I would suggest you to play Once in a Lifetime the first Caribdis's game.
Bless your heart!
You might be right and maybe I just jumped the gun, I'll add that OIAL to my list and push forward with this one to see where it leads. I hope it gets better from here. To be honest I was really loosing interest in it and was just going to unren it to check the later half.I would suggest you to play Once in a Lifetime the first Caribdis's game.
The MC there looked really goofy as well at first then... I don't want to spoil nothing to you, but if you really want to understand how Carbdis work, play OIAL and then re-think what happened in Eternum so far, Orion is less stupid than you think.
It's understandable don't you worry, Caribdis is a careful planner OIAL started in a similar fashion with the MC looking like no more than a doofus, but as soon as the plot thickened well everything changed, and while he kept the humor, he grew as a character.
I was not expecting an overpowered invincible god mc, but atleast a competent MC who can do something or learn from his mistakes and grow. The way I see it right now (till the mission with Nova and Alex) he is incompetent, inexperienced and overconfident (despite previous missions). He is very eager to pick fights in his real world and within game despite not having anything to backup against the overwhelming odds of the enemies. I believe you when you say that Caribdis would handle the character growth properly as I play along, but right now MC is already gunning for the end game when he has not even learnt to walk yet. Maybe it would have been more believable if the difference in strength wasn't this absurd in the beginning, I just hope there are not many as*pulls later to bridge the gap.It's understandable don't you worry, Caribdis is a careful planner OIAL started in a similar fashion with the MC looking like no more than a doofus, but as soon as the plot thickened well everything changed, and while he kept the humor, he grew as a character.
The same thing is happening with Orion, Caribdis is great on making the growth of their characters flow steadily as the story goes on, instead of making them looks like invincible gods from the start everything happen naturally, and that is way more believable imho.
It's one of his (many) forte.
So you think I should play that game before continuing with this? Is that game connected/prequel to this or just to understand the devs method of storytelling?
Since next update should include Luna's Day of the Dead party and Penelope's costume party, I think we're guaranteed a scene with both of them.
Interesting, kind of like the idea, although I did play Eternum first, absolutely loved it, and then played Once in a Lifetime.
I actually think OIAL isn't very representative of what can be expected from Eternum. OIAL was a lot more traditional in terms of settings in that the MC had a dysfunctional father, sisters, mother, classmates that drool for him. The MC also, well, didn't grow that much over the course of the game. I mean, the only time he showed any supernatural powers was at the end.It's understandable don't you worry, Caribdis is a careful planner OIAL started in a similar fashion with the MC looking like no more than a doofus, but as soon as the plot thickened well everything changed, and while he kept the humor, he grew as a character.
The same thing is happening with Orion, Caribdis is great on making the growth of their characters flow steadily as the story goes on, instead of making them looks like invincible gods from the start everything happen naturally, and that is way more believable imho.
It's one of his (many) forte.
There's connection, yes. Some characters from Once in a Lifetime are mentioned in certain parts of the story, a certain dangerous organization is also mentioned. There's even the secret ending:
And he do, Orion is a young man not an experienced man with years of wisdom on his shoulders, that a common mistake that many players do, they project their knowledge of how thing goes in game forgetting that the MC can't honestly be at that level.
I beg to disagree, instead he showed a growth during all the game, but I said it mostly to make him understand how Caribdis make the characters grow as the game progress, that's the most important part of my reasoning.
Yeah I understand you were explaining that to him. I don't know, I just don't think the MC grew that much in OIAL, and that's not a bad thing to me, because solving a mystery is also a good story.
He's 18 and we're only a few weeks into things FFS! Were you all together and not a bit of a doofus at 18 and still in HS?
That's the thing, I just feel that the story is way too rushed where not enough time is put in char growth and just rushing towards end game. I just finished the part where they(the kids) are now planning for a
I don't think the MC is incompetent I would say that the MC is unluckily lucky with his encounters, he occasionally witness absurd things for a Newbie that make him do aggressive approach to the game. I mean The first time he played the game he saw his classmate get exterminated, Second time he saw Thanatos, Third time he got a doom stone from a random mission an so on so forth . From this encounters a beginner like him would have died (And if you think "He doesn't learn from his mistakes" I think you're quite right I mean he is not IRON MAN and "Iron Man always learn from his mistakes"). He made some mistakes from the game like losing the gems and almost died but somehow he successfully pull off things like stealing in the Mansion (all thanks to Chang he should be given more credit) And he is learning from the people around if I were you I wouldn't jump on conclusions and I wouldn't say he is incompetent by the progress of the story the Game is just in version 0.4 and the story is not at the CLIMAX part it is just in the RISING part (because most of the is game it is just RISING and less Climaxing) ok all jokes aside Caribdis is good story maker and story teller I'm pretty sure it's just looks you're not liking the story but if wait a bit more you should expect something you wouldn't expect.
Yeah, I meant in-game. IRL manuals are cool and all, but I argue that immersive sims/VRMMOs should teach players by letting them do shit in a closed environment while teaching them the ropes instead of making them read before playing. Gives them time to get used to the system and all, while keeping them from potentially getting killed on the first day.
If this is about him losing the Gem of Doom to Ol' Thanny, it was mentioned that they had no idea if it was a genuine Gem of Doom so they probably didn't think much about protecting it or keeping it safe. It was only after it was stolen did Orion (MC) realize that it was the real deal, so there's that.
...But collecting the stones IS the plot (along with solving Benjie's mysterious death). It's basically Eternum's MSQ (with a Ready Player One-esque reward attached to it). We get to learn about the world as time goes on, but at the moment the MC's main focus around 0.1-0.2 is...well, to play the game and hopefully that will let him gain access to more prestigious locales/events that will help him get to the bottom of Benjie's mysterious death (the plan being provided to him by Nova in 0.2, where she mentioned about the prestigious party with the Ulysses top brass and the holders of the gems of doom...get a gem, get access to the party, start snooping).
Friendly reminder that MC's overall motivation is to basically date and get laid while he's in Kredon (or are we forgetting the train convo with Chang at the very start of the game?). Everything else beyond that is him willing to try out new experiences and sating his curiosity about shit.
Thanks guys, I'll continue with the story for now and reserve the judgment for later. Hopefully after playing till the latest update I'll understand your view.
