Video Game General 2: Definitive/Remastered Edition

@Background Pony #6F1D  

 
No matter how many times I see it, still funny.

@Cyborg_pony  
Glad to see best girl in a meme.

@Dustcan  
the 2 MC’s of the second game have telekinesis/power to move objects with their minds.

@ichiban iceychan 1517  
Oh Telekinesis. This new girl can read emotions.

@Meanlucario  
Same thing they did with common sense.

@igotnopicks  
Yeah seemed pretty clear that she has the ability to actually feel other people’s emotions, like telepathically absorb them,

@Meanlucario  
If you know the game’s story. It works on two levels! :D

So life is strange 3 is a Deanna Troi simulator. The most useful TNG crew member.
 
“I’m feeling intense suspicion and caution from our visitors, but also awe.”
 
“Deanna, we just made first contact with aliens who thought indoor plumbing was as good as it gets. Anything useful to add?”
 
“Not at this time captain, there’s too much interference”
 
sighs”Of course there is.”

TF2 gameplay vs lore.
 
TF2 but it’s horror.

So empathy in fiction is like Sharingan but for the mind?
 
If I have Empathy then I can perfectly copy the exact image and sequence of neurons firing up in someone’s brain and paste it in my brain or something? How would I know if my brain is compatible with the target? Also it would be kinda cool ngl.

@Kazapsky  
I remember Rise of Legends, though I don’t remember when that was. Google says 2006, though. So you’re saying that the only RTS games released in 15 years that aren’t a remake/remaster are a few Command & Conquer games, Starcraft 2, Lambda Wars, and War for the Overworld if that even qualifies as an RTS…

@Background Pony #6F1D  
Maybe it’s me that I haven’t finished the first Life is Strange game, but I said this before and I’ll say it again: You don’t need magic to talk about emotions, especially empathy.

@Wiimeiser
 
I wouldn’t count War for the Overworld as an RTS. It’s a base management game in the lineage of Dungeon Keeper (and the true DK 3 since that abysmal mobile one doesn’t count) and closer to a tower defense game than an RTS.

@Zincy  
Yeah, and you mostly don’t control your units directly, as close as it is, that would probably be the deciding factor.

All this talk of rts games makes me miss the green crystal fields and the awesome music…

@silbasa  
Hopefully AOE4 is good enough to make an impact after the trainwreck that was Reforged. (Unrelatedly, as of an hour ago I now headcanon that Sargeras is actually Bobby Kotick)

@Wiimeiser
 
Pretty much. The RTS genre has never been a crowded field, and its heyday was back in the late nineties/early aughts.

@Cyborg_pony  
Twilight Princess or Life is Strange?
 
@Ring Team  
I think they said absorb emotions, which sounds less like talking about feelings and moreso draining their emotions to give yourself power.
 
@WyrmSpawN  
Dare I ask?
 
@Terminal Red  
Considering they said “absorb,” it may be a bit more sinister than that.

@Meanlucario  
Ooooff, I don’t like how that sounds. xD

@Ring Team  
Doubt they are going that route, but would be more interesting than the ability to read a room. I never played any of the games, so I have no idea if that would be the series’s style.

@Meanlucario  
Reference.  

@WyrmSpawN  
Ah. I thought you were referencing the power the girl in the first game had (never played it, so I thought it was foresight).

I wish Nintendo would stock enough Deluxe Editions. I really want that steelbook for Metroid Dread.

@Meanlucario  
Yup.
 
To be honest, I don’t like when a story that is supposed to touch some empathy themes have the main character with videogamey skills. That’s why I don’t like movies or TV shows that focus too much on these powers rather than a logical story.
 
But again, I haven’t played the Life is Strange games. I’m interested in playing the first one, because the first episode, although not perfect, was kinda cool.

@Ring Team  
uhhh you can get powers in multiple ways.
 
Reading other people’s emotions doesn’t sound like total magic.