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[sigmaleph]

Media I've been consuming during quarantine:

1) Latest season of Better Call Saul (a reminder of how quickly the concept of waiting a week between episodes of a TV show has become alien to me. Weekly schedules are for webcomics!)

2) A re-read of Hunter X Hunter manga

3) Brooklyn 99 season 6 (dropped in Netflix, or at least local Netflix, about a week ago)

4) Latest Worth the Candle update batch, finished yesterday

5) Started Ninefox Gambit out of the book recs list

6) An extensive let's play of a Factorio modpack

7) Playing Factorio itself

8) Also playing Pathfinder: Kingmaker

this is approximately my life now.

(I also sleep, do very occasional household maintenance, and spend time on social media, I suppose. I eat but most often simultaneous with one of the above. I have been known to talk to people.)

Comments

[lunartulip]

How is Pathfinder: Kingmaker, in terms of story and writing? I've had it on my list of games to check out for a while, but the reviews of it that I've encountered have mostly focused on the core gameplay loop rather than the writing end for whatever reason, and that seems like a thing worth knowing to know how much to prioritize it.

[sigmaleph]

Hm, too early for me to tell, I think. I've put a few hours into it so far, and the writing has seemed alright so far, but I can't really say it is "good" with any confidence while I haven't advanced that much into the plot.

[feotakahari]

For better or for worse, it would much rather be Neverwinter Nights than Pillars of Eternity. It wants to tell a story with interesting characters and a compelling villain, but that story is based around fantasy characters in a fantasy world dealing with fantasy problems. It's not like when Pillars wants you to have an opinion about abortion or organized religion or what have you.

[lunartulip]

Ooh, that sounds good. Neverwinter Nights (or, well, Neverwinter Nights 2, not so much the original) was among my favorite games when I was a kid.

(I never got far enough in Pillars to reach the plot, so can't fully appreciate that side of the analogy, unfortunately.)