[ SECRET POST #5974 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5974 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Name the fandom. And repeats, etc.

(If you think something in this thread is a troll, please ignore it! Conversation is fine, but OT wank makes stuff harder to keep track of in this thread. Thanks.)

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General comments → Off-topic discussion thread

Games thread → Thread for games/memes/etc.

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[Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous]

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NS, NF, etc.

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Games thread!

[(Anonymous)]

I roll my eyes at people whining about game difficulty in the first place. I grew up on platformers like Mario and Sonic, which were absolutely unforgiving in terms of difficulty. You messed up, you died. You died too many times, game over.

These days games are about a thousand times easier what with the ability to save your game any time you want and retry boss fights/levels if you die, multiple difficulty levels, etc. How dare some games want to be an actually challenging experience.

[(Anonymous)]

modern games are designed to be played once and thrown away, that's why they're easier

if you're replaying the challenge of old games you're not buying new ones

[(Anonymous)]

That would be perfect! Hard agree on the mumble-and-mime. I feel like Lego City: Undercover is the only Lego game that isn’t hurt by being voiced.

[kaishi]

I'm showing my age here, but when I first started playing video games there was no difficulty setting. There was just the game. WTF are they crying about???

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a little jealous OP. I feel like that type of treasure trove is hard to come by these days!

[(Anonymous)]

I have read some truly amazing DA fic and I'm not even in the fandom. It's one of those sources that I've dived into because of a trusted author or reccer* and have not regretted it. However I looked into the fandom at large for myself and yeah, the player character stuff is awkward as heck.

*I miss rec lists and journals that routinely recced fandom stuff. I always found the best things through friends that just routinely made rec lists. Maybe they're still around, I"m not really in fandom much these days but I haven't seen them much in my brief looks.

[(Anonymous)]

I have tried to read this book several times and just could not get into it. I finally gave up and read the summaries online and yeah, I don't feel like those are for me even though everyone and their sister is raving about the series.

[(Anonymous)]

Man I fucking love difficulty settings. Sometimes I just want to run around in a cool world and not struggle. The fighting is secondary. And then other times I want to focus on strategy and a challenge. One of the best things in the evolution of gaming is difficulty levels.

[(Anonymous)]

Wait. They stopped with the mumble and mime? That was the best! Obviously I only played the first few when they came out so it's been awhile but I remember my brother and I were so entertained by the goofy mimed style. What a shame that they threw that out for voice acting.

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and without the ability to save and retry, I wouldn't be a gamer at all, so nice gatekeep there. I don't play notoriously difficult games like Dark Souls because I know I wouldn't enjoy them - you go right ahead, have fun. a breadth of game styles and fashions is better than only having one option and it's not weakness to say, no, I actually don't enjoy Space Invaders thanks, faster and harder until you just fucking die isn't fun for everyone.

that said I'm p. sure Pathfinder is a tabletop so we can take our video game whining elsewhere.

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yeah, it was somewhere around the LOTR lego games that were based on the movies, so I guess someone figured that people playing those would want "real voices" from the actors (and actual clip-and-paste movie dialogue no less) instead of mumble-and-mime even though they made bank on Star Wars without voices. then came the actual Lego movies so I don't think they'll ever go back.

[(Anonymous)]

I tried this series because of the wicked cool cover and because so many people seemed to like it. Wasn't thrilled to see that it was written in first person POV* but kept at it and while I didn't love the book, I liked it well enough to try the second. Hard no on that one so far, I haven't been able to struggle through it.



* Because that POV is, IMO, a challenge to carry off for a lot of authors. It has a way of revealing the flaws and weaknesses in a person's writing if they can't nail the "voice" of the character AND make you care enough about the person to keep reading.