder: Is it possible that a theory of quantum gravity is simply beyond our intelligence capacity, even if we had the answer in front of us (for example through a future AI)? Is it possible that we, as a species, may never be able to understand it?

I'm a bit worried for The Wayward Realms if I'm honest. In my opinion the ambition is starting to sound more like a warning than anything else.

On the surface: The developers are building a massive game world, a dynamic "Virtual Game Master", complex faction reputations, spell crafting, climbing, boats, and a world that reacts to everything you do.

And this is where my worry starts:

Every time I hear about another feature, millions of NPCs, emergent political systems, dynamic resource bars (with sub-mechanics like rest, overload, fatigue, etc) quests that write themselves based on your actions, I think less about "how cool this will be" and more about "how do you possibly get all of that right on the first try?"

I don't think the game has to reinvent everything. Personally, I actually think it would be much healthier and easier to make if the core mechanics stayed largely Skyrim like. Simple combat. Clear quest markers. A linear leveling system. Regenerative resource bars. It's solid, proven and fun.

Take that foundation, scale it to the massive world size they are promising, and lean into the open ended immersiveness. You would still have a grand RPG with hundreds of hours of exploration.

We would still have a new experience, just built on mechanics that actually works, not one that tries to solve every design problem at once. Some (or all) of the new systems could easily become tedious, unpolished, or just not fun.

But again, it's not my game, they're free to follow their own vision and we can only hope it turns out good.

This bro has lost or drawn every high stake battle he's fought, he hasn't achieved any of his goals and doesn't have UI.

And people put him in top 5 ever because he has a cool design and a funny personality. Get a grip lads, Goo is overrated as fuck