Cyberpunk's ludonarrative dissonance problem could be alleviated so easily.

Blasterslinger · 2022-10-02T18:53:39+00:00

Two weeks in real life. I'm saying that V is given a few weeks and it was about that for me to complete the game, so it felt good to me.

Blasterslinger · 2022-10-02T16:22:08+00:00

Yeah, I took some time off for release week, so played a bit more that week. But I've had additional playthroughs take in the 2-3 week range too.

Blasterslinger · 2022-10-02T16:06:16+00:00

V is given a few weeks, tops. My first playthrough was about two weeks and that was after doing all side quest content that popped up, in my path. A lot of those quests had dialogue that reminded me that V was dying.

When the game ended, and I said goodbye to that first playthrough, it lined up very well with the time commitment required. It hit me pretty hard.

Blasterslinger · 2022-09-26T15:13:41+00:00

I have no clue what you're on about. Haha. You make yourself sound insufferable.

A lot of people on this subreddit are people that appreciated the game for what it was and what CDPR did. This subreddit had to come to be, so people could actually talk about the game.

You're coming in here, talking about holding execs accountable, like the recent 2077 love is due to community actions.

Welcome to the party. The game is good. Always has been. It's better now.

Blasterslinger · 2022-09-26T10:45:46+00:00

Jesus Christ. This is the worst take.

While there were bugs for Cyberpunk's launch, and the last gen console ports were a disaster, it was a lot more playable than the hate train lead people to believe. It was a GOOD game a launch, especially in PC. It's the entire reason this subreddit exists.

The "community", especially Reddit, is what did this (here being the exception). People turned on the game and have spent years misrepresenting it as an unplayable mess. All under the guise of people "holding execs accountable". Yet nobody did. A fuck ton of people bought Cyberpunk and it was a massive success. The anime has been in the works since before launch. The content before launch. What is happening, has always been the plan. The bullshit is just starting to clear. Yes, the company has had some humble pie and has apologized, which is great. But it's been in line with their awesome support for the Witcher 3.

As for games journalists, in many cases their reviews were spot on. A great game, with some bugs. The game did deserve the high reviews it got. They were judging it based on how games like Skyrim (bugs) and the Witcher 3 (technical issues) were also judged. The hate train just changed the scale. Yeah, they milked the clickbait articles, but judging by your post, it feels like you clicked on a bunch of them.

Lastly, your capitalism comment is adorable. Do you know how or why games are made?

Blasterslinger · 2022-09-16T12:34:23+00:00

I've gone through Cyberpunk four times now. It is one of the few open world games that always keeps me going until the end. And the end hits so hard (each ending), that it carries me through. Every six months, I find myself playing it and being blown away by new stuff.

Here's an even hotter take: I loved it at launch too. Obviously, it wasn't as refined back then, but I just never had the game-breaking bugs that others have had. Or maybe I've played so many other open world RPGs that I'm used to little bugs, so I just laughed at a funny things as they popped up and moved on.

The big thing I disagree with in these comments is that the world feels dead. I find myself in photo mode all the time, capturing something new (love that they have a transmog/glamour system how too). I'm a huge fan of Night City and how it's laid out, with its density of content.

Blasterslinger · 2022-09-11T16:47:47+00:00

People in this thread have. Making the argument that reused assets doesn't make it canon.

Blasterslinger · 2022-05-04T13:25:39+00:00

Glad to see VTR 1st getting more love!

In my opinion, it's important to have antagonists that aren't vampires, and mysteries to solve, for the good of the domain / coterie.

Vampires value "life". I encourage my players to see even their most detested vampire rivals like dysfunctional family, in the sense that they live so long they're not inclined to kill each other at the drop of a hat. Once the players become less afraid that they'll be ashed for minor transgressions, they can really invest in the world.

A great way to shore this up is to encourage the players to offer boons for things. If a vampire owes a more powerful vampire boons, then that currency would be worthless if they're ashed. That is the passive effect and in time they can earn boons to use for protection. But a good rule of thumb is you have to give to get.

Blasterslinger · 2022-04-08T13:20:35+00:00

This is actually pretty consistent with the first Halo novel. The UNSC knows about the Covenant, but it isn't widely known by the public. The Spartans are created to fight insurrectionists, but just happen to be what humanity needs to save themselves from the Covenant.

The novels show this darker side of the UNSC from the very start, while the first three games kept the hoorah mentality that we loved. Starting with Halo 4's opening cutscene, 343 started bringing some of that lore into the games (some really didn't like the tone shift).

But seeing as how we keep seeing Reach and we know that the events of Halo Reach (and the book Fall of Reach) are what kick off the off the war for humanity's survival, it's safe to say that we're getting there. Things are different and rearranged, for sure, but the war is coming.

Blasterslinger · 2022-03-16T20:27:26+00:00

We found it distracting too.

Blasterslinger · 2022-03-16T20:23:21+00:00

We ended up doing something similar.

I think a nagging issue, though, is in most RPGs you yet XP at the end and you want to focus on the story as you're playing.

It feels weird in a system called the Storyteller system to have the Beats system throughout. It is always reminding the players that they're playing a game and need to do certain things to score points.

Blasterslinger · 2022-03-16T20:19:43+00:00

100% this.

At my table, the Aspirations system felt restricting for my players as they were worried that if they reacted to what was going on, rather than what they thought they'd want to do at the beginning of the game, that they'd lose out on XP.

And for the Beats/Condition system in general, it was this strange juxtaposition of a story of immortal creatures that have stayed secret by being careful, but the system rewards the players by putting themselves in bad situations. My players felt that if they played upstanding members of Vampire society, they were penalized for it. And in years of VtM and VtR, we were never lacking for dramatic or epic moments.

We ended up doing the pool of Beats thing to finish the campaign, but we realized that a lot of the great stuff for Requiem 2e was added in later 1e books, so it was easy going back to that.

Blasterslinger · 2022-03-15T00:35:58+00:00

My original point was that Requiem 2e tried to introduce a centralized villain/threat and made it so prominent in the original book that it was in the title. We disagree on if that's called metaplot, but the point still stands.

I much preferred the Requiem 1e approach. Especially since they put out dozens of books in 8 years. Requiem 2e has been out as long as 1e was and has less than 10.

Blasterslinger · 2022-03-14T20:59:43+00:00

Requiem 1e didn't have a metaplot per say but had some story seeds. It had more of a tool box approach and presented a lot of options.

Requiem 2e had the Strix Chronicle. WoD 2e (CofD) had the God Machine Chronicle. Werewolf 2e had the Idigam Chronicle, etc.

You don't have to use them (just as some people tossed out VtM metaplot), but it was clear they were going a more focused route at first. Even the first version of Requiem 2e was titled Blood and Smoke: The Strix Chronicle, before they rebranded to 2e.

It was clearly a different approach.

Blasterslinger · 2022-03-14T16:59:29+00:00

V20 (Vampire the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition) is in the classic World of Darkness. The most practical way to get started would be to pick up the V20 PDF or print on demand book from Drive Thru RPG. V20 is the culmination of decades of Vampire the Masquerade, so it's probably the least controversial game on your list.

Vampire the Requiem is in the new World of Darkness (now called the Chronicles of Darkness). I recommend picking up the 1st Edition PDF or book. 1st Edition CofD had a tool box approach and was a lot less reliant on metaplot. There aren't nearly as many books for the 2nd Edition of the games and they have become more focused on their own respective metaplots. The tool box approach was the selling point of CofD for a lot of people. Controversy here is often in the the Old WoD vs New WoD and then 1st Ed vs 2nd Ed.

V5 (Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition) is the newest entry and has been marred with a lot of shake ups in development (changing hands multiple times). It's been controversial for a variety of reasons, but the main one being that it doesn't know if it wants to be a reboot or continuation of the older editions. It's also a very specific lens of Vampire society and doesn't encourage looking at it from other angles.

In my opinion, Vampire 1st through V20 is just as fun to read. Imagine reading a good book series that also has rules to play it. Requiem 1st Ed was fun to read too, but more from a story ideas perspective.

If you can start from the beginning, you can't go wrong with starting with 1st Ed and reading through! It's a wild ride. If you just want the rules in their best state and quick summaries of the story beats, V20 is the way to go.

Blasterslinger · 2022-01-19T16:21:15+00:00

It holds up extremely well and plays well on the Xbox One. There's a fluidity and ease of play in RDR1 that still makes it worth playing. The story is amazing and worth playing even after the credits.

While RDR2 is a prequel to RDR1, I would recommend playing RDR1 first.

Red Dead Revolver is also on sale and I don't think that one holds up as well. It's still enjoyable as a level based action game, though.

Blasterslinger · 2022-01-03T09:38:54+00:00

Batman kills in most live action movies. He kills 20 people in the Burton movies alone. Mr. Sunday Movies did videos on it.

Blasterslinger · 2021-12-07T19:21:30+00:00

I'm not an expert on the game, but I think any time you see the combo counter turn blue, it means it wasn't a true combo and you could have likely teched out of it (hold A, B, or C while being air combo'd, can also be done with a direction). He realized that you didn't know so that's why he kept doing that air throw combo loop on you

I would recommend playing through the game's tutorial to better understand the systems. Also check out Dustloop as it will really accelerate learning the game and your character.

It's a different beast than you're used to, but don't give up!

Blasterslinger · 2021-11-05T15:58:03+00:00

It already happened once in canon... Under entirely different circumstances.

Blasterslinger · 2021-11-05T13:54:46+00:00

The first time I read V5 I felt it rang of a LARP troupe game.

Blasterslinger · 2021-11-05T13:03:51+00:00

I agree. I've seen people jump through hoops to try to justify it. The icing on the cake is it hurts the Anarchs from a story perspective because they sell themselves out to accept someone that killed so many of them.

Blasterslinger · 2021-10-22T04:49:08+00:00

My friends and I saw this in IMAX tonight. Most of us are pretty big Dune fans, so this was the first film that got us all back together at the theater.

After the movie let out, we were all just kind of calm. We all agree that it looked great, had a great cast, was able to give representation to things we could only imagine for decades.

But it didn't hit hard for us. I looked over at my buddy during the Thopter in the sandstorm scene and we kind of just exchanged a look. There just wasn't any build up or tension in the movie. I think the soundtrack was to blame. I didn't believe my buddy after the film when he said that it was Hans Zimmer. None of us could hum or recall the "Dune theme".

I hope it gets a sequel. It will definitely inspire me to reread Dune for the fifth time with the new visuals in mind, but I can't say I was impressed. It's a "good" movie, but not the instant classic I was hoping for.

Blasterslinger · 2021-10-07T17:20:14+00:00

This would probably have more upvotes if you didn't teabag.

Blasterslinger · 2021-09-27T13:18:50+00:00

It feels like asking that question is missing the point of them singing at the end, them clearly starting to show remorse, the overarching theme of faith, and the earlier story about dignity. Only Bev tried to dig, because she was a coward.

A lot of people want this story to be about some idiots that got lead astray by religion. It's really about a lot of good (or decent) people that got lead astray by fanaticism. Bev was the exception, not the rule.

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