I actually consider all the homosexual innuendo and aggressiveness in the game to be a part of its combat. Good thing I have a high natural AC!
Comparing American pulp with a literature masterpiece as Lord of the Rings which I would assume has dry worldbuilding as well in your opinion.I didn't see any interesting takes in PoE. I saw bland expositionary walls of text about shit I didn't care about.
You know what kind of fantasy gives you an adventure? Classic pulp, the works of Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Borroughs, etc. Those are good fantasy writers because they don't dwell on pages upon pages of dry worldbuilding, but have their protagonists go on high adventure with great action and deep mystery!
PoE's main fault, however, was not the boring setting (BG1 is also extremely boring, but at least it has D&D rules) but the bland over-balanced ruleset that made combat feel like a chore rather than fun.
Too bad the Homosexual Agenda targets your Wis Save...I actually consider all the homosexual innuendo and aggressiveness in the game to be a part of its combat. Good thing I have a high natural AC!
Unlike the boring derivative dross that is PoE, Tolkien actually put effort into his worldbuilding.Comparing American pulp with a literature masterpiece as Lord of the Rings which I would assume has dry worldbuilding as well in your opinion.
This is, of course, true, but let's not accuse Josh of not putting any effort in. He did put in effort, but Josh's problem is that he sort of thinks of himself as being a modern-day Tolkein, at least for CRPGs, but he's closer to a Terry Brooks (and I'm actually a Terry Brooks fan).Tolkien actually put effort into his worldbuilding.
As cringe as Warhammer can be, they have very creative titles such as "Arch-Heresiarch"It took him weeks to think up "duc".
Bruh, Warhammer is probably the worst possible example. They're guilty of thousands of offences similar to the "fampyr" you quoted, they were always lazy, cheesy and unoriginal af with names, it's part of the charm of the setting.As cringe as Warhammer can be, they have very creative titles such as "Arch-Heresiarch"It took him weeks to think up "duc".
It's not that hard to come up with names for things
99.99% of people will never have heard the term Heresiarch though. Also "auto-martyr" for self-destruction. That's at least original. Changing around a few letters is not.
Given that there's a lot of renaissance stuff in POE I have to wonder how hard was for him to keep himself from including this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_(title)It took him weeks to think up "duc".
Microsoft would almost certainly much rather Obsidian use settings it already totally owns or creates something it can own and exploit instead of paying WoTC for their setting
This is quite true if they want it, but if you're Microsoft, the value of getting a D&D license is marginal compared to what Larian gets out of it. You don't need the attention, you have the PR Machine to generate yourself (And you'd rather have your own franchise to control and strip mine for value instead of using someone elses.)MS writes checks with several more zeroes than WotC does. If they want it they can get it.
Are you saying that Obsidian are famous for jumping on bandwagons? (and totally not under delivering or making something tiresome)
"Fampyr"
Wow such effort
This is quite true if they want it, but if you're Microsoft, the value of getting a D&D license is marginal compared to what Larian gets out of it. You don't need the attention, you have the PR Machine to generate yourself (And you'd rather have your own franchise to control and strip mine for value instead of using someone elses.)MS writes checks with several more zeroes than WotC does. If they want it they can get it.
No they can't, Swen isn't selling. Maybe in a decade when he's started to think about retirement.
They don't want to strip mine, they want perpetual value like they had with DOS and have with Windows. They could buy Larian itself.
huh?I love the POE setting because it is coherent and offers something fresh.
Well....it kinda does. I started reading it again a couple years ago and what starkly stood out was the meandering descriptiveness in places just goes on and on and on. Compare this to Dune and it becomes a bit funny.a literature masterpiece as Lord of the Rings which I would assume has dry worldbuilding as well
The first is about Divinity 2 having full voice acting? But both Divinity games had co-op play, and it is a feature expected by the yoof of today. Really, it is not a good idea to be dead set against all the things that bring people joy.Are you saying that Obsidian are famous for jumping on bandwagons? (and totally not under delivering or making something tiresome)
Did you miss Josh Sawyer cursing at Feargus for trying to squeeze DOS2 elements into POE2? Or Feargus bragging about how Avowed was going to be a co-op game but Obsidian was too incompetent to make one?