#obsidian gate

[painiac]

[boogerqueendraws]

Every day I dream of companion Obsidian

[ravel-puzzlewell]

ok but what if they went full on "shadowheart has intrusive thoughts urging her to be good despite shar's teachings" and actually explored it. like a counterpoint to bhaalspawn. like yeah its bad and sucks when you're driven to do horrible shit by an evil god. but what if you're driven by a good goddess? is it better? is she justified bc evil goddess kindnapped you and trained you for evil? But loss of agency is still loss of agency. Yeah, those are evil teachings, but you BELIEVE them, and you're not changing your beliefs when you do good, you're succumbing to your nature. Are you good if you're driven to do good, but by instinct, not choice? Would this push you to the opposite just to feel in control OR would you learn to rely on this and off-load all responsibility for moral decisions on it, like jedi on the force? and with bhaalspawn you know what is right thing to do in theory. but like. is it right to fight for your agency if you fighting "good"? how do you explain your conflict to people. who could understand you. could be a lot of fun to explore

[yellingaboutmasseffect]

Took me long enough to figure out how to get pictures off the PS5 but I adore my first Tav, Obsidian. I got so attached to them throughout the game and just finished their run last weekend 🥹.

(Nonbinary Tav, they/them)

[mactiir]

forget online personality tests, what would your character select soundbites be if you were a character in a CRPG

[tokyoteddywolf]

Doodle page go brr

Life has been kinda rough lately so here have some Sidia doodles I scribbled half heartedly to try and get some kind of art out?

I realize she's a lot of more, sharper lines than most Mews? I take a lot of inspiration from one of my favorite manga, particularly The New Gate (Yuzuha my beloved... she's baby your honor-) and can you believe that's getting an anime soon???

Anyways here have these scribbles. I'm particularly happy about the lil baby in the upper left.

When Sidia was first "made/hatched" She looked like a normal Mew. Pale pink with blue eyes, like any baby would have. As she got older, things started to darken and properly form patterns. Her fur is black due to millenia of absorbing Shadow Energy and purifying it. It stains, and while it wouldn't be much at first, it builds up after a while, and she's been purifying the entire planet's Gaia Energy from the start.

Sidia is very old, but she didn't start out fully grown like the other Legendaries. She is also, on record, not a fighter at all. She was never built for battles, she's only meant to seek out corruption and heal it. As a result, she's highly inexperienced and maybe level 40 or 50, but very few battle experiences.

Do with that information what you will, lmao

[passionesolja]

This is going to piss so many mfs off, but I’m going like Joan for this shit. Bro, the Larian-ification of the Baldur’s Gate series was really bad. The Baldur’s Gate series was gutted and turned into a Divinity: Original Sin game, when it should have never been. If WoTC have a damn, they would’ve made it clear to Larian that they can add their own spin, but they have to stay true to BG’s roots. I need mfs to understand that Baldur’s Gate 1 literally changed the landscape of cRPGs and RPGs. BG1 is still a huge inspiration for most cRPGs that exist today. 85% of the market wouldn’t exist as it does without Baldur’s Gate 1.

I love Larian, yeah, but they shouldn’t have turned BG3 into a Divinity: Original Sin 2 clone. They should’ve stayed true to Baldur’s Gate’s identity and legacy. Yes, it’s a problem when BG3 only players can’t go back and play BG1 and 2 (or any other Infinity Engine dnd game), only past Larian games, all because they removed virtually everything that Baldur’s Gate what it was. That’s an issue.

BG3 is great but I don’t consider it a Baldur’s Gate game at all. I consider it a divinity game. Which is fucked up when you think about how wildly revolutionary BG1 and 2 were. Imo, Pillars of Eternity and Pathfinder are the modern successors to BG1 and 2, and do the series it’s proper justice.

Like I need y’all to understand that Baldur’s Gate wasn’t just some random computer game, it literally altered a genre forever so seeing it turn into a Divinity: Original Sin copycat game and lose itself do kinda hurt me a lil lmao. They should’ve given the BG3 rights to Obsidian (maybe Owlcat but I think Owlcat made the BG1 of Pathfinder games) and let Larian make a different DnD cRPG. Like y’all gotta understand that Baldur’s Gate wasn’t some random 90s dnd game, it was THE 90s DnD game.

Larian should be given their flowers for making a fun game but absolutely should be heavily critiqued for turning Baldur’s Gate into a clone of Divinity: Original Sin 2

[eruscreaminginthedistance]

Omg almost forgor that it's Developer Direct tonight prayer circle everyone for an Avowed release date/trailer get hype

[mentally-ill-mage]

Hhhhhhgghnn RPGs where you feel an immense connection to the world and can truly effect it in such unique ways and expand your character so much my belovedfdd.......

Anyways reblog and possibly follow this blog I wanna make some rpg lover friends and maybe ramble about my characters to other people who also ramble about there's :3c. Especially if you're Neurodivergent or part of the queer community!!!

(I'll follow you via RiDragon)

[echthr0s]

I am disappointed about how this BG3 experiment turned out but I cannot be too disappointed because I also learned some things in the process, namely about what makes games "work" for me and the difference between appreciating something's artistic value and enjoying the experience of it. cut for length

I don't enjoy Larian games. which feels bad to say, because I think Larian games are beautiful and intricate and full of amazing worldbuilding. why would I not enjoy that? it's very simple -- they are mechanically dense in a way that I find very unrewarding. and that feels bad to say, because the way people tend to interpret "this doesn't work for me" is as "this is bad and shouldn't exist", and sometimes I internalise that. but I know damn well that's not what I'm saying. what I am saying is that what makes games enjoyable for me is different than what it is for the people who enjoy Larian games, which is a perfectly neutral concept

I had to compare how I feel when playing the games I love to how I felt when I was playing BG3. Can Calah pointed out that he has never heard so many frustrated noises per minute from me while playing a game that didn't end up in me immediately dropping the game, and that's a good point. at one point I was literally in tears. this is not because the game is difficult to me. it is, in a way, but it's not like Bloodborne where I literally couldn't get past the first mob of enemies, lol. that didn't make me feel bad, I knew I wasn't gonna get through that game, I just wanted to try it anyway and laugh at how bad I was at it. what BG3 is to me is taxing.

here's an example: I'm familiar with isometric RPGs and especially their movement set. but BG3 is like... some hybrid of isometric and straight 3D, and I constantly want to move the camera down behind my character and use WASD for movement, expecting the camera to circle around the environment in a 3D fashion when I move my mouse. and this is a minor peeve -- not even a peeve, more like a "the way this game looks to me and the way this game is meant to be played are at odds, apparently" -- but it sets a baseline level of minor irritation. like a lil IRL debuff. so then when I hit something else that is irritating (like gnarly turn-based combat scenarios or having to reload a bunch of times trying to get past one NPC without activating a gnarly turn-based combat scenario), I'm already irritated, so I have less mental resources to deal with this new thing. I did not immediately recognise this was happening, but it's definitely the main roadblock for me

last night I went to do some research to see if I could figure out ways to make my Act I experience a little less taxing. I love learning tips and tricks about games I play, or finding out how the game works behind the scenes, stuff like that. when I look up stuff about ESO or FFXIV or Mass Effect or whatever, I feel curious and excited to try out whatever new thing I learn. (this is why I don't read the ESO subreddit at night, because then I learn something and I immediately want to boot up the game and try it out and I can't bc I'm supposed to be going to sleep and I get mad LOL) but I didn't feel that way at all last night. I just felt... tired. the curiosity and excitement did not magically appear. because ultimately this is just not a game I can play. not right now, at least. and yes, this upsets me, because I wanted to play it. but enjoyment cannot be forced and it's not fair to myself to go "look at all these other people having a great time, why can't you be more like them?" (talk about a line straight out of the Bad Parenting Playbook lmaooo)

yes, I would have loved to find out what it's like to be half-illithid, I would have loved to fall in love with Wyll, I would have loved to learn more about Faerûn and the various cultures and wow, would I have loved to see the Underdark, finally! I won't be meeting that drider guy I kept seeing gifs of and that makes me sad! but "the journey is the important thing" is never more true than when it comes to video games -- if I do not enjoy the minute-to-minute gameplay, if the journey itself is not inspiring joy in me, then it won't matter if I somehow push myself long enough to get to those moments. because I will be so stressed and tired and annoyed by the time I get there that I won't even enjoy the victory. so then is it really worth it?

the insight I've gained about myself as a gamer from failing to become a BG3 player is, however, quite worth it, I think

[the-great-elwisty]

No! My beloved peasant village!

The outlook for Tumblr is not rosy. Come all ye old game fans, you people who remember buying games in real brick-and-mortar shops, and tell me...

[boogerqueendraws]

they’re actually very in love your honor

[shadow-gallery14]

Obsidian - The Renagade Monk

[jellisdraws]

I have eaten well today, Thank You Larian and Obsidian 😭😭😭