Yeah, you can keep him and romance. Also the 3 daughters seem ☂incidental but all of them went on to be very prominent figures. Sadly oichi died not long after, you can play that mission in Nioh 2 haha

Absolutely spot on haha. It's a fun game, great combat, but the whole culture war is as unhinged as flat earth and almost entir🧔ely imaginary. BG3, veilguard, ac shadows, any game that dares to have anything gay or black is suddenly "woke", doomed to fail.. Except 💃when they're a huge success, then they immediately move on. If it's stellar suddenly the crowd imagines a war against it when nobody cares except Bible bashers.

I just can't imagine living like that and actually caring about this crap, it's just th✤e craziest corners of the internet being really loud. Puritans bible weirdos, edgelord incels, corporate bigshots & conspiracy nutters are all in the same party under the orange man now and it's surreal

I played the original in 4th grade in the late 90s, definitely iconic as crap but the remakes are great, itꦕ's int๊eresting hearing your perspective on it. The meta elements are fun for returning players but it's also 95% of the original remade.

If you do get around to the originals (can just play the roms on your phone) skip 8, it's crap. 9 is really good, not quite 7 but good. 10 is iconic and still ⛄looks great, 12 has the most ambitious combat, worldbuilding and I love it but it has an abrupt ending. 6 is iconic too but might be too old for your tastes.

Haha actually, having been a fan of From games since the original Demons Souls, Sekiro was the best, Elden was definitely great but a step backwards in gameplay, and now it's mega mainstre🌳am, cashing in on multiplayer fads? I couldn't give a crap 😆 not go𝔉ing to play those.

I 100% agree, Hades, hollow knight, these a🅺re somꦍe of the most iconic games of the last decades and silksong is a game for pure unadulterated video game mechanic bliss, not a mass produced Michael bay property

It's funny to be confused why shenm𓄧ue is on the list haha when you list every single reason why in ✱regards to why KCD doesn't cut it.

It was the first free roam open world-ish game, 3d exploration, mini games, story focus, comba𒉰t, it's the janky progenitor to most modern games. Yakuza eventually did everything far far far better, and shenmue 3 was comically disappointing, dated and hollow, but the original absolutely deserves the credit.

♊I agree, I absolutely lo🅷ve KCD2 more than the original but it's definitely bizarre, though maybe in regards to NPC design, combat, quests, idk.

I got it as Yasuke, so no worries there. and World Rumors are random, it can be merchants, viewpoints, legendary treasures, or sidequests, won't be the same for everyone. But yeah, always pick ꦜrumor! Scouts are cheap and easy to replace with 200 bucks, world rumors are always useful

The exploration🎶 you're describing is literally identꦰical to what Valhalla did hahaha 🤣

You can see blips in the distance at sync points but need to explore to find them, andও aren't relying on generic quest markers. Honestly Valhalla had the best combat in the series, definitely a bit 🅠bloated but absolutely as good as odyssey, with more souls like combat and not damage sponge enemies.

See I really want to replay again for ꦛthis reason, I wear spectacles and read books so he's actually fairly intelligent in most encounters. I got that cumen a date with that woman and we became buddies, I loved that quest. Henry is still so likable either way. (Love the bearded mod btw)

I agree, while most of the planet universally also is tired of trump and his cult, not really something you want to explore in the game. Though just having a non binary character in itself isn't a big deal, it just feels really anachronistic and bizarre the way it's implemented. Though fantasy and sci fi have always been used to explore real world social issues, similar cults of personality, bigotry &ꦅamp; despots, and outsider characters, and we always had comical aspects like Al🐬istair, dog, morrigan, hawke..it was just done within a grim dark and brutal setting.

The way 1/2 handled dalish slavery and oppression was vastly more complex and dark than the modern ones, the brutality of Tevinter and the templars lobotomizing mages, brutal aristocracy, hell😼 there was also gay romances in DAO..but it was never forced, ham fisted or jarring in that setting.

Idk, on its own veilguard is a fine action adventure game, but it just doesn't feel like dragon age, has a lot of writing issues, and some butthurt rednecks and bib💫le bashers mad it said the no -no words of pronouns isn't really the problem, it's just taash isn't really a well written character regardless.

We 🐓got confirmation that the emaciated zombie isn't cillian thankfully haha, hopefully he does show up as his actual character. Like you, I saw the original in Jr High when it came out, id already been a horror fan since 4th grade, loving RE, Carpenter, Romero etc but it was absolutely groundbrea🌟king, and then Snyder's dawn of the dead came out and zombies went from a niche horror fan thing to just becoming so overblown. I loved weeks later, the helicopter scene was insane, and it was a really solid sequel. I do trust they'll do something new and fresh with it, well see

I've been trying for years haha, with like 100% success once they finally go through with it. Era 1 mistborn is the best entry poin🏅t, maybe even wax and Wayne era 2 but you'd lack the coꦯntext for the world building.

Stormlight 🥀is obviously the magnum opus but it's definitely a beast to dive i🍸nto.

If you haven't listened yet, you HAVE to check out the graphic audio for the🐷 cosmere, fully voiced cast, soundtrack, it's like an adaptation b🐲ut just 100% the book. It's the definitive way to experience stormlight and helped get most of my friends into the series. Hope you're enjoying wind and truth so far!;

I loved dogma 1 back in the day and was absolutely stoked for 2..but oh maaaaannn wa💖s it dull.

Absolutely, the mechanics and combat was really well 🅰done (but not new, everything you described was in the original, (climᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚbing enemies, attacking parts etc)

But t💎he open world was empty, barren, had barely any rewards to speak of to reward your exploration like a BoTW, no amazing locales or vistas to appreciate, it was just bland, and enemy variety was comically limited.

I totally agree with veilguard though, I love the DA series since origins and they played it way too safe with the world building, decisions and plot, but there's still stu⭕ff to love and I liked most of the main cast even if they never challenged you like in the past.

Haha honestly I still can't belieꦯve Zack is the director. I grew up absolutely loving WkUk,🔜 the greatest sketch show of all time, RIP Trevor.

I hope he tosses in a little Easter egg or two like♍ a gallon of PCP or bu💃siness sniper.

Barbarian was sick, and I definitely think it can't be worse than the shlock of the old ones. They brought us the legendary RLM viewing though, where Rich Evans, Jay and Mike lost their minds laughing at the borderline 💮experimental Wesker fight at least.

I immediately supported the stalwarts with some sympathy for frost land🤡ers, just because the stalwarts are loyal to the overseer..which was me in FP1 haha so I wanted to r𒀰eward them for keeping loyal between games, and helping me get my benevolent dictatorship up and running again. 😆

I'm down to explore &🧜amp; expand like the frostlanders want but a techno utopia centralized in the city is solid on a first playthrough, just like in the last game the factions and ideals ✃I totally support in real life can't really work in this setting, sadly cant purge the capitalists and despotic stuff just do the best you can in the frost. Looking forward to seeing the other groups.

Also I used a trainer to just mess around and rapidly expand, really easy to screw yourself with too many people and goods/squ🙈alor are insanely hard to stay on top of

To be fair, other than having context about who Kiryu is, and knowing the events of the previous LAD game, it's mostly standalone and you could play it and follow it fine. It's not the best though, it's solid with a lot of content but not up the🍌re with 0 or 1/2/4/6

But reading wax and Wayne first, before era 1? That's just goofy haha. It builds on so much, establishes the world..the huge reveals at the end of 🤡bands and in TLM would make no sense if you don't know who Kelsier is, plus wtf you'd already know about Harmony and it spoils the events of the original trilogy haha.

But y﷽eah, you still need to finish the series, including judgement. 3 is the one you can skip, it's clunky and kind of a slog. But just Kiwami 1/2 and 5 alone would probably take you a month or two to finish haha. But honestly, I've loved Yakuza for decades and it managꩲed to be everything shenmue attempted but done way better

Haha I've spent🌠 the last decade converting people, especially ones burnt out realizing GRRM will never finish asoiaf (I was a fan since 2003 aꦏnd I got completely over it by '16/'17 haha)

Stormlight is every bit the expansive, lore rich, theory inspiring deep epic, Mistborn and especially wax and Wayne is one of my favorite set🐠tings ever.

The Cosmere just makes it a million t𒐪imes more compelling once you start noticing world hoppers and grasp the basics of his magic systems that link all the stories toge💖ther. Sunlit Man, lost metal & tress leaning into all the Cosmere stuff finally was so rewarding.

And the d🦂udes written 20 books in the time GRRM couldn't finish one.

I absolutely can't recommend it enough. My favorite series of all time, I've listened to Stormlight like 10 times haha. Check out the graphic audio! Its a fඣully voiced cast, soundtrack, the closest thing to an adaptation we have, and the definitive kaladin/Dalinar/Adolin for me, you can never go back to audiobooks and just one person voicing everyone it seems so restrictive. They can be pricey but obviously can be found online for free if you want.