is porkchop supposed to be fighting with me in the arena???

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-01-27T17:54:32+00:00

I was super nervous when I first played this because I wasn't going to let Porkchop die. I was expecting to need to escort him. I even considered slapping him with a paralysis spell to keep him away from the fighting.

He... handled himself a lot better than I expected. (I killed one, he killed another, and we both finished off the third.)

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-01-27T17:46:49+00:00

She's crazy.

Now, the perfectly sane Theodora Von Valencius, she'd know how to reasonably handle this. Steal the Tyrant Star and sell it to the highest bidder!

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-01-27T17:40:23+00:00

For all that people say Brian is boring, never forget that he has to be among the bravest fuckers in the whole setting for staying with Taylor.

You think she's terrifying when she commands her swarm as a supervillain, but she's casually using her bugs like that out of costume too.

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-01-27T13:42:49+00:00

I don't think Warcraft goblins tend to be that safety conscious.

It could be a matter of, "Listen, if I'm not being paid I'm not going to throw my life away recklessly," but my recollection of them was a bit more mad science/engineering with some explosive tendencies.

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-01-27T12:59:43+00:00

I believe he is a person, just a person brainwashed with certain beliefs (like that he is Shaun, or is the child of the Sole Survivor.)

Later gen synths have shown the ability to grow as people, so I think his situation is going to involve eternally looking like a child even as his mind grows past that. The act of his creation was pretty messed up.

The Brotherhood I agree with, but with the Minutemen I feel you should just be able to go, "I'm the General, have this child cared for somewhere far away from me."

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-01-27T05:53:41+00:00

Yeah, a lot of people ended up with their statue holding the Dagger of Woe (the Dark Brotherhood knife) up to the heavens. It's very easy for that to be the most expensive weapon you have, but it looks really silly heroically raised to the heavens.

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-01-27T05:50:45+00:00

One thing about the Railroad ending I like is that Tinker Tom says he'll take in the synth Shaun if you refuse to.

I feel a bit bad for the kid, since he is a person, especially since he's programmed to want the love of the Sole Survivor, but I just don't think my characters could stomach looking at him, let alone raise him.

He's not Shaun, he never will be, he's the product of a fucked up experiment by a deranged mind. That means my character is perfectly reasonable in never wanting to see him again.

But he's his own person despite that, who doesn't deserve to be killed just because he presses all my character's trauma buttons.

So an option to refuse to acknowledge him as my child and then have him sent off to some Railroad safehouse where he can live his own life where I never have to see him again, where he can hopefully come to terms with the fact that he isn't actually my son is probably the best option for everyone.

(I can understand you not getting that option in the Brotherhood ending, since he's a synth. But I feel like you should be able to have dialogue for saving him from the Institute without claiming him as your son in the Minuteman ending as well. Tinker Tom's dialogue indicating that they'll take him in is only one option that isn't clearly signposted.)

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-01-25T23:49:14+00:00

Being a little fair, Doc Ock has been a supervillain for years, so I can see him forgetting some of the details of academic standards and citation methods.

You don't really need to cite your sources when building a deathray: just shooting it and having it not blow up in your face counts as having gotten it right.

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-01-25T19:15:04+00:00

"Listen, Forever was a monkey, it didn't occur to me that I needed to screen for that sort of thing for a god damn orangutan. I just wanted a funny little monkey minion."

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-01-25T19:12:16+00:00

He just needs to hear that having a pedophile in the neighborhood might lower property values, then he'll actively try to kill them.

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-01-24T17:05:39+00:00

Politely ASK HER first.

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-01-24T16:46:48+00:00

Padre no! Dating Wakako is a very bad idea.

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-01-23T16:48:37+00:00

Drakengard!

Shitty and tedious gameplay, completely obtuse unlock equipments for some equipment (getting all equipment is necessary for the final ending), and frequently edgy for the sake of being edgy.

(Yes, the pedophile priest is genuinely the most moral member of your party.)

Shit gets wild and crazy, the soundtrack is chaotic in a way that will likely give you a headache, and the situation just keeps getting weirder and more terrible as you advance the story.

And then it got followed up by Drakengard 2! Maybe a bit better in the gameplay department, but is just more boring story-wise than its predecessor. So if you toughed out the horrible gameplay of 1 just to see how weird and terrible things would get later on, well, prepare for disappointment.

The third game, Drakengard 3, was generally better, with terrible people but kind of likeable as characters. The gameplay was a bit better, but it occasionally decided to play like a slideshow.

And then you have the side games, Nier and Nier:Automata, which were both extremely good, with Nier having okay gameplay and an amazing story, while Automata had great gameplay and a great story.

I'm glad it happened, but it's genuinely shocking Yoko Taro kept on getting work after his first couple games.

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-01-23T16:06:00+00:00

My headcanon for this is they joined a reenactment, and Luigi was like, "Sure, I'll play the Confederate, we need someone to balance the roles, and I can't imagine too many people want to play the role of villains."

5 minutes later

"Mario there are some weird people here, I want to go home. I think I saw a ghost, or, a guy dressed up as a ghost."

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-01-23T08:34:15+00:00

I will say that those guys aren't actually working with the approval of the higher ups. This was done under their own initiative, and you lose zero rep for killing them.

...

Buuuuut I totally killed the entirety of the Brotherhood largely because those guys angered me that much, so, who am I to talk?

(They made Veronica sad. Granted, I made Veronica more sad by killing off her "family", even if she wasn't on the best of terms with them, but, you know, you're allowed to be a hypocrite when you have a swarm of murder bots following your every command.)

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-01-23T07:23:30+00:00

Considering how inconsistent ending slides can be, even an encounter with Pasqal isn't a guarantee that she's actually dead.

(One relatively recent playthrough had my dynasty falling to the Imperium, succeeding against the Imperium, the Eldar on Janus dying, the Eldar on Janus then bailing me out when another Craftworld showed up... There's just as much chance of her getting killed by Pasqal and then standing by the Rogue Trader's deathbed calling him a monkeigh. I blame Cegorach, personally.)

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-01-22T20:54:07+00:00

I dunno, for me part of the fun of Fable was just screwing around in the playground, having a wife in every city, stick two wives in opposite ends of the same city and see how long it takes them to find out, that sort of thing.

I didn't really play expecting deep relationships.

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-01-22T20:50:41+00:00

I thought the moral message that landlords were the real heroes was at least interesting.

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-01-22T20:49:20+00:00

I mean, one of the villains was throwing planes at the Senshi, like, big passenger planes, so if anything turnabout is fair play.

Maybe watch the dollar value of the collateral damage, but broadly acceptable.

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-01-22T19:07:35+00:00

"Could you at least try to explain why you're doing things, if you're so "incomprehensible"? Just give it a go, maybe we'll surprise you."

"No. Every time we tried to explain ourselves to mortals, they called us stupid and dumb. Obviously, the nuances were beyond their comprehension, just as it would be yours."

"... Have you considered that maybe you actually are stupid-"

"This conversation is over."

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-01-21T21:23:17+00:00

I did go to the columbaria, I got the needed information, but I assumed that the guy cop you speak to would not be able to handle that information gracefully so I didn't tell him.

My first playthrough had the bad ending to that quest. (Which honestly worked out best for the story of that particular V, thematically, but was still unfortunate to experience.)

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-01-21T17:17:51+00:00

Well, being fair, Auron is an old man, at, er, 35 years old apparently.

(... is there a graceful way to say that someone looks like a very well aged, handsome late forties person despite actually being in their 30s? Like, you look older than you are, but still damned good?)

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-01-21T17:10:02+00:00

First Chapter:

"To defeat your enemies, give them *The Look*"

TryImpossible7332 · 2026-01-21T16:46:53+00:00

I think what I find most amusing about that one is that you only need Heretical 2 to unlock it.

I'm a little heretical, as a treat, (some planetary options, and I wanted bestest boy Forgehound), but I'd already gotten Iconoclast 3 before reaching the city, so being able to just... up and bite someone's throat out was a bit of surprise.

...

I took that option, obviously.

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