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As hard as it was to get, The Tower of Power was solid, standing erect over the competition.

This wrinkly, flaccid dingle-dangle pales in comparison to the pitch-black proud pillar of raw potent power of the original.

I think bloodborne holds a lot of reverence because of the themes it portrays. Besides Sekiro, which also has a cult following, all the other Souls games are based in and around medieval fantasy of some sort.

Bloodborne starts in Victorian England with a Van Helsing story and the descends into Lovecraft really fast. For a lot of people, myself included, that’s inherently a more interesting setting than medieval fantasy. People who are into victorian England are really passionate about it, and people who are into Lovecraft are really into Lovecraft.

It’s an excellent game, was a lot of peoples first From Software game, and unlike the majority of big titles from that time period, hasn’t been ported, updated or remastered.

Additionally, out of all the “Souls” games, Bloodborne is still the only one that can’t be played at over 30fps.

Puts on mask pretending to be Sony

“Bloodwha? Whatborne? Never heard this word before in my life. Doesn’t look anything to me”

The verticality is absolutely the best part. My biggest gripe with Elden Rings world is that it’s an “open world” game in kind of the same way Ubi games are. Traversal is largely trivial, so you stop paying attention to the map after you’ve reached major areas.

In my opinion, Dark Souls I is also an open world game, but instead of a 2D map all the zones are tangled up together in a confusing but interesting web.

Shadow of the Erdtree brought some of that back by having zones stacked on top of each other to a much heavier degree than the base game, while also segmenting off geographically close regions.

I wanted to be a level designer for a lot of years, so this is admittedly a bit of a soft spot for me, but I absolutely loved having the game world come at you as as a challenge, almost a character to be fought and bested, outside the legacy dungeons.

Slight correction: A zealot barbarian, who would have otherwise been dead, has such a low amount of HP that they’re vunerable to the sleep spell.

Zealot barbs have the same mountain of HP as every other barb, so they need winding down before Sleep will touch them.

Nah.

2016 was brilliant for its minimalism. No plot needed, no introduction, just tight combat and metal.

You don’t improve on that with more mechanics, more plot and more MTX.

What about a technology permit, so you’re only allowed to develop technologized products if you get a permit from the Ministry of Proprietary Technology.

Semiautomagic

Not to be a dick, because I agree, but this doesn’t really answer the question.

The same goes for a lot of big-name software.

They know you’re pirating their software. Almost everything phones home, whether you pirate it or not. Unless the ping comes from a MAC address of a machine bought by a company, they don’t care.

I’m curious as to how quickly BG3 rule changes will start making their way into tabletop house rules and 3rd party supplements.

My guess is pretty quickly, if my own group is any worthwhile measurement.