Sev Plays Games

A place for me to ramble about the games I play without flooding the dashboards of my main blog's followers. I occasionally upload clips of things to my YouTube channel, but only rarely. ___________________ I post mainly about Warframe, No Man's Sky, Final Fantasy, Destiny, Kingdom Hearts, and Fallout.Got a massive soft spot for ATLUS and LEVEL5, so expect them and their library of games to be mentioned here on occasion. Favorite game genre is RPGs and Open-worlds. ___________________ Current Main Game; FF14 and Tiny Tina's Wonderlands ___________________ Maliades on PS5

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I made YET ANOTHER Violet save, decided I was gonna catch a scatterbug because Vivillion is neat, and almost immediately found a shiny one. (scatterbug, not vivillion lmao) If somebody told me ScVi had higher shiny odds, at this point I'd probably believe them

I've found more shinies in Violet than I have in all my other pokemon games (all the way down to silver on GBC) COMBINED

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Sometimes I remember I exist

ANYWAYS

found out you can get Axi relics off Marduk in the Void, albeit rather infrequently. And considering the like, 1% chance rate on any people at all doing literally ANY of the rotation activities that have a higher % of Axi drop, I'll TAKE it.

I'm forever and always insanely low on Axis because noone does the rotation missions anymore :(

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There's one thing about eso that bugs me.

Argonian lore is CONSTANTLY contradicting itself. Mainly, in regards to hatching.

Argonian eggs CAN hatch away from the hist, except when they can't. You'll constantly hear about this argonian slave or that, who was hatched AS a slave, and yet there's MULTIPLE quests implying that's not possible! (and also a single one that indicates it IS but they're the equivalent of being autistic if they are)

Not ONE of them ever implies anything like being allowed to beg for leave to go to a Hist and request a child/egg, so what the fuck is it, zos?

Can Argonians have eggs perfectly fine Histless or can they not????

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Apparently I, an 8-year player of Elder Scrolls Online, haven't played Elder Scrolls Online, because there's somebody online writing tons of aggressively incorrect quest walkthroughs and being very confidant about it

According to him, 'The Prismatic Core' (you know, a FIGHTERS GUILD quest) is a STORY quest, from AURIDON. In this quest I've never played despite having 9 different characters, at least 5 of which are long past the main story, you have to fight to close portals in Firsthold, and if you don't have a prismatic weapon , your only method of closing these portals is sacrificing the life of Extremely Important Story NPC Darien Gautier.

And apparently the Coldharbor Quest 'Harvest Heart', where you choose whether or not to help or kill a clan of vampires, is a Greenshade quest where you choose to help the ghost of Naemon, or the ghost of the Silvenar.

This Alternate Reality eso also has quests where Cadwell dies permanently if you don't do it right, from what I saw of the numerous guides he's posted.

All of them were posted on the same day, too.

I can't help but wonder what they're getting out of posting such blatantly incorrect things.

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Who and where?

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some 'Dan Hastings' on nerdburglars.net.

A bunch of his guides look normal enough (though I'm only glancing at their previews), but then there are ones saying things like how 'Will of the worm' is an eastmarch quest where you have to choose between helping Thallik revive and control the ancient dragon sinmur, (yes, DRAGON) OR help Fildgor claim the throne and gain the allegiance of the stormfist clan.

Just mashing two to three different quests together with what sounds like his fantasy version of what he wishes ESO was. I don't know if the site in question is like, Videogame The Onion, but if it is it's not very clear about it being satire or fantasy.

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Apparently I, an 8-year player of Elder Scrolls Online, haven't played Elder Scrolls Online, because there's somebody online writing tons of aggressively incorrect quest walkthroughs and being very confidant about it

According to him, 'The Prismatic Core' (you know, a FIGHTERS GUILD quest) is a STORY quest, from AURIDON. In this quest I've never played despite having 9 different characters, at least 5 of which are long past the main story, you have to fight to close portals in Firsthold, and if you don't have a prismatic weapon , your only method of closing these portals is sacrificing the life of Extremely Important Story NPC Darien Gautier.

And apparently the Coldharbor Quest 'Harvest Heart', where you choose whether or not to help or kill a clan of vampires, is a Greenshade quest where you choose to help the ghost of Naemon, or the ghost of the Silvenar.

This Alternate Reality eso also has quests where Cadwell dies permanently if you don't do it right, from what I saw of the numerous guides he's posted.

All of them were posted on the same day, too.

I can't help but wonder what they're getting out of posting such blatantly incorrect things.

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So. If, in Elder Scrolls Online, absorbing the Keystone made Drillk immortal... if we absorb keystones, and choose not to use them in-game, does that render the Vestige functionally immortal as well?

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one day videogames'll stop being Dark Souls Emulators

one day I'll be able to actually play a game without immediately being eviscerated by the first pack of enemies I come across

one day

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If Ganon is fated to eventually wake up then uh

What happens after Age of Calamity? Does Link get reborn or is the world just fucked?

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FF8;

I don’t blame Squall for not talking a lot. I’d hate talking too if I had somebody following me around actively trying to finish as many of my sentences as possible. It’d take all my self control not to stab them in the throat, honestly. Props to Squall for not doing that.

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ngl

people that slowly sparrow their way through a building as far as they can manage, rather then getting off and running, really piss me off. Don’t know why. It just... does.

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THAT SAID

favorite Duviri build is to grab as many status effect causing decrees as possible, then chase it down with damage boosts - there’s at least one that boosts your own damage based on the number of npcs with status effects on them in your vicinity, and that combined with ‘melees hit twice’ means that eventually, you just start oneshotting enemies, at least on the Drifter side.

It’s very fun and makes solo play a lot easier than you’d expect, at least once you start GETTING decrees. Because admittedly, it can be a struggle in the beginning, when you’ve got like... none.

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Duviri shenanigans aside

I continue to wonder what Destiny 2 is gonna do ith Zavala with his VA passed away. Just hiring somebody else feels disrespectful, and I doubt they’d be able to find anyone that sounds similar enough to be worth it, so... ditching the character somehow, feels like the only option. Or at least avoiding involving the npc in anything new until they can figure out what to do with a newly voiceless npc.

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When you’re going so fast in Duviri via the ‘every decree makes you faster’ thing that you get on your horse in order to slow down

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So, I forgot to mention a WHILE ago. 

I found out why sneaking crashed my game in Elder Scrolls Online - or at the very least, the likely culprit. 

The disk was cracked.

I do not know how how long it had been cracked FOR, but I recall ejecting the disk one day, and eventually looking at it close for whatever reason (I think the light bounced off the crack and caught my eye, or it was having trouble loading and I was trying to find dirt/smudges) It wasn’t a LONG crack, but it was there.  A little crack in the disk, starting from the center hole and creeping outward. I ended up rebuying the basegame digitally, because you can’t buy the basegame physically anymore and HAVE to buy whatever expansion is newest, specifically. (I already own the dlcs)

Ever since then, I’ve had ZERO issues sneaking. So that would explain why noone else ever seemed to mention any issues with sneak.

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I’ve finally started playing the Doctor Lautrec game I’ve had for ages (a friend bought it for my birthday one year but I never played it for some reason) and it’s actually kinda fun~ 

I haven’t gotten very far in - in fact, I’m pretty sure I’ve only just finished the tutorial level - but the fighting is fun, and the two puzzles I’ve played so far as refreshingly simple. Crossword puzzle and shape puzzle? Hell yeah, I want more of that. makes me think but I don’t feel like I need a degree to finish them~

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funfact

for a while, in Skyrim, I was CONVINCED that eating Dragons Tongue plants summoned dragons, because the very first time I found and picked one, within SECONDS a dragon had shown up and attacked me, and when afterwards I avoided them and wasn’t attacked, it just.... sounded logical.

I since know better.

But still.

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Decided to give Code Vein a try since it’s free this month, and oh my god I love the little details in this game. Especially this one. So unnecessary, but so adorable. You lay on the bed, and you will fall asleep if you wait long enough.

God I love it~