[–] 2 points 1 year ago

The problem with writing smart characters who solve problems using their wits is that you need smart and hardworking writers to pull it off.

Otherwise you end up with shitty cop-outs like having the character invent and build some impossible contraption that wouldn't even believably work or relying on an incredibly unlikely sequence of events to happen for their plan to work.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Playing D&D nonstop seems like a logistic challenge to say the least.

    What I strongly dislike about super-lethal games is that the less leeway you give characters, the less room there is for tactically-suboptimal-but-roleplay-superior actions.

    My Dwarf hates goblins, so what does he do when he's down to 2hp, the cleric has healing magic and the rogue has four arrows aimed at the goblin leader? Well, he's going to charge, of course, and if the the rogue shoots first, they're going to have An Issue later. But if your game is super lethal, I'm either not going to get invested in a character, or i'm going to play this RPG like a tactical tabletop game.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Their stock got a bump from acquiring Rare due to the potential of the IP, and now it'll get another bump from all the savings due to the cancelation. Actually delivering games based on the IP isn't required.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Not a bad book, he even managed to resist inserting a weird sexual-side-plot into this one!

    Curious to see what style they've gone with for the spider aliens, and how they'll handle the large chunks of narrator exposition which explain what the hell is going on without just having him talk to himself all the time

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Must be weird doing interviews and “launching” a show in the US when it has already been released most other places for 8 months, and was already cancelled by Disney almost 2 years ago.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    It’s pretty crazy that Nintendo made this change. It’s impossible to play three lap online races (only) now. You have to always have intermission in the mix. I was considering getting a switch 2 just for this game and it firmly has made me decide not to. How could they make such as idiotic change?

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