I got the opposite impression. I thought the covenants were a welcome innovation, at least in concept if not execution. I really wish the Vigil and Lost formulas had been applied here. The writers really hit their stride there. It's a key inspiration on my own writing, too.
Did 3 post prologue levels- game has a lot of missable content that is hidden behind dialogue checks, blood spells and tech skills. Lots of fluff dialogue, it's marked as such with an arrow symbol, thankfully.
The ventru? Yeah, he's the only likable/amusing character in the whole game while he is suppose to be some kind of antagonist lolI wish Stanford was the main character. He is based as fuck.
That doesn't matter. Play it if you want, but you shouldn't support woke products with your money.
Downloading games from those sites is no more complicated than getting them on Steam, my dude.Laziness is a cruel mistress.
This is one of the many reasons why I don’t give a shit about lore anymore. Rather than trying to make a good game that works on its own merits, has colorful characters, tells a compelling story, etc, they make the game as an advertisement for lore.
That's the thing - characters in this game aren't even proper assholes. They seem more like a bunch of mean youngsters at best who try to act mature. Especially that's glaring when oogabooga gets captured by tremere guys, they were swarming down on her like a group of schoolboys (or as they're about to gangbang her, she conveniently lose her memory afterwards). Or cut-scenes where the "swan" (the prince) show others who's the boss here (very
because the scenes are 100% nonironical). Or mr. "I don't want to talk about it" main ventru char which rather comes off as a corporat rat than an old powerful vampire. Compare any of that to Smiling Jack. Is he an asshole? Absolutely. But what a magnificient asshole!
Is profanity a thing in Swansong? Because in my experience the main reason why assholes sound fake is because they aren't allowed to be real assholes. You need full creative freedom in order to pull this out (as well as good voice-acting). [PROTOTYPE] and The Witcher are the best examples of proper assholery that I can think of right away. I still remember Shadowman telling the big bad guy "You bastard!". I mean, it really doesn't convey the emotions the character is supposed to have when he's trying to insult his debater when he's saying stuff like this. In Starcraft 1 at the very least Raynor tries to insult Duke properly ("I'll give you an angle, you slimy Confederate piece of sh-..."). He does get cut off by Mengsk and ends up not delivering the whole piece, but it's handled in a way that makes the whole exchange feel much more natural than using cheap substitutes.
Well yes, for example there's plenty of "fucks" during the short lesbo-drama but obviously you gotta properly use that stuff. Imagine this - they don't properly use it. I'd compare approach to The Witcher tv show in case you've seen that monstrocity.
No, I don't think so. At least cannot recall anything worthwhile. And I think your theory is correct: they sanitize swearing for sure. Simplest example would be the racial slurs.
I feel like you're confusing "vulgar" with "jerkass." Jack is friendly with the PC and doesn't lie to or manipulate the PC... not specifically.
Oof. In Bloodlines the various vampire bosses were transparently sending the PC on errands in petty ploys against each other (e.g. at one point you're sent to convince a critic to give a restaurant a bad review so that a boss can swoop in and buy it out), but most of them had more to their characters than just that. They had hobbies, love interests, hang ups, contrasting desires, unfinished business... they felt complicated, like real people.
