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I said gg immediately because I knew my draw wasn't going to cut it. Ended up closer than I thought...

Einrose#1547

*raises hand*

Pyre (PS4)

Probably a top 5 game for me.

Love love love love love it.

I'll be playing it again for the various conversations and/or story points.

I've asked this in the past, but it's been a while.

What's the most underrated/underplayed card in standard right now?

What's an edgelord?

Unrelated to my last post...I just saw DK Uther for the first since, uh ....forever? Like I paused and stared blankly for a minute because I was so shocked.

Just had a game where I clearly lost due to opponent drawing their DK when I didn't, which got me thinking about the recent talk in this thread about how the DK cards were a bad idea from a design perspective.

Here's what I'm thinking at the moment. The way the hero cards let you totally transform your strategy once they hit the board is awesome. They open up entirely new avenues for deck building. Buuut...draw RNG is a pain. It's no fun when your opponent plays FL Jaina on 9 and you fight tooth and nail to survive another 10 turns, miraculously clinging to life, only to never draw the card in your deck that gives you infinite value.

So...what if they explored some with just making different heroes? Not hero cards, but heroes. Within the existing classes.

Like for a random off the cuff example, you play as a Hunter, meaning you have access to hunter spells, but it's a different character, with different characteristics. Like maybe starting HP, starting Hero Power (maybe even implement passive hero powers like we've seen in solo adventures?), or other perks which don't already exist as a concept in the game.

I know obviously there's a hurdle to overcome with balance. But, that aside...I guess what I'm getting at is the hero card idea is so cool and fun but it's biggest downfall is the fact it's entirely unreliable. Why not just make it a permanent thing like Baku and Genn?

I guess/hope that's what they are working toward with those cards?

What do you think?

I just had someone add me after a game for the first time in a long time, and we had a nice chat about the game, and I got invited to join a group of people who are all getting into HotS at the same time.

Good to be reminded not everything on the internet has to be toxic!

The game was epic, though. In the end I was staring down a full board, at 5 HP, and pulled the literal only possible zombeast that could save me. Good ol' Bittertide Hydra + Stonetusk Boar for exact lethal.

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kateee posted...

how often do you go there?
have you tried everything or almost everything on their menu?

yes
about 3 times per week
yes

it's a local place that has 4 locations around town. their gimmick is country cookin'. they have a sign in the place that says something like "we don't have wifi. talk to each other. pretend it's 1989."

I just go and sit at the bar, where it's always open seating. The regulars there are on average 65+ and all go there like...4+ times per week. a couple of them are twice a day, 7 days a week.

it's a special kinda place

I'm sure this point has been argued ad nauseum on reddit and elsewhere, but it seems like "summon a 2/2" makes way more sense as an upgraded power than "summon two 1/1s"

What does that debate usually devolve into?

I'm exaggerating of course.

The concept of that deck just frustrates me. It's based on inflating value without spending cards. Since you can never know whether they have a card like level up or maul in their hand, the correct play seems to be to spend the whole game using cards to counter their hero power.

Every. turn.

Anyway whatever that's just the game I guess.

/rant

I swear, I've never faced an odd paladin who didn't draw level up. It's never happened.

Wait...Voldemort and Grindelwald meet?

I....need to reread the series apparently.

I have a whole 1 platinum on my ps4.

I went 0-3 and didn't even get to trigger a single Coffin Crasher <_>

So I was just drafting a priest deck...and I just couldn't resist. The memes were too strong. I took 5 Coffin Crashers lmao

I just want to chain them all one time. I don't care what else happens this run.

I'm probably late to the game on this, but odd paladin getting tirion from stonehill is pretty ughhh

Warlocks killing themselves is always amusing. I just had a terrible draw against even warlock yet still won. This is the entire list of cards I played:

Explosive Trap
Hunter's Mark
Explosive Trap
Grievious Bite
Coin
Kathrena
Animal Companion
Dire Frenzy

With only those cards I had turn 8 lethal lol

Still available, it seems. I just ordered one.

I would love to watch this but my power is out and my cellular data is slow as molasses, presumably because everyone within 2 miles of me is using it at the same time.

Widespread power outages in my area and it's so bad that my cellular data is too slow to even connect to the servers :(

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I forgot to mention this the other day. So I was facing a warlock and he plays summoning portal and then immediately baleful bankers the summoning portal twice. I'm like "uhhhhmm, ok...wtf is about to happen here?" Then next turn he takes advantage of summoning portal to fill his board with phantom militia. Oh snap, that's kinda funny. I kill off about four of them, then he pandas one phantom militia and refills the board again. I'm like holy shit. Then next turn he pandas again and fills the board again.

I won the game, but it was pretty funny and I was surprised I hadn't seen that before.

Has anyone else ever felt like hitboxes get really wonky when you're near the pyres? Numerous times I've been banished at the last possible moment when I thought I was for sure in, and vice versa.

YOUR WORDS RING FALSE! YOU ARE UNFIT TO LEAD!

-s.g.

I JUST GOT A MESSAGE FROM TI'ZO

Delivered by imp. From the Commonwealth.

I was not expecting that. At all. Fantastic.

All the party members had something to say about the message.

Best of all, Sir Gilman:

Oft is it said that good things come in smallish packages, and Ti'zo stood as living proof! And living he remains, apparently!!

(double ! part of the actual quote)

Oh man, the rest of that chat involved her explaining the reason for her exile.

I...but...but she's so...cold...

;_;

"Your presence is not unwelcome, Reader."

In Jodariel speak, that essentially means "My panties are coming off."

tbqh

I have to say, it's going to be tough to ever liberate Sir Gilman. His poses and his dialogue are just so entertaining.

I just learned that Volfred knew Big Bertrude before either of them were exiled.

That's so cool.

So far, to me, it seems like the idea is to just max out 2 characters, then repeatedly replace the third with whoever suits your fancy each time. I guess that depends on what you value (winning vs. story) and also how far along you are. But for now that's what I'm going with. Jodariel + Rukey + "flavor of the week"

@eaedwards6400

Every host has the absolute right to base their own cuts on any criteria which they choose. However, there could have perhaps been some better implementation of tact here.

@Alakazamtrainer

I like playing with you. I think you get a bad rap, unfairly.

How about just top 50 scenes from games?

nope.

Was hoping for "you probly think this topic's about you"

2/10

Though I think I would have lost if my opponent hadn't played around explosive trap when I'd actually played wandering monster.

I beat an odd rogue with my slow hunter deck. Yay.

Whenever I hear the common line "kids take up your whole life, but it's the greatest joy you can have", I often wonder if that's kind of a catch-22, since by having kids you by definition don't experience what adult life would be like if it wasn't all dedicated to them. And vice versa as well, I suppose.

Like you can't know what it's like to raise kids and also know what it's like to spend those 18-30 years not raising kids but just doing you.

As for me, it depends on the day as to whether or not I want kids.

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I don't know what's wrong with these kids today

Peace___Frog posted...

visual novel fantasy basketball rpg

I'm a little dumbstruck by how much sense this makes.

Tokoyami posted...

Man and the end end of the game, there's so many cool little implications depending on who you have been sending and just, ugh so so good. Obviously I won't spoil them but yea, loved loved loved it.

Yes I started to realize the depth of the game after the first liberation, and I'm so very excited to play the rest now.

When I went back to the first area of the game for my 9th rite and Rukey and Jodariel had a conversation about how I chose her suggested path instead of his at the very beginning, I was like "ohhhh man this is just gonna get better and better"

You have a party of 8 or 9-ish and you choose 3 for each "battle". Each character has a dash, attack, and jump which are all somewhat unique. Controls are pretty basic. The game is heavily narrative-driven. You spend more time in the visual novel parts than the gameplay. I don't know what game to compare it to.

Tokoyami posted...

my boys Rukey and Sir Gilman

Sir Gilman is so silly and awesome. But, yeah, at least for my playstyle? Quickness seems like the most OP stat so far. But I'm still quite early in the game, so that could change.

Peace___Frog posted...

Ti'zo plush

omg yes

Please mark spoilers that are farther along in the game than my current progress.

Anyway, I bought it early this year, but only played the first rite and then stopped. I picked it up again last week, and I've played up through the first liberation rite and one more on the 2nd cycle.

I'm once again impressed by Supergiant games. Pyre is seamlessly good. I get sucked into advancing the story several times even after I've decided to quit. It comes in perfectly bite-sized chunks and is always compelling.

The gameplay is fun, too, and satisfying. I'm curious, do you unlock any difficulty option beyond Heightened? I'm having a blast so far, but I'm 9-0 on the highest difficulty and hoping for a little more. I can tell it's going to ramp up as I keep playing multiple cycles, but just curious.

My first time through, the team I settled into was Rukey, Jodariel, and Ti'zo. Rukey's speed and agility feels almost too easy. The first round in each rite is always a quick, virtually automatic goal by him. Then I try to fly one in with Ti'zo, and just implode their whole team if I get blocked, and play defense for a bit with Jodi.

I liberated Ti'zo first. My main three members were the only options, and he was the one I cared least about giving up in terms of the story.

I'll post more later. I just had to talk about this game because I've been enjoying the hell out of it.

paperwarior posted...

Maybe they wanted to leave a curiosity for the next owner.

It's some national treasure shit