I’m not entirely sure what is the worst here. That my three year old son Ramadeva apparently has some very unusual friends for his age, the fact that I seemingly have no problem with socializing with him at inns, or that he’s trying to hook me up…
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Let me start by stating that I have never watched the original Vox Machina role-play campaign. I didn’t discover Critical Role until they were well into their second campaign. That one however I found interesting enough to go back and watch from the beginning.
This means that I have no possibility to judge exactly how closely the TV show follows the original role-playing sessions. Which maybe is a good thing.
First, the positive. It’s very endeering and quite honestly awesome that a bunch of Dungeons and Dragons roleplayers – who happen to be professional voice actors – make such a success in streaming their game sessions that they end up making the biggest Kickstarter in the field ever, and then getting the possibility to make an entire animated TV series season.
The animation is smooth. The voice acting is – naturally – top notch. All in all it is a very nice experience.
It does however have one weakness in my opinion and that is the script. The main characters three episodes in feels… not as likeable and multi-facetted as they ought to be. Of course, that’s based on a comparison with how the cast manage to make their characters come alive in their second campaign. So maybe their Vox Machina characters never were as loveable and quirky as their Mighty Nein ones. I wouldn’t know.
There’s also small quirks which maybe shows that their showrunners aren’t as great as the voice actors. Things like making a point of that Trinket the bear has to wait outside the palace, only to have the monarch proclaim that he likes the bear. Which he at that point hasn’t seen since said bear is sitting outside the main gates. In the same vein it is shown that Vox Machina lacks a certain social adaptation by failing to stand up at a banquet in honour of the monarch entering. Only to have the same banquet ending abruptly by the also invited and social competent villains declaring thet they will retire from the banquet by standing up and leaving – while the monarch, who is also their host, is still seated at the table. Talk about faux pas. But apparently this is nothing.
All in all The Legend of Vox Machina is an impressive feat. And not at all a bad show even if its unique background is discounted. For fans of fantasy tales in general and Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying in particular, it’s definitely worth watching. And it’s a true pleasure to see voice actors get a chance to more or less do their own show for once and take the front seat.
It is winter all around, so why not in Euro Truck Simulator 2 too? On my way with a delivery between the wintry Danish islands.
The winter feel is thanks to a package of mods called Frosty Winter which is made by Grimes and available on his web site. There’s also other seasonal mods there as well as some other. I haven’t yet used any of those though. But the winter one is truly great when you need a change from the ever-summer in the game.
This years Christmas event for American Truck Simulator and European Truck Simulator 2 is in full swing and as usual it’s goal is to transport Christmas gifts between cities. Fulfill the goals and you’ll be rewarded with decorative objects for your cabin. This year’s objects are on the theme “toys of yesteryear”, which means among other things toy mouse, a miniature rocking horse, and a wooden toy soldier.
Sadly just because it’s time for the Christmas deliveries it doesn’t mean that it will automagically be postcard Christmas weather.
The Freightliner Argosy is a mod made by Harven and Lucasi and is available in the Steam Workshop.
It’s event time again in American Truck Simulator and Euro Tuck Simulator 2, and this time it’s all about delivering Thrustmaster equipment around the world. The reward: a nice little soft toy steering wheen plushie and a toy set of Thrustmaster pedals for your truck’s interior design needs. Oh, and closer to real life there’s also the opportunity to win an actual Thrustmaster set too.
The next update to Valheim will arrive on September 16th and is aptly called Hearth & Home. It will add new building pieces as well as a more differentiated food menu. Both things that most likely will be well received by the player base.
Not that the current system and variation is in any way bad, but it never hurts with more fun items to play with.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 in cooperation with DAF have added a new truck to the game and of course I had to try it out. So it became a delivery from Stockholm by ferry and fate had it that I would end up beside an older brethren DAF truck.
The latest DLC for Euro Truck Simulator 2 which adds Portugal and Spain to the driveable map is released today. And since the Iberian peninsula isn’t exactly small, this means that the driveable area has got a pretty big increase. Pretty is perhaps also a good word to use to describe the visual side of the expansion. SCS has really become good at what they do. The screenshots and videos we’ve got to see clearly shows that the ETS2 has come quite a long way from its beginnings!
You like to work in the forest? Then Farming Simulator 19’s latest DLC may be something for you. The Rottne DLC available for purchase now contains a number of machines and equipment from the Swedish forestry machine brand Rottne.
