Other than obviously launching Stefan Amaris unto the sun.
What else would you have done if you were Richard Cameron to save the Star League from its collapse?
I think we all know that Microsoft and Xbox lost interest in making consoles and only care about profiting from Xbox Game Pass by now. They even started selling their exclusives on other consoles. I can understand and even celebrate PC releases. Still releases on other consoles?
Well Microsoft was always a software company.
But I am worried about Sony having a monopoly.
Only stupid fanboys do not worry about giving corporations monopolies to abuse.
Sony is going to care less about improving PlayStation consoles or even making that many platform exclusives every year when Microsoft is out of the picture.
Let's be realistic here.
Do you have any candidates in your mind who should replace Microsoft?
If, we accept RPG to mean roleplaying, then it means we accept any game, where we get to decide how personality of our main character gets made.
Would this mean some sandboxes especially sandboxes with character creation belong to the RPG genre under some subgenre?
Medieval era under medieval nobilities had weak monarchies especially in its late era, this obviously bred so much conflict in Medieval life.
Meant a golden age of Mercenaries.
Medieval era under medieval nobilities had weak monarchies especially in its late era, this obviously bred so much conflict in Medieval life.
For Mercenaries, it was an endless business.
Makes me wish we had more portrayals of Medieval mercenaries instead of these knights.
I always wondered what genre is the Deus Ex series here.
Well the Deus Ex series is definitely level-based, no open world in it.
Still so much mingling here.
We have mechanics like, immersive simulation, first-person shooting, rpg progression, in its gameplay.
I would like to hear your opinions on where to classify it.
I would like to know about games which similar to the Commandos series.
I grew up with "Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines" despite not knowing how to play it at the time, haha.
Just like, the title says, I would like to have suggestions of historical American TV shows from perspective of working-class Americans.
In short, stories about working-class Americans and their labour struggles.
Just like, the title says, I would like to have suggestions of historical American movies from perspective of working-class Americans.
In short, stories about working-class Americans and their labour struggles.
I would like to know about the most cynical sci-fi writers about political progress.
To quote, Larry Niven, "Niven's Law: No cause is so noble that it won't attract fuggheads."
Everyone was impressed that Brok figured out that something is wrong with the fake Tyr who turned out to be Odin in God of War Ragnarok.
It's actually reasonable when you think about it.
Remember what Mimir said in the beginning about Odin? "If, he tells you snow is white, he's lying." Many found it funny but what did it mean?
In real-life, hypocrites do the same. They use the truth to manipulate. And then they try to gaslight you when the truth is no longer convenient by telling you snow is not there. And they play mind games with you through gaslighting you. In short they weaponise the truth through half-truths.
That's exactly Odin's favourite manipulation method.
Brok on the other hand is the complete opposite of Odin.
He is a crude dwarvish guy without any pretensions or pleasantries in how he talks to others. He doesn't bother with flattery. He just tells it as it's.
That's why he could sense something was wrong with the fake Tyr.
He is a no-nonsense straightforward type of thinker.
Bless his soul.
If, you want a good ending, just do like Pagan Min says.
Stay here. Enjoy the Crab Rangoon. Don't move! He will be right back.
That's the only possible good ending.
At first I play the Golden Path Campaign. And then I restart the game right after finishing everything just to play the secret ending.
I like to think all this Golden Path stuff was only Ajay daydreaming before Pagan Min comes back.
Many fantasy fans especially in the isekai genre find it funny that the mages of a kingdom would summon a teen boy but it actually makes sense to do so.
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Let's think in the shoes of the king and the noblemen of a kingdom.
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Firsthand no need to worry about competency. A summoned person is a gifted one with magic and endowments without much efforts. Any man whether a teen boy or an adult man would be good enough. It's not like you need to train him in mind and martial arts or whatever. Simply no sense in worrying about the age so long as he's grown enough.
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Now you see. It's actually better to summon a teen boy rather than an adult man for our kingdom.
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If, I myself was summoned, I would stick around to gather enough information, before I make my own judgements, instead of trusting what a group of medieval aristocratic hereditary nobility has to say.
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Teen boys are much easier to indoctrinate. Adult men ask too many questions. That's why military recruiters prefer high school graduates. They know teen boys are good enough for indoctrination by propaganda and so easily impressionable to convince of anything.
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It's better to summon a hot-headed teen boy with delusions of grandeur about becoming a pure-hearted hero rather than a cold-thinking adult man. Any mature man would be sceptical. He would gather information. He would start asking questions. And we can't have that.
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That's why teen boys are the most suited ones for summoning magic rituals.
Just like, the title says, the redemption of Kratos in God of War Ragnarök is a realistic masterpiece within gaming.
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What, I really like about Kratos' redemption, is how Kratos redeemed himself without becoming an idealistic white knight following some maxim saying never kill or likewise.
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I mean seriously. Too many stories transform their protagonist into a knight in white armour. That's a lazy way to redeem your protagonist.
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Kratos still struggled with killing but he stopped when he could.
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When, Kratos defeated Heimdall, he offered mercy, on the condition that Heimdall leave his son alone, but Heimdall was too prideful to stop, so Kratos killed him.
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When, Kratos defeated Thors, he again offered mercy, on the condition that Thors choose to do better, which Thors agreed to, but then Odin killed his own son.
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When, Kratos defeated Odin, he still offered mercy, as Atreus begged Odin to stop, but Odin was too prideful and too far gone to ever stop, so Atreus did what needed to be done by taking Odin's soul.
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Kratos never became a knight in white armour but he did choose to be better!
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That's why his redemption was so great. He couldn't solve everything without violence. He still choose to attempt peaceful solutions first.
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That's very realistic. We can actually try doing the same choices in real-life but we usually choose not to.
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Story-writers need to take lessons from Sony's Santa Monica Studio about how to write a truly great redemption story.
Just like, the title says, I want suggestions of sci-fi novels and other written works with an enlightened monarchy, where the monarch or the autocrat is actually competent instead of being an idiot.
To be honest I really think Anthem did have a lot of potential though a very wasted one.
A story about a world abandoned by its gods. A gameplay with exosuits capable of extraordinary feats. This game had a lot of brilliant concepts to use for us.
The problem is that such game required a lot of effort, investing, and commitment, but we all are ought to know better than to expect such conduct from EA.
Anyway doesn't matter anymore. The game's servers are already dead. The lessons of its failure are all that's left for us now.
Just like, the title says, I like to have suggestions of action-adventure games with blades like whip blades and chain blades instead of swords. Traditional swords are very boring. Blades like whip blades and chain blades are much cooler.
For example, many of us already know about the famous games of Castlevania and God of War franchises.
The Steward can still preserve democracy. I mean factionalism is a problem for sure. The city is always going to struggle with conflict at first. But then again it's not that hard to preserve democracy.
My Steward managed to preserve democracy with ease through a couple of democratic reforms. Most importantly this reform called, one man, one vote. The Steward is the man. And he has the vote.