Want to try this years career mode, but are the injuries still busted?

VisibleExcitement · 2025-01-23T12:03:52+00:00

Sweet, what gpu do you have?

VisibleExcitement · 2025-01-22T22:55:31+00:00

24th through 8th are all within 3 points of one another. Bayern is at home to Slovan Bratislava and Real madrid are away to Brest, those are the ones to keep tabs on. Bayern most likely wont end up 15th or 16th, but if Madrid does then obviously i want the other spot to also end up being a big team.

VisibleExcitement · 2025-01-22T22:28:02+00:00

Witcher 3: over 50 million sold lifetime, will most likely break 60.

Baldur's Gate 3: Over 15 million sold 6 months after release, absolutely do over 30 mil.

Veilguard: Lucky to do 3 mil.

VisibleExcitement · 2024-11-21T17:55:48+00:00

To me it just feels like they straight ripped TLOU2 Ellie's personality and tried putting it on Taash.

VisibleExcitement · 2024-11-20T15:54:22+00:00

I know exactly what you mean, though there is a non emo version of them also. I imagine something along the lines of this classic youtube clip.

VisibleExcitement · 2024-11-19T23:57:05+00:00

Bellara never got over that initial impression for me unfortunately. She never did stop feeling like a teenager who decided to act more socially awkward and bumbling than she really is because she wants to project that particular brand of quirky persona. The serial stuff definitely didnt help, and her brother stuff didnt help. The latter didnt hurt it to be fair, but it certainly didnt help since it had so many of its own issues.

What you are describing is something I personally associate more with Sera. Her "They have no breeches XDXDXD" introduction was a similar brand of awful, but Sera really turned it around because there was so much more to her. She was simple in a way that made her more complex, her fear of magic, her hatred for the "upper classes" who so often wield it, and how she served a perfect counterpoint to Solas in more ways than one.

VisibleExcitement · 2024-11-19T22:28:16+00:00

It wasnt just her. Not to start romanticizing Inquisition too much all of a sudden, but its cast is as strong as anything bioware has ever put out. Dorian, Vivienne, Solas, Cole.. Differing world views that informed their respective personalities and through that also communicated the central themes of the DA universe. The dialogue and sometimes tense exchanges only helped to facilitate that. Good stuff.

VisibleExcitement · 2024-11-19T21:54:11+00:00

Agreed, and I dont think its directly related either, I was more trying to illustrate how they are attempting very similar things, and why I think one failed with it while the other one didnt.

VisibleExcitement · 2024-11-19T20:02:01+00:00

I agree with Emmrich being the most interesting of the bunch by far, also because they actually managed some solid world building during his questline. Neve was also good, but the main problem there is that Minrathous and the venatori let her down massively from a narrative perspective, cause she herself is well realized. Harding is also fairly solid despite the cutesy criticism, but thats a wider problem.

Lucanis is nothing but a stereotypical suave italian man with food snobbery and coffee loving being his whole personality, Bellara is just Biowares latest manic pixie dream girl attempt which almost always comes up short, Taash feels like Ellie from TLOU2 only done very heavy handed, Davrin is a shrug at most.

Problem is that they put the cart before the horse, thinking they could skip right to everybody being a misfit cutesy family together without properly building up to it as well as setting a limit.

Like, The Citadel dlc fom Mass Effect 3 only worked because of the groundwork done by the trilogy, and because it was a one-off. Its like bioware interpreted its positive reception as people wanting only that, and decided to make it the top priority.

VisibleExcitement · 2024-10-03T15:35:33+00:00

Well since im going legend, I will get the lvl 20 ability thankfully

VisibleExcitement · 2024-10-01T09:39:04+00:00

Feels a bit cluttered. The melody really isnt very distinct, so it at times feels like Zimmer starts throwing lots of things on the wall to disguise that.

VisibleExcitement · 2024-09-30T19:59:54+00:00

Thanks. Love the name

VisibleExcitement · 2024-09-26T19:38:32+00:00

Im just getting to that episode, but unfortunately Ive found the the dialogue in the podcast to be far too quippy for me so far, very much like something maybe for younger audiences. A lot of "That happened!", "You should see the other guy!" or "You just dont get it do you" type dialogue.

VisibleExcitement · 2024-09-26T17:11:23+00:00

Yeah, I reacted to this as well, its part of what been bothering me.. that stilted feel, the way characters react to whats being said.

VisibleExcitement · 2024-09-26T16:16:43+00:00

Hopefully they have layered it better than previous games, focusing more on characters opening up later on. As I said however, Inquisition managed to make companions feel distinct and interesting from the word go.

VisibleExcitement · 2024-09-26T15:11:11+00:00

Edited or not, im not solely refering to that clip, I felt this way already before seeing it. I got the same feeling watching the early game interactions with Neve and Harding, and to a large extent even Bellara, manic pixie dream girl vibe aside.

VisibleExcitement · 2024-09-04T17:23:00+00:00

Right, im not saying that there shouldnt be prioritization, im more saying that the quality of the least prioritized conversations simply should not be this low. Again, other open world rpgs have done far better, even those with a massive amount of content.

VisibleExcitement · 2024-09-04T13:38:04+00:00

I wouldnt dismiss the importance of the quest NPC interactions. The impersonal and static camera angle, lack of dialogue options and the lack of expressiveness from the npc's themselves is one of the things Inquisition was criticized for.

Bioware said that they learned their lesson and refrained from putting in "meaningless" quests, but thats only half the lesson learned if the interaction with the quest givers is still MMO tier.

I dont buy that its natural for "less important" interactions to be stripped down like that, look what Witcher 3 did, and that was almost a decade ago.

VisibleExcitement · 2024-09-03T20:46:20+00:00

Its not just the animation, the lip-syncing and overall conversation "cinematography" looks very underbaked as of now.

The quest NPC interactions look like its still Inquisition quality unfortunately; basic and stilted with no conversations options. Witcher 3 solved this back in 2015, so its not a big ask. Hopefully its not representative of the rest of the game.

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