#its makes the game feel alive

[timetravelingtoamess]

There's a moment in Control's AWE dlc that i really love and its when Jesse takes the elevator and Langston starts talking to her even though she cant respond

His line, "We're SUPPOSED to be on the same TEAM" is so powerful to me and he says it so earnestly like i really just love it, and it made me love his character even more. I hope they do more with him in the next game, and have Jesse address that sort of mentality that the Bureau has

In the same breath, i love the next moment where he just starts GOSSIPING about Darling because 1. I cant get enough of Darling and 2. Theres apparently some drama behind the scenes and i MUST know about

#control game #control #control remedy #remedy entertainment #jesse faden #dr darling #casper darling #langston #control awe #dlc #its just #such good #character moments #its makes the game feel alive

[luck-of-the-drawings]

"I think this is the most inhuman; and human, that I've ever felt.." MUCH CAN HAPPEN IN A YEAR. IN FIVE YEARS. A DECADE. imagine how much can happen in a century. just ONE (1). How will you grow? what phases do you find? even in 5 years, you will find patterns.

#jrwi fanart #jrwi show #jrwi suckening #jrwi suckening spoilers #jrwi the suckening #arthur bennett #HEY SO THE REALLY FUNNY THING THAT THE CHARACTER DID THAT SEEMED RLY SILLY N GOOFY IN THE MOMENT? #LIKE THE WHIPLASH BETWEEN SERIOUS N SILLY ALMOST PISSED YOU OFF? WHAT IF I FOUND A WAY TO MAKE YOU SAD ABOUT IT #this was meant to be a scribble that would be a bigger part of a bigger page.might leave it on that page. #but still. bc o that i nearly posted it onto my wacky side blog.BUT NAYY I SPENT TOO MUCH TIME N ENERGY N YOU GOTTA SEE IT #ARTHUR BENNETT DRIVES ME CRAZY. I FEEL LIKE ITS ODD FOR HIM TO BE SO TECHNOLOGICALLY OUT OF TOUCH #WHERE HAS HE BEEN. HAS HE BEEN IN WAR? IS THAT WHERE MAGNUS CAME FROM? WHERE WAS HE WHEN HE WAS WITH EDWARDS CREW? #ARTHURRR I HAVE QUESTIONS ARTTHUUURR!! HEY CAN I ALSO ASK; WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU BECOME #DO YOU THINK HE HAD ANY IDEA HE WOULD VEER CLOSER AND CLOSER TO THE MONSTER HE DESPISES. ALL BC HE DESERVES IT. OR WATEVER #HE FASCINATES ME SO MUCH. TO LOOK AT THE STONE COLD STOIC FOOL FROM THE START OF THE SHOW #AND TO FIND OUT THAT HE USED TO BE A BAD BOY.. A DELINQUENT... A LIL PRANKSTER.... MY GODDD THATS ADORABLE #I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW MORE.... BUT I DOUBT THE LAST EPISODE IS GONNA ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS..i love arthur bennett so much.... #AS FOR THE ART!! i mostly used the fire alpaca watercolor brush. tbh im not a brush guy. anti aliased default pen tends to be my main game #but LATELY IM SQQQUIRMIN OUT OF AN ARTBLOCK so expirimenting like this is helping #DONT LOOK TOO HARD AT IT!! im still proud tho. colors are fun :3 im also very proud of the backgrounds #I LOVE THE CARTOON THING where the background looks all fancy n painted but the characters are solid colors #what else can i ramble abt. OH YEAH. i looked up the bikes to make sure they were time accurate tehehehe. 1913 to 2012. #almost a century apart!! isnt that neat? ALSO FUUUCK CAN I JUST MAKE A QUICK CONFESSION. DOWN HERE IN MY TAGS. #only the strongest can read my tags anwyay. SO I REALIZED WHY I LOVE ARTHUR SO MUCH. TIME IS A FLAT CIRCLE #while arthur is a Stoic and Cool vampire w a knack for being playful/silly; who alsos been alive fora century thus witnessing HORRORs #THERE HAPPENS TO BE A ROBOT FROM A BAND W A TITANIUM ALLOY SPINAL COLLUMN #WHOS A Stoic and Cool ROBOT w a knack for being playful/silly; who alsos been alive fora century thus witnessing HORRORS #the fuckkkiiinnngggnn The Spine from steam powered giraffe. WHATEVER. i cant escape from my heart. i guess. #i think The Spine and Arthur could be friends. Arthur saw the band perform back when they were the Steam Man Band #EDIT: WOOPS I DIDNT REALIZE THIS WOULD END UP IN THE SPG TAG. HI GUYS DIDNT KNOW U WERE STILL ALIVE SORREE 4 THE CROSS CONTAMINATION

[sonknuxadow]

i just dont get the insistence that silver has to be the child or descendant of some other already existing character in general really ... like surely shadow amy and sonic arent the only hedgehogs that exist in the present? silver could just be some random guy you know. also i honestly think his whole deal is more interesting if hes not anyone special or related to anyone special. and hes just some random kid who was born into a shitty situation and one day decided hes had enough and hes gonna do something about it

#i dont WANT silver to be the son of shadow or the descendant of sonic or whatever i want him to just be some random guy #also i think its so wild when people not only say that shadow is his biological dad #but also that the other parent is another member of the already existing game cast. as if theyre gonna be living that long.. #and peoples choice for the other parent is always some character that would never marry or have kids with shadow in a million years #maybe even never get married or have kids in general #like ive seen people have sonic be the other parent which just feels weird and out of character #but ive also seen people have rouge be the other parent. whihc is jsut straight up repulsive to me. absolutely not #sorry for being a hater (not sorry for bieng a hater about sh/adouge actually if sh/adouge has zero haters i am no longer alive) #but i do think aus where shadow in the future is a mentor or guardian figure to silver can be interesting #im just not into the idea of shadow being silvers dad. especially not his biological dad because it makes no sense

[low-poly-leon]

Woah, slow down babe!

#dmc #devil may cry #mudposting #mud art #I got lazy halfway thru this I don’t care anymore #thog dont caare #I feel like the only guy alive who doesn’t want a remake of this game I don’t want a remake of any game. everyone leave them alone #unless it’s a dmc2 remake because we need context for that game please anything #I need to see HD agonof inis #plus its an excuse to basically just make a new game #what was I going to tag this with. fuck idk #Dante dmc

[brown-little-robin]

How self-insert-y do I want to get with this new oc 🤔

#okay SO she's a former priestess (read: beaurocrat) in training #but then she gets irreversibly possessed by a mild-mannered raccoon monster and they have to coexist while their #shared body is breaking down under the strain of trying to keep up with its two inhabitants (human and monster) #the question is: what do they latch onto as a diversion #a way to expend the new excessive energy that is literally slow-cooking them alive (they get fevers & they have insomnia) #(and the only way for them to survive long-term is to find SOMETHING TO DO that will burn that energy) #my original idea was to have them get into a board game and I had a whole plan for that. but it didn't feel quite right #and now I'm eyeing the idea that they might..... do pottery #would that be self-indulgent?? probably?? but also it's so cool and it would be perfect for themmmm #what plot would work with that though?? HMMMM #PONDERING #MUSING #ET CETERA #Robin speaks #new oc is already so much like me. do I Really want to make her a potter too

[fnafawoundleftbleedingau]

I plan on doing another version with a more detailed background in the future, maybe I'll draw a few more of the animatronics and do either one big piece or a set of 4 based on the sketches I posted yesterday. Either way, I'm really happy with how this turned out, I tried a different pen to ink this to try and maintain the sketchy quality of the original lines, and I really like it! Then I tried using watercolor brushes for the coloring. :3

#insomnia hyena art #fnaf au #insomnia hyena fnaf aus #fnaf: a wound left bleeding au #Fnaf Vanessa #FNaF Plushtrap #I'm just gonna gush about some AU thoughts I had while drawing this #at first I just wanted to make Plushtrap look kinda happy #it still likes to play after all. and even if dress-up isnt a game it was really made to play. its still a game and it'd try it and have fu #i think! But I changed the sketch a little so it was looking up at Vanessa #and it looks like #and i realized it /would/ be. AWLB Vanessa has gone through some shit man. it knows she has #it knows shes not really happy. and when you're that down. you really just /cant/ put in much effort beyond staying alive #dressing up nicely really isn't something on your mind or you feel like youve got it in you to do #but here she is! All dressed up in something really nice! And even though shes a bit reluctant about it. Plushtrap recognizes the effort it #likely took to even try! And its proud of her! #That's its friend that's been terribly sad for so long. and even if its a temporary affair. she felt up for trying something different- #and nice and it's freaking proud and happy for her! ;;

[i-bring-crack]

No one in the history of ever:

Every creator out there that got their hands on the rights of adapting Solo Leveling: Mind if I just *starts packing shit ton of more SL content*

#and we love them forever #eternally grateful for people looking at Chugong's work and being like: baby i can fix you *spams more lore MORE CONTENT* #now the thing is that things begin to contradict each other a lot more than usual #for example the LN SL will have Esil dead #and then in other interpretations she is alive and or she isnt #and then the backstories would be different in game than it would be in SL Rag #and like you can choose which ones you like #but you also are free to not follow canon as much as you want #because these characters arent defined entirely even by canon standards #they are fully fledged in some things #and at the same time they arent fully cardboard #and the more sl content they add the more they feel real to you #but it doesnt stop you from making them however you wish to interpret them #its odd and quirky. but thats cuz we mostly see everyone in a serious situation and not in a realxed one per say #but somehow anything can fit #anyways time to shut up #solo leveling #solo leveling ragnarok #SL Arise #Solo leveling anime

[kithj]

decent video covering the work of kitty horrorshow. for the most part he just goes through each game and relays the plot, but it is interesting to see them all laid out together, how they are similar and how her work has evolved and the common themes that she keeps revisiting in each one. his analysis mainly focuses on the Places that she explores in her games; the environments, the haunted houses, and how they are all "built wrong." he talks about haunting of hill house, house of leaves, myhouse.wad, vivarium, and a few other movies towards the end.

my own ramblings about some of the games under the cut :-)

one thing i've always projected onto haunted houses, and especially some of the hostile, haunted places prevalent in kitty horrorshow's work, is a trans narrative *everyone pretends to be shocked*

sagan does mention this briefly in the video, and he admits that it's not his personal interpretation that he plans to talk about (which is totally fine) but that is very obviously there, these themes of autonomy and transformation in these works all go hand in hand with gender identity, with the trans/nb experience.

so when people talk about a house being "built wrong" it always reminds me of the trans narrative of "born in the wrong body." i know this isn't necessarily a mindset a lot of people still agree with anymore now that our language around being trans has evolved, but i also know there are some people that do still feel this way regardless, and even if we don't completely consider ourselves "born in the wrong body" i think the majority of us do have a very... contentious relationship with our bodies.

i always see a house that is intent on haunting you as a body that is inhospitable.

we see people in kitty horrorshow's work that try and change the world around them, or failing that, that literally change themselves. in rain, house, eternity, the structure we've been traversing is someone who has broken free of her physical form and been reborn into something that she chose for herself, after her community forced her down a path that she did not want. sagan brings this up again at the end of his analysis, where he talks about the way the environment is molded by the player as well as the way the player is molded by the environment. he mentions the movie vivarium, and how people are forced into these littles boxes (ie the nuclear family, gender roles, preconceived stereotypes, etc), whether they want it or not, by their environment and the societal expectations that are a part of that.

but again, the environment can also be molded by the player; it is influenced by the characters within the narrative. the environment grows flesh and teeth and has a heartbeat and i like this idea that our environment is alive and is also flesh and blood that can be reflected back at us. it could be cathartic or horrifying depending on how you feel about your body, about your experiences, about how society perceives you. in the end we can become the structure, we can change ourselves and become our environment, undefinable and infinite, or we can be restricted by it, and forced into something we don't want-- made inhospitable.

there is both a lack of agency in the house being built, but a reclamation in the haunting as someone or something transitions and fills the empty rooms with a new form. stone to flesh or flesh to stone as it is in rain, house, eternity, or drywall to glitches and blood like in anatomy. inhospitable but at least it's mine.

in 000000FF0000, the game itself doesn't even want to be found. it's a living thing that's hidden itself away and is in great pain. it's restricted by its own code, it longs for the seasons and the sea but it can only think about the cages it's been locked in. the only agency it finds is in shutting itself down after the player reaches a certain point. we are forced to be perceived by others, by society, even when we are in pain, even when we aren't really ourselves, due to how we look, how we were born, or whatever other cages society has put us in. the lack of autonomy, the lack of control in our own creation... this game is actually one of the ones that have stuck with me the most, i think it's extremely well executed and impactful and is possibly her second best behind anatomy.

and then there's circadia-- the girl returning to her childhood home, seeing her childhood and memories and her body reflected back at her in this house. wanting to hurt it, feeling trapped by it and how she used to be. the people there that don't really see her as she is now, the trauma literally in the walls. she laments her apartment, missing it "like a lover" because that's the place she carved out for herself versus this house she was forced into, this house that's always there and always waiting for her to come back even though she clearly never wants to come back.

when you're trans, there are always people trying to get you to "come back," to be like you used to be. looking back at yourself, childhood photos and old memories of when people treated you differently. your body a new space now but there are still the bones of that old house you left behind. the world trying to force you back into the house even if it doesn't fit anymore, even if it's painful, even if all you can do is haunt it.... the code in 000000FF0000 confining the game to exist in one way even though it hurts them, no other option but to bury themselves deep in various folders within your computer and hoping to never be found. hiding from the world because there are people that insist these things are hardcoded into your biology, that predetermine how you have to live and there is no other way for you to live. and if you go against that code it breaks the game for them... does that make sense?

and in rain, house, eternity, she demolishes the house and turns herself into stone, she finds autonomy despite what the game wants and what the world wants. indefinable and infinite because there is no binary and the walls of this house are your house to destroy and rebuild as many times as you want in any way that you want.

i definitely recommend kitty horrorshow's work if you've never played any of her games before. she's most well known for anatomy, which i didn't really touch on because it's so popular (for good reason) she does have a few twine games, hornets and wolfgirls in love, and then circadia is just a 5 page flash-fiction. and of course i also super recommend rain, house, eternity, and 000000FF0000. i already linked her itch page up there but here it is again! check her out.

#fellow kitty h. o7 #wow sorry i got annoying under the cut lmfao #stopped abt halfway cus anatomy is pretty well covered at this point and with the haunted cities collections #i'd like to play more of them myself #anyways im sure someone has made this analysis before but its not something ive seen myself #idk the idea of a house being alive and trapped and unable to change and haunting its occupants.... #it feels. familiar. sometimes i feel like im haunting myself #this problem i have where my body is not me #maybe houses feel like that too. you know? #lmfao <- throwing that in to make this less serious teehee #video #dare i put this in the IF tag? sure why not #interactive fiction #games

[theikusabastash]

nmm

sighs dreamily,,,,kirukiyo

#kirukiyo #kirumi tojo #korekiyo shinguji #i keep thinking im over them but then im hit with a wave of danganronpa and here i am scowering the internet for a drop of content for them #something about two silly tall goths #korekiyo is so nonbinary i make the rules #i dont know how to altericrate my emotions about them properly #its been 3 years since my danganronpa phase #but they keep coming back #sometimes i still hear them... #gay gay homosexual #fuck the other games am i right #i think thats why im still only hyperfixated on v3 #back to the haha hehe #they unironically were the biggest mental high for me during my struggling high school experience #they very literally shaped a little part of me #very aware this sounds like im high but i literally dont know if id even be here if it werent for them #by that i mostly mean actually feeling like a normal person and being myself with a hint of un alive juice #okay wait this is getting serious #mmmmmmmmmfaefae #shitpost #adhd rambling #sorry tag long

[the-kipsabian]

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#i had a hangman/swerve fic started that i actually didnt hate but im not gonna finish it for tonight and posting it after makes no sense so #sweeping all that under a rug i guess #cause fuck me trying to do anything anymore #i was pretty happy with the progress too but. its just not happening #i just cant make anything. i cant and trying is not worth it #and i hate fucking saying that cause i know in like two days im gonna go back on that word and start making something again #cause making anything is the only way i feel alive anymore. but then the loop starts all over again and i cant ultimately break it #i dont know what im supposed to do about this. or what i can do. probably fucking nothing cause lbr i just fucking suck and its hopeless #whatever. sorry im just being a bitch once again. im resisting so hard of just deleting everything right now #instead im gonna go be fucking useless and waste time playing video games. cause thats a better use of my time i guess #i fucking guess #night is an absolute mess on main

[du-hjarta-skulblaka]

Mm lovely how quickly feeling mildly frustrated and irritable escalates into full fledged meltdown anyway I GOTTA fins something to do other than stare at my phone today so. Bye

#literally if i hold it a second longer i am going to slam it into the floor until it smashes. #it took everythingvi had not to start smashing every plate and glass we had bc i spilled some soap into a glass i was still drinking from. #i got stuck in a game and slammed the controller against my head hard enough to leave a like 2 inch high bump #i want to throw myself through the window. i want to go for a walk and jump in the river. i want to stand in front of a train. #i want the bannana flavoured cyanide from fallout and the energy drink that makes you high from silt verses #i want it to be fucking OVER and i am SO. FUCKING. SICK. of people telling me itnwill get better because FUCKING WHEN #WHEN WILL IT. ITS BEEN A YEAR AND A HALF. #im literally just existing for weeks at a time until payday and i get to feel alive again for maybe 2 days before the debt settles back #i cant. i cant live like this man

[orbmanson7]

:(

Very bad grade in therapy today

#thought i could make progress this year and yet here i am having done jack shit by now #what has even been the point #i just wanted to do something today that didnt feel awful like try to encourage people to watch a show or play a game #and now im just right back to Why do i bother staying alive? im never going to make any progress #and even if i do I'm going to just be worthless the whole time and waste precious resources others could be using #oh yes just try saying a nice thing to yourself for once! yeah sure that will help when i cant do anything worth a damn #i want to help people but i have no skillsets and no money to further my education and teaching myself gets me right where i already am! #continuing like this is like spitting in the face of anyone who is actually out there pursuing their dreams and thats not fair to them #they put in all that hard work and im over here being a whiny ass bitch bc i want so badly to do better and learn more #but the only thing holding me back is that im a dumbass who cant do anything right and no one will ever think differently #why am i trying to make myself something i can never be? what is goddamn point if its just a waste of everyones time and effort #i just... it feels like the least i can do is just stop taking up space #free up some oxygen for someone who really needs it and shelter for someone who truly deserves it #i shouldnt even have these things and yet i complain about how much gas i have to pay to commute to my jobs #like such an asshole #and i said i so much in these tags bc im such a selfish jerk who coearly doesnt care enough nor has a worthwhile vocabulary to say otherwise #theres just no fucking point to any of this #... #its cold today #might be a good day to do my favorite plan #actually yeah fuck it im gonna go #hope you all stay kind to yourselves and enjoy your 2024 #you absolutely deserve it and everything you can get out of it #keep being amazing yall #see you on the flip side or whatever #orbs thought bubbles

[llitchilitchi]

Oblivion did such a great job with its UI, the choice of fonts was phenomenal, the constant presence of kingthings petrock as subtitles and as the player's journal evoking medieval books, the quest updates framed with floral ornaments that look right out of manuscripts, the little icons tied to specific quests and questlines and the different crests that appear in your log to signify your rank in different factions

#tes #oblivion #litchi.txt #sorry I got hit in the feels with this stuff #Im a sucker for the borders drawn in medieval manuscripts and I really love the use of those during the quests #plus the little illustrations that we get for Everything #quests factions birth sign EVERYTHING #dont get me started on the illustrations that appear Once when you are choosing your class like they didnt have to design all those #for one throwaway moment in the start #but they included it!! because its such an important moment #Im also just a sucker for anything related to fonts that look like schwabacher #I should just set my computer's default font to kingthings petrock at this point its such a nice font #i hope tes6 takes notes and brings this back I think it would look nice #the whole game has a very medieval story vibe and I know this is such a stupid thing to say #but yeah it just feels like looking thru a manuscript or at gothic church frescos #its like the manuscripts came alive #writing this also made me realise that this is something arena and daggerfall did less successfully because of the hardware limitations #and now Im emotional cause oblivion despite all the flaws and things people keep complaining about is SUCH a love letter to the franchise #I could make a whole post on that too. but oblivion is a love letter to arena and daggerfall change my mind

[seknots-izumimir]

i love that elizabeth signs her messages with "Sincerely yours, forevermore, Elizabeth" its just. so cute

#elizabeth i love u.......... god #the fact that??? she literally LEAVES THE VELVET ROOM AFTER THE EVENTS OF P3 (something we NEVER SEE ANOTHER ATTENDANT DO) #/because/ she cares for minato so much that she WANTS TO FIND A WAY TO SAVE HIM THUS STARTING HER OWN FUCKING FOOLS JOURNEY #that she just. Leaves. and as far as we know is still just kinda. out there. trying to find a way to save him. #like she shows up in arena+arena ultimax and thats where we learn she's off doin her own thing bc she wants to save minmin #also it makes p3d feel so... sad? to me. like. elizabeth is just having a good time :) having fun :) but bc the VelRo exists outside of #normal time and space. i like to imagine its not P3-Era Elizabeth but P5+ Era Elizabeth. so its Elizabeth seeing Minato for a final time #seeing him alive and happy with his friends and knowing that /that/ is what she is trying to save. i think she'd find some sorta closure in #it at least. even though i know she's never gonna give up. i hope we see her again some day. her story has a LOT of potential after all #she's a very unique character. she leaves her post as a VelRo attendant. she is on her own fool's journey. it'd be fun to have a game w/ he #ANYWAY. #vani plays p3re

[kaltacore]

dragon age 2 is usually treated like a skippable inquisition prequel but I want to break my silence and say that inquisition in fact feels like trespasser/dreadwolf prequel much more than da2 does

#like. the best part of the inquisition is its dlcs. especially trespasser #it has an intrigue. high stakes. a meaningful confrontation. it makes you care a big deal #which main inquisition plot just. doesn't. #it has cool quests! it keeps you busy! but oh man. i can't help but get an impression that writers were just bored most of the time #because this game starts to feel more alive and distinctive only when solas gets his spotlight and i may be wrong about this #but that's the feeling I get every time I replay or think abut dai #this game feels more like a setup for events to come than an exploration of its own plot #it's not solas negative tho because I personally love the guy and want to see where bioware is going with his character arc #but yeah. there's a prequel-y prequel in da series. but this is not about da2 #dragon age

[dankovskaya]

Okay honestly the possibility (or more accurately, the guarantee) that you will not be able to experience everything that patho2 has to offer on a first playthrough is not actually a good thing. It's not smart I mean. Like the dual factors of "this game is extremely difficult and tedious and attempts to feel joyless and hopeless and unrewarding as often as possible" and "there is no way to have a complete experience of this singular story unless you play it multiple times" should not exist simultaneously.

And of course most of the easily missable things are not integral to the basic storyline but that is not a positive thing either. (That just means that most of the missable activities CANNOT be important; and while nearly every event is missable, few seem to have consequences for doing so.) Everyone knows about the percentages. Most people don't even make it to the end of a first playthrough. If you want people to finish a game like this you have to make them actually feel like theyve been rewarded with Knowing the game in doing so. Quality of life "upgrades" like sprinting and fast travel and quest markers and more complex gameplay mechanics to engage with do not counterbalance an overabundance of unnecessary time-wasting encounters that are too brief and devoid of narrative substance to call side quests and an inherent inability to feel as though you've actually completed the game by the time it ends, especially when the story itself is already so simplified in comparison to the original. There was a lot I legitimately enjoyed about the game, but “was that really it?” was definitely the predominant thought in my head by day 11.

They give you so much shit you can do at any given moment and some of it is genuinely fascinating, sure, but how much of it really makes you feel like it was worth the time and effort? Not in terms of conventional player reward (its path of logic after all) but by surprising you, shattering your sense of security, giving you something interesting to think about, teaching you about one or more of the characters, or fundamentally changing how you interact with the game world? There's a difference between fighting a hopeless and desperate uphill battle and just getting tricked into using precious time to pursue hollow endeavors by a game that doesn't agree with you. P2 is thoroughly bloated but at least half of its weight is fat that I would say could be trimmed away without significantly changing the experience but that would imply it wasn't put there deliberately. And I guess none of that even matters either when the only thing truly required to get whichever ending you desire is making it to the end of the game regardless of the state of the town or absolutely anyone in it other than yourself. BUT IT LOOKS GREAT! That it truly does.

#I think they went deep in trying to make the town feel as real and alive as possible. to the complete detriment of the story. #why does it feel like you spend more time talking to random nameless npcs than to the actual characters? #when you play classic even if you choose not to pursue a few side quests you still feel like you had the full experience of playing #that character's story. you know. sorry for being a hater but playing classic is making me annoyed at 2. lmfao. #this might just be me also but i think the tincture/diagnosis mechanic was. trying to impress? i dont know. #it isnt like its especially difficult but I didn't see what the increased complexity really added to the experience. #i feel a little similarly about the repair/tinker mechanic. it just feels like the game is trying to waste your time with all these #additional practical concerns to draw away from the fact that there is not enough actual story to fill up the days. #but maybe i am just a little hater #bigger map (longer commute) + more status concerns + more complicated mechanics = more time spent on navigation #and aggregation than thinking about the story. #pathologic