I'm honestly sorry for all the developers that Microsoft acquired in their buying spree around before and during 2020.

punishing adultery by law - despite being a notorious adulterer himself.

"Conservative person pushing for conservative reforms despite secretly doing what he opposes" can be used for almost any conservative across time. I wonder why!

I think Lemmy users are more probable to skip Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo events than most, since 99% of the userbase of this site is a Steam user.

I remember what AC was like, I played it (and liked it a lot more than what it is now).

I think it's unnecessary because (a) this game is nothing like AC, at least from the demo we've been shown, and (b) just because a guy worked on a game twenty years ago, doesn't mean that all of his following games will be the same.

"From a former AC dev" is just a marketing pitch; the writer took that and ran with it for a cheap article. "You play as multiple characters in this game. It reminds me of AC". Like, sure, I can see the similarities in playing a character, following by that character's ancestors, but that's where the similarities end with AC, and the article never spells out clearly why this game is what Hexe should be.

The game itself is not supposed to be AC, the writer is making unnecessary comparisons.

That being said, I'm a big fan of cozy story-driven games, and this one was bad even by those standards.

I played the demo and it was terrible.

Bad dialogue, horrible walking animations (especially when they let you move two characters side by side), and literally zero gameplay. No kidding: I extracted magic from an animal carcass to light some torches, chose a cat familiar among a group of half a dozen identical cats, walked in a library looking for some books ("Hi! I'm the director of this library. No, I don't know where this book is, maybe you can look over there?"), then walked some more, then I was a cat, then the demo was over.

Is this really what people want from Assassin's Creed?

Rome too blessed to get the r34 treatment. I see this as yet another win!

Diocletian managed to fix inflation by printing 34% more denarii each year. It's a true story! Look up "Diocletian inflation rule 34".

You shouldn't talk in absolutes. It's everyone's job (not just the DM) to have fun, and if fun = risk of getting TPK'd, then that option should be included as well. Just make sure that everyone's on the same page.

But if you preemptively remove the option because you think that nobody likes it, you lose players like me who like the challenge and find enjoyment in surviving each session.

Speak for yourself. I would absolutely LOVE that.

You know what isn't fun, to me? Playing random fights that have no meaning because there's no danger anyway, since the DM is too afraid to kill us.

And I would know, I quit my campaign because of that.