Something I think too much fantasy gets wrong is it treats all religions, myths, superstitions, everything as real and factual, thus stripping myth and superstition of a lot of its actual use and power
I get the impulse, of course, it's fun to imagine a world where you actually HAVE to hold your breath when you ride by a graveyard or hidebehinds are real or whatever but when you do it that way, it just saps a lot of the mystique from the world, it ensmallens it
@coriander you need to play fire emblem three houses
@wallhackio I may be a NEET but I don't have that kinda time on my hands
@coriander you played Baldur's Gate 3 you have what it takes
@coriander in all seriousness based on some of the things I see you complain about other people's prose I'm not sure you'll like 3 Horses. The writing is very.... anime
Mechanically the game scratched a very similar itch for me as Baldur's Gate 3. And once I got past the initial few hours of the story I started to realize the game was actually quite thematically rich and kinda based. It does have a good story (a very good one, in fact) but the writing on a moment-to-moment level is not the strong suit
@wallhackio But also yeah I have like
So many other RPGs I need to get through, if I want 100 hours of tactical combat I'll finally get around to playing Owlcat's Rogue Trader game
@coriander there are too many games imo people need to stop making good art
@wallhackio I have like
Three or four cRPGs installed right now and instead I've been playing Stard Ew and Eldy
@coriander stardude is good. I haven't played eldy tho so I can't judge you for that one
@wallhackio How have you not played Elden Ring?
@coriander I wanted to play the other souls first
@wallhackio Well
Have you?
@coriander I've played Bloodborne and 1 and I started 2 but I hated it and I stole 3 from my racist cousin and have it in the house
@wallhackio @coriander you started 2: Scholar of the Last Sin
@aescling @wallhackio You mean Scholar of the First Sin?
@coriander @wallhackio also, other loaf, this is very much not peadentry; my understanding is that they are meaningfully diffurent experiences to play
@aescling @wallhackio They are. It's the same basic game but Scholar has a TON of changes to enemy placement, item locations, etc
@aescling @wallhackio I, controversially, think Scholar is bad but OG is real good
@coriander @wallhackio i remember hbomb describing it as feeling as if desgined specifically to fuck with you if you had purreviously played the original
@aescling @wallhackio It's a ROMhack, basically
I don't mean that necessarily to be pejorative
But that's how it's designed
@aescling @coriander okay, you loaf of pedantry