Felipe Pepe

I love it because it's not just "you chose the wrong answer, reload and get best outcome like a coward".

You really have to choose between being a hero OR refusing to be tricked. Even with metagaming there's no perfect route, you have to decide what you value more.

A trope that I love but few RPGs do well is clever NPCs who manipulate players with binary moral codes.

Hero's Adventure gets pretty close, with a whole questline where the dumbest thing a wandering hero can do is act like a wandering hero.

A key element is you don't get killed, just outsmarted.

Edited screenshot from Disco Elysium that reads: RHETORIC [Heroic: Failure] -- Alright, here we go. We're devoting all your available brain cells to coming up with a question about video games. Scratch that, to coming up with *the* question about video games, the alpha and omega of video games questions, and that question is: 1. - (Whisper.) "Are games art?" 2. - Oh god, that's bad. Surely I can think of something better.

Every time.

There's a few places to read about the series, but unfortunately I never came across a good in-depth examination of the series influence. There's a lot to cover, almost every game had a big impact in RPGs.

Lazy Sunday enjoying some cheesy mid-tier 2000s metal lol

When did game studies start? & what & WHO is at the core of game studies? Fields are defined as much by what they are NOT as by what they are & their borderlands can be hotly contested spaces.

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Especially when stalking multiple forums, youtubers and podcasts, it's fun to see how the RPGs being discussed in a same week will vary wildly.

Some stuff like Baldur's Gate III or Expedition 33 are nearly universal, but most of the time there's almost no overlap in what's being discussed & played.

Before SteamSpy locked the feature behind a paywall, I loved to check the overlap in owners for different style of RPGs.

Like, how many people play Owlcat + Nihon Falcom games? ELEX + Labyrinth of Galleria? Moonring + Demon Roots?

With most RPGs now on PC, what are the real divides in player base?

I'm already grateful that after 9 years in Japan I know the difference between 日本 and 本日 lol

He just like me for real

If you never played Sacred 2, there was a quest early in the game where you had to help Hansi find a microphone. When you completed the quest, the video above would play lol

Zorbus has AI art? Where?

YouTube video by Blind Guardian BLIND GUARDIAN - Sacred Worlds (Sacred 2 - In-Game Concert) (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

The Sacred 2 remaster trailer using generic background music instead of Blind Guardian's theme song is weird: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyfE...

I hope they didn't lose the rights to the song & in-game concert, that was like 90% of the game's charm...

The original token format had potential... it legit looks good with custom tokens and tiles, and fits the tabletop vibe

He is very pro-AI and openly talks about using it. Also, it's everywhere in the game...

Another argument is a game that did the opposite: Knights of the Chalice 2.

It's one of the most satisfying tactical RPGs ever AND has the best module editor since NWN. It looked very simple and niche, but had a retro charm. Post-release, the dev added tons of AI art... now it just looks like slop.

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Agreed! Did you see that huge post they did about their references and the OST vinyl? store.steampowered.com/news/app/917...

I have an RTX 4070 :/

Old, correct screenshot

How it looks now

I'm having a weird graphical issue with Sword & Fairy 7... I reinstalled it to grab some screenshots but the graphics are all fucked up and extremely noisy.

I thought my graphics card was dying or having issues with raytracing, but it looks noisy even with RTX off, while other RTX games are fine :/

YouTube video by Portal dos Jogos O JOGO BRASILEIRO QUE FOI SUCESSO NO MUNDO TODO

Pelo visto pouca gente sabe/se lembra q até pouco tempo atrás o jogo BR de maior sucesso (fora Bomba Patch!) foi Deer Hunter 2005, um jogo de caça feito em Porto Alegre pro mercado externo.

É uma história bem complicada e interessante, esse vídeo explica de forma resumida: youtu.be/Ydo25flP6wQ?...

Sim, acabei de ver q o instagram dos dois autores é uma tsunami de arte tosca de AI... triste demais.

Ótima indicação, ainda serviria de exemplo de como rica foi a cena de RPG Maker no Brasil.

Mas é tudo um processo, né... o único outro livro desse estilo, Game Brasilis, só contava jogo q tivesse lançamento comercial... ignorou toda a cena amadora dos anos 80 :/

Tbm vou dizer q acho meio deselegante o livro fechar com um jogo do próprio autor... mas prefiro ter o livro e criticar dq não ter o livro, né

Foda demais o projeto, faz tempo q precisamos de algo assim! Apoiarei!

Fico super feliz do livro falar sobre a cena de jogos em fita nos anos 80, mas vou meter o bedelho e dizer q senti falta de uns jogos na lista... Momodora, Automobilista, Dandara, Deer Hunter 2004... e sim, Bomba Patch!

John Blanche's work is just so goddamn good

I wrote my impressions of the beta in more details in this thread: bsky.app/profile/feli...

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Proud that Lula didn't bow down to Trump. This new executive order today makes it very clear the US wants their laws, politics & companies to be absolute powers:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Brazil will not be humiliated & subservient to fascists like the EU and several countries are being.