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Make the Codex Great Again! Grab the Codex by the pussy Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
Also, off topic, why did all my alerts disappear? Only got Rick roll now. Some punishment for being inactive?
 

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Got my party all set-up, two assassins, two serial killers, and a strip club bouncer. Time to save the country!
Saving the country can wait, I have to kill a bunch of hillbillies.
 

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Game 1:

Game 2:
In pleasant conservation, you can undo the main villain. But it's not even the finale yet.

HINT: The irony.

Arcanum. The irony is that they think you are the chosen one, but you find out what a bunch of BS that is when you find someone who is very much alive.


Game 4:
Some people go to any length to avoid paying debts.

Hint: In the end you must surrender to your destiny.

Planescape: Torment. The ending with accepting the Blood War that is fated for you.
 

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There's a disease going around that causes insomnia...you know, I've never seen anybody sleep.
 

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Game 2:
In pleasant conservation, you can undo the main villain. But it's not even the finale yet.

HINT: The irony.

Mass Effect 1
you can persuade Saren

Game 6:
You better run and hide and find the five-star. or else it's back to square one.

Hint: Not an rpg. But eh.. Go mad from the revelations.

Outer Wilds
if not, then Disco Elysium? with the five-star being your badge
 

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  1. Will she, nil she, the Lady of the Tower at Charm is at war with her husband once more.
  2. Croaker is a companion, the Limper is missing and there is only a sex changed knockoff version of Soulcatcher.
  3. Belief grants power.
  4. You undertake upon an epic quest to undermine your own professional career.
  5. The story is cut off an entire act before it should end.

This game is not obscure at all, I am just being an obnoxious asshole using clues based off of the book that its plot was lifted off of.
 

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  1. Will she, nil she, the Lady of the Tower at Charm is at war with her husband once more.
  2. Croaker is a companion, the Limper is missing and there is only a sex changed knockoff version of Soulcatcher.
  3. Belief grants power.
  4. You undertake upon an epic quest to undermine your own professional career.
  5. The story is cut off an entire act before it should end.

This game is not obscure at all, I am just being an obnoxious asshole using clues based off of the book that its plot was lifted off of.
The last two points make me think of Tyranny, but I’ve never heard of this book you’re talking about.
 

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The book is The Black Company by Glen Cook. No idea about the game.
 

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  1. Will she, nil she, the Lady of the Tower at Charm is at war with her husband once more.
  2. Croaker is a companion, the Limper is missing and there is only a sex changed knockoff version of Soulcatcher.
  3. Belief grants power.
  4. You undertake upon an epic quest to undermine your own professional career.
  5. The story is cut off an entire act before it should end.

This game is not obscure at all, I am just being an obnoxious asshole using clues based off of the book that its plot was lifted off of.
The last two points make me think of Tyranny, but I’ve never heard of this book you’re talking about.

Black Company. Argued as the inspiration for Tyranny.
 

dacencora

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  1. Will she, nil she, the Lady of the Tower at Charm is at war with her husband once more.
  2. Croaker is a companion, the Limper is missing and there is only a sex changed knockoff version of Soulcatcher.
  3. Belief grants power.
  4. You undertake upon an epic quest to undermine your own professional career.
  5. The story is cut off an entire act before it should end.

This game is not obscure at all, I am just being an obnoxious asshole using clues based off of the book that its plot was lifted off of.
The last two points make me think of Tyranny, but I’ve never heard of this book you’re talking about.

Black Company. Argued as the inspiration for Tyranny.
Cool, thanks! Might have to check that out. Not a popular opinion on the Codex but I enjoyed Tyranny a great deal, despite all its flaws. A book with a similar premise sounds cool.
 

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  1. Will she, nil she, the Lady of the Tower at Charm is at war with her husband once more.
  2. Croaker is a companion, the Limper is missing and there is only a sex changed knockoff version of Soulcatcher.
  3. Belief grants power.
  4. You undertake upon an epic quest to undermine your own professional career.
  5. The story is cut off an entire act before it should end.

This game is not obscure at all, I am just being an obnoxious asshole using clues based off of the book that its plot was lifted off of.
The last two points make me think of Tyranny, but I’ve never heard of this book you’re talking about.

Black Company. Argued as the inspiration for Tyranny.

I love those books, by the way. After seeing the first two lines, I was doing a google search for Black Company CRPG and nothing was coming up. For those interested, Black Company is Vietnam in high fantasy from the perspective of the grunt mercs.
 

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Yes, the game was Tyranny and the books were the Black Company. The books are significantly better than the game.
Croaker = Lantry.
Soulcatcher = Voices of Nerat.
The Taken = The Archons.
The Lady = Kyros.

In the first 2 books the black company basically helps the Lady take control of the entire continent they are on. At the end of the 2nd book they turn on her, similar to how the fatebinder in this story suddenly turns on Kyros.


There are plenty of other parallels as well, the only difference is that in the novels the story was actually good and made sense.
 
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Yes, the game was Tyranny and the books were the Black Company. The books are significantly better than the game.
Croaker = Lantry.
Soulcatcher = Voices of Nerat.
The Taken = The Archons.
The Lady = Kyros.

In the first 2 books the black company basically helps the Lady take control of the entire continent they are on. At the end of the 2nd book they turn on her, similar to how the fatebinder in this story suddenly turns on Kyros.


There are plenty of other parallels as well, the only difference is that in the novels the story was actually good and made sense.

Soulcatcher is one of my favorite all-time villains. I especially like how when Soulcatcher speaks, the voice changes to the different souls that have been taken before, and then Soulcatcher will suddenly laugh with from a deep, laughing baritone to an old woman's chuckle and everything in between. So damn creepy.
 

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