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For The King (tabletop games)

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  For The King      This week we talked about several different types of Tabletop games. An interesting video game was made called For The King which is essentially capturing a tabletop game experience, however in a videogame form.    The player starts off by creating their character, they can change their appearance and class. The options for appearance are fairly limited, but its enough to give the player a couple of options. The classes however are fairly expansive, the player starts off with 4 classes to choose from but can unlock up to 13 classes. The goal of the game is up to three adventures go out in the world, clear temples, buy items and weapons and eventually defeat a world ending boss. For example in one of the "boards" the final boss is this lovely creature.  The players will have to prepare and work together to better themselves to face him though and.... He hits and Tanks like a world ending boss, so defeating him is no easy task... hell even a random encounter

Watch Dogs Legion

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  Watch Dogs Legion Watch dogs Legion is an ambitious game that has discarded the idea of playing as a "main character' and has replaced that idea with a system where you can recruit any person, regardless of who they are in to your "team". This idea sounds a bit chaotic but it does an overall job of giving a player the option of finding someone that they prefer to play, the options are reflective of the types of people you can see in society, Old, young, male, female? that is just the base of it as there are so many more options, old crazy cat lady? you got it.   Of course this has its drawbacks, as it is an awesome idea to play as anyone, the developers can't possibly fully flesh out and develop every citizen you can find in a living a breathing city compared to a single well focused character. But it does do its best to attempt this enormous feat and allow for every character to have some form of backstory, and development such as the occupation they work, the

Destiny 2, The deep stone crypt raid's auditory and visual rhetoric.

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  This is an image of a six man team about to attempt a "Raid" a six player activity within the game Destiny 2, where teamwork, problem solving and rhetoric are all used  Why does this activity require problem solving skills and teamwork skills? Well, within this activity lives are limited to one revive per player, and each encounter has something known as a "wipe" mechanic, meaning if you fail the "puzzle" everyone dies and the encounter restarts. The first encounter has the team split up into three different areas of the map, there is a light team, a dark team an a operator who will be going to a maintenance tunnel to perform a specific task separate to the rest of the team. This operator will be in charge of activating buttons to disable the security systems protecting a power source to the overall security system of these "power coils" that power the deep stone crypt. The two teams on light and dark have a scanner who are capable of telling t