Dude’s name is really Doug Walker

“Mr Vermicelli stop noodling around” is just one of those jokes that is never going to leave my head

understandable

requested refund and bought from respected retailer Fitgirl Repacks instead ✅

I’m probably picking up Disco, the Subnautica games and Horizon Zero Dawn

Might pick up BG3 too but idk, it’s only like 20% off

YES

tbf for me it’s just everything feels gay

lmao same

I’m like this article sounds cool as hell

yeee newer Stellaris stuff is cool as hell tbh (I rly love the new human portrait set, the new art style is great)

I’m playing a megacorp with the new worker cooperative civic (mutual aid trade policy seems mildly busted) as well as one of the new origins (synthetic fertility)

playing without checksum mods and with iron man on again as well to get some more achievements, it’s fun

Jerboa refuses to show a thumbnail, but it works perfectly fine in the image viewer

normal country

Sorry, “to”?!???

ya it’s kraut, he’s a polandball youtuber

I should clarify that it’s not that I’ve played Inquisition once and didn’t like it, I’ve played it like a dozen times with ~250 hours in it, thinking each time that I’ll actually like it this time, so I’ve kinda grown weary of the idea that I actually could at this point haha

For the mage - templar war, like, anything would have been better. It’s borderline set dressing the way Inquisition did it. There’s barely any context given to what has actually transpired since DA2, and the actual warring factions are just reskinned skyrim bandits in a few places in the Hinterlands. They’re just there, they’re hostile and you kill them, you don’t get to talk to them, or know why they’re actually out here fighting. You just wordlessly wipe them out and go talk with the Reasonable Moderates™. Then the entire plotline over just as soon as the game has started, no like ultimate conclusion or victory, no promise of a better future, no rebuilding, just “the Inquisition needed bodies, so we threw a coin and picked a side”

Main thing for me is that Cerberus (and Shepard’s relationship to them) in ME2 is terribly written, and it’s bad in a way that it really gets in the way of me enjoying the game. Like, a lot of the actual bad stuff Cerberus has done in ME1 as well as Ascension gets ignored for the sake of having Shepard work for the ‘morally ambigious/grey’ organisation. Which gets extremely frustrating when, unlike the game, you do remember what they did.

There’s this really funny moment when you take the shuttle off of Lazarus and Jacob and Miranda do a little interview, one of the things they ask about is your psych profile. Cue Jacob asking a Sole Survivor Shepard if they remember the thresher maw attack on Akuze followed by a deafening silence as you’re sitting there “Hey, wasn’t that you guys who did that?”, Shepard says nothing of substance and it never gets brought up again. There’s this clear conflict there that the game seems so uninterested in exploring, you never get to materially do anything about it. At most Shepard gets to throw a tantrum and flail around a little bit before swiftly being put down by TIM or Miranda.

And like, ME2 has a lot to like, there’s a reason it got like a 95/100. Cause like, all the recruitment and loyalty missions? Fucking incredible. It’s just tainted by this main plot that really ruins my enjoyment of it

As for Inquisition, I’ve heard the DLC is definitely better, I’ve just never managed to slog my way through the main game to get there 😬 One of my main issues is just that the Inquisitor is really dull and disconnected from the world? And it really drags down the rest of the game with it for me. (also as an avid chantry explosion enjoyer the way they did the mage - templar war dirty makes me so mad lol)

sth like

DA2 > DA:O = ME3 = ME1 > ME:A >>> ME2 >>> DA:I

ME2 is so frustrating to me the way the main plot and Shepard are written
Inquisition I can really see why people like it, I just… don’t

the Sovjets were allied???

real buffoonery hours

these words are not in the bible, but they are in the bible I want to read