YEAH THERE WAS AND THE PLOT IS THAT YOU PUT DOWN A GOBLIN LIBERATION MOVEMENT. also the goblins are jewish stand ins. also there a good goblin who says that no matter how much discrimination there is you cant use violence to defend yourself. also the goblins are evil because their culture has a different understanding of labor and capitalism. also blood libel. qnd happy elf slaves that love being slaves and HERES THE KICKER the lead producer for most of the game was a far right chud who made gamergate videos year before getting hired. he was fired after he said something racist I think. i think about this game often while ripping my hair out.
In Baldur's Gate 3 you can prevent a tiefling from doing a revenge killing on a goblin or even lead a goblin raid on a druid grove to show those stupid tree-huggers what for
a much better game.edit to clarify i did not play the terf game i hate watched a bunch of videos about it because i was shocked by the antisemitism.
Sadly if you want to play as a goblin you have to mod the game
You can also play as a half-orc but not an orc
Normalize greenskin social integration you fucking cowards
Neither hobbits nor gnomes have a default origin story, which I consider half-pint erasure.
In addition to all that stuff, the story was just straight up yawn-worthy boring
yes it was sooooo basic, it definitely seems like a story for little kids (makes sense), but what little kids is buying a 60$ game? who is this for?
Games have been $60 off and on for 3 decades now, so honestly, any kid who has an n64 or above has been getting $60 games for quite some time now. It took me 6 months to save up for Jet Force Gemini, I’ll never forget how disappointed I was with it after getting home.
god damn that sounds crazy I dont think Ive played a 60 dollar game till this year. not counting pirating. I guess ive spent that much on the sims.
Huh. I always thought Yahtzee was at the very least chud-adjecent just based on vibes but he makes a pretty strong rejection of Rowling and TERFs in general in this. Cool to see.
Having a kid is interesting that way. Its like a coin flip whether it makes you a better or worse person but it seems to fairly frequently make a significant impact that way. Some people become absolute demons because of it but for others it gives them a lot of perspective.
tbf his old stuff was full of various slurs
he doesn't do that any more thoughApparently the former owner or manager or something of the escapist was a big gamergate guy, but now he doesn't work there and the current staff disavow him pretty frequently. Yahtzee seems pretty on board with trans rights and stuff but clearly doesn't want to talk about. Whenever he brings up politics in his reviews though it's always shitting on right wingers
Started out as a lib, but was at the very least entirely opposed to the invasion of Iraq for mostly-coherent reasons (aka reasons you formulate before you feel confident in saying the word Imperialism). Honestly, I think he's at a good spot for a media critic--makes sure to mention that he is just a media guy and not an expert in political theory. Also he didn't fall for the weird loop that a lot of gamergate adherents fall for, where they develop a strong anti-corporate mindset but manage to keep hating LGBT because they conflate corpo pandering with some kind of gay conspiracy.
Yahtzee hates games as much as he hates everything thats not the first portal game
They're forgetting the best game of the year smh Pizza Tower shits all over Hogwarts lmaoI am proud to say that I have never read the wizard books even as my peers were caught up in the craze. I just didn't care for them
ive been a harry potter hater since i was in first grade and my friends were trying to hype me up for the first movie. i was vindicated years later when jk rowling ended up being a terrible person
if there is one harry potter hater on earth, that is me if there are no harry potter haters on earth then i am dead
And on the other end of the spectrum there's me, still not emotionally detached from the parts that meant a lot to young draggo :(
They're pretty good until Goblet of Fire. Then it gets a little too edgy too quick. Good childrens books though. A lot of kids learn English here from them.
idk I played some starfield and I watched my gf play the harry potter game and it doesn't seem much better
baldurs gate 3 tho seems pretty great, but I don't like that the plot is all about illithids (boring)
Just install a mod to replace all mind flayers with mine flails
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I don't like that the plot is all about illithids (boring)
Mind Flayers are the hook, but its a full on brawl between supernatural factions by the end. You get a healthy number of gods, devils, and undead monsters all piling in.
But mostly curving back around to illithids, especially in the final plot beats.
i think "psionics" in a magic fantasy setting doesn't fit
I don't really see the need to make psionics its own thing when you already have the eight schools of magic and plenty of overlap.
I don't mind psionics as flavor, broadly speaking. Giant floating brains that get Detect Thought and Telekinesis at will and squid monster mad scientists with high level divination/enchantment spell lists that feast on your grey matter are as legit fantasy tropes as goblins or vampires or oozes.
In earlier editions of D&D, psionics mostly ignored magical effects and didn't interact with them and even bypassed magical resistances.
I'm glad that is no longer the case, but it used to be some bullshit power fantasy nonsense.
2e was silly for a lot of reasons.
I believe by 3e, it was generally just "Magic with Power Points" and a few incredibly janky spells/effects that made Psionics annoyingly overpowered.
Early on, it was also a way for That Guys in D&D groups to get really mad and demand rerolls until they got the "wild talent" unlock confirmed for their templates, or else they deliberately get killed off to try again.
Love when D&D isn't about telling a cool story but about beating the DM to death with a bag full of dice.
Don't worry, there's nothing psionic about these mind flayers.
I don't like psionics much either but they've been in D&D for about four decades now so they're seen as traditional.
The most iconic “monsters” in dnd are gonna be Dragons, which aren’t really dnd exclusive in any way, mind flayers, and beholders. There’s no way we weren’t getting at least one of those last two to play a big part. They’re just too great of designs not to be used.
Yeah mind flayers suck, and it sucks that anything involving the underdark has to so heavily involve them. Give me more svirfnebli if we must go to the fucking underdark
(I've never played Baldur's Gate 3 so I have no idea whether we get svirfneblin action but I have read R.A. Salvatore's books and this reminded me to rant about it)
My character's guardian is a svirfneblin! She has both of her hands, though, so no bivrip
action.It sucks how pretty much every D&D game post Baldur's Gate 1 had an annoying mandatory detour/speed bump into the Underdark for more dae le sexy sex
elves and their oh so DAE LE EPIC LOVECRAFT AMIRITE mind flayer associates.I wanted Icewind Dale to be more druidy and rangery and forests and snow and that sort of vibe, but nope, into the Underdark we go. Again.
The speedrun Strat of BG3 completely skips the underdark, btw.
There's 2 methods in to act 2, above ground or underground, above ground is a lot quicker.
On the other hand, you can kill slave owners in the UD. Like a whole town of slave owners.
I don't mind the Underdark as much as I'm tired of Illithid gimmicks, and those are very unavoidable.
It is extremely good. Unfortunately I was almost to act 3 when starfield pulled me in for the foreseeable future
Oh no the wizard apartheid enforcement game doesn't have lasting appeal except as nostalgia caressing for insufferable liberals 🎻
What a crossover between Armored Core 6 and the TERF wizard game would look like:
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"How... How can you smile like that? Murderer!!!"
Does the HP game actually do anything... interesting? I saw footage of it and the whole time they were just inside the school or in some backwoods. I would like to terrorize people in the city with my magic spells, create money from thin air, and get sponsored by the shadow government
None of those things except maybe the shadow government because you basically play a born-special child soldier enforcing the status quo against a marginalized ethnic group.
Thoughts on a game (that wasn't TERF shit) where you still put down a slave rebellion, but they full on lean into being a neoliberal ghoul? You can get sponsored by the shadow government for unlimited currency, you can instigate wars off of false pretenses, you can empower landlords for rep with your shadow faction, you have missions to extract slaves and resources from other countries, etc. Would you play it?
Yes. That’s called Paradox Interactive grand strategy games. Specifically, Victoria 3
Alternatively, you could put down 3 landlord rebellions, resist european colonialism by pulling an arms industry out of your ass, and wage fifteen world wars against America alongside your trusty allies communist Britain and Germany, like I did.
My chad honduras playthrough where I waged war on all of north and south america, and won by pure luck
Lucky... italy stole my provinces and sent my economy 23k interest into debt, and now I'm gonna spend my next decade crawling out of debt.
honestly im just good at playing minor nations and minmaxing to hell, but major nations give me the cri. My russia playthrough is vile rn.
They made a pretty good waifu but in the end people weren't loyal
not that i'm aware of. good thing too, those goblins sure scream blood libel, it would be crazy to have them in a game at all in 2023
I forgot about it the second Tears of the Kingdom came out... Aka the true best game of the year
Yeah. Gamingcirlcjerk obsessed over it for months beyond its initial hype. It was another cash grab attaching a popular IP with a mediocre product to create buzz. The Mario Movie and One Piece Live Action also fall into this category.
Basically it coasted on advertising. People thought it's the next big thing because they saw it everywhere, not realising that thats because more money went into advertising than paying the devs to make a good game.
I never watched the anime or read the manga so please take this with a grain of salt but my family and I have enjoyed the first few episodes of live action One Piece. Its nothing phenomenal but its cute and fun
Found it a pretty decent adaptation. The actors seemed like they were having fun with the roles too
A lot of contrarian liberal fucks bought in to stick it to the wokes, too.
It looks like a generic game tbh, I'd almost mistake it for Ubisoft slop
it's what happens when you get when you'll released in the same year with a bunch of heavy hitters
sucks to suck
