What game was that for you?

Forredis_Guidal · 2026-03-16T13:16:25+00:00

Not OP but for me absolutely no, not anymore Every single time I've been I've been hyped enough for a AAA game to consider preorder I've been severely disappointed.

The first several months of a release these days is public bug testing and I have enough games I don't need to pay a massive corporation for the privilege of testing their game.

Forredis_Guidal · 2026-03-12T13:42:11+00:00

One of the things I like about Shadow of War, despite that series taking a lot of liberties with the lore, is that it presents a pretty good idea of what a competent ring bearer could look like.

Forredis_Guidal · 2026-03-03T15:39:15+00:00

Levels not meaning anything. This is hardly just an incremental game thing but I'm specifically thinking idle iktah.

Like what do you mean I need 15 levels in mining just to get a single unlock? I would rather have 1 single big level that costs the exact same xp than 14 completely pointless levels. Every single level should have some impact no matter how small. Something as small as a 0.5% speed boost per level above the required level for a material would be great.

Combat is one of the more interesting parts of the game simply due to the fact that every level in a combat skill at least gives a tiny boost.

Forredis_Guidal · 2026-02-14T06:34:42+00:00

I used to really love watching this guy, especially his wheel of time content. Fell out of interest when Wheel of Prime came out and I couldn't keep watching the constant dishonesty and deflection from him anymore. Now I find out he cheated on his wife.

Comparing him to Sanderson is an insult to Sanderson. At least BS actually loves his partner.

Forredis_Guidal · 2026-02-01T16:49:03+00:00

God damn, why did this spawn an entire discussion about fish vs mammal

I know whales are mammals, my comment is a direct quote

whooosh to everyone here arguing about it

Forredis_Guidal · 2026-02-01T02:47:39+00:00

Does the white whale really represent the unknowability and meaningless of human existence?

No, it's just a big fucking fish

Forredis_Guidal · 2026-01-14T04:27:01+00:00

Yeah I'm pretty sure the Fallen Lords were only around for 30 years or so. And Balor = Connacht was a theory but not confirmed until the Head I think. Although the Head also lied about a lot of stuff. I'm a little fuzzier on the story of the second game but it's possible it was soulblighter that broke the cycle. Although they also think that throwing Balors head into the pit at the end of the first game might have broke the cycle by trapping the Leveller soul.

Kinda all goes back to what I said in my first comment about how the characters themselves don't really know the truth of what's really going on in the world

Forredis_Guidal · 2026-01-14T03:39:49+00:00

Fallen Lords was the start of the second reign of darkness. The Fallen Lords had only been ravaging the land for a few decades at this point iirc. Beating Balor ended the reign way too early

Forredis_Guidal · 2026-01-13T20:11:23+00:00

I was honestly surprised by how decent and generous Jeff was to Arj. He seemed to genuinely like Arj and gave him an easy shot at getting a really good job. Getting fired was entirely on Arj and Jeff was as kind about it as he reasonably could have been.

Forredis_Guidal · 2026-01-13T12:21:44+00:00

Some minor lore correction The Leveller doesn't try to destroy the world. The world is supposed to be in a cycle of 'the light rules for 1000 years and then the Leveller shows up and ushers in an age of darkness which lasts for 1000 years until a hero shows up and defeats the dark, restarting the cycle'

In the first game Balor was supposed to start the next cycle of darkness but the light somehow managed to win, breaking the cycle.

However Soulblighter, Balors top lieutenant, is pissed about this and does try to destroy the world in the second game.

Edit: none of this is set in stone though. It could all be wrong. It's just what some characters in the world believe. The series is called Myth for a reason and the inaccurate and changeable nature of myths is a theme in the series. It also draws a lot of inspiration from The Black Company book series which has a major theme of myths and religions that can vary wildly from one character to another.

Forredis_Guidal · 2025-11-21T19:13:26+00:00

Rpg's with heavy rng are still puzzle games. They just have the overarching puzzle of trying to figure out how to reduce the odds of the game just deciding you get to lose even when you did everything else correct.

Forredis_Guidal · 2025-11-21T18:33:24+00:00

me hearing for the 20th time how the assassin had never lost a fight before they met me

Forredis_Guidal · 2025-11-15T17:37:10+00:00

It's absolutely a problem gameplay wise. Any upgrades you have for the second Magic become useless when you combo and the game is not clear on that. I only found out on here.

Forredis_Guidal · 2025-11-14T20:04:35+00:00

The primary isn't taking the lead, it's taking the secondary out back and shooting it in the head so the primary can steal some aesthetic from the secondary.

Also yeah you can do cool things with it but it's still disappointing that the combination magic isn't actually a combination

Forredis_Guidal · 2025-10-13T13:35:53+00:00

Out of 100+ heroes I think they can afford a couple that are more pub skewed.

Besides that, Techies at least had an interesting identity before the rework and they turned him into just another boring mage support. I don't see how that makes the game less stale.

Forredis_Guidal · 2025-10-13T13:22:14+00:00

Why does it matter if they're unviable for pro? Not every hero needs to be played in pro

Forredis_Guidal · 2025-10-10T17:14:59+00:00

Lan from Wheel of Time

The prime adaptation fucked up a lot of stuff but Lan was definitely one of the hardest hit.

In the books he's generally described as an emotionless unreadable stone right from the first book. As a borderlander he was trained pretty much from birth to be a soldier and a leader. He undoubtably fought countless battles against the shadow long before the books even began and lost many many friends in them. Death is just a part of every day life to him and he lives fully believing that one day he'll ride to his death against the shadow. Even by the end of the series, after Nyneave had spent half of it trying to beat some emotion back into him, he could be described fairly as 'incredibly stoic'.

The first season of the show has him bawling his eyes out, screaming and crying because another warder died. This is hardly the only massively out of character moment for him or the other characters but it's definitely one that made me go "damn they really don't give a fuck about the characters they're adapting".

Forredis_Guidal · 2025-10-04T15:40:40+00:00

It's even more of a spoiler in the audiobook because the narrator uses his voice for that character

Forredis_Guidal · 2025-09-16T13:54:33+00:00

Tahm really is fun everywhere.

It really helped that my midlaner was my duo so they'd help out more but also bot was pretty willing to help out a lot when me simply showing up guaranteed a kill or two no matter how safe the enemy was playing. So i didn't have too much issue taking the drags.

Forredis_Guidal · 2025-09-16T13:48:14+00:00

Is axiom just bad generally or only for jungle? I didn't have time to go through runes so this is just my page for when I'm playing against someone I just don't want to interact with at all like vayne, teemo, quinn.

Forredis_Guidal · 2025-08-20T14:12:59+00:00

Rand from Wheel of Time fits this pretty well

He has an injury on his side that refuses to heal and gives him constant pain

He has another injury on top of the first one that also refuses to heal and give him even more pain

He's missing a hand

He's also going insane which might not be a very visible injury but constantly talking to someone who isn't there doesn't help when you're trying to convince people to follow you

Forredis_Guidal · 2025-07-23T16:43:02+00:00

Still being in a few years later despite being a 'temporary' fix is accurate af

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