{"id":186541,"date":"2024-07-04T11:59:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T16:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/?p=186541"},"modified":"2024-07-04T10:46:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T15:46:21","slug":"the-queue-hofuddreki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2024\/07\/04\/the-queue-hofuddreki\/","title":{"rendered":"The Queue: H\u00f6fu\u00f0dreki"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look, I go through a lot of steps to come up with a character name. Sometimes I go to Google, turn on the translator, and throw words at it until I get a combination I like. I’ve been playing\u00a0Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous<\/em> for years now, and most of my characters are stuck at level 1 because I make a character and\u00a0immediately<\/em> come up with a different name.<\/p>\n

Oh, and happy birthday, America. I’m sorry you never get to sleep on your day because of all the explosions, and I feel very bad for your dogs.<\/p>\n

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TELWAR<\/div>\n
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I have 15 cases of Coke Zero, Caffeine Free Coke Zero, and Diet Ski* in the back of my car.<\/p>\n

Granted, the Coke products I can get at home, but the Ski is absolutely not available at home. And as a Mello Yello\u00a0addict<\/s>\u00a0aficionado and recovering Mountain Dew addict, I’m big on citrus sodas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Ah, the Double Cola Company. Remind me to tell y’all about the time I buried something in Chattanooga.<\/p>\n

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TELWAR AGAIN<\/div>\n
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QftQ: How much chaos do you like\/tolerate in your life?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I have what my doctor has referred to as Terrifying ADHD. So I kind of hate chaos in my day to day life, and yet I generate so much of it that my home office looks entirely different on a daily basis. I have been kidnapped by friends at least three times in my life, ended up living a continent away from where I grew up, have been resuscitated from a flatline three times (not related to the kidnappings) and once got attacked by birds at Disneyland. (California one.) Heck, just go read the posts I wrote about my trip to Anaheim for BlizzCon 2019, I ran into my escaped mental patient twin!<\/p>\n

So yeah, like it? No. Expect it? Absolutely.<\/p>\n

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MUSEDMOOSE<\/div>\n
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Q4tRossiQueue: with CD Projekt Red working on a new Cyberpunk game, what do you hope they keep\/do the same from Cyberpunk 2077? What do you hope they do differently?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I hope they steal a bit more from the pen and paper game, honestly. Make the backgrounds more important, actually do something with the idea of Solos, Netrunners, and since I don’t think you’ll be playing as V I’d like it if they made the character less defined. If we’re playing a nobody (and V was a nobody when you start the game) then we could at least not already have a name chosen for us. I know they do that to make it easier to record dialog, but honestly, I don’t get called by my name very often.<\/p>\n

Yes, I know y’all just spent a whole Queue arguing that the characters in Persona games should have names, but for me, Cyberpunk as a genre and especially\u00a0Cyberpunk 2020\/Red\u00a0<\/em>have plenty of room for things like pseudonyms, use names, and even\u00a0nom du guerre.\u00a0<\/em>I mean, his name’s not even Johnny Silverhand, you know? I mean, we could at least get to pick a first name and then use our last name all the time, like in\u00a0Dragon Age 2<\/em> or the Mass Effect<\/em> series.<\/p>\n

But my absolute dream would be for them to steal the\u00a0Cybergeneration<\/em><\/a> game and cannibalize it for new, cool and completely freaked out nanite abilities. The Carbon Plague could have spent the last fifty or so years being improved in a lab and you could start the game crashing into a tube of the stuff and then it rewrites you on a cellular level. There’s even a teaser in\u00a0CP2077<\/em> about the Carbon Plague, so I would definitely love to see that kind of thing. Imagine being able to hack without a deck, coat yourself in a liquid metal armor skin and turn your arms and legs into weapons like the T-1000, or throw lightning at people via a taser-like set of monowire projectiles. Heck, you can even hack people’s brains\u00a0without them having cyberware installed<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This would also be a bit of a tip of the hat to Telwar (this almost became a Telwar only Queue) wanting it to be\u00a0Shadowrun<\/em>. I think\u00a0Cybergeneration<\/em> is the closest that Night City can get to\u00a0Shadowrun’s\u00a0<\/em>Fifth World. I will also now say that the\u00a0Shadowrun Trilogy<\/em><\/a> is a really solid CRPG, if you’re looking for a video game introduction.<\/p>\n

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MOVEWOW<\/div>\n
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I know that people lie about their age to make themselves feel younger. But I’ve heard of countries doing it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Either you are making a very seraphic and cryptic statement there or you left a word out, and I honestly can’t tell which at this point.<\/p>\n

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KALCHEUS<\/div>\n
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Q4tQ How do you feel about unvoiced protagonists in games?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I haven’t got a specific opinion about it, I have a case by case response.<\/p>\n

I liked that\u00a0Fallout 4<\/em> had a voiced protagonist because I enjoyed the actors, especially Courtenay Taylor<\/a> as Nora. Similarly, I think that\u00a0Mass Effect<\/em> wouldn’t be as good as it is without Mark Meer and Jennifer Hale as Shepard. Would\u00a0Cyberpunk 2077\u00a0<\/em>be as good without Cherami Leigh<\/a> and Gavin Drea<\/a> voicing V?<\/p>\n

But I also agree that the\u00a0Doom\u00a0<\/em>series wouldn’t be as good if the Doomslayer spoke. I like that they don’t even have\u00a0dialogue<\/em>, much less a voice. I’m cool with most\u00a0Fallout<\/em> games being voiceless, I generally think it would be weird if Link had a voice by now, and I thought that the way they went around it in\u00a0Baldur’s Gate 3<\/em> worked pretty well. Some games make great use of the voiceless protagonist, like when people in\u00a0Half-Life 2<\/em> complain that Gordon doesn’t talk much.<\/p>\n

I like that our\u00a0Diablo<\/em> characters have a voice and our\u00a0WoW<\/em> characters do not. I think either can work and be the proper choice depending on how the game intends you to feel about the character you’re playing.<\/p>\n

Okay, y’all, take care and have a happy Fireworks day. I still remember when my now-Wife came to stay with me in Seattle and she thought the city was being bombed and I had to explain that Americans really like explosions. Hug your pets please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Look, I go through a lot of steps to come up with a character name. Sometimes I go to Google, turn on the translator, and throw words at it until I get a combination I like. I’ve been playing\u00a0Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous<\/em> for years now, and most of my characters are stuck at level 1 because I make a character and\u00a0immediately<\/em> come up with a different name.<\/p>\n

Oh, and happy birthday, America. I’m sorry you never get to sleep on your day because of all the explosions, and I feel very bad for your dogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":186546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[78658,78660,78659],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186547,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186541\/revisions\/186547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186541"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=186541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}