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Every time I see one of those “my interests” post I think how weird it is that people list their core interests as 20 different things, and don’t just hyperfocus on 3 properties for a year

I’m personally becoming really tired of everything announced getting a delay. Release dates just mean nothing anymore. Honestly, I think I might start preferring games come out rushed at this point.

Some of these aspects are fixable with a lot of effort, some are not, but League has done very little to smooth over its new player experience since Arcane, despite this when they would be getting the most new players.

Here’s an unnatural movement scheme from a dead genre, you have to play to unlock most of the cool champs from arcane, and you’ll spend the next 100 hours being farmed by champions you’ve never seen before. And if you lose to those abilities once or twice you’re now getting farmed for the game.

I see a lot of discussion about how we need other media besides League to monetize Arcane, when I think the big issue is that League has one of the worst new player experiences of any game.

Just watched The Prestige for the first time. Good film

6v6 is fun and way better, but a lot of the poor design decisions of ow2 still carry over

Prediction: The 6v6 format will allow for more aggressive plays and be more fun, but the fact that they haven’t reintroduced all the cc from ow1 will lead to the stronger tank combos feeling really, really oppressive.

Smurf was so bad in Contenders Season 1

Ana was way better than zen in 2018 but owl players were stupid and tried to play zen with a bloody lucio

Lamenting how esports is going down the Fortnite pathway. League changing fundamental gameplay mechanics, fundamentally remaking characters (design and lore) to tie in with the cross promotion, or holding off on redesigns because it doesn’t fit their battle pass theme. Anything for more content.

Yeah absolutely. For me the big moment is when ekko talks jinx out of suicide, just off screen, over there. The conclusion of the series’ closest thing to a protagonist’s character arc is just not shown.

Arcane was really, really good, but it felt extremely rushed at many points (while also being shockingly slow at other points, for some reason). It needed a bare minimum of three more episodes, or a whole additional season, or a vastly reduced scope in the number of characters it focused on.

Doing my watchthrough of all of OWL and contenders (currently on stage 3 of season 1)

To his credit, he was the first to discover junkrat was really strong in stage 1, doing much to carry houston to stage 1 playoffs, but once junkrat got nerfed in the following stages his merit ceased

Jake tries to spin the narrative of "oh i just wasn't a good tracer", but really he was awful at everything in owl season 1, including junkrat

It sucks for ow "analysis" for all the same reasons it's awful on broadcast

I really hate the recent trend of only using povs in ow content. Like, yes, don't let me see anything that happens in the fight or any complex macro while you talk about very very basic micro, because that's all you're really able to see from povs.

Recent Arcane episodes were so good. I think the show found it's footing in bringing Caitlyn back to a really good supporting character, rather than trying to make her a lead that she wasn't set up for (as they did in the first 3 episodes).

I will say that the action scenes were the one good part of the film; there were interesting, creative moments, such as with the gun that shoots blanks or the gasoline, but they went on too long and are in service of a boring film that needed an extra draft.

I watched the extended cut, but most of the scenes and jokes go on way too long to where they've served their purpose and it's become mundane. Maybe the theatrical cut is better, but it also seems like a general problem. The first act is too long with too little, and some actions scenes could be cut

Fall Guy should've been a generic film, but a lot of the pieces are shockingly inept. The main characters completely lack arcs, and a few themes were kinda toyed with but never explored. The film lacks an emotional core to give all its action scenes meaning or make you care about the characters.

I think the game has an interesting world with lore I love and a great dialogue system. But I can't say that dialogue is better than disco elysium. Or that BG3's better combat doesn't make this game feel tiring. Or that VTMB isn't better in its first half. But it has its charm.

But, while it's fun a buoys the game, it never really fully commits to its interesting dialogue system, only becoming more combat focused as as the game goes on. This isn't like VTMB, where the early game is focused on dialogue but then clearly gets worse. The problem pervades all of Origins.

But the roleplay options are really good. So many characters have so many different lines to react to your statements, and the possible actions for your character are diverse and interesting (with good ethical dilemmas). It's fun to prod and see new parts of the game with each playthrough.

The main story has to account for all types of protagonists and actions, so it can't really tie together or be too complex in case a piece doesn't fit. The side quests can be skipped, so they (especially the companion quests) aren't heavily invested in, often short and uninteresting.

And you don't have a lot of depth to approach these encounters. Swapping party members is cumbersome and your inventory is too small to carry different gear builds around. So if an encounter is too hard, you don't find a solution to the puzzle but grind until it isn't, which is boring.

The usual tells of open world games are here. A class based system locks you into certain builds and has to accommodate all builds. It's hard to have interesting encounters this way. A swarm of enemies would be great for aoe mages but awful for the squishy, single target rogue.

Dragon Age: Origins struggles with its open world scope, like most of the games in the genre. It has a lot of fun roleplay options, but these options aren't focused on through the slog of a combat system that takes up the majority of the game.

The 20 extra characters in the limit is probably a good reason to use this platform