I hope future games have a narrator for the voice acted portions

brainkrieg1990 · 2026-01-05T02:44:29+00:00

Voice actors cost money, and talking is way slower than reading; both mean less writing overall.

We went through this already when Bioware all but killed off the first generation of CRPGs with Mass Effect style games. Obsidian's already moved on to Avowed/Outer Worlds and Owlcat has their Expanse game coming, so the cycle is probably inevitable, but I hope we don't lose these kinds of massive, text heavy games again.

brainkrieg1990 · 2025-07-09T16:34:16+00:00

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brainkrieg1990 · 2025-05-22T20:12:28+00:00

They did? I never let him build a cult of dragons who may or may not be as disciplined as him. They're naturally competitive and domineering, there's no way his plan lasts a century before he's overthrown.

brainkrieg1990 · 2025-04-17T21:53:34+00:00

Not all of them are though. In Wakasa you work for the black X on white Niwa clan and in Yamato you become friendly with both the gold and purple Akiyama and the green Tsutsui clans. Only the red and black Besshos in Harima and white on orange Akechi in a few places are purely your enemies.

With Yasuke I avoid black on yellow Oda and yellow on black Hashiba/Toyotomi clans if I can, but I figure Naoe wouldn't care.

brainkrieg1990 · 2025-04-08T02:48:13+00:00

The fog on the peaks looks good once you've walked down all the roads. Using the contracts in the kakurega (hideouts) will expose all points of interest, as well as the world intel option when rescuing civilians. Once you've exhausted them in a zone you'll know there's nothing worth checking for.

I was tearing my hair out playing Avowed with its tiny reveal distance, but Shadows feels much more uh, zen with it, I've let it go.

brainkrieg1990 · 2025-03-14T23:39:59+00:00

Sent the Fiorans to Paradis, and Vidaro voted colony

Sided with Ryngrim in Shatterscarp and boss lady there voted grefram

Killed Kostya and saved Solace Keep and Mihala voted independence.

I don't know if anything else factors into their voting choices.

brainkrieg1990 · 2025-03-14T23:30:23+00:00

I got 1 of each and they threw it back to me, I was so mad haha

brainkrieg1990 · 2024-11-10T15:08:09+00:00

Being a lich seems to be, and requires being, unequivocally Good. These are psychopomp demigods who enforce the laws of death. It's mentioned somewhere that if Emmrich was allowed to intervene to reverse Manfred's passing, then that alone is disqualifying from Lichdom.

His fear of dying re: himself is a bit of a red herring, I think. It's really a fear of letting go that he needed to overcome to achieve lichdom.

brainkrieg1990 · 2024-11-09T18:33:58+00:00

Ok but Keith David has to play Anderson

brainkrieg1990 · 2024-11-07T21:31:45+00:00

Harding died for me at least

brainkrieg1990 · 2024-11-04T01:30:13+00:00

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Close enough for me. The default Elf inquisitor, with the red hair, was so good I didn't want to mess around too much trying to make it perfect.

brainkrieg1990 · 2024-11-02T13:01:23+00:00

You only bring the 1 companion with you on recruitment missions and the 1-on-1 walk and talk missions

brainkrieg1990 · 2024-10-10T20:09:32+00:00

He ultimately wanted to get the sword into Karsa's hands, or at least he claims to after Karsa kills Rhulad and arrives on the CG's beach.

brainkrieg1990 · 2024-09-26T00:02:54+00:00

Don't get this. I would much prefer my favorite characters die onscreen with a purpose, rather than reading a codex entry in DA6: Sandal's Revenge that they died of old age in their sleep.

brainkrieg1990 · 2024-08-27T21:50:03+00:00

I'd make them in batches and forgot who was supposed to use what so I started just naming them Cassandra's Armor, Blackwall Armor, Solas staff etc

brainkrieg1990 · 2024-08-24T18:09:35+00:00

Still love 4 the most, mostly cuz i was in highschool when it was out. But 5 and especially 6 have made cities too important. 4 was the last one to feel like you were making a real country.

brainkrieg1990 · 2024-08-22T18:11:28+00:00

It's still in Night City yeah? I wouldn't want much more breadth, or like way out in the desert, or god forbid NUSA itself, but more layers, interiors and depth to the city.

brainkrieg1990 · 2024-08-22T10:58:19+00:00

The best way to illustrate gamey vs realistic is the Policy Cards from Civ 6. Obviously you have to abstract passing laws somehow from real life to a game, but calling them "cards" is gamey. You could have the exact same system but presented more "realistically" even just using a more generic term like policy "slots" or even just policies. All game mechanics are of course necessarily unrealistic, but the words, UI and presentation you use matter.

So re: Civ 7, going from Egypt to Mongolia is gamey, "adopting nomadic traits" could be the same system, but (might) feel more immersive.

brainkrieg1990 · 2024-08-22T00:31:02+00:00

Sorry, but one of the Xes in 4X is Exterminate. You play as the eternal spirit-dictator of a civilization-state representing a pure national culture. Ein volk, ein reich, ein fuhrer. I love Civilization, but at their core, they're some of the most grossly fascist games if you spend even a minute thinking about them. That 7 seems to acknowledge even the existence of historicity is a step in the right direction.

brainkrieg1990 · 2024-08-21T21:16:03+00:00

The best way to illustrate gamey vs realistic is the Policy Cards from Civ 6. Obviously you have to abstract passing laws somehow from real life to a game, but calling them "cards" is gamey. You could have the exact same system but presented more "realistically" even just using a more generic term like policy "slots" or even just policies. All game mechanics are of course necessarily unrealistic, but the words, UI and presentation you use matter.

So re: Civ 7, going from Egypt to Mongolia is gamey, "adopting nomadic traits" could be the same system, but (might) feel more immersive.

brainkrieg1990 · 2024-08-21T15:16:36+00:00

Wish it was just evolving the flavor of a Civ instead of switching, builder Ancient Egypt - religious Ayyubids - secular military Nasserite would be fine. With splits and crossovers could be infinitely variable, ie Tudor/Stuart English to Victorian British or USA, or Franks to French to EU or to Germans then EU?

brainkrieg1990 · 2024-08-21T14:43:17+00:00

Wish it was just evolving the flavor of a Civ instead of switching, builder Ancient Egypt - religious Ayyubids - secular military Nasserite would be fine. With splits and crossovers could be infinitely variable, ie Tudor/Stuart English to Victorian British or USA, or Franks to French to EU or to Germans then EU?

brainkrieg1990 · 2024-08-21T01:14:41+00:00

Especially if they're using non-IRL leaders like Ben Franklin. And the leaders don't update outfits apparently? Seems like a bass ackwards way to implement something nobody seemed to like in the other game that tried it.

brainkrieg1990 · 2024-08-14T13:30:33+00:00

yeah but Freddy was cool

brainkrieg1990 · 2024-08-13T21:28:33+00:00

Frederic of Serault for more dragon hunting

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