Just saw somebody with the tasteless profile title of; “mental assylum escapee”
Did they also happen to have pronoun joke in their profile? It wouldn’t surprise me.
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Didn’t see, didn’t even see their name, just moused over and then gone.
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First time using noise cancelling earbuds.
B O I what an experience.
What? I can’t hear you!
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i say this while also achknowledging it was one of my favourite parts of dawntrail but in agreement with your statement everything to do with solution 9 added in cyberpunk to the equation and its become even more hodgepodge.
coincidence that utter peak lies between those two? i think not
For the Warhammer 3 heads.
The Unusual Location thing could make for it be more interesting and as a dwarf soul I’m glad to see more for em.
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I will not apologise for bringing even more hedgehogs
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my lalafell taking her first sip of not-monster and running around the highways at the speed of sound she got places to go gotta follow her rainbow
My objection to this is that D&D itself is kitchen sink, you might feel like it’s an easier framework to build around because you are more familiar with it.
Meanwhile, someone more familiar with the Final Fantasy series than D&D would find FFXIV far more grounded around a central premise than WoW, because their familiarity with Final Fantasy and all of its tropes and recurring elements that are built in FFXIV. On the other hand, this sort of person might end up a bit bemused by all of the standard D&Disms that are common throughout western fantasy settings.
With a little familiarity with both, I personally consider WoW more of a kitchen sink than FFXIV. Let’s compare WoW 1.0 to FFIXV 2.0, to keep it simple.
- ARR features three city-states with different aesthetics but generally late medieval to renaissance technology, all with access to similar magic, going up against a technologically advanced antagonistic empire. There are different races with different cultures, but the city-state that a character calls home is typically more important to their identity than their race.
- Vanilla WoW features two factions who stand against each other, both with four races. The Alliance has late medieval humans with castles and plate armour, industrial dwarves with tanks and widespread firearms, science fiction gnomes with robots and lasers, and night elves with sophisticated metallurgy and architecture despite their refusal to exploit the land that they call home. The Horde has its late medieval undead in the same situation as humans, its orcs with fantastical primal architecture and armour but late medieval metal weaponry, and the tauren and trolls both with technology and cultures inspired by pre-Columbian American societies.
With every expansion, WoW piled on more and more races, not only with wildly different aesthetics but with wildly different technological and magical capabilities too. Meanwhile, with FFXIV, the vast majority of city-states stick to that rough late-medieval-to-renaissance technological level, augmented by magic and Garlean technology introduced by the Garland Ironworks or left behind by Garlean occupiers.
FFXIV has broken this rule as of the second half of Dawntrail and I’m a little concerned about how it will be handled going forward, but in my opinion, WoW feels far more like a kitchen sink stuffed full of different ideas while FFXIV is more thematically and internally consistent.
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Yeah, FF14 to me definitely feels closer to the DnD framework where the focus is more on countries and cultures where, despite all races intermingling almost seamlessly, they each feel very distinct from each other.
WoW 20 years ago felt closer to DnD, WoW today is more like a kid’s toybox.
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I watched the Skyblivion quest showcase they released a couple of days ago and it reminded me how much I dislike Fingers of the Mountain. It’s bigged up as a really powerful spell but then a) all it does is “some shock damage” to the target and b) it’s not even better than spells you can make yourself at a spell altar. It’s almost twice as expensive to cast, even.
I remember being unimpressed with it when I first played Oblivion back in the day, and the mod doesn’t seem to be changing that.
Disappointing.
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Peak archmage roleplay mindset right there though.
Skyblivion looking ridiculously good though!
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I questioned in discord why seat belts are mandatory in cars but not on buses and that’s how I found out the UK is apparently the weirdo outlier in this regard.
Oh yeah I’m deffo gonna be playing it when it drops. Gonna close shut so many jaws of Oblivion with Sean Bean.
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Saw Alien Romulus.
I’m going to assume ‘sympathies’ is the correct response to that, given how the last couple alien or trying to be alien films have been bad.
Total aside but discovering that voice actors are apperantly just called in, told to put on a body suit then told to go wild in intimate scenes with little to no warning is kinda yikes.
Should the rest of us see it?
Yeah, it was a film.
Eh.
It tried to be the first movie beat for beat with added prometheus lore.
Romulus Spoilers
I do not think the AI generated Ian Holm helped either especially with him spouting off Ash lines from the 1st film. I get he’s supposed to be the same make and model of Ash (its not set long after Alien) but still.
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The weather is clearly trying to kill me and I do not appreciate that.
At all.