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Walrus Pete posted:My favorite thing about Pillars (and I loved the poo poo out of that game) is a line at the very end of the game that only shows up if you pick an incredibly specific background. "THIS ISN'T LIKE WHEN YOUR TEAM GOT WIPED OUT SHEP. YOU HAVE TO GET OVER THAT. MOVE PAST IT." "yeah okay man don't worry I have blue rep for days"
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Larry Parrish posted:The worst is when a dumb quest has a badass reward but here's no way to tell from the first step if it's good or not. Wait which one was that? Because there was no way you killed Kangaxx on your first visit to Athkatla unless I'm misremembering
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Foxhound posted:Wait which one was that? Because there was no way you killed Kangaxx on your first visit to Athkatla unless I'm misremembering twisted  rune iirc. though you'd have to be seriously game-y with traps/protection from magic scrolls to kill the fighters + high level mage + beholder + vampire + rich i think.
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Foxhound posted:Wait which one was that? Because there was no way you killed Kangaxx on your first visit to Athkatla unless I'm misremembering The first time I beat BG2 when I was 12 I played a wizard and shamelessly spammed rest. It's very possible to do it if you spam rest. I did it like 3 years ago? with only 3 rests but it was very hard and not very interesting either. I got literally all the XP I possibly could without continuing the main quest
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That's probably one of the most memorable parts in that game for me because when I was a kid I loved Dragonlance and there are some characters from Krynn (Knights of Solamnia) trapped in the planar sphere. They talk about the bloodthirsty halflings that you have to fight in there, which is funny because hobbits don't exist on Krynn, meaning that these people who have never seen a halfling before must think that they are a race of savage cannibal midgets.
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WINNERSH TRIANGLE posted:twisted oh gently caress, first time I encountered TR was completely by accident. Nice door wonder where it lea- 
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Ragg posted:Sometimes the writing is really noticeably bad. i haven't noticed this. also gently caress kangaxx and his gay imprison poo poo.
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Tyranny is good but for mostly different reasons than Pillars. Tyranny has a much more interesting world and storyline I find, but the streamlined companions and main character do mean less combat variety. Pillars has a much larger variety of character builds and that applies to companions as well. I also find a lot of the Pillars companions somewhat better characters whereas most Tyranny characters are mouthpieces for their factions. That being said, Tyranny has much much tighter encounter design with less trash mob fights. It also brings back the necessity of pre-combat buffing on harder difficulties, which I like Pillars for excluding. Overall I like Tyranny better but it's not by a HUGE margin.
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Dec 9, 2016 19:08
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The class variety in pillars was wasted unless you played through the game more than once though, so that seems OK
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Personally, I like to rotate people through my party, so I like having all the different classes. I have couple custom guys to mix in with the NPC companions, too. It works pretty well even on PotD
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extremely steampunk posted:The class variety in pillars was wasted unless you played through the game more than once though, so that seems OK Yes it was. At the same time Tyranny encourages multiple playthroughs yet you have less variety in classes. It's odd design.
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p o e had some bland dialogue but there's some pretty funny poo poo in this game. try lantry's inks. 'gently caress YOU I AM THE LAW.' Also anything around bodily functions and Barik.
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http://tinyurl.com/j9ypxa7 lol Neurosis fucked around with this message at 07:04 on Dec 11, 2016 |
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Neurosis posted:http://images.akamai.steamuserconte...y=95&fit=inside|1024:576&composite-to%3D%2A%2C%2A%7C1024%3A576&background-color=black Fail
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This resurgence in text rpgs makes me appreciate the ones with voice acting. Really helps the writers get to the drat point and avoid a lot of unneeded worldbuilding by exposotion when done well.
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Agean90 posted:This resurgence in text rpgs makes me appreciate the ones with voice acting. Really helps the writers get to the drat point and avoid a lot of unneeded worldbuilding by exposotion when done well. I agree Bioware games are really better than Absurdian piles
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:I agree Bioware games are really better than Absurdian piles When you have to hear parts of a badly written video game plot, it's better to have the concision of a voice acted line, as in a Bioware or Bethesda title, IMO.
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The bullshit thing about games like this is that in order to make informed RP decisions you have to read a bunch of stupid novels that every single character wants to recite to you even though no real person talks like that. At least in a Elder Scrolls game you can just read a bunch of books if you really want to be certain about poo poo, or in Bioware games there's a codex. And all the other stuff is just people talking at least a little bit like real people and say enough that even if you don't want to be a big philosopher about your Choices you can get a sense of what's up.
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Wormskull posted:When you have to hear parts of a badly written video game plot, it's better to have the concision of a voice acted line, as in a Bioware or Bethesda title, IMO. Bethesda is so bad and also the voice acting is so bad that it's way worse than anything.
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Ragg posted:Bethesda is so bad and also the voice acting is so bad that it's way worse than anything. Lmao fine.
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IMO if you want to say that much poo poo just make a JRPG or something where the player doesn't have to make many dialogue choices.
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I don't mind the stuff in the normal course of gameplay but yeah the bits where you talk to your companions and they all have like 8 dialogue choices that each lead to another 8 and each one is a multi paragraph essay can get old fast. I like Tyranny's writing and companions and stuff so I don't mind it in this game in particular but Pillars had really uninteresting companions in an uninteresting plot in an uninteresting world so I just gave up talking to my companions after the first couple because after a while my eyes would just start sliding off the screen.
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Ragg posted:Bethesda is so rad and also the voice acting is so rad that it's way cooler than anything. ftfy (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Try playing The Age of Decadence OP.
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I'm enjoying Tyranny and I love the way Barik and Verse snipe at each other. I also enjoy Pillars and not just because I paid way too much to their Kickstarter back when it happened.
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Agean90 posted:ftfy ...
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Zoq-Fot-Pik posted:Try playing The Age of Decadence OP. It's the best CRPG ever made.
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:I'm enjoying Tyranny and I love the way Barik and Verse snipe at each other. I think the fact that all your companions are pretty much constantly spoiling to kill at least one other member of your party and would all slaughter each other happily if you hadn't brought them to heel is a big part of why the companion writing is so good. Also the way that they'll butt into your conversations with other party members.
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you can read faster than you listen. written words? basically pictures. what are pictures? they're made of light. what is the spoken voice? a sound. does sound travel faster than light? no. qed.
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that said anyone who reads rpg plots is a goddamn fucktard
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mysterious loyall X posted:you can read faster than you listen. written words? basically pictures. what are pictures? they're made of light. what is the spoken voice? a sound. does sound travel faster than light? no. qed. But there's less to read when they have to pay assclowns to read the words.
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Wormskull posted:But there's less to read when they have to pay assclowns to read the words. my solution is to not play wrpgs from the past 20 years 
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I'm the guy who turns on subtitles and then just reads those and mashes the next button as soon as I have so the voice acting is just "the enemy is--we have--I can't--" so they're all written games to me
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Zoq-Fot-Pik posted:Try playing The Age of Decadence OP. i still gotta check that out. i havnt even watched a stream or anything but it sounds really cool
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fozzy fosbourne posted:Personally, I like to rotate people through my party, so I like having all the different classes. I have couple custom guys to mix in with the NPC companions, too. It works pretty well even on PotD I did that too but once I got a party composition that meshed well I just stuck with it and only rotated NPCs out to complete their story arcs
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:I'm the guy who turns on subtitles and then just reads those and mashes the next button as soon as I have so the voice acting is just "the enemy is--we have--I can't--" so they're all written games to me i think youd be insane to play an aids voice acted weatern rpg any other way
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:I'm the guy who turns on subtitles and then just reads those and mashes the next button as soon as I have so the voice acting is just "the enemy is--we have--I can't--" so they're all written games to me i like to rotate complex 3d objects in my mind as i do it
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:I'm the guy who turns on subtitles and then just reads those and mashes the next button as soon as I have so the voice acting is just "the enemy is--we have--I can't--" so they're all written games to me I do that too, unless the game is good and has cool voice acting and I'm immersed in it or w/e.
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Zoq-Fot-Pik posted:Try playing The Age of Decadence OP. This.
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mysterious loyall X posted:my solution is to not play wrpgs from the past 20 years Check out Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game some time.
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