Art Progress: Mina and Bad Blood.

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October 6, 2022 December 7, 2022 June 17, 2023

Bad + Blood: End of Day

Mina having a smoke after a long day. With and without blood.

[Made a new brush explicitly for Mina’s hair.]

Waking up feeling rotted from the inside out. Been having a difficult time of things lately.

That's hard because it's fundamentally flawed. Sure, we could improve the dialogue, fix plot holes, etc, but those are kinda standard fixes.

I think that, assuming we can have it well written, acted and plotted, the way to get everything Lucas wanted was to add more movies.

If Lucas really wanted to show Anakin's younger years, you could've had a 'pre-prequel trilogy'. Start with Phantom Menace, end with Attack of the Clones and have a movie in between that bridges that gap.

Obviously, you need to rewrite stuff to fix some of the goofier/nonsensical things from the original, like Jar Jar or Anakin destroying a space station. But now you have another movie to spread the politics across, build up Anakin and Padme more, etc. You could've deepened the coming conspiracy more, like adding Sifo Dias and introducing Dooku earlier.

Then all of that ends with the discovery of the clones, the kicking off of the clone wars, the marriage of Anakin and Padme, etc. Heck, since you have an entire movie build Anakin up more, you can end this trilogy with Anakin's knighting.

All that leads into a 'Clone Wars' trilogy where we get more characterization. You have two entire movies where you can build up the finale. You can introduce Grievous earlier, more subtly build up Palpatine's corruption of Anakin, etc. You can use these additional movies to fix so many of the issues with the prequels just because you have the time to explain things properly.

Have the second movie deal with intrigue and sabotage that ends with the CIS' blitz and the capture of Palpatine. Then you start RotS in a similar way, in a giant battle over the planet.

Again, all of this is assuming we get competent writers. But we can still follow the same beats as the original. The story beats aren't bad. It is just the execution and the lack of explanation, which additional movies would flesh out.

"Realistically" means what in this regard? Should Cyberpunk have 6 million NPCs?

But she literally dies at the start of ME2. It's, like, one of the most memorable moments in the franchise.

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From what I'm being told, the game itself is being updated for free to coincide with the DLC. Supposedly, the changes include:

If that's the case, that's a pretty solid rework. It, of course, has come very late. But if this update and the DLC are good, it might buy some good will back from me.

But for that, the DLC will NEED to be big (Blood and Wine big) and feature more RPG elements. It might give me hope that Cyberpunk 2 might actually be an RPG and worth buying.

No, lighting should be (like everything else) stylized in a way that is best for the game.

Me: -Has WIPs, half-watched youtube vids and a game open- Me: -turns my back- Computer: 

That would explain the long development time. I hope it does and turns it into more of an RPG.

Is the DLC overhauling the game or will they overhaul the entire game in conjunction with the DLC? Basically, is the overhaul for all players or just people who buy PL?

Me. Everyone else, in every fandom, is fake.

Gremlin luck contrives a reason for her safety. She might get bumped or a little bruised, but she won't be seriously hurt.

If she falls down a set of stairs, she'll just happen to tumble in the right way that she suffers no real injury.