And don’t get me wrong, that’s a perfectly valid perspective to critique something. It’s entirely valid to be disappointed when something doesn’t live up to your expectations.
But am I the only one who feels like a good majority of the criticism against the finale kinda has this lens to it? Not complaining, just making an observation.
There’s just an inexplicable correlation between people who have the Conduit Gene and people who have a predilection towards extreme urban exploration.
Got this group that primarily plays D&D, and I’m slowly bringing them around to trying out Daggerheart, but I got this one player who loves playing Artificers. I can see that there are a good few Artficer HBs on Heart of Daggers, but which ones would you personally recommend?
I like how, in InFamous 1 and 2, they go out of their way to give practical explanations for why Cole doesn’t use more practical options like using a gun or driving a car instead of using his powers for everything, and it’s because the electricity in his body causes gunpowder and gasoline to explode.
But for Delsin in Second Son? They don’t even bother to give any explanation for Delsin to use any method that isn’t his powers because Delsin just wants to use his powers for everything, purely because he thinks having powers is dope.
Cole: I can’t use normal methods anymore, so I have to rely on my powers.
Delsin: Why would I want to use normal methods when I have powers!
And it really does feel like my imaginary lady self is gently bullying me in my own brain like an annoying sister, poking me with a stick and going ‘When are you getting lasered? Dude, when are you getting lasered? Hey. Hey, when are you getting lasered?’
I’ve seen a lot of fanart of what Jax might have looked like if they never abstracted and was given the chance to socially transition, and they’re all very nice fanart, don’t get me wrong… But a lot of them are just Jax in a skirt.
We all know, if Jax was actually given the chance to socially transition, they would be a HARDCORE emo grunge girl, and I feel like the fanart doesn’t accurately portray that enough. I’ve seen a few pieces that understand this, but not enough.
Where some people absolutely will not accept that a character in fiction is canonically transgender unless they actually look directly at the camera and say, in plain English, ‘I am transgender’. And even then, there might still be some folks who say ‘It’s up to interpretation’.
Okay, and?
So Gooseworx had a super personal story they wanted to tell, told that story through Jax, and told it in a really effective way.
What’s the issue?
Did you know Luke Skywalker was George Lucas’ self-insert OC? This is a proud tradition that goes all the way back to Dante Alighieri.
Because, if you actually listen to the whole song, the song is from the perspective of a father marveling at how much he loves and adores his baby daughter mere seconds after she’s born. Marveling at how that love is completely instantaneous, immediate, and *unconditional*.
All things Jax never got to experience, or at the very least *felt* as though he/she never got to experience as a ‘daughter’.
Because Jax internalized that care, affection and love is *always* conditional.
Cause look at how Faye actually fights in the trailer. She’s a lot more acrobatic than Kratos, uses a lot more verticality in her combos. The simple fact that she can jump at all!
Kinda reminds you of something, doesn’t it?
I’m just wondering if this new, more acrobatic combat system is Santa Monica’s way of testing the waters of reimagining Young Kratos’ fighting style in the old games with modern gameplay.
Within the world of One Piece, the manga has only covered about three years of the Straw Hats’ lives, in universe. Whereas with a live action show, you generally get only one season every year. So by the time they reach like Dressrossa or Wano or what have you, the cast could potentially be a whole decade older than they are right now.
My solution to this? Own it. Acknowledge that this is a different universe and just have more time skips than the manga. The Straw Hats are middle aged by the time they get to Wano? Great! Own that shit. Make it a story about a group of friends who have given years and years of their limited time on this earth to achieve this one goal, and how they wouldn’t trade those years for anything.
Are there any armor pieces that you would consider ‘hidden’ that someone might miss on a casual playthrough, or are they all pretty obviously in plain sight? I know some of them are rewards for minigames, but I’m talking about armor pieces that might be hidden in the levels themselves, like how a titanium bolt might be.
Like, when you collectively refer to both Ghost of Tsushima and Ghost of Yotei, what do you call it? Cause I’ve just been calling them ‘the Ghost games’ in lieu of any better collective label.
It’s not just that they are all wrong, it’s that they all say the same thing, so clearly the problem is with my specific game, but how can that possibly be?
Like, in the book, they mostly split up Experiences into five categories (which I know is just a suggestion and not a hard and fast ruling, but it’s still a good frame of reference for teaching a new player how Experiences work).
Those five categories given in the book are Backgrounds, Characteristics, Skills, Specialties, and Phrases.
Skills and Specialties are the only ones that have any real overlap for me, so I’m curious how you guys differentiate between the two.
Like, don’t get me wrong, he was always a bad guy, but he was incredibly petty and lowstakes in Jak 2. Yeah, he was Baron Praxis’ right hand man, but that weirdly never really came up in the story. His main source of antagonism towards Jak was very… high-school bully. Over-competitiveness and courting Keira purely to spite Jak. None of that makes Errol a bad character, mind you, it just makes him a very specific kind of villain, and he fulfilled that role perfectly fine in Jak 2.
Fast forward to Jak 3… and he’s now an omnicidal maniac who wants to destroy the world because… fuck Jak, I guess? Man took being Jak’s hater to an absolutely insane degree.
I think the craziest thing is that there’s just no transitional period between one and the other. One minute he’s ’I’m going to beat you at this race and prove I’m better’ and the next he’s a cackling madman gleefully ranting about Armageddon.
Guess an explosion to the face really changes a guy.
Jak X’s story: This character is your rival for this Cup, they will be your most dangerous opponent on the track and the racer you should worry about the most…
Jak X’s gameplay: ASHELIN, WE ARE ON THE SAME FUCKING TEAM!!! ENOUGH WITH THE PEACE MAKERS!!!
Like, say what you want about the gameplay or the empty hub-worlds, is there anyone like me who actually really got into the Initiative, the Kett, the Remnant, the Ryder family drama, the other Pathfinders, etc?
I don’t know, even though it feels like we’re finally at the point where Mass Effect fans are coming around and admitting that Andromeda was not that bad of a game, it still feels like even the people who acknowledge that still feel the need to take the piss out of the story, when I actually thought the story was one of the better parts of the game. Or is that just me?