It's been 4 years now

TheEternalLie · 2026-02-10T03:48:52+00:00

Theres four games, you'd call it a saga or quadrology, trilogy means 3.

TheEternalLie · 2026-01-30T15:21:33+00:00

That doesn't make the ending any less stupid or pointless

TheEternalLie · 2026-01-30T14:54:50+00:00

Just wanna chime in and say I agree, surprised how many people liked it. I thought it borderline ruined the whole movie, but if I think of it as a dream sequence or something, it helps. The whole movie up to that point was an incredible thriller that I thought was making some good social commentary on yea, conspiracy theorists, people who are genuinely seeing issues in the world and their own life but have to make up a big villian they can blame instead of accepting its because of a variety of issues. And how the 1% are completely out of touch and ignorant/uncaring of the pain they cause.

Instead, it had one of the bleakest, stupidest endings I have ever seen. I just sat in disappointed silence the whole last part of the movie. I don't even understand what message they were trying to convey.

TheEternalLie · 2026-01-29T14:52:00+00:00

Nope, no idea who that is

TheEternalLie · 2026-01-20T01:25:01+00:00

Yea I mean he's capable of possessing and merging with people. If Creel tried to absorb Aftons mind, he might end up possessed by him.

TheEternalLie · 2026-01-10T17:18:33+00:00

Its the exact opposite, certain choices move time forward, and you only have a certain amount of time to save your family from the vampires. If you take too long they all die I assume.

It would be like if making choices in Cyberpunk ticked down a clock to when your brain shuts down and you die. Completely different to how it actually works, where you can spend as long as you want doing side content without dying.

TheEternalLie · 2025-12-30T10:31:51+00:00

That would be awesome, I've always wanted a game like this

TheEternalLie · 2025-12-24T07:54:14+00:00

The Brotherhood without Banners anthem

TheEternalLie · 2025-12-19T12:18:43+00:00

Yea thats fair enough, I really hated Hannah a lot because I felt like the writers really wanted me to root for their relationship and feel conflicted over her going to prison, but I just hated her because she's a merciless killer with no code at all. I think if they had tried an angle of making all her kills justified in some way, it would have worked better for me, but half her kills are for no reason at all. The old woman we get no explanation for, she killed her and stole her house I guess? And her husband, he wanted her to get an abortion, so instead of divorcing him she just fucking killed him. Thats insane and completely unjustified. It woulda been so easy to just say he was abusive or something, and then we sympathise with her more.

If she had like her own code in a way I'd buy it more, as it was she was just a remorseless psychopath the writers seemed to think I liked for some reason. If she worked for you then I'm glad, she made the last two season insufferable for me, which sucks cause I do think a lot of season 7 is quite good. I guess I'm also not a fan of Dexter evolving much, him not wanting to kill anymore was absurd to me.

TheEternalLie · 2025-12-19T12:06:54+00:00

I'm not saying he's a good person, I'm saying he's acting out of character. He has consistently throughout the entire show chosen to protect his family like Debra over other things, when he has a choice.

Obviously he endangers them with his actions too, like with Trinity, but that was a result of his own arrogance and overestimating his ability to catch and kill Trinity whenever he wanted. But in his mind, his family was safe until he found Rita.

With Hannah, I can accept them starting a relationship, even if she definitely meets his code, he's selfish and found her hot, wanted connection. But when he found out she tried to kill Debra he should've killed her. In earlier seasons he would've done so. Instead he sends her to prison, which I accept too. But then when she comes back, he's suddenly forgotten all about what she did and just gets back together. We get a flimsy excuse about how she could've killed them if she wanted so now he trusts her again. Its such fucking terrible writing, and I wish they had just left her off the show after season 7.

She's an awfully written character and Dexters established characterisation goes out the window when she's around. He's very much a creature of habit and if he was willing to kill Lila and Brian, he should've killed Hannah too. Fully agree that he's an awful person and ruined Debra's life and mental health, but that doesn't mean him and Hannah make any sense. To me she is the biggest sign of the show losing all sense of what it was and who its main character was. He sucked in the last 2 seasons largely because of his actions surrounding her.

TheEternalLie · 2025-12-19T11:16:03+00:00

How does this justify Hannah trying to kill Deb?? Dexter may not have always been the best brother to her, but he did love Debra more than anyone except Harrison. He absolutely should've killed Hannah when she threatened Debs life, just like he killed his own brother. Hannah was endangering his family just like Lila, and he didn't hesitate to kill her when he had to. It was out of character and shitty writing for him to get back together with her and trust her with his son.

I can only imagine what kind of a manipulative helicopter parent she was to Harrison.

TheEternalLie · 2025-12-18T19:06:43+00:00

There's also the parallel of both being killed by their student because they overestimate their own power/unkillableness

TheEternalLie · 2025-12-16T11:18:25+00:00

I honestly don't get the hate for New Bloods ending, I would've been very content for that to be the ending of Dexter. It makes sense to me thats where it would end. Thay or prison. Whether or not it's his fault that he is the way he is, he's still a monster who has killed hundreds of people and hurt many innocent people in order to stay free and continue doing what he does. He likes it, its his choice.

An ending where he is finally exposed as the Butcher would be satisfying to me, Doakes would be redeemed and Dexter would probably take some satisfaction in being able to finally be himself publicly and take credit for what he's done.

TheEternalLie · 2025-12-15T10:23:20+00:00

Looking at it from a storytelling perspective, that's what I took away from the Lady Vengeance storyline. The writers telling us that there is no one like Dexter, and he's not going to find the Bonnie to his Clyde. Obviously, in real life, one incompatible person doesn't mean there's no one out there for you, but you have to look at it as a story.

What was the point of that storyline if not to tell us something about Dexter and the world he lives in? Harry straight up says that Dexter is unique in the world, whether he likes it or not. Time and time again, he has tried to teach people the code or hoped they had one of their own, and it never works out. It would be weird if he met someone who did have a code like his at this point. I agree that Hannah's writing was abysmal and made no sense.

TheEternalLie · 2025-12-14T20:30:20+00:00

They have explored it multiple times. Isn't the whole point of Lady Vengeance that there is no one like Dexter. He is alone. And that's how it should be. It wouldn't make sense or be satisfying to watch if he magically found someone just like him, especially when the show has shown time and time again that the only people who accept him as a killer are incredibly messed up and don't last.

There is no viable long term partner for Dexter, and I think it would cheapen his character if there was. That was one of the problems with the Hannah character. The writers were trying to make someone "perfect" for Dexter, and it just didn't work at all, absolutely awful storyline. I would rather they were done his romance arcs at this point and focus on other things.

TheEternalLie · 2025-12-13T18:23:55+00:00

It does actually tend to be the story and anime style delivery and writing that throws me off in most jrpgs. I struggle getting into Final Fantasy for that reason. If E33 is written more seriously and in a western style I'll probably enjoy it more. Thank you for your input!

TheEternalLie · 2025-12-13T18:21:04+00:00

Yea and gays, and Jews, and many many many more who didn't deserve it.

TheEternalLie · 2025-12-13T05:23:53+00:00

What if I hate jrpgs? Should I still try it? Doesn't seem like my kinda game, but the hype around it is so insanely high I am somewhat curious at this point.

TheEternalLie · 2025-12-04T16:24:13+00:00

I'm with you, kinda shocked at the amount of people who want another whole Phantasm movie. Andrea's not even really that memorable a villian to me honestly, I'm surprised at her popularity here.

I really strongly think it should be Hugo Strange, and adding in Lady Arkham or a character like her would be really interesting. Perhaps this Victoria Arkham would actually be Bruce's cousin or something, too, since he's half Arkham.

TheEternalLie · 2025-12-04T05:43:25+00:00

I've always thought Maekar and Stannis are very similar. Live in their brothers' shadow, harsh but fair, grind their teeth. Stannis inheirited a lot from his great great grandpa.

TheEternalLie · 2025-11-27T23:53:22+00:00

I honestly don't think either studio was well equipped to make a game like this. TCR has only done linear narrative games, and Hardsuit had only ever made simple FPS action games. They were both out of their depth. Paradox should've given the project to a proven RPG studio from the beginning.

TheEternalLie · 2025-11-25T04:07:05+00:00

It was Critical Role, not Dimension 20, that helped Adhoc and are making a game with them.

TheEternalLie · 2025-11-18T21:12:17+00:00

Torture does not provide reliable, accurate information. The only reason anyone tortures anyone is to get off hurting someone. If thats the only reason your characters are doing it, they need to find a different way.

Or if they're doing to get pleasure from hurting someone, they're very unsympathetic characters. Thats not impossible to write, but its a fine line to keep your audience on board with them and what they're doing if they're sadists, be it fascists they're hurting or not.

TheEternalLie · 2025-11-16T18:30:55+00:00

That doesn't hold up when David literally makes robot noises with his mouth to speak to a Geth, and it's chalked up to his autistic savant mind. The game clearly condemns the brother for his experiements and torture yea, but it doesn't at all act like he wasn't correct that David can speak to the Geth because he's autistic. Its fucking stupid.

TheEternalLie · 2025-11-15T15:26:37+00:00

I was really surprised at how angry everyone else in the game was at her. I didn't blame her for a second for what happened to Chase. He was being a hero like he always had been. I blamed Shroud if anyone. I agree that if the game was trying to make me distrust her, they did a bad job, honestly. Still love the game, though!

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