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Game News Tyranny Dev Diary #13: Companion Overview - Sirin
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Don't you know? Obsidian is leading the charge on the battle against the oppressive patriarchal culture in videogames.
why do you guys want a sausage fest anyway? more girls = better
Same. Except I'll use GoG's free-trial feature to check it out first.God damn, I prefer some degree of realism even in fantasy setting so I always play party-based games with all male party
I guess I will just beand pass on this game. My inner shitlord won't allow it.
duanth123
Arcane
You gentle creature.
I had high hopes they had ditched the godawful Chanter class from Pillars. Using a class that utilizes combat resource that becomes available after set amount of time isn't worth using if there are classes that can use abilities on demand, especially when encounter design tends to heavily favor immediate reaction whether it comes to dispelling stuff or using interrupts.
Since this game won't have firearm reloading buffs I doubt I'll use her.
Since this game won't have firearm reloading buffs I doubt I'll use her.
Excidium II
Self-Ejected
Keep in mind most people's impressions are from 1.X
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So, they've finally revealed Not Aerie.
Excidium II
Self-Ejected
Reminder that the high T male companion is a guy that pisses and shits his pants all the time.
vortex
Fabulous Optimist
If Tyranny would overshadow Shadows of Amn, Evil Aerie is welcomed to my party.
Informative.
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Stainless Veteran
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I hve already mentioned it a while before, but where's my Alkonost?
In this particular spelling, it's not a siren, it isn't Siri, it's the rayskaya ptitsa Sirin. Which makes it kinda dumb, because even proto-Slavs in the bronze age were a distant dream.
Well, they could take inspiration from our more schizo theories, and make a nation of mighty Slavs, descendands of proud Hyperboreans, or the setting's equivalent. But that requires research and creative thinking, I guess.
Take our painter V.B. Ivanov, now that's a creative schizo. He created a whole cycle of paintings about Hyperboreans, whom he considers the ancestors of all Slavs, but mostly Russians, of course.
Now that's creativity for you. And schizophrenia. But it least it isn't Feminist Beasts or WoW pauldrons galore.
In this particular spelling, it's not a siren, it isn't Siri, it's the rayskaya ptitsa Sirin. Which makes it kinda dumb, because even proto-Slavs in the bronze age were a distant dream.
Well, they could take inspiration from our more schizo theories, and make a nation of mighty Slavs, descendands of proud Hyperboreans, or the setting's equivalent. But that requires research and creative thinking, I guess.
Take our painter V.B. Ivanov, now that's a creative schizo. He created a whole cycle of paintings about Hyperboreans, whom he considers the ancestors of all Slavs, but mostly Russians, of course.
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Not like people ever cared about what he wanted.
It's what he should've done.:sigh:I wish there were a term for this kind of character. Maybe one came up in the Star Trek context once?
It's okay to be heavily invested in a character, pride often is what keeps a mediocre writer afloat. Pride, and in this case, Dunning-Kruger effect.
Hey, maybe it's not all that bad. After all, there's only so much you can put in a short developer diary blurb, maybe it'll be better in the game, after all devil's in the details and...
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Tranny or WL3, which will be a more pleasant surprise down the line?
Stay tuned for the next four years!
Stay tuned for the next four years!
Azrael the cat
Arcane
The problem with this stuff is that it becomes hard to reconcile with the fact that you can't just plot for a while and then unleash your combined forces of mountain-smashing, climate-wrecking, continental mind-control and armies of undead to go straight to the final boss fight.
Most fun bard I played in PnP was one with really good stats, but hampered by my self-imposed rules of stealing and immediately drinking any alcohol in his line of sight, regardless of likely consequences, entering any place that sells alcohol and refusing to leave regardless of quest urgency or NPC bouncer complications, and refusing to fight unless directly attacked ('what? I'm playing the backing music, that's important!' You got something against bass guitar?').
Ok, everyone else in my PnP group fucking hated it and I nearly got banned because of it, but I had fun, and that's what counts!
Most fun bard I played in PnP was one with really good stats, but hampered by my self-imposed rules of stealing and immediately drinking any alcohol in his line of sight, regardless of likely consequences, entering any place that sells alcohol and refusing to leave regardless of quest urgency or NPC bouncer complications, and refusing to fight unless directly attacked ('what? I'm playing the backing music, that's important!' You got something against bass guitar?').
Ok, everyone else in my PnP group fucking hated it and I nearly got banned because of it, but I had fun, and that's what counts!
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I actually felt the concept was okay, but they kept adding more and more. I would have liked it more if they just cut it off at child solider with psi-ops abilities. That alone should have been enough, with the moral dilemma deriving from benefiting from using child solider or not.
edit: I feel the party needs an Eder. A somewhat normal person that is not a special snowflake/super hero.
edit: I feel the party needs an Eder. A somewhat normal person that is not a special snowflake/super hero.
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I think any party/game could use an eder. That way you as a player get a normal person point of view for the story and about the encompassing world, and you are still free to do a crazy character yourself, if you so like. It could get boring if everyone is over the top quirky and spezial. Though for PoE, its lack of reactivity makes this somewhat a moot point.
I have hard time thinkin who'd been PsT's eder though, but its world is pretty far from anything normal, even in a fantasy setting, anyhow.
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