Tfw you’re finally on a creative roll, both warhammer and drawing wise, and you have to go to -ick- work.
This whole ‘earn your right to exist’ thing is disgusting. Seriously. Wth.
In the free market fundamentalist hegemony, your freedom is contingent on making yourself a commodity.
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Manf’ has gone on a summer holiday.
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South lands thunderdome hoooooo
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My usual Settra campaign is looking really spicy at the moment.
Grombrindal is looking fun though as a second choice.
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There is going to be a lot of flaming attacks down that way so that skill that gives some resistance is going to be big
Any IT techies here who can help me with a hardware peeve? Looking at a replacement Graphics card for a Nvidia Geforce 1050TI and want to get the same model since it was perfect for the games I like. The cheapest one has “StormX” at the end of its name and I’m wondering what the difference is?
Damn, I used to think Lustria was a moshpit with all the ratmen back in 2, but then came the Southlands.
Also jesus, Nakai’s living up to his name " The Wanderer".
Best of times.
Remember that EA shut down the original DA4 project (Joplin) because it didn’t have potential for live service. The DA4 we’re getting now (Morrison) started as basically Anthem in Thedas, with multiplayer components and live service, before EA realized that what the players wanted all along was a good single player game (surprised Pikachu face) and ordered all multiplayer to be pulled out of DA4.
Also, most of the key people of the original Dragon Age team have left. Trainwreck doesn’t begin to describe this.
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It’s heartwrenching to read what’s going on behind the scenes, constant revisions and seeming lack of direction similar to Andromeda.
Atleast Mass Effect Next brought back some veterans from the original trilogy and have a clear goal what they’re going for… right? Right?
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That’s Bioware babyyyyyy.
Inquisition, Andromeda, Anthem, and now DA4. It doesn’t inspire confidence. One can only hope that after EA saw the colossal failure of Anthem that they put their foot down on Bioware to make sure this was done right.
Though they’re not the same series even slightly, DA4 is a spiritual successor to Jedi Fallen Order, since that game ‘inspired’ EA to let DA4 be single player. It’s got a lot to live up to in that regard, on top of the rest of the Dragon Age ‘legacy’.
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Absolute scenes, a 24 hour time-out for saying mean things about Distantpeak’s qunari. I have been thoroughly owned by the moderation team. 
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Looking forward to our first multiplayer campaign. Hoping for at least 4 of us.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUU32Sfrkt8
Nice to finally see Valinor and Numenor in a mainstream production.
I’m cautiously optimistic. The production values I great and it looks like the Middle-earth I’ve imagined. More so than the Jackson movies, even.
This is the first positive post I’ve ever seen of this show.
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That trailer looks amazing – I’ve avoided the public discourse on the series, because nerds be incredibly toxic and I’m led to believe racists don’t like there being black people in their nice, clean Middle Earth.
I have a few of Tolkien’s books that aren’t the ‘main series’–The Hobbit, Children of Hurin, The Silmarillion, etc–and I’m withholding any of my own nerd opinions until it’s out and I can watch it.
Frankly the lore of the setting is so incredibly in-depth and complex that it would be near impossible to do it justice in a series, so my plan is to enjoy it for what it is. Like the Shadow of Mordor games, I can just take it as an ‘alternative timeline’ or something.
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Stealing children. Reaping the souls of Christians so they never reach Heaven. Some regions depicted them as truly malevolent entities. It all depends on what region you’re looking at. I for one appreciate more variety in elves.
Not sure what your problem is with this. Would you feel better if Stonetower did the FF11/14 thing of having something that walks like an elf, talks like an elf, looks like an elf but is called an Ulf?
As Blythan said, it’s closer to regional folklore than a more Tolkien style elf but in the year of our Lord 2022 I think it’s okay to look at folklore instead of Tolkien.
I for one would actually welcome some genuine medieval interpretations of things too. A lot of medieval stories feature dragons or some other kind of monster that can’t be killed by anything made by mortal hands. Beowulf is probably the best example of this, but Sir Degares features human made weapons having no effect on a dragon.
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Reading up on Stonetower’s post about predatory elves and it’s not really that outlandish anyway – even in major fantasy settings there’s night elves (Warcraft) and bosmer (Elder Scrolls) that come to mind that play on, to varying extents, feral and predatory vibes. Of course, the former of those has been diluted over the years, but the original depiction from the PoV of the Warsong/Grom Hellscream was that of savage, murderous ‘elves’.
Not that it’s a big deal diverting from classic fantasy tropes anyway; turning those tropes on their head has been done for decades and isn’t about to stop now. If you make your elves conform too much to the archetype, you’re about to be described as a bland/boring writer without any individuality – in which case you’re damned if you do (write elves differently) and damned if you don’t.
P.S. The actual wood elves of FFXIV are the Viera, prove me wrong. Pro tip: you can’t.
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They’re only long-lived forest dwellers with a penchant for archery! I see no similarities as I turn my head and stare directly into the camera.
Average Green Pact fan:
Seriously, elves that eat everything they kill are cool.
I look at Metzen’s art, then to the models of the Night Elves in game and I feel a tinge of pain as I look at the weird, big mouthed, wide-eyed creatures. The WoD model updates were a mistake. That is all.
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