P03 Locke

I’m so disappointed we came so close to having a Cuno RPG, only to have that ripped away.

If it was an RPG that was even close to contending for that title, I would acquiesce to it.

Except it is. And I don’t think the burden of proof is on the article writer, when culturally, it’s just accepted that it is either the greatest RPG, or one of the greatest RPGs. Maybe you didn’t like it, but that doesn’t invalidate the facts of how high people regard this game.

It’s not some damned marketing strategy. It’s sitting at 91 on MetaCritic (even after all of the backlash about ZA/UM), won Game of the Year for many many outlets, and any individual who has played it all the way through will either call it the greatest RPG they ever played, or one of the greatest RPGs.

That was made 25 years ago. And just off the top of my head, Xenosaga surpassed it.

So bad that I had to hop on a forum and go “Hey, so, there aren’t any good choices in the dialog tree, did I fuck up my character generation? Should I start over?”

Your first mistake was thinking it was like any of those other CRPGS with dialog trees. No, you didn’t fuck up your character generation. Your character IS a fuck up. That’s part of the story it’s trying to tell. You don’t get to Mary Sue this shit.

How you engage with the game is figuring out how to un-fuck-up the character in a matter that is realistic. Or just ignoring whatever lessons the game gives you and continue down the same self-destructive path. Or somewhere in-between. All paths are have their creative stories to tell, and even being strange and weird with it can still lead to solving pieces of the crime you’re trying to piece together.

Yeah, I don’t get games where “You want some fuck?” is a valid dialog choice.

Because it’s fucking funny when you didn’t know what the actual dialogue entry was going to be, you took a gamble, and the “pay off” (well, it was a failed check) is that your character says the cringest fucking line to some woman he’s immediately attracted to. So cringe that even your own Volition (best fucking mental power, btw) is like “the words already left your mouth” as if he was already smacking his goddamn forehead right through to the other side. (EDIT: Actually, it was Suggestion, but whatever.) If anything, it should teach you not to make red check gambles unless you’re prepared for the mental damage a failure might come with. Or maybe you just want to laugh at the upcoming misfortune.

Your. Character. Is. A. Fuck up.

If that bothers you, and you want to play something that involves some extreme power fantasy, where you can pick a class and play a completely silent blank slate, then this game is not for you.

It’s really worth playing. The voice acting is stellar, and it really is the best “role-playing” game, in the sense that you are fully immersed in role-playing a character. The mental gameplay mechanics are GOAT, and one-of-a-kind.

I mean, only because you picked some build that gave you 1 HP.

I didn’t even like the Bioshock Infinite DLCs. I thought it ended perfectly with the original Infinite ending.

Long video, but B4Brandoss articulated why much better than I could.

And doing this with just 13 games? F95 catalogues 13 games… a day. I feel like GOG needs to up their game here.

True, this is good news. But, it should not have come down to the entire fucking government of Japan weighting in on the global impacts of this insane decision!

Is this truly the amount of mountain-moving we have to do to counteract a single organization’s opinion?

This is BS. Whatever payment processor they develop will need to interact with all of the major credit card processors: VISA, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express. All credit and debit cards use these four brands as the backing network. There is no way around it.

Nobody is going to add a new credit card brand, not even Steam. Amazon doesn’t do it. Twitter doesn’t do it. Ebay doesn’t do it. Nobody does. If they did, they would face immediate retribution from the VMDA empire. Their payments would cease, and Steam would collapse overnight.

I’ve posted this elsewhere, but this video is a really good breakdown of the situation.

Civvie 11 had a good video on both Descent games.

And a single woman and her organization seems to hold a disproportionate amount of power over the payment processors.

I don’t understand it. Payment processors could easily tell her to pound sand, but they don’t.

Are you sure? That’s just a nude girl in the background. Where are they getting away with that?

Pulseaudio was introduced in 2004. How come it took almost 20y for it to be replaced if it was that bad?

Did you learn nothing from X11 usage? May I remind you that X11 was invented by Xerox in the fucking 80s?!

Bad software attaches itself to OSs like a cancer.