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Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak
It still holds up, we watched a few episodes of the old urealms cartoon in vc a bit back and it was still funny
The classic one, from Newgrounds, holds up for the first six episodes and Christmas special. It starts to drag on for episodes 7 and 8. The Escapist version had ups and downs the first two seasons, beginning of the third seemed good and then it nosedived starting with the Harry Potter stuff.
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It's basically the same thing as all Rob's projects: It was fine how it was initially, then became overproduced and had Rob putting in 100 hours of work for what should have been 10 hours of work, and just reduced the quality significantly.
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7 and 8 of the OG Unforgotten Realms, though, didn't fall off in the same fashion; rather than feeling like Rob was trying to be too grandiose, it felt like he was still trying to do something that he found fun, but was running out of ideas.
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Yeah, he really needed to just plateau it. Early season 1 is insanely scuffed. Season 2 feels like a real TTRPG I'd love to play, same with season 3(Though 3 needs some tweaks, I much prefer season 2 anytimes and companions still)
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Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131
The charm of S1 being simpler was nice, I do think ramping the production value as it went on became a curse in some ways
Curse? It was a pre-emptive funeral toll.
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I still love so fucking much how Rob went "The anytimes and companion are the problem! The players have too much interaction and action economy on a turn. Gotta nerf that. Oh, and limiteds? Make em free actions. That won't have any adverse effects." and season 3 ended up being FAR more bullshit with free player actions
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Replying to cj_the_magic_утка #cj_the_magic_goose
Late URealms Live season 2&3 really were the sweet spot
S3 was when I just started losing focus with crappy campaigns like the Lyn Azveltara ones. Senate of Deadlantis was great, it's hard for me to call any other campaigns in S3 above average.
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Replying to cj_the_magic_утка #cj_the_magic_goose
I completely forgot Yes King had 3 divine decisions I cannot recall any details about Yes King to begin with so lmao
There's also this in season 3, more and more donation events that interrupt the flow of the show, which is kind of confusing when we know that it wasn't an organic flow to begin with.
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Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak
That was roughly when Rob gave up being funny to instead tell a story
Pretty much, it was like he went from writing individual adventures to attempting to write an equivalent of the entire LotR canon and release bits and pieces here and there.
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I understand having a story to push it, but URealms went from connecting campaigns every 2 or 3 to having every campaign be connected to some plot point. Was exhausting from the wiki standpoint
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This was the case with the Escapist Unforgotten Realms as well, though, with there never actually being a planned end, but everything was eventually supposed to tie into the Nador gems and with Schmoopy becoming the Dragon Warrior in the past
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I miss the days where we would comb through campaigns to find a hint of a timeline connection rather than it being explicitly stated "this happened here"
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I am a bit of a disagree - I really enjoyed the Lyn Azveltara story. I liked the dissonance that came from "hahaha funny sexy anime campaign :)))" into "oh yeah these are assassin's and we're watching them brutally murder civilians"
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Rob yelled at us for putting a companion's name on the wiki, which was aparently an Italian slur (I'm Italian and never heard it in my life) when none of us even put it onto the wiki in the first place
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Replying to heir #hyrrulfr
imagine watching urealms for the plot
The majority of the fans, at least from the Unforgotten Realms days, probably did watch URealms Live for the plot. Hell, those of us who backed Unforgotten Quest were naive enough to believe the Kickstarter video where he said it'll start out as just funny little quests and playing to get loot, but that you'd get sucked into the story and the world while playing

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