#but having experienced this game in full

[izavella21]

Parallel

Bonus under the cut!

[whatudottu]

Sketchy sequel to this little thing I drew on an 8 hour plane trip without references because no wifi :(

Shockwave's logic tree of 'only breakdown's brave/stupid enough to call him breastie' and 'breakdown saying "hey breastie" is in reference to him' meets Breakdown's rarely seen mischievous side like a downball piffed against a wall-

[vaguely-concerned]

I don't know what I love more, the fact that as rook you can make a statement in NO uncertain terms that you are NOT responsible one way or the other for the theological implications of the shit you're discovering in the 'regrets of the dread wolf' memories. not my jurisdiction. quite simply none of my business. not my chantry circus not my chantry monkeys. irrelevant to the matter at hand here we'll kill that god if we get to him he can get in line. or if the best thing about it is seeing the lone little 'lucanis approves' that pops up right after choosing it. corvid with a knife about to commit deicide keeping it real and sensibly, pragmatically, wilfully agnostic with me here in this magical lighthouse today

[shannonsketches]

something something foils moving in opposite directions Goku's always happy to seek and fight stronger opponents because he spent most of his life being the strongest guy in the room and Vegeta wants to be the strongest/is always exhausted to find stronger opponents because he spent most of his life having to navigate his survival around the whims of the strongest guy in the universe room and so Goku has a foundation of safety and stability and so spends his time craving challenge and adventure and Vegeta has a foundation of challenge and adventure and spends his time craving safety and stability and the overlaid section of their venn diagram is that the only way they know how acquire and maintain those things is through battle

[w1tchybusiness]

i could write a 100 page essay about what a fucking masterpiece warframe is. i will write many words in the tags. please readem if you want my 'tism.

[idolsummons]

give me a muse who can, by some means, unlock the memories which hana has no access to. give me someone who makes hana remember her encounter with the eldritch beast, and hana, almost 20 years later, finally succumbing to a madness which any older person would have experienced. hana just becoming a completely different person b/c these memories, despite being a core part of who she is, were never meant to be remembered.

[skyloftian-nutcase]

There’s more things like this with TotK, where like Nintendo tried to make it accessible for new players but ended up making some things not make any sense. Some examples

-Bolson not seeming to know you, the house is built, tarry town exists, he should know who you are.

-the ex Yiga guard in Kakariko also not knowing you, or his daughters. Like you’ve been here plenty of times, Impa knows you, Paya knows you, the other guard knows you, the artifact orb thing is gone, he should know you.

-if I’m remembering correctly, pretty much no one in tarry town knows you, despite the fact that they should, you went to recruit them and literally built the town.

Ironically I have completed none of these quests from botw and therefore am just as ignorant as the NPCs are LOL

[gigginox]

hmm. when battler was talking abt the whole 17 > x > 18th person thing irt kinzo possibly being dead and someone else taking his place as the 18th person on rokkenjima it like immediately showed that kinzo was alive but using a different name (goldsmith) .. if instances like that can bypass the red truth then what abt shannon and kanon.

[asvidema]

hm. last time i stayed awake till 2:30 am because of excitement for an interest was several years ago. i thought i grew too old (and hurt) for this

[tyrianluda]

Harlan Ellison's voice acting for A.M. is fucking me up oh my god

(analysis in the tags)

[lancrewizzard]

Uhhh context for the vampire tragedy pls??

Okay, I will try. The vampire tragedy in question is the game series Legacy of Kain. It has a fantastic overarching story about fate and free will, and is the best constructed time travel narrative I've ever encountered. It's also pretty old and large chunks of it are bad to play.

The very basic bare bones plot is that a nobleman called Kain gets turned into a vampire and sent off on a quest to save the land of Nosgoth by restoring these magical pillars that are tied to the health of the land, fisher kingdom style, by killing the mages tied to each pillar. Then instead of the heroic sacrifice he should have made, he said "sod this, I'm going to become the vampiric emperor of the world."

A millennium later, his eldest son Raziel gets killed over Kain's ego, comes back as an angry little blue guy, and goes on a quest to kick Kain's head in. This leads to him chasing Kain far into Nosgoth's past, learning that he's supposedly a prophecised hero of a lost vampire culture, making an enemy of God (who is a dick) and breaking many many things, including the fabric of timespace and also my heart.

It is convoluted. It is messy. It is almost impossible to summarise succinctly and coherently. It is not whatever the fuck this lunatic described.

And as an aside, Soul Reaver has exactly one female character and she's dead. Super dead. She's a ghost and has one story relevant cutscene, plus a few optional lines directing the player to the next destination. I love the hell out of the series, but it is by no stretch a feminist narrative.

[snowstories]

It's pretty fun for me to play Zelda games in a manner mostly isolated from fandom opinions. Like don't get me wrong I've absorbed a lot of LOZ spoilers, headcanons, interpretations etc. via osmosis, I am not playing these games blind. But regardless of how many spoilers and fanart/fanfic I've seen going through the AO3 tag after playing BOTW was still an Experience because it made me realize that the way I interpret both Link as a character and the game as a whole is apparently completely counter to the majority fandom opinion. Something I was blissfully oblivious to while playing the game.

[chatpileroan]

i know we've been ragging on polygon for making stupider and stupider articles for Ages now but i am GENUINELY blown away by the new honkai star rail one thats like "the new world in game is really cool... but you Have to play the rest of the story that exists to get to it, which feels like a massive oversight and a huge pain that they didn't impliment a skip-directly-to function despite all the other features theyve been adding" LIKE YEAH. ITS A NEW CHAPTER IN A STORY BASED GAME. OF FUCKING COURSE YOU HAVE TO PLAY THE STORY THAT EXISTS BEFORE THAT TO PLAY THE NEW CONTENT? like has this writer NEVER PLAYED A GAME BEFORE THATS HOW ALL GAMES WORK. WHAT????

[cathalbravecog]

Really should be sleeping but I really just have to share that Archie my dearest finally got to Misty... At last they can see their bestie

(Their real objective is the destruction of Barnacle Bessie, the only being in existence that Archie feels negatively towards)

[valiant-if]

i really enjoy how my necromancer summons despawning leaves a mess next to my bed every morning

Baldur's Gate 3 screenshot below content warning: blood, just in case

[lord-shitbox]

oh okay wait gen q cus I've had a few ppl recommend hollow knight to me before but I've avoided it cus it's a platformer. as a fellow platformer... non-enjoyer?? what sets it apart from other platformers that makes it fun when a lot aren't??

um! honestly im not really sure... I quite like how the knight moves around and i got very used to it, I guess. my first playthrough frustrated me IMMENSELY but because it's one set world, when you've beat it all once you know how to get through everything and successive playthroughs are way easier.

It's a metroidvania so a lot of platforming challenges get easier if you fight an extra boss beforehand and such, and the platforming aspect of it isnt the main focus of the game so pretty much every challenge involves you weaving through obstacles to get to some shiny item and then hitting a switch that opens a bypass door or shuts all the obstacles off, so that challenge is done and gone for the rest of your time in that savefile. which is great imo. the world is 2d platforming but aside from the little challenges embedded into the world the platforming isnt meant to be super difficult

Also, if you fall into spikes or something the game usually sets you down on the platform right before that rather than all the way at the beginning of the challenge, unless you died and are coming back from a respawn point. sometimes the challenge is short enough that it doesnt do that but for the most part it does & i like that

from what i've heard from other players the big frustrating part of hk isn't the platforming but the bosses, because hk boss fights require you to memorize all their attack patterns & be able to dodge consistently throughout the whole fight. tanking does not work very well in hk. these things are the main focus of the game, i'd say— i recommend watching a boss fight playthrough to see if the combat style seems like something youd enjoy or not.

The game itself doesn't have cheats or accessibility features that make it easier to play, but ive heard there are infinite health & money mods if you're after story and soundtrack enjoyment alone ((hk has very good story and soundtrack imo!!))

Honestly with hollow knight i think i can attribute a lot of my enjoyment to sheer "got good" — i am one of the lucky ones who Figured it All Out and now theres one pesky little steam achievement in between me and perfect game status. but uh. i think hk is enough of a not-platformer for me to have enjoyed it !!