Recent content by Galen

I dig this idea. Hugely into gothic D&D settings and whatnot. I'm a Lord Soth/Ravenloft boy at heart.

Zorin doesn't strike me as dull-witted enough to commit to Nagaztak's war if there wasn't already a plan in place for people farms.

Man, why's every game (besides Deadhaus) gotta be isometric/zoomed out? I'd be way more excited for V Rising if it was third person.

Thank you for pointing this out.

It may be as simple as the ghoul is a conduit for the magic its creator imbues upon it. In the story the ghoul has absolutely no control over the magic, it just triggers when it does things that ghouls do, because the lich or whoever designed the magic to trigger when those things happen...

I didn't know we'd change over ages. That's hella cool.

I guess I worry over the idea that Deadhaus Sonata's main theme -- the dead -- will be superceded by other more powerful hauses as player character options. I'm fine with fighting angelhaus, gigahaus, demonhaus, but I don't ever want them to be player options that are more powerful and superior...

I don't agree that Zorin looks like an orc. The only thing I'd change about him, were it up to me, is I'd have him either be fully bald or have a full head of hair (the goal of the monster vampire is to be enobled in its monstrosity, not downcast IMO) and I'd give him a proper nose. Maybe less...

I love Z's helmet and his cape. He seems like the biggest boss in the room, the guy who doesn't need frills to advertise what a threat he is.

That was more or less how I took it. It might be more literal, like Vampire the Masquerade 5e's Blush of Life spell, where you can invoke your blood to make your organs work and allows you to appear alive and even eat for a short period. (You still have to puke whatever you ate, though.)

GW2 is another example of an Inventory Management Simulator that burns my britches.

The issue isn't receiving a lot of loot. The issue is not having the space to contain it, and/or having to actively manage it so you can grab more. See here how Blizzard intentionally makes items multiple different shapes and your inventory a shape-based game mechanic? This is hell.

Everyone loves Diablo and its successors, but one thing I just can't stand is how Diablo does loot. Having to stop every two minutes to take stock of your inventory, overview each single item and compare them against eachother just to decide which one to toss out and lose forever. I can't and...

I was having a shower thought about this topic. I know SWTOR was considered a bad MMO when it first came out, but I think it handled this topic well. ESO kind of handles it similarly. You see, your class story's nemesis was never in a dungeon, nor a raid. Dungeons and raids had their own stories...

I guess my worry is that raids will be where all of the story's points will end. No grand mano a mano confrontations just conglomerate mass zerging the boss. That wouldn't be satisfying for me, or feel much like Legacy of Kain at all.