Yes I temper everything going on with my early 30s self with ‘the future is yes, but worse!’. Though I do seriously intend on turning some of my fitness around this decade, so I might at least be fitter and more comfortable than my late 20s, illness/etc permitting. Generally, 30s is when the olds starts being a legitimate topic… but only that, and 40s is when you start-to-get old but arguably aren’t…reallyyy.
Enough happens between 18 and 22, that one can probably guess a difference, but not for 19 and 21. And even an 18 year old can appear 20s and a 22 year old can appear like a minor, so its all one big thing under umbrella of ‘brain not fully developed but we let them drive, have sex with whoever, and kill people’.
And when you’re getting older and older, ‘kid’ moves from 14, to 16, to 18… but also to 20, 22, and eventually all of 20s, with 30s becoming ‘still young’. If you’re a legal adult that looks like you might not be, like it or not, but large swaths will still regard you as at least kind of a kid. Different political types will decide what to do with that, from ‘you’re just a kid, nothing you say matters’ to ‘you’re the young (adults) that will be the future so maybe your activism really matters’.
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I think Dark Urge really was at least considered for a time to be integrated into the default story. I have the vibe that there were three big pillars that you’d always interact with but could make very different choices about: Hells, Mind Flayers, and the older series powers behind Dark Urge. The first seemed downplayed compared to earlier marketing, I get the sense that it was overall squashed down in emphasis, but hilariously that has still lead to the fanbase calling for possible tweaks, new Avernus content, and even a post-game expansion. The second is what they boosted the hell out of (including Illithid skill tree), however still having to cut some content/emphasis out (tadpole consequences, story elements) before launch. The third… strikes me as something that might have been a much bigger deal, and tied to every protagonist, but they reduced and made entirely optional, tossing it the occasional OMG WHAT IS THAT Dark Urge choice/event for the most part. They made it its own thing but probably gave custom Origins some more variety to compensate (at least for earlier acts).
It became the Mind Flayer Focused But Really Let’s Just Ship This Giant Game Out story by the end, but I think there were pieces for something even more ambitious than we got.
Imagine having the power to disown and constantly not-so-quietly bother the richest man in the world. And get away with it.
Would be funny if she already does.
All they need to do is healthcare (etc) plz. But no.
They intend on yearly, or at least 1.5ly expansions. Probably to get to the point where Diablo is in Diablo. And I’d imagine they’re lesser in scope than what was done before, because again, yearly. Paid expansions and they claim two are in the works, but I’m taking that as they’ll try to release one in 2024 (regardless of quality), maybe push one out in 2025 or 2026, but if D4 is crashing and burning, there would be no more than that. If its doing great for them, they’ll continue expansions through 2020s and maybe make earlier versions/the base game F2P or whatever. Because battle pass.