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I finally got around to finishing the next game in my backlog: Star Wars Republic Commando.

After beating Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright last night I have jumped right into Conquest. I think I found a new series to obsess over and love.

I dropped dragoon once I saw you can summon bahamut. I regret nothing haha.

So I finished Loren, and it was okay. I have to admit the experience was largely tainted by spending time on the official board for the games. It became clear quite quickly that the devs there are not making the gay content for actual gay men. It's more for the yaoi peeps. All the gay male characters are that type sadly. Loren has some good m/m content-but It seems like it might be the only game that does.

A few more Diablo observations:

Robin Atkin Downes did several voices in the game, including the male Demon Hunter. It can be a little hard to hear his voice knowing that he's gone.

I've missed Blizzard's sense of humor. For example, a rare monster you can find in Act 1 is called "Dataminer" with the title underneath "Uncoverer of Secrets." A monk claw called Logan's Claw. Other things like that.

Blizzard got a lot of grief when D3 was first shown for being "too colorful." I personally really like the change and it doesn't detract from the gameplay. In fact, there is something to be said about seeing all of those chunks and icky monsters in bright color. However, some folks accused Blizzard of making the game "too kiddy." So they decided to be smartasses about it. They created Whimsydale and Whimsyshire.

See, throughout Diablo 3, there are these mobs called "Treasure Goblins." The goal is to kill it before it disappears into a portal. They also love to lead you on a merry chase through ever damn angry mob in the area. They come in different types, including cosmetic pets (picks up gold for you) gem and gold exclusive ones. Then, there is the Rainbow Goblins. When you kill them, they open a rainbow colored portal you can go into. Welcome to Whimsydale.

You will find yourself in a very very colorful world, complete with rainbows, pots of gold and literal loot pinatas. The minimap looks like a 5th grader drew it on a piece of lined paper. They have a classical score turned into 8 bit sound and played backwards. The mobs have all been turned into flowers, teddy bears and yes, ponies. Yes, they put in a mob that has the title of "Nightmare is Magic" as well. The thing is, you want to get there. The loot you can get is utterly insane and some of the largest amounts in the game. You will have to go back to town at least twice to keep your bags empty enough. It's awesome and I love it.



The other place requires a lot of luck and a very annoying fetch quest chain to get. I'm trying to get the last piece now, but considering it has (according to Blizzard) an 0.85%-5% chance of dropping, I'm not holding my breath. Not to mention that the dungeon it's in is randomized and doesn't always show up.

I love how Blizzard handles useless whining from their fans.

Still playing For Honor, the Test your Metal event was pretty fun...even though it got frustrating (the Bosses got stronger after every win and each week with this week being a face off against Apollyon, Gudmundr, and Tozen 1 & 2). I think I had the most trouble with Gudmundr because his health pool was MASSIVE, and in week 3 he would occassionally auto regenerate small amounts of health.

Also been playing Shadow of War, 3rd playthrough now...I wanted to see if earning the special orcs and troll from the Eltariel expansion would carry over and it seems like they don't.

But whatever lootcrates you earn, and don't open, from previous playthroughs will. I honestly really dislike the prologue/Act 1 of the game since it just takes sooo long to get from there into the main game of just finding cool orc and troll buddies and just interacting with them, but I do like the

I'll do this 3rd playthrough, and wait for the Baranor DLC in May. Then I'll do a Shadow of Mordor playthrough to have a new follower (hopefully he'll be an orc voiced by Steve Blum), and a new Nemesis. Then I'll carry them over into a 4th and final playthrough of Shadow of War.

I'll also post pics, once I get a new laptop.

Been reading some of the support conversations for Fire Emblem and I am a little surprised there isn't a female bi option in Conquest considering how one of the female character's there openly drools over and flirts with women. Anyone know if this is a localization thing or if it was like this in the original game.

I'm aware of the male bi character in Conquest and female bi character in Birthright (though given the character herself I think she should have been a Corrinsexual character). I am just surprised that a character so enamored with women can't be paired with women.

I think the more I see of that petting thing they cut out of our release-the more I'm glad they did. It looks kind of disturbing.     I really enjoyed the story that we were given for what it's worth.  

So yeah huldradancer it sucks that you have to buy at least 2 of the paths to have both of the bi options, and that you only have access to both in one of the 3 paths.  Nintendo tried-but the way they did it was pretty grody.  Also, the f/f option being more of a stalker than a love interest was kind of scary! Though I actually married her with my guy on my first run, cause I didn't have a gay option and I wanted to unlock all the content.  Should have played as a girl, but eh...you live and you learn! 

That is true! I haven't finished awakening yet, but I played enough to see her.  It's pretty lazy how they copied a lot of the same characters for the sequel. Though, it was neat that they brought some of the kid characters over as themselves.  Though it doesn't really all quite make sense if you think about it too much.  I guess Fire Emblem really takes advantage of saying there are many versions of the same universe. lol