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Trip Since: Mar, 2012
#325426: Oct 5th 2014 at 8:44:22 PM

i do

i don't want to play kyusiko

ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#325427: Oct 5th 2014 at 8:44:50 PM

Live a little, dude.

Azure Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist from The World Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist
#325429: Oct 5th 2014 at 8:47:01 PM

Will be sporadic because Chem stuff.

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megarockman from The Sixth Borough (Experienced Trainee)
#325430: Oct 5th 2014 at 8:47:05 PM

Fem!Kyosuke?

The damned queen and the relentless knight.
ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#325432: Oct 5th 2014 at 8:49:01 PM

Bah.

You refuse to acknowledge my genius ideas.

MacDuffy from Enies Lobby Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#325434: Oct 5th 2014 at 8:52:46 PM

i ruined hig's rectum, riv

now i'm coming for you

eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
all the loose ends
#325435: Oct 5th 2014 at 8:55:20 PM

you heard it here first folks

duff wrecks the anuses (ani?) of other people

namely someone far younger than him

why don't you take a seat right over there

Trip Since: Mar, 2012
#325436: Oct 5th 2014 at 8:58:41 PM

i dont think an avatar has eer conveyed me more then this one

eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
all the loose ends
#325437: Oct 5th 2014 at 9:00:14 PM

*ever

*than

Trip Since: Mar, 2012
#325438: Oct 5th 2014 at 9:01:41 PM

if you dont have rip on your grave you get drafted into the skeleton war

Yep.

Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#325439: Oct 5th 2014 at 9:02:49 PM

KINGDOMS OF AMALUR HAS BAD LORE PEOPLE

PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET SAID SO THEREFORE IT'S TRUE

AFTER ALL SKYRIM IS MUCH MORE PROFOUND AND ORIGINAL WITH THE DRAGONS AND WHATNOT

War is God.
Trip Since: Mar, 2012
Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#325441: Oct 5th 2014 at 9:06:20 PM

WTF THEY STOLE THE NAMES OF THE RACES AND MONSTERS FROM MYTHOLOGY

OH YOU MEAN LIKE

DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS

OH YEAH

DARK ELVES AND SHIT COME FROM MYTHOLOGY

HMM

OH AND DON'T FORGET TO RIP OFF TOLKIEN

TES HAS ORCS IN IT

ORCS

THE TYPICAL DOUCHEY ELVES

YEAH A LOT MORE ORIGINAL

Newsflash: Yeah, the lore is good... IF you read the books in the game, which I don't, because they bore the shit out of me.

The books in-game are sloppily written most of the time.

ALSO

NEWSFLASH

GOOD LUCK FINDING A FANTASY RPG THAT DOESN'T RIP OFF TOLKIEN OR MYTHOLOGY

War is God.
Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#325443: Oct 5th 2014 at 9:11:30 PM

BUT

if you really want a story to give a shit about

just play PS:T

I kind of brushed off "what can change the nature of a man?" at first

but after taking more psychology courses

It's become a more profound question to me that I cannot answer

War is God.
Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#325444: Oct 5th 2014 at 9:24:20 PM

I mean

your dude or dudette in Amalur essentially rewrites history by merely EXISTING. Your very presence unravels the deterministic world of Amalur.

Everything had a neat role in fate's plan... but then you came back from the dead.

It could have been done better, I think a lot of it is telling rather than showing.

But the implications are more complex than I originally thought. You CREATE free will. Things that people could not do, you can. You prevent some guy's death when he foresaw it happening since a loooong time ago... it scares him. Everything was neat and tidy. He knew what would happen, but then that changed. Now he has no clue what will happen to the world.

It could be for good, or it could be for ill. Hard to say. That being said, I think that's more complex than this game's overall plot is, but I really like those implications, even if they're not really original.

War is God.
Azure Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist from The World Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist
#325445: Oct 5th 2014 at 9:24:59 PM

Technically .hack is Sci-Fi.

But The World has its own lore and stuff, that's only loosely based on some shinto mythology.

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Azure Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist from The World Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist
#325447: Oct 5th 2014 at 9:31:15 PM

Some Aztec too.

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Trip Since: Mar, 2012
#325448: Oct 5th 2014 at 9:32:30 PM

but then there's the background background knowledge and whoa nelly

Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#325449: Oct 5th 2014 at 9:33:27 PM

Amalur's story still isn't... fantastic. It's enjoyable and I'd like to see what happens next.

For some reason, I tolerate the game's constant fetch quests because loot.

I wish the game was a bit more difficult though. You start out really really strong, and I think that's what made the game seem boring to me at first.

Bleh. Morrowind does it in the opposite way, your dude is so pathetically weak that RATS can kill you. Holy shit, that was a wake up call. I loved it.

Too bad the combat is GOD. AWFUL.

Dragons are cool. I love dragons, but they're HUUUUGELY overdone. They're everywhere. I'm just glad they're not in Amalur. It's always the saaaamme dragons over and over.

I'd like to see bird or mammalian dragons or something for once. Something different.

War is God.
Trip Since: Mar, 2012

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