The Queue: THQ Nordic disappointed me

I played Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning a lot. A lot. It’s one of my favorite games and I’ve argued many times that it’s a significantly better game than Skyrim and deserved better, and also that Rhode Island shouldn’t be allowed to invest in computer game studios.

So when THQ Nordic bought KoA and re-released it along with a brand new DLC, I was temporarily excited. But in the end, what ended up happening was that I got many hours of excellent play out of the  orig9inal game and its two DLC’s, and then I played Fatesworn and it didn’t feel good. It felt like a fanfic of the original game, not an actual DLC, and the idea that the Fateless One’s ultimate reward was…

I’ll just move on to the first question.

No, instead, she has you run a series of quests to end up dressing up in her classic (and classically revealing) leather bikini and at the end of the game you’re asked to exile yourself to protect the world from your ability to break fate because reasons.

The entire Fatesworn expansion feels like it just plain forgets the original ending of the game, with Tirnoch and all that, and instead swaps in a story that is, at best, a trifle undercooked. Not bad, exactly, but just tonally disconnected and the Unbound are a really big reason why. Plus Telogrus has no real motivati0n besides being a god of Chaos to do any of the things he does and compared to Tirnoch’s grudge with the gods and her stated ability to threaten all of their existences he feels like a flat encore.

I mean, should Alyn try and kill you? Honestly, with Telogrus running around breaking fate constantly, how would she have time? And when Telogrus is finally defeated, you’re rewarded with an exile to a frozen desert that seems pretty definitively to ruin any chance for a sequel anyway, so who cares?

Yes, I’ve done that for games, books, even music. Not recently, because I’m a blind amputee and I live on exceedingly little, but in the day I did that frequently. Sometimes you know you like an artist or a game studio or another form of author or creator enough to essentially buy their work as a form of support.

I bought Binding of Isaac even though I knew I couldn’t make myself play it again just to support the people who made it. I support stories that deal with abuse, especially parental abuse, but I’m never going to be able to actually play through something like that.

He said Orc, not Tauren.

I feel like a more likely candidate is the same air elementals they made deals with in the first place might have taken them out once Al’Akir went aggro during the Cataclysm.

The actual pre-launch period where folks can save their names in WoW Forever starts on October 27, so until that day, nobody’s names are taken yet. But if you preorder, you’ll have to be quick on the draw to snag any of those kinds of names, I would expect.