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Lovely picture.Exactly, my maliciphiliac brother! Any playthrough without Malice is heresy! We should have Malice, Malice and more Malice!
There is no thing as too much Malice, right? Right?!
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I didnt say choices didnt matter. But it gives you different routes to the same objective. For a major event like the apocalypse.
If going left takes me to the same place as going right then there wasn't much point in giving me the choice was there?
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Sir, you are a legend
(and installation in 1st page should be updated as I had no idea this would launch Steam )Hats off to you for that wonderful signature
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On a micro scale? Probably not. But other then that, it depends on what and how much is on each path. Don't think converging in the same/similar spot is all that bad. If the journey there is different and entertaining enough between choices.
Can I take the steam download, load it into renpy/RAPT and make an apk? Never done it before but before I bothered learning i hoped to know if it is feasible.
- Oct 21, 2021
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Did you try joiplay, maybe it works?
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- Apr 26, 2022
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She is the gem of this game, there needs to be more content with her and much more
- Mar 7, 2021
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Who said anything about ditching? As any principles, mine have limits too - and those I pointed out, that's all.
As for the question of freedom - yes, I deny the notion it is an end in itself. In this topic, it is means for people's self-expression.
Of course, we must have balance between freedom of expression and quality. We need limits against which art will struggle to grow up, not sideways. Like railing for the grapevine.
And I think there exist a sweetspot of sorts, where freedom starts to drop quality - but not too much. That spot where gems in the rough are made - things like Stalker or Pathologic. Unfriendly for those who will interact with them, they nevertheless provide unique experience.
And uniqueness, in most cases, is an end in itself. It expands your views, expands, basically, the data that is your memory and your mind. Enriches you, gives you new intellectual tools to interact with the world.
But yeah, better it be benignant and high-quality rather than turbo-junk.
Stalker won't be nearly as much fun, if it not for the fact that you have to fight the game to get it. It gets ridiculous at times, how this game can just screw you over for no reason. My favorite example is bucket in Novice Village - for some reason, when you step on it, there is a chance it will kick you from below, instakilling you and throwing your corpse 50 feet in the air.
In Soviet Ukraine, you do not kick the bucket - the bucket KICKS YOU!
Another one is the fact that enemy will remember your position mid-loading. Meaning if you save to close to the enemy - well, fuck you! Now they get X-ray vision and see you through walls for some reason!
It wouldn't have been that much fun, if the game wouldn't have been this huge uphill battle against bugs and janky mechanics. It's basically a huge meme - and that is important! It makes it more memorable.
Won't argue against your point of quality dimensions. That's just true! But when I say "quality" I mostly mean "polished", not "having a certain quality". My bad, I guess.
Tangent: slight difference in words' connotations coming from language differences. In Russian (my native) word "качество" (cachestvo) seems to be clear equivalent of "quality". But it is not, in fact. In Russian, it is mostly used in technical sense - how well something is made, heavily associated with the word "качественный" (cachestvenniy), which means "high-quality". It's very rarely used in sense of having certain quality, because in Russian, the plural form ("качества", cachestva, "qualities") is mostly used for that, not the singular.
And sometimes I just forget about this slight difference, using the words interchangeably - which they are not.
I was talking of consumption as approach, not the matter of fact deed. Yes, if you partake in art, you consume it - no way around.
I just try to look past this fact, I guess. Find meaning in the act beyond the act, something more elevated, so to speak.
Here comes the interesting part - one's flaws is another's boons, oftentimes. Yes, there exist objective downsides, like subpar dialogues and actors playing as if they were these guys:
Guess George Lucas' real name was Urfin Jus all along! (Not that many people get this reference, but I am leaving it here anyway)
But so many people hated politicing in the Prequels - and I love that part. People were pointing out that like that's a downside - to me, it's an up.
Other than that - yeah, I agree. If you don't get your opinion challenged, it - and you yourself! - will become stale and stagnant, usually garbage too. That's a basic loop of any autocracy, BTW - any fan of that thing here? Yeah, probably not - that thing sucks huge horsefuta-balls (of which I have reference in mind, of course).
But funnily, there exist a balance in that too. If you listen to others too much, you'll just muddle your view with their ideas. Basically, any creator must pinpoint what is absolutely necessary to his work and stand their ground on that one, while also listening to criticism and freely changing less important details. Also importantly - listening to own doubts, since those are often our best advisors.
As an author it's your job to say - but do not forget to be ears too, so to speak.
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To sum it up:
1) direct comparison with Malagar's work likely means that whatever weird is happening to Issa's body does that due to Valzira's experiments, not demonic possession;
2) his "we" is a play on us, since in only dialogue where he is 100% serious he does not stutter;
3) I am not sure that blending with shadows was magic and not elaborated way to say that he hid there. But! It would explain how he seemingly effortlessly sneaks around;
4) divine blood in the veins of character, who bears Jesus' name in Arabic? Yeah, probably not a coincidence;
5) talks of creating better world, Bad Dragon's blood reigning eternally and creating a foe so terrible it will unite everyone kind hints at him wanting to have more dragons or bigger dragon. Couple it with him taking interest in Adeline - why, if not for her ability to breed dragon eggs? Seems that his goal is unity and peace through fear of overwhelming force - if that can be called a "better world";
6) Malice is a cute scaly wrench in his plans for some reason. Either she can remake a world into something he wouldn't be able to reshape, or her being around is a threat to the Dragon, whom Issa obviously need;
7) I think it is safe to assume that his (sassy) dialogue with Valzira is truthful (at least, mostly) and sincere.
So, guy with both divine essences (lunar from Valzira's experiments and his innate solar from kobold heritage) is going to make World 2.0: The Better Boogaloo for likely reason of bringing salvation to its people, and he is also named after the Savior. For that means he cheats, lies and manipulates many, including our protag. His stated goal is probably true, but his means to this end is largely shrouded in mystery, except the part of making the world dragon-er.
I yearn for his new content almost as much as I yearn for Malice content. I want to check whether or not our assumptions on him stand true!
I haven't tried joiplay but will check it out. The app you provided works perfectly so far. Much appreciated!
I can appreciate most of what you said but this I really don't understand, nobody I that I know has fond memories over the stalker games trolling them, most people remember the early and mid-game fondly but towards the end e.g. in shadow of chernobyl it just turns into an uninteresting shooting gallery with bullet spongy enemies that often one shot you unfairly. Likewise when the game crashes, its not fun at all, you can lose hours of progress, or when a quest bugs and you can't complete, these are straight up awful and everyone rightfully says to install the unofficial patch because what's the point in playing a game that doesn't work? When I talk to people they find the first encounter with the bloodsucker scary, or trying not to get killed by the military, or the labs creeping them out. I think the most cruel one in the series was clear sky because the moment you get even slightly scratched you bleed to death in a matter of moments like you have hemophilia, and everyone hated that, it sure gives you memories but not the type you want.
I can get behind liking things despite of the flaws, but thinking they're actually good seems more like copium, its like having an abusive relationship with a video game, you don't really want to get mad at it cause you like it a lot so you convince yourself what it's doing to you is a good thing.
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You gave me a good genuine pause here. I never thought of my game quality preferences from perspective of "copium". And now that I did...
Nah. I know it's easy to swat such suggestions aside, but trust me - it is not. Reason is - I began gaming in the 90s. Jank was the meta, basically. For example, my favorite game is Might&Magic VI, of which I still have buggy and many times copied (which added a few new bugs) Russian bootleg version - on my drive, not on disk anymore
. It has partial and mediocre translation that messes with you at times and is so buggy you basically have to dance around bugs to make things work. Other games of the era I had weren't much better, if at all - for example, I also had bootleg Half-Life... With literally all NPC- and enemy-related sounds removed. You were fighting and helping various cohorts of angry mimes!Naturally, such experience taught me to figure out how to make things work in every game I play. Having fully-polished game is appreciated, but... Feels off at times. Especially when the polishing hides bland and boring gameplay! All in all, my early gaming experience made me very tolerant of various bugs and weird features some game may have. Basically, it kinda makes me ignore or downplay what others would no doubt consider huge downside. Or, in more complementing perspective, taught me to look past the downsides towards whatever makes up the good bits. It taught that if I overcome the menagerie of bugs and glitches, the reward for doing so may be more than worth the efforts put into.
So, instead of 'copium' (that at this point in time lost much of its meaning due to overuse) the terms of the day would be: 'duckling syndrome' and '(kinda awkward) comfort zone'. I think so, at least.
P.S. Dude, Shadow of Chernobyl gives you every mean to mitigate incoming bullet damage. With good loadout (a few artis on bullet res+exo) you take damage basically just from 9x39, which, granted, is in hands of a lot of late-game grunts (Monolith do have plenty of good guns). But still, your odds at getting one-shot aren't nearly that high to be worth complaining about. They have to headshot you to achieve that.
I am not counting gauss-rifles and bazookas, of course (they WILL one-tap you into bits, yes) - those are very rare and enemies do not have the best high-range aim anyway. Also, don't give grenade thrower from Abandoned Village to anarcho guys - that's you best gun. You can one-tap even exo-bastards just by landing tier 2 grenades at their general vicinity. Makes Pripyat into shooting gallery (except the snipers, of course).
I don't get all this fuss about late-game being one-bullet-fest-too-much. I really liked that part for that exact reason (then again, I am a huuuuge Serious Sam fan, so just yelling into the screen while I wrap-up my minigun and turn scores of enemies into fine mist is good gaming experience in my book). And game is fair - you can get all the resources you need to make even that into a cakewalk. After all, prepping for missions is, like, step 1 of Stalker gameplay.
I already did a playthrough with sunken temple and i really liked the later interactions between Mother and Malice, do the other lairs characthers provide good Malice content ?
Yes, if anything it got a little crazier last update - you can scroll up to read the discourse on it, some mixed reactions. There is a walkthrough bundled with the game, but that's about it, it hasn't gotten any better in way you describe it, but it's still worth a try if you didn't get into it the first time, just make a few saves and experiment around to see which paths you like.
I don't remember any interactions with the infernals when I played but that was some time ago, I think there is a scene with malagar with the spire lair but I don't remember, I don't think anything beats sunken temple in that regard.
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Do you think there will be any real function for the "prosperity of the kingdom", because you can choose all the options that bring misery, and evil, but what are the noticeable consequences of that?
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Yes, and devs are finding it ever more difficult to actually cater to all the splitting off routes they made