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RE: Empire Discussion Threadposted in Game Gab
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RE: Celebrities We've Lost 2025posted in No Escape from Reality
June Lockhart, 100, famous for being the mom in Lassie and Lost In Space.
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RE: Empire Discussion Threadposted in Game Gab
@Ominous said in Empire Discussion Thread:
I am concerned that this will just be pretty princ(ess)es primping and preening for parties, parades, and promenades without any crunchy politics and intrigue underlying it or flowing from it
This is what Lords and Ladies games are, though, for the most part. And boy howdy do the pretty princ(ess)es get upset when you don’t swoon at their feet and pay them the most fulsome compliments for their daring and delight.
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RE: General Video Game Threadposted in Other Games
@Pavel said in General Video Game Thread:
@somasatori said in General Video Game Thread:
I think he tends to lean heavily into the parody of “sassy gay friend serving,”
If he were the only queer character, I’d agree. But I think, at least to me and in my opinion only, he simply is a sassy gay friend/foe serving. But perhaps that’s my view only because I am the sassy gay friend who occasionally serves…
I haven’t run into any others yet! that’s a good point. I was anticipating this being the only queer character.
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RE: General Video Game Threadposted in Other Games
Marvel Rivals Zombies is simple fun. Best is just being Jeff and swimming around taking down zombies.
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RE: General Video Game Threadposted in Other Games
@somasatori said in General Video Game Thread:
I think he tends to lean heavily into the parody of “sassy gay friend serving,”
If he were the only queer character, I’d agree. But I think, at least to me and in my opinion only, he simply is a sassy gay friend/foe serving. But perhaps that’s my view only because I am the sassy gay friend who occasionally serves…
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RE: Empire Discussion Threadposted in Game Gab
@somasatori I totally agree with this. Each character in the roster could have a set of links to the important world lore that drives their character to help people find what they need to know.
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RE: General Video Game Threadposted in Other Games
@somasatori said in General Video Game Thread:
I don’t really know 5e as much as Revised/20th but the Anarchs are effectively the Sabbat now?
So the quick run down is: The Camarilla lost some major cities (London & Vienna among others) and some major players (Hardestat the Younger and the entire Tremere Council) to Hunters, and the Sabbat quietly packed up their shit and went to fight monsters in the wilderness (quite literally) leaving only small packs of instigators behind to run guerrilla strikes on the Camarilla to funnel resources into the larger Sabbat operation. With the lack of focused Sabbat activity and the Camarilla crackdown on anyone not a member of the Ivory Tower, the Anarchs basically get treated like the Sabbat in a lot of cities, and they respond as one might expect (also they got reinforced by the Ministry / Followers of Set).
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RE: Aegis Company Discussionposted in Game Gab
@Superbia I don’t recognize the username, and basic attempts to check their post history did not work, so shrug
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RE: General Video Game Threadposted in Other Games
If a game could be considered good on vibes alone, Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines 2 would be great. The aesthetic, vibe and appearance of the game is gorgeous and definitely on theme with VTM. It’s not really like… a true sequel to Bloodlines from what I can tell yet, maybe something will come up in the story. It’s also only tangentially a VTM game. The main character has telekinesis powers and can glide through the air like a sugar flyer, which is a bit weird for my Lasombra. Hopefully that’s explained somewhere. Phyre is extremely edgy, but I guess that makes sense for an elder from Constantinople who calls themselves “The Nomad.” Fabien, the Malkavian Johnny Silverhand, is a cool character. His interludes (or the one I’ve seen so far) is fun and more focused around investigation rather than the pure violence/conflict that Phyre does. I do kinda wish they’d just married the two gameplay mechanics into one character and if you didn’t have the disciplines that Fabien does, you would have different methods of accomplishing similar goals, but eh.
The characters are pretty cool. I like Safia (Tremere) and Tolley (Nosferatu), though in the latter case I think he tends to lean heavily into the parody of “sassy gay friend serving,” but it is a big change from the usual way Nosferatu are shown.
I don’t really know 5e as much as Revised/20th but the Anarchs are effectively the Sabbat now? They seem like super anti-Masquerade, burn-everything-down types who are militantly opposed to the Camarilla. It feels like they basically took the Sabbat scripts from the first game and copy/pasted them on this one with the Anarchs.
Outside of it having the Bloodlines tag, it’s a nice action stealth adventure game. It’s not terribly RPG-like, just an action game with some RPG elements like very limited skill progression, but that’s fine if that’s what you want to play. They do a good job with that sort of gameplay.
