Aielman15 @ Aielman15 @lemmy.world

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As someone who loves JRPGs as a genre but has generally grown out of their anime phase, Expedition 33 looks really interesting. I've been eyeing it since the announcement trailer and its recent success got me curious. A co-worker told me that it's just 20-30 hours to beat, which is a huge plus for me (don't have the patience to clear 100-200 hrs games anymore - looking at you, Persona 5).

I'll probably get it this summer as soon as I manage to get some free time from work.

How did it go?

My friend and I were interested a few years ago and took a look at the manual, and our head was spinning while reading the countless tables referencing other tables. I remember everything feeling twice as convoluted as how it should've been, for no reason.

I don't know if you're asking sarcastically or not, but I'd mention Divinity 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Witcher 3, and those are just the most popular/universally acclaimed. I feel all three of them offer the same sense of adventure and exploration in an open world map, with actually interesting side content, engaging combat system, and voice acting that doesn't scream "we're being held in the recording room against our will, please save us". They are also relatively bug-free, or at least not broken the way Bethesda titles are.

Back in the days, I think Gothic had the same clunky gameplay but at least offered a much deeper worldbuilding and more interesting choices.

You can also widen the search by changing the parameters. The thing that sets Oblivion apart is that it attempted to do a lot of things, but everything is either shallow, poorly executed, or outright bugged. If you take a look at other titles that did some of the things Oblivion did, there are countless that executed those ideas a lot better. Fable 2, Dragon Age, Avowed for example, and again, I'm only mentioning the most famous ones.

I'm honestly surprised that so many people longed to return to Oblivion. The game's as bad now as it was 20 years ago - janky combat, horrible dialogue, bugs galore. They gave it a nice coat of paint, but the moment you transition from dialogue to gameplay, you go back to the same animations from the original game. It's kind of eerie looking at a game with modern graphics and such dated gameplay.

There are so many games nowadays that do what Oblivion attempted to do, so much better.

It's not my cup of tea, so I can't speak by experience, but a friend of mine tried WEBFISHING and loved it.

Cool to see an indie game from a new studio getting so much praise.

As much as I hate Discord, that's the software me and my friends use to talk and share screen. It doesn't support drawing on screen, unfortunately, but you can play music and they'll hear it if you're sharing the entire screen and not a single window.

The drawing on screen part is a bit odd, however. At that point, why aren't you just playing a regular VTT and allowing your players to move their own miniatures? I know that many VTTs are either too complicated for regular users, or too cumbersome for regular use, but I'd suggest testing a few of them until you find the right one for you.

As for me, I've tried many VTTs and the only one I liked was Tabula Sono . It's very easy to jump into and use, and all my less-tech-savvy friends were able to learn it in minutes. It also has an extensive library of (free!) miniatures, supports uploading your own content, and is system agnostic (it's just a literal virtual tabletop).

I'd fucking buy that thing if I could. Unfortunately, the only way to support the developers is to buy a subscription, and that's a no-no for me :(

Obligatory "I'm not American". I'm a bit confused by this. Can anyone sue the president over an official act? Is that a thing? Didn't the Supreme Court basically say that he could walk outside, shoot a bystander, go back home and face no consequences?

As far as I know, lawsuits that involve rich/powerful individuals and another side with way less cash than them is to just postpone the hearing or drag it on long enough for the poorer side to give up or go bankrupt. Even if it actually succeeded, suing the president is something that could be escalated until it gets picked up by the currently right-leaning supreme court, isn't it?

Thank you very much!

There's some power asynchronicities, like with having the dragon patron, and an inventory full of magic trinkets to full heal every short rest

Can I ask what you mean by this? The dragon patron bestows temp hp after a long rest, depending on the amount and rarity of attuned magic items. It doesn't interact with short rests and, even with three high-rarity attuned items, it's at most 30 temp hp only.

Am I missing some weird interaction here? I'd gladly patch that up if you could be a bit more specific.

Yeah, under 50% of the required signatures and it's just a few weeks from expiring, there's no chance this will succeed unless some big-name influencer gathers support for the petition, which at this point I doubt will happen.

It made some people talk about the problem, though. That's a step in the right direction.

May I suggest cross-posting to !dndhomebrew@lemmy.world

PugJesus and The_Picard_Maneuver are single-handedly keeping half of Lemmy afloat.

I agree. In the days immediately following the APIcalypse, people attempted to move all their favourite niche communities to Lemmy, but the site's active userbase isn't there yet for that kind of content - much to my displeasure: I was only active in two/three niche communities back when I was a Reddit user, but they are pretty much nonexistent here, so I'm forced to include more generic communities in my Lemmy feed to keep it from drying up.

Oh, that's sad. No point in staying subscribed, then.

https://sffa.community/c/sffgaming?dataType=Post&page=0

Sffagaming is for sci-fi games, but I haven't seen a post in there in a while.

https://lemm.ee/c/the_talos_principle?dataType=Post&page=0

https://lemmy.world/c/residentevil?dataType=Post&page=0

Communities for Talos Principle and Resident Evil, but again, they aren't active.

https://lemm.ee/c/gamemusic?dataType=Post&page=0

Community for sharing game music. Not very active, but I see posts in my feed every now and then.

https://retrolemmy.com/c/TipOfMyJoystick?dataType=Post&page=0

Fairly new community to help people looking for a specific name they forgot the name of.

Sorry for not sharing the generic link, I'm on mobile and that's the link my app generates when I click on "share".

Asimov, Clarke and Frank Herbert are, of course, in the top 3, but I particularly enjoy Dan Simmons as well. I loved both Hyperion and Ilium, he has a knack for weaving together half a dozen tales that have seemingly nothing in common. Downside is that you spend an entire book reading the buildup to the actual story, but I'm a Robert Jordan fan too, I'm accustomed to that.

Instructions unclear, I've prepped for the past two months and yet I'm in "make shit up" territory already 10 minutes into the session.

Absolutely, iii was my most anticipated showcase this year and they delivered big time. Katana Zero DLC was the highlight for me, but I got two more wishlists from the rest of the video as well.

Last year's showcase was good, but this one blew my mind. I'm already counting the days for next year's.

The showcase itself is 1 hour long, the rest is interviews/devs commentary for some of the games.

I'm so happy I could die. Big props to the developer for making it free. I'm gonna buy the game again regardless.