so much of it makes me 🤨

if you want Skyrim 2 then good news: you can mod Skyrim to your heart's content

if you want an action RPG about trauma & redemption & imperialism & prejudice in a vibrant fantasy setting, then Avowed may be right up your alley

it's like this in Skyrim too, btw. the thievery side of things is completely at odds with the core gameplay loop

and that's fine, because encouraging players to spend 80 hours not touching the main quest is classic Bethesda design. but Avowed *wants you to play the story*. that's the game!

a more serious answer is that adding theft & reactions & consequences and items worth stealing is an enormous amount of work for what is an insular behaviour

if you're stealing, you're not engaging in the strengths of the game: exploration, fighting, dialogue. it's an actively dissonant mechanic

this is brought to u by me wishing i could play avowed but not being sure if i can even run it hahaha

as someone whos devices tend to be midrange and gets outdated somewhat quickly it would be helpful for gauging if my setup can even run a game comfortably, more hands-on with it instead of just minimum system requirements

And at last Gubat Banwa Quickstart+ is here, heralded by the face of the game, the iconic Mangangayaw Sam'baha Dimantag herself.

NOW AVAILABLE ON OUR ITCH ❤️‍🔥

gubat-banwa.itch.io/gubat-banwa-...

A looot of our local languages and cultures gets swept under the rug or sidelined in favor of the constructed, reductive and homogenized "Filipino culture", so Im very glad there are people out there fighting to celebrate and preserve our rich diversity. Makagana pud para sa among paglimbasog

The host of one of their shows was like, we cant stop our sugbuanon language from evolving, incorporating more tagalog and english words, but we also have to take care not to leave behind what's ours. And that really stuck with me