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Post by Lee on Oct 8, 2019 10:47:53 GMT
Okay, I finished the game. Some not spoilery thoughts. I was glad there was some more romance content at the end-as the pacing for my romance of choice was whack as FFFF. The ending was good-I'll get more into it in my spoiler thoughts. So I got everyone lives happily ever after ending by making Duncas (sp?) the high king and getting all the factions to work together. Vasco turning down the admiral position to be a better husband that takes me out to sea-I die happy!
Um...other thoughts Petrus ending was creepy as I expected that art with his hair looking a mess. I get that the game wants him to be the father figure you never had, but I'd been a lot happier if the Aunt would have filled a role like that instead.
Speaking of natives-I never really felt like the natives embraced you as one of their own at any point. Which was disappointing. They love ya for sure, but always kept arms-length.
Oh, I forgot that I never commented on the big twist of Constantine becoming the big bad. Well-I sort of saw that coming once I found out he went missing with the healer. I was like sure he was going to turn into a monster-though I thought he'd be one of the bigger kind-not just green hair with horns. But I'll take it. RIP Cuz. I really liked him for the first half of the game, but sadly they really ruined him after that. I'm personally glad he's not a romance-I don't need that sadness-or darkness depending on ending choice. Okay, one more thing-for future runs I really hope I can space out Vasco's personal quests a bit more. So if anyone can find some hard numbers on what the actual cut off points for the different parts of his quest-that'd be great. Cause I did it all at the start of the game out of fear I'd miss out since I heard some of them can be auto failed. He as I figured will be only ever romanced character-I didn't care for Kurt honestly. Add to the fact that you have to romance him straight-hard pass. Some other non-spoiler thoughts. The companions were strangely silent a good part of the game (minus their battle cries of course)-as Jim Sterling pointed out in his review "A little poison on my blade and let's go." is said every single battle with Vasco on your team. It's so burned into my brain-I may say it regularly if I live long enough to get senile-and not know what the fudge I just said. I thought Vasco spoke up more than I expected him too. He seemed more vocal at story moments than Siora-which was good since I kept them both on my team 80% of the time. Bi power! or something. The only real times the others seem to pipe in was when dealing directly with their factions. Siora even asked to go along with one of the main quests near the end but stayed shockingly quiet for most of it. I was like..well it's a good thing you are along.
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Post by farferello on Oct 8, 2019 12:24:26 GMT
Lee Glad you finished the game. \o/ Vasco stuff: I have done his first two missions fast and then waited until after the coup and getting to do the quests for Admiral Cabal (the missing Naut one with the secrets) to then do Vasco's third quest because if you leave his third one until after those you get the chance to have a tattoo with him which sort of 'includes' you in their Naut family. When I continue to replay my Vasco romancing character, I'm gonna wait to get the tattoo on him just because I want to see if getting the tattoo will change his ending. Technically you become/regain your Naut roots (you're sea born after all) so I really wanna see if the ending changes, as whilst I love that the romance doesn't leave you, it's still a shame Vasco gives up the promotion and I wanna see if you get to go sail with him more than just 'now and then' as technically you'd be considered a Naut at that point. (Even if the tattoo really won't suit Orren at all but it's a worthy sacrifice. XD) Other stuff - main plot spoilers: Petrus was just creepy all over. I never even realized he had that hair until I finished the game the first time as I always had him wearing a helm. It kinda sucks they lock learning about your heritage behind helping him because he skeeves me so much with the 'I was in love with your mom who was a prisoner and I was a coward and didn't help her' shit. The fact they make you forgive and thank him without any input from us as the player also annoys me, I wanna be pissed! Same with the thing we discover about De Sardet and Constantin being poisoned by the Bridge Alliance guy. We get to act pissed about it for five seconds and then nothing. The Bridge Alliance is the whole damn reason we had to murder Constantin, like wtf. That's a plot thread that shouldn't come up and then never be spoken about again. I was really attached to Constantin, I really hated how they butchered his character and made him go power hungry... but that ending choice breaks my heart every time. I've only sided with him once and it's... wow but heartbreaking that the majority of your companions die in doing so. (I know most of the factions also get fucked up in that ending but I care more about the companions... well, most of them.) I feel you on the Natives though... we're in some weird limbo, never really accepted by our people or the Natives (De Sardet saying that others looked at him like he was some beast growing up is heartbreaking) but you never really fit in anywhere... though the Nauts seem happy to have you if you wait to do Vasco's third quest so \o/ and I was sad we couldn't speak to De Sardet's Aunt after that quest, like she's so happy to have her Nephew back and then... nothing, another plot line closed, instead we got creeper Petrus. The Companion's one liners... I got used to them. Some of them are more obnoxious than others but every time I hear Kurt and Vasco's I can't help but be amused, I especially find it funny when they start the line but I kill the enemy too fast and the line gets cut off, it must be so anti climatic for them. It's more amusing than it should be.
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Post by Lee on Oct 8, 2019 20:52:49 GMT
farferello So to get the tats on my pc I have to wait till after I do the faction line for the Nauts to do Vasco's last quest?
Also didn't you say I needed to do the suffering of Constantine before doing that questline? Sorry, I get all the stuff mixed up sometimes, but just double-checking on that.
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Post by farferello on Oct 9, 2019 4:44:56 GMT
farferello So to get the tats on my pc I have to wait till after I do the faction line for the Nauts to do Vasco's last quest?
Also didn't you say I needed to do the suffering of Constantine before doing that questline? Sorry, I get all the stuff mixed up sometimes, but just double-checking on that. The way I did it on the character I got the tats on the first time was to do Vasco's first two quests. When his third popped up I didn't talk to him about it (mostly because I didn't wanna lock myself out of anyone else's companion quests by having his locked in, and I also don't know if triggering the third one before you do Cabal's locks you out of the tats) and then I waited until I could do the quest for Admiral Cabal involving the dead drop/traitor.
The only reason I say to do the 'Suffering of Constantin' quest first, is that if you do that, you find the Naut girl in the cavern alive rather than dead (so you don't get hit with the -3? Rep loss. It won't change whether you get the tattoo option or not but ya know, I prefer to not lose Naut rep.) So once I had finished the quest line to sniff out the traitor for Admiral Cabal, I then spoke to Vasco and did his third quest. That way when the option comes up for him to get his tattoo, he will suggest to Cabal about you also getting one and you can refuse/accept it.)
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Post by Lee on Oct 9, 2019 5:10:54 GMT
Ah, so I wait till after the suffering of Constantine to do all that. Good to know. I'll give it a whirl. I have started a second game, but not sure if I'll make it all the way through the game or not. We shall see. I probably should wait a while instead, but I can't think of anything I want to play for the moment. I'm trying to wait for the dlc to drop before doing another run of 3 houses.
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Post by Lee on Oct 12, 2019 8:57:48 GMT
farferelloNot sure if that's a spoiler-but yeah it's Vasco related more context as it could be a spoiler. I finally got the tats and locked in with Vasco now. It was painful ignoring Vasco's little exclamation point over his head for that long!
Still waiting to complete so many quests did give the romance a better starting point-also the monster during his quest was a lot easier at a high level. So I may indeed make that my pacing for here on out.
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Post by Lee on Oct 14, 2019 10:46:38 GMT
I completed my second run of Greedfall. I screwed up something with the Naut questline apparently, cause it said their secret got out. Which as far as I know I stopped that from happening, but maybe it's cause I arrested the trader before finding out what he was putting in the box? Shrug- My first run I got an ending line about them inviting in more people including natives.
The romance ending with Vasco didn't change despite joining the nauts officially. We still only occasionally go out to sea. Which is fine with me. I love the ending with him regardless. Beyond that everything went well. I even took advantage of a memory crystal so I could fully spec into Warrior so I have all 3 trophies for leveling all the things. I have all the combat trophies but melee weapons at this point. So not much left to do there. But I still only have that one ending trophy, so I'll have to grind out the alternate endings someday. But too much work for now.
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Post by farferello on Oct 14, 2019 11:58:14 GMT
I completed my second run of Greedfall. I screwed up something with the Naut questline apparently, cause it said their secret got out. Which as far as I know I stopped that from happening, but maybe it's cause I arrested the trader before finding out what he was putting in the box? Shrug- My first run I got an ending line about them inviting in more people including natives.
The romance ending with Vasco didn't change despite joining the nauts officially. We still only occasionally go out to sea. Which is fine with me. I love the ending with him regardless. Beyond that everything went well. I even took advantage of a memory crystal so I could fully spec into Warrior so I have all 3 trophies for leveling all the things. I have all the combat trophies but melee weapons at this point. So not much left to do there. But I still only have that one ending trophy, so I'll have to grind out the alternate endings someday. But too much work for now. Shame to hear the ending doesn't change with romanced Vasco, I hoped it might with you 'joining' the Nauts. I still have a few combat specific achievements to get but I don't really care, I'm never gonna 100% the game achievement wise so it doesn't bother me too much.
I'm assuming their secrets being revealed is because of the thing with the traitor... I've always let him put the thing is the box, tried it the other way and reloaded, you learn more about him/his plan when you don't automatically arrest him.
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Post by Lee on Oct 14, 2019 13:22:45 GMT
I completed my second run of Greedfall. I screwed up something with the Naut questline apparently, cause it said their secret got out. Which as far as I know I stopped that from happening, but maybe it's cause I arrested the trader before finding out what he was putting in the box? Shrug- My first run I got an ending line about them inviting in more people including natives.
The romance ending with Vasco didn't change despite joining the nauts officially. We still only occasionally go out to sea. Which is fine with me. I love the ending with him regardless. Beyond that everything went well. I even took advantage of a memory crystal so I could fully spec into Warrior so I have all 3 trophies for leveling all the things. I have all the combat trophies but melee weapons at this point. So not much left to do there. But I still only have that one ending trophy, so I'll have to grind out the alternate endings someday. But too much work for now. Shame to hear the ending doesn't change with romanced Vasco, I hoped it might with you 'joining' the Nauts. I still have a few combat specific achievements to get but I don't really care, I'm never gonna 100% the game achievement wise so it doesn't bother me too much.
I'm assuming their secrets being revealed is because of the thing with the traitor... I've always let him put the thing is the box, tried it the other way and reloaded, you learn more about him/his plan when you don't automatically arrest him. I'm probably not going to get all the trophies either. Mainly cause of the romance ones and not wanting to play it on the hardest setting. But still-I do want to get a lot of them.
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Post by nickclark89 on Nov 16, 2019 0:25:51 GMT
linkNo matter how mad I am at the romance distribution or how we always get crumbs I'm glad the game did well, because the only thing I can possible want if I want to live on this awful world whilst being mentally healthy is hoping for the few companies that give something to do better in the future. I'm still voting with my wallet and not buying this til a big sale. But hey glad for those who are enjoying the game!
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Post by Lee on Nov 16, 2019 3:31:55 GMT
linkNo matter how mad I am at the romance distribution or how we always get crumbs I'm glad the game did well, because the only thing I can possible want if I want to live on this awful world whilst being mentally healthy is hoping for the few companies that give something to do better in the future. I'm still voting with my wallet and not buying this til a big sale. But hey glad for those who are enjoying the game! Hopefully the higher sales will at least tell them that having both gender player options and more inclusion helps sales.
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Post by milanawalters on Nov 16, 2019 4:25:26 GMT
linkNo matter how mad I am at the romance distribution or how we always get crumbs I'm glad the game did well, because the only thing I can possible want if I want to live on this awful world whilst being mentally healthy is hoping for the few companies that give something to do better in the future. I'm still voting with my wallet and not buying this til a big sale. But hey glad for those who are enjoying the game! Hopefully the higher sales will at least tell them that having both gender player options and more inclusion helps sales. the game wasnt that inclusive though, so it might tell them that they just can get away with little lgbt rep meh (like netflix is doing or ya writers tagging everything lgbt while there is only one scene of rep and mains are still straight pfff,the only ones who are having gays as mains in shows not only about sexuality and drama are asians for some reason and they still lack wlw considerably) sorry i always come aound to this lol and yeah, i hate that the sales did well, i wanted them to fail ps.: nothing against people who enjoyed the game ofc, i wish i could play it, but im just stubborn and tired of such treatment
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Post by nickclark89 on Nov 16, 2019 7:04:52 GMT
milanawalters your schadenfreude syndrome is bigger than mine ππ It's totally true that can go both ways: doing better for more equality or doing the bare minimum because the game did well, I rather wait and be more positive because I want to age well lmao I really hope next year this is on sale though, I really in love with one of the presets
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Post by Lee on Nov 16, 2019 7:12:44 GMT
milanawalters your schadenfreude syndrome is bigger than mine ππ It's totally true that can go both ways: doing better for more equality or doing the bare minimum because the game did well, I rather wait and be more positive because I want to age well lmao I really hope next year this is on sale though, I really in love with one of the presets It's a fun game too. The combat is improved a good bit from the last spiders game. But yeah, buying it on sale is best for sure!
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Post by milanawalters on Nov 16, 2019 7:47:31 GMT
nickclark89, Lee only sale for me as well though im not sure when i'll be able to play it. i still have poe2 to finish urgh idk why i cant get myself into it im all about complaining about rep, but i still have a lot of books and podcasts with a good rep to finish and i just dont have time. i try to listen to them at work and once i scared myself so much when i saw a spider fall from one of the student's book while checking and the words in my ears: "the spiders started to come out of his fingernails..." wtf ahaha that was a good scare though its from "the magnus archives" if anyones interested, pretty spooky and has main mlm and side wlw, slowburn though
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Post by Lee on Nov 16, 2019 10:57:14 GMT
i still have poe2 to finish urgh idk why i cant get myself into it I'll be dead of old age before it's out on console. Not really, but it is taking a questionably long time to make it out.
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Post by disgustednoise on Nov 16, 2019 14:10:45 GMT
nickclark89, Lee only sale for me as well though im not sure when i'll be able to play it. i still have poe2 to finish urgh idk why i cant get myself into it im all about complaining about rep, but i still have a lot of books and podcasts with a good rep to finish and i just dont have time. i try to listen to them at work and once i scared myself so much when i saw a spider fall from one of the student's book while checking and the words in my ears: "the spiders started to come out of his fingernails..." wtf ahaha that was a good scare though its from "the magnus archives" if anyones interested, pretty spooky and has main mlm and side wlw, slowburn though I AM OBSESSED WITH THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES.
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Post by mediocreogre on Nov 16, 2019 16:13:33 GMT
milanawalters your schadenfreude syndrome is bigger than mine ππ It's totally true that can go both ways: doing better for more equality or doing the bare minimum because the game did well, I rather wait and be more positive because I want to age well lmao I really hope next year this is on sale though, I really in love with one of the presets Itβll be on sale probably before a year from now if you keep an eye out. iβm at The point where all my hetero friends are getting married or having babies and boy oh boy is that a good way for them to extort you for money. So iβm Having to get real good at funding my media consumption cheaply.
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Post by milanawalters on Nov 16, 2019 17:15:14 GMT
nickclark89 , Lee only sale for me as well though im not sure when i'll be able to play it. i still have poe2 to finish urgh idk why i cant get myself into it im all about complaining about rep, but i still have a lot of books and podcasts with a good rep to finish and i just dont have time. i try to listen to them at work and once i scared myself so much when i saw a spider fall from one of the student's book while checking and the words in my ears: "the spiders started to come out of his fingernails..." wtf ahaha that was a good scare though its from "the magnus archives" if anyones interested, pretty spooky and has main mlm and side wlw, slowburn though I AM OBSESSED WITH THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES. high five, bro! on one hand me too ofc, but then now i find myself checking the room in the dark before falling asleep and chant "nothing is there, nothing is there". I dont wanna make my own statement one day haha
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Post by melange on Nov 27, 2019 2:18:23 GMT
Popping back in for a sec! For people that were waiting for the game to go on sale, now's your chance.
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