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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I think in general they went with the four routes that would allow them to naturally cover most of the original outline without having them crossover/repeat themselves. Orchel likely didn't give them enough breadth whilst Talimun would have covered to much of the same ground as other routes.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I think keeping Leda makes sense if put in the context of Bertrand's route likely requiring the most unique content out of any route. Therefore he's first in line for getting cut and with him gone you need someone else to touch on his story otherwise you'll have even bigger holes in the narrative.
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finrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
rohirric balkans youtube comment poster who argues that intermarriage with elves, house-of-bor easterlings, and haladin means the dunedain arent white anymore and only eorlings and dalish men are
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Using the Transfer Pregnancy spell from RuneQuest to stage the prenatal kidnapping of the heir to the throne.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
You could also find another good angle if you use the idea Tolkien had that Celeborn had a previous wife that was no longer in the picture. It's such a fascinating little wrinkle and I know JRRT discarded it but for some reason I find the idea quite compelling.
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21st Century Schizoid Tran @grayathena.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I hate it when my family argues about politics at Thanksgiving. My Independent Dad is yelling at my Covenanter cousin for allying with the king while my Fifth Monarchist uncle keeps making cryptic pronouncements about the Book of Daniel, and here I am, a Leveller.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Spend less on gin
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
The DoS2 Origins all have very heroic paths open to them even in their companion forms. Which is the reason the Origan paths are widely accepted as a legit way to play DoS2 compared to BG3. It's an indication of how the CRPG audience has changed that a developed evil path barely elicits any reaction
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
That's one of the other things with the DoS2 Origins. They're all very traditional heroic fantasy archetypes, even Lohse and Beast but Astarion as expected, takes far more from gothic horror. Sebille the closet to Astarion is about heroic empowerment compared to his (Spawn) heroic disempowerment
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Origin playthroughs are strange in BG3. In DOS2 they made some amount of sense inserting you into a preexisting character. In BG3 it's almost like you're wearing the skin of a companion you knew for a long time. By putting more effort into the generic starts, they made redundant the Origins.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Larian may have added a reaction for each companion romance but let's be honest the only ones that make sense are Wyll and Karlach.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
BG3's openness clashes with its intent that you play an Origin option in this instance. Larian did not want to deny a genetic Tav who's not pursuing Wyll or Karlach a chance with Mizora so they make it available as long as you keep Wyll in your party.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
The Mizora plot is one of the best things about Wyll (I love a Warlock who actually has a contract) and the worst things (general audiences hate a warlock who isn't them with a contract). I mean honestly why can you have the experience with her if you not Wyll/Karlach? Makes no sense otherwise.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
It's a quest that can involve Wyll but does it really centre him?For all their attempts to create a unique story for him Larian could not come up with anything to distinguish Wyll from a generic Tav.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I mean yes, but does Wyll exist beyond act 1? When he's brought up sure you've got a competitor but let's be honest, he's not being talked about unless it's a directly related quest and there are not many of those.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Ok listen it's DnD so we've all done some bad things in the name of optimization and mechanically you're rewarded for murdering children so I can't blame the bear for it.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Are you talking about a different neck snapping incident becuase the one I'm familiar with involved a mind controlled Superman with no other way to save Clark. Like Maxwell definitely pissed her off but he himself admitted that there were no other options to undo the mind control.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
There's probably an article to be written on the appeal of these sort of games being in how they make the large complex organisations legible and therefore easy to direct. Linking that to popular assumptions about the limitations or the lack thereof real world organisations face.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I suspect that the vibe difference is a limitation on the popularity. The clarity of information and the ability to use that for optimisation seems to be the big appeal for most fans of management games, almost a necessity. The resulting smaller audience may only be able to support very few games.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
It's such a fascinating world and it's absurd that the only games based on it are KODP (not aligned with current edition) and Six Ages (set before time itself and slightly misaligned with the current edition). There's a very rich vein to be tapped, but no one seems interested in it.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The SWTOR Imperial Agent making this explicit is one of the reasons why it's the best class story in that game. Just twenty hours of dealing with insane wizard aristocrats really makes you appreciate the rule of two and the Jedi no family policy.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It's very good, really brings the first two episodes up to spec. It's also very interesting in relation to this topic because you can clearly see where stuff has been added or edited to make people stop picking the seventeen year old dog
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The devs of Scarlet Hollow put out a blog post on the subject and being able to see the decision making behind the dilemmas to make them roughly equal is amazing. Really gave me an appreciation for the craft of narrative design and made me think that what we might need is smaller narrative stakes.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It's strange because even though telemetry caused a lot of devs to give up on putting stark decisions in games, I still find it fascinating when they make them public. Getting to see the fine detail on what decisions "worked" and managed to make both choices equally appealing is almost worth it.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Going in that direction you're also running up against the big elephant of just how Serana became a vampire which is acknowledged vaguely but never quite get's the discussion it deserves. Which is probably a good thing because I don't trust Bethesda to handle anything like that with grace.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I'm about half way though and I'm enjoying it so far. The one major quibble is the Saw plot line. It's OK but I would have preferred more focus on Bail and Mon but what's there is good.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Oh yeah the whole book (Mask of Fear) and the series it's part of Reign of Empire severs as a bridge between the Prequels and the Original trilogy. More interestingly is that it's also serving as a bridge to Andor becuase it's going to cover what happens during the formation of the rebellion.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
There's a funny moment (well I found it funny) in one of the latest books where Mon and Bail are arguing about how to respond to the rise of the Empire where Bail is just ranting on about the purging of the Jedi and Mon can't help but point out that nobody gives a damn about them.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Listen if I can smite them without breaking my oath of devotion then the only conclusion I can come to is that Halsin ripping those kids to shreds was cosmicly and ethically fine. It's weird that Larian made it like that but it's their game so they get to decide I suppose.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
As the original RETVRN bro I feel like Julian would have written a whole political track on how his enemies were woke.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The Durge bad end is so good, Withers just shows up only to judge you for being stupid, crazy and in a cage. No rescue or second chances. They really should have had something like for the Illithid ending but nope gotta save it for a hyper niche Origin ending because what would the fans think.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Though I enjoyed the Origin system in DOS2 it does feel like on the whole it's holding Larian back by requiring them to make characters that function as both PCs and Companions. Inevitably one aspect will be favoured and if the PC aspect is then a majority of players get a weaker character.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I think you see this most acutely with media that's not pleasant to experience, not bad media per say but media that makes you feel bad. Horror games and there fandom being the best example here, people who watched Silent Hill 2 video essays are an order of magnitude bigger than the player base.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Might be related to emergence of video essays that exist to recap media with minimal actual analysis. People primarily engage in what used to be secondary or tertiary activities, writing fanfic/having opinions on media. This leads to them skipping over the old primary activity for what they want.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
It's also the only way to finish a sidequest that from the act before and of course there's no foreshadowing or guidance to get it. The only actual use for the mercenary system is to get someone to actually pass so you can complete that quest. Which has some funny implications for merc morality.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
The weirdest thing about the Pilgrim Muncher 3000 is t actually work as it says on the tin. The whole "only the pure of heart may pass" stuff isn't bullshit cooked up to deny entry. It turns you into an angel if you do it legit why would Lucian decide that was a good use of time to make it do that.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 08/01/2025
Taking the leap into Bluesky 👋
Ed Davey bungee jumping. His arms are spread out wide and his mouth is open.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
It's interesting how Larian's solution to both was to tie them far more into the main plot. Ifan with his relationship with Lucian and Wyll by making him Ravenguards son. Ifan's works because it introduces internal conflicts whilst Wyll's only introduces new external conflicts which fall flat.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Gale being very impressive to a normal person but kind of mid when it comes to archwizards would be a funny way to take his character. He's wizard number 3 from the magical council who gets one line but because he's in a level 1-12 campagin so he's hot shit who can be the protagonist.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Remembering back to EA I think that the player bases constant theorising on massive secrets and hidden betrayals sacred Larian away from having any liar reveled types. If the players can't handle glory hound Wyll who struggles to embrace true heroism how are they gonna handle anything more complex.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Agreed, I like Gale well enough but his arc would have been much stronger if Larian started him off either on the humility or hubris tracks and allowed a in-game switch. Making him start in the middle equally hubristic and humble who chooses which track to take leads to a less dynamic character.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Can't help but feel that a little more Red Prince is what Gale's missing. Larian lacked the bravery to say that yes he is all that and there's very little you can do to change it. Tbh being the Red Prince's sidekick was some of the funniest content in DOS2, wish they brought that energy for Gale.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Larian seems to love this "thinks their better than you and is right" type because The Red Prince has very similar story beats around natural talent, destiny, hubris and non-PC romance. Unlike Gale the Red Prince's best ending has him get everything he ever wanted with no negative consequences
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Always found it funny that they had massively paranoid almost senile pro-Stormcloak Jarl of Falkreath be able to read Ulfric's ambitions like a book. Feels like Bethesda shouting at the player that if this guy can understand who Ulfric is then you the player have no excuse.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The other thing of course is when ME2 decides to put you in a very time constrained situation post crew kidnapping they actually follow though and actually have consequences for you fucking around. Now a sense of urgency is introduced in the Arrivle DLC but that feels like post-game content.
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Ed Balls @officialedballs.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
There was a mid 2010s game called Remember Me which had a slight bit of drama around it when it was reveled the female protagonist was originally supposed to have a boyfriend but to publisher vetoed it against dev wishes. Apparently the publisher thought would alienate male gamers.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
I have a lot of problems with how Chaosium treats Greg's work as the final word (even the unreleased stuff) but at least it means their never going to to something silly with Glorantha. The Luner Empire will have slavery and if the player what's to change that they better get a big army together.
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Someguy @someguy9255.bsky.social · 02/11/2024
It's pretty stable right now, but the DLC that came out is pretty good and expanded on the base game companions, so I'm in the boat of waiting for all of the post release content before I do a full playthrough. I find I can only ever complete their games once so better to get the full experience..
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