Got it finally (Gold version)and even the savegame from the Steamdemo 10 years ago still works.So what am I in for now?Any tips appreciated, still in Act1 barely Lvl3 as there's LOTS of fkn reading to be done.But the setting is so different, even that's fun.Wondering why this gem is nearly unknown and the crazy setting never went anywhere.
i got that in a humble bundle once like ten years ago didn't play lol
>>4127621go in blind, enjoy what little this game has to offer.
>>4127838Playing this game is the spiritual equivalent of fucking an obese, unshaven Indian woman with cellulite and a fishy pussy. Any little “enjoyment” you get will be replaced by shame when you’re done.
>>4127847lmao u got some imagination dude lmao
>>4127621The magic system is actually very good. You combine different effects to create unique spells.You have a base sigil: Fire, Ice, Life, whatever. You then apply it an expression sigil to it. For example a touch. Fire + Touch creates a sort of burning hands spell. Meanwhile Life + Touch creates a sort of lay on hands spell. Apply an AoE accent and you have a fireball or a burst heal. Experimenting with them and creating fun combos is the best part of the game.
I liked it
I liked it more
I liked it MOST
>>4127871yeah I noticed at oncepretty much the best magic system I've ever seen in a RPGthe skill and weapons system is great too, btwkinda the main reason I'm sad that it never got a sequel
>>4127838thanks for the advice, was my planjust looking for general and build tips to not gimp my char too badlyalmost did by picking "noble" and "two weapons", but at least the origin helps with lore for my buff spell 2nd choicethe +10 lore from the mage talent tree helps biggly too
>>4127847this is oddly specific
>>4128042the spell crafting system is fantastic, it even has new game+ so that you can restart with more options unlocked. with its multiple routes you'll be doing that anyways if you enjoy it. i can't say anything positive about the expansion though. it feels tacked on and doesn't fit into a normal immersive playthrough.
>>4127621this is one of those games (along with planescape) that was absolutely ripe for sequels.too bad you can't trust any current day studio to do it faithfully without injecting woke bs
>>4127621>Wondering why this gem is nearly unknown and the crazy setting never went anywhere.Incredibly shitty marketing, and focused on the wrong parts of the game to get attention. Pretty much 90% of the reason. The rest being the release jank.
>>4128386Buddy, Tyranny is woke as hell, what the hell are you on? I swear, bait used to be better.
Gotta admit, scrolling past, I did see that first Y...
>>4136132*didn't
>>4127621I don't understand obsidian chanter mechanics so I didn't use the pop girl companionThe scarlet chorus is comically evil so idk why you would ever side with themThe intro cinematic choices can lock you out of maps and quests so look them upThe werewolf companion was off putting, the other companions were forgettableI forget the rest. Mid.
>>4145783>The scarlet chorus is comically evil so idk why you would ever side with themComical evil is fun.
>>4127621Voices of Nerath is lame character for none of central roles in the narrative, and the branching plot shits the bed if you don't rebel against Kyros whatsoever, but beyond that the game is excellent. The characters, the c&c, the dialogue, the combat mechanics, the lore and the atmosphere - they're all just really well done.>>4128484>Tyranny is woke as hellHow so? >0 troons>the narrative is very explicitly centered on power and the will to wield it, rather than moral expression (which is central to woke). The point of you doing The Right Thing anyway just ending up in you not being rewarded in any way at best and it being used against you at worst approaches dead horse status across the game>every single companion is sexually normal>Tiers were a girl boss matriarchy and they get factually canonically rolled hard by imperial chuds who scof at the idea of girlbossing>you get to literally personally kill a Yas Slay Kween with a sword through the guts right in the prologue>every single remaining girlboss character can be tortured, killed, executed, betrayed or broken into submission.>90% of plot branches and endings concern different flavors of tyrannical chuddery, you need to bend five times over your own back in order to achieve anything approaching Cali feels good lib flags, and that ending is still explicitly one of the most uncertain ones
>>4127621It's the last obsidian game that doesn't make me roll my eyes every five minutes, but it already has all of the hallmarks of the awawa and space games what's their nameWhat if you were, le ebil???? is a fun concept, but execution is a bit fable-esque - average choice being between being a normal person and another one being a evil evil child killerNegatives - setting sort of insists upon itself, though not to the same extent as in later games>ooooohhhhhhh notSauron is a woman. Are you upset, chud?>ooooooohhhhhh locals believe that women inherit landed titles, and men inherit boats. Are you upset, chud?And so on as if it wasn't done before in the black company or some other relatively antique piece of literature
I played through the first zone. Some blue haired w*man screamed obscenities in my earphones so I promptly uninstalled and refunded
>>4146986>ooooohhhhhhh notSauron is a womanCanonically only the people who knew Kyros back from when Kyros was a human - like Tunon - know if it was a man or woman back then. By now it's undoubtedly an anthropomorphic pile of magic like Tunon himself, only it does the whole "Kyros is the mother and Kyros is the father" thing. >ooooooohhhhhh locals believe that women inherit landed titles, and men inherit boatsSaid locals only existed in the story to get punked by you tho.>as if it wasn't done before in the black companyAnd what wrong with referencing the principle book about fantasy soldiers serving evil overlords in a game about fantasy soldiers serving evil overlords? Only I have to point out that even MacLean is a much better writer than Glen Cook. Most people on Earth are better writers than Glen Cook.
>>4147938>>4147939What I've meant by insisting is the specifically ">does it upset you, chud?" elementIt feels needlessly theatrical, operetta-like
>>4147940>It feels needlessly theatrical, operetta-likeHow so?
>>4127621I found it perfectly average. I liked that you could be a hybrid magic/warrior type and weren't really locked in. It had some good ideas, ending was bad though and I couldn't go back to a rtwp game now that I've played turn based games
>>4146986>awawaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>4127621>So what am I in for now?I remember this one quest where some npc started to lecture me about bigotry out of the blue and I barfed a little before realizing that my suspense of disbelief evaporated into nothing then and there and will never recover. Once that happened, I just couldn't unsee how woke the game is and both narrative and setting crumbled into the dust under the crushing weight of trash millennial writing. I wish I could refund it.To say something nice, the rune spell system was solid if looked at divorced from the rest of the game, but the way enemy scaling works it just felt like shit when you crank the difficulty up or go for another round in NG+. Since PC is larping as a law man, they brushed up the dialogue module and it was pleasant to use. Shame they never really leaned into the law man larp. It's there like a lingering ghost floating slightly above its physical corpse. The common ground between all anons, faggots, trannies, redditors and even trolls is that the game felt too short and rushed. I'd go further and say that the whole game felt like one lengthy prologue and not a real story.
>>4136132>>4137418resist the brainwashing>T_ranny isn't real
I've played it for 50+ hours. Ask me nothing.
