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Fields Of Mistria Gift Guide: All Characters And Their Favorite Gifts

Fields Of Mistria Gift Guide: All Characters And Their Favorite Gifts https://ift.tt/425nxKg Despite Fields of Mistria being in early access, it's already an extraordinary entry in the farming sim genre . Though this is in part due to the numerous innovations and improvements it brings to the genre, its overarching story, fantastic sense of progression, and the abundance of things for players to do, there's no denying its charming characters do a whole lot of heavy lifting, too. Regardless of whether you're looking for friendship or longing to settle down with the right romantic partner, giving your Mistrian neighbors a gift they love is a great way to bolster your relationship. To help your efforts, we've rounded up a list of every character's favorite gifts--and what items you should absolutely avoid giving them. It's worth mentioning that of these characters, Adeline, Juniper, Reina, Valen, Celine, Balor, Caldarus, Hayden, Eiland, March, and Ryis are t...

How Borderlands Ensures Character-Driven Storytelling Remains A Focus 14 Years Later

How Borderlands Ensures Character-Driven Storytelling Remains A Focus 14 Years Later https://ift.tt/GvgXNM4

The Borderlands franchise holds a peculiar place within the history of the gaming industry, kickstarting a genre that has gone on to become a different kind of beast. After all, though the concept of combining both RPG and first-person shooter mechanics was first seen in 2007's Hellgate: London, the loot-shooter genre owes its popularity to 2009's Borderlands. And yet, today, many of the most popular loot-shooters are also live-service games (like Destiny 2 and Warframe). Borderlands is not, having never adopted that format. It instead has multiple sequels--some of which diverge from the original game and don't feature any looting or shooting.

Like these other live-service game franchises, however, character-driven storytelling has been one of the main unifying pillars of Borderlands, which has been supported by a writer's room. "Gearbox is casually unique in the sense that we maintain a writer's room," Gearbox Entertainment associate director of narrative properties April Johnson told me. "So we don't just plunk you to work on a project and say, 'Okay, enjoy the two of you doing this--we have multiple things that we are working on, so we won't Voltron up as a full unit until later.'"

Having a constant writer's room is a strategy you usually see in story-driven live-service games where maintaining a narrative vision over multiple years--over a decade in the case of some games like Destiny--is important. It's not often seen in AAA franchises that feature several sequels and recruit a new set of writers from project to project. Gearbox Entertainment is not wholly unique in this strategy within the gaming industry, but it is a rare exception and the team points to this as one of the reasons for how the studio has managed to curate a specific narrative voice across all its projects.

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