u/VictorBelmont

I hope this doesn't count as low-effort since I spent waaaay too long making it. I tried to pick one entry per franchise save Empress and Emperor as those two typically relate. Definitely aging myself with some of these picks.

I'll try to explain and not spoil the related games:

Magician: Nerevar and the Tribunal (Elder Scrolls). The Prophecy surrounding the Nerevarine is set, but it's not guaranteed to be you; you have to earn it, and are massively rewarded for it.

High Priestess: Elizabeth (Bioshock Infinite). An arcana about repressed emotions and strange powers? I think Elizabeth fits.

Empress: Tifa (Final Fantasy 7). Suits a Team Mom-type character.

Emperor: Cid (FF7). Also suitable for a Team Dad.

Hierophant: Reapers (Mass Effect). Hierophant deals with authority: how much is good, who wields it, etc. Reapers represent an ancient authority that must be overthrown for the sake of the galaxy.

Lovers: Tidus & Yuna (Final Fantasy X). One of gaming's most iconic couples.

Chariot: Sin Devil Trigger (Devil May Cry 5). The Chariot deals with juggling opposing forces. Dante and Vergil constantly come to blows about how to handle their mixed human/demon heritage, and Sin Devil Trigger represents Dante's full synthesis of those opposing forces.

Justice: Corvo (Dishonored). The entire story is a revenge plot, but how you choose to enact that revenge, who gets caught up in the crossfire, has marked repercussions on the city as a whole.

Hermit: Silent Hill in general. A town that isolates people and subjects them to very personal hells is fitting for an arcana focused on introspection.

Wheel of Fortune: Zagreus (Hades). A game about taking the reins of your own destiny with heavy rng and cyclical elements? Seems right.

Strength: Asura (Asura's Wrath). Dude kills the embodiment of creation for his daughter. Like damn.

Hanged Man: Harry Dubois (Disco Elysium). Trying not to spoil, so we'll suffice with saying that a literal hanged man is the catalyst for the plot.

Death: Any Dark Souls. The way death is handled in Dark Souls has been analyzed by everyone at this point. Let's call Death the "Git Gud" arcana.

Temperance: Revan (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic). Temperance is similar to the Chariot, with the addition that you must synthesize your actions with your values, and Revan is willing to do whatever it takes to enact their ideals.

Devil: Merill (Dragon Age 2). Without giving away too much about her character, Merill flirts with disaster by using blood magic, which is a dangerous, forbidden art in the DA verse.

Tower: BJ (Wolfenstein). You ever seen The Man in the High Castle?

Star: Zelda (The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom). How do I even talk about this without spoilers? Let's say it has to do with a Chosen One theme in the arcana.

Moon: Cereza (Bayonetta). Umbra Witch bby

Sun: Sora (Kingdom Hearts). Optimism, freedom, true souls always finding each other... Who else could it be?

Judgement: War (Darksiders). A literal Horseman of the Apocalypse accused of starting the War to End All Wars.

World: Minecraft in general. The World is Yours. Wait, that's James Bond.

Hey all! IMO, the best games have strong themes, and I thought it would be interesting to see which major arcana of the tarot they align with.

You may notice I'm starting with 1 and not 0.The Fool, and that's because enough games can slot in to be essentially meaningless, so I figured The Fool would be the last one filled in. We're going to start with the more defined roles to make it easier.

The criteria is pretty loose: suggest a game, a franchise, or an iconic character that best represents the concept of the card as described below. The closer you can get both in concept and appearance, the better. There will be no repeats in later arcana, so choose wisely. Top voted comment wins!

>The Magician symbolizes action, initiative, self-confidence, determination, manipulation, dexterity, following your inspiration, and channeling and manifesting one's potential. Don't be afraid of success, and have faith in your talents: the reward will be worth the effort.

>The dark side of the Magician is a person that lets their confidence turn into overconfidence, and their resourcefulness turn into self-serving, unethical manipulation: think of a conman. Alternatively, it could be represented by a person who has confidence, communication, and creativity issues, and who is letting their talents go to waste.

-TV Tropes: UsefulNotes/TarotCards

What game, game franchise, or character do you think best fits The Magician?

I was thinking recently about how Persona uses major arcana to represent the theme of social links, and it made me curious what people would choose to represent their favorite game. Of course I had to as the Persona sub!

Obviously there is a strong chance that your favorite game is a Persona title, and you can certainly choose one, but it would be more in the spirit of the question to pick a non-SMT game to apply a major arcana to.

What would you choose?

(Unsure of artist. Found it on a wallpaper website uncredited.)

It's a pretty well-known phenomenon by this point: PA patches the game, and the sub gets filled with requests for the next patch. The new patch comes, it may or may not have certain requests fulfilled, and requesters post again.

Some of these posts are crazy: make literally everything a pet (including Yann), an evolving griffin mount, full gore and dismemberment (including Yann); we could sit here forever looking at comments with wild ideas.

And I get it: PA has stated multiple times they are updating based on feedback, such as in this WAPO article. And I think that's pretty obvious looking at how random the patch notes can be sometimes - I don't think anyone was expecting pinball to be added, but it was a novel way to put more items in the game and require some effort to get them.

And it's not like PA gets nothing out of this. Not only have the quick fixes helped Crimson Desert improve its reputation from launch (look at that player rating), but Crimson Desert is also the maiden voyage of PA's new Blackspace Engine, which has required a lot of time and money to develop and is planned to be the engine powering future PA projects; in essence, we are all playtesters for this engine, and these constant updates help the devs understand and refine their tech.

PA are also under no obligation to continue the updates, or listen to any one in particular. Again, the patch notes are always a surprise as PA rarely communicates in specific terms what it coming (they have on a few occasions, but it's not common), which helps keep expectations in check.

Of course, that comes with its own issues as common comments about upcoming patches includes jokes about adding more pets (including Yann), making performance worse, adding twenty new armors for Kliff and Oongka and nothing for Damiane or Yann; you know, you've seen them.

But the fact is we enjoy these updates, whatever they may bring. More game is more game, it has overall become a much more enjoyable experience since launch, and PA shows no signs of stopping. We also know DLC is coming, and the whole community should be excited about that.

What I'm trying to say by all this is that asking for things is ultimately harmless. PA is under no obligation to grant any request, and those people who keep ideas flowing aren't "parasites" or "greedy" because PA is actively looking for new ideas in the community.

I also want to say that these updates are not solely in service of the players, as keeping the community locked in and playing helps PA refine their new game engine, which will help ensure smoother launches for future projects using Blackspace.

The community's relationship with PA isn't one-sided, and we should all be a lot more excited about the fact we get such a great experience in Crimson Desert and less at each other's throats about greed and expectations. We should be a community united by trying to make the game the best it can be, not tearing into each other.

Let's just take a moment to reset, remember why we are here, and be nicer to each other going forward.