Solasta edition>What is /crpgg/?This general is dedicated to the discussion of computer role playing games such as:Arcanum, Baldur's Gate, Disco Elysium, Divinity: Original Sin, Dragon Age, Expeditions, Fallout, Icewind Dale, Jade Empire, Necromancer's Tale, Neverwinter Nights, Pathfinder, Solasta: Crown of the Magister, Pillars of Eternity, Planescape: Torment, Shadowrun, The Age of Decadence, Temple of Elemental Evil, Tyranny, UnderRail, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, Warhammer 40k: Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, Wasteland, Wizardry, and many others.>Recommendations:https://files.catbox.moe/gx6f4u.png>Computer Role Playing Games Resources:https://pastebin.com/NEvHHATehttps://monkposter.github.io/community.htmlPrevious: >>543203702>Thread QuestionThoughts on Solasta?
>Thoughts on Solasta?Fun to play while high af.
Critical Role has fans AHAHAHAHHA
Critical Role has veteran D&D players they probably are better players than you
>>543341323I'm sorry to say that Sarevok is extremely hard.But yeah, things get generally easier in BG2, and the developers learn not to make maps with tight corridors that fuck with the pathfinding. Get through this and you're home free.
>>543341149>Thoughts on Solasta?I don't think about it at all
You're retarded if you're a TB or rtwp purist.
>dude they are fricken skilled verterans!!!!!Critical Role fans are so fucking pathetic
Critical role? Is it a Critical failure or success?
TB is artificially easy. The only reason you can kill a chaos marine or a C'Tan shard or a Helbrute without taking a scratch is because he has to stand there with his thumb up his ass waiting his turn while Kibellah hops around and slices him up, then Yrliet takes five shots in a row at him because of the "extra attack on crit" ability from her Wanderer's Portent rifle, then Argenta magdumps into his ass, then Jae shouts "do it again, sweet sister!" and Argenta magdumps again and now he's deadCan't do that in RTwP
How does she look without the piercings and nasal tube?
>>543343108The nasal tube seems superfluous. This isn't Arrakis
>>543342017what if you're not a purist but prefer one over the other?
>>543343108There is never a reason for a pretty girl to pierce her face.
ELDRITCH KNIGHT
Tattoos are also annoying and they ruin your skin. People shouldn't cover themselves with tattoos.
>>543341869What about the DLC stuff?I haven't gone to Urgoth's Beard or Durlong's Tower yet.
>>543343556They also cause damage to lymph nodes and possibly cause cancer
>>543343108She still looks like trouble, just a different kind of trouble.
>>543343682Should probably do those before Sarevok, if you're going to.
Everything causes cancer. I’d rather have tattoos and sex and die at 85 than be you and live to 96. Tatted and pierced girls are fun to hangout with and fuck. You guys need to stop being such uptight little pussies. Women are doing you a favor by getting pierced and tatted. They are declaring that they are great for sex but awful for marriage.
Yrliet has hoop earrings which is a bit slutty. So I don't buy the "asexual" story for a minute.
>>543344128t. Millennial
>>543344278You aren’t better than millennials. You’re a sad, uptight faggot who worries about everyone else while sitting at home unable to get any attention from anyone else
Blitz seems fine, I like him
>>543344086Right, it's the old style of "You beat the bad guy, credits roll. Title screen."I'm just hoping I didn't go too far deep, and that Ducal Palace wasn't some sort of Point-Of-No-Return.I'm just going to keep playing and find out for myself.
Oh god there are elffags even in shadowrun
>>543344517Has he bitched at you about his relationship problems yet
>>543344832Ah, I feel represented
>>543344943Not so far, just told me about how he sold out his previous gang because they were going to murder him. Gonna talk to Eiger now, there must be a way to romance her. I'll find it.
>>543345060There we go. I'll scale this mountain yet.
When due process fails us we really do live in a world of terror
>>543345520Don't believe me? It's all in the numbers.1) That's terror.2) That's terror.
>>543343446That’s called having taste.
What are some crpg waifus m*n will never understand?>Yrliet
Yrliet, you claim to love the rogue trader, yet you are unable to get pregnant. Seems contradictory, no?
How many crpg players understand women at all? Probably just me and some of the other boomers. Definitely not the critical role cuck fans.
We need another Dragonlance game.
Dragonlance more like Dragon Shits-his-Pants
lmao
Pants are dragon is less faggy than critical role
New Rogue Trader companionsDLC 3: Trazyn's Museum>Your pre-imperial ancestor, the first Valancius in the Koronus Expanse, kept in cryo-stasis by Trazyn for reasons of his own. Not romanceable. No alignment because they didn't have alignments in the Dark Age of Technology.DLC 4: Processional of the Damned>Yrliet's mom, rescued from a drifting Crudarach escape pod. A bit old, but fully romanceable. No alignment.
Does Muaran just keep mind-controlling humans as slaves if you let him live? Even with the dogmatic coercion option the rebels are still just walking around like nothing is wrong.
>>543350570Proof?
>>543350681Pretty sure he lets them go, you tell him it's out of the question for xenos to rule over humans but you'll allow him to live in a reservation if he behaves.Then later at the governor's estate, people are saying "maybe those xenos aren't so bad, they haven't tried to kill us yet" so they're clearly not using mind control to appear human anymore.
>>543350848
>>543350848None whatsoever, I just think it would be neat.More likely an Ork and some sort of droid
There needs to be an option to call him Larry in the game and have him be annoyed by it
If Heinrix could swap Yrliet for Larry, would he?
>>543351808Of course. He probably knows Larry and has worked with him before.
>>543351808>Larry reports all the shit you find to his inquisitor who reports it to ZebreIs this really a good idea?
>>543352053He'll also steal your gf from you (not just Yrliet, all of them)
These Seeker Slayer arena fights are kinda hard.
>if God is good then why do bad things happen?
>>543353280>because fuck you>Influence Gained: Kreia
>Exile! We have to stop Kreia!Why>Uhhhhhh idk
>>543344715It's not a point of no return, but beating Sarevok will roll credits. I thought for some reason you didn't have TotSC, but if you do then for sure you should check out some of that (not all of it, for instance I think werewolf island sucks balls). Basically the only essential one is Durlag's, which is a lot of fun.
>>543352964The only DLC that I didn't like
>>543355680Also you should go to the town in the NE and talk to some people before heading there.Just skip the dude inside the house on the west side. Or not, but imo it was a weak shit and annoying quest.
>if Yrilet gets downed during the Janus rebel mission you miss the dialogue where she rages about Muaran being a traitorOwlcat are such shit devs.
>>543356218Skill issue
>>543356218Don't let her get downed thenShe's a sniper, put her at the back and protect her
Who is the greatest crpg studio of all time?
>>543356218If you save the skull reveal till you actually meet Muaran, he declares that Yrliet might have been killed, but that's a risk he was willing to take, and she's pissedI'm surprised he didn't turn out to be corrupted by chaos, I thought that's where it was heading.
>>543356489Bethesda Game Studios
Are crpgs actually fun?
>>543357241define fun
>>543356489Troika only had a few games but they have a high ratio of the few they made being really good.Obsidian made a few of the best crpg ever made, but they're all from like 2 decades ago and they've lost the magic.Same with bioware. Several of the best crpg ever made were made by bioware......two decades ago, and everything recent is bad.So I'm not sure whether to hold it against the companies where the studios fell apart over time, and lost all their talent but kept making bad games with the new bad writers. Are obsidian and bioware not historically good companies that made tons of good games just because bad writers eventually took over and made some bad ones? That feels unfair.Larian is pretty consistent. Divinity os1, os2, and bg3 are all great. Dragon Commander had gameplay flaws but the whole thing about alliances and factions was fun. Their older diablo-likes were fun for a bit but I didn't finish any of them since they did bore me eventually I'm sorry to say, I made it about halfway with all of them, just to see what they're like.Owlcat is newer and only has 3 games, so I would be hesitant to list them above companies that have more games and more classics, but on the other hand they only have 3 games and all 3 are good. So their ratio of games to good games is perfect.So it's a difficult question. I will say Larian. The reason for that is that you don't need every single game in your library to be perfect. Their older games had various flaws, but you can tell they were having fun making them and they enjoy making games, so there's a passion even in their bad ones. Meanwhile, for example, Bioware's bad games are soulless leftist propganda with zero passion or talent. So a studio's bad games still being soulful I think is important to them being a good studio, and all of the dumb dragon or divinity larian games still had soul. Then they did make some highly rated popular blockbusters too, to prove they can do good and soul at the same time.
>>543358121Experience that brings joy
>>543356489troyka
>are crpgs actually fun?
The overseer heroic is terrible. A three time on AP reduction for overseer abilities and your dog deals 7% wounds on hit. Meanwhile Argenta can deal like 10k damage in one burst. The only time this is good is against the Void Dragon at the end of the game.
give me a heretic playthrough idea for rogue trader
>>543358948Mechanically speaking I don't think overseer is very good. A psyker being able to transmit all of their buffs to the entire team sounds good on paper, but then you realize that Cassia and Argenta and Idira don't want Iron Arm. Officer giving all their stuff to everyone under the skull sounds good, but then you realize you're not a Master Tactician so you don't have some of the good ones. You group your entire party together tightly under the skull, so you sacrifice some positioning. You may take a Master Tactician to always go first and use them to give a Bring it Down turn to the officer/psyker so they can buff the whole party before an enemy takes advantage of the fact that you're grouped together, but then you realize you are pidgeonholing two party members into this gimmick so that you can.....give Iron Arm to people who aren't going to use it. Yeah, stuff like Warp Speed is good on everyone, but you see the point.I ended up feeling a lot stronger as a party when I just used all the old reliable good advanced archetypes. Officer into Master Tactician instead of Officer into Overseer especially.That said, it's a fun class. You take it for the flavor and the fun of controlling a pet. And they added out of combat reactivity to the pet classes, with several instances where you get to skip or solve something with your pet, which is always neat. My current co-op playthrough is as an officer overseer with the skull despite everything I just said because it's just neat. My friends are a psyker-bladedancer and a fortress world operative sniper.
>>543361664I mainly use raven so Idira can do AoE damage. It's alright for thatHowever I got an eagle for Jae and it does a ton of damage. It just chews up fags.
>>543360682I hope Muaran and Evayne get portraits!
>>543361664>officer overseer with the skullI used this for my latest playthrough as well. One interesting thing I noticed is that if you give Bring it Down to someone withing the skull's area, a random ally withing that area also gets a free turn. Don't know if that requires taking a specific talent though
>>543362824>if you give Bring it Down to someone withing the skull's area, a random ally withing that area also gets a free turn.I noticed random people getting extra turns. Perhaps this is what it was
Critical role crpg when
>>543360682Just give us a date ffs.>>543361664Overseer is depressing because it requires some of the smartest moves to minmax but your reward is a dog that does 100 damage a bite. Meanwhile you can ignite yourself and murder everything if you picked psyker.
>>543343456Yes there is, it's because they can afford it, but not in an economic sense, but a social one. Whenever a hot girl gets a horrendous haircut or piercings it's basically saying to other, less hot, women>Look at me! Even though I took measures to look as horrific as possible I'm still hotter than you
in toee can you recruit npc companions as party members or is it like iwd snd solasta where you're expected to build the entire party yourself?
Critical Role fans think they are human AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
>noooo stop fricken talking about critical roleee>n-no I just watch it for the girl>y-yeah ive watched 1500 hours of their content>n-no really just for the girl hahha
>>543364147Overseer and Psyker are not exclusive.Heck, Psyker with the raven is actually pretty fucking nifty
>>543361664Iron arm, no.Idira giving everyone the diviner buffs? Yes.Prescience followed by Forewarning is hilarious.
>>543365873I'm pretty sure only unsanctioned psykers can use the raven. for me it's the eagle. gives operators something to do besides debuff.
Should I play Grim Dawn, TWWH3 or BG3 whilst I wait for the 1.5 patch for Rogue Trader?
>he knows there's a girl on critical roleNice self-report.
>>543367117what's a girl
>>543366957It's coming soon so imo either WH3 or take advantage of Next fest and try loads of demos of things that look interesting to you
>>543366749Any psyker can get Ravens
>>543367578u rite. it's the eagle jimmy can't use for some reason.
>The developer is also pushing the boundaries of romance. Shestov acknowledges that a “main fault” of Rogue Trader was the unromanceable Mechanicus companion, Pasqal. Rejoice, robot lovers, because that’s changing this time around. “We are fighting hard to make this particular companion, the Mechanicus one, romanceable,” he says. “And it would be the craziest romance I've ever encountered in a role-playing game.”What do they mean by craziest romance? Will the Admech turn your character into a robot as the romance progresses kek
daggerheart crpg is all but guaranteed
Why are you trannies talking about critical role? In this general we only discuss crpgs and cuckoldry, go elsewhere for your eceleb nonesense. It's not even relevant to the topic, there's a whole fucking board for tabletop games, go there.
Since we're talking about Critical Role, I've tried watching them after hearing all the buzz surrounding them. I don't see the appeal, it's mostly just theatre kids being overdramatic. Mercer is not bad, maybe a bit too descriptive sometimes, but the players are cringe imo.
I said basically exactly what you just said in the last thread and some anon lost his mind defending them and shitting in me for saying they were cringe. So ive just been mocking him all day.
https://youtu.be/FvzYMyeTdQc?si=BLrkxKtozRIL1GSW
is every female love interest taller than the RT?
I dated a tall skinny girl for awhile. I used to suck on her stomach before smashing
>>543343456Eh an ugly girl covered in full body tattoos and piercings is at least more interesting than an ugly girl
Thoughts on Octavia?
I’d steal her away from the retard and suck on her stomach. But I would never marry her.
>>543371485Not JaeIdk if Kibellah is, voidborn tend to be taller
>>543371485Jae isn't
Can I post about this new star trek game here?
>>543372385Not fair she deserves a happy ending too
>>543371485>Jae is former guard so above average physical>Yrliet is 2+ meter tall alien>fishe is a mutant>pinhead is basically a mutantHope you have long heels on your power armor to compensate, manlet trader.
>>543372873>Abelard, they are taking pictographs of me and my girlfriend, fetch me a box to stand on
>>543372706She’ll find a simp to take care of her when im done. They always do.
>>543372662Only if u say critical role sucks
>>543356489Sadly, bioware. They dominated the industry in last 20 years so hard we are still living in the fallout of that.Bg3 was the first time anyone other than bioware made a popular crpg.
>>543358201>Obsidian made a few of the best crpg ever made
>>543372662My tax money... ;_;
>>543372662is it a crpg or just a point and click?
Bioware and Larian have solidified dolly kissing as a requirement for CRPGs to break into the mainstream
feeding Gobbet pastries and petting her rat friends
Haven't played DAO in a long while. I am determined to get tastefully lewd (lol) armor and can't seem to find anything quite right. I dig this medium armor and have light armor inheriting the medium armor appearance, but everything in heavy and above either doesn't reveal enough or is retarded. I have a pretty simple image in my head - essentially the coverage of this medium armor but with chestplate and skirting on the flanks (not covering the ass). But it seems no one has made such a thing and I'm not yet down the rabbithole of doing my own modeling. Help me.
>>543376936Watch critical role instead. It’s up your alley.
>>543377031No.
Crpg have not peaked far from it
>>543377095Then just play the fucking game without needing some faggy porn pixels
>>543372662>Daedlic Entertainment they're still alive ?Lmao
>>543377245No.
>>543377245>some faggy porn pixelsBut the vanilla game already has them for mages and for light armor.
>>543374690I have no idea what that is, but it sounds gay.
I wanna smooch her.
>>543376936>Doing own modeling for game this oldLmao not worth it. I know how to do it but why would you do it for free
>>543376936The characters in DAO are ugly as shit with brown teeth and you want to goon to that?
>>543378859>goonStop misusing this word.
I like that templar armor not sure they would actually need breathing room but I suppose theyd appreciate it
>>543378957You want coom to that? They have awful posture too.
>>543375398Based on what I did in demo, it was mostly stuff like>Choose what stuff to fix and rebuild aboard ship, choose what systems get power or officers to improve said room, such as phaser banks, torpedoes, shields, science room, engineering, etc>During away team missions, choose the away team and when you hit an encounter, pick one of three choices to commit your away team members to>Space combat is pretty simple, choose what to aim at and then your ship keeps on shooting phasers at it automatically until you pause or give a new order on what to shoot at>During space combat you can also use bridge officer abilities, which do stuff like make you dodge enemy shits, increase damage output (not sure on this one, the three abilities I used were from Chakotay, Tom Paris and the half-klingon lady, Paris ability made me dodge enemy attacks while the other two did something, I guess they boosted my damage output, although I couldn't tell)
>>543378859>brown teetheasily fixed with one (1) texture replacement>ugly as shitnope
>>543379447very ugly even for the time
>>543379818incorrect
generic acolyte model
I asked this last threadplayed Shadow of the Roadwhat did we think of it?
I REQUEST LEAKCHADS TO SHARE WITH US DARK HEREESY WAIFUS!
>>543382867Nobody has played this. Why is there a robot in the back
I finished a heretical run yesterday in RT. I was kinda disappointed how shallow it was. Nothing really happened until the last act. It was cool to fight all those good guys tho, however I felt bad feeding Yrliet to slaanesh, and Argenta to the lake monster.
>>543383540>Nobody has played thisI see, makes sense>Why is there a robot in the backMy thoughts exactly, it seems the setting of this game is loosely based around our real world, with a few key differencies likemagic is real, and in this universe the west has advanced steampunk technologyits basically >Emperor is a western lover like Kojima but we are the weebs™ that will fight for traditionsso far, gameplay and story feels a little less rigid than the usual Owlcat formula (its published by Owlcat but not developed by them), I kinda like it
>>543383540Stealth steampunk setting.British Steampunk empire backs the Shogun
>>543384161how's the choice & consequence, reactivity, branching, etc?
>>543381961are they intentionally making all their marketing around DH as boring as possible as some kind of meme or inside joke
>>543371485Based. We need a squat option in dark heresy, luv me Amazonians
>>543384165wtf kinda cool
>>543384260it's a demo, I've been playing like for 1 hourbutcharacters seem to have at least a cople of paths, so for example there's the katana guy who can become a ronin, using blades and guns, or a samurai, only following honor and shitthese decisions are made through dialogue choices and interactions, so I guess there's quite the branching going on herethe other character is an archer/stealth guy who can become full assassinnothing new, but it seems here like your choices will actively influences what kind of gameplay you will experience
>felt bad for soul raping yrlietlol what a fag.
would yrliet prefer soul rape or the regular kind
>>543384484Artwor/model/enivroments posted on twitter and sometimes discord is something they have been doing since forever.I guess the most effort they ever did with Marketing was with Wrath, where they even had the CYOA style vidoes that formed the final trailer.
>>543382867>>543383540>>543384161>>543384165>robotyou guys never watched afro samurai?
Wrath of the Righteous or Kingmaker for my first Pathfinder game?
>>543385601No
>>543386163Kingmaker IMHO has better characters and a more likeable story,gameplay and QoL wise they're virtually the same gameit's not like Owlkeks learned from their mistakes or anything
>>543386163Kingmaker
>>543386163If you want to play both, then play KM first since WOTR is a vast improvement in so many things that it's hard to come back. That said, there are some aspects that KM is better.>>543386337>gameplay and QoL wise they're virtually the same gameIt really isn't. Lugging around rations alone is annoying and something they tried to stamp out without deleting that they resorted to just handing it to you on the first long dungeon you can go into.
>>543386163WOTR is the better game overall. Kingmaker can be painful at times. I also played WOTR first over Kingmaker
>>543386163Wotr.
Fuck yeah Gaichu, glad we took him in
>>543387784but I think my character wouldn't be okay with that. Count yourself lucky Ishida, for the few moments you have left, anyhow.
>>543343108An improvement but its her haircut that does her in. She only looks good in this particular portrait but never in any fanart and definitely not in her ingame model.
>>543389892I do not mind the hair that much.It's just messy
>>543390286I guess this is Abelard's grandaughter and that was Malice
>>543356489Interplay. It pushed out the original Fallouts but more importantly, from Interplay came all the golden age greats: Bioware, Black Isle/Obsidian, and Troika which each have produced very highly regarded and beloved crpgs.Every modern crpg studio stands in the ruins of Interplay, wishing they could be shoulder to shoulder with what came before, all falling short.
>>543390519breast belts.
>>543390519More people going to be begging for Clementina's romance
>>543386163If you play on easy difficulty your first time, WotR, if you play on core or greater, Kingmaker.Kingmaker is actually the better one overall, WotR has a lot of unnecessary friction throughout and especially Act 2 onwards, in the form of over-long dungeons and bloated enemies. WotR also has a far more irritating kingdom management system with the Crusade mode though that doesn't mean Kingmaker's is good.The one advantage WotR has over Kingmaker, however, is there are autobuff mods since both games suffer from boring buff>rest>buff cycles.
>>543390286>>543390519So we had Commisar, Malice and Clementia. Who else is leftMuaran, Evayne and Chaplain are the only ones that come to mind. Base game NPCs with multiple appearances
>>543391442I don't think Evayne deserves one
>>543343108She's still best girl.
>>543391675He is the only one of those that shows up to help you if Caligos is dead without a portrait and you do meet him in early game quest tooChaplain is the only vendor without portrait if Doloroso dies and he appears in one quest tooThere is a chance that future DLCs expand other dynasty quest lines as well so giving Evayne a portrait now could be for that reason
>>543389892>never in any fanart and definitely not in her ingame modeI think that's cause they give her a skin fade of all things. If she just had normal hair all around she'd be fine.
>not liking the asphyxia noir goth pinup haircutbaka /crppg/, another day another doghsite opinion
I just played both and say just play wotr. It’s newer and straight up a better game. If you enjoy the game enough you can go back to kingmaker. If you don’t know if you’ll love the games you may as well play the better one (wotr)The guys here giving you advice are nerds who love the series. Those people will always suggest the first game because they assume everyone will love it as much as they do.
You don't need to buff very much on Normal and lower, even Core. If you do, it's a sign you need to just accept turning the difficulty down for yourself.
Solasta is on offer on Steam. Thinking about picking up the complete edition.
>>543390519I thought they said Clementia wouldn't be getting one? Maybe one of their artists whipped one up anyway
Why isn't there a character model graphic overhaul mod for Solasta
Bloodlines 2 premieres tommorow.I am going to drink myself to sleep to somehow drown my sorrows.
>>543358201>Beamdog not mentioned once
>>543393868I can’t wait for normalfags to say it’s a good game
>>543393868>>543394489I am genuinely interested in this
>>543393593because most people who play crpgs don't care excessively about what their dollies look likeit's roughly oblivion potato-tier, and that's fine. I see no major jump in game quality from their models vs bg3's for instance.
>>543394489You mean bots. Marketing is mostly astroturfing at this point. All the normies will see a vampire game with modern graphics and the social media environment will make them feel like its a social "in" thing to play it immediately or they'll miss out. Very few of them will have ever played the masterpiece original and even less of them will have played the oWoD ttrpg.
How is the Solasta 2 demo
>>543394489>normalfagsNormies aren't playing that slop lmao
>>543394489>>543394813
>>543395017I wonder if journalists and reviewers realize this harms their credibility.
>>543395204They don't give a shit, they'll get away with it like usual.
>>543393868if you love a franchise/IP/studio, it WILL be ruined in your lifetimeBioware, Star Wars, your favorite novel adapted by Netflix, etcthe question is, should you care?
>>543394489Unless the devs overdid the diversity shit.
>>543395204>new pokemon game got a higher score than Expedition 33yeah, no
>>543395520>E33Is that good? I tried pirating it earlier but got into some issues so I'm redownloading.
>>543395626it really is
>>543395429No one's ever going to adapt Elric of Melnibone to film or video game, nor the Book of the New Sun series. Feels pretty good, actually.
>>543395626It’s a good game but not as amazing as these unoriginal npcs claim. Its an old school turn based rpg with great visuals.
>>543395204game journos lost all credibility ages ago anywayNone of those gamerdads/failed movie critics can compete with youtube autists dedicated to a particular genre or even particular gameI'm not sure how and why game journos even exists anymore
>jrpg crapno thank you
>>543395895>not sure how and why game journos even exists anymoreIt is a curiosity. I've never looked at a review for a game that wasn't a screencap posted on here to mock them.Do normies really browse these gaming news websites for critic reviews? Who even does?
VTMB2 isn't even related to VTMB is it? like what difference does it make if it's shit when it's basically fanfiction in another city
>>543395839>not as amazing as these unoriginal npcs claimUh, it's only me who brought it up now, so stop trying to stir shit to give yourself the illusion of some sort of dialogue going on in these otherwise empty virtual halls>>543396042>turn based by Square Enixewwwww noo go away>turn based by Owlcatyes please more give me more prebuffs
>>543396101Damsels in it so they can justify poaching the name
>>543396042Its french.Maybe this has something to do with why japs are obsessed with Paris
>>543396096>Do normies really browse these gaming news websites for critic reviews? Who even does?It's for the devs to post glowing reviews to attach to their games. Reminds me of how much 9/10s Deadfire had gotten on release and they made like a poster showing it.
Ok you are a singular npc that is incapable of original thought?Is that better faggot?
>>543395626likely GOTY unless the industry is corrupt and would rather give it to Silksong
>>543396727Given that Silksong was released at a price point that made a lot of industry people unhappy I would guess they want to punish them.
Expedition 33 combat is literally a copy of the shrek rpg that was on GameCube
Hey, I'm just saying it's hard to take seriously someone who criticizes the lack of original thought while using generic, unoriginal buzzwords like "npcs"but you do you mango>>543396727>GOTYthere's no way this game will win goty in this year with these releases
>>543396183>Uh, it's only meHe's obviously talking about what people in general say, not what someone here said.>sO StOp tRyiNg To StiR uP sHiTGo sodomize yourself, retard.
>>543396274The French are massive fucking weebs.
>>543396902>there's no way this game will win goty in this year with these releases?who this year deserves it more?
ok ganya, keep trying. maybe one day you won’t be so ordinary.
>>543395816It'll come for them, too, have no doubt. And they'll make Jolenta into a sassy black queen with a fro.
>>543396331Kotaku got sold to a clickbait farm 3 months ago. More and more publishers are realizing that gaming jounalism is obsolete and it's better to buy youtubers and streamers.
>>543396274https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CS5PyWzXhg
I just checked out the Solasta 2 demo and I was disappointed to see the UI is still crap and ugly and the lighting somehow got worse?The environments were cool tho.
>>543399285>omg but the UI is ugly???you don't play CRPGs
>>543399603It is ugly, everyone that sees it says it's ugly. You should stop dying on that shitheap and try and cope with it's other good aspects.
Solasta fags are worse than 40k fags. Critical role fags are still the worst though.
I like Overwatch because the UI is polished
>>543399603>just accept bad UI goyNo.
>>543399207It really is kinda cute how they expect France to be some peaceful idyllic land of clean streets, romantically classical architecture, and high class shops, quaint little breweries and no disorder or chaos.
>>543400263That goes for any tourism based shit. Exacerbated with groypers joining in with the comparison.
>>543400559That's true but the japanese apparently have it to the point there's a documented form of shock and depression in Japan for the ones who are met with the reality of France and can't cope with it.
>>543400848I suppose that's true and I heard of that from SZS.
>>543401035>SZSWhat's SZS?
>>543378734
>>543401203Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, some anime that poked fun on a lot of Japanese stuff. I think it randomly mentioned that many Japanese people do get depressed when they realise Paris isn't the way they imagined and chided those who only got interested in Christianity because of Evangelion.
>>543401418I wonder why Paris specifically
>>543396982We all know its not about who 'deserves' it moreso far, Silksong, Blue prince, Hades II, split fiction, hell we even got Death Stranding 2 and other shit that will make this years awards kind of wild
>>543401551>Silksong, and a bunch of irrelevant games
>>543401551My personal GOTY is Monster Train 2.Near perfect sequel ,and first big update was already very good
>>543371485Jae is short and cute. The others are taller yeah
You guys can’t seriously care what game the normies call goty, right?
What if Yrliet were futa?
>>543401925>>543402447..ok?>>543402542these wards alwasy shift the industry in one direction: BG3 pushed more turn based slop, just like when SOulsgames pushed more soulslopI wish we could ignore them, but we can'tand normies loved cRPGs two years ago, so what gives?
>>543374176It blows that they forgot all about this side of her. She alludes to it in combat barks >I need no farseer to see MY future
My personal GOTY? VTMB2
>>543402582What if Marazhai weren't?
Yrliet but with Ember's personality
I wouldn't have joined the sabbat if I realised i'd have to suck up to a latina.
>>543395626Didn't play it, but for what's it worth Werglia that RPG reviewer and streamer said it's a GOTY contender and he's usually a stickler.
>>543403048why is shit so dark I can't see shit
>>543402582Still not allowed to touch it
>>543403140I guess that's why it's called world of darkness
Who are you gonna be watching for the Dark Heresy alpha assuming you aren't gonna play it yourself? Any crpg streamer suggestions?Or are you just gonna get info from this thread and other sites like pisscord/reddit/codex.
Let us not descend into e-celeb orbiting and simpery, the thread is bad enough as it is.
>>543403395I guess I'll just wait for critical role to talk about it
insane owldrone shilling....>>>/reddit/
>>543403482the schizo found a new meme topic to repeat ad nauseam, at least he's not crying about humiliation or owlcat this time
>>543403532based and faggotpilled
>owlcuck alphaThat must be awful. Their released games are bad enough.
>>543401510It's the main tourist destination, with the highest expectations, and the biggest irl shithole, so the shock is greatest.There are still pleasant places in France, but not any major city, and Paris hasn't been charming in a hundred years
>>543403675I'd rather he complain about the humiliation than circlejerk e-celebs
>>80$ for an alpha isn’t gayyyyydoubling down on the ESL mistakes is not the win you think it is, dmitry
>>543403395I think I'll watch Revan and Werglia a bit check out what they have to say about state of builds/balance and I'll check out how's the early story. Don't wanna spoil every conversation, would like to discover most story shit for myself. I mostly wanna see what the gameplay and balance will be like. And some base feel for characters.
>>543402931Cassia but with Ember's feet
Ember but with Cam's personality
>owlcat shillingThis is a iron tower general
nahI shill only for styg
Valerie with Daeran's personality
yeah I'm not even going to bother anymoreenjoy shitting your diapers and making it everyone's problem lol
Yrlietspam was more intellectually interesting than this
>>543364476>in toee can you recruit npc companions as party membersyes
Wenduag but she has 20 CHA
Why does Argenta get a helmet that doubles her damage?
>>543406098Rogue Trader's system is inherently broken because it wasn't adapted from the tabletop, its Owlcat's custom creation and they can't properly balance or design.So adding tons of dumb garbage accessories is par the course, you're meant to be retardedly OP with your chosen DPS waifu, Argenta, Kibbles, or Yrliet.
Argenta won't date you because the power dynamics are off and it's inappropriate. She'd date a bridge officer no problem.
>>543406510She won't date you because she only cares about battle and the Emperor
>Valerie cucked me because she had sex with one guy years before she met me, fucked me, fell in love with me, and married me
>>543406585>Chasing Valerie>Written and Directed by Kevin Smith
>>543406583Battle isn't even her primary assignment
>>543406685starring will smith
>>543406784Sister of BATTLE. Not Sister of HAVING SEX WITH MY ROGUE TRADER.
>>543406885She's not a sister of battle, as she explains in one of your first conversations
a psyker should be able to mindbreak argenta into becoming a tradwife
playersexuality ruined crpgsno, the 5'9 perfect elf isn't going to be attracted to your stinky dwarf
Idira should be able to mind break you into a sex slave.
Idira, Argenta, Octaviana, Vistenza and Incendia owe me sex.
>>543406956>>543406784You've already had this explained to you las ttime you tried spreading this misinformation. Stop repeating things you know are not true. All SoB are warriors including the medics, record keepers, public speakers, and relic protectors.>>541218123
Why is jaes portrait ugly? Atleast make her portrait pretty.
has owlcat made a single good boss? I can't remember one.
Idira should be able to mindbreak you into getting high and chilling out
>>543407229kys mintharafag, aren't you busy sperging out about Shadowheart in /bgg/ right now
>>543407114Only two of these women truly owe you sex.
>>543407015Blame DA2 then.>>543407271Defiler boss in RT was kinda fun. Can't really think of anything in PF.
>>543407229Sure, they all know how to use weapons and and skilled with them. Like all soldiers know how to use their rifle, even a supply clerk or a truck driver. But they aren't all elite front line combat units and neither is she. That's incidentally why she fucked up so badly on Salis Prime the first time, she lacks the training for tactics
>>543407114Why do they owe you sex, please explain?
>>543407015It's less playersexuality and more people not wanting to cater their character to be eligible for a romance. Together with all the actually important character checks that's just getting retarded. People barely even tolerate hetero/homo/bi being pretty arbitrary and just use mods to make everyone bi. One could justify more strict requirements if the romance were actually written around them.
>>543407559Paper says so
>>543407735One of those is a heretic, she doesn't care about the Warrant.
>>543407271There are some good boss like encounters, IMO.They tend to be early on where the build/party options are more set and the challenge is tailored (like in Kingmaker, how you tackle Stag lord in the fight and before that is pretty good, Harkulga+Tartuccio duo is an interesting encounter etc).For Wrath, it would be something like Lost Chapel encounters and most of the Siege.I also like the design encounter in Lord of nothing except for it's Darkness superboss.Shit kinda goes out of whack at midgame and later with few exceptionsFun/memorable beyond gameplay, there are a few more.Lantern Boy with his phases and themes and the dialogue yo uhave with him are etched in my brain
Idira should have raped me but in like in a loving and mommy way.
>>543407836Actually 2 of them, I forgot Idira is
>>543407271The Sire is memorable for the general confusion of the fight
>>543407246I'd like Jae more if her accent didn't feel so fake
>>543408173She doesn't act like a heretic and she's very respectful of your position as Rogue Trader If you showed her the part where it says she owes you sex then yeah she'd do it >How may I serve the dynasty :D>I'm always here. Whenever you need me ;)
>>543407271Anvers Hammer guy is memorable , let me tell ya.No, not really.
Idira? For VigdisArgenta? For the EmperorOctaviana? For RyzzaVistenza? for the dogsIncendia? For the Emperor
>>543408328They should have made it explicitly fakeWhen you find her in Cumrag she should have been yelling at the wrack in her real South London accent
>valerie was thinking about her ex as we went to the bedroom to have sex>no she totally loves meeeeee>n-no I swear she’s not thinking of him while with me>s-she stopped thinking about him 5 minutes after drunkenly telling me how great he was
>>543408570Nah one Incendia joins you on the ship she's very meek and compliant. I bet you could do whatever you want
Today I will remind them of male Jae early concept art
>>543409152>Male JaeLooks like some Crime Lord RT though
>>543390519Isn't she, like, 60 and not a biomancer? That is not a chin of a 60 year old hag
>>543409152>JoeThis guy would fuck your waifu Even Yrliet since he's a cold trader and knows his way around Eldar girls
>>543409247nah his daughter is 60, his grandaughter is young adultish
>>543399748>everyone that sees it says it's uglyI think it's fine, so your statement is false.
>>543391442>Muaran,possible>Evayneliterally who> and Chaplainliterally who
>>543409247Rejuvenat treatments. Abelard is over a hundred but he's not feeble and old >>543409336You never see his daughter. Clementina is his granddaughter, she's the one with an important job on Dargonus. His great-granddaughter also appears, forgot her name
>>543409152Thats not Jae
I don't care what crpg you make I'll probably buy it.But please don't use unity, use literally any other engine, just not unity.
>>543384850The did a roleplaying stream with some voice actors for rt.
>>543409441Evayne is Calligos' son.Rykard Majoris and all that
>>543382867Is this out?
>>543409669Would have been funny if they used the actual tabletop and everyone just kept dying
Valerie but she's voiced by Milla Jovovich
>>543374176She's written by a schizo, so she acts like a schizo
CRPG's live and die by the quality of the romances. Don't @ me incel cretins.
>>543395204They don't care about credibility, anon. They are paid to give positive reviews, not honest ones.
>>543374176This is more evidence of her autism>Yrliet you can't just walk into the farseers quarters >UGH I'll become an outcast then!>Yrliet baby you are being silly>I HATE YOU MOM
>>543409769Devs will probably give us a bestiality romance before a sister one
>>543410364>Devs willFallout and Wasteland already has you beat with fucking animals.
>>543409739He's not on rykad majoris and he might be the most irreleavnt named character in the game. Giving that retard a portrait is a waste of time while there are infinitely more important characters without ones
>>543374176She also says something totally different if you reply differently >You can come around whenever you want Yrliet >Oh did I need your permission? On the craftworld we go wherever our path takes us Alternatively >Yrliet you should knock first >This is just like the craftworld! Nothing but rules rules rules!
>>543410602So she is either a schizophrenic or a compulsive liar. Truly excellent character writing
I'm enjoying Colony Ship so far. Huge improvement over Age of Decadence for me. Good on the dev for streamlining shit and offering both an underdog and hero level of difficulty>mfw start the game on hard mode conmaxxing and managed to take down a turrent at level 2 with a hammer and a dream and only had to retry the fight three timesI'm gonna go pistol only when I do a hero playthrough with allies and I'm actually looking forward to itGod this is so much better than dealing with the literal cheating bullshit AI did in AOD
>>543410492Commissar and Malice both need one
Give Brasswhisper a portrait, actually all of Pasqal's personalities deserve one.
>>543410780No disagreement here. All I'm saying is that people asking for what's his name portrait are fucking retarded
>>543410953That would be great. You know what would also be great? If all of Amarnat portraits formed a single art piece like the portraits of the administratum clerk and the arbites martial from the DLC
what am i in for
>>543411218Oh shit that's a cool idea
>>543411238Eurojank and mobile game kingdom management
Why are the body proportions and the idle stance in DAO so fucked?
>>543410492Rykard Majoris is the prison.Minoris is the main planet And which infinitely more important character needs one that does not get it with the update?
>>543411218Send this to Owlcat's HQ right now
>>543411238Multiple 2 week training programs
>>543410780They are already confirmed to get one
>>543411420Bioware magic
>>543411553Literally all of the nobles from Dargonus are inifnitely more relevant than that guy. Or the Sire. Or the magus. Or the Amarnat Collective. Or even Calcazar's buttbuddy
>>543411828The Sire does not even talk, does it?
>>543411569It's ok, they come here. They might see it
>>543411950He does, you talk to him before fight when he's imitating you
>>543411950Oh right. Well, then we can do without him
>>543411238Sneaky rat people will kill you. A spooky skull will kill you when you sleep, too.
>>543411238Decent game with some of the worst pacing in the genre
I missed the Commissar portrait. Post it
>>543403395Here and I'll ignore anyone that uses too many buzzwordsStill hoping for a Sister of Battle romance but I'm accepting that's like a 0%
>>543413531>>543413429I will smite this evil and reclaim your honor.
>>543381961I better be able to look swaggy like Jimmy, with broad shoulders and square jaw. Though this guy's jaw is not too shabby either. And the duds better be stylish - I don't wanna wear a dress
>>543408645NTA but that would've helped sell her as a character actually, but I didn't think her accent sounded fake, I thought it was bad and offputting.But it could be bad and offputting on purpose because its fake, except it also has to survive first impression with an audience and it failed that.
>>543381961For a supposedly clandestine organization inquisitors sure love to plaster their symbols everrwhere on their clothes
>>543410205If everyone knows the reviews are dishonest, why would anyone listen to them?
>>543403395>watchingI'm gonna play it myself, because i'm not a retard who doesn't know how to use torrents. Might watch Werglia. He's one of the few non-cringe streamers in existance
>>543413875Not bad. Do women normally smoke that much tobacco as opposed to just cigarettes at most, though? Pipes are very masculine, and even amongst men they're rare.
>>543409887Does she get raped and tortured in that?
>>543414239Whom else are they gonna listen? Literally everyone of any note is paid off these days. The correct option is to watch gameplay videos and make up your own opinion instead of listening to some literally whos
>>543413875Looks like on orangutan
>duuuuude u are either going to watchhhh or pay 80$ to get cuckeeedddd
>anons in here going to prepare their cuck chairs to watch a streamer play a game
Larian=LeBron James=Greatest of all timeObsidian=Micheal Jordan=only good for their era
>>543415172This one's good. Isn't it a comission by the game's artist though?
>>543415216Not related but that documentary really showed how MJ was basically a petty sociopath. Understandable but very funny.
>>543415172I wish that faceplate he was holding was in game.
>>543415323>"And I took that posy personally"
>>543415172Good but the face is weird. I may take it and fix it with AI.
>>543414397It's an over-literal reference to 17th century pirates, when pipes were the only form of tobacco smoking
>>543415216Skip, go back to sucking Lil' Wayne's dick
DH better have player portraits be unique and not used by NPC's
>>543415246Yes, I am searching through art station, the lady I posted earlier was too
>>543415694? Rt doesn't have character portraits being used by npcs
>>543415712I like this one too, but I don't think she feels or looks like a rogue trader
>>543415949Yeah, but fits the style
>>543415694RT did not have that.Even back on kingmaker, the game switched the npc portrait if you picked the character one.Unless you used mod packs that had the character portraits
>>543415712Something's definitely wrong with that face.
>>543415694>>543415780>>543416112RT had one case: The Imperial Navy representative - the black guy - his portrait is also available for players
>>543416260>go navy background for my first time>it results in like one extra line from him and some free rep with the navy man it was so lame. navy background should have atleast given you the maxed out rep variation of the navy ending automatically or something
>>543416495>navy background should have atleast given you the maxed out rep variation of the navy ending automatically or somethingGood idea actually. Yo're not some literally who after all, but a notorious person. Should be the case for all factions except admech. Maybe they could get extra rep from forge world background or something. But homeplanets don't get any reactivity at all
>>543416260Nobody has picked it
Psyker being a origin and not a class makes no sense.
>duuuuude MJ was a FRICKEN PSYCHO>y-yes I did read that on reddit h-how did u know?>y-yes I am an owlcat and 40k fan>h-how did u know i like critical role?
>>543417109I kinda get being born a psyker and not some skill you acquire the way archetypes kinda do, but yeah.Gamepley wise, it should not be
Midnight Fane shouldn't be back to back with Ivory Sanctum. Both of these dungeons need to be cut down in length by at least half.
Greentext shitposter somehow missed the existence of Last Dance or ignores it and seems even more retarded.Take your pick
>>543417214>on redditThe Last Dance was just him admitting that he saw everyone as a threat and got offended by near everything.
>>543417287You have a 30 day gap and lots of optional shit you could do.
>>543417284What a weird thing to say. Nobody is born a criminal, or a priest, or a soldier or a sailor either. It's also something you become
>>543416761Reactivity? In an Owlcat game? Think of the devs, they can barely release half a game as it is.
>dude I watched last fricken dance on netflix broooo>dude he was such a fricken PSYCHO>what a heckin crazyyy man>I fricken love reddit and critical roleeee
>>543417659Sure, but that is still more of a life/career.
>>543417578Are these AI? They are surprisingly good and fit the game's artstyle well
>>543417624I've usually cleared most of the map (except Blackwater which is also tedious and doesn't help the dungeon exhaustion problem) before going to Ivory Sanctum.
>people who played with him, against him, coached him ,interviewed and the man himself on his documentary vs the contrarian retard who got gutthurt and shitposts with a lame shtickWho do we trust for an assessment of Jordan?
>>543417827no jeet
>duuude me and the guys on reddit think he’s a fricken psychoooo>dude I fricken love repeating phrases I see on reddit and twitter >broooo mj took is heckin personallyDo you guys think Tim Duncan plays crpgs?
>>543417827No, that's side art and commissions from some of the artists for RTGemini AI can make some good portraits if it has a base to work off, but takes re-rolling
>>543418325No retarded contrarian-kun, he was more into Starcraft
Im just saying lebron never got any of his family members killed over gambling debts. Also he would definitely be a dragon age origins fan.
owlcat studio dissolveshow would you react
When it comes to companions, my biggest grievence with Owlcat is how most of the non-romancable companions get shafted in terms of development and content quantity, exception being Pasqal. Compare say Idira, Argenta and Abelard's personal content (and mind you Argenta fucking shot Theodora) to Heinrix, Yrliet and even Jae
>>543414592Shut up, Yrliet
>>543419458Sad I want more rpgs
>>543419860I feel like Jimmy is pretty shafted too. Most people won't romance him to see his other sides. His final quest felt like that was it?
>>543419458Disappointed, I liked their games, all their flaws aside
>>543419860Owlcat seemed to have problems developing non-romanceable companions in their last two games to. Owlcat should go the larian route and make every companion romanceable.
>>543419458wonder where i'll get my cuckoldry fix instead
But wait, if romance is popular among customers, why don't they just make every applicable companion romancable (obviously you won't fuck Space Marines) Not even a waifufag, just wondering from a profit perspective, if that might draw in hordes of femcel and incel normies to try your game
>>543420512>if that might draw in hordes of femcel and incel normies to try your gameThat market is already dominated by jrpgs.
>>543420512That takes more effort plus not every character needs to kissable. Like Grandpa Abelard.
>>543420261Korean manhwa.
>>543343465>tfw WH fantasy crpg never ever
>>543420734>tfw you will never be able to romance your cousin that just looks like your mom but younger in any western rpg
>>543420734Melisandre truly was best girl.
>>543419895She does though. Look at those oversized shoulderpads and claws. Overall ugly and terrible-looking art
>>543421082I never understood romancing Virginia, she clearly is destined to be with Gilbert.
>>543421364that gun is much more offensive
>>543420158Jimmy doesn't really need more desu. He gets plenty of story involvement even without a personal quest
>>543420952I still do not understand why it has not happened, it would be such an easy home run since the setting is great and there a ton of cool adventures you could set up in it.
>>543420512Because some people are just not into you>>543421364She has the proportions of a warcraft orc
Why doesn't leakman leak more things?
>>543421780He got caught
>>543421749>Some people are just not into youThat doesn't really make sense in a CRPG where you are crafting a character that can be just about anyone or anything. Larian was right to let players romance every character, if the players created character would do it, they should be allowed to.
>>543420952Slavs will make it happen. If not owltards than some other company. Slavs love wfrp
>>543421749So she fits right in with warhammer?
>>543422210I dont get it.
>>543422210>>543422272Mazda and Heineken?
>>543422210carazhai and heinriken
>>543421532>Jimmy doesn't really need moreExcept romance content. I need even more of that. Just remove everything else and replace everyone with jimmy clones
Do the majority of players care about romance or is it just vocal autists that remain active in comunity after normie players move on?
>>543422849yes they care about romanceI know normoids that won't even consider playing games without romanceconsider the unholy popularity of BG3
>>543422003>where you are crafting a character that can be just about anyone or anything.Not really. Games these days usually have dialogue lines written for 2-3 personalities: a murderhobo, a bleeding heart retard and le ebin reddit sarcasm guy. And none of those are attractive to me for example
>>543422849Which was the first culprit of this?
>>543422112No, because warhammer doesn't have warcraft orcs
>>543423067Baldur's Gate, specifically 2.>>543422849That part sticks to people the most. May not be the majority but definitely something that you can't ignore.
>>543423067BG2Jaheira and Aerie start coming onto you pretty quickly
>>543422849Most people care about romance in a normal way and not the legitimate mental illness that goes on here.
>>543423015That's the writers fault, though, not the players fault. If they created a character they can imagine romancing a given NPC, and it would be trivial for the developers to allow for that, what reason would you have for not doing so?
>>543422048do you ever wonder how many of these Russian cosplayers are somewhere rotting out there in the trenches after getting blown up by a western drone or missile system?
>>543422210A car and a bottle with faces on them? Is this some reddit humour I'm too smart to get?>>543422849I care about romance in games, but ultimately it's just nice side-content - I don't decide the game's quality and worth based on whether it has them or not
>>543422849The vast majority do and will complain if they aren't included. That being said they all have shit taste so you can literally cuck them and they'll thank you for it.
>>543423527>reddit humour I'm too smart to getloll
>>543423424>That's the writers fault, though, not the players fault.Sure, and in a perfect world you could have any personality you want, but we're not in a perfect world, so having companions that are not into one of the personalities available to you is normal
>>543422671Yikes but also lmao
>>543422849They do but not like its memed and shitposted about here. There's a reason Sawyer sperged out in a forum post over a decade ago complaining about having to put them in his games.
>>543423358What is a normal way of caring about romance in a game?
>>543423434No, because Russia has almost 150 million people and not even 1% of that is being committed to the war. Even Ukraine which is smaller still has tons of young people in Western Ukraine who haven't even seen conflict. The comments of "Is X Russian/Ukrainian dead in the war now" whenever pre-war images of em get posted is naive
>>543420952It would be seen as derivative of 40k
>>543423434No, but the number is probably not that high if any at all. First of all the number of people attending these larps is growing every year. And second of all this is not a cheap hobby. Those costumes and merch is expensive. So those are all people with well-paying jobs who would most deffinitely not sign up for a dangerous job like a soldier while there's a war going on to get paid. As for draft - lol. lmao even. The draft happened once and only targeted a certain demographic, which is not those larpers
>>543423275That circus bitch being the only mage/cleric and thus actually useful to the party is a tragedy
>>543424071It's already too late for you if you need to ask.
>>543390286Drukhari weapon and armour. Kharael? Marazhai's ex.
Does concrete affect caravan speed in py at all?
>>543423815I really don't get your logic, it's a western CRPG with a character you can create yourself. Yes, the full range of choices are more limited than they should be due to the nature of the medium, but that does not mean you should build your game around these limitations, you should seek to circumvent and navigate around them where possible to give the person playing as much freedom as you can to play the character they want to play. If you argue otherwise you're basically advocating that western CRPGs go down the road of JRPGs where they just focus on a canon character with a canon personality and write the entire adventure from start to finish with no real actual input from the player affecting the story or anything else. It certainly does make the writing easier and give you more consistent characters, but the drawbacks should be obvious as well.
>>543424829Nah it's Malice, that sash is the one sslyth wear
>>543424071Normal way:>oh, cool, that was niceNon-normal way:>cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck!>get pregannat get pregnant get pregnant!>I watch porn and imagine it's me and mai hu/waifu>You guys, 90% of my thoughts are about X!>So are the other 10% but in those s/he's not naked!
TOMORROWNEW TOP TIER CRPGOWLCAT WHO??LARIAN WHO??
>>543424316Aerie is a great character beyond her superior class choices, though. She has the most satisfying character arc in the game by the end of ToB, both romanced and non romanced.
>>543424494Just explain it simply bro
>>543424876>a character you can create yourself.Only in terms of combat build. The personality is usually a choice of two
>>543424984Pretty much this.
>>543425050Cheats on you with Haer'dalis (so I have heard) so I won't be recruiting her when I get to BG2
>>543422517That's a Maserati, tho
>posting portraits instead of the updated originsOwlcat are useless.
>>543424876Video games at this point in time is not the medium where you can navigate around its limitations. When you can write your own dialogue, then you might be able to have any romance you want. And even that doesn't change the fact that some charcters might be old, or young, or simply not interested in sex or a relationship with you, or with anyone for whatever reason.
>>543414754>>543415116piracy is a thing anon
>>543425132Not really, no, you can imagine quite a number of different characters in most of these games, even with the limited dialogue choices available.
>>543425313Marazairati
Clockwork revolution will revive the acrpg genre
>>543425313What does that have to do with marazhai? The letter M?
Why don't crpg developers make every companion a fully fleshed character with 40 hours of voice lines and development? Are they stupid?
>>543425041who's releasing it?
>>543425548Car Marazhai Carazhai
>>543425548Its a joke on his like Marzipan, stop being autistic
>>543425304False. Stop listening to shitposts from people who haven't even played the video game in question. If you are in a romance with Aerie, and have Haer'dalis in the party, there are two possible conclusions: she tells him to fuck off or she tells both of you to fuck off. There is no scenario where Aerie cheats on you at any point if you are in a romance with her. Haer'dalis only romances Aerie if you never triggered her romance and at the end of it she leaves him because she realizes he only sees it as a temporary bout of passion instead of the deeper, romantic love she's looking for. I swear 90% of the people who comment about BG2 never actually played the game.
>visit /crpgg/ to see how it's holding up>schizo meltyAt least there is consistency.
>>543422210Yrliet is in the backseat
>>543425742*name
>>543425390>OldIf my character is also old what is the problem? Same with young. You can always create a situation or a character where romance could conceivably occur outside of characters explicitly written to avoid romance since they are a celibate monk or some such, and even then you could conjure up some scenarios, see the Vestal from Darkest Dungeon.
>>543425304lmao no she doesn't, this general has really turned your minds to cuckold mush hasn't it?
>>543425694Just wait till I finish my own crpg, bro. I will do everything right becausae the sky's the limit. It's gonna be ebin.
>>543425723chinese room
>>543425794>>543425985Hmm ok maybe I heard wrong She still seems a little suspicious though
>>543425929are you froggy?
>>543425742I don't understand the joke. Is the punchline that the author is retarded?>>543425741Seems like it is.
Every female character cucks you
>>543426203just if you play owlcat games
BG2 had racial restrictions for romance Eg no woman would touch a gnomeThis should be repeated for backgroundsEg Cassia will only allow your advances if you're a nobleman, Yrliet only if you're a crime lord because she has a weakness for bad boys etc
>>543425962>If my character is also old what is the problem?Libido probably. Or the fact that they're already married or are racist and you're a fucking subhuman. Pick any. And those are just the ones I came up with
>>543426064I was one of the suckers that preordered it when they first announced it and then forgot about it.Think I should try it? Getting a few days off work in a month so I can binge game during.I'm currently mid wotr playthrough and was hoping to gain faster headway during my vacation.
>>543426121Aeries romance to this day is the gold standard of CRPG romances if you want a pure, devoted and young virgin girl who falls completely and absolutely in love with you and bears your children. And she always will be, since given current societal and industry trends, nothing like her will ever be written again in a CRPG.
>>543426359Back then devs didn't mind doing these things.These days if you lock romances to your player sex then you're a bigot.
>>543426368But I can come up with plenty of reasons why the romance would work. I just don't get why you think characters shouldn't be romanceable as a design decision, when you're just limiting choice and freedom for no real reason. If you cannot envision a given character being romanced by your PC, simply don't romance them. It doesn't take anything away from you if somebody else in their game wants and enjoys the option to do otherwise.
>I'm so happy you brought me with you. I never imagined I would be doing such great things!
>>543420734>women>playing low budget jrpg slopYour best bet is Expedition 33It's like how some people were trying to convince others that shit like fftactics and FE have a huge female audience, and I know for a fact that it's mostly just white dudes and trannies in the west.
>>543426578>if you want a pure, devoted and young virgin girl who falls completely and absolutely in love with you and bears your children.>if you want a tradwife meme and not a realistic character inhabiting her world40 yo pure virginal elf btw
>>543426150What the fuck is a froggy
>>543426819Women do like playing FE on Casual mode thoughI’ve met some in real life
>>543426578I am glad you will never get another romance like this ever again.
>>543426506no lmao, it's gonna be shit
>>543424984>>I watch porn and imagine it's me and mai hu/waifuliterally me
>>543426761>But I can come up with plenty of reasons why the romance would work.Good for you, but the developers didn't, so deal with it
>>543424071In a specific game? Already answered by >>543424984As a general liking of romances in games? "It'd be nice if there was x available" where x is whatever romance option. And then not sperging out endlessly, not drawing weird fanart on tumblr, etcIf you call your romance option "waifu" unironically you're already too far gone but there's degrees of the thing.Like with anything don't make it your whole personality. (un?)Fortunately it gets shamed more than certain other kinds of one-dimensional personalities.
>>543422849Romance allows for a different kind of an emotional catharsis for a character's ark. It can absolutely improve the story and give your character additional motivation to come out on top, while also developing a romance interest's character even deeper.You don't HAVE to have a romance in the story, but a lot of the times it adds extra emotional depth.
>>543426892>I want a tradwife meme and not a "realistic" character in my epic fantasy adventure
>>543427015I also met women who play darktide, that doesn't matter as much. Turn-based tactics is still a field that is like 94% dudes.
There's nothing wrong with romancing sluts.
>>543426892>and not a realistic character inhabiting her worldwhat kind of faggots goes to fiction for realism?
>>543427015Only 3 houses. And there's a good reason for that
>>543427461Don't forget to make Aerie post epic tradwife memes on facebook and instagram
>>543427343But they did, in multiple games. And the audience enjoyed it. So why not replicate that success? BG3 pretty much showed that it's a good idea and you're not really providing any actual reasons not to follow their example aside from stating that you lack the imagination to create characters you can conceive romancing these characters.
>>543427580Dimitri hiii
>>543427348>(un?)Fortunately it gets shamed more than certain other kinds of one-dimensional personalities.Only here, because other undesireables keep a low profile
>>543427348>don't make it your whole personalityWaifufags are incapable of that.
>>543427554I think the larger issue most of the people that complain regarding that issue on romances is that the alternative is not provided. If you can romance a slut but also romance a cute virgin then there would be no issue, but the latter seem increasingly rare or nonexistent while the former are a constant. It's fine to have a Jae if you also get a Cassia, basically.
>>543427959>It's fine to have a Jae if you also get a Cassia, basically.god damn if this is the future I hope the anti-romancefags win
>>543427662>So why not replicate that success?Because indiscriminative playersexual romances are the lowest kind of romance and are never good. >b-b-bb-ut people liked it!i don't care what 10 iq subhumans likeIt's like asking "if mcdonald's is popular why doesn't every restaurant start serving low quality food?"
Aerie is a nice girl with a nice romance. it's a shame some people can't just appreciate a nice girl.
>>543427580Can't blame the femcels. He's perfect. It's always a man who has a cruel streak with them
>>543428368>>543427759>>543427580>Boys Love enjoyersmuch love from Kazakhstan
>>543428339the ones who put her on a pedestal because she's timid and a virgin and gives you a child don't like the character, they like the tradwife ideal and view women as nothing but baby factories
>>543427662>But they did, in multiple games.They didn't. They just gave them all an "I will fuck literally anyone" sexuality, and that is simply boring and detracts from a character
>>543428339people like >>543428538 are just unhappy and seeing purity and goodness, even in fiction, makes them recoil like a slug on salt.
>romances in RPGsFuck that, give me a cool rival who appears throughout the game and tries to surpass you.
Warhammer shouldn't have romances, that misses the point of grimdark. At best you should get into a political marriage for power.
>>543428681>>if you want a pure, devoted and young virgin girl who falls completely and absolutely in love with you and bears your children.such purity, much goodness, you seem like a good man and not a woman beater
>>543428505Cope
Is it even possible to save these dudes? King Nig in the back gets extra turns at a rate I don't quite understand and he just slaughters them on it.
>>543422849my take, yes they care about romance, but that isn't the whole story.They actually care about good writing and character development that reacts with your choices. 99% of the time this is only really given to players as 'romance', as if this is the only type of bond people can develop with each other.
>ragebaiting with AerieImagine this thread if it had IDs
>>543428538You seem bitter and judgemental. You will also most likely die childless and alone
>>543428143McDonalds is popular because some of the items on their menu taste great and they're cheap. A decent product for a good price will always sell if marketed halfway competently. Especially if you eat at McDonalds in other countries, where they're arguably actually not just decent, but good. It's not the rest of the worlds fault that America won't hold its food producers and restaurants to any kind of standards. As far as the romance stuff goes, the reason that Owlcat should care is because the audience they are making the game for like romances and want more of them. Some people would've liked to romance Idira, some people would've liked to romance Abelard, and what is the real compelling reason not to let them do it when it takes a trivial amount of effort to create and write these romance arcs? It's just pointless not to do it.
