The Elder Scrolls

The Blue Morpho said:
I finished Tainted Grail. Pretty good. If I'm being generous, I'd give it around a 7/10. It starts strong and gets linearly worse over time starting mid-act 2. There just isn't enough stuff: dungeons, spells, interesting quests, everything just falls apart and devolves into a bit of a tiresome and repetitive slog.

The "faction" quests in particular are a major letdown since there are no real guilds, guild-halls or consequences. Another big disappointment is the lack of a real city. The world feels very dead and stale, even if I like the art direction quite a bit. Something else I liked a lot was the combat, which (before your power level outscales the game) is very hectic and fast paced. It is amazing what something as simple as a dash does to the otherwise boring modern ES-style combat.

I do not regret my time with it but I'm not exactly itching to jump back into NG+. There was a lot of wasted potential, a large sense of "what could have been" if the game had been given more time and resources. But, I think what we got was good enough to justify its existence and the price of admission. If modders ever round out the game with some much needed content and polish I will definitely return to Avalon.

Edit: Forgot to say, every time I booted it up and heard that theme song I started chuckling. Its kind of a perfect encapsulation of the game, self-serious and trying to be epic while coming off as quite goofy. I'll take that over the self-aware reddit tone in modern RPGs any day.
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I haven't beaten it yet but ive gotten to act 3. But the reason I like it so much is because it feels very genuine and thats why elder scrolls fans like it from what ive seen.
 
foreman 89 said:
He made an offhand comment stating why here - https://x.com/DeMickyD/status/2007168682498416915

I really do hope he snaps out of it and comes to his senses.
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I've known at least 2 other men who turned 26/27 and it provoked similar reactions of dread. There must've been something about being closer to 30 than 20 that spooked the shit out of them. Don't know if it's a gen-Z thing or not, but it's almost reminiscent of a mid-life crisis, but it's especially fucked because it's starting at the quarter way point instead. There's too many factors involved to arrive at a concrete answer why, but I think for a lot of young men being exactly where they were at 18 or 22 at 26 is something that feels deeply concerning. A life-stagnation in an undesirable situation with no apparent way to escape - no upwards mobility or hope for the future.

Micky probably entered his late 20s, got depressed, got out of it by making changes to his life (the best cure, in theory), but the change was unfortunately trooning out. The way he snaps out of it is getting depressed again, realising being a tranny wasn't the panacea for all his problems, and then actually do something that helps him long-term. Otherwise his pride will more or less prevent him from validating the haters and he won't come to his senses of his own volition. A tranny is held up on two blocks of pride and delusion.

Tranny Identity
[Delusion] (Maintained via affirmation, hugboxes, and no introspection, objectives looks at ones self, and continued societal humouring)
[Pride] (Can be reinforced by others, but is almost entirely dependent on self)
Individual
You can remove the delusional element, but pride will keep it from splatting the person at the individual at the bottom. Remove pride without fixing the trans identity, then the delusion drops with full force on the individual and kills them, either metaphorically i.e. self-identity, or literally via suicide.

The goldilocks zone is when pride dissipates enough that they can be critical of themselves without it being to some irrational extreme and they inject some positive life changes into their veins instead of troon-juice. Micky will probably not go through a bout of depression like he had until he's a year shy of 30 or about to enter it. Trannies are a big problem because they constantly reinforce the delusion so when/if his pride dissipates the trannies will contribute to his doubling down or his suicide - failed attempt or otherwise.
 
i liked micky d, that sucks. all he had to do was play oblivion mods but nooo, we gotta fag out to the max for no reason whatsoever.
 
foreman 89 said:
He made an offhand comment stating why here - https://x.com/DeMickyD/status/2007168682498416915

I really do hope he snaps out of it and comes to his senses.
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Lol I didn't realize that he also bothered to make his avatar into a girl version. So funny how at first he was trying to get across that he's merely a theythem nonbinary but clearly HRT and programmer socks are in his immediate future. It only took like less than a week, too.
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https://x.com/zhakaron/status/2006648574554337336
https://archive.vn/o5nzT
Also I don't watch Zaric that much but for how long has he been a chaser? He wears cat ears or some shit during his streams so I kinda assumed he's an AGP of some variety. Lmao
 
StacticShock said:
that's actually par for the course for morrowfags.
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back around like 2010/2011, when my little pony crawled out of the primordial autism soup and took its first bumbling steps into the world it set out to ruin, the team fortress 2 server i would call home became unbearable due to more than half of the regulars turning into egregious first generation bronies. it's been over a fucking decade but that sense of doom in the air hasn't let up one bit; it's only changed forms.
 
Caddo Cobgang said:
game communities in regards to sequels, they always expect a follow-up to a popular game to be some massive overhaul when there is in-universe limitations to most of it happening, it’s part of why i’m critical of GTA VI hype, it’s going to be GTA V in Florida and TES VI will be Skyrim in a desert, I don’t personally think that’s nessecarily a bad thing, but there’s far too many retards that don’t understand that games in the same universe are going to be similar to one another and not to mention that the current technological limits have diminishing returns in terms of sequels imho normalfag twitter gamers need to calm down
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I don't want them stylistically different, I want them to fix shortcomings.
Big issue Bethesda games has is that they shit themselves with too many npcs, battles remain 4 dudes fighting 4 dudes because any more than that breaks the engine.
They also need to make a better npc interaction system. Major npcs are barely characters and companions are as deep as a puddle.
 
Dumcumpster said:
I haven't beaten it yet but ive gotten to act 3. But the reason I like it so much is because it feels very genuine and thats why elder scrolls fans like it from what ive seen.
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I still liked it. Most of my complaints aren't that it's bad, but that I want it to be just a bit better. It has a lot of stuff going for it. Arthurian legend seems like an untapped wellspring for fantasy media, and they managed to tap into it without making everyone black and gay. The H.E. Geiger art direction for the Fore Dweller zones is really cool looking and only a little bit out of place. The active, dashy combat is really fun. Tainted Grail has SOVL and a clear and distinct identity, which is a lot more than most games these days can say. I just wish we got a version that stuck the landing.

To be fair, though, most of the TES-style RPGs fail to have a good ending. If it's about the journey and not the destination, well I still enjoyed my journey.
 
Star Classic said:
I was always kind of wishing that TES 6/7 (lmao) would move the game forward technologically, like I'm not saying they need to be primary weapons but some black powder weaponry made because of a continent wide war would be cool, you could have them be like the Big Guns skill in Fallout where they're more late game weapons.
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I think black powder guns with a long reload time but high damage output would be nice, especially if the piracy rumors are true. It would be nice to have some ranged options that arent spells or arrows.
 
scathefire said:
Also I don't watch Zaric that much but for how long has he been a chaser? He wears cat ears or some shit during his streams so I kinda assumed he's an AGP of some variety.
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And that’s now two classic TES youtubers that I used to watch openly revealing their degeneracy. Maybe I was too harsh on JBN if he’s the most normal of that lot, though I guess plastering your face everywhere with alopecia requires some self confidence.
 
foreman 89 said:
He made an offhand comment stating why here - https://x.com/DeMickyD/status/2007168682498416915

I really do hope he snaps out of it and comes to his senses.
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Oh God he already put the tranny flag in his username and is going full she/they:
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He hasn't changed his YouTube bio to say "lass" rather than "lad" yet funnily enough.
scathefire said:
Also I don't watch Zaric that much but for how long has he been a chaser? He wears cat ears or some shit during his streams so I kinda assumed he's an AGP of some variety. Lmao
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Not surprised somehow, he already looks and acts like someone desperate enough to chase after a recently trooned out Elder Scrolls nerd because he sure as shit doesn't get any from T&H women...that I know of, even before the pink cat ear headphones.
I like his content but I've had this feeling that he's probably a degen for a while now, I mean he already is a bit of a coomer.
POWER IN MISERY said:
back around like 2010/2011, when my little pony crawled out of the primordial autism soup and took its first bumbling steps into the world it set out to ruin, the team fortress 2 server i would call home became unbearable due to more than half of the regulars turning into egregious first generation bronies. it's been over a fucking decade but that sense of doom in the air hasn't let up one bit; it's only changed forms.
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Fuck, you too? Except for me it wasn't TF2 but various forums and even some former friends in real life. I shit on furfags and trannies but bronies have a special place of hatred in my heart.
 
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scathefire said:
Also I don't watch Zaric that much but for how long has he been a chaser? He wears cat ears or some shit during his streams so I kinda assumed he's an AGP of some variety. Lmao
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He's still at the point where he pretends "it's a joke" and that he "likes to troll people who get mad about it". He's allegedly a married man, but as people around these parts should know, that's not a very good cover these days.
 
Spooky Dogwood said:
He's still at the point where he pretends "it's a joke" and that he "likes to troll people who get mad about it". He's allegedly a married man, but as people around these parts should know, that's not a very good cover these days.
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His wife sews dresses for him so she supports his eventual transition. He's also growing out his hair so the Hon arch is fast approaching.
 
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