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vounoura · 22 minutes
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I think we should upgrade he should be at the club to he should be in the pit
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vounoura · 6 hours
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vounoura · 7 hours
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seriously murdering last light and jaheira was so bad a choice the consequences kept coming back multiple times 40+hrs down the line so it’s annoying to me personally when I do things like turn Orpheus into a mind flayer (which SHOULD have massive consequences on Laez and the Gith rebellion, especially as you might’ve been working the whole game to free him and as he asks multiple times to be killed after because he cannot stand what he’s become) but you can just say no lol please live and he’ll do it as long as you can pass a dc 25 cha check, which is easy for any class with high charisma. It’s just really personally annoying to me
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vounoura · 7 hours
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I’ll consolidate my thoughts more coherently later but. I liked BG3 and I liked playing it, though I think a lot of the choices (mostly the act 3 ones) have an issue of not wanting to commit to their consequences and always give the player an out which is personally frustrating for me
#saint plays bg3#spoilers#major spoilers#it’s mostly an act 3 issue which is not surprising bc act 3 trips over itself basically#and this is probably a bias issue bc I *like* being forced to live with the things I’ve done. I made a shitty choice in act 2#that I fully committed to that had far-reaching consequences that kept coming back up and it’s a core part of my experience#so I think a lot of people enjoy being able to end things as nicely and neatly as possible but for me it kept feeling like the choices#I made stopped mattering bc you’re either always rewarded for doing what Lar.ian considers the morally correct choice#or you can roll charisma to ‘fix’ the effects of your choices as best as you can and it all#*felt like a copout constantly at times. especially when I was celebrating being punished constantly for a choice I made 40hrs earlier#(I’m talking abt Orpheus and the vampire spawn in Caza.dor’s dungeon as examples here)#I also never stopped feeling like. forgotten about bc I played an evil run which is not the standard playthrough#and a lot of things you’d expect to be reactive just aren’t.#I think having choices feel meaningful is an RPG conundrum in general (it’s hard to make choices have real effects when#you also need to keep the plot on basically the same line) but B.G.3 has the weirder problem#of *having* meaningful weighty choices but not wanting to commit to the consequences of those decisions sonit gives you an out always.#Evil routes in RPGs feeling less nuanced is also a general RPG problem bc so many of them#just degenerate into stupid evil and BG3 doesn’t really walk that balance well either. it’s mostly chaotic evil or nothin
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vounoura · 10 hours
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vounoura · 18 hours
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Thinking about the idea that too much healing magic can be bad and I'm just imagining like a bottle of healing potion with a "known to the state of California to cause cancer" warnings on it
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vounoura · 21 hours
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the best part is they're talking about how they're more than happy to be used by you in battle in bhaal's name but they're not even summonable npcs like some of the other allies. bhaal's boon in the final section is a wis save stun on a short rest which isn't even that good
the final sequence in BG3 when everyone you've helped during the game comes back for the final gauntlet to help you fight your way through and the scene is just cycling through all these guys gathered in a building with a short quip about how they're all down to clown with you as a callback for your completion and effort is nice but this is hilarious when you're on a sins of the father bad end run bc you just have these extremely illegal cultists everyone hates for good reason hanging out in the same room as all these guys going off about how great bhaal and violence is and it's like. should you be here right now. people are just allowing this to happen
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vounoura · 22 hours
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the final sequence in BG3 when everyone you've helped during the game comes back for the final gauntlet to help you fight your way through and the scene is just cycling through all these guys gathered in a building with a short quip about how they're all down to clown with you as a callback for your completion and effort is nice but this is hilarious when you're on a sins of the father bad end run bc you just have these extremely illegal cultists everyone hates for good reason hanging out in the same room as all these guys going off about how great bhaal and violence is and it's like. should you be here right now. people are just allowing this to happen
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vounoura · 1 day
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I still have a really big soft spot for ESO's class design tbh, I think having to realistically make every spec able to perform every MMO role while also having to make every one of those classes feel noticeably unique and different even in the same role was a really fun design decision
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vounoura · 1 day
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the other MMOs I've played have some pretty wild rotations but nothing has ever quite come close to the utter mayhem that was/is mag!NB in ESO
#saint.txt#bc that spec is DoT central and only some of them are on similar timers (and this is an MMO with no CDs on abilities)#keep both of your AoEs rolling constantly but also DO NOT overlap casts or we'll kill you bc that's a waste of mana.#they are both on similar but different timers and typically on your backbar.#(not overlapping casts bc it wastes resources to refresh too early goes for literally all of your abilities btw)#also you have three different buffs (all are also on differing timers) that need to also have 100% uptime. the bow one especially we'll tal#abt that in a minute. your other fill-ins (your spammables) are also all either single-target DoTs (debilitate) or summon shade and#guess what these also have timers. all of these timers are different even slightly so drift is common and it becomes more a game of#'oh god all the timer alerts are going off all at once deal with it' game than a typical MMO rotation.#that's not even talking abt the NB bow skill which is core to the class and requires you more than any other class to know and be good#at weaving bc for both the bow (which requires 5 LAs to use) and your own sustain bc of a self-buff you have to keep rolling#you HAVE to be constantly light attacking for your DPS AND your own sustain you literally do not have a choice#so you also have to manage not overcapping bow casts while also having to flip bars constantly to refresh your timers while weaving#bc in my case bow is on front bar and if you overcap bow charges bc you're on the back bar refreshing wall of elements#we will personally kill your ass. ESO combat was so fun no other MMO has come close to that flavour for me#ESO weaving literally broke my old mouse not even ff//xiv or g/w/2 axe mirage has done that
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vounoura · 1 day
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finally actually finishing BG3 in preparation for patch 7's evil endings update. god shadowheart's updated kisses are so fucking dorky I love this woman
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vounoura · 2 days
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i am a loser in ways you can’t even wrap your head around
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vounoura · 2 days
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kitten i have to be honest your misunderstanding of what 'death of the author' actually means is getting embarassing and mommy would prefer if you posted less or maybe attended some classes on literary analysis
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vounoura · 2 days
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vounoura · 2 days
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there's something so intimate about mutuals being on here at the same time. like oh you reblogged that from me just seconds after i posted/reblogged that, so in essence we have touched the same thing. did you feel me.
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vounoura · 3 days
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ever since i was a little girl i've always wanted a hysterectomy
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