#but the dialogue abt pacifica being a dying wasteland made it make more sense at least bcs

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omg tamber when I saw u were playing phantom liberty I dropped everything so fast HOW R U FINDING IT

VERITY!!!!!!!!!!! HI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

trying not to answer these until i can do them justice because my version of playing this is staring at my girlfriends computer over their shoulder while they play it for me but i have to fly home tonight so we are desperately trying to get further along!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this expansion is HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so for a bit i was very put off - dogtown is cool, but it's dense in comparison to pacifica, and i feel like it's hard to lore drop something that big into it without ever connecting it in reference in the base game. coupled with the original games treatment of pacifica and the vdbs, i wasn't the most thrilled that they seemed to try to show community in a wartorn yet-somehow-gentrified-version of pacifica, when pacifica itself was meant to be insular and communal while still being a no man's land.

(i am also perhaps just not the biggest fan of spy thrillers - and them portraying rosalind myers as a "girl next door" type at heart felt like a weird jerkoff fantasy for NUSA propaganda. why would i advocate for the NUSA making moves on free territory grounds?)

i'm also adverse to change, however, so most things are slowgoing with me. once they introduced the VDBs and not only allowed us to have really good, really cool interactions with them in this space, my opinion improved tremendously. i do like dogtown, i think it's really cool, and i like that the gigs and various jobs around it feel like the creators just had a really good time writing character interactions. we get a lot more in depth with the human side of things here, and we get to reflect more on how a gig will impact the parties involved!

currently while writing this at about 4 a.m. we have only just recently passed the shitdiving portion of phantom liberty. i feel like some characters were introduced a bit too quickly for me but that the brain still caught up just fine, i am not currently solomon reed's biggest fan but i am hoping to like him more, and i'm really excited to see where the story takes us. this DLC has definitely thrown a lot of cool shit our way and i'm happy to see what CDPR put together!!!!! dogtown is beautiful and i really like the citizen interactions.