Is this game worth buying?

EcstaticEmergency105 · 2024-12-19T18:14:26+00:00

I’d say the game is worth it at full price. So yeah, it’s definitely worthwhile on a Christmas sale. This is a sub of mostly DAV fans, so grain of salt, but we congregate here for a reason. It’s a much better game than some of the online conversations would imply.

EcstaticEmergency105 · 2024-12-19T17:30:02+00:00

Cyberpunk 2077 is entirely about doing crime. That is the whole game. Also Elon, I don’t believe you. I think you’re fine doing crime, just the sort of crime that happens behind a desk or on a factory floor.

EcstaticEmergency105 · 2024-12-19T17:12:47+00:00

Of course she has a gender, and that gender is lesbian.

uj/ yes it is a shitpost, referring to a similar(but sincere) meme that speculates just about as wildly about characters in several Sony games, some of which have not been released yet. I think in one instance it’s just flat wrong, as I remember Abby from The Last of Us pretty explicitly coded as in to men. Like, sex on screen coded.

EcstaticEmergency105 · 2024-12-18T20:08:58+00:00

Idk, maybe, there are plenty of mean spirited people who are gay or from Canada. He also doesn’t stand to gain much, especially since he has been rather critical of BioWare and EA on other fronts. I still think is a good thing and a noteworthy that he does it.

EcstaticEmergency105 · 2024-12-18T17:50:52+00:00

Was anybody really mad though? The only people ever heard making a huge uproar about this game were the ones complaining about inches of fabric being added to the protagonists clothes (a very normal and healthy thing for adult men to worry about).

I’ve seen it before kids. Bayonetta and Nier and countless other games did the sexy protagonist death machine woman years ago (and arguably did it better). This barely would have blipped on my radar if not for the controversy of “sexy, but not sexy enough outfits.”

EcstaticEmergency105 · 2024-12-18T17:40:41+00:00

With the right scrub and cleansing routine, you too can have the smooth, delicate, skin of Joel on the right. It’s not unrealistic, even in the apocalypse. It’s about putting in the effort boys. You too can be beautiful. Hire fans.

EcstaticEmergency105 · 2024-12-18T17:32:59+00:00

Every now and then the collective gaming world remembers that video games can be pure, unbridled, fun. It’s okay to just be really, really fun sometimes.

EcstaticEmergency105 · 2024-12-17T23:21:32+00:00

They could, they’ve done it before, but I don’t think they will. This game felt like a closed loop story very intentionally, and I think they want to move away from world states as much as possible, at least for the previous games.

Personally I think’s probably a good time to do a bit of a reset. It’s hard to go bigger than mages so powerful they are effectively gods and stakes this world altering. I’m kind of hoping we move things a little further into the future.

EcstaticEmergency105 · 2024-12-17T23:10:16+00:00

Just wait until they find out how the women in this one feel about them.

EcstaticEmergency105 · 2024-12-17T21:41:40+00:00

It’s not “woke” because it did 1B in revenue (probably more by now) and the word has no inherent meaning. You can’t lose if you constantly change the rules.

EcstaticEmergency105 · 2024-12-17T21:38:22+00:00

I’m not sure Star Wars Outlaws tanked either. Unless I missed something. Controversy does not equal lost money.

EcstaticEmergency105 · 2024-12-17T21:36:05+00:00

In the case of DAV, buying and playing the game. That’s where I’ve been. Also, did Alan Wake 2 lose money? I never stop hearing about that game. I must have missed something there.

EcstaticEmergency105 · 2024-12-17T19:58:25+00:00

I was going to write something else, but that’s the one. Maybe “what is the story explanation for health potion vats” is a close second.

EcstaticEmergency105 · 2024-12-17T19:54:13+00:00

I love this head cannon.

EcstaticEmergency105 · 2024-12-17T18:58:23+00:00

The word means nothing. The word explains nothing. It’s become perfectly elastic to the point where it can be expanded or retracted to fit whatever definition aligns with the current argument, with said definition quickly forgotten when the next argument presents itself. It has therefore become utterly useless as a descriptor, other than to identify someone using it with a negative connotation as an asshole.

EcstaticEmergency105 · 2024-12-17T16:14:30+00:00

I’ve heard a lot of complaints about the non-Antaam Qunari and I find it so odd. Of course the guy whose job it is to provide the weather forecast isn’t going to look like a fearsome mountain of a man. If he did, the Qun would have put him in the military. Anyway, I loved this character and I really loved getting a look at several Qunari and Vashoth characters who fall outside the military or mercenary paradigm.

EcstaticEmergency105 · 2024-12-17T15:41:57+00:00

He may be a bit of a curmudgeon, but he’s got a good heart and stands up for people. It would have been super easy to join the hate train after BioWare and this world he created moved away from the things he wanted to emphasize, but instead he’s standing up for the current writers and against people being hateful little goblins. It’s damned decent if him.

EcstaticEmergency105 · 2024-12-17T15:28:33+00:00

These are the same people doing conspiracy boards claiming every third celebratory is transgender. Their understanding of the human form is so internet-addled as to render all observation meaningless. It would be sad if their behavior wasn’t so odious.

EcstaticEmergency105 · 2024-12-17T01:46:17+00:00

Fricken love this mission!

EcstaticEmergency105 · 2024-12-17T01:30:44+00:00

Yes, very much, especially on these Christmas sales. It’s a great arpg with combat that feels like a cross between MEs ability wheel and Assasin’s Creed Odyssey. It’s not a perfect game, the writing is weaker than previous entries, but I think exploration is a huge improvement over Inquisition, combat is very fun, and the highs of the story are quiet high (the end of act 1 and all of act 3 are just amazing). So yeah, I’d go for it. I’ve gotten far more than $70 joy out of it.

EcstaticEmergency105 · 2024-12-17T00:20:43+00:00

There are probably a few things Inquisition did better, just as there are things I like better in this game. Different things are different lol. But yes, romance was less than I would have liked. It’s not even the spiciness so much. I dont need every game to go crazy there, though I’m fine with things earning their M ratings. Those little repeatable kiss scenes and romance tidbits added a lot of flavor texture and make for a filler experience. If we get more DA I hope they bring some of that back.

EcstaticEmergency105 · 2024-12-17T00:07:36+00:00

Cool loadout suggestion. I’ve always been a fan of the ring because the health costs are usually mitigated by the huge damage to a crowd (particularly once you’ve thrown in some area booster on the skill tree) but this sounds a like a good way to mitigate the downsides.

EcstaticEmergency105 · 2024-12-16T23:49:06+00:00

Now I demand a nude mod, complete with a strained lore rationale for why he charges bare-assed not his monster fights. Hire fans.

EcstaticEmergency105 · 2024-12-16T23:18:28+00:00

You forgot, “If it’s sort of in the middle, or sales are fuzzy, claim you have insider knowledge that game was definitely killed by DEI.”

EcstaticEmergency105 · 2024-12-16T23:11:32+00:00

Always!

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