Wrath of the cringefinder compilation thread

[jackofshadows]

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.

Well, there're combatfags and storyfags or so they say but personally, I'm a bothfag. I like RPGs precisely because mechanics and story are going hand in hand. I don't mind combat-focused RPGs or story-focused ones (yeah yeah) but character interactions in general should be meaningful. Even if I play a murderhobo it makes a difference whom exactly I'm killing if that makes sense. So in WotR's case when so many characters and the whole setting are so repulsive I just have no desire to play in it.

Uh, what kind of "character development" do you expect from a random one night stand? Some XP? Temporary morale boost for the few games that feature it as a stat? Slightly uncomfortable disease that doesn't actually affect your day to day murderhoboing?

Maybe sex in games should be treated like food (where food is done properly, i.e. URW or Kenshi). You don't get anything from having it regularly, but skip it for a while, and you are in the world of hurt.

Why one night stands? I was talking about something like Morrigan's offer or sex in exchange for something or at least between party members which might have implications. That sort of stuff. If we're talking about meaningless sex then I'd prefer to don't include it at all because yeah it's unclear how to tie it on game's mechanics. Either way, if sex doesn't really add up with the game's flow then it's better to be dropped.

So what is your objection, actually? You don't like any politics in any mass (however, Wrath is not that "mass") entertainment product or you don't like politics that contradicts your values?

I don't mind political themes in general but I strongly dislilke preachy approach to them. Which is the case in WotR.
- Here, look at how nigger orc-female and some other female (and there's more to that, ahem) are in love with each other! Look at it, you bigot!!
- Ugh, would you fuck off with this shit?

 

[Goldschmidt]

Aren't most CRPGs played for their mechanics and not the story?

In good old times, yes. Once normies took over, though...

That is why Path of Exile blows them all out of the water. Its gameplay mechanics are better than Pathfinder AND its itemisation is leaps beyond PTF.

 

[Sunri]

Aren't most CRPGs played for their mechanics and not the story?

In good old times, yes. Once normies took over, though...

That is why Path of Exile blows them all out of the water. Its gameplay mechanics are better than Pathfinder AND its itemisation is leaps beyond PTF.

yea i love poe trading simulator where i need spend more time shooping on random sites than playing the game

 

[Delterius]

Everyone he sleeps with is a child in comparison

except the only person he slept with is nocticula who's as old as the universe

 

[Sunri]

Everyone he sleeps with is a child in comparison

except the only person he slept with is nocticula who's as old as the universe

Old hag preying on storyteller.

 

[perfectslumbers]

Happy new years to my favourite thread on rpgcodex

 

[Peachcurl]

PST doesn't count?

By "adult" RPGs I meant those containing everything-included-and-visible sex scenes.

 

[Humbaba]

Oh

 

[ArchAngel]

I found devs answer for the people complaining in this topic:

Spoiler

 

[Pink Eye]

I rate this :fishy:

 

[mondblut]

Why one night stands?

Because they are best kind of sex, untainted by muh romances and other storyfaggotry?

I was talking about something like Morrigan's offer or sex in exchange for something or at least between party members which might have implications. That sort of stuff.

Sex as a storytelling vehicle, explicit or implied, has been around since forever. Like, uh, Paris eloping with Helen to fuck her brains out. That is not the point.

 

[Camel]

I found devs answer for the people complaining in this topic:

Spoiler

 

[0wca]

No I'm dead serious. Sex in movies usually makes me uncomfortable. Have to skip that shit. I blame my mother who'd constantly yell at us to cover our eyes when that stuff would play.

It can be pretty cringe. I like the ones that just show you where it's leading to then cuts away. If we see two people making out for 10 seconds then making a cutaway, I can fill in the blanks. I don't need almost total exposition to figure out what's going on.

If I wanna watch porn, I go and watch porn.

 

[Gradenmayer]

I found devs answer for the people complaining in this topic:

Spoiler

Ye, don't do that. People think that tranny couple came from Owlcat, but it was actually a part of that very same tabletop book.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I found devs answer for the people complaining in this topic:

Spoiler

Ye, don't do that. People think that tranny couple came from Owlcat, but it was actually a part of that very same tabletop book.

nobody forced them to adapt someone's scat fetish and write an entire sex scene for it

 

[LannTheStupid]

nobody forced them to adapt someone's scat fetish and write an entire sex scene for it

If they can do it and get away with it - why not do it?

 

[Fedora Master]

nobody forced them to adapt someone's scat fetish and write an entire sex scene for it

If they can do it and get away with it - why not do it?

They can't, because people rightfully call their shit out.

 

[Sunri]

nobody forced them to adapt someone's scat fetish and write an entire sex scene for it

If they can do it and get away with it - why not do it?

They can't, because people rightfully call their shit out.

Majority of players don't care, or they found it funny.

 

[ArchAngel]

nobody forced them to adapt someone's scat fetish and write an entire sex scene for it

If they can do it and get away with it - why not do it?

They can't, because people rightfully call their shit out.

Gold position on Steam games of 2021 says differently.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

nobody forced them to adapt someone's scat fetish and write an entire sex scene for it

If they can do it and get away with it - why not do it?

They can't, because people rightfully call their shit out.

Gold position on Steam games of 2021 says differently.

Piles of shit attracted lots of flies.

 

[Fedora Master]

Any criticism of the games content leads to an instant ban on Steam, so...
Meanwhile, its thread here turned into a circle jerk of the same 5 people and everyone else lost interest.

 

[NJClaw]

Meanwhile, its thread here turned into a circle jerk of the same 5 people and everyone else lost interest.

That's what happens to every single megathread about a newly released game, it has nothing to do with the game itself.

 

[Alex]

nobody forced them to adapt someone's scat fetish and write an entire sex scene for it

If they can do it and get away with it - why not do it?

Why would they make their game purposefully more shitty?

That said, a shit succubus may be an appropriate allegory for the stuff described for this thread.

 

[Sunri]

To be precise I don't think she's made from shit if you fight she's surrounded by omoxes so there is a high chance that she is one of them 2

Foul demonic servants of Jubilex, the Demon Prince of Ooze, omox demons are creatures of liquid corruption that love to wallow in the filth of tainted water and rotting detritus. They are sometimes referred to as ooze demons or slime demons.[1] Thankfully rare on the Material Plane, when summoned omox demons love nothing more than to corrupt, poison, and destroy.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

We've already been over this.