Megan Starks, also responsible for this:
Xoti I'm torn about. Style-wise her writing is childish and cringeworthy, but her quest is arguably the only interesting companion quest and the choice to have a hillbilly VO adds an a cool flavor to the character.
And finished. 58 hours total playtime.
Some closing thoughts:
- The final level stinks of cut content for a country mile.
- It's massive that you can just show all the idiot factions the middle finger and sail to victory alone.
- The endgame "dilemma" has to be the least dilemmatic dilemma of all time. Poe1 reveals the gods are a bunch of fakes. In Poe2 each time you interact with the gods they act like a bunch of clueless cretins. Eothas says "the gods were a mistake, they're nothing but trash". Point me to where he's wrong because I feel like I'm missing something important here.
- Good enough game overall. Much better than poe1 in every single aspect. That's right.
- Whoever wrote this is a 12-yo girl:
That is all.
Xoti I'm torn about. Style-wise her writing is childish and cringeworthy, but her quest is arguably the only interesting companion quest and the choice to have a hillbilly VO adds an a cool flavor to the character.
One voiced line from Xoti was enough to convince me hillbilly VO was exactly as stupid an idea as it sounded.
No one considers NWN2 his best work.If it was Avellone writing it, some people would probably try to argue it's a brilliant deconstruction of stereotypical fantasy archetypes or some such nonsense.
When forced to choose between subtle, subversive genius and basic incompetence, always assume the latter.Oh but it does go somewhere, thatsthejoke.jpg my nigga. It goes exactly how you would expect the stereotypical archetype to go, except exaggerated into monty pythonesque absurdity.
Why I'm saying I'm torn about her, I genuinely can't decide if Xoti is incredibly shit or intentionally plays on player expectations. But the odds are, it's not the latter.
I'd be interested to know your thoughts on some actual C&C opportunities missed
I will, once I have examples. What, you aren't edgy but are actually very objective? I have every reason to expect you to be exaggerating.
I will, once I have examples. What, you aren't edgy but are actually very objective? I have every reason to expect you to be exaggerating.
I will, once I have examples. What, you aren't edgy but are actually very objective? I have every reason to expect you to be exaggerating.
Ok, let's see. I'll bring up concrete examples, and it will probably turn out we have different expectations for what is C&C. Then I'll ask you to give me examples of good C&C from other games, and it will turn out you have double standards, right?Over the years I've grown p. perceptive to fake choices and games never following up on shit you do.
Throughout the entire game I haven't seen anything (major) that I could recognise as the game reacting to any choice, other than some throwaway dialogue line like "o u did that well that's interesting, now for your next quest..." or "waaah how dare u, here's a generic throwaway combat encounter". The fact that you can do all the quests for everyone (except the final ones which are mutually exclusive, but that's hardly C&C either) only confirms me in my suspicions. And then there was that one goy somewhere earlier in the thread who said you can just genocide all the towns and all the faction leaders and it doesn't matter for shit lol.
The final choice was really bizarre.After two entire games worth of demonstrating how the gods are cruel, arbitrary, callous, and often outright disdainful of humanity, up to and including the revelation that all godlike are just literal human batteries for them in case they need an extra power boost and forcing you with a geas and under threat of death to be their errand boy, the game swings around at the end and treats the idea of them being revealed as frauds as if it's something morally ambiguous. Why would you not want to get rid of these people? There really are no stakes in stopping Eothas because you have absolutely no reason to want to stop Eothas in the first place. He's completely in the right.