#this game is so damn pretty

[vivifriend]

Started playing Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning yesterday. I'd gotten it in a Humble Bundle a while back but never bothered installing it. I'd never heard of it but I'm already 4.5 hours in and can feel myself on the precipice of getting obsessed.

Nothing like starting a game by climbing off a pile of corpses!

Just wish I could figure out if there was a hotkey to toggle the UI off so I don't have to keep popping into the menu. (But very glad there is an option to turn it off).

Bonus: I laughed my ass off at Agarth's response to my choosing the "You're terrible at this." dialogue choice.

[radialtrail000]

Church Hill

too tired to replay nitw atm so im lazily redrawing my favourite backgrounds instead

[puppypawbz]

me when i see my most profitable customer

[spitedemon]

i really don’t think it’s “typical dragon age fandom nonsense” for people to be genuinely upset about the world state choices. combat, level design, art direction, gameplay gimmicks, those have all varied across each dragon age game. the one thing that’s remained constant are nods to our previous choices.

i wasn’t expecting my HoF to come riding in on a griffon, but i can’t find a monument dedicated to warden tabris somewhere around the anderfels? lucanis couldn’t have some lines about the time that one arainai boy was stirring up trouble in antiva city? you’re gonna tell me that making a mage the new divine wouldn’t have some impact on nevarra and antiva? on the anderfels, the supposed most devout militant andrastian nation in thedas? you’re saying nobody in the north is paying attention to who rules orlais or ferelden? come on.

[ruby-static]

Dude caught me taking a screenshot, I'm cooked-

[shijiujun]

Mu Sheng seeing bubbles for the first time!!!!! ∘˙○˚.•∘˙○˚.•∘˙○˚.•

One of my fave scenes what on earth

[dreamdripdistance]

so. that final run through the house, huh.

[turtleblogatlast]

Small but significant character moments that I actually really adore are from both the times we see the boys as tots. There is a reoccurrence that happens in both of them that I find so incredibly interesting.

For the turtle tot short, Splinter leaves the boys with weapons. In the short, Raph is the one who suggests they do “what Lou Jitsu would do” and Leo is the one who takes point when Splinter comes back to reprimand them. Leo, in taking point, is the one to defend them and get Splinter off their tails.

And then, in the flashback regarding the Kuroi Yōroi helmet, Raph is the one who grabs and throws “Skully” as a way to replace their missing ball which breaks it into pieces, but Leo is the one who speaks for the group and rushes into action to fix the teapot.

I love this for multiple reasons, but the biggest are how it shows that Raph has always been inclined toward the bold and fun and making the plans to include his brothers in what he loves and believes they’d love, whereas Leo has always been inclined to be the “Face” of the group and shoulder the attention even if it’s potentially negative all while coming up with on the spot attempts to fix the situation.

[molinaesque]

"You went against your word and defied our contract! In doing so, you brought the chaos of your world into mine! I will not abide it!" - Raphael (Baldur's Gate, 2023)

[dipperscavern]

the feminine urge to hold jon snow in such a way it like melts away all of his problems me thinks

just seeing the way he’s so tired, exhaustion clinging to every limb as he drags himself through the door of your shared room at castle black. jon doesn’t say it, but one look from him is enough to make you understand how he’s feeling. your brows pinch, eyes filling with sympathy.

nothing is said as he shuts the door, wordlessly making his way over to you. his hands settle on your hips as you pull him in, his head coming to rest in the crook of your shoulder as he sighs — stiffness leaving his body by the second. your hands wrap around him, engulfing him in your warmth, and jon wonders how he ever went without this at winterfell. how much restrain he had to have had when it came to you, and now, how much his self control has diminished. and jon realizes that he couldn’t make himself care about that if he tried.

[shower-racoon]

it's rare for a mascot horror game to sell itself to me in the first chapter alone.

that said, based on only the first chapter of Indigo Park, I'm Sold™

[martyryo]

this man got me through my exams

[getosugurusbangs]

"my wife fucking left me" with reo for the colour palette ask game‼️

decided to fully lean into the theme

[sorrelpaws]

no offense but i genuinely fear that their potential dynamic will go severely underutilized

[hayaku14]

IDK WTF THIS CARD GAME IS ABOUT BUT I NEED IT IMMEDIATELY

[daemon-in-my-head]

I'm gonna say smth and I need people to read and understand what I mean.

It is perfectly fine to critique games. It doesn't matter what exactly you critique. You don't like the story? Say it. You don't like the combat? Say it. You dislike the way previous lore has been handled? Say it. You dislike the character creator? Say it. You think certain aspects of the game feel lazy or odd? Fucking say it.

Games at this point of time cost 60-70 bucks. Just the game itself. And it's often not even a physical copy, just a digital key they can revoked at any moment if they feel like it. If you want an advantage or a pretty limited skin or what have ya its gonna be 80-150 bucks. Yes that's how outrageous the prices are becoming. Let alone any future DLCs.

And again, it's 60 fucking bucks for just the base game. That's a lot of money for games. Not too long ago you'd be chased with pitchforks and torches had you said your game was that expensive. Some phones are as expensive as two AAA games, games that usually shine with a shit ton of flaws, bugs, missing content, messed up lore and generally feel like the publisher just wanted to make a quick dime. And considering how little time they take to develop, the later often holds true.

But yk what else? If you don't express your disgruntlement or your anger with these practices it's gonna keep going. Shit is only gonna get more expensive while also providing a worse playing experience. Y'all know what the big guys said about BG3. That we, the players, shouldn't expect that to be the new standard.

But hey, listen, we fucking should. It's our money and time. Our enjoyment of long established series or the first title of many. We should expect it to be fucking good and finished especially for such a great prize. We should expect to find entertainment in the things we buy exclusively for entertainment.

So please for the love of god stop attacking people for voicing their very valid and personal opinions. In fact do the opposite and join them and encourage others to do the fucking same. I'm so god damn tired of publishers doing everything only for the sake of sales rather than the art behind it. And yes of course 'the poor employees' and whatever excuses there are for these attacks. Guess fucking what buddy? You encouraging the Publishers behaviour by shutting down any and all criticism and buying whatever the fuck they slapped a name on is just telling them they get away with treating their people like less than shit.

Criticism is healthy. Criticism is required for a system to work and develop in positive ways rather than whatever tf is happening now. Voicing your opinion and critiquing aspects you find poorly handled is not hating a game. It's being disappointed that something you love and are absolutely passionate about was not treated well because some rich guy wanted yet another bonus check.

If a game is shit, call it out. If a system was handled poorly, call it out. If publisher try to limit the content and systems you're exposed to in the first 2 hours because you can still return the game in that period of time, call it the fuck out.