games

which fits with the KMMO design

its still pretty fantasy

well

theres dragons and magic

you'll get what I mean when you play it

what is the degree of seperation for you

that there's technology?

no

I mean low fantasy in the fantasy sense

there's clearly magic in the world, but it's primordial and less present in the world

okay i see what you mean

to me low fantasy means there's magic and its in the background but there's not stuff like magical beasts or other races unless theyre really rare

but i think my view might be too strict

no, I get what you mean

like i consider fate low fantasy technically... if you ignore all the stuff in the past

I think I was expecting more Dragon's Dogma levels of magic/fantasy

so that probably skewed me

i see

i dont like the terms high/low in the first place

because i think there's a big difference between dragons dogma and like lotr

I think there are two measures there's how clearly defined a world's magic system is and whether the influence of magic in the world is increasing/decreasing

and this doesn't map to low/high cleanly

for me a big part of it is races

oh also, slight spoiler ig

like dragons dogma (1 speciaficailly) only has one race basically, humans

I learned why there's coordinated hate against this game

i feel like the more "fantasy races" you add ups that scale a lot

it's VERY anti-Jewish

isnt it because

they use ai generated art

in paintings

no, before that

oh ok

there was weird astro-turfed hate around it not running on Intel GPUs

and other nonsense

and then it became this AI art thing

i mean

dragons dogma 2 got the same kinda hate

theres weird astro-turfing going on around like

very masculine just fantasy rpgs

but idk, it feels so overwhelming and fake

that it's 100% paid for

anyway

fantasy races

a bit ranty but 99% of the time i actually just hate races in general, because theyre either not used at all, or are heavy handidly used as "look this is another culture. all of humans are one culture... and this race is its own culuture!"

where do you stand on Elder Scrolls races

(playable races)

i think theyre some of the few well done ones because theyre heavily woven into the world and in actuality there's only 4 real races

human, elf, cats and lizards

orc

orcs are elves

that got cursed

OH RIGHT

tbh, I always forget there even are orcs

theyre elf allt he same

Orcs can't be black people anymore

Gentrified

the lizard people are literally evolved like tree linked weird organisms

almost aliens

I think most race storytelling is lazy, and in general they're usually just not that creative to begin with I like elves/dwarves, I'm not shitting on the tolkien-centricism or anything

and the cats are like spirit people, but in the end the cats and lizards basically no one knows how they came to exist and they have no root to the actual gods

the entire world of elder scrolls though including the gods and history between every single game is a thinly veiled battle of man and mer (elf)

literally the plot of tes3 4 5 is about that

and the background of 4 and 5 heavily

so im more okay with their races because theyre not treated as singular cultures and are heavily tied to the actual world and history

i agree its almost always to fall back to something

and is used int he place of "oh look a culture!!!"

look Max, we can't expect devs to make all new assets or do anything interesting

until AI saves us

While we were talking

they re-added storage

thank God

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJXF28FRxj8 Just found this on paper, the silliest idea for a challenge run.

not my ledges! (FE10 only I think)

why did I type 12

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