I finally finished the third game after all these years. New playthrough of the legendary edition. Femme Shep, but not the new default skin. Something about the face shape looks weird to me.
Also, I’d avoided spoilers all these years. The ending was as bad as everyone said. I’m late to the party , I know.
When I play RPGs, I don’t make myself. I don’t see the character as an extension of myself. I’d much rather watch a woman do cool stuff than some dude. So I usually make women characters. Maybe some part of my brain sees some cool dude doing cool stuff and goes “great. Now I’m competing with him” and is stressed.
One of my friends would always try to make himself in games. Skinny white guy with short hair and minimal facial hair. He saw himself in the game and liked it. I don’t really want to see myself get blown up or stabbed or eaten by a demon, but to each their own
In multiplayer games where other people might see it as an extension of real me, I more often play male characters. In tabletop, I’ve never played a woman PC. None of the reasons I do so in a video game really apply. (I’ve played plenty of woman NPCs, but that’s different)
I was showing my girlfriend the game a little and she said that the default male Shepard looked like an asshole. Shaved head no facial hair looks like a skinhead, I guess.
I don’t see how taking it out on the staff is going to make anything better.
If someone writes a complicated work of fiction, is it gate keeping to not also include an explainer in simple prose?
Someone might but Finnigan’s wake and be completely baffled by it. Is that an accessibility problem? Is the author in the wrong?
Why or why not?
Note this is distinct from publishing it in braille or audiobook format
Difficulty is not the same as accessibility.
Remapping the inputs so they can be done with one hand is not the same as “you get twice as much health and mana”.
Everyone dies to the capra demon. Everyone has options within the game to adjust difficulty. Change gear or tactics. Summon help. Level up. Adding an out of game difficulty slider on top seems unnecessary.
People that are like “I want it to be easier without using any of the tools” are essentially saying “I want it to be easier but I don’t want to turn down the difficulty”
Additionally, the difficulty and the struggle creates a sense of community. People like feeling like they belong to a group.
Also, difficulty is poorly defined. Sometimes people get mad about like being ambushed by monsters that were in plain sight but they didn’t notice. Is that too hard?
'm about two hours in. Taking my time. Seems good so far. I went in with my NG+ faith character. It’s a strong build.
Did some coop against a side boss. Community hasn’t changed much - saw some hosts just eat his attacks and die, get greedy and die, the usual.
It does have some sort of bug where it says “illegal activity detected” or something and kicks me out of multiplayer, but I haven’t done any mods or anything. Verified game files. Kind of annoying. Hopefully patched soon.
That’s what I always say. Targeted advertising should be illegal. Contextual advertising is acceptable.
If I’m on the star trek wiki, serve me ads for star trek, sci-fi, and whatever. You don’t need to know anything about me specifically.
We’d still need to do something about like ads that take up too much space, hurt page performance, or introduce malware, but removing the stalking would be an improvement
Accessibility like controller input options is not the same as “you have more health and can dodge more”.
Copyright should be 14 years.
Adams sucks and it’s embarrassing that people here elected him.
I mean this is kind of true of all people everywhere. The marshmallow test has flaws but I think it’s still revealing. A lot of people are really bad at self control and delayed gratification.
What an extraordinarily bad take.
RPGs are not required to have loot, so that line is just nonsense.
Baldur’s gate 1 and 2, for the bulk of it, let you revisit previous areas.
“Explore it all in one shot” is not the only kind of exploration.
Only the third game does that, I’m pretty sure. It’s not a terrible solution, though it can be annoying when money is finite.
At least you can go back to previous areas
I kind of hate the thing in games where it’s like “you didn’t look in the second bathroom so you didn’t get the staff of mega fireballs. No, you can’t go back to the house. It’s still there but you can’t go in.”.
That and the common “no matter what the game says, do the quest objective last because that might move you past something important” thing.
Playing Mass Effect 2 and there’s a lot of “go fight them and save the day!” And I’m like hold on I need to check every corner for upgrades real quick.
I kind of feel like anyone who spends $20 on a video game skin shouldn’t be allowed to make any financial decisions for themselves. Like, it was a test and you failed.
Fallout 4 is like 4 different games crammed into a trench coat.
All of these are kind of badly done, and mashing them all together didn’t make something greater than the parts.
This is what I always say. Put the tickets in order and we’ll do them.
Management always pushes back.
I also don’t have any social media unless you count this account. I had a similar thought years ago that it was just going to make me unhappy.
People at work the other day were talking about how they stress about which photos to post. I’m like why. That’s such a self inflicted wound.
I used to have a FB account because people used it for events, but I never posted, and I used adblock to hide the main feed.
Now when I do parties and stuff, I just send out Google calendar invites. (I should de-Google but that’s a long road I haven’t started down)