Game News Solasta: Crown of the Magister Released

[Kalin]

Had a look at Soylasta's twitter and they're officially paying twitch thots to shill their faggot game.

 

[Saark]

A few years ago people wouldve applauded the idea of combining slutty girls and turn-based combat.

 

[Saark]

Jokes aside, the way these sponsoring tend to work is that they get offered to anyone who signed up for certain gaming genres and meets the follower criteria of the developer. It's pretty easy to sign up to bounties on twitch or keymailer or a variety of other sites that offers free keys to content creators. Have 30k+ followers, have an interest in RPGs, and you'll get free key offers for most indie titles. Only requirement is that you stream like 20-40% of them or they'll revoke your right to receive more offers.

 

[Dexter]

I am chasing that though, because it's the best thing. It's the thing we all glimpsed the possibility of when we played games when we were younger - detailed worlds to get absorbed in, beautiful graphics, engaging gameplay. The dream of AAA as it was before the ground was mined - admittedly partly by developers chasing the LCD, but also by this rising tide of woke shit we're all starting to drown in.

I remember playing Ultima Online with things like dynamic ecological and economy systems along with extensive and expansive crafting systems including various professions everyone could pick from, full PK and loot systems outside towns creating an actual sense of danger, the entire thing with the Reputation and Karma system or being labeled Murderer/Criminal if you kill people unprovoked or steal stuff and having to "hide from the law" or bounty hunters, being able to build/place and decorate houses - including large guild headquarters or castles that would become a part of the actual world, ships and sea navigation, an intricate magic and alchemy system with a varied assortment of useful spells based on reagents, hand-placing objects and even lock them down for events, being able to just pick up people and seamlessly enter a dungeon without having to bother with group systems, being able to tame animals and use them as pets etc. and imagining just how complex MMOs (and computer games in general) are going to be/get in the future, with all those systems and more but in 3D with much better graffix. Then came World of WarCraft and everything was a retarded clone since then and nobody with vision has tried making anything more complicated or less static and theme-parkey since. Eh, life is full of disappointments.

Or again, Owlcat - PF:K was just ritually woke and it was partly the product of people who wanted to do the right thing as they've been told it is; but it looks like the next game is going to be more of the woke level of POE2.

I KickStarted PoE for the Boxed version and additional stuff even against my better judgment and concerns about Sawyer going Woke on it at that time, played it 60+ hours and it was Okay, if a bit stale or boring. I haven't bothered engaging with PoE2 once I heard who their main writers were and about the "Fish sex" shit. I stayed far away from that and just played something else. Simple. I bought PF:K on deep Sale since a bunch of friends recommended it and everyone was praising it as the new coming, once I was convinced that it wasn't inundated with the Woke virus and it was out of "Early Access" (still on my long to-play list though, so it'll be a while before I can make up my own mind), but from what I've heard of PF:WotR so far it very much sounds like I'll give it a wide berth and enjoy something else. Let them wonder and "reflect" about why they've gotten shittier Sales and player engagement like PoE2, maybe they'll figure it out at some point. I generally liked BioWare games before Dragon Age 2, then they became shit. I generally liked Obsidian games before PoE2/Outer Worlds, then they became shit. Shit happens, you don't have to get hung up on it or act like a battered wife, just look for Alternatives. If anything I've gotten less patient about devs Woke political bullshit over time as it became more prevalent and extreme.

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That's sure a lot of shit about stuff I didn't say with you "guessing" and "being sure" of a lot of things. You even brought up Trump and "the Juice" even though nobody before you mentioned them. I believe that's called "strawmen" or something.

If you want to talk more generally though, if you want a believable setting, then women won't defeat most men in melee combat and that's just how it is, and they are valuable resources to grow the tribe/society and make more skilled warriors while men are more disposable in such a world. Something like guns or magic could be equalizers in that case that could turn the tables. It'd be pretty stupid and self-destructive to send them out on the battlefield. I'm sure there's anecdotal historical examples, but those who overtly engaged in it probably didn't exist long enough to be relevant or make most history books. If you/the devs aren't bothered by any kind of arguments regarding believability then you also can't employ them to sell Feminist claptrap or eradicate Sonja-style Barbarians though. You can't have it both ways.

Or, ya know, its because its a fantasy setting which is purposefully set up in a way to offer diversity because otherwise it would be fucking boring, especially in a setting like D&D.

I don't believe anyone called it "boring" before the 2010s. On the contrary, the added Wokeness bores me very much, you just have to look at the Twatter account (or sometimes just at a picture with the face of) some of the contemporary designers and you'll immediately know a lot of things about both them and whatever they're working on:


They'll hold very boring trendy/fashionable far-Leftist beliefs they obviously haven't thought very long or deep about and will include in the setting they're working on, they'll employ very boring visual design, the characters will have very boring and samey personalities and will likely even come out as unlikable for anyone that hasn't bought into the cult message. They'll use the same reappearing tropes and design decisions that they consider to be "safe" in their circle and with the Twatterati. They're even trying to retcon and make "Drow" and "Orcs" good now, because they're too close to black people or something and as such "it's problematic". If something employs "sensitivity readers" to make sure it doesn't stray too far from approved group dogma it ain't edgy or transgressive and it's not gonna be a masterpiece that's going to floor anyone. At this point D&D is mainly driven by its history and the ongoing momentum:
https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/2...ies-in-a-woke-clumsy-attempt-to-fight-racism/
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/492251-dungeouns-dragons-orcs-sensitivity/

It's as boring as Nazi or Commie propaganda, you know what it's gonna say, the message it is trying to convey and what the purpose of it is before you even engaged with it. If anything, there was a lot more "diversity" (in the true meaning of the word, as opposed to the redefined one) in settings and world building before. They're even going after stuff like "Heavy Metal" now: https://boundingintocomics.com/2021...fans-not-happy-with-new-armored-taarna-cover/

If the writing is shit and people have jobs they shouldn't have due to incompetence, thats another issue entirely and has nothing to with SJW propaganda being put into video game.

But it very much does, the two go hand-in-hand: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/obsidian-what-happened.134008/page-2#post-6812906

Regarding Skyrim, I mostly think Bethesda games are boring, repetitive, generic slogs and so far I haven't even managed to finish a single Elder Scrolls game before being bored out of my mind. That's my main issue with them and I haven't gotten deep enough into any of them to care about much else. But let's just say having in-setting "politics" that emerge from the interactions between in-game factions, characters, rulers, warlords, monsters, events or whatnot, which can be quite interesting isn't the same thing as writing message fiction and trying to push real-world political or moral imperatives in your fiction. They often can't even look at a fantasy world or piece of fiction without trying to insert their boring, tired, cliché political pet issues: https://archive.li/xWI2z https://archive.fo/g8oVg

And even some that could in the past have declined after spending too much time around the cult:

 

[Saark]

I literally couldn't care less about your opinion on any of this. The one thing that I am bothered by, is people judging a game not by its writing or gameplay or combat or characters, but because they see some dangerhair and immediately assume the absolute worst. The fact that politics seep into every single RPG discussion in here these days is just incredibly tiring and seeing a pretty decent game with passionate devs who actually know their shit and made a pretty fun turn-based RPG get discredited because they offer a third pronoun choice, is just straightup sad.

You'd think the codex of all places would place the quality of the game above all else and disregard all the pointless attempts at trying to harness community support or get good PR by virtue signalling. It used to, anyway.

 

[Dexter]

I literally couldn't care less about your opinion on any of this.

So why are you posting several page-long monologues quoting my posts with a lot of "guessing" and "being sure" at my beliefs. Doesn't quite make sense and you're sending mixed messages. You could just stfu and there'd be less text triggering your delicate sensibilities. Anyway, nice rebuttal.

The one thing that I am bothered by, is people judging a game

Maybe you can go collect Upboats and ass-pats on Reddit or RetardEra or ass-kiss on any of a number of Official™ PR channels with your trendy, original, praiseworthy beliefs as pushed on you by most major corporations then? Nobody's talking about anything you can't find in the game. Maybe appeal to the developers, if you want the focus to be on different things? It's not out of their hands to stay out of addressing inflammatory current social or political issues. And I believe I stated I even tried it and thought the gameplay (among other things) is also nothing to write home about the first time you "asked" about it.

 

[Volourn]

"I literally couldn't care less about your opinion on any of this"

Yes, you do, hence your spam whining. Stop lying. Poor you. People don't want to buy/support what you do so that amkes them evil and worse than rapists and murderers. Typical SJW Nazi.

 

[Roguey]

seeing a pretty decent game with passionate devs who actually know their shit and made a pretty fun turn-based RPG

Not seeing that here, just a mediocre ugly and gimmicky barebones combat crawler using a dumbed-down character system.

 

[Kalin]

Roguey you should post an official review.

 

[Spectacle]

seeing a pretty decent game with passionate devs who actually know their shit and made a pretty fun turn-based RPG

Not seeing that here, just a mediocre ugly and gimmicky barebones combat crawler using a dumbed-down character system.

Still better than anything else released this year, or anything on the horizon. I'm not counting Colony Ship since the full release is so far away.

 

[Jrpgfan]

Had a look at Soylasta's twitter and they're officially paying twitch thots to shill their faggot game.

That girl barely has any views.

If you're gonna hire thots to promote your game atleast do it with some big shots like Amouranth.

 

[Roguey]

Roguey you should post an official review.

I'm not spending money on it, and if it's not worth buying, it's not worth playing.

Still better than anything else released this year, or anything on the horizon. I'm not counting Colony Ship since the full release is so far away.

Nier Replicant remake/master and SMT3: Nocturne remaster are on my list of things to get, I'm reasonably certain I would enjoy them more than Solasta. As far as wrpgs go, Wrath of the Righteous is in September and from what I can tell will be roughly as good as/better than Kingmaker. Infinitron thinking that some combat crawler would be a contender for Codex goty in a year with a P:K follow-up is delusional (Remember Knights of the Chalice vs Dragon Age Origins in 2009? Or take a glance at the top RPGs list; most people here aren't enthusiastic about combat crawls).

 

[Kalin]

No one said these rejects know what they're doing. If they did they wouldn't push tranny shit.

 

[Kalin]

Roguey you should post an official review.

I'm not spending money on it, and if it's not worth buying, it's not worth playing.

Thanks for the official Codex review bro.

 

[NJClaw]

You'd think the codex of all places would place the quality of the game above all else

Would you, though?

 

[Gregz]

You'd think the codex of all places would place the quality of the game above all else

Would you, though?

He's being completely disingenuous.

"The Codex" has only ever cared about two things: story and combat. SJWs are poisoning the story component of RPGs.

It's like a steaming shit on your floor. You can try to pretend it's not there, but the smell won't let you.

 

[ikarinokami]

5E is lacking in the crunch department for my tastes, but the game is good. not quite as good as TOEE, but definitely the best D&D licensed since TOEE.

 

[Volourn]

It is better than TOEE because the actual combat 9as opposed to character system) is done way better. There is almost no creativity in TOEE combat.

That said, I'm not sure which of these games have the worst main town. HOLY FUKK NUTZ.

 

[luj1]

Reading a few comments here hoping to get a sense of the quality of the game...

Learned that this forum really, really cares about token empty symbolism

So do the devs.

 

[luj1]

There is almost no creativity in TOEE combat.

Yeah performing long range trips with a fucking chain proccing automatic sneak attack AoOs from nearby characters with reach weapons is really the definition of mundane combat with no room to get creative at all

 

[luj1]

The one thing that I am bothered by, is people judging a game not by its writing or gameplay or combat or characters, but because they see some dangerhair

The fact that politics seep into every single RPG discussion in here these days is just incredibly tiring

Well, that is because you are an idiot.

Politics seeps into everything nowadays, yet you are blaming those who are merely reacting, not the ones who put it there in the first place.

 

[Rinslin Merwind]

Well, that is because you are an idiot.

Politics seeps into everything nowadays, yet you are blaming those who are merely reacting, not the ones who put it there in the first place.

Merely reacting!?!? The flash from explosion coming from your asses was so big, people was mistaking it for sun.
Also, nice attempt to jump on bandwagon, dumbfuck, but at this point every frequent user on this forum (with brain, ofc) will notice that you almost never talk about games that you love and mostly shit on games without sufficient fan-base to mock you or if there some kind of "choir of disappointed" to join (politics or game elements it does not matter to you).
You are pathetic and spiteful moron without your own opinion, who hate RPG and games in general, yet pretending to be a try-hard RPG enthusiast on Internet forum, because it's only place where some gullible people will take you in their club and give you some street cred.

 

[Volourn]

"Yeah performing long range trips with a fucking chain proccing automatic sneak attack AoOs from nearby characters with reach weapons is really the definition of mundane combat with no room to get creative at all"

*yawn*

See. Boring.

 

[AshenNedra]

Get woke, go fucking broke.
Pirated.

This game is not fucking woke. It's French. We don't really give a shit yet about pronouns and fucking gender stuff, except for some fringe/far-left elements.There is such a thing as being too obsessed with politics.

Solasta is a very good turn-based RPG and a faithful adaptation of 5th ed.

I logged 40 hours in three days. It's good. Play it.

 

[NJClaw]

This game is not fucking woke. It's French. We don't really give a shit yet about pronouns

I brofisted your post but I want it on record that I don't condone being French in any way or form.