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outeremissary · 2 days ago

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In the past week or two an attempt to recommend Rogue Trader to friends now that I am truly in a dire place with it resulted in convincing them all to never, ever touch it... I need Owlcat to release a game I don't feel obligated to include a list of disclaimers with when trying to recommend </3 It's always like "Kingmaker is one of my FAVORITE GAMES and the writing is GOOD AND FUN it has some of my ALL TIME FAVORITE CHARACTERS AND PLOTS and the gameplay is SO BAD MOST OF THE TIME and it has SO MUCH JANK but it's worth it if you have DOZENS OF HOURS OF PATIENCE" or "Wrath has combat and characters MANY PEOPLE LIKE and is VERY CINEMATIC and SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVES QOL but the gameplay MIGHT PISS YOU OFF and you SHOULD DO PRE READING ON SYSTEMS AND ROUTES and the alignment dialogue is NOT GOOD somehow worse than Kingmaker's" or "Rogue Trader is a GREAT GAME with INTERESTING CHARACTERS and REALLY FUN GAMEPLAY except that the gameplay of the first fifteen hours is INTOLERABLY BAD AND BORING and the exposition for newcomers to setting lore is TERRIBLE also the scope of human atrocity is OFF THE CHARTS if that's hard for you and there IS A TORTURE PIT"

#I swear I do in fact recommend wrath to people despite not personally liking it. probably more often than kingmaker.#kingmaker's jank takes patience and I don't tend to recommend it to people who I'm not sure would be willing to put up with that #despite feeling it's a more accessible game mechanically I know it being slower more stripped back and less flashy #also doesn't appeal to a lot of people. which I truly understand! I can understand feeling not much is happening #it is inarguably less dense on top of the Jank #I still don't tend to suggest wrath to people who aren't seriously into the kind of game it is already though #I cannot imagine learning pf1e via wrath's default difficulty. I know people do but it does sound like torture #and wrath's writing also has some... structural jank. in my eyes.#but this post is about NEITHER PF GAME it is about how my friends listened to me passionately suggest RT #and determined that the game was a fucking nightmare factory they could never touch #once more I am the last one left standing on this side of gore and atrocity </3 #I want to say that anyone who liked either previous game could find something worthwhile in rogue trader #but. the uhhhhhhhh baseline threshold of human suffering is Very Understandably prohibitive haha #rambling

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