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Codex 2016 - The Age of Grimoire Make the Codex Great Again! Grab the Codex by the pussy Codex Year of the Donut Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2 Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
Fiddlecub... oh no. Is that some kind of weird furry baby thing?
 

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Larian games are only for combatfags anyway, their writing is atrocious.
Only played the two Original Sin games, but the only times their writing isnt physically painfull is when they hire guest writers. Namely Fane was mostly written by Avellone and he is the only character that has decent dialogue.

Has anyone any news on what guest writers they got this time? Or is it solely done by their talentless inhouse team?
 

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Larian games are only for combatfags anyway, their writing is atrocious.
Why would you disparage people who like combat? Especially on an RPG forum... If all you care about is story then why even play an RPG? There are thousands of visual novels and adventure games that are all about dialogue. It makes sense for some people to hate storyfags because it is so unnecessary. But hate combat and you are playing the wrong genre.
 

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I think WOTC was actually trying with the 5th edition to go back to the first and second edition halfling design but then decided to hire only the worst artists possible. Halflings in both 3/4 edition Halflings looked more like generic small humans instead of AD&D's which looked like hobbits they are based on. Examples:
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Larian's Halflings look a lot more like the ones from Advanced D&D.
 
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Everyone watch out, we've got ourselves an expert here.

lets say recent larian games, the older ones might have fine writing who knows


Why would you disparage people who like combat? Especially on an RPG forum... If all you care about is story then why even play an RPG? There are thousands of visual novels and adventure games that are all about dialogue. It makes sense for some people to hate storyfags because it is so unnecessary. But hate combat and you are playing the wrong genre.

I am not using combatfag as a degrading word, I recognise the value of good combat and good writing in a game. Its just that you wont find good writing in the Original Sin series.
 

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Everyone watch out, we've got ourselves an expert here.

lets say recent larian games, the older ones might have fine writing who knows
I remember enjoying Divinity 2 (TDKS)'s writing, there was still a bit of lolrandum horseshit but a lot of the humor worked for me, and the characters and plot were fine.
I was very surprised at how bad D:OS's writing was after playing TDKS.
 

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Everyone watch out, we've got ourselves an expert here.

lets say recent larian games, the older ones might have fine writing who knows


Why would you disparage people who like combat? Especially on an RPG forum... If all you care about is story then why even play an RPG? There are thousands of visual novels and adventure games that are all about dialogue. It makes sense for some people to hate storyfags because it is so unnecessary. But hate combat and you are playing the wrong genre.

I am not using combatfag as a degrading word, I recognise the value of good combat and good writing in a game. Its just that you wont find good writing in the Original Sin series.
Won't find good combat in them either. Maybe it's just very well hidden behind the gimmicky battle system, armor system, and limited cool down spells.
 
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Namely Fane was mostly written by Avellone
That's not true. The only thing which remains from Avellone is his concept of the character, everything else was not used.

Remarkable that the guy still ends up being worlds above every other companion in the game. Any sources on that? Did he leak his initial concept somewhere? Might be interesting.
 

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Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
I am not using combatfag as a degrading word

You are an imbecile.
I am not using "imbecile" as a degrading word.

How do you sensitive faggots even manage to browse the internet when something as harmless as X-fag offends you? I am using faggot as a degrading word.
Grotesque gets butthurt easily, don't worry.
 

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