Oh, I did not mean that in a denigrating way. It just goes to show that a project is well and truly fucked by management when the people involved are (justifiably) proud of just getting it out the door in record time. There's also context to be had here because RPGs are hard to make and, at the time, the EA Gold Standard was yearly FIFA sequels. The notion that BioWare could get something out in a year, even something as flawed as Dragon Age 2, seemed like a win for the devs at release.
Of course at the time everyone who played the game had the taste that almost every creative choice in the game was made to try and save on labour and time as much as possible. Setting a whole RPG in a city is if anything a cool idea. But it couldn't reach its potential in Dragon Age 2.
It's funny because its kinda right. BioWare did build an image of moral ambiguity - its just that that was a marketing sham even within the studio.
When you look at Dragon Age: Origins you have a game that was meant to be 'dark fantasy' but all the difficult choices got left behind in the cutting floor. The most egregious example is how they went back and gave you an easy way out of the choice regarding Redcliffe's fate.
BioWare never had the heart to actually follow through that idea of moral ambiguity and once the best thing about Dragon Age 2 was the fact that they churned it out in like a year (which, to be fair, is kinda impressive) the series' tone changed irrevocably with Dragon Age 3.
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goddamn its so easy to be a shill jesus christ
I am addicted to Europa Universalis V despite the fact that's its unfinished and broken beyond belief.
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So, under occupation? Feels like the headline is selling something the Russians might not even accept as Trump chickening out to them.
You gotta alt tab twice. The game will screenshot the last image you tabbed away from.
New World can charitably be called a placeholder continent at the moment. The Andes is even worse I mean, its all dying of hunger permanently at release.
after the number of testimonies reached 11,000 the prosecutors realized that the choco pie catastrophe would amount to a Great Purge of the south korean police and armed forces and called it off
'who is going to arrest them when all police eats choco pies from the fridge?'
For a split second I was truly shocked that any of the games managed to top X-2 then I realized it was Lightning Returns. Makes sense haha
It's less the starting position that matters and more that the devs just constantly throw shit events at you.
You misunderstand: the shit events are a part of Byzantium's starting position. It is meant to fail and you're supposed to succeed in spite of all the shit events. Starting position here is understood as broader than the basic game mechanics like geography or resources or demographics. PDX games do try to emulate the short-term tendencies of the world. Although EU5 is still being adjusted in many ways, the shittiness of playing Byzantium in the first few decades is pretty much as envisioned by everybody. This is different from, say, the entirety of the Andes forever dying of hunger because everything there is a placeholder.
I don't expect Byzantium to be any less shitty to play once the first DLC comes around - if anything I expect it to be worse because by then the Ottoman AI might be better at early expansion. But I do expect Byzantium to get more of a bang for its early game suffering.
It's weird that Byzantium even has Varangians in this time period, I had completely forgotten about that. I suppose the issue there is with side-grades, since I assume you didn't upgrade your infantry into Age 2 Professional Army type levies.
Byzantium is one of the countries that are built to fail, not quite Great Yuan or Dehli Sultanate tier but thereabouts. I wouldn't recommend playing them first, second or fifteenth. That said, byzantium fans are ecstatic about it in the Discord and that's before the first DLC which is Byzantium focused.
So yeah, the game is much less of a railroad than EU4 but like every PDX release the starting position matters a lot on the short term.
Looking for tips on recipes to try with textured vegetable protein. It's neutral in flavor and I have no idea on what to do with it. Someone suggested soaking it in a vegetable broth instead of water, but gosh that didn't work and just ruined what seasoning I was adding onto it.
I love the New York Times.
in portuguese the fatherland is trans