The RPG Adventures of A Teenager With Anger Issues

A blog based on RPG video game franchises, mainly The Elder Scrolls. Will occasionally talk about other RPG franchises, mainly fantasy RPGs. I also do JRPGs, like pokemon, etc...

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Daredevil Born Again (spoilers)

FUCK THIS SHOW. FUCK THIS COMPANY. FUCK THE WRITERS. FUCK EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS ABOMINATION OF A SERIES. This isn’t Daredevil man This isn’t a continuation. This isn’t even THE SAME fucking show. It’s an insult, a spit in the face and a goddamn fucking fuck wax museum animatronic of what once was peak fiction and now it’s reduced to whatever this fucking mutilated corpse of a series is supposed to be Muse was the only fucking thing I was looking forward to, and they actually had the AUDACITY to cast him properly and get the costume right. But instead of actually adapting his character properly, they mutilate him beyond recognition, turn him into an afterthought, a footnote and a COMPLETE disgrace. I have waited YEARS LITERAL. FUCKING. YEARS for this character to finally get his due, and instead, they make him into a fucking joke because apparently, NOBODY in the writer’s room has ever actually READ A FUCKING COMIC. Oh but it doesnt stop there, because the entire show is a fucking trainwreck from start to finish (SO FAR) The tracks aren’t even laid out properly so it just derails at every possible moment The pacing is so fucking atrocious, it feels like an AI tried to stitch together completely different drafts of scripts written by people who don’t even speak the same fucking language. The plotlines are either introduced and immediately abandoned or completely bungled in ways that make no goddamn sense.

They completely butcher Matt as a character. And I don’t mean in the way a tragic hero suffers BECAUSE I mean they write him as if they genuinely don’t even understand who he is. Like they’ve never even SEEN the original show, let alone read the comics. He makes decisions so monumentally stupid, so catastrophically out of character, that I would genuinely believe this is some kind of cruel parody if it wasn’t so clear that Disney actually thought this was a good idea The courtroom scene is one of the worst things I have EVER seen on television. I cannot stress enough how much of a fucking travesty it is. Nothing about it works. It is NOT SUSPENSEFUL OR INTENSE LIKE FRANK'S SCENE IN SEASON 2 It actively makes Matt look like a complete idiot who has no idea what the fuck he’s doing They frame the previous episode as if he accidentally kills a corrupt cop while protecting a witness (AND WE EVEN HEAR HIS NECK CRACK THE MOMENT HE GETS SLAMMED HEADFIRST INTO THE FLOOR), only for that to be completely retconned in the dumbest way possible. So why the fuck was that even included? Did they forget to edit it out? Did they rewrite the first four episodes and forget to remove the scraps of an abandoned plotline? And then, to top it off, Matt in his infinite wisdom outs Hector Ayala in the courtroom and THEN CONVINCES HIM TO GO BACK OUT AS WHITE TIGER, KNOWING DAMN WELL HE JUST FUCKING LEAKED HIS IDENTITY TO EVERYONE. AND THEN HE ICED IN THE STREET, AND MATT BARELY FUCKING CARES

Like, what the actual fuck am I watching? What is this writing? How do you fumble the bag this hard? How do you take one of the most interesting side characters and just fucking kill him off for nothing, without any emotional weight or consequence? Oh right, so his daughter can take up the mantle and immediately get captured in episode 6. Great storytelling. Amazing writing. Peak FICTION AMIRIGHT? js pull the fucking trigger already i cant handle this shit no mo bro Like i get it, Hector doesn't last long in the comics either and Ava is arguably the definitive White Tiger and is the most recognized. Shit she is supposed to take on the mantle. But that doesn’t mean you just throw Hector aside like some disposable character You can't just kill him off in the most meaningless, underwhelming way and then pretend like it's all fine. There was potential for a real arc here, and they just pissed it all away Other than that, RIP Kamar de los Reyes, gone too soon. FUCK don’t even get me started on the way they fucking sidelined Foggy and Karen, the two most important supporting characters in the original series, for absolutely NO FUCKING REASON No no, the reason was so they could focus on a bunch of new characters who add absolutely nothing to the show, because the writers think they can just strip out all the things people actually liked about the original and replace them with literal nothingness call it a day and somehow expect fans to be on board

AND FRANK. THEY ARE GOING TO FUCK UP FRANK SO BAD. I ALREADY KNOW IT. IT IS INEVITABLE. EVEN WITH HOW HIS SCENE WITH MATT IN EPISODE 4 HAS ADMITTEDLY THE BEST DIALOGUE IN THE ENTIRE SHOW SO FAR (LIKE THAT IS EVEN A HIGH BAR)

This isn’t even just bad bcuz this shit is actively insulting It is the television equivalent of a rotting corpse being paraded around in broad daylight while Disney puppeteers its lifeless limbs pretending everything is fine The soul is gone, the spirit is gone. the heart is gone. It is empty and hollow and fucking infuriating to watch The entire season is just a series of failures stacked on top of each other I’m still going to finish it, and yeah alright ill be optimistic maybe season 2 might be half decent, but I fucking doubt they’re going to do the Shadowland run justice (EVEN WITH HOW ABSOLUTELY DIVISIVE THAT RUN IS) fuck elektra isn’t even coming back, and without her, how the hell are they going to handle that storyline? It feels like they’re just throwing out everything that made it work in the comics. But even with two episodes left this season, I have absolutely no hope for any of it. This show is still awful and they’ve made a mockery of what was once great I’m not holding my breath for them to fix it in season 2 This show gets a 3.4/10. Follow me on bluesky btw. @_rmbk9.bsky.social (without the underscore) I am not using twitter.

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Tumblr got banned in my country and I'm pretty pissed off because of it

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Guys the new event has me on a chokehold

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My role model is Hunter S. Thompson

As soon as he woke up he would start pounding scotch and cigarettes

Oh and also as soon as he was done being that guy, he checked himself out with a .45

Some day I'll do the same thing

I'm gonna go on a week long bender and check myself out by blowing my own head off

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harry dubois if he was a young witch trying to solve the disappearance of her neighbors cat in a small village in the alps

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"Somebody tag in Monolith. Monolith, if you can hear us, please Monolith. Please save me. Please save me Monolith. Please. I'm asking you-" "ЗАБИРАЙСЯ НАХУЙ!" "Please save me. Please save me, please get these people away from me! IN DEAR GOD'S NAME PLEASE! PLEASE STOP THESE PEOPLE!"

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The Tarkovification of stalker was a mistake

gonna go on a rant here, The valid criticism of the game, performance issues and bugs, get drowned out by gamma and eft fanboys whining about A-Life not being perfect, as if it’s the death of the entire franchise. eft fanboys, in particular, keep demanding features that have no place in stalker, treating it like it’s supposed to be some tarkov-lite experience instead of its own thing. Do these masochists even know what made the original stalker games great? Every complaint boils down to “gamma did this, and this game didn’t,” as if that modpack is the definitive version of the series. But here’s the thing, A-Life while ahead of its time and something that should absolutely be fixed in stalker 2, wasn’t the sole thing that defined the originals. The real core of the trilogy was its atmosphere. the tension, the dread, the beauty, the sense of immersion. Without that, the A-Life system would’ve been fucking meaningless. The dynamic world of A-Life only worked because it complemented that atmosphere, not the other way around. The obsession with the endless tarkov comparisons also miss the point entirely. stalker was never about cramming in features for the sake of realism or complexity; it was about creating a world that felt alive, haunting, and unforgettable, being challenging while not being tedious. the GAMMA modpack has completely warped people’s perception of what stalker is, and now they’re rewriting history to fit their nonsense. One review I see: “Far Cry with a stalker skin.” Then the inevitable “I went back to playing GAMMA.” Calling this game “Far Cry with a stalker skin” is lazy criticism at best, and the subreddit’s echo chamber keeps it alive. The game is a mess; it needs performance fixes and A-Life back as soon as possible. But calling it Far Cry and then praising a bloated modpack as a better stalker experience? kindly fuck off for us If you’re saying that, you don’t understand stalker. What you’ve been playing isn’t stalker. It’s a tedious, miserable mishmash of mods that barely resembles the originals. Go back and play Shadow of Chernobyl, Call of Pripyat, or even Clear Sky. Those games weren’t Tarkov clones designed to punish you for existing. They weren’t made tedious just for the sake of it. I blame the people who started the “STALKER is just Tarkov offline” narrative. More than that, I blame GAMMA and its smugass, fuckwad of a creator, grok. I used to defend GAMMA and Anomaly, but now I see the purists were right. I went back to GAMMA, and it doesn’t feel like stalker at all. It feels like it hates the very idea of being stalker. PS: To everyone who drops, “Well, I read Roadside Picnic and watched the Tarkovsky film,” shut the fuck up. You didn’t. And even if you did, you don’t understand them or their history. You just know the games were loosely inspired by them. Congrats on your trivia knowledge. Here’s a ribbon for your participation trophy. Now fuck off.

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Bioshock Review: This game broke my heart.

Alright, here's my take on Bioshock. It sucks.

After finally wrapping up Bioshock, I can't help but feel it doesn't quite live up to its reputation for brilliance. I went in expecting a narrative masterpiece, but what I got felt more like a recycled version of Half-Life.

For a title hailed as an immersive sim, it fails to deliver. Instead of offering rich, expansive environments, it confines players to linear pathways that feel like they're holding your hand a bit too tightly. It's almost insulting, really.

Sure, Talos I in Prey may have lacked a bit of life, but it felt more organic and open compared to the claustrophobic shooting galleries of Bioshock.

Bioshock garnered heaps of praise, but in reality, it's just a run-of-the-mill FPS with a sprinkle of elemental powers. The storyline is average at best, and the ending? Predictable from a mile away.

But the real deal-breaker for me is the gameplay. It's just so… dull. I've had more fun with shooters from the '90s than this. Enemy variety is lacking, and the constant feeling of confinement in the environment is suffocating (at least, from what I gathered in the few hours I played).

The level design, while aesthetically pleasing, boils down to lengthy corridors leading to open spaces filled with either big daddies or regular enemies, only to repeat the cycle again and again.

In contrast, Prey (2017) really challenges you to think outside the box, to strategize and adapt. Bioshock, on the other hand, seems content to spoon-feed you every step of the way, which, frankly, feels like an insult to the player's intelligence.

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I think these are valid points, if I may add:

It sound a bit like you played Prey first, and it makes sense that Bioshock wouldn't stack up quite the same. Here's the thing though, for the time when bioshock was released, it was as groundbreaking as prey. Major spoilers below, under the cut at your own risk:

Around the time of bioshock, most major FPS's were the same aside from details, pvp shootouts. But, more importantly, the campaigns shared a key detail. The player was told what to do, and that's all you really could, that was the game. What made Bioshock so incredible is that it put a spin on it. We listened to the voice because it was the game, and the story said that we had no real choice, that it was all only a command.

I don't think comparing Bioshock to Prey is completely fair simply from the time between releases, and the hardware limitations- that were still pushed pretty far, but nonetheless.

In addition, Bioshock did have quite a few more options then other games of the time: from which plasmid of your choice to use, to what upgrades to put on your weapon- heck- the weapon wheel alone was significant, letting you choose all of your guns instead of a primary and secondary.

Bioshock does wear its age, it's certenly not perfect by any means. But Bioshock walked (down flooded halls) so other immersive Sims could run.

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I'm pretty sure system shock 2 did it too, before bioshock, but with more options.

My main problem with Bioshock is that it was too handholdy for an immersive sim. Like i said before, the map design consisted of just pretty looking corridors leading to another wide open space, compared to System shock 2 which did actually change up the setpieces.

Sure, yeah, i should have used system shock 2 for comparison but i saw someone say prey was inferior to bioshock which made me unbelievably pissed off because of how bad of a take it was.

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Bioshock Review: This game broke my heart.

Alright, here's my take on Bioshock. It sucks.

After finally wrapping up Bioshock, I can't help but feel it doesn't quite live up to its reputation for brilliance. I went in expecting a narrative masterpiece, but what I got felt more like a recycled version of Half-Life.

For a title hailed as an immersive sim, it fails to deliver. Instead of offering rich, expansive environments, it confines players to linear pathways that feel like they're holding your hand a bit too tightly. It's almost insulting, really.

Sure, Talos I in Prey may have lacked a bit of life, but it felt more organic and open compared to the claustrophobic shooting galleries of Bioshock.

Bioshock garnered heaps of praise, but in reality, it's just a run-of-the-mill FPS with a sprinkle of elemental powers. The storyline is average at best, and the ending? Predictable from a mile away.

But the real deal-breaker for me is the gameplay. It's just so… dull. I've had more fun with shooters from the '90s than this. Enemy variety is lacking, and the constant feeling of confinement in the environment is suffocating (at least, from what I gathered in the few hours I played).

The level design, while aesthetically pleasing, boils down to lengthy corridors leading to open spaces filled with either big daddies or regular enemies, only to repeat the cycle again and again.

In contrast, Prey (2017) really challenges you to think outside the box, to strategize and adapt. Bioshock, on the other hand, seems content to spoon-feed you every step of the way, which, frankly, feels like an insult to the player's intelligence.

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What do I think of starfield??

There is no review. You can tell how disappointed I am when it took almost a year for me to write a "Review" that isn't even a review, which is this one.

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Hogwarts Legacy. My thoughts.

First of all let me say that i did not pre order this game, a friend let me use his account for the time being because he wanted me to know what my thoughts were about it.

                                                           Overall gameplay

The open world aspect was a pleasant surprise because i thought it was going to be another ubislog title with hundreds of side activities sprinkled across the map without any real substance

But it isn’t. It’s beautifully crafted and feels alive

Everything else however it falls short. In my opinion, most of it ranges from Ok (mid) to aggressively mediocre (INCREDIBLY mid)

The combat, holy fuck the combat is boring! The magic system somehow almost managed to convince me to get forspoken instead. There are like 3 unforgivable curses and like 26 in total spells. If you have Expalliarmus, Confringo and stupefy then fuck, you’re set for life. Just go ham.

The RPG mechanics are underwhelming. No sense of character building or any of the sort at all. At the very least your choices do have some effect on the stories but the RPG mechanics are more underwhelming than fallout 4. To start with the “Talent” or “Perk” system is very barebones. Most of them are either damage modifiers for your spells, makes them AOE attacks, makes you more stealthy or to improve the room of requirement. 

The story? I thought it was okay. No more, no less. It is absolutely nothing special. It’s just not for me. There were no memorable characters imo. And the trans character they put in is just there to tick boxes. Which is not a good thing. It feels like they just put her in because of the backlash.  Look, i thought this game was going to be worse than it actually is but thankfully it’s not. It’s still pretty mediocre, and mediocre this days basically means a masterpiece now. I think it could have been better with the RPG mechanics and magic system expanded instead of what fucking barebones shit we have now.  Bravo avalanche, you managed to make a decent game. It wasn’t anything special but at least it was something that wasn’t shit. You can’t blame me for being skeptic. I’ve seen your catalogue, most of them are bad movie games and literally not even a decade ago you guys made the worst toys to life games to ever exist. Disney Infinity. Oh and your collector’s edition is still dogshit. 

Verdict: 4.5/10. Mediocre. To buy, or not to buy: Don’t buy. Wait for sale. Don’t pay 70-80 dollarinos for this. Wait until it’s like 30-40.

now for a rant. Anyone who pre ordered multiple copies of this game just to “own the libs” need to get the fuck off the hobby for good. You guys have never learned from cyberpunk and 2042 and it shows. 

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Sonate pour clavecin en la mineur, Kk. 3 – Domenico Scarlatti

Bulles de savon (Soap Bubbles) Jean Siméon Chardin, 1734

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Le voile noir (The Black Veil) Samuel Melton Fisher, 1907/8