A quick death is preferable. Just ask Hisashi Ouchi, a victim of severe irradiation who was kept alive in agonizing pain for nearly three months as his body decayed around him.

Semtex, as per the meme.

All of the Fable games were easy. The first one had a shield spell early in the magic tree that made hits drain mana instead of health, mana potions were cheaper than health potions, you could carry a ton of them, and using them was instantaneous even in battle. It was straight-up impossible to die unless you did so deliberately.

The shield spell also made it so getting hit didn’t reset your combo (which acted as an experience multiplier), so you could grind against infinitely respawning enemies like town guards or undead in the graveyard for a while until your combo was in the hundreds, then chug a few experience potions and max out all of your stats instantly.

The only downside was that the spell made an annoying loud humming noise the entire time it was active.

I can’t remember ever having trouble in the second, but I don’t remember it being so broken either. It was just tuned a little too low since they wanted casual players to be able to enjoy it. The games could have used some difficulty options.

… Cannibals?

To get the good ending you need to become a landlord.

Plot twist: this is actually the evil ending.

They gave Phasma just enough character development to be hated, so I don’t think that will happen. The other two were blank slates that the audience could imagine doing cool stuff if they’d lived, but Phasma was shown to be a coward and hypocrite long before her death.

There’s a perfectly reasonable explanation.

Maul is the Boba Fett of the prequels - immediately jobbed to the heroes in the film, but fans liked him based purely on cool factor so the EU pulled an “only mostly dead” and brought him back. 99% of his character and plot is in supplemental materials like the animated series.

Or many of the Soulsborne games.

After someone on Lemmy recommended Dwarf Eats Mountain (it’s okay), I checked out the idle game genre for the first time.

On one extreme, Magic Archery was completed in under an hour and all seven achievements were earned during normal gameplay.

But most other idle games, ho boy. They tend to have several hundred achievements, many of which would take literal weeks if not months to achieve, and often require resetting the game back to the start dozens of times due to prestige mechanics that are necessary for late-game progression.

You killed the ultimate boss; now with their drop you are the setting’s ultimate boss. You just need to wait for another plucky young upstart to rise and take you down.

Oh no, not again!

But seriously, was there a Parasite Eve reboot I missed or something?

:P sends its regards.

Just note that despite looking similar to peas, the pods are inedible.

Well it wouldn’t be a single pixel then, would it?

I love when games have extended post-release development like this so you can watch them continue to grow and evolve. Terraria in particular has been going for so long that some of the new additions come from suggestions by the dev team’s children.

(Actually that was already true several years ago. I’m expecting their grandchildren to begin contributing ideas any day now.)

Continental drift. You think tech support wait times are bad on Earth…

Bioware writers: “What if we took Carth Onasi, removed all of his personality, and replaced his tragic backstory with ‘sometimes I get headaches’?”

Don’t forget bonewheels!

Reaver gets my vote as well. He’s actually worse in Fable 2.

It’s beyond enraging that you can never get back at him for any of these things. He’s still around generations later in Fable 3, where he’s a wealthy industrialist exploiting orphans. Of course.