Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #37

[Centurion]

Here’s the full thing

[The Good Doctor]

The funniest part of all this is the notion that Bethesda’s world is written well enough to be an actual place.  

[BigBossBalrog]

https://www.ign.com/articles/the-witcher-remake-will-be-open-world-cd-projekt-red-confirms

Seems like the Witcher 1 Remake is going to be "Witcher 1" only in name, seems like a completely different game. Can't say i'll miss the janky ass combat 

[The Good Doctor]

This is so well-edited.  

@Celan @ColonelKillaBee 

[Celan]

"Some loser" lol

[TheCzarsHussar]

30 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

This is so well-edited.  

@Celan @ColonelKillaBee 

I love how everyone is cooking food, meanwhile Waltuh is just decked out in his biosuit and chem station

[ColonelKillaBee]

1 hour ago, The Good Doctor said:

This is so well-edited.  

@Celan @ColonelKillaBee 

this is fucking amazing xD The editors just slamming his dick on the table showing off their skills.

[BigBossBalrog]

Another Samurai recomdation; watch Kangemusha (Shadow warrior). It was one of Akira Kurosawa's last movies (Ford Coppola and mother fucking GEORGE LUCAS () helped make it).  Some of the most breath-taking usage of color i've seen recently. The plot is pretty unique too; a feared Daiymo takes on a body double, then dies, and his council of Generals decides to trick the enemy by putting his body double as a stand-in.  

[Centurion]

On 11/14/2022 at 1:26 AM, BigBossBalrog said:

As a preview for the main mod, the Skyrim extended cut team are releasing an overhaul of the Saints and Seducers Creation Club DLC, with full voice acting and proper quests 

They should do this for Ghost of the Tribunal CC. Literally the only reason in updated to AE lol

[The Good Doctor]

Just now, Centurion said:

They should do this for Ghost of the Tribunal CC. Literally the only reason in updated to AE lol

That’s one of the only CC questlines that has the potential to be halfway worth a damn without a total overhaul.

Granted, it’s still noncanon trash and I hate the implications it wants to have on the lore, but at least the actual content is slightly deeper than "read badly written note, kill enemy, loot shiny new thing, end". And the Tribunal faithful are a good idea in concept.

[BigBossBalrog]

51 minutes ago, Centurion said:

They should do this for Ghost of the Tribunal CC. Literally the only reason in updated to AE lol

They did SS cause everyone owns it  I think they said they'll do this for every major content addition. 

[Centurion]

1 hour ago, The Good Doctor said:

That’s one of the only CC questlines that has the potential to be halfway worth a damn without a total overhaul.

Granted, it’s still noncanon trash and I hate the implications it wants to have on the lore, but at least the actual content is slightly deeper than "read badly written note, kill enemy, loot shiny new thing, end". And the Tribunal faithful are a good idea in concept.

Yeah I just like it because of the shiny things lol, but an actually fleshed out quest line and removal of pseudo Dagoth Ur and ash zombie and it would fit perfectly. The whole Dagoth ur thing is the only reason it sucks, besides you know being cc content

[BigBossBalrog]

@The Good Doctor

Apparently Calistico has really good melee combat, hadn't expected it from a survival horror game. Is out in a couple days, might want to backlog it 

[TheCzarsHussar]

3 minutes ago, BigBossBalrog said:

@The Good Doctor

Apparently Calistico has really good melee combat, hadn't expected it from a survival horror game. Is out in a couple days, might want to backlog it 

 

[BigBossBalrog]

12 minutes ago, Centurion said:

Yeah I just like it because of the shiny things lol, but an actually fleshed out quest line and removal of pseudo Dagoth Ur and ash zombie and it would fit perfectly. The whole Dagoth ur thing is the only reason it sucks, besides you know being cc content

Good suggestions, but I feel the "we communicate by repeating vanilla lines and hand you letters" to be the first thing that has to go 

[Centurion]

17 minutes ago, BigBossBalrog said:

Good suggestions, but I feel the "we communicate by repeating vanilla lines and hand you letters" to be the first thing that has to go 

Well duh. Doesn’t even need to be mentioned

[The Good Doctor]

19 minutes ago, Centurion said:

Yeah I just like it because of the shiny things lol, but an actually fleshed out quest line and removal of pseudo Dagoth Ur and ash zombie and it would fit perfectly. The whole Dagoth ur thing is the only reason it sucks, besides you know being cc content

Remove the Dagoth Ur thing and Trueflame and I’d be mostly okay with it. 

Hell, you could even keep the ash zombies. But instead of making the Big Bad a guy hearing Dagoth Ur’s voice in his head, just make it one of his Sixth House lieutenants. "Dagoth Ubababu" or some crap like that.  The Ash Zombies are fakes anyway.

Though the Tribunal cult should be based somewhere other than directly beside Raven Rock. That area has been occupied by Nords and later Redoran for the entire 4th Era. It makes zero damn sense that they could’ve hollowed a giant chamber, built these giant statues, and operated successfully without anyone noticing. And all for no logical reason.

[The Good Doctor]

Besides all that, I’ll never not be pissy that the CC was used for out-of-place nostalgia bait instead of actually fleshing out and supplementing Skyrim itself. No real Nordic, Forsworn, or dragon content, nothing for the old pantheon that everyone has been wanting since 11/11/11. Just cheap rip-offs of Morrowind, Oblivion, Blades (for some reason, I guess because they had the assets available), and their DLCs. Skyrim can’t just be its own game, it has to be this weird crossover event that all the different games randomly culminate in, and the Dragonborn has to have everyone’s toys!

[BigBossBalrog]

1 minute ago, The Good Doctor said:

Remove the Dagoth Ur thing and Trueflame and I’d be mostly okay with it. 

Hell, you could even keep the ash zombies. But instead of making the Big Bad a guy hearing Dagoth Ur’s voice in his head, just make it one of his Sixth House lieutenants. "Dagoth Ubababu" or some crap like that.  The Ash Zombies are fakes anyway.

Though the Tribunal cult should be based somewhere other than directly beside Raven Rock. That area has been occupied by Nords and later Redoran for the entire 4th Era. It makes zero damn sense that they could’ve hollowed a giant chamber, built these giant statues, and operated successfully without anyone noticing. And all for no logical reason.

"Dagoth Ur has somehow returned with dark ash sorcery the Ash Vampires only knew"

[The Good Doctor]

Just now, BigBossBalrog said:

"Dagoth Ur has somehow returned with dark ash sorcery the Ash Vampires only knew"

They did get dangerously close to pulling a "somehow Palpatine returned" on us, didn’t they?

[BigBossBalrog]

5 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

They did get dangerously close to pulling a "somehow Palpatine returned" on us, didn’t they?

I could see Bethesda resorting to resurrecting a highly popular villian like Dagoth just for fan-service brownie points to get hype going from a certain part of the fandom 

Imagine if that ends up being the case and they foreshadowed it in a fucking Creation Club content pack 

[Centurion]

11 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

Besides all that, I’ll never not be pissy that the CC was used for out-of-place nostalgia bait instead of actually fleshing out and supplementing Skyrim itself. No real Nordic, Forsworn, or dragon content, nothing for the old pantheon that everyone has been wanting since 11/11/11. Just cheap rip-offs of Morrowind, Oblivion, Blades (for some reason, I guess because they had the assets available), and their DLCs. Skyrim can’t just be its own game, it has to be this weird crossover event that all the different games randomly culminate in, and the Dragonborn has to have everyone’s toys!

Cough “the cause” cough. It is the way it is because Bethesda wanted to monetize mods, and then released the shittiest “officially supported” content possible

[The Good Doctor]

4 minutes ago, BigBossBalrog said:

I could see Bethesda resorting to resurrecting a highly popular villian like Dagoth just for fan-service brownie points to get hype going from a certain part of the fandom 

Imagine if that ends up being the case and they foreshadowed it in a fucking Creation Club content pack 

They basically did. It’s implied that the ghost of Dagoth Ur is speaking to the Big Bad even though Morrowind was explicit about his existence being tied to the enchantments we remove from the Heart of Lorkhan.

They did it with Oblivion too. Bringing back an Oblivion Gate even though Martin was clear about them being sealed forever.

Hell, Umbra came back despite the novels literally ending with his complete destruction and total reabsorbtion into Clavicus Vile.

[BigBossBalrog]

2 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

They basically did. It’s implied that the ghost of Dagoth Ur is speaking to the Big Bad even though Morrowind was explicit about his existence being tied to the enchantments we remove from the Heart of Lorkhan.

They did it with Oblivion too. Bringing back an Oblivion Gate even though Martin was clear about them being sealed forever.

Hell, Umbra came back despite the novels literally ending with his complete destruction and total reabsorbtion into Clavicus Vile.

Creation Club isn't canon though? 

[The Good Doctor]

1 minute ago, Centurion said:

Cough “the cause” cough. It is the way it is because Bethesda wanted to monetize mods, and then released the shittiest “officially supported” content possible

Funniest thing in The Cause, and proof of how lazy it was, is that there is a dremora enemy wielding the Scourge mace.

For those who don’t know, the lore for the Scourge states that is that it instantly banishes any daedra who attempts to wield it.

They had all the artifacts to choose from, or even could have made one up, but they ended up choosing the one and only artifact that specifically cannot be wielded by a dremora, and gave it to a dremora. 

Almost as funny as the Divine Crusader gear being worn by bandits even though you can’t wear it in Oblivion unless you’re righteous or you go through a lengthy and honest atonement process. But at least they fixed this one in a patch.