Same. I think the human act is just dealing with a Banshee and some harpies while the humans are just complete assholes towards you.
Meanwhile, the non-human act has you going on this cool magical adventure with your friends and a dragon lmao.
Witcher 2 has two mutually exclusive middle acts. That’s cool.
Well, one of them is.
The “Humans” middle act is so fucking boring!
My first playthrough (100%) was 120~ hours. Subsequent playthroughs (not 100%) were 30~ hours.
Once you realize that 95% of side dungeons are literally just the same filler content with useless summons and weapons, and that you really only need to do, like, 6 to get useful loot for your build, the game gets a lot shorter lol
Honestly, summoning is the accessibility to get through hard areas in FromSoft games (not saying it’s good accessibility, mind you). Summons that won’t die in one hit basically trivialize most single-enemy boss fight since their AI spazzes out because it’s not meant to fight 2 opponents at once.
Yeah, Timmy’s had a hate-boner for anything related to Valve and Linux for years. He’s been lying through his teeth non-stop whenever either topic comes up.
“The breast milk snatcher will be caught”, a Microsoft representative assured the New York Times before taking a deep, long slurp of their milkshake, their eyes closed in apparent bliss as shivers ran down their spine. “Your days are numbered!”
I think it’s interesting that he believes that, personally.
Dragon Age has 3 main things going for it:
While the Darkspawn could work for TV (it’d just require a bunch of makeup and we’ve seen shows like The Walking Dead pull-off the whole zombie thing), it’s pretty hard to do anything low-scale with them, since they’re either small bands attacking small villages or a large invasion force during a Blight. Game of Thrones and Lord of the Ring pulled-off large-scale battles, but they also had rather large budgets by that point.
The Solas arc doesn’t really work for TV because of the budget it would require for all the insanely high-level and trippy magic stuff that would be needed. And also because anyone who isn’t already of fan of Dragon Age would be confused as fuck about what Solas is doing.
I could see a series about a smaller part of the Templars vs Mages working, personally. Unlike Solas and the ancient Elves, most “regular” magic is pretty low-level and tame. Blood Magic shouldn’t be as expensive as some of the ancient Elves’ magic worlds and Demons would probably need to be adapted to look differently than they do in-game, but it’s got potential. Not sure if I trust most network to handle the writing of it, though.
Also, they made Dragon Age: Absolution, which was pretty damn bad and felt like someone tried to smash 3-4 seasons-worth of plot into 6 episodes. The characters were walking tropes, the villain went from one of the most brilliant minds of the Tevinter Imperium to an obsessive weirdo, and it had some of the most forced romance and comedy bits I’ve seen in a while. In my opinion, the show also does an awful job with their portrayal of Tevinter, essentially contradicting a lot of established lore from the game for no apparent reason.
Not sure how many people in the community actually remember, but back in the day they made Dragon Age: Warden’s Fall with Machinima to setup the events of Awakening (haven’t watched it in forever, but I remember liking it). It’s dark and gritty like Origins and Awakening were, and less “witty” like Inquisition’s writing.
Making the tags make their jokers free is such a welcome addition! The amount of times I skipped, won, and then had a joker be ridiculously expensive for the early game has made me ignore these tags unless I’m already rich (at which point I probably have all the jokers I need anyways).
Is it actually good? I was planning on getting it, but the reviews seemed a bit mixed on release. Everyone seemed upset about some kind of broken promise or something? It’s been a while, I’m not sure what it was anymore.
The UI in this trailer is on fucking point. Damn!
I’ve had an RPI3 running for 7+ years (currently running Home Assistant on it). Still uses the original SD card that shipped with it, too. These things are durable and reliable as hell, as far as I’m concerned.
Same. My entire friend group went “Eeeeeh, $50~ seems like a lot.”
I’d given-up on playing it with friends, and then a buddy from work just randomly called me up on Teams and was like “Hey, I see you’ve got it in your wishlist. Wanna play this Thursday?”
Kind of surprised to see it do so well, tbh.
I find it makes my life easier, personally, because I can set up and tear down environments I’m playing with easily.
Same here. I self-host a bunch of dev tools for my personal toy projects, and I decided to migrate from Drone CI to Woodpecker CI this week. Didn’t have to worry about uninstalling anything, learning what commands I need to start/stop/restart Woodpecker properly, etc. I just commented-out my Drone CI/Runner services from my docker-compose file, added the Woodpecker stuff, pointed it to my Gitea variables and ran docker compose up -d.
If my server ever crashes, I can just copy it over and start from scratch.
A few weeks ago, I learned that we had an old server still running somewhere with Lotus Notes installed on it, and that we somehow need it for some critical system. ¯\(ツ)/¯
It’s honestly disheartening that this game was killed by greedy assholes. The concept of Brainiac taking over the Justice League, including Superman so the Suicide Squad has to be called-in has so much fun potential, especially with how Rocksteady handled the Arkham series.
I remember seeing that initial Superman reveal trailer and thinking “Oh shit! This is gonna be so cool!”. Unfortunately, we’ve seen that it’ll be a mess of shitty MTX and grind to keep people paying. Unless they straight-up killed it and started fresh, there’s no saving it.
It’s sad that this game will obviously just be an Avengers 2.0.
There were a few articles about it earlier this week (can’t find them, but they got posted on Lemmy). Feels like average outrage farming from “games journalists” honestly, since all the articles I can find about it now are from today about how “Nuh uh, it actually didn’t get snubbed! Your articles are wrong!”
Yeah. I was never going to buy it (not really a fan of anything Bethesda does besides Elder Scrolls, if even), and the game just looks like exactly the kind of game Bethesda’s made for the past decade and a half. Not really sure what people were expecting. Like, yeah, Todd said it was going to be different this time, but he’s been saying that for a while now. There’s a reason we have all those memes about him. If people actually believed him, it’s kind of their own fault at this point.
I started playing recently, though. I kind of waited for those romance milestone updates first because it was quickly reported as a bug. They’re still really low (unless my save is bugged somehow).
Yeah, I basically decided to party-up with Shadowheart, Lae’zel and Karlach on this playthrough. I’m ignoring most NPCs, and as soon as I finished the goblin fort and went to camp every single NPC wants to fuck me even though I’ve barely talked to anyone, and it’s like every “no” option is just insulting them. Like, my character’s not gay, but I’d like to just say “no thanks dude” instead of “Ewww, wtf is wrong with you? I’d rather fuck a goblin” when another guy hits on them.
Oh yeah, for sure. I like it too.
I always find it funny when people react to Myazaki saying the game is supposed to be around 30 hours by going “UUUUHHHH??? My playthrough was like a billion hours???”
Like, yeah, if you do everything it’ll take a while, but it’s clearly not made with that in mind. It’s really easy to just not do the whole thing and still have a decent length playthrough.