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There are so many cool things you can do that I never would have even thought of. Like, I was trophy hunting and googled some stuff and there is an enemy you can put to sleep and then insta kill by chopping off its head in one blow. Shit's neat.

12 minutes ago, Ominous said:

Do you not have a local donut place that actually makes good donuts? 

I did. It was called Ray's Pastries. Closed down years ago tho. Every other shop that has opened up has been mediocre and barely lasted a year. All we have are chains now.

I am a dunkin' hater.

If you aren't buying local, Krispy Kreme is the only option. The regular glazed from KK is a perfect donut.

I just wish there was a KK in town. I only get them like twice a year at most because Washington PA is the closest place has a KK.

With BG3 "becoming the first game to win all 5 major GOTY awards," I would like to get a head start and call Larian's next game a 7/10, and it's so disappointing they dropped the ball this hard.

Just now, best3444 said:

 

Aren't you a sweetheart. 

Just now, best3444 said:

 

You could have just told me your evil plan and I would have hooked you up lol. 

I prolly would have cuz I don't like to lie when it comes to other's generosity.

Makes me feel bad.

I was going to ask for the money so I could get a new mmo mouse cuz mine has broken side buttons. But I was going to disguise it as a lie and say I wanted the pre-order for Dawntrail but I already have that pre-ordered

7 minutes ago, Joe said:

I smiled

4

Will the Coffin fit?

never had a pb&j

5 minutes ago, Jeff Grubb said:

I give you my permission to believe EA

Ew. I don't need your permission, sweetie.

I now also choose to never believe Jeff Grubb's lies.

I have never pulled my pud whilst thinking of someone whom I hate. I have jerked it for a calming effect but just to the usual shit.

Never got the remake now I never will. I was interested in the potential changes the sequels might have but not anymore!

10 hours ago, legend said:

Amano

I knew I was forgetting something. I think Amano's art is bad overall.

He has some solid works like The Nameless Warrior but I despise the Dawntrail art which seems to be slightly based on The Nameless Warrior.

How did that ugly bent sword make it on a product?

The greatest FF Artist is easily Akihito Yoshida.

I gotta say, I'm not really a fan of the art style of Disco Elysium. I just doesn't work for me. I also really don't like the Octopath art style either. I am so over pixel art it is unreal.

Great looking examples ITT. I don't have one that wasn't already mentioned. I mean, there is the Moguri Mod for FF9. Moguri Mod makes me hopeful for a full remake FF game that maintains the classic style. I'd love to play a modern FF in the art style of almost any game mentioned so far.  That PoE 2 screenshot seems exactly what I want FF to take after but with the FF flair. Very slightly more anime, add a floating white glove hand, and you got what I crave.

So, I had to google when the fuck you unlock quick spell. Cuz like I've gone the full length of mage and most of Sorc without unlocking it.

Turns out I have had it the whole time but it wasn't passive like I thought, you have to hold R1. Holy shit is that a massive difference. Spells are nearly instant now.

Magic is kinda neat. I have never used it before. It's pretty boring tho and mage doesn't have any solid AoE unlike Sorc so it's really abysmal for grinding packs of mobs. My pawn also almost never tag-team casts with me.

I'm grinding vocation levels. I started with Warfarer (using Magic Archer abilities) since that one gives a tiny amount of exp to other vocations. Magic Archer is "comfy" mode. It's what I used in DD1 but that allowed you to use daggers. Feels totally different from what I remember in DD1, but it's better for sure minus the no daggers bs. I'm leveling fighter now, I already had it at 6 and it hit 7 while grinding Warfarer. Fighter fucking sucks.

50 minutes ago, Dexterryu said:

What I like most about RPGs - Story and Characters:

The story is very poor and worse than the first game's. I am not saying this out of nostalgia, it's just true in this game. DD2 has made some improvements but this is not one of them. I say poor, but it isn't that the story is actually bad, but that it hardly exists. What exists is bland and lacks fleshed-out characters.

50 minutes ago, Dexterryu said:

Exploration

There is a lot to explore but very little worth finding. You will find some weapons and armor, but the strongest weapons and gear come from merchants. Caves and dungeons are pretty shallow with only "trash mobs" or basic enemies. There are a few with boss monsters but they are on the rarer side and pretty cool. There is no narrative element for most dungeons unless you are required to go there via a quest but even then there is no real story there, it's just a cave or dungeon. They all seem to have unique layouts but not in a way that is worth praising their design. If you are just a fan of seeing what's out there, exploration is good because there is a lot to see. Basically just the first sentence again.

50 minutes ago, Dexterryu said:

Combat:

The combat is fun. It is also simple and easy. The problem with combat is the lack of enemy variety (even less unique bosses than base DD1). There are about 5 boss monster types that you'll fight regularly, and the game is littered with trash mobs.  So you are most often presented with the same kinds of encounters over and over again and none of these encounters require you to play differently. There are more than 5 boss-type monsters but they are rarer or simply only one of them exists. At level 50 there are no serious threats in the game. There is an extra lives mechanic with an item called a wakestone, but I only used those to revive myself after jumping off a cliff to my death because it is faster than running.

Edit: While I have not beaten the game, I don't believe it is worth 70 bucks. If this were 40-50 bucks I'd say that would be a fair price. Despite my complaints, I do have fun just killin' and travelin', even if that is growing stale. It is pleasing to kill big monsters.

After all these years, golems are still the worst enemies in the game. They are fun to fight for exactly one encounter.

7 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

Bad take about the story. Especially when it compared it to DMC. There is campy, and then there is bad. Calling DMC bad because it is campy is stupid. I love "stupid" stories like Strangers of Paradise. Dragon's Dogma's story takes itself seriously. The story isn't trying to be goofy. The story lacks characters with character, unlike DMC or SoP. I'm not going into this expecting BG3. I played DD1. I expected the same quality of story as DD1. But from what I have seen so far, it is worse. I mean, the story doesn't have to be good for the gameplay to be good, but like, if you are going to have a story, at least make it something entertaining and full of schlock. Something like nu-DOOM - Short, cheesy, basically irrelevant, but gives some flavor to enhance the gameplay. DD2 doesn't do that. It hasn't even directed me to fight a big monster yet. I mean, there was like one Cyclops but still. Don't put a piece of dog poop next to my roses and ask me to only smell the roses. I won't say the roses smell bad, but I'm not going to ignore some stinky poop.

Games, IMO, need a goal. It needs a narrative in which you can reach the ending. I am totally fine with a narrative that exists to drag you across the world. IMO, this is what FROM usually does, and this is what DD1 did.  DD2 does it as well, but very poorly. As in, you are more likely to drag yourself across the world on your own than the narrative is and that is pretty much the only reason the narrative exists. It is a pretty minor issue, but still disappointing when it's worse than the previous game's. DD1 was really good about getting you to the ending of the game just so you could give the Dragon the finger. DD2 doesn't really have that driving force.

And to be clear, I don't play games without some kind of narrative. Stuff like Minecraft, Civ, City Skylines, Sims, sports games, and much more, have zero appeal because they lack an actual story. So yeah, some kind of story/plot/narrative is needed for me.

lol, I never noticed but DD2 does the exact same shit

3 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

He's not charging his stun.

I CANNOT STAND this mechanic. I despise having to hold down R1 while attacking. It feels so unnatural to me.