You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Games can be great art. We just need to find more varied game mechanics to marry to story concepts.
Like, a lot of the time, game as art is "watch cutscene." Which is the wrong way to go about things, because you're playing the game to get to the cutscene. Of note are trash like Heavy Rain or Indigo Prophecy or Beyond Two Souls, which are less actual games and more DVD featurette toys.
But if you can tell the story unobtrusively as the game is played (like Bastion or Thomas Was Alone) or the only way to tell the story is through the game itself (Little Inferno), then that's where the idea of "game as art" really shines.
But sometimes the disconnect between game and story is what you want (again the aforementioned manipulative game). It all depends.
hmm, Bravely Default peeps, I'm fighting King Khamer and that spellfencer dude, is this how I get the spellfencer asterisk or do I have to do something special
I just thought that since Bodyguard Man has left every other battle so far he'd do it here too, but it's good to know cuz I've been focusing on Khamer.
I suppose now that Agnes has learned a lot of healing spells I don't necessarily need a dedicated healer anymore, especially with it being the alt ability of Edea too.
Also Sredni if you like that one I posted this map of Indonesia in that same campaign (though over a hundred years earlier) a while back
the most major developments here were the breakup of China into Ming and Zhou, and the fact that The Kingdom of Sunda is now an independent Republic as opposed to an Italian colony.
the most major developments here were the breakup of China into Ming and Zhou,
is this like the same zhou that collapsed befor ejesus
I (admittedly, and somewhat to my own shame) do not know a lot about Asian history.
All I know is that in EU4, Ming (China) has several releasable nations that never lose their cores, one of them is Zhou (another is Manchu, and I forget the third.)
I made Agnes a Time Mage and Ringabel a Spellfencer
goodness these outfits are silly.
I actually complained about the female Spellfencer outfits a few months back. Partly because they're dumb, and partly because it's a heavy armour class.
as far as i know the zhou was a long-lived dynasty that lived from like, 1000 BC to 200 BC. but for most of that time they didn't control most of "china" (but whatever this was before qin shi huang anyway) so maybe the idea is that they could stay around as a rump state until whenever you're playing? which is like, what, 1600s? that seems implausible but i suppose it's happened before.
manchu is also interesting, because manchuria was completely taken over by the japanese. that's 20th century though.
the fact the last imperial dynasty wasn't Han (sorta) is pretty interesting imo
as far as i know the zhou was a long-lived dynasty that lived from like, 1000 BC to 200 BC. but for most of that time they didn't control most of "china" (but whatever this was before qin shi huang anyway) so maybe the idea is that they could stay around as a rump state until whenever you're playing? which is like, what, 1600s? that seems implausible but i suppose it's happened before.
manchu is also interesting, because manchuria was completely taken over by the japanese. that's 20th century though.
the fact the last imperial dynasty wasn't Han (sorta) is pretty interesting imo
Paradox has been criticized before for inaccuracy outside of Europe (see: completely made-up people ruling Yemen in CK2) so it would not shock me.
I think the idea perhaps is that the new Zhou is more a completely new state that uses the old name.
And I should clarify that the Manchu are only releasable as their own nation if they don't exist anymore, they start out existing in 1444, to Ming China's immediate north.
Oh shit! I totally forgot. I was gonna be like "haha new state using old name, yeah that actually happened, lemme find it". and then i looked it up and there was a fucking "new zhou"! still kinda early for whenever you are, probably.
there was also (still looking it up) a "western xia" around 1000-1200 AD, but they don't seem be named after the xia dynasty of prehistory. Oh and hey a Jin dynasty 1100-1200 not named after the Jin dynasty 200-500.
chinese history is kind of crazy. paradox would probably have to hire more historians, lol
If you fully occupy a nation in a war, you can make them release states. What states can be released specifically depends, but most nations have a list (for instance, if you fuck up France badly enough you can release Orleans, Normandy, Armagnac, Auvergne, Bourbannais, and Foix).
^England has a bunch too. Wales, Cornwall, and Northumberland/Northampton I think.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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I just hope I don't crash.
waiting for dad to show up with my new duds
is Tre around? I have a profoundly stupid proposal for him.
wat
I just thought that since Bodyguard Man has left every other battle so far he'd do it here too, but it's good to know cuz I've been focusing on Khamer.
but OK, good to know.
I have Edea as a Black Mage, Agnes as a White Mage, Tiz as a Monk, and Ringabel as a Knight, all level 6.
the most major developments here were the breakup of China into Ming and Zhou, and the fact that The Kingdom of Sunda is now an independent Republic as opposed to an Italian colony.
goodness these outfits are silly.
All I know is that in EU4, Ming (China) has several releasable nations that never lose their cores, one of them is Zhou (another is Manchu, and I forget the third.)
as far as i know the zhou was a long-lived dynasty that lived from like, 1000 BC to 200 BC. but for most of that time they didn't control most of "china" (but whatever this was before qin shi huang anyway) so maybe the idea is that they could stay around as a rump state until whenever you're playing? which is like, what, 1600s? that seems implausible but i suppose it's happened before.
manchu is also interesting, because manchuria was completely taken over by the japanese. that's 20th century though.
the fact the last imperial dynasty wasn't Han (sorta) is pretty interesting imo
what's "releaseable"
Anyway, I just wanted to make sure I'm not making any awful decisions.
I'm not sure I dig the Time Mage outfits, but at least they're unique.
I think the idea perhaps is that the new Zhou is more a completely new state that uses the old name.
And I should clarify that the Manchu are only releasable as their own nation if they don't exist anymore, they start out existing in 1444, to Ming China's immediate north.
there was also (still looking it up) a "western xia" around 1000-1200 AD, but they don't seem be named after the xia dynasty of prehistory. Oh and hey a Jin dynasty 1100-1200 not named after the Jin dynasty 200-500.
chinese history is kind of crazy. paradox would probably have to hire more historians, lol
what is "releaseable"
^England has a bunch too. Wales, Cornwall, and Northumberland/Northampton I think.
not that china doesn't have lots of people like that. fuckers had a lot of murderin goin on.
here i was thinking it would be voluntary. dumb, right
china was to some degree a bunch of fied warring states up until like... 1950... so some breakup is hella believable
RCOND = 4.495329e-17.
also make sure you turn almost all of the map options off or the game starts laggy and it will get worse as you go on.