Hello from Iowa. You want more of this?

Yea, I didn’t know how to write about it without spoiling it 😩

I just read a book that somewhat follows this kind of premise: A person believes in ghosts, and all these things happen, and, as the reader, I’m totally on board with it being ghosts. Then a new character enters, and gives logical explanations for everything, and the main character, and me, the reader, realize that, oh damn, it’s not ghosts at all. Except then it turns out it WAS ghosts, and the shit hits the fan.

It was a really fun read.

Oh, thank you! I’ll have to find the 2nd half. It did seem rather short on its own for a trailer!

Huh, I don’t really get the trailer. Is that guy from the previous games? Or is he just a random monster victim. What’s the significance of salt? Why would the coin have her fooled?

Sorry if I’m ignorant to common lore.

And puppies have 4 legs.

Let’s say more random stuff!

Y’all are acting like I said I hate all fantasy rpg games.

Sure, and Dragon Age, too. But they’re not D&D. I like fantasy RPGs, but when I think D&D, I think party of ~4 with friends.

But a lot of people are. I didn’t care for BG3, but I tolerated it as a multiplayer game because it’s fun to play with friends. I also played Solasta solo, but most of my hours were co-op, because it’s just a lot more fun.

I guess for me the adventuring ‘party’ experience is a big part of D&D.

A solo experience could still be fun, but, like I said, I’m not getting excited about it.

Single player D&D? A bit hard to get excited about that.

Anyone know what the budget was? At 800k sold, that’s roughly $56M, minus merchant fees, plus whatever they get for 2.2M players on Game Pass.

Definitely not bad, though I expect it’ll take a while for them to recoup their budget.

Hey, it’s related, but not really the same. Schadenfreude means to take pleasure in another person’s misfortune. E.g. something bad happens to someone I don’t like. I think that almost all political posts I take issue with here fall under that category.

Yes, please!

I’ve been thinking about it, and one simple rule would make this sub 100% better: No schadenfreude.

This community is pretty much just relishing in other people’s misfortune at this point. I guess it’s now for all the people who confuse drama with happiness.

So we just post random political shit on here non stop now? Some people are being idiots. Wow, so uplifting. Humanity is in such a better place now.

It feels really good.

It’s kind of crazy how well this 20 year old game is designed. Each NPC has a life. Each house is a real house, and not just a closed box for background setting.

The gameplay feels so good that it’s a bit startling when things are buggy, or just not as modern. Like when you have a fetch quest, but you already have the item: there’s no option to say: here it is! You have to literally walk away to trigger something in the quest engine, and then come back to deliver the item.

Also, the way enemies are not at all aware of each other stands out: 2 bandits standing next to each other. I snipe one of them, and the other doesn’t even react. Must have been the wind…

But overall I’m loving it.

Oh no, their profit was only $400M. Whatever will they do???

Schadenfreude is the lowest form of uplifting.

Driving to tracks is 100% a chore. It’s made me not enjoy any new racing game in the last 5 years. I really hope this game has an option to skip that and jump right into a race. I don’t look forward to wrangling my family to drive to the same track just to start a race. I’m sure at least one of my kids would drive in the opposite direction because they think it’s funny.

Thanks for your reply. My post was meant as kind of a joke, but it’s good to know the mods actually read through things.