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[–] bstix 39 points 11 months ago (4 children)

That shirtless guy in Morrowwind was an asshole. Sending some kid into a basement to fight giant rats well knowing that it'd be their first battle and likely not surviving, while he stayed at home shirtless and well fit to remove those pestering rats, just pretending to be an alcoholic or something.

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Caius_Cosades

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

puffs skooma

Sorry for being a job creator, n'wah.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You lazy N'wahs are all the same.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I'm not your n'wah, fetcher.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't that the first fighters guild quest and the rats are ground floor and in an attic?

[–] bstix 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe. It's been a long time since I played it.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean your whole argument still stands though because iirc correctly the first real quest he gives is the "go into the bandit filled murder robot dungeon and find a tiny ass Rubik's cube"

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

iirc correctly

RIP in peace.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Damn I'm usually good about not messing that one up x.x

I'm going to head off to the ATM machine now, get cash for a French dip with au jus juice to help eat my mistakes away away

Thought you meant Saint Jiub at first, who wakes you on the boat and is also shirtless. Lots of shirtless dudes in the start of Morrowind.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

I don't think he was pretending.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Whaddya mean, "J"RPG? That's literally Morrowind you're describing!

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

J stands for janky.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Two, maybe three gods at that depending on how you feel about dudes that keep moons in the sky.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Four, if you count Hircine.

[–] Rossel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Eh, you don't get to kill that one

[–] Moneo@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I am so proud of myself for remembering this. I was 13 and I didn't get much further than that quest. I remember being so taken aback that my character was so weak they struggled to kill rats.

[–] MagnyusG@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What about the guy seeing a group of adventurers kill god and then telling them to kill rats?

[–] MikeOToxin@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago
[–] cholesterol@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Actually pretty close to BG 1/2. I think there's rat-killing in Candlekeep, and you end up killing a near-godess.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 5 points 11 months ago

Same for 3, but the rat killing doesn't happen until near the end.

[–] 42yeah@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

tbf these rats actually hit kinda hard

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I don't remember any FF game having a rat killing side quest even at the beginning of the game, let alone at the end after you've killed gods. Shit... I don't even recall FF having side quests at all until, like, 7 with the optional boss battles for powerful materia.

Killing rats is more of a western RPG trope.

[–] fontane@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

The very first thing you do as Vaan in FF12 is kill rats. Old Dalan even calls you Vaan Ratsbane when you meet him.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Trails in the Sky definitely comes to mind. But if you browse Square Enix's catalogue, there's probably plenty that fulfill it. Final Fantasy stands out because it's a little less tropey.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Defo Final Fantasy Legends.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

And if you're lucky, you get to eat the rats afterward.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago

Don’t forget your saw

[–] MikeOToxin@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Roveer in BG3 when you've literally already killed a God's avatar: "RATS!"

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well

If any villagers were even still alive.

Sorry DA:O family estate, workers, and also my bisexual lovers, rest well knowing that I carried out your vengeance. I guess I also kind of avenged any rats who survived my slaughter, too, huh? Does that make us even?