Right, also the traveling made you think about the world: Balmora has a Mage’s Guild so I can teleport there and then hop on the silt strider up north, and then…

You don’t have to like it but when the guy says he wants a crusader army he’s serious about it

Right I think people are underrating the extent to which things get weird in a total collapse

When I was 25 and my median plane trip was a weekend with the bros in Denver I could probably have missed more flights

“Assuming you’re not traveling with kids” is a big assumption! As is the unstated assumption that it doesn’t matter whether I get to St. Louis at 9am or 2pm. If I had a 12pm client meeting it does matter!

It feels like people are shadow boxing a class/culture distinction here where if you are a person who does solo travel for recreation a lot this isn’t a huge deal while if your travel usually involves you needing to be at a specific place at a specific time for work or family obligations it is

Some of us have actually done it!

I don’t think the current incarnation of the DOJ is going to be able to successfully take a shop as big and well-funded as the SPLC but the use of the goverment to attack civil society is bad

Lmao this unlocked some stuff that was way back in there

Yeah I would agree with that

Like ok sure the wizards live in mushroom towers and I need to learn to fly to visit

Still probably my favorite game ever, some nostalgia obviously but it was just such a weird and specific world

I got the Game of the Year Edition for XBox and it came with a very detailed fold up print map which I actually ended up using a lot

Ok sure but there is no quest compass and you are in Vivec City and you get a quest with the directions “there is a cave to the north” that is a fuck you to the player

The Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also a Chicago guy, gave him a cubs jersey, it like a bit now

I do miss games that sort of hated the player, see also MORROWIND (lack of) fast travel and “With this character's death, the thread of prophecy is severed”

The game has very strong 3rd year post-doc energy

Yeah it is an older school for sure

It’s problem is that it is supposed to be like a Baldur’s Gate, the writers decide early on it actually isn’t, but they don’t like change the mechanics to match

I will say if you liked DE and are at all into SFF that TORMENT: TIDES OF NUMENERA is a pretty good Deep Thoughts with Occasional Combat RPG

RETVRN to tradition

It’s the RICK AND MORTY of Eastern European isometric RPGs

It’s the RICK AND MORTY of Eastern European isometric RPGs

I will say the plot revolves around a dirtbag detective very slowly recovering from a massive hangover and it’s a good bit

Sorely tempted to change my handle to Esoteric Erb

And no shade, I think DE hits extremely hard for people who imagine themselves at some point reading a Victor Serge book

I can attest that at least one goth stripper shares that view

DISCO ELYSIUM is PLANESCAPE: TORMENT for people who have not read a book in the last calendar year but have watched a series of 2 hour video essays on YouTube

I just saw someone wishing there was a fantasy DISCO ELYSIUM.

Reopen the schools