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beccaelizabethI started replaying Wrath of the Righteous again. I had two saves that weren't really working out on difficulty grounds and I could remember nothing I'd decided about those characters so I deleted them and started again. And then, right after the bit with Lariel, I deleted that and went fast doing the exact same thing but at the difficulty I'd meant to choose when I named the character Hardy. So I am only up to the first door inside the Shield Maze but on Hard so it's slightly progress.
I decided to romance Sosiel this time and then realised if you decide to play a black man and then choose between character portraits with no context there is a one in three chance of looking exactly like his brother. Which seems awkward.
Though this thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder_Kingmaker/comments/14bngye/for_new_players_who_want_to_avoid_stealing_the/
says the game just changes the character portraits to someone else instead. Which I would not have guessed.
I chose the guy with the bow from Kingmaker, a game I really wish worked on xbox but I haven't replayed because of all the crashing. He is a cleric of Erastil and already I am remembering I never quite know what to do with clerics. But it is nice having a bunch of healing already.
... I only had to restart the fight with the earth elementals three times, but that's fiiiiiine, no problem...
I hope they make another Pathfinder game. I have a few things I haven't done in this one but most of what is left are either things it will let you do but I don't want to (Be Evil) or things it won't let you do because narrative arcs and tragedy etc (Redeem Everyone). It's a good satisfying game on multiple replays but I think I could benefit from playing a different game at some point.
... I tried a few where the movement made me motion sick though, and it's really frustrating trying to narrow down what's least likely to do that, so then I just play the good one again.
Although lately I have been mostly chewing on other 'verses. John Constantine in Wrath of the Righteous would lose his memories, lose his guilt and his Deals, his whole context. I was thinking that doesn't work but now I ponder it I can imagine him unfortunately well in an Azata to Devil mode. Trying out Freedom but taking a Deal instead? Story.
... I would like to give him a nicer Story, but, it gets tricky.
I read Magicians fic yesterday, despite not watching Magicians. It was fix it fic of a What If Q Lived variety, but it got there by killing him a lot a lot. Time Loop fic as depression, depression as time loop. Strong stuff.
Made me have a ponder about days being exactly the same until you do something about that.
I do not have any actual Plans to that effect yet, but, I am pondering the limitations of replay.
Kind of a start.
I have no idea when sleep oclock is today since all times are pretty sleepy without actual sleep ensuing.
Also I need to do more laundry but keep on not putting it on because my sleep is backwards and I know I can hear the neighbours machines.
All the stories where you solve problems by hitting them are simpler and more definitive, but mostly only useful for catharsis.
I should play a genre where it's all diplomacy and making friends instead.
I decided to romance Sosiel this time and then realised if you decide to play a black man and then choose between character portraits with no context there is a one in three chance of looking exactly like his brother. Which seems awkward.
Though this thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder_Kingmaker/comments/14bngye/for_new_players_who_want_to_avoid_stealing_the/
says the game just changes the character portraits to someone else instead. Which I would not have guessed.
I chose the guy with the bow from Kingmaker, a game I really wish worked on xbox but I haven't replayed because of all the crashing. He is a cleric of Erastil and already I am remembering I never quite know what to do with clerics. But it is nice having a bunch of healing already.
... I only had to restart the fight with the earth elementals three times, but that's fiiiiiine, no problem...
I hope they make another Pathfinder game. I have a few things I haven't done in this one but most of what is left are either things it will let you do but I don't want to (Be Evil) or things it won't let you do because narrative arcs and tragedy etc (Redeem Everyone). It's a good satisfying game on multiple replays but I think I could benefit from playing a different game at some point.
... I tried a few where the movement made me motion sick though, and it's really frustrating trying to narrow down what's least likely to do that, so then I just play the good one again.
Although lately I have been mostly chewing on other 'verses. John Constantine in Wrath of the Righteous would lose his memories, lose his guilt and his Deals, his whole context. I was thinking that doesn't work but now I ponder it I can imagine him unfortunately well in an Azata to Devil mode. Trying out Freedom but taking a Deal instead? Story.
... I would like to give him a nicer Story, but, it gets tricky.
I read Magicians fic yesterday, despite not watching Magicians. It was fix it fic of a What If Q Lived variety, but it got there by killing him a lot a lot. Time Loop fic as depression, depression as time loop. Strong stuff.
Made me have a ponder about days being exactly the same until you do something about that.
I do not have any actual Plans to that effect yet, but, I am pondering the limitations of replay.
Kind of a start.
I have no idea when sleep oclock is today since all times are pretty sleepy without actual sleep ensuing.
Also I need to do more laundry but keep on not putting it on because my sleep is backwards and I know I can hear the neighbours machines.
All the stories where you solve problems by hitting them are simpler and more definitive, but mostly only useful for catharsis.
I should play a genre where it's all diplomacy and making friends instead.