R_J_K75
Legend
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Geek Confessional Thread 2024 [NOW 2025!]
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TheAlkaizer
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Oh man. I don't know how I missed this thread. I don't tend to yuck other people's yum, but I'm very opinionated and love discussing art and culture.
That's what comes to mind.
- The Hobbit movies get a lot of hate. But I actually think the first one is absolutely excellent. The other two quickly go down in quality.
- I think Rogue One is overrated. It's a good movie. It shines by comparison with the atrociously low quality of other Star Wars medias. But there was some weird parts.
- I think the classic D&D settings like Mystara, Greyhawk and the Forgotten Realms are incredibly boring. Not saying there's not some interesting nuggets, but overall I think it's all nostalgia. In all honesty, I haven't dug really deep, but I do own and have read some of the products and adventures.
- I actually think most TTRPGs a pretty poorly designed. I think that most people don't understand what designing means.
- I think the D&D movie was pretty bad (it seemed to be well received on this forum notably).
- I think a lot of the older D&D books (original D&D, ad&D) are near unreadable and poorly edited. If you put me on a desert island with them and no knowledge prior I would not be able to tell you what to do with it. The OSR gets some flak for being a romanticized reimagination of a way of playing that never was exactly that way, but at least they make some effort to make their stuff readable and comprehensible.
- Any franchise that shifts into time travel or multiverse has a 98% chance to become naughty word. I don't know they all do it, but it always ends badly.
- I like Critical Role and I like Matt Mercer. But I think his worldbuilding is quite bad and uninteresting.
- Gonna take the word confessional at face value: I like bikini chainmail and sexy sword-wielding ladies. I'm generally sensitive to having interesting and developed female characters and having a good representation. But I think Conan and the fantasy pulp genre just broke me that way.
- Superman is utterly uninteresting.
- I don't watch that much anime, but the aesthetic made it into video games. It absolutely shocks me how incredibly popular games portray what is essential little girls in very sexualized outfits. People catch them, collect them and all these weird patterns. I don't know it gets a pass.
- I think the overwhelming majority of board games are boring. There was a huge wave of heavily thematized games, especially with Kickstarter. They're all boring. The simple, more abstract board games are way more fun. You won't make me feel like I'm a Viking sacking islands. I'm playing with cards, meeples and a cheap cardboard printed in China. I think I don't have this problem with RPGs because of the theater of the mind, it takes me away from the absurdity of what's going on at the table.
- I think the Fallout games are pretty bad, and the aesthetic and concept of it is way too weak to carry a full franchise. Yes that includes New Vegas. It's a decent game, the only one I really put some hours into without pushing myself. But I don't think it's as good as people make it to be.
That's what comes to mind.
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Scribe
Legend
Mind of tempest
(he/him)advocate for 5e psionics
honestly yeah also I find the charicter not bad but rather done
pukunui
Legend
I can't say I hate the game because I've never played it ... but the turn-based nature is one thing* that is keeping me from playing it. Turn-based combat is annoying enough at the gaming table. I don't want to have to suffer through it when playing a video game as well!
*The price is the other main reason.
Thomas Shey
Legend
Shows you the difference in people. Generally I consider realtime combat in a computer game a plague.
billd91
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Wow. Being turn-based is one of the definite engine improvements over Baldur's Gate 1 and 2. Considering 5e's casting times are a lot more compressed than AD&D's, maybe the issue would have been much reduced - but trying to target enemies with an area-effect spell with BG1 and 2 sucked and was a definite break from the feel of AD&D back in the day. BG3's turn-based action totally fixes that and the feel is much more of a 1:1 translation.
pukunui
Legend
Real Time with Pause can be nice, but I'm more of a FPS gamer myself, so I prefer that style even in CRPGs. Like with the various Dragon Age games, I pretty much never use the tactical combat stuff. I'll press pause occasionally but mostly I just play out combats hack-n-slash style.
Same with my Fallout 4 playthroughs. I only really use VATS to help me locate hiding enemies. I don't like the targeting system so never really bother with that aspect of it.
Yeah, no, I just don't want turn-based combat in a visual medium. It's tolerable when I'm playing at the table with minis or a digital map with tokens because real time combat just isn't feasible there, but not when I'm playing a computer game. I want to feel that "heat of the moment" / "seat of your pants" real time feel. It makes me feel like I'm really there. Turn-based combat just takes me out of the moment too much. I guess maybe I also enjoy testing my reflexes more than I enjoy being strategic? I'm very much a "kick in the door" / "leap onto the back of the dragon" action hero kinda guy.
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing (He/They)
I cut my gamer teeth on JRPGs like Final Fantasy, Ultima, and Dragon Quest, so I love turn-based combat in my video games. It's actually my favorite way to play an RPG of any kind: CRPG, TTRPG, JRPG, whatever the heck Ni No Kuni is...
I think it's the Tactical mode that keeps me interested in the Dragon Age franchise.
I think it's the Tactical mode that keeps me interested in the Dragon Age franchise.
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