I learned that the game was a capricious fucking bastard that would screw me over without providing me the necessary information to find out how I could avoid getting screwed over. So what is the player supposed to learn from this very first side quest in Kingmaker? It took me 10 in-game hours, dozens of attempts, and then returning again after leveling up even more in order to pick the berries successfully. A quest in Mass Effect to fly across the galaxy and uncover 20 hidden objects of some kind, meanwhile, suggests to players that detailed exploration of its setting will be rewarded by the game. A quest to gather herbs in order to brew potions to fight a gryphon in The Witcher 3, for example, tells the player that preparation before difficult fights is an essential part of that game. They call attention to how the game is meant to be played. In modern video game RPGs, quests are the way that games explain themselves to the player. Three top investment pros open up about what it takes to get your video game funded.Īnd then, victory finally achieved, I go to pick the berries to fulfill your original side quest … and fail the Nature Lore quest, take damage from berry thorns, and die. I go online, maybe Google a solution, maybe ask social media, and discover that the Spider Swarms are vulnerable only to splash damage, which at this point in the game comes only from one alchemist vendor, or, out of nowhere, torches! Awesome, I can do this now! I head back into the cave, and find out that the alchemist’s bombs splash your party, and the torches do a single damn damage point on the rare occasions when they connect - the swarms are still great at killing your characters! Fail again, leave, explore more, gain another level, come back, and finally, barely, with only two of six characters remaining, defeat the damnable Spider Swarms.
I go up a level or two and recruit a full party, and those fucking spiders still massacre my party every single fucking time.
Maybe you need a mage! So, I wander around, do some story missions, recruit a mage, and start splashing the Spider Swarms with acid … and still nothing. Hitting the swarms doesn’t actually do any damage.
I maybe cast Bless or some spells to make sure you have the advantage, and hey, that’s interesting. In the game of thrones, all men must die.
He told her she would always be his queen before stabbing her in the throne room with a dagger. After that, it was only a matter of time before the bell tolled for her.įollowing the destruction of King's Landing, Daenerys talked about liberating the rest of the world, and Jon just couldn't be cool with it. There was no coming back after Daenerys torched King's Landing in the penultimate episode, seemingly unnecessarily killing thousands upon thousands of innocent people after the city had sounded its surrender bells. That was prior to Season 8, Episode 5, however. Through almost eight seasons of the show, fans had cheered for the dragon queen as she rose from an abused, scared child to a Khaleesi set on reclaiming the Iron Throne, the birth right that was taken from her.
The "Game of Thrones" series finale turned into the family reunion from hell when Queen Daenerys Targaryen, First of Her Name, Breaker of Chains, Fan of Frappuccinos, was killed by her nephew and lover, Jon Snow/Aegon Targaryen (Kit Harington).Īs Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon) once said, "If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention."