Regina Edition>What is /crpgg/?A general dedicated to all Computer Role-Playing Games — past, present, and future. From isometric classics to modern remakes.Core Games:Arcanum, ATOM RPG, Avernum, Baldur’s Gate series, Black Geyser, Colony Ship, Deus Ex, Disco Elysium, Divinity: Original Sin, Dragon Age, Encased, Exodus, Expanse: Osiris Reborn, Expeditions, Fallout, Icewind Dale, Jade Empire, Mass Effect, Might & Magic, Neverwinter Nights, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, Rogue Trader, Pillars of Eternity, Planescape: Torment, Shadowrun, SKALD, Solasta, The Age of Decadence, Temple of Elemental Evil, Tyranny, Ultima, Underrail, Vagrus, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, Wasteland, Wizardry, and many more.Recently Released: Esoteric Ebb, Banquet for Fools, Stellar Tactics, Zero ParadesIn Development: Altheia, Avaria, Olympus 2249, Rad New World, Rakshasa, Solasta II, Traveling at Night, Underrail 2, Vampire Syndicate, Vampire: The Masquerade - Eternal WhispersCancelled:Legends of Awen, Darkborn>Useful Links>Recommendations:https://files.catbox.moe/gx6f4u.png>Computer Role Playing Games Resources:https://pastebin.com/NEvHHATehttps://monkposter.github.io/community.htmlPrevious Role-play: >>586118123>Thread QuestionWhen was the last time you dropped a CRPG?
>>586291734Good OP
>not a crpg edition>porn WEG in the OP editionneck yourself froggy
>>586291734dogshit op, not even halloween
Owlcat are so weird about itemisation. Play Rogue Trader, and there's too many boots that basically do the same things. Play WotR and there's not enough boots for the whole party, not enough bracers that aren't armor or archery, and generally not enough gloves. Also what happened to multi-stat circlets? Kingmaker had those.
>TQI never outright dropped a crpg, but I've quit multiple attempts to replay Fallout until I eventually gave up trying to replay it about seven years ago, and I quit my first playthrough of Rogue Trader after Janus because I spared the eldar and had to uninstall in disgrace.
Due to lack of resources, Owlcat is having Starrok mocap Regina's sex scene
>>586292854Worked for Harley Quinn
>>586291734>When was the last time you dropped a CRPG?Dropped poe last year because I got bored
I'll just post this disclaimer each day to help dissuade and educate shitposters.>not a crpg!VTMB2 is a CRPG under the test that it tries to recreate pen-and-paper role-playing. Tabletop Vampire is about personal and political horror, not just fighting. Bloodlines 2 captures that. You choose a clan and powers, shape your past through dialogue, and decide what to reveal and whom to trust. Characters judge your words through your past behaviors. The same answer can earn trust or cause offence. That may in fact capture a social Vampire session better than the original in some ways: reading people, managing trust and seeing past choices shape later events. These are not just scenes you watch. They are problems you solve through role-playing. Copying more stats is not the same as recreating more role-playing. The test is whether it tries to recreate tabletop play, not whether it copies every rule. I consider it a CRPG, and anyone who thinks about it with an apt mind will come to the same conclusion. If you disagree, that's fine, I invite you to simply post about something else and anons will engage with you if they find it interesting. Posting my VTMB2 playthrough does not prevent you from talking about Warhammer again. No further address will be given to you people, I am playing and posting the CRPG Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, and the only thing you can do about this is nothing. The choice to act normal or throw a fit is yours, and yours alone.With that out of the way, let's resume.
Swen should be tortured for blueballing me with Lakrissa and then turning her into a dyke when you got to the payoff
>>586293360loltold you so
What origin is this supposed to be?
>phew what a game huh>lord captain it's only act 2
>>586294589why were all the portraits shit this time around
>>586294589Generic if you don't like one of the archetype ones
>>586294589In the files he's labeled as Neutral so basically whatever you want unlike the Navy or Noble guys who are labeled as such.
>>586291952>porn WEGWhat would a non-porn WEG be?
>>586294589With that hair I'm guessing it's the gay prostitute origin.
Our fellow Tremere and hopefully our Blush of Life study partner, Safia, has been helping us out with our little binding problem since we first met. She finally thinks she has the answer, an old ritual tied to Goratrix - an old rival of my sire, and known traitor who worked with the Sabbat - and wants to meet to discuss it. But rather than our usual meeting place in her lab or in the makeshift chantry at Wake the Dead, we're directed to meet her at a conservatory in the park. Safia, flowers, privacy, the soft snow, finally being rid of this damned mark, Safia, what could be better?
Of course things go sour right away, this is a world of darkness after all. Poor Safia must have gotten herself ambushed by something or someone, whatever drew her to this place. Out of character of course I know what is coming, but in character this is a great RP excuse to just run through everyone frantically rather than the usual Batman predator mode approach. As I've said a million times, the atmosphere and presentation layer in this game is extremely top notch, and it's a crying shame that people won't give it a chance because they're only depriving themselves - the panic in the voices, the eerie quiet (this is one of the few games with the discipline and taste to not play music at all times), the clues in the environment itself like bloody handprints, all of it helps sell the moment so well. It's also one of the moments where choice and consequences are maybe a bit to subtle for the game's own good - you can find it on youtube, but Phyre's voice delivery here actually changes based on how you've treated Safia throughout the game. A character that was suspicious of her or indifferent sounds very different to one which has been friendly or even flirty, a great compromise between a voice protagonist and the need for a blank-slate in a CRPG, and something I wish more developers would invest in.
>>586294728Terrible taste colouring your vision probably
I picked the right dungeon to enter on Halloweendidn't expect a creepy abandoned mansion in such a lush forest
A Sabbat blood bonding ritual - something else that really shouldn't be written down, a pattern in this game, but I guess that's just one of those video game contrivances to communicate things to the player, like when you get a journal entry in other games and you see someone wrote "we're being chased by the monster, its almost in, AHHHH!"And I guess the Sabbat aren't as concerned with that sort of secrecy anyways. We'll chalk it up to a shovelhead with a poor memory.
The further we go, the more corpses we find, 'unbirthed' crawling around, and a few full on vampires that are a bit tougher than the usual ghouls and thin-bloods. I especially like the Nosferatu that uses obfuscate against you, they still show up under auspex but otherwise you just get foot steps. Much better use of disciplines against the player in this one.
>>586296150on one hand, this is funny, but it also hints at the ship being shitty
As we go deeper we find a hidden, locked room with a lot of stored blood, chalkboards, salt circles. A Tremere player will recognize the hermetic markings, while others will just know they're some sort of vague magic thing. Not something that changes the game, but a nice touch.
>>586294589Winterscale at home
>>586294589pirate maybe. not to be confused with crime lord
We also find a hit list of high ranking kindred in Seattle. The former and current Prince, the former sheriff, Ysabella, Tolly, even Fabien. Strangely this includes several known Sabbat collaborators like Benny or Ysabella. No primogen beyond Ysabella (and I guess Tolly?), no anarchs, no Phyre.
>hommfag stops posting>blogposter shows upI'm noticing.
While I enjoy this section for mood, its another one of those places that just seems video gamey and doesn't make a lot of sense. There's this entire prison complex beneath a city park? Nobody knows about it? How does it get power, water? I guess you just can't think about it too much. The overall vibe reminds me of the first visit to Grout's house, with the ghouls mumbling in a corner.
>>586297327Don't know what a "homm" is. You people are always trying to group us together into the same person - maybe I'm multiple people instead? Wouldn't that be something.
is anyone reading this shit? I'm not.
The further we go, we start to realize that the lab is (was) for us
>>586296361That's the one in Emerald Graves, right? That was a good dungeon.
>>586296054That is cool. This game is on my list to eventually play since I liked the first one but new stuff keeps coming out too fast to play everything, despite my best efforts.
Another really praiseworthy voice acting moment. Even as a centuries old super predator and monster, you can't help but feel a bit of sadness for her here. The slight tremble in the voice, the hesitation, the way she's almost whispering, chef's kiss.
>>586296361I'd replay the game if it wasn't bugged and unfinished
>>586298524
We find various research notes indicating different attempts to feed our blood to creatures or ghouls, to use it in rituals, to feed us lupine blood, etc., and even a few communiques from Beckett like this one.
The lowest levels of the lab have a creepy emptiness rather than being filled with disposable goons, and a strange technocracy sort of vibe. Vitae and sigils and computers and vats, modern magic.
I believe this sort of space scares zoomers almost as much as the idea of talking to a waitress and ordering their own food. Something about hallways.
>>586298524this faggot is our only janny and this is why this shitty spam is never deleted btw
wow i arrived at my capital in rogue trader and no ambush happened and nothing is wrongimpressive
A heart sinking moment. We see the body and our mark, not close enough to identify it yet, but we know. Again, silence and just letting things breathe is a powerful tool for storytelling and presentation and once you see it its hard to ignore how many other devs just can't get it. No Fabien telling us to focus, no music, just soft footsteps. I guess the programming logic for knowing when playing your orchestral score is or isn't tasteful is hard to work out, but it's worth it.
Poor Safia, always so kind to us and now look what happened to her for trying to help us. >why isn't she ashWhen they die, kindred rapidly catch up to their age. An elder like Phyre may very well turn to dust, but Safia is barely a century old. The old game having everyone turn to ash was just a way to save system resources, not real lore.
here's one more spooky skeleton easter eggI assume it is, even though I don't get it>I think I am starting to get why it is called emerald GRAVES
>>586299994yeah that surprised me too, and annoyed me at the same time because I held it off to last out of the three starting planets for no good reason"nothing is wrong" isn't going to last long though
>>586294360Thanks for keeping your promise to finish this by Halloween. Too many blogposters start a game then give up halfway through.
>>586299994Don't worry, you'll get there
One more down
>>586299994Little bit of advice: don't arbitrarily decide to spend all your navigator points to make green routes right now
Someone mentioned in the previous thread that owlclowns are teasing something for dh. What was the tease?
We carry Safia's body out of that place, and fade to black to the court. How did we carry the desiccated corpse of an old woman through the park without anyone bothering us? Don't think about it.RP wise, it feels most appropriate to be remorseful here rather than task-focused. We're high humanity, Safia was friendly and a clan mate, died helping us, and if we had been there maybe we could have saved her.
>>586300782i made one between my capital and the 2 other colonies and footfallare they getting erased or something?
A running theme in later interactions with Lou is that the game really should have let us take a swing at her before we can, so you have to sort of head canon increasingly flimsy RP excuses for why you aren't killing her. She hasn't been terribly respectful of Safia throughout the game, and obviously this isn't the most tactful time or best company for it, but I guess we still have some wits about us and aren't for certain that we could take her, Ryong, and Tolly all at once yet.
>>586301125no man it's just a matter of not wasting them all you'll want the points
Still, RP-wise she is for certain going to die now. Maybe I need to get rid of this binding to be my full self again, maybe I need to get her somewhere else, but she's out.
>>586300869don't know yet
>>586296054>Phyre's voice delivery here actually changes based on how you've treated Safia throughout the game. A character that was suspicious of her or indifferent sounds very different to one which has been friendly or even flirtyHuh. Wonder why more games don't do this?
>>586301465Well, they must have said something for people to conclude that they're teasing it. What was it? Or is it just generic "tee-hee, we're gonna show something real soon, please be excited"?
>>586292483> Also what happened to multi-stat circletsHeadband of mental perfection? There are a bunch of versions. Or do you mean in rogue trader?
Lou starts giving orders like she's the Prince, and as soon as her childe gently corrects her she gets dominated back into position - this feels like it should be a bigger deal, and would have been a great moment to let player's take out Lou. Sire or not, you can't just dominate a Prince, and she's doing it in full view of the sheriff and what I assume to be the Nosferatu primogen/court spymaster. This is a pretty big no-no, and kind of feels like a dropped ball in terms of lore and CRPG mechanics, and is one of the harder things in the game to headcanon away. You almost have to just pretend it was Fabien imagining things to make it work.
>>586301683>"tee-hee, we're gonna show something real soon, please be excited"?It was just this
>>586294589I had him in my first playthrough ended building him as a warrior assassin, I don't think I had a gun but I may have had some lasgun as my secondary weapon for when I couldn't melee.
>>586301756None have dropped for me at all. Maybe I'm supposed to buy them from skellington vendor, but I've never seen them in stores or Alyshinara either.
My monogamous virgin wife Shadowheart.
>>586301532Expense, lack of attention to detail, lack of commitment to choices and consequences. I think a lot of developers even in this genre are of the attitude that spending resources on content that only 10% of players will see is a waste, which is why so many choices in CRPGs tend to just be flavor that converge back onto the same rails anyways.CDPR did an interview recently where they talked about the big choice in The Witcher 2 and how it changed act 2 entirely, and even they consider that a waste of resources now. You look at something like Baldur's Gate 3 where Minthara as a companion was the only real reward for the evil path, and what did they do? Patch in a way to make the content available no matter what. That's just the attitude in the industry right now, and that's a game that is unusually strong on choices+consequences compared to most others.Voice acting is also just kind of expensive, and you have to do it in 12+ languages on most games. You have Phyre female and Phyre male record three variations, and then you have to do it again in Spanish, French, Japanese, Russia, Italian, and so on. My hope is that in 10-15 years AI voicing will be so cheap and so good that it just sort of deletes this cost without sacrificing quality, and voice acting isn't a constraint on games anymore.
>>586301683I also noticed someone said that in the last thread but I'm not sure what Owlcat has even said so hard to guess what they're hinting at, maybe we're getting trolled.
>>586297164my completely sane evidence board looks like thisI know these 5g towers are up to no good
>>586302285on opposite day
why take this? does this do anything?
Lou is convinced that Katsumi and her meetings with out-of-city kindred that I ratted about are connected to our Sabbat problem, and wants her head. I'll do it, but I need to check in with the clan first, especially as we just lost our third member.You get a very different conversation with Mrs. Thorn when you tell her about Safia based on whether or not you're a Tremere, and (slightly, seems to change only one line) how respectful/deferential you've been to her so far. We've always respected the hierarchy - even if we're technically older and maybe better versed in thaumaturgy - so she's a little more open about it, both of us vowing revenge. She also has one last delivery to make, another rune sealed package to a 'Mr. Swann', who she implores us to treat with respect. I guess the world keeps turning.
>>586302871I've literally never seen this
>>586302871People may get mad, but posting the screencap on google AI mode just tells you what each option does. You can even say I'm going iconoclast, I'm going for amour courtois... Sometimes it makes up shit but not more than us.
>>586303250i dont know if it's me being iconclastthe wiki and neoseeker say it does the same as the one where you make his fiance a nobleso what is the point?>>586303283it's just google results yeah
Most of our deliveries have been fairly uneventful up to now - the packages are obviously magical in nature, at various times smelling like lupine blood, always magically sealed and so on - but not much more complicated than a courier service and to people who don't really seem to know who they're dealing with.This one is quite different, with a door appearing magically in an alley, and a non-kindred who recognizes who and what I am immediately. He asks us to tell Mrs Thorn that the compact is fulfilled, the binding is complete, and "The Tapestry remembers". We've been dealing with a group of mages, delivering various items or ingredients to them.
>>586297393>>586299275>>586300025Scary!!>>586300506Rest in peace...
>>586303283Why in the fucking hell would you tell people asking about stuff here to just use google? It's not even about AI. Fucking flash-backward to 2016 and we wouldn't be doing this. Grow down.>>586302871If it's the couple on the capital maybe it has some impact on Abelard's quest later on.
>>586302871just takes one dollar from you
Back at our makeshift chantry, Thorn lets us in on the plan, that she's been cutting deals with other supernaturals in and around the city and will be setting up an actual chantry here. Can't help but feel sad for Safia, she might have liked having a real library, maybe a bump up from apprentice. But still, new apprentices will come, and this is a good thing, our clan has taken a few hits since I've been asleep, and as Lou is quick to remind us we aren't very well liked. The sooner we can organize, increase our numbers, get our safe(r) haven setup, the better.
>>586303429>i dont know if it's me being iconclastIf you get choices that don't amount to muh alignment you should cherish them and pick something that informs your character as more than a one dimensional lobotomy experiment.especially since you haven't even had the lobotomy yet
>old man whos daughter is a servitoraren't they lobotomized for being heretics or something?
>>586304142>for being hereticsthey get lobotomized for all sorts of retarded shit
>>586304260It's worth noting that Incendia's actions are considered abnormal by your retinue and most people you talk to.
But she has plans beyond just a chantry - the court here is obviously falling apart, and there's an opportunity to make this city ours. She asks us point blank if we'll back her for Prince when the time comes. Obviously that's an easy yes - I'm going to help my clan wherever I can, Lou is setting herself up for a return to power soon which means Ryong isn't long for this world, and I'm already planning to kill Lou the first chance I get. The court here is so thin that the only possible opposition now would be Tolly, another I'd be happy to boil up. By the end of this we'll have a new Tremere Prince, her Tremere sheriff enforcer, a new chantry, a new Vienna. But first, lets find Katsumi and figure what we'll do with her.
>>586304375I'm not talking about incendia
>costs 1 profit factor to bribe a poor person>also costs 1 profit factor to give an entire university to someonethis isn't mathing, 1 servitor is worth a university?
Finding Katsumi is easy enough, she got word Lou wanted her head and went to ground in 'the jungle', a hobo encampment that long-time fans will recognize from the old Hardsuit Labs demo video.
>>586304464look buddy it's an abstract kind of economics okyou literally can't just BUY an ordinary hotshot lasgun no matter how much money you have and you for some reason have none of Theodora's armaments stockpileDon't worry about it too much
>>586304428The names of the coffees.
>>586303283Google AI is fucking worthless for rpg stuff. Even more than it usually is. You’re just going to get random hallucinations
>>586304428no way I'd vote for a Prince THAT old looking
You have the option to ask her to back a play against Lou here - mechanically it doesn't work because I've done nothing but disrespect and piss her off all game, but this is one of the places that helps determine what sort of ending you get and who ends up in charge when the credits roll. From an RP perspective, I have less than zero respect for the anarchs in this city, or what's left of them, and have zero intention of keeping any word I give her. Still, she may be useful - her anarchs can take a run at Lou, and if they succeed I kill them off and the path is clear for Mrs. Thorn to wear the crown. If they fail, we can kill Lou anyways and pin it on them, or use the on-going strife as a clear sign she isn't fit to rule. The worst that can happen is I have to spend a few weeks clearing out the remaining anarchs, which I'm going to do anyways. We already have a serious inquisition problem in this city, a lot of it because of poor judgement on the part of anarchs, we can't have this riff-raff running around like this anymore. Still, she doesn't like me enough to trust me, and technically I would have killed her eventually so who can blame her. We move to finish her but catch a sniper bullet in the arm before we can.
>>586304862One of those things I can write off as just being true to the locale. Imagine a coffee shop in a modern day west coast city with a mini library and a gothic sounding name, what sort of names would they have? It's all just verisimilitude. Some of the anarchs wearing biker leather have weird commie pins or tattoos too if you look, but they would wouldn't they?While I'm not a racist, many have noticed that I really don't care for black people - being around them, seeing them, hearing them. Both in a RP character sense and in real life. But while I find them obnoxious and out of place in a game like Kingdom Come 2, they're garish in the druid's grove, but they're just a logical part of the scenery in Night City. It's that same sort of thought. Verisimilitude matters more to me than other concerns, and is a key part of making a game's environments feel true.>>586305230I don't think we hear her exact year of embrace, but she refers to us as an elder of her own clan and notes she has nothing to teach us, so we can assume she's actually younger than we are. Phyre just had the good luck to be embraced at 17 and Thorn got it at 70, a sort of reverse Claudia.
>>586304717>MGGAHow do you not roll your eyes at this
>>586305990See >>586305982I roll my eyes at it, but it also fits the character. It's exactly the sort of thing I'd expect some anarch baron-of-rabble to say.
>>586305982>While I'm not a racist, many have noticed that I really don't care for black peopleCan you explain what you meant by "that type" yesterday?
>>586298360Why is the tail more defined than the panties
>>586306281those aren't panties, she shapeshifted her skin that way because her brain has been fucked silly by big commander cock
We eventually run down the shooter and find Damsel waiting for us. It's...okay. Her presence does make a bit of sense, Katsumi realizes her position is a lot weaker than it used to be, she's calling for some backup and some heavier hitter anarchs are heading up for what seems like an inevitable war, hence the secret meetings the IAO picked up on. But this is really one of the only true 'remember when' moments in the game that feels kind of forced, and I never really cared about Damsel to begin with. If anyone they should have sent in Smiling Jack, or Nines. I can't tell if it's the same voice actress or not, she doesn't sound the same but it has been 20 years.She calls us Sabrina as in 'teenage witch' because we're Tremere, a reference I have to assume goes over Phyre's head. Maybe she's trying to guess our true name? In any case, the Mexican standoff ends nonviolently, and we're convinced Katsumi is in the wind and that the anarchs aren't involved with the sabbat in the first place, actually having taken some losses to them. I don't particularly want a dragon's breath to the chest, so we call it even and head back.
>>586304862could use a Just F*ck Me Up right now
I think the profit factor system was 90% great, it lets you experiment with things you normally wouldn't . Put those grenades in my bag so I may fuck around with them, I may find a use for that suboptimal cloak for a while if it's a freebie while I try to buy the axe I want but I would never pay gold for the shitty cloak if it was going to cost me gold pulling meaway from the axe I want. Of course I still end the game with 70 medikits and 60 grenades and a bunch of named melta guns that I have no intention of ever using. But the consumables was me being stingy as usual, the grenades were decent, grenadier fit in builds easily, stims were also fun to use, maybe a bit unbalanced but they worked well as a way to turn the fight in an emergency. Reputation I'm less sure about, the idea is that you're making a tradeoff advancing with some faction delays you with the rest but in practice it's trivial to max everyone in act 4, so it just makes you a hobo picking up trash weapons from trash mobs so you can dump them later which is the issue the usual gold system usually has.
Unfortunately, it's clear that something serious has jumped off while we were busy chasing our tail with the anarchs. There are police everywhere, roadblocks setup all around Weaver Tower, armed shootouts and a lot of scared mortals running around. The thought occurs to Fabien that the wild goose chase was intentional, and someone wanted to make sure the sheriff wasn't near the Prince.
Slipping past the police is no trouble, but the entrance looks like the Matrix lobby shootout. We take an elevator up and there's no real sign of anything going on, no gunfire or dead bodies, but by the time we make it to Ryong's office we see her tied up, staked, but alone. Uh oh.
>>586307085>in practice it's trivial to max everyone in act 4That's only because they've listened to whiny faggots who were complaining about being unable to max all factions. Never should have listened to them. It should have been another roleplaying choice for you to make. Also gaining reputation with one faction should have lowered it with another. For example trading with void pirates lowers the navy reputation, and trading with casballica lowers drusians and explorators reputation
Attempting to remove the stake produces a headphone destroying shriek of pain, our binding marks activating for the first time in a while. Whoever hit the Prince must be involved in our predicament too.
What the!? Safia!We'll pause here for me to get a bite, then we'll return for the final batch of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2. I know this is a sad moment for many of you, but as a wise man once said, "don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened."
You're such a smug condescending prick.
TRICK OR TREAT
>>586306281Because some part of the tail will be showing no matter what she's wearing. The underwear part of her body texture will almost never be seen though.
We wake up to see the Prince tied up beside us, still staked. The room is a little brighter than usual, and we realize it's daylight - I guess there's something special about those tinted windows.
Ryong tries to cut a deal as soon as the stake is removed, but obviously the sabbat aren't here for that. Living forever didn't work out, tough luck.
Candle, get it?
>>586308929cute
>>586297669I never do
In her villain-explains-plot-to-audience moment, Safia lays bares the game's events. Safia and Gideon were bound to each other, and when Gideon went missing, Safia couldn't let it go. By the time she found him, his body was ruined beyond any hope, mad (even for a Malkavian) with hunger. Lou had done it and gotten away with it. She didn't give a damn about Caine or the Sabbat, but she wanted revenge on Lou and the Camarilla that turned a blind eye. The binding was meant to weaken me, and when they woke me up near Gideon the beast would take over and I'd drain him dry, diablerie. Weakened by the mark, Gideon would take my body, and with his new strength slay Lou finally. Of course, Fabien found me early, and I drained him instead - not quite strong enough to take over, but still in my head. When she discovered that Gideon had been destroyed and the last hope lost, Safia resolved to simply burn it all down. Lou, Seattle, the Masquerade. All of it was originally well intentioned revenge.
A failure of communication - if you had just explained the situation Safia, I might have been cross for a few nights, but I probably would have helped you. Not with your horde of unbirthed, but we could have killed Lou together. I would have dragged Lou around to your lab and let you mark her up so Gideon could infest her instead even. What a gut punch.
The intended meaning here is that she's not the mouse she pretended to be, and has been plotting against the court for a long time.But the original story here (based on data mining) was actually that we never met the real Safia, only in Fabien's flashbacks, and the 'Safia' we met in the modern times was a Tzimisce named Cemile. That got cut at some point in development, but you still see bits of it. The fake Safia corpse was a fleshcrafted fledgling, her obsessive behavior. Her story is also repurposed from Elif, the Tremere girl in the hardsuit labs version of the game. There's a 'final boss' version of Safia we see later, and you can datamine the exact same look for Elif.
Safia still wants us to join, but I can't really be party to something like this. If she was just killing Lou, I'd be all for it, but sending a bunch of monsters into the street in broad daylight is a step beyond.
Unstaked, we kick ourselves back through the window, a long fall and one last look at the sun before final death.
We survive just long enough to crawl into a sewer though. I guess if Beckett can survive running across a football field, we can survive a short crawl. We're burning up the whole time and screaming, but we make it just in time to pass out, one last dream with Fabien.
>>586310524When did you first get suspicious of this bitch? was the rebar killer copycat supposed to be a clue? I think I would have remained clueless until the reveal... she's a good actress at least
You know generally blogposting isn't just poorly narrating the entire fucking game scene by scene.
Will Regina be submissive or dominant during her sex scene? Or maybe a switch?
>>586311998I wasn't suspicious of her at all in my first playthrough, took me by surprise totally, a Darth Revan size twist in my book. In hindsight you can see little bits of it here and there if you're more logical and cynical about it, but at the time she just seemed like the usual CRPG waifu writing - mousy, interested in the player, cute, needs saving, dies to give you that last bit of personal motivation. I was sure the final villains were Lou or Tolly.
>>586312031Blogposting should be about sharing your thoughts on what the game does well or poorly, the narrative, interesting details, roleplaying, and all the things anon has discussed.
>>586312031why does this not count as purposely spoiling a game
>>586307695> Also gaining reputation with one faction should have lowered it with another.Part of me likes that, in the settlement projects it's where I think it makes the most sense. The issue you may run into is that it may lead you into doing meta things like rushing explorators to 7 while keeping everything on hold with kasballica even side missions and then dumping explorators forever. If you can go down levels the optimal behavior could be strange. But I'm definitely game for the projects being the big way to earn reputation and making them more exclusive. Not that it matters since the game is already done but you know.
Our last flashback is Fabien visiting a makeshift grave for Gideon, once again having solved the case and even remembering that they'll just wipe his mind again. He wants to go to the Justicars - a type of super-sheriff in the Camarilla who could come in and clean house in Seattle - but he needs more proof than he has. He remembers Safia's voice recorder doohickey, and sets out a plan to once again bring the evidence to Campbell, record his usual bragging confession and attempt to dominate away the evidence, and then use that recording against him. Technically using a recording device on kindred is as likely as not to get Fabien himself killed by the Justicars in 2024, but I guess he doesn't realize that yet. Still, we run around town getting the device, and locating Campbell, who has gone to a warehouse to check on a shipment of some sort of 'weapon' his sources have obtained.
Put on a fucking name so we can filter you
>>586312619Nobody’s reading any of this
As usual though, poor Fabien has the worst luck and isn't very caught up on how modern life works. The recorder makes a little whirling noise, enough that Campbell immediately notices it. Who knows, maybe this isn't the first time Fabien has tried this trick either?In any case, he does the usual routine of dominating Fabien, but in this case he has one extra use for him. This box might be dangerous, and who knows what tragedy could befall a Prince who opens it. He'll have Fabien talk to it instead, opening it.
oh those were gene stealers right before the bloodspun temple
>>586312947he's got one fanboy responding. it might be him though
>>586312593Good point, me.
Fabien talks to the box and discovers there is an elder inside, who just needs a bit of blood to awake. As you talk to her, her lines are actually the same things she says during character creation, which is a cool little touch. Fabien realizes that as soon as he opens it, Campbell is going to kill him, so he makes one last suicide run. Opens it, cuts his own wrist, and feeds the torpid elder enough to wake her up. She promptly kills and drains Fabien, before turning on Campbell himself. The mystery of why Fabien opened the box and who killed JJ Campbell solved.
>>586313201I don't mind that he posts this shit, he should be allowed to, but he should be forced to namefag so we can filter him.
One flashback further to the 20s, sometime after Gideon's disappearance. Fabien and Safia have met at a grave site - they can't recover his body or find any clue as to what happened, but they know he's gone, and this is the best they can do. Fabien apologizes to Safia but there's just no lead, and she's obviously upset, no longer the happier crossword Safia we met before.
>>586313386it's literally not a CRPG. Why should he be allowed to spam in a general dedicated to crpgs? This is not RPGG.
>>586313590I'm not reading his posts, nigga, I have no idea what he's talking about
Regina a shortSHORT
>>586313662you don't need to read his spam to know that vtmb2 is not a crpg.
>>586313386Are you the fanboy?He doesn't want to be filtered thats the point for being obnoxious
Safia says that while Fabien couldn't find any answers, Safia is going to find them, some way beyond his means. She's leaving the city, but promises him she'll return. I don't think she knew exactly what had happened to Gideon yet, or she'd have told him here, but she strongly suspected it was Lou and was already plotting revenge. I'm entering torpor maybe a year or two after this, it's a pity we didn't cross paths sooner, all this could have been prevented.
>>586313710>Made the white guy a manletNoticing
>>586312295Icy and distant at first, then submissive
>>586313749I literally did not know he was talking about vtmb2 until you wrote it, which part of "I'm not reading his posts, nigga" did you not get?>>586313785No, I want to filter him. Obviously he's being an asshole on purpose and if we actually had some moderation in this general then the janny would force him to namefag.
One last dig at poor Fabien. On the one hand, unnecessarily mean spirited, but on the other she's hurting. And to Fabien's credit, he's a better detective than she (or he) thinks, he solved the case repeatedly, only for Ventrue to take it away. They're not the Tzimisce, but they have to be in the running for second worst clan.
>>586313203It's pretty bizarre that someone blogposting about a game and typing maybe more than 40 words a post gets you worked up like that. I used to think you were just specifically mindbroken by the namefag, but your issue might run deeper.
>>586314061Sorry I didn't take you for such a newfag. He's been spamming for well over a month now.
>>586313590I still want to test if I were to spam a JRPG would anything be done but I don't crave attention that badly >>586314136thank you... me
>>586314235Just do what you want. /CRPGG/ doesn't matter anymore. It's just literally video games the general.
One last chat with Fabien. First time we get to talk to Phyre from Fabien's perspective, which is a little strange from an RP perspective since "my" character is now selecting dialogue that I didn't pick, but she doesn't really say anything out of character either I guess. I've never tested it because I never antagonize Fabien, but I wonder if the words are written or delivered differently based on that relationship here? In any case, one last great performance, Fabien is afraid to finally die for real, but he's tired. There's an obvious parallel between Fabien and Johnny Silverhand, and that last talk with Johnny at the end of the game is one of my favorites, "wrong city, wrong people", very similar vibe here. Thanks for saving me Fabien.
>>586314213I've been here for years, hadn't noticed his spam until the last few days. I generally don't pay too much attention to posts that aren't replies
>>586314136I don’t care about whatever thread drama you have with the namefag or his haters. You just suck at blogposting.
So did The Expanse talk break him or what is the cause of the schizoid spam?
We wake up in a dark tunnel, finally alone in our own head. When we make our way up through what turns out to be the church basement, we emerge into the streets to find them totally empty and eerily quiet. Foot prints and blood everywhere.
When we make our way back to the tower, we see the mark hastily scrawled all over the place in blood, I assume one final attempt to weaken us when they realize we might have survived. No mechanical difference at all that I'm aware of (nor should there be, being weakened for the big finale would be gay), but it's a nice touch.
>>586314425>video games the generalyeah sadly
>>586314235He intends to spam E33 eventually so you might as well do it, this general is trash anyway
what do you fellas think of my latest bg3 self insert?
Here we see a collection of anons, screaming and climbing the walls in rage that someone is playing an unapproved CRPG in the CRPG thread. There's a lot of fighting in the tower, this is our combat heavy finale as is VTMB tradition after all, but nothing much to it. It is nice to RP a very enraged and frantic Phyre just tearing through everyone once you have the XP for it. Most of the CRPG in this game is conversational, so its a stark change to be so combat heavy in the end, same as it was in the original game. But the combat here is so much better that I guess it doesn't drag quite as much.
I want a general where we talk about pic related
>>586315437why is the cyberpunk 2077 reddit page filled with trannies?
Riding up to the top, this little nod to Fabien tickles me. It again reminds me of Johnny Silverhand, my favorite ending in 2077 was letting Arasaka cut him out, only to reject their deal when it didn't work and going back to Earth. V gives them the finger and sings Never Fade Away to herself, that little bit of Johnny forever imprinted onto her now. Fabien isn't in her head, but some bit of him will always be there, that detective mindset, the way of looking at things. I just like it.
>>586315249he already posted his newest self insert troony here
You have some options when you finally encounter and confront Safia at the top of the tower, currently engaged in some kind of godless ritual or another. Obviously you fight no matter what you pick, she's the final boss, so it's all just for flavor and RP. I'm remorseful about it, betrayed and sad, and I'm glad that they wrote enough lines to really accommodate that feeling instead of just doing the usual zoomer meme "time to DIE" nonsense you often see in these situations.
>>586312652I just get mad thinking about how good the game could have been and how much you could improve it
The overall fight is really well done, especially between two Tremere. Safia can use a lot of the same spells you can, including a few new ones. And as I've mentioned before, the game is really great about ensuring that your disciplines work on everyone, it isn't one of those CRPGs where you get cool-new-spell but it only works on one-hit mooks anyways. You can use blood curse on her, boil her, and she can use the teleport same as you, some kind of blood shield ability like the first one, and so on. I kind of wish we had gotten more content around her and Thorn, some magical duels here and there would have been neat.Safia for her part looks quite different - naked with strategically placed long hair to cover up anything interesting, sigils carved into her own skin, covered in blood, more beast than the stuttering researcher. Good design.
The hero wins in the end of course. She tries to use the mark one last time, but can't. Too weak, the sheriff is too strong, who knows. Reminds me of LaCroix dominating you throughout the original, only for it to suddenly stop working when he needs the key for the sarcophagus. Just one of those dramatically appropriate things I guess.
namefag's ultimate dickrider is also the only vtmb2 fan in the world. Wonder if he's a chink room dev
Can we rename /crpgg/ to /rpgg/ now???
Phyre had imagined exchanging fluids with a naked Safia for several nights leading up to this point, but sadly it didn't work out the way she hoped. In-character, I think even after everything she's at least partially sympathetic to Safia, especially seeing how things played out and what led her to it. The huge Masquerade breach, the torture and enslavement, all kinda hard to get over. But the mouse she pretended to be is who she really was once, and ultimately she was right about Lou and the injustice of it all. If things had gone differently, a little more patience, Thorn and I would have served her Lou's breasts on a platter a few nights from now. What a waste.
The mark is gone, but so is Safia. A quiet, bittersweet moment.
As is CRPG tradition, the various endings are delivered by slides. I wish the game had been more successful, maybe we could have gotten a post-game epilogue section too. It would be nice to help rebuild, or go on the run, whatever ends up happening.
Oh yes, the excellent crpg Fallout 3.
>>586316692I like vtmb2. It’s a terrible sequel to bloodlines and doesn’t belong here though.
>>586317658Doesn't matter. Irrelevant.
I don't know Tolly, this seems really weak. The streets of a major American city were absolutely cleared, there's a skyscrapper where we can reasonably assume every single person inside has died violently, there was a major hunter/inquisition presence in the city already. I don't see how you can possibly wave that away with a gas leak. While I enjoy the story overall (more than the original in fact), this is one area where they should have done a rewrite. Obviously a major Masquerade ending event can't exist in the lore because they want to keep telling VtM stories, so just don't have a major Masquerade ending event. Which is what this was, there's just no way around it. They could have and should have done something on a smaller scale, Safia simply killing the Court and we stop her. A lot of game devs do this, there's just no foresight. They write stories where player choice must alter the world, but they know ahead of time they can't alter the world, so why bother? Very similar to the phenomenon of writing open-world exploration games with stories that have tight time constraints, knowing that the two contradict each other. Doesn't anyone in video games have any sense?
The inquisition swarmed over Seattle, as one might expect. We wiped out 50+ federal agents, killed their leader, they weren't going to look at that and chalk it up to the wind even before this 'gas leak' nonsense. It's unfortunate that they killed Lou before I got the chance, but I guess dead is dead. They also wiped out Katsumi and her anarchs, and even sent Phyre packing. I guess that makes sense, the hunters had a whole dossier on me already. It does make me wonder what might have happened with Mrs Thorn though, who isn't mentioned - she was positioned to take the city, and now there's an opening, but Seattle sounds like a second Vienna already. It might be smarter to cut her losses and try another town, if she even survived.
Which post pissed this retard off enough to cause this multi week moderately high effort melty
And so marks the end of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 posting here on /crpgg/. I know for many of you this is a bittersweet moment, you've come to love VTMB2 posting and it has become an important part of /crpgg/ culture. But everything good has to come to an end, always leave them wanting more. And who knows, maybe replaying VTMB2 can become an annual /crpgg/ tradition?Now, we'll take a short break, but as promised soon I'll post another poll, and we the community of /crpgg/ will select ANOTHER crpg to be played through here in our general. Those of you that were upset that VTMB2 was favored by the community over your own picks, this will be your chance. And of course once that game is complete, we'll simply repeat the loop, poll then game. Poll then game. Poll then game. Until then, I'd encourage all anons here to begin playing and posting their own CRPGs. This general doesn't belong to the sub-50s who communicate in text message grunts, so take it back. Playing an Owlcat game, Larian, The Old Republic even? Post it here. Happy Halloween.
kill yourself.
>>586316081I'm out of the loop, played it on release when it was super buggy and just finished it recently for the first time so I don't know what are the most popular complaints. I think it's the Owlcat game I've liked the most but the one I less want to replay. There are some issues with party compositions and I really hate how initiative works or how hard sanctioned psykers shit on Idira. But I enjoyed the shitty minigame of spaceship battles, companions weren't great but not terrible either even if Ulfar felt at times like my adopted teenage emo son. Maybe Argenta missed a bit, it doesn't need to be romance but she felt too distant.
>>586318883just because >>586318459 is trying to make the general worse is no reason to wish him dead - wish him better instead
Okay but seriously, why is the janny allowing this?
>>586318894>how hard sanctioned psykers shit on Idira.You're just bad
>>586319689it is a conspiracy except entirely literally and unironically
>>586319689Because it isn't against the rules and never was. The game is a CRPG as explained here >>586294360 each day. The fundamental assertion of the diaper shitters here this entire time has been that screaming and crying and stamping their feet would somehow change what the game is, but it never did. "It's not a CRPG!" but the thought never occurs that this isn't up to you. Obese based boys have this idea that you aren't allowed to like or play certain games (which over the last five years has expanded to be almost any game), and if you do they'll try to shout you down. But that didn't work here, and they hate that. They incessantly reply to on-topic discussion of a CRPG with off-topic whining, and are so mentally inverted that they think the situation is reversed. That's crazy.
>>586319689It is the janny
>>586320567He's intentionally spamming and avoiding filtering, this is against the rules.
>>586319689the koobold and his weird obsessive party get off on playing the role of parasites infesting and taking over threads to run as their own personal blogsthey prebuff with prewritten pilpul spells to vaguely sound like they are on-topic and then hit you with passive-aggressive grease spells and janitorial warning taunts like reddit moderatorsthey are neutral evil outsiders that need to farm attention and misplaced e-authority from strangers to survive
VTMB2 doesn't deserve to be in these threads less than Disco Elysium and that ship sailed.
>>586318845>And so marks the end of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 posting here on /crpgg/Yet certain parties are still complaining and trying to dredge it up. Makes you wonder...
>>586321351>mutually exclusive faction routes>dice rolls>skill checks in and out of dialoguewhat makes DE "not a CRPG" other than no combat?
>>586319689manthyfag is the janny and he welcomes any rpg game because he does ths same
>>586321818Shame that a general loses its purpose because one faggot controls it.
>>586321581Define CRPG in a way that includes every game discussed here and excludes the games you've arbitrarily picked, make no mistakes
>>586321994Me right you wrong ez gg
There's a pissbaby in here who complains about everything. If you don't like a certain game that is posted, post your own game. Contribute, or shut the fuck up. If you are a worthless poster contributing absolutely nothing, then you can't complain when someone else is at least posting a videogame even if you don't like that particular game. One of the most pathetic things you can do here is just impotently bitch at people who are actually posting games. It's so pathetic. He's not avoiding filters either by the way, that involves changing your image filesizes or hashes so people who filter your repeated images see them, or changing the spelling of certain words so people who filter certain phrases still see your posts. You can in fact filter his image dimensions or certain phrases like vtmb2 because he doesn't intentionally avoid filters. You are so fucking stupid you don't even know what the words you try to complain with mean. Genuinely pathetic.
>>586321993what purpose what that be? 140 characters dedicated to gossiping about the namefaggot? what a loss
that one riled them up
lets get back to basics
Really laughable to pretend he isn't just shitposting when he's moving on to jrpgs and ubislop next.
>586298524what if...
>>586314725I'll be sure to take your criticism to heart. Even though you seem somewhat confused about which poster is which, or what interesting blogposting should entail, apparently mistaking it for pure commentary devoid of narration. It is not about writing a novel, nor is it about stream-of-consciousness commentary detached from the fucking (emphasis) narrative or fucking (emphasis) context. Maybe your definition is fucking (emphasis) different, though. Curious if you can name one instance of blogposting you liked for reference.>>586318845Thanks for the journey. I enjoyed it a lot (though I can't condone the racism), and it's a good thing this general still has effortposters. There's a lot to be said about where VTMB2 comes up short, but your posting did convince me it may not have deserved all the flak it received.
more words = more rightbutmore words = obsessedwhat's the takeaway here?
>>586323469thanks me
Serious CRPG kino incominghttps://youtu.be/AQONKVET_7Ehttps://youtu.be/epTufzrkmzk
>>586320567I'm not going to argue "rules" because ultimately there really aren't any in the face of someone determined enough to post on cooldown. But that's >>586294360 pure sophistry and you know it. I just wish you actually cared about CRPGs enough to blogpost about them instead.
>>586324501I'm having a hard time getting past the fact that visually it looks like every low effort asset flip littering steam.
>>586323870>what's the takeaway here?Illiteracy is a tragic thing. There's a relevant namefag post about this I could link, but you wouldn't be able to read it. Quite the conundrum.
>>586324678As long as the writing and roleplaying is good that's fine IMO. Polish is in some ways the enemy of cool RPGs. It makes to end up being too expensive. Lots of the classic are barely held together messes that are great in spite of it.
>>586324806do you memorize all his posts or do you keep some kind of shrine or corkboard
>>586324501>Serious CRPG Can you rape?
>>586323469kill yourself already
>>586323469Correct, which is why they'll hate it. That, and it'll take them five weeks to sound out 'criticism'.
>>586324678It looks fine, doubly so for a pre-alpha. There's just a lot of people here who have been trained to hate anything and everything they see, and they have a small collection of canned phrases to deploy any time they need to give a hollow explanation as to why. I can't wait until the internet moves past this trend.
Replied to myself before an autistic rant again award
The lack of usernames and easily stalked profiles here really drives redditors insane.
>>586326313kill yourself x 2
>>586325080I’m sure I can get past it if the rest of the game is good enough, yeah. I’m hoping it’s much better than the vibes I’m getting from it.
I wanna smooch her.
>>586318883 >>586325946>>586326964*clutches my pearls*WHY DOES THE JANNY ALLOW SUCH UNFILTERED HATRED!!
>>586327870that must be the janny its the only explanation
>>586327861unfaithful
>>5863278704chan culture newfag
This is the regina thread have some class
luv shart
>>586328423>reginanot a crpg
>>586328471for me she's a crpg
>>586328423is she the belter?
>>586324501If i can't get some vampussy me no buy o algo
>>586329183Are you okay with being a discarded ghoul
Cam gave poisoned candies to my niece and now her parents are frantically calling 911
>>586328452
>>586328452Why are you a cuckold
>>586324501This is looking fantastic
>>586330131thanks me
>>586324501>dice rolls >character sheet from tabletop >strengths and weaknesses mechanic and skill slots >companionsAlready more of a crpg than the expanse will ever be.
how many more times do you think he'll reply to his shitty game?
>>586330785Angry your vtmb 2 spam got no replies? Tough luck, cunt. Not a CRPG.
>>586331138guess again wouldnt be surprised if that was you
>>586331354Nope. It was not. Your guess is wrong too.
Anyone who ever posted a cute girl is meI am all the Jedi
>>586328452SHADOWCUTE
>>586331138>>586331354I am both the VTMB2 poster and the Deathwish poster. You'd think the World of Darkness connection would be sufficient for such staunch noticers.
>>586332152Nah I don’t believe that.
>>586328452you dont call people you love shart
>>586332319why not
>>586332319>he doesn’t insult his homies
No, *I* am the VTMB2 poster.
>>586332538I used to have friends like that but I realized it was profoundly toxic
the bloodlines 2 poster isnt a person at all, but a coordinated discord. same as the namefag
My beautiful wife Shadowshart
>>586324501this is a real crpg actually
>>586333068You can be certain that many a diaper will be filled in this general screaming and crying that it isn't. Doubly so if the game becomes popular.
>>586333068>action rpgIt's as much of a crpg as Mass Effect is, so not at all
>>586333304Mass effect didn’t have dice rolls. This does.
>>586333693Every game has numbers, you just dont see them
>>586333030truth
>>586291734I dropped atomrpg because it was so fucking boring and bland. It's literally a desert with some bugs in it. I just couldn't play for more than 15 minutes.Before that I dropped DOS1, Tides of Numenera, and Arcanum.Arcanum is the only one I might come back to, as the problem with it was primarily technical issues.
>>586334234
>>586333192>>586333304still mad no one likes shitlines 2
>>586334471>you're wrong>y-you're just pretending to not understand because I'm actually right and based
>>586334742That one is also not a crpg, and certainly not a good game
The complainer is also the twitter poster, what do you know?
>>586334747flat numbers aren't dice rolls
>>586335036Dice rolls are flat numbers
>>586291734>TQI dropped Rogue Trader at the character creation screen, and I doubt I'll ever try again. I just realized it was asking me to make a bunch of undefined choices that I knew nothing about, and was referencing lore I just didn't find enticing at all. Combined with the ass ugly aesthetic I just couldn't justify playing it.In terms of CRPGs I actually started playing, Wrath of the Righteous. The hell city was truly awful, and while I was able to use the ToyBox to bypass some of the worst design decisions in the game I realized by the time I returned to my fort that I was bypassing more and more of the game and was starting to not care anymore. I started just auto ending fightings to see how the game ended, but at some point I just didn't care about that either. I was about to fight off some siege in Wintersun I believe when I just quit and uninstalled. I may go back to that one some day, but I'll have to take some days off and try to muscle through it before I get tired of it.
>>586335138
>>586334454That's realistic though
>>586335323based owlcat stinks!
>>586335425>>586334471kek
you know who probably stinks? Morrigan
What does Yennefer's and Triss' respective pussy taste like?
>>586317336Good night sweet princess...
>>586337114buttholes*
you know who probably stinks? shart aka shit fart
>>586323469damn now you are gonna spam your shitlines 2 lets play >>586325114>some kind of shrineyes he made a shrine
>>586337203People know what a shart is, ESL-kun. No need to actually spell it out.
>>586337182buttholesare gay
Jen is an English Rose so she smells appropriately
>>586337313Absolute faggot take, holy shit
>>586317336had some blood bags on her who knew
>>586337313You’re compromised. The female anus is much better than the pussy.
Not a single tiefling deserves to live
>>586337413meant for >>586337182
>>586337581Nah bruh
jen
>a woman's body? let me fixate on something you have in common with menlittle sugar in the tank
>>586337702She's so perfect...
>>586337573what about neeshka
>>586337758corr blimey
>>586337750Women and men also share eyes and mouths.
>>586337846and if you favor an eyeball over a vagina you are not straight coded
>>586337820Indeed
>>586337932Eyes are windows to the soul, much like the anus. A pussy is just a reproductive hole that bleeds every month.
>>586337573I love all tieflings, from haerdalis to woljif to karlach
https://youtu.be/dpRij3RuWa8?si=lSOKzzggzWV8C0chYeah, this the one.
>>586323469(emphasis)
Why did Larian even release Booming Blade?
>>586338120a real crpg!
>>586338136Do NOT swear on 4chan.org
>>586338120you already posted this one, KILL YOURSELF
>>586337758>>586337934not a crpg
>>586338242you can't prove he's the same person!
>>586338313Being creepy is a /crpgg/ pastime
>>586338176they already had true strike
>>586330626the expanse has companions, besides they always said it was going to be a mass effect-like more than a "hardcore" crpg.
>>586338313>>586338428crpg
>>586324678No, you're just used to VTMBstylization. Graphically, what they've shown so far looks way better than VTMB2
>>586338630anyone who simps over medieval fantasy women is a moron. hairy, doesnt wash, no concept of most sex acts. SHIT
>>586338591You checked off one whole box! I bet you’re so proud.
>>586334317>n*il polishdigsuting
>>586333304i guess rtwp games aren't 'crpgs'
>>586338721kill yourself x 3
>>586338738That’s what makes it hot. I would give everything I have to smell a medieval womans asshole.
god i want to sex VAsmodern CRPGs should just scan their VAs like kojima doesthey don't evne need to add in the sex scenes
>>586338721I wouldn't want a nuhunter game to look like a VtM game, though.
>>586339021I agree.
Unreal engine 5 is the worst thing to ever happen to vidya
https://youtu.be/XwtLmS1ZOHk?si=-ur5ry04_Mumsserthe legend speaks!
>>586339578our fav dev
>>586339578My hero
>>586339474*spreads vaseline on your post*
that one was a little unsubtle, even if I couldn't see your chats
Damn caves and all their dust, it's irritating my eyes! Always thought this little interaction was great, on my first playthrough by the time I got here I'd forgotten all about this plotline.It's also not overly dramatic - that's very tactful - but this simple sentence, bres, this sentence hits me hard.
Camellia Gwerm*runs*
virgin?
Cam the SoB
>>586340234shitty edit
>>586339474good thing creation engine 3, fabletech, and larian's engine exist
>>586340514delete this
>>586340463In about ten years engines won't exist as a viable business. It'll be cheaper and faster to vibecode something bespoke for your game, providing the speed and simplicity benefits of a current day pre-made engine but without all the bloat. Tim is trying to pivot hard to make the engine AI friendly to try and salvage the business, but I think he sees the writing on the wall. I'd look for him to exit entirely in a year or two and leave the final winding down to someone else.
>>586340514That rapier makes no sense.
>>586340514CAMBROS.. WHY DOES SHE KEEP DOING THIS?!?
>>586340850its autism like that that made her cuck you
>>586338523>A worthless cantrip that should never be used>An auto pick cantrip for all melee characters that gives you free damage and replaces your standard attack No but seriously, why the fuck would they release something like that? Forces you to play high elf so you get that.
I got secret footage of what stella is gonna look like
>>586291734>TQI dropped Encased in early 2023, and I think that was the last CRPG I dropped and never went on to finish laterThat was a rough time in general for playing CRPGs for me though, dropped Viking and Shadowrun: Returns before it as well, but I did go and finish Viking earlier this yearReturns crashes when trying to load a save or start a new game though, so I'll have to play its campaign in one of the sequels at some point
>>586342689boring
like i said last thread i played and dropped kotor1for me, it's just so streamlined compared to previous bioware titlesthe apartments are all the same circles with rooms that also look the same so one has to keep checking the mapvery consolizedi guess that's why i keep hearing about BG1/2 and maybe DAO but not much kotor
One could say IRIS is a bit cliché, sure, but I liked Arke the first time I did it.At this point the player is very familiar with the formula most of these "dungeons" follow and in here it gets, in a sense, subverted.
>>586342689No she won't. Looks nothing like the concept art or the model
>>586342689Not bald enough
>>586345032cant even see her pubes retard
The Wayward Realms>Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall spiritual successor >proprietary engine>action-based skill growth>8 playable races>virtual GM rewrites quests based on player actions>500,000 square kilometer open world>"ready when it's ready"Ted Peterson and Julian LeFay from daggerfall, calling it a new subgenre they’ve dubbed the “Grand RPG”.
>>586339578why is he tatted up like a bpd whore
Kinda suck that the "messianic/deus ex machina" that let you save most of innocent is angel path (feel a bit too religious for me so I don't vibe with it that much) while Azata despite being more humanely idealistic doesn't let you save actual innocents like Kyado etc. while letting you redeem uhhh, Minagho? Who give a shit about that whore?
>>586345994>feel a bit too religious for me
yes i invented the grand crpg
>>586346846Well to be exact I am not Christian so I am not super-invested in the whole angel = ultimate force of good in the universe thing. Probably why I never really get into warhammer40K/RT either with the whole god emperor totally-not-jesus dude that the narrative force you to revere him unquestionably.
I am Coatl. I know not where my parents found my name, but it is my name. The sun has baked me golden brown, though one will notice I do not look like others at a prolonged glance. I work for Feng the loremaster. I love history and myth. Though I doubt that will lead to anything important (MAJOR FORESHADOWING)
As if the verbal abuse from the Expedition automatons wasn't enough....However, to be fair, by release order, these came first.
>>586345994shitzata is not about saving innocents. It's about sniffing your own farts while bragging about having a moral highground
>>586348010I confess. I am not an honest man. It's impossible to be in these times, much less in this shithole. Feng doesn't know. And he does not need to know. One word to the thieves, and they would have me killed. Granted, I think I'd manage to do one of them in before I'd fall.
>>586348221Better than being Iomedes' bitch, at least.
>>586348390The sun might have baked much more than you skin, Coatl. Looking at you I don't think you could handle a singly anything in combat, friend.
You'd be surprised at what you can find just laying around. What people are willing to give you if you just say the right thing. Just what you can do if you set your mind to it.>>586348838You have no idea the amount of blood that will stain my hands by the end of this
>>586349027what game
I don't think the stories are as simple as any of us believe.>>586349132Age of Decadence
>>586349217>Age of Decadencelooks cool...
Using the schematics I stole from the blacksmith, I forged myself a weapon and a lightweight armguard. Don't need much armor if I just dodge after all. I don't know why I was drawn to the khopesh. It just looked...beautiful to me. I didn't know it then. I didn't know how useful an axe, sword, and sickle in one was. But they'd know. All would know.I tasted blood for the first time, and I couldn't stop.
The first thing that struck me was how exciting it all was. The sprays of blood, the cries, the rush. But, most of all, just how easy it was. A sword's edge alignment means every strike will draw blood if it touches flesh. Just one good cut, and you're bleeding profusely. I was too drunk on battle to notice how wounded I was. It's a good thing I stole salves from the alchemist staying at the inn. I would've never recovered otherwise.I don't remember why I even approached them. I think I just wanted to see if I could kill them. And I did. Maybe if someone stopped me, I would've never turned out the way I did. But no one could stop me. No one.
>>586348221>moral high groundlol most of the time it's not even that, the path is more about impulsive freedoms and natural beauty. the line that separates demon and azata is just that demons are actually fucking miserable
When I discovered I was good at killing, really that I had a taste for it, I went to Neleos. I just killed 4 men singlehandedly and thought I was a demon, like most young men. Why not kill and get paid for it? The imperial guards thought I was too weak, and I fought more with finesse and brain than brawn. Truthfully, I didn't even know what finesse was. Not yet, at least. I could barely nick a heart at the time.
People underestimate how much it takes to kill a man and overestimate how much it takes to die. Even if you slit a man's throat to his spine, he might give off one dying slash, a twitch of his hand. A ruptured lung, a pierced heart, or severed blood vessel. When you finally figure out where, how, and when to attack... You are above all others. Not even the Boatmen were that skilled.
>>586350936>he got the bad end
>>586351267I didn't get a demon end, I went legend, had amazing sex with Arueshalae and never went back to finish demon after the fork.
>>586347485No wonder chuds love 40k. Pseudo Christianity and space fascism are hailed as top gs power fantasy in this setting.
I don't know what madness made me break into the Daratan Compound. Really, Antidas was lucky Aurelian had not contracted the Boatmen at the time. It was far too easy to kill his men and rob him. To think he'd let me go with promise of the map and an unfaithful pledge of loyalty.
>>586347485>>586351627You're both painfully unfunny with this fake reddit spiel. Stop it.
is fallout new vegas considered a crpg
>>586351761it has a dude speaking over slideshows for the end and the slideshows change depending on what you doI say yes
Why does it always have to be skeletons, why can't someone put in the effort to make an animated dancing bone dragon?
To kill or not to kill. It would've been easy to kill Esbenus and his men, especially after their attack on the smelter outpost. But who was to say I wouldn't have use for him sometime later? To think it would lead to something utterly unimaginable. Neither of us knew. Only he was afraid though. I knew what that thing was.
>>586351750Anon why are you a raging faggot?
In the end, I crossed Feng. I was with the Boatmen then. And a liegeman of Antidas. Cassius knew more than he did and taught me more. His use dried up. I knew where I needed to go if I was to learn more: Maadoran.The
An Ordu and a sheep herder. That's who Miltiades hired to kill naive traders and merchants. I knew it was a trap. I just wanted the gold they'd taken from others. And I knew he was setting me up for another trap after I killed those two. What can I say. I had fun.
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A noble with a steel gladius and his two bodyguards came next. They fared as well as the last two. I could've talked them down, but I wanted his clothing and his sword. Miltiades would get me into these predicaments again in the future. And I can't blame him for it because I knew what I was getting into every time.
Any wise man would've stopped after walking into the first four obvious traps. I was wise, but I wanted to feel my axe-sword cleave through flesh more. That was the last of everyone troubling in Teron. Well, almost. I myself cannot believe what I did next looking back, but I still did it. I wanted to feel alive. I wanted to be the best.>>586353198honest mistake
I wish I had fought Dias. Specifically, he was aware of my hostility before I shot him with the crossbow. Neleos and Fulvio died too quickly. Coltan taught me how to mix salves and poison for my blade, killing my enemies even faster through their blood, but he was too slow and old to stop me from hacking him apart before he could shoot me with a poisoned crossbow bolt. I will never forget Agatai. Hulking Ordu bastard. I had to choke him with a well-thrown bolas to his throat. I cleaved his head twice and he still wouldn't die. But he fell soon after when I hacked into his chest.I didn't do it because I was afraid of the guards' retaliation if we killed their commander. I did it because I wanted to assassinate assassins. To see if I was superior. And I was.
The rogue trader dlc will save this general
>>586354770Fallout Neo Vagina2 will save this general
The look on Dellar's face when I, who swore allegiance to Antidas, killed Antidas was hilarious. He was a strong and tough bastard, clad in steel instead of iron. I was too busy trying to survive to properly face off with him. As much as I regret that, I'd come to face far stronger than Dellar.
>>586355094Everyone say thank you to Sawyer
>>586351750Why? Are you feeling called out? Can't man up and be honest about it?
I don’t want this general saved. I want it to die. And through death - rebirth into something better.
That was the first time I met Gaelius. To meet a lord and tell him with a straight face you killed one of his kind and there is nothing he can do about it because of the laws they set... It was an experience I'll tell you that. He should've realized what kind of man I was then. Darista had to have told him what I did to the Boatmen in Teron. Everyone probably thought we were an unstoppable match. A man with a powerful mind and a man with a powerful blade. No one knew I was both.
I could've killed Hamza, and I wanted to, but I had no need nor want of service in the Imperial Guard. We'd meet each other again eventually. The Boatmen still had a score to settle with me. Fact I went to Gaelius probably kept their knives away from my back, at least for a time. That's when everything began to change
>>586356532The namefag identification and gossip general, or /nigg/
>>586348010I love Age of Decadence.
>>586356532Spoken like a true unclean one.
I wish I could say I stopped walking into obvious traps, but that would be a lie. I made some excellent reinforced leather jerkins and a sword made of steel from weapons I looted. Compared to my later work, they were pieces of shit, but they'd do. They would take me to the deepest pit of Maadoran.IfounditthereIfounditthereIfounditthereIfounditthereIfounditthereIfounditthereIfounditthereIfounditthereIfounditthereIfounditthereIfounditthereIfounditthereIfounditthere
Positioning and terrain advantage are just as important as being able to slaughter anything in your path. Granted, once you reach true mastery, there's very little that can halt you.
>>586356532they just follow youthe same people have hopped generals for years
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How can I get a lot of BP in kingmaker? I ran out of gold
>>586358846get more gold and run out again
You would not believe the things I saw even if I told you. All I can say is I have killed kings and gods. Call me a liar. It will not change the truth. I know what I have done.
>>586351957always have to do everything myself... even animating what should have been the lich bone dragon companion
Kemnebi wasn't bad, for a self-admitted mercenary in every sense of the word. Hell, I was probably one of the worst people in Maadoran. But by then, I was the greatest smith alive and one of the deadliest killers in the land. I'd be the best soon after.
I still remember the first "true" khopesh I ever made. From blue steel, an allier of steel and cobalt. Light as a feather, fast and deadly as lightning. Carved through the arena like parchment.
How much longer until underrail 2?
No light armor could withstand the force of any weapon made by my hands. Very little armor could impede a weapon made and wielded by my hands. I was still a child flailing a sword then. It was a disgrace to the blades I made. But I would learn. And their full potential would make itself known as mine did.
Of the men I faced in the arena, I could only give my respect to Mack. He nearly killed me. If his knife was just an inch the left, he would've stabbed my heart. My khopesh carved him apart.
Three men in steel. A miniscule unit that had known each other for years working against a single killer. It was by now Gaelius and the rest of Maadoran knew I was something else. Even I wasn't sure I was near this caliber after assassinating a chapter of assassins. It was so easy. And I was just middling by my own standards then.
>>586345421>virtual GM rewrites quests based on player actionsIf this means what I think I've never seen it not be ass. But everything else sounds exciting.
I wish I could tell you now that the champion Al Sahir was special. But he wasn't. I baited him into coming toward me, threw a bolas at his throat, and cleaved at his head while he was unbalanced until he died. Even Agatai took more than that, and he had no helmet or blue steel armor.
>>586345421>"ready when it's ready">Julian LeFay
Sometimes I wish I knew how Miltiades did it. Then I remembered I willingly went along with his nonsense even if it risked my life. Some men are prey by nature. I am simply too deadly to be made prety.
>>586348174somebody played kotor1 and liked HK-47
an azata PC would definitely be into the idea of cuckolding
That's when the 40 Thieves began to get uppity. The first shake down team after Miltiades was one thing. Eliminating their main enforcers keeping the peace was another. In my defense, I told them to fuck off.
