I don't know nothing about "loving" her but she was at least decent writer*. "Was" being the operative word. The first book of Earthsea is a good and original fantasy. Which is damn rare. Some stories/books in her main SF setting were readable too.People unironically loving Le Guin (couldn't even stand reading first few stories of the "A Fisherman of the Inland Sea", ugh, this obsession with sex and bodily fluids) or Heinlein of his CIA-affiliated period and shitting on this game
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For some players being boring and flat is a far worse offense than being cringy when it comes to writing. I'm inclined to agree with that notion generally. As you notice in this thread posters feel strongly about Pathfinder, either enough to defend it or to mock it and that is much better than to be forgotten and unspoken of like is the case with Pillars. I almost don't see anyone talk about Pillars 2 in RPG communities online.
Being just cringy is one thing. Being cringy because of intense wokeness - is another. Sure, sex related stuff by itself is almost always trigger some folks around here since many of them think that simply doesn't belong to games like this but that's a different story. Woke themes, various agendas and insertion of political views into goddamned mass cult entertaiment products however isn't just a cringe writing - and the forms in which that stuff appears in the subj are amusing only for so long. That's why "strong feelings" arise, not because of how exactly writers wrote this or that.
I like the Anevia example because it means that her and Irabeth are a biologically straight couple. Lesbian erasure is great.post all that you can find
To get the thread back to its original purpose. I don't understand how anyone can read all of those and then honestly believe that Pillars has worse writing than that? Pillars isn't top-tier or anything, but people ITT saying this game is head and shoulders above Pillars is baffling.
Only thing I dislike is explicit sex scenes. I don't see the point and they're always awkward.
When it comes to WotR I would say it is a mix between the two. How does the fecal succubus relate to politics for example? Or furries. Yes, there is political signaling in there but on the whole there is more in WotR that stands out in comparison to PoE than just that. One might very well make the case that PoE is even more political, only nobody noticed because of how bland and boring it is.
Among RPGs it's really hard to remember where it was indeed not awkward to watch and most of all wouldn't look needless. However, porn games proved (to me at least) that explicit sex scenes can be fun and not awkward at all to watch, it just takes special skills. For one the scenes should be meaningful, at least in terms of characters development and not just there as a "fun-service". Games like DA:O or Witcher 3 took an efford in that regard but the outcome wasn't good enough.
Some nice middle ground right there but that was hardly a design decision and rather a compromise due to tech limitations.
On the whole? I see how people like the combat system and build porn much, much more in WotR than in PoE but other than that? Who the fuck plays WotR for the story? That's the thing, people want to play it but the stuff we're talking about gets in the way. As for the fecal succubus/furries inclusion - does Overton window tell anything to you? Basically, they normalise that stuff. It's all part of the setting I suppose but well, fuck this setting.
Aren't most CRPGs played for their mechanics and not the story? I can count the number of the ones with worthwhile writing on one hand. You are correct that the build variety in PoE is about as exciting as its writing though.
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To get the thread back to its original purpose. I don't understand how anyone can read all of those and then honestly believe that Pillars has worse writing than that? Pillars isn't top-tier or anything, but people ITT saying this game is head and shoulders above Pillars is baffling.
JRPGs get good like 10 hours in, come on be reasonable!
