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 3 horses

@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 You should just play Elden Ring

@coriander If you ever play 3 Horses and I haven't played Eldy yet please publically shame me

@wallhackio Also have you played the Pathfinder cRPGs?

@coriander the FUCK are those

@wallhackio https://store.steampowered.com/app/1184370/Pathfinder_Wrath_of_the_Righteous__Enhanced_Edition/