Thank you.
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I finished all the MSQs… Now I just need to erh, catch up on the last cutscenes I skipped and I am ready for EW.
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Don’t forget to do all the raids + the multiple patches of optional Bozja content.
Oh, and the Weapons questline you pick up in Ala Mhigo, and you have to complete all of Shadowbringers’ role quests on one character to unlock more afterstory for that, and then when that’s done you need to make sure you’ve completed the warring triad quests and then there’s even more role quest afterstory and-
:^)
I don’t actually know how big those all respectively are to the story in EW, but for several I dare assume: fairly big
Way ahead of you 
You forgot Eureka though. The lead writer(?) recommended doing that. I recommend not doing it, it’s atrocious content.
So I’ve watched the second half of Masters of the Universe: Revelation, now that it’s out.
I won’t say it’s good (it’s kind of formulaic), but it’s decent, at least — and the reason I’m writing about it here is because it’s a case study of how to do a cosmic Danuser plot mostly competently and without breaking the setting in the process. I don’t think that, in general, it’s a direction worth going in, especially if your story ends up being way, way darker than the source material, but if that’s where you want to go, then at least it can be done in a way that still respects your audience.
Spoilers
Imagine a hypothetical version of Shadowlands where Sylvanas is not only the one who personally breaks the afterlife to damn everyone to hell, but she is also the Jailer — and yet despite all of this, not only is she clearly set up for redemption, but you want her to be redeemed and see her as the Zuko of the story. And when she is indeed redeemed, everyone still wants her dead for what she’s done. and the story acknowledges this, and she doesn’t join the good guys but wanders off to suffer alone.
Evil-Lyn’s redemption was predictable, but still, it was properly set up and foreshadowed, so I found it satisfying when it did happen, even though she committed acts way, way more Teldrassil-burningly atrocious than anything Skeletor did. It helped that the story presented her not as a moustache-twirling villain committing evil for the sake of evil, but of a messed-up victim of abuse who turned to violence because that was all she knew.
All this in a silly, bombastic, comic-book-y universe with corny one-liners. And it works. Kind of.
your transformation from someone who played without watching the cutscenes or paying attention to the story to someone fully involved in it and enjoying it has been heartwarming to see
i’m in the home stretch of final fantasy 10 and it makes me a little sad, because it’s been a really fun time and i swear i will never speak badly of it again. auron especially is a character that is still as cool now i’m in my thirties as he was when i was in my teens
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So I was playing XCOM, but took a break about halfway through. I had a well-trained team, a well-built base, the support of all nations, had already defeated EXALT, and things were overall looking good. A couple of years later, I returned to the game, but all my saves refused to load. I don’t know if they were corrupted somehow or Steam pushed an incompatible update, but it was disheartening nonetheless.
Tried starting a new game, but it didn’t go as well, and I abandoned it.
Ah well.
My idea is that I plan to play it, but I think I’d just skip and rather just play the 3rd instalment- However, that seems to mean that I need to anyway buy 1 and 2 and DLC’s included in it to have the full experience?
Not immediately. There is a mode in Warhammer 2 that allows you to play the full map and roster from both games, but that wasn’t available at launch and I’m pretty sure the mode in the third game won’t be available at launch either?
Warhammer 2 is a great game in it’s own right and if you can get it at a good price it’s worth playing one of the vortex campaigns so you get familiar with how it plays before jumping into the huge map with all the factions.
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Correct - nothing to add to that post really, says right around everything I’d say
If there’s a faction in TW2 or TW1 base game that you like, might as well pick it up imo - either to play it now or to have them available in TW3 when the ‘big world map’ free DLC for that inevitably arrives sooner rather than later
Warhammer 1 is often on sale and dirt cheap, so its easy to pick up when you eventually want to so you can play the big map (mortal empires)
Basically, if you want to play right now, just buy 2 to try the game out. Add dlc factions you find interesting. If you want more factions and another game mode, buy 1 and its dlc too.
If you can wait, then wait for the release of 3 and do everything mentioned above when that happens. Everything you purchased for 1 and 2 carries over into 3.
If you need more info about the game itself to make a decision, I recommend this video and it’s sequels. Gave me all I needed to know before I decided.
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Capitalism. The system saw a successful bud of american post-thanksgiving consumerism and picked it up. Now we have black friday, week and month.
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I don’t mind Black Friday at all because I can buy stuff I like for cheap
Except apparently the vast majority of stuff isn’t even really on sale.
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Can only trust Gabe to rinse you, because he’ll do it gently.
My friend said he looks more and more like he is the leader of a sex cult these days.
Eeexactly. It’s been gamed since the 60’s and the odd exposé about how the sale isn’t a sale is drowned by the people trampling each other to pay marginally less off a trinket.
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I agree, but you gotta admit the aesthetic works for him
gabe went in the right direction after finding incredible success.
unlike notch