Legacy of Kain blowjob thread

[Darth Roxor]

It's because Blood Omen 2 is just a competent slasher. It's hard to screw that up.

I've always been saying that Blood Omen 2 is a good game and I never got the universal hate it gets, apart from storyfags and their autistic screeching about Vorador being alive.

 

[Pound Meat]

The gameplay was very good in at least both the Soul Reavers. However Blood Omen 1 and 2 are a bit wonky and Defiance is total shit, but so it goes.

Spoiler

I find, for some insane reason, Blood Omen 2's gameplay the most fun

I know it wasn't even a LoK game to begin with

Also, I know but I can't explain it

Neither was Soul Reaver, so it's in good company. The extradimensional aliens were goofy villains, though. Should have just called their realm Hell.

 

[Eisen]

You are a thief.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Alright so all this talk of Legacy of Kain reminded me that I've never finished Soul Reaver 2. In fact I never got past the first 3 hours or so. Is it worth revisiting?

 

[Darth Roxor]

Soul Reaver 2 is bretty guud. Has a few issues but none that are particularly crippling.

 

[deama]

First of all, I reported you to the authorities, secondly: not really. The game is essentially a Zelda clone, so there is some degree of backtracking for secrets and items as you acquire new powers or equipment (e.g. the flail to smash boulders, wolf form or mist form to reach new areas), but overall it's a very linear experience. Some of the dungeons are larger or involve more exploration before finding the correct item or switch to progress, but a child could deal with them and still not get lost. The controls were always awkward, though they are - like the classic Tomb Raider games - consistent. With wolf form, for example, you're meant to jump at a specific point - not too early/late, or it continues the moving animation instead.

If you don't enjoy the story, atmosphere, voice acting, environments and such then no, it doesn't really improve. It does get more difficult though.

Thanks, that's sort of what I expected, and like I said I'm in it for Soul Reaver, so I will persevere.

I am really enjoying the atmosphere and voice acting; environments have been a little bland, but hopefully they diversify as the game progresses. Regarding the story: that's another thing I forgot to mention in my mini-review. I have absolutely no idea what the fuck is going on. I'm not saying that's a negative, many of my favorite narratives have started me off in that state, but... uh... yeah. There's some guys who just randomly killed me? but then a necromancer revived me in hell? as a vampire? and then he told me there was a secret conspiracy against me? and then I wandered down the road and some dead lady told me that the government had all gone bat-shit crazy and I needed to kill them? I don't think it's bad, and it's definitely not badly presented, but it does feel disjointed and jury is still out on whether or not that is intentional. To be fair, I wasn't playing with subtitles on for the first couple hours, so I may have missed some key points of context.

Might be better off to just watch the legacy of kain series on youtube as movies, that way you can properly focus on the story as the gameplay imo is just average at best.

 

[Pound Meat]

Alright so all this talk of Legacy of Kain reminded me that I've never finished Soul Reaver 2. In fact I never got past the first 3 hours or so. Is it worth revisiting?

Same. I thought it was pretty boring. So much backtracking through dark canyons and empty swamp villages. It felt way too different from the previous game.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Blood Omen is easily one of the better games I've enjoyed.

 

[DraQ]

There is no such thing as "abandonware". It is either legal, or it is not. You are a thief.

And you're a retard, but I digress.

Also, I prefer "software abolitionist".

Those idiots rating my poast negatively, please read one of the numerous sources debunking the concept of "abandonware", such as: https://bit-tech.net/reviews/gaming/pc/abandonware-the-ethics-and-essentials/1/

Just because you greasy-haired lanklets with your metallica tees and gravy-smeared leather jackets keep repeating the "lol it's really old so it's ok" meme doesn't mean that it becomes reality. Clean yourselves up, get a job, and start contributing to society.

No one gives a single flying fuck.
In any case, the concept of a crime quickly becomes complete farce if there is no injured party.

Piracy is not theft, because theft is clearly defined to involve depriving the other party of something.
Piracy does not deprive anyone of anything. If there are aliens from Tau Ceti listening in on our electronic communications and grabbing contents of our media, we are not suddenly incurring billions of losses because of that.

The only way piracy negatively affects the owners of an IP is through lost sales, which is often fairly nebulous, because it's hard to distinguish between sales lost to piracy, sales gained from it, and downloads with no impact.
The important part is that if there are no sales, there can be no loss of them, and if there is no party who would reap the benefit, there isn't even anyone who could claim losses.

So in the end there are those who want to enjoy - and also preserve - creative works and those who apparently find corporate cock too tasty to even wipe their mouth of what they were guzzling.

And the best way to treat creative media purchases (unless you're giving the money directly to their creators) is to consider them input to the market, because being able to say:
" says I want shit like this"

Is THE added value of legit purchase (and you're always getting EXACTLY your money's worth).

First of all, I reported you to the authorities

Snitches get stitches.

 

[DraQ]

Regarding the story: that's another thing I forgot to mention in my mini-review. I have absolutely no idea what the fuck is going on. I'm not saying that's a negative, many of my favorite narratives have started me off in that state, but... uh... yeah. There's some guys who just randomly killed me? but then a necromancer revived me in hell? as a vampire? and then he told me there was a secret conspiracy against me? and then I wandered down the road and some dead lady told me that the government had all gone bat-shit crazy and I needed to kill them?

Sounds pretty 2020, TBH.

Anyway, I have never got BO to run properly, but:

• SR subseries is pretty damn
• There is a lot of continuity porn involved that borders on autistic, so you might be getting your mileage from BO1.
• BO2 is apparently turds.