Apparently the Flower Kingdom is in an episode of the animated show from the 90s.

Still not a fan of that honestly. I personally like “Force Sensitive” as more of a yes/no, and then having different levels within that “yes”, like it was in the EU / Legends canon. And honestly, in the main canon until now.

I’m... torn on this to be honest. It is a neat and fresh change, but my gut reaction to it is negative. I guess I liked the idea that people can be born special, and I don’t think it’s wrong to say the Force is in everyone, but only some people can feel it. But then again I’m a sucker for “Chosen One” type of story,…

I took Rogue One to be the Force taking action, and not the man. Which is a subtle difference maybe. 

Nope! It’s closer to Final Fantasy. Each game is completely stand-alone. Occasionally there’s a reference to an “NPC” that turns out to be a protagonist from a previous game, but it’s just like, brief cameos and nothing meaningful.

How are you gonna reward the people who read the whole set of slides by throwing that “Last Jedi was the best Star Wars” clickbait towards the end? At least put it up front so more people see it and click and comment and argue and stuff.

For me, as a PS5 player and PC player, if this gets decent battery life I would choose this over the Steam Deck right now. I want a Steam Deck, but there’s some real horror stories about the battery.

If your DM is good they’ll also let you have a “last words” moment post-combat as well. Unless you were like evaporated or something, but even then there’s ways they can have a post-death interaction for closure. A magical raven delivers one last hand-written note when it detects your death, something like that.

I think people assume he’s a bard because the goblins were making him sing

I’m just going with the flow and not worrying about save scumming. So far I’ve only had ONE premature death from a bad dialog choice. No spoilers but it involved mouthing off to someone I shouldn’t. iykyk

If the jump from 5->4 was frustrating, going to 3 will be another leap in frustration. The QoL stuff was just not there back then. And then there’s the “which version do I play”. I played the Portable one on Vita and it was ... okay. Lacking a lot though, such as moving around on screen. It was more like a visual…

I haven’t played much of BG3 yet but if it’s anything like tabletop D&D I highly recommend what you’re suggesting. Roll with the punches. Embrace failure. D&D done right doesn’t have “true” fail states other than combat death. Failing can be just as much, if not more, fun than succeeding.

I don’t know much about this YouTuber, except he’s popular and the few things I’ve seen him in he comes off as disingenuous and kind of greedy (essentially a marketing machine).

Is Vaan then... R2D2?

My biggest “wish the game told you” was that you can turn on names for subtitles. Makes it way nicer.

I live in what could only be described as “semi-rural”. It’s a small suburb and my house is technically zoned “Rural-Residential”. Half acres and up everywhere.

Yeah that’s a good point about the party makeup. This is more of a single-player single-character RPG. But if you took the FF elements out you’d still have a solid action RPG. Which kind of suggests the FF elements don’t run as deep as we think.

I think this is a good epilogue to the question. I definitely think it “feels” like FF... except for a few times it doesn’t. The Game of Thrones pastiches are just too much for me at times (the game even goes into “the first of his name” verbage at times).

Was this written by AI? There’s entire words/sentence structures missing regularly throughout the article, and it was mis-tagged. WTF is going on here?

I have to say I’m not mad at $70 game price points. Maybe I’m just old but it’s worth pointing out that the cost to make games has dramatically increased in many ways, but the cost of games overall have dropped even after factoring in inflation.