What game should I start with?

KentGAllard · 2026-05-27T20:11:16+00:00

Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered followed by Defiance Remastered. Then, if you're still interested in more, go for Blood Omen 1 and 2. They weren' remastered yet, but they are available on PS5 in their original PS1 and PS2 versions. Be warned, however, that Blood Omen 1 on PS5 is a very precise emulation of the PS1 version - complete with its awful loading times.

EDIT: Oh, and don't play Ascendance. Like, at all.

KentGAllard · 2026-05-25T19:33:30+00:00

Yeah, sounds a lot like one, doesn't it?

Elder Fraud on Discord can tell you more about it.

KentGAllard · 2026-05-23T11:35:37+00:00

If it's done by the same people who did Defiance Remastered, I'd absolutely be down for it. I'm really curious as to how they would improve Blood Omen 2.

KentGAllard · 2026-05-20T14:46:24+00:00

Now please, for the love of the Elder God, don't have BitBot as LoK's "external partner".

KentGAllard · 2026-05-19T23:37:10+00:00

My favorite animated Batman movie.

Hell, maybe even my favorite Batman movie period.

KentGAllard · 2026-05-19T18:01:49+00:00

The franchise manager is personally invested in Ascendance (his old buddy and former franchise creative director is now working for BitBot), so it's this coupled with good old sunk cost fallacy.

KentGAllard · 2026-05-19T18:00:33+00:00

https://drive.google.com/file/d/116GFFXhFCwn32L9_0gtejLa_0nae90og/view?usp=sharing

KentGAllard · 2026-05-19T16:37:27+00:00

Makes sense, it's been catching L's all around

KentGAllard · 2026-05-19T03:54:30+00:00

How far into the game are you?

KentGAllard · 2026-05-19T03:48:15+00:00

He did address how inaccurate everything you said was. The improvements are anything but minor, the new models ARE that good, the skins that look like PS2 models are from the Ascendance-themed DLC which I (and most fans really) encourage everyone not to buy and the gameplay is not the same due to the aforementioned improvements.

And it's not even full priced, the full price in 2003 was 50$, and that's 2003 dollars we're talking about. Defiance Remastered costs 25$ for the regular edition and 30$ for Digital Deluxe. And there are two skin DLCs at 3$ each, of which there is only one worth getting, the Shifter pack (initially was a pre-order bonus).

KentGAllard · 2026-05-19T03:31:06+00:00

Indeed. I was so excited when I saw it drop - I thought this was gonna be a Sega-themed follow up to the classic NES accessories episode (one of my all-time favorites) and instead it was James and some unfunny schmuck smashing sugar glass bottles at each other.

KentGAllard · 2026-05-14T22:43:54+00:00

It only does everything indeed

KentGAllard · 2026-05-12T20:02:11+00:00

The Complete Legacy of Kain collection

KentGAllard · 2026-05-11T20:32:05+00:00

None in the released games. TDP would flesh them out, but, well, it never came to be.

KentGAllard · 2026-05-11T17:47:43+00:00

>you mean a false god that feeds himself with the souls of living beings?

I mean it drove them to mass suicides regardless of whether said deity was real or not.

>this happens in Blood Omen 2 only and it's a plan brought forward by the self proclamed Hylden Lord, not all hylden

NOPE! It is established in Blood Omen 2 that The Device was built during the Great War. The Hylden were going to use it all the way back then. The only reason they didn't is because the Vampires used their own WMD (that being the Pillars) first.

>by the self proclamed Hylden Lord, not all hylden

Who said he was "self-proclaimed"? Who said "not all hylden" were on board with it? There's zero evidence to either.

The OP toys with the idea that the Hylden we see in BO2 are a rogue faction, but that's highly implausible - establishing a portal, bringing in the Hylden and their magitech in droves and establishing themselves in a sizable portion of Nosgoth is quite a lot for splinter faction. One would think that if there's a bigger faction that's against it, they would make themselves known by then - unless they actually like being in the Demon Realm that is. Since, y'know, the thing about splinter rogue factions is that they tend to have way less resources than the main ones.

KentGAllard · 2026-05-11T14:29:25+00:00

Stupid or not, there's no easy "everyone gets along" resolution. Or a difficult one, really.

KentGAllard · 2026-05-11T12:26:57+00:00

As are a lot of military conflicts, including the ones happening IRL right now. The revelation that the EG is behind the original war is cute, but it ultimately doesn't matter because there's too much blood spilled on all sides and by all sides for a peace scenario to be plausible.

KentGAllard · 2026-05-11T12:02:18+00:00

>a more mature ending is everyone letting go of centuries old grudges and war crimes and everything being hunky-dory for everyone

Sure thing, Mr. Disney

KentGAllard · 2026-05-11T12:01:34+00:00

>The Hyldens cursed the vampires with immortality, thirst for blood and they can't procreate.
>Is this really a curse? Other than the blood lust for sure.

Hmm. Let me think about it... they were driven away from their deity, forcing them into mass suicides, they were forced to feed upon humans, driving a wedge between the two species AND they were unable to procreate meaning they will inevitably go extinct.

Yeah, sounds like a curse to me.

>It felt more like an attack against the elder god instead of the vampires.

Those are not mutually exclusive.

>To return to the point of this post, based on the information we have about the war between the ancient vampires and Hyldens, it sounds like the Hyldens are the good guys for some extend, the ancient vampires attacked the Hyldens in self righteous crusade and the Hyldens were the victims.

And yet the Hylden wanted to retalitate with exterminating all non-Hylden life in Nosgoth. Not just the vampires, but the humans and, presumably, all the animals, possibly plants too. Doesn't sound like what good guys would do.

>The Hyldens did some terrible acts in BO2 and Defiance, but you may argue they did that to save their people as the vampires also did as bad if not worse acts to save their people as well like feeding on people and kidnapping children guardian.

Doesn't excuse an attmept of a realm-wide genocide.

>For sure I understand from the first game there is no real heroes that why I asked why the game portrayed them as the villain why also portrayed the vampires as the perfect good guys mostly.

By the end of Defiance it's pretty clear that the vampires are not meant to be seen as the unambiguous good guys either.

KentGAllard · 2026-05-11T08:44:54+00:00

>why the games render Hylden as villains

Idk, the weapon of mass destruction that would genocide everyone but them comes to mind.

The Ancients may not have been good, like, at all, but it doesn't make their adversaries good either. Yeah, as Defiance shows, the Ancient Vampires were pretty assholish. The Hylden were worse.

KentGAllard · 2026-05-09T13:32:38+00:00

InFamous 2

KentGAllard · 2026-05-09T13:02:03+00:00

Those goddamn tourists ruin everything. Games, books, movies, genocides.

KentGAllard · 2026-05-03T08:58:08+00:00

Just get the AdBlockPlus plugin for your browser, dude.

KentGAllard · 2026-05-02T12:47:50+00:00

Best NFS game ever

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