VerilyFemme
@VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on You didn't grow up yet, till you choose your power grain, what is yours? 4 days ago:
I got joke autism sorry
- Comment on You didn't grow up yet, till you choose your power grain, what is yours? 4 days ago:
Close, but your punchline needs to incorporate the full setup:
“What’s the difference between a chickpea and a garbanzo bean?”
“I’d never pay $100 to have a garbanzo bean on my face.”
- Comment on Yep, that one 1 week ago:
There was nothing wrong with it. 'Til I was about 12 years old and that no-talent ass clown became famous and didn’t kill himself
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- Comment on Fairy creatures irl 1 week ago:
Here I come, rougher than the rest of them
The best of them, tougher than leather
You can call me Knuckles, unlike Sonic I don’t chuckle
I’d rather flex my muscles
My heart is nails, it ain’t hard to tell
I break 'em down whether they’re solid or frail
Unlike the rest I’m independent since my first breath
First test, feel the right, than the worst’s left - Comment on Statistically, probably with the beetles. 🪲 1 week ago:
Moths!
Or maybe bees. I have always wanted to hug a bumblebee.
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 1 week ago:
You’re absolutely right on your point about the core elements. They think that the Fallout universe needs a Triforce, a Master Sword, and a Ganon. But it’s just not that kind of series. The iconography is so much less important than the themes. It feels like they’re jingling keys in front of us sometimes when they show off BoS and Super Mutants (who were supposed to be dying out).
Funnily enough, the only icon they use that would feasibly be in every part of the US was Nuka Cola, and they retconned its design…
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 1 week ago:
…I’m so happy in the jongo?
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 1 week ago:
Bethesda has a lot of lore issues, but their main one is that they set pretty much all of their games far too late in the timeline. If you want to tell a post-apocalyptic story, that’s fine.
It doesn’t make sense for anything to be living in a place where the water has been poison for 200 years. Fallout 3 would fit perfectly before Fallout 1 on the timeline.
They knew it didn’t make sense for there to be like 3 half-assed towns in Boston after 200 years, so they created The Institute. Who are so all-powerful they wiped the Commonwealth of any real progress toward society, yet have no clear goals and are extremely incompetent. Set it around 60 years after the bombs, maybe take out the Synth plot and replace it with actual, nonconvoluted slavery, thus expanding on the themes of 3.
To me, the show is a collage of scenes that I like, with quite a bit of stuff that I really dislike. There’s really cool ideas in it, and I honestly do love how they reference some of the universal experiences that we get when playing those games. But the treatment of the lore, in general, is honestly borderline disrespectful.
Now, they’ve announced that in Season 2, “…every faction might think they’ve won.” To emulate, “…the story of history depend[ing] on who you ask.” Which, yknow, New Vegas already showed with the vast and varying opinions of its characters, as well as quite literally showing the effect of historical debate with the in-game debate about the Bitter Springs Massacre.
I’m waiting to see how they pull it off, but I can’t see how all the factions could think they’ve won if Mr. House is alive, seeing how you have to assassinate him for 3 of the endings.
Also, Caesar has an incurable brain tumor and you either kill Lanius or talk him into abandoning the front entirely in 3 of the endings. I don’t see how the Legion could ever be doing good. Maybe Macaulay Macaulay “Mr. McCulkin” Culkin Culkin is their new leader.
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 1 week ago:
There’s an added layer to the West Coast games past 1 as well: they’re post-post apocalyptic. We have nations now, the world is rebuilding.
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 1 week ago:
It depends on your preferences, I think.
Fallout 3 is the better exploration game, New Vegas is the better RPG. Now, I love Fallout 3 and I think it has the best world design in the series (lore not included), but I get a great deal more enjoyment from leveling a character toward a specialization and seeing the different ways my decisions affect the world than I do from dungeon crawling.
New Vegas has me covered there, its perks are really fun and almost all of its many quests have multiple solutions or an alternative quest. However, if I want to scavenge through the wreckage of a dead world I can think of no finer game than Fallout 3.
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 1 week ago:
Spot-on. 3 absolutely follows the world design of 1 & 2, but it scales it down to a city area instead of part of a state.
I’m a huge New Vegas fangirl, but I will say that the random encounters have kept Fallout 3’s world surprisingly fresh. I’ve burnt myself out on the 30 side quests, but if I just go explore then I usually see something new every playthrough. Hell, 3 was the game that really cemented Bethesda’s status as environmental storytellers with a real knack for making a space point toward its previous purpose. Back before they dropped so many skeletons in random places that it became a meme in Fallout 4.
New Vegas simply does not have that type of design. There’s many more avenues to explore in quests and many more quests, but you can tell they focused the dev time almost entirely in that area. 10/10 tho, would recommend.
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 1 week ago:
Bongo I don’t wanna leave the Congo
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 1 week ago:
Bingo
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 1 week ago:
Dude, all the Fallout community is is debate.
We’re just doing our favorite thing: picking a side and trying to solve a conflict between multiple factions.
- Comment on Getting too expensive 1 week ago:
So fucking glad I decided to spend a little extra money back in 2022 and get 64 GB of RAM.
Now I have collateral if I want to take out a loan.
- Comment on The phrase "edited it" is soo weird to pronounce 1 week ago:
Uh, yeah.
- Comment on The phrase "edited it" is soo weird to pronounce 1 week ago:
Edididid
- Comment on The Xbox 360 came out 20 years ago 2 weeks ago:
It’s worth picking one up just to play Fable II, imo.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 2 weeks ago:
My god, that game is a masterpiece.
- Comment on Everyone's got a fetish, I guess. 3 weeks ago:
Sweat bee’s never going to recover after getting called fruity like that
- Comment on It's been downhill from that day 3 weeks ago:
American 9/12, not everywhere else 9/12.
- Comment on Clicks, Eyeballs, Engagement 3 weeks ago:
Holistislop?
- Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 3 weeks ago:
They don’t know nothin bout that PS Triple
- Comment on Clicks, Eyeballs, Engagement 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, is this a bad thing? It’s so easy to get lost in the cacophony of internet noise that being able to identify the intent of a post is kinda helpful.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 3 weeks ago:
It’s almost as if the forces of good and evil don’t abide by the line we draw in the sand, for some reason.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 3 weeks ago:
Wait, this guy’s gay?
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 4 weeks ago:
Dishonored is one of the few games that I’ve turned right around and played through again after I beat it. The gameplay is just so free. It’s not really the biggest map ever, but it is so dense and easy to navigate. I also haven’t experienced a lot of titles that just ooze atmosphere the way that Dishonored does. The art direction is off the charts, and I think it’s aged pretty impeccably. It’s always a good idea to do stylized over realistic, at least if you want your game to stand the test of time.
- Comment on Mario Kart DS was released 20 years ago today on November 14th, 2005 4 weeks ago:
While you are not wrong, this news displeases me greatly.
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 5 weeks ago:
