Maybe try GURPS + Supers suplement?

The main problem with magic in Mage is that you need a LOT of rule knowledge to even know what the fuck you can cast, especially if you mix different spheres. Your friend might’ve dodged a bullet, but for the wrong reason 😆

I personally prefer Warhammer Fantasy (either 2e or 4e), I think it contrasts to DnD like Dark Souls to Diablo. Armor is damage reduction instead of damage avoidance, everyone has access to a number of combat maneuvers, magic is limited and dangerous, every combat is dangerous and healing is limited.

They’re also equally dense

God does not wish HolyC to compile to lowly ARM architectures

Or a fake limited time choice, as in, the character speaks as if they have to act or choose quickly! But if you don’t press anything, they’ll just stand there in a dramatic pose. Or go ahead and act as if you pressed the button anyway (Saints Row 3 had those)

Pretty sure Half Life 1 and 2 work that way, since the cutscenes happen entirely in game

Makes no sense to target me as I’m not an admin anywhere and, afaik, you can always tell who’s an admin or moderator on discord. But eh, these guys aren’t exactly known for being smart

Books were a luxury

I love the look of that picture, not gonna lie. It oozes the style of something from late 80s/early 90s. Is it from a game manual?

Huh, I’m not on discord often, but I did get some DMs begging me for a commission work, “it’s cheap bro, only 10 dollars bro” - bro, I live in fucking Brazil and earn BRL, not USD.

Didn’t know it was an actual scam attempt, just random spam from starving artists.

Unskippable cutscenes. While I do love Soul Reaver’s storytelling, sometimes I just want to skip the damn thing and get on with the adventure.

Walking simulators. The devs just wanted to tell a story, not make a game.

How much is the pay for those gigs?

Not a real fluffy animal!!!

Ha, my fist is impervious to those attacks!

They also talked about kids these days only caring about stuff that wasn’t hip back in MY day!

Fiction is fake, op is writing a gay character, making this a 4chan greenpost, which is a sign of mental illness

Why waste time watching an entire movie when you can just read the spoilers and know what’s it about in less than 5 minutes?

Many games don’t age well in part because of hardware constraints (CPU, RAM and storage), in part because there weren’t that many games to serve as examples of good and bad practices to follow or avoid. Then there are games like the Silver Box collection of Dungeons and Dragons, which were bad even when they were new.

It’s still interesting to note that you can find many “(almost) never copied since” ideas in some old games, which still make them useful for inspiration for game devs and even entertainment for anyone who sits down to play. Hell, Ultima 7, despite being janky as fuck, is still a gold standard in world interactivity. While there are a variety of pokemon clones (TemTem, Cassette Beasts, Coromon), I’m unaware of any game that’s similar to Digimon World (evolving tamagotchi battlers that die out/reset after some time)

Then there are the timeless classics, like Age of Empires 2 or Final Fantasy Tactics, which are yet to be surpassed; or Mega Man X and Super Mario World, which, despite being comparatively simple to stuff that came after it, still hold up incredibly well.

Kinda funny when you consider that Chrono Cross had a fast-forward item reward when playing new game+, all the way back in 2000