Remember how I have joked that it has been so long since I started paying Pathfinder : Wrath of the Righteous that at this point I could start the main game over again and it would almost seem fresh and new?
Well, about that….
Last night, I finally gave up on getting the Midnight Isles DLC to fucking work and not crash when I try to fight the final boss and decided to instead move on by buying the final or at least latest DLC expansion called The Last Sarkorians.
Time to move on, I thought. I’ve done everything I could to solve this issue short of hiring a time of crack MIT computer engineers to investigate, and they stopped picking up the phone when I call ages ago.
Can’t remember why. Some obscure budgeting issue concerning my not having one.
I will only revisit the issue in question if Owlcat, the company who makes the game,. puts out an update to the main code of the main game.
People other than me have had the same issue and apparently it cropped up a couple of updates ago, so one can only hope the next update will fix whatever they broke.
Anyhow, so I purchase and download The Last Sarkorians then load up the game and click “New Game”, eager to get started.
But it ain’t there. “The Last Sarkorians” is not one of the options. The main game and my other DLCs are there. but not TLS.
Son of a BITCH. Even in the future nothin’ works.
So I Google around and eventually figure that unlike the other DLC. The Last Sarkorians is not a standalone campaign but an extensive plotline added to the main campaign, and therefore I will have to play through the whole frigging main game all over again to experience it!!!
Son of SEVERAL DIFFERENT BITCHES.
And to be honest, when I learned this, I was very tempted to just return the damned DLC and go play something that doesn’t ask so much of me.
Like 3D Risk. Or long distance yodeling. Maybe throw in some javelin catching.
But I persevered and I have started a new game of the main campaign and I am going to go through that entire mountain of mishigas all over again just to get the new stuff.
I swear this game makes me feel like I sold my soul to the Devil. Like I am experiencing some kind of twisted bardo scenario where my soul is doomed to keep playing this same damned game until I break the cycle of video game addiction entirely.
Well good fucking luck, karma. My compulsions don’t break that easily.
Anyhow, I have started a new game of the main campaign and chosen the new class, shifter (as in shape), for my main character, and so onward I will trudge.
So far, the worst part has been having to go through the world-rending horror of the inciting incident all over again, this time KNOWING it is coming and that there is not a god damned thing I can do about it.
It’s nice seeing the introduction of characters I came to know very well during my first playthrough, though. Especially my buddy Lann, who is hotter than most fuck.
I mean, brave, funny, noble, strong, and fiercely loyal. Oh, and a total stud.
What’s not to like?
More after the break.
An unnecessary update
I hereby swear that, God as my witness, I WILL NOT KILL WENDAUG
See, Wendaug is a character from early in the game who joins your party along with Lann and who then disappears when the shit is seriously going down.
Having been through this part of the game three times before, I know that she is off betraying the party and her people, and that I will eventually be given the choice of either killing her or letting her rejoin the party.
I have chosen to kill her each and every time.
Now I am not normally a vindictive or punitive person. But the options are to kill her, let her traitorous ass back into the party, or let her go, which she says will only lead to her lurking in the shadows waiting for an opportunity to kill me.
And she did not just betray us to the forces of actual evil just a little be. She did the full Quisling “eat everyone but me and let me watch them die” kind of thing.
Oh, and she reveals herself to be seriously creepy and unstable in her confession scene, so there’s an “ick” factor too.
But I have read about a bunch of shit you never get to see or do if you don’t have her with you later in the game. .
So this time through, I will ignore my strong urge to rid the world of her as well as my equally strong misgivings about having TWO unstable psycho bitches in my party (SPOILER :Camellia is a basket case too) and let her rejoin my party
In other news, being a “shifter” is kind of lame so far. I can only use my ability to shift into a minor aspect of my dragon form[1] once in a great while and when I do, it is hard to tell if it did anything besides make me hit a little harder.
But I am only level 2, so presumably there’s lots more fun to come.
Still, part of me wishes I had gone with my first instinct, which was to be a fireball chucking battle mage. It seems to be the class that suits me the best as it combines being powerful in a really flashy way with the versatility of spellcasting.
I mean sure, it’s cool to be a mighty paladin and splatter enemies all over the place with one swing of your mace, but how much cooler is it to do the same thing with a fireball you shot from your fingers?
Answer : Much, much cooler. Like… WAY cooler.
I doubt I will restart as, say, a Magus or Sorceror.
But I might retrain as one when that becomes an option.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.