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Post by Ulythium on Dec 20, 2023 0:00:04 GMT
Keanu Reeves and Idris Elba in one DLC expansion: too badass, or just the right amount of badass?
I'm in the latter camp, myself.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Dec 20, 2023 0:03:07 GMT
The right amount.
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Post by Ulythium on Dec 20, 2023 0:05:38 GMT
It's almost enough to make me overlook the fact that I apparently can't romance Songbird. ALMOST. |
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Post by drhickman1983 on Dec 20, 2023 9:10:46 GMT
I still think it's Elba's best performance for years.
Might be one of the few actors who actually does better when doing an American accent.
(I mean, as an actor who isn't actually American. American actors usually do better when doing an American accent. I think you get the gist of what I'm trying to say.)
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Post by Aunt Alison on Dec 20, 2023 10:40:46 GMT
It's almost enough to make me overlook the fact that I apparently can't romance Songbird. ALMOST. I think you want Baldur's Gate 3 |
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Post by Ulythium on Dec 20, 2023 11:04:56 GMT
I think you want Baldur's Gate 3
Just for the record, I'm not trying to romance everyone!
I'm a one-woman person* through and through - I didn't even sleep with Keira in The Witcher 3, as I was saving myself for Triss! - but having struck out with Panam, and not wanting to settle for Judy, I'd resigned myself to seeing my V wind up alone.
Songbird provided a brief glimpse of a potential happy ending, but two seconds on Google was enough to disabuse me of that notion.
Oh, well! I'll always have fond memories of Meredith on which to look back (plus the dildo, which makes me giggle each time I whip it out).
* In video games, I mean - I'm a no-woman person in real life, but that's a whole other can of tuna.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Dec 20, 2023 11:07:12 GMT
There's always Jig-Jig street.
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Post by Ulythium on Dec 20, 2023 11:10:58 GMT
There's always Jig-Jig street.
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Post by Garfy on Dec 20, 2023 11:22:49 GMT
Have you tried the dating thread Uly?
We're not a bunch of desperate wierdo's I promise*
*promise is not binding
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Post by Aunt Alison on Dec 20, 2023 11:25:00 GMT
That's not worked, Garfy
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Post by Garfy on Dec 20, 2023 11:28:49 GMT
I know but it's good for a laugh.
Oh you mean my original broken post 😄
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Post by Ulythium on Dec 20, 2023 12:10:08 GMT
GarfyI pop in every now and again for a chuckle. On the one hand, I never have any of my own stories to share; on the other, reading some of the posts there makes me feel less bad about my perennial bachelorhood!
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Post by Ulythium on Dec 20, 2023 20:12:02 GMT
Well, I did it - finished Judy's questline while ignoring her advances.
Considering the situation was basically, "See boobs? Y/N", I'm pretty impressed with my... I mean, with V's self-control.
I wasn't planning on doing any more side content, but it turns out I kinda enjoy hanging with Kerry, so I think I'll wrap up his quests before I delve any deeper into the DLC.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Dec 20, 2023 20:57:36 GMT
Meredith's all you need
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Post by Ulythium on Dec 20, 2023 21:16:40 GMT
Which is just as well, as she's all I have! (Well, had.)
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Post by drhickman1983 on Dec 20, 2023 22:57:09 GMT
Judy was my fave tbh
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Post by bichii2 on Dec 20, 2023 23:30:59 GMT
Panam was the best. It doesn't surprise me that the most popular choice was men playing as a woman and being a lesbian..  . |
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Post by Jambowayoh on Dec 20, 2023 23:34:35 GMT
Panam was the best. It doesn't surprise me that the most popular choice was men playing as a woman and being a lesbian.. . TBF the female voice actor is waaaay better than the male voice actor. It's quite reductive to say it's about "tee hee, I get to be a lesbian". |
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Post by Ulythium on Dec 20, 2023 23:41:38 GMT
^ Jambo speaketh the truth, as usual.
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Post by bichii2 on Dec 21, 2023 0:23:14 GMT
I preferred the male voice in this. Maybe because I played a male first though.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Dec 21, 2023 0:26:02 GMT
Fem V voice acting is massively better.
I was kind of miffed I couldn't get with Kerry as fem V, take that as you will.
River is just dull though. He's so dull it's almost refreshing as it's rare games try to portray somebody so fucking white-bread, but after romancing them both as fem V, well, Judy's texts were fun, River was just a chore. No real competition there.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Dec 21, 2023 0:29:02 GMT
In non-relationship news, I've discovered that being heavily invested in Body, with Gorilla Arms and Berserk, makes the Beat on the Brat missions laughable. Maybe even too easy.
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Post by lukasz on Dec 21, 2023 0:33:27 GMT
Fem V voice acting is massively better. I was kind of miffed I couldn't get with Kerry as fem V, take that as you will. River is just dull though. He's so dull it's almost refreshing as it's rare games try to portray somebody so fucking white-bread, but after romancing them both as fem V, well, Judy's texts were fun, River was just a chore. No real competition there. I fell in love with Kerry and male v will be my second playthrough definitely just to romance him. I absolutely loved his quest line. |
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Post by Aunt Alison on Dec 21, 2023 2:58:05 GMT
Genuinely forgot River was in the game until hickman mentioned him
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Post by drhickman1983 on Dec 21, 2023 3:43:42 GMT
Just some personal observations of the romance options. River really is a weird character in that I genuinely think he was written to be a sap. I think his convictions and morals seem very "real", I can believe in him as a character. He's just not particularly interesting. Absolutely white-bread, vanilla, nothing. And I don't know if it was intentional, but having a character that dull as a love interest is different at least.
Meredith Stout is an interesting character as she's the only one-night stand, and it's very easy to miss this opportunity. It's also interesting how Takemura can come across as being asexual - depending on the conversation you have before you infiltrate the Arasaka compound, you can kinda flirt via but Takemura doesn't respond. Personally I'd be a corpo-hag for Goro, the magnificent bastard.
I do love Judy, though if you read the files available it's clear she bounces around partners. As well as being with Evelyn, she was with Maiko, and then you - it's no surprise that she leaves NC if you pick the Path of Glory ending, or moves on with somebody else if you go with the Tower ending introduced in PL.
Panaam is well written too and I can believe her character in the romance interactions, it's a bit cagey and hesitant at times, which felt real.
(As I'm considering this, it does feel really lame that if you wanted to play a straight fem V the romance option would be River, and thats it...)
It's vaguely interesting that there are no female love interests who support V in the Path of Glory Ending. There are no male love interests who will leave NC in the Nomad ending - I Think, anyway, not tested every permutation itself.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Dec 21, 2023 7:49:51 GMT
Did you just slut shame Judy  Evelyn is magical so you can't blame Judy for that. She left NC after I finished her questline without romancing her anyway I didn't really care about the romance stuff to be honest. Meredith was fun but the game has a lot more interesting things going on |
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Post by Ulythium on Dec 21, 2023 9:15:51 GMT
Like AA, I pretty much forgot about River's existence as soon as his introductory quest was over.
Kerry is awesome, though - like Johnny, he wasn't immediately likeable, but through a combination of great writing and acting, he soon grew on me.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Dec 21, 2023 13:18:09 GMT
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Post by Vortex on Dec 21, 2023 16:51:33 GMT
Like AA, I pretty much forgot about River's existence as soon as his introductory quest was over. You did do all of his questline though, right? Because if you didn't, you should. |
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Post by Ulythium on Dec 21, 2023 17:14:05 GMT
You did do all of his questline though, right? Because if you didn't, you should.
Actually, no - I've had an entry in my journal for umpteen in-game days, telling me to meet him somewhere, but I've always managed to find something better to do!
I think I have one more quest to do for Kerry, and I've already completed the quest chains for Panam and Judy; in addition, I've just encountered Slider in Phantom Liberty.
Based on the above, is it worth putting the rest of the DLC (and the end of the campaign) on hold to do River's missions?
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