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I've been playing this game like every day since it came out and I'm still in act 1. I don't think I'll ever leave.

Just finished Grymforge myself, I think literally the only thing left to do is finally tackle that goblin camp

oh my god, Scratch gives you a Summon Familiar ability

BUT I already have one as my main has a bit of a Summoner motif, and that's the only character that gets this free ability. I can't have two familiars out. If another party member was my summoner though I could use this free familiar on my main.

I cry foul play.

Multiclassing is neat but you should really be aware that every time you take a level in another class you are preventing yourself from reaching a higher level on main and limiting yourself from big power spikes. For example, level 5 gives you an extra attack every turn which is huge - multiclassing delays you from reaching it, and taking three classes means you might never get there.

There's a couple fights you can run into in act 1 where its a bunch of lvl 4 mobs and one level 5 mob, and that level 5 mob fucks. It's not a coincidence that the mob is level 5.

Powergamers play humans in DND because extra feats etc enables some crazy stuff, but I think they didn't give humans that in BG3? What kinda psycho makes a human when you can be a devil or a dragon???? At least pick one of the little people so you can crawl into small hidden areas.

I don't mind Lyse but I hated Yda. Good riddance.

To back up a bit on Stormblood overall - I'm one of the ones who said its good but just not quite as good as Heavensward. Lots of great stuff, Zenos is very overwhelming, Yotsuyu is captivating in a lot of different ways, and there's a whole lot of neat adventuring in different places. Plus there was a whole lot of Yugiri who is my second wife and I cannot get enough of.

But I think it's just not quite tonally put together right. The switching between Doma and Ala Mhigo feels odd. They are kind of aligned because of the revolution against the empire stuff but it kinda feels like two completely disconnected stories.

And on top of that A LOT of people hate Lyse. Personally, I liked her, but she didn't quite measure up for being the lead the whole expansion rested on. I wish she was a bit more intelligent and self assured, it felt like she was hand held through the entire revolution before finding her groove at the end. When we met Hien, it really felt like, damn, Lyse does not measure up to the task of taking back her homeland like this guy does.

But overall still really good! Enjoyed Stormblood a lot.

Anybody know how the difficulty works out?

I just went ahead and picked Tactician since I'm a diehard fan of BG1&2 but no idea how difficulty actually will turn out here, I never played Divinity 1 or 2. I was just barely not able to finish off that Tiefling Commander in the prologue once his reinforcements showed up and starting rolling me so i just gtfo of there.

The initial cinematics and the initial gameplay area are pretty awesome. Damn the cutscene integration of the player character are embarrassing though.

I like Stormblood a lot, I would categorize it as great. I think I loved Heavensward more, but not quite reaching the same heights doesn't mark it as a dud.

Remnant 2 is the bomb

There's certainly no need to click that as the parts you do know will be nice surprises as you find them.

Hitting the world map in FF3 the first time for me was a jawdropper for me as the song is used in an expansion later on but you might not be there yet. It's amazing to me how well 14 reuses and modernizes these old songs.

For FF2 - I've only played FF2 Pixel Remaster and not the original, but it sounds like the stat gain stuff is way way better? There's no chance to lose stats, and stats increased the way I expected based in battle, which I've come to understand was very frustrating in the original. I had a good time grindin out my abilities to break my characters by the end. Grinding out every spell was maybe not worth it.

I think Ted got a car in How I Met Your Mother very briefly and did shit like this until everyone told him how dumb an idea this is in NYC and got rid of the car

MacArrowny posted...

@ClyTheCool @WazzupGenius00 It's coming December 1.

https://www.square-enix-games.com/en_US/news/dragon-quest-monsters-the-dark-prince

thanks! i'm hype, i'll be there day 1 for sure

DWM1 on the gameboy is one of my favourite games of all time. i think it was transcience that chatted about these kinds of games recently and how nothing has really accomplished what those games did? hope this can finally scratch that itch

oh barbie

he hails from mother russia

by way of mother africa

two moms and still this ill behaved

It's not a "huge problem" that people point to its huge sales record as a point of quality... One Piece isn't the only extremely long running series to exist, and even if it was, the long running nature and its staying power with fans is an explicit result of it's quality.

One Piece has succeeded at remaining engaging and in the zeitgeist for 25 years. Sure.... if you zoom in on smaller timelines, you see that it was eclipsed by other series. But every other series eventually buckles and folds, maybe sometimes because the author thought it was appropriate for the story or because they no longer wanted to continue, but lets be real - it has often been the case that long running shounens run out of steam and have significant drops in quality. One Piece's two brothers of its era, Naruto and Bleach, were certainly comparable to One Piece at their peaks... but they did not maintain themselves as solidly as One Piece does and ending was inevitable.

Maybe there is some footnote to be made that One Piece's record doesn't mean that every volume of One Piece has held the top selling slots every week since 1997, people like other series too.... but it's certainly not smoke and mirrors that doesn't mean anything

If you want to actually look at the numbers - here is the wikipedia chart showing the highest selling manga - One Piece is significantly above everything else, even when series have similar number of volumes, or still doubles other popular shounen that still have 70% of the number of volumes. The sales per volume of 4.97 mil kills almost all other competition, barely any other series come close, with only DBZ, Slam Dunk, and Demon Slayer beating it. While I certainly think DBZ could maintain sales with more volumes, I don't know that would be the case for Demon Slayer if it ran for longer.

All in all, it's a pretty solid record. I don't think your concerns are that valid.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/7/3/AADbkVAAElFZ.jpg

Are you patronizing me for asking for more info from outside the video as if you didn't just make a post patronizing everyone for not following other announced information outside of the video?

is there a timeline on this?

hombad46 posted...

But one of those is about calling out attacks, which sure sounds like being ashamed of being a battle shonen to me.

well they absolutely cannot keeping calling out attacks like they do in this trailer, that was cringe af. there's only so much cringe they can overcome

i'm going in with the lowest of expectations and this might just overcome the cringe enough to be fun

WazzupGenius00 posted...

Not a crew
No they dont

making the exact same mistake as Cowboy Bebop, being ashamed of what it is and making cynical jokes to undercut it

i see exactly what you are saying, but the strawhats call out luffy's dumbshit like that non stop with the angry reaction face with sharp teeth(which would NOT work in live action), so its possible that this implementation could actually work

I wish they had given Ultron a better Prime body that was actually strong and he could beat down all the other Avengers with. Then have Hulk tear it apart similar to the scene that actually happened, but was kinda meaningless because Ultron Prime was pretty weak. Stealing his intended body and making the Vision out of it was a fine plot device but stealing Ultron's ability to be physically imposing in the climax was the biggest mistake of the movie imo.

My condolences Commodore, hope you can get some sleep soon

Best Served Cold is a masterpiece, and I loved it a lot more than the trilogy or other two standalones, so I'm hype af for this.

Welcome!

if you can, I would try to roll on a Preferred or New World. If you do, you get a double experience buff. Doing the main story quest in this game gives your class enough experience to always stay on track with the content, so you never have to stop to grind exp or anything. If you get the double experience buff, you can actually just level two classes while playing through the story, and it doesn't really add any time to your play through. I personally levelled Summoner and Dragoon this way and it was fun being able to just swap playstyles when I felt like it as long as I kept both levelled up through the story.

A bit of overall context:

The game has something called the "Main Story Quests" or MSQ. Quests relating to the MSQ have little flames the ! icon, so you always know which quest it is, and it actually always remains present in the corner of your screens so you can easily find the current MSQ quest you are on if you aren't sure what you should be doing right now. The MSQ is the main thing for you to actually do, and it's what people are talking about when they say FFXIV has a phemonenal single player story.

It'll start off pretty generic adventury stuff but you'll start to see a recurring cast of characters develop over time.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/0/8/AADbkVAAEhPE.png

If you see this little quest icon - these are sidequests meant to fill in the world. You don't need to do them - they usually aren't especially well written compared to the MSQ, and it would take you an enormous amount of time to do them all. You aren't really intended to do them either unless you really like a zone. Generally, just ignore them and do your MSQ in an area and move on, and eventually if you want to level up more classes you could come do them then (though there are other options for leveling too). I think doing these sidequests in the first major city to get familiar with it isn't a bad idea, but just ignore them after that

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/0/9/AADbkVAAEhPF.png

These blue quests are usually worth doing though - they typically relate to some new feature you've come across like unlocking a dungeon or something. Your job quests are also these blue things - you should always do your job quests every five levels since they unlock new abilities and stuff.

If you start doing a blue quest and it looks like a whole rigamorole and isn't just unlocking something for you quickly, you can always just put it aside and think about if you want or need to do it later.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/1/0/AADbkVAAEhPG.png

Also - not sure how much you know about classes, but its extremely fluid and quick to switch between different classes in this game. You just have to equip a weapon for a class and you switch to it once you've unlocked it. You can drag a gear set for a class to a spot on your hotbar and easily swap between them that way.

You'll pick a class at the start, and that'll put you near one of the three major cities. Once you get to level 10, you can then join the guilds for the other classes present in that city. Each city only has a few guilds, but you'll get to go to the other two major cities soon enough and you can unlock the other classes then. You can join all the guilds if you want, there's no restriction, and then you can choose to play any class you want any time you want.

Each class has their own level though, so if you start the game as a Lancer and get to level 10 and then pick up Black Mage, your Black Mage is only level 1. That's what nice about that double exp thing I mentioned at the start - you get an extra class kept up basically for free.

Also it's not that difficult to play with people across different worlds or even Data Centers, so I wouldn't worry too much about that stopping you from making a new character on a Dynamis world

Anyways that seems like a lot for now. Good luck and have fun!

I've been playing around with some text generating AI and I'm really skeptical that it has the long term potential to actually generate finished products on its own - but it's super useful for generating blocks of text or story to edit around and brainstorm. An enormously useful tool for sure.

I'd say that in the medium term time frame, it will become common for writers to utilize AI to generate pieces of their work, and for artists to generate images and then tailor them into larger projects. Your scenario with the playwright fits right into what I've been thinking - you could use the beginning and the ending as your prompt and call the whole thing yours. I'd say you are probably likely to tweak the middle a bit rather than just use exactly what is spit out, especially the longer the generation is. But maybe I end up being wrong about that.

this is like red pillers who have lifestyles of pure debauchery of drinking, gambling, and sleeping with tons of women converting to Islam to escape the matrix

it's all about the hamilton's, baby

Hybrid is the best of all worlds

Somebody has gotta be in charge. Ultimately the goal is "bad people are in charge, replace them with good people in charge" which doesn't really require some kind of statement about the perfect form of government...