#so many missed opportunities

[severemiraclefest]

This will be a bit of a rant.

Although subsequent patches and the expansion have significantly improved the playability and fun of the game, with each new patch from CDPR I am convinced that when it comes to the character of Goro Takemura, they decided to ignore him completely and reject him.

This character evokes rather negative associations in a lot of people which I understand, although I don't entirely agree. The fact is that Takemura is one of the main characters in this game - he accompanies us for quite a long time (the entire act 2?) and even one of the endings is affected by the choices you make with him. We spend more time with Goro than we spend with Jackie and maybe even Kerry and River.

In Phantom Liberty and with each subsequent improvement of the game, nothing significant related to Takemura was added. You may even have noticed, at some point the character's clothes and hairstyle were changed - the characteristic hairline (widows peak) magically disappeared. It seems almost like negligence. He is after all one of the main characters. You cannot proceed in the game without interactions with his character.

And we already know that one scene from the moment when Takemura is being patched up by Vik is missing. Why did they remove it? (It's the part when V can see Takemura being patched up by Vik, Takemura is on the netrunner chair and a big stain of blood is visible on his clothes).

Takemura is a brilliantly written character, can be interpreted in many different ways, is multi-dimensional, is a contrast to Johnny (although they have a lot in common) and I can't understand why CDPR decided to abandon the development of his character.

I'm not even mentioning the fact that Goro was supposed to be a romance option for female V, which was never completed. Instead it was ‘worth’ every penny and effort to make Meredith Stout a romanceable character albeit not meaningful. Which is yet again to appeal to male gamers. By the way, it seems that 3 out of four romances (+Meredith) are catered for male audience. River romance is just poorly done...

I'm even more surprised that they didn't even find a way to show how Takemura fights without his implants active. A small patch could add fights with the assassins sent by Yorinobu - so they don't happen only on the highway. I was hoping they would add at least this, some side mission, messages or anything. I know I'm not the only one who thinks this is a big letdown. Goro Takemura didn't even get to be on the cover of the Ultimate Edition (V and Johnny, Reed as Militech route, and Goro as Arasaka).

Invite your love interest to your apartment? Why not invite Takemura (even without the romance thing) for ramen?

End of rant.

Thank you @daerani for proofreading and making this text readable 🙂🌸

#goro takemura #cyberpunk 2077 #c: goro takemura #cp2077 #takemura goro #g: cyberpunk 2077 #felt that this is really important #so many missed opportunities #such a waste of a brilliant character #i mean who does that #i love cyberpunk 2077 with all my heart but this is irrational approach by the devs #i know this won't change a thing but i needed to share it

[anodyne-sunflower]

No, because I miss the gift giving to companions in Dragon Age Origins. If Bg3 had that...lorddddd, like, yeah I can give my dude a necromancy book, but so many other possibilities!!

And maybe I can receive gifts too dammit.

Pls. Give me romanced Astarion finding a cute gift and giving it to Tav.

"For your birthday."

"You remembered?"

"Ugh, of course, I did, darling. I'm only in love with you." Followed by that awkward/mildly annoyed cough he does when feelings come into play.

#gimme gimme #so many missed opportunities #bg3 #astarion #tav x astarion #astarion x tav #baldurs gate 3

[joesleftskeleton]

Maybe drawing Cleo and Joan?

They are doomed to be enemies to lovers, I’m afraid

#i love them so much #missed opportunities #so many missed opportunities #them <3 #clone high #cleopatra #Joan of arc #jfk #Abe #cleo x joan #joan x cleo #Cleo #digital art #fanart #drawing #ask #anon

[harryforguccy]

thinking about Peter Do's open back garments

#so iconic #god if only Harry L could have done something with harry about it #so many missed opportunities

[doinggreat]

MASON MOUNT Chelsea - Fulham | Premier League (February 3rd, 2023)

#same mase #so many missed opportunities #chelsea fc #mason mount #football #premier league #gif #*

[dynamite124]

Taliesin's only regret is that he never had the chance to yell "You Fool!" while in the Thalmor.

#skyrim taliesin #taliesin #so many missed opportunities #Skyrim Thalmor #Thalmor #he's still upset about that

[clownteethh]

It's so upsetting to think that MAYBE if Merlin was created today, that merthur **couldve** been canon

I think it was obvious that it was already pushing for a bond more than friends or 'brothers' between the two anyways ..

#i read fics to fix everything #i still havent finished merlin but i JUST KNOW #so many missed opportunities #merthur #merlin #arthur pendragon #merlin x arthur #arthur x merlin

[hayscodings]

the amount of parallels between kev, v, and svetlana that the show never drew any attention to is actually insane

#so many missed opportunities #shameless #svetlana yevgenivna #veronica fisher #kevin ball #shameless text

[coldgpa]

If they just had Jonathan be like "I understand you, Will, more than you know..." and then added in a longing glance/pov camera pan to argyle talking to mike and el, they couldve just easily made Jonathan bi, too

#theres so many ways to make characters gay in subtextual ways that would be so easy to do and would take like 2 seconds of screen time #jargyle #steddie #stranger things #so many missed opportunities #this is the shit people want to see!!! like there was a reason ofmd was so fucking successful

[nightmanatee]

the way the last speech in that companion's thing should've been yaz's to parallel graham losing grace and giving speech around people who know her (the doctor's mirror) MORE but still being HAPPY to know her overall. like what the actual fuck i'm getting more and more upset.

#like i think it was already a parallel but it should've been yaz and not graham #you know #thasmin #dw #yasmin khan #so many missed opportunities #potd #tpotd #dw spoilers #doctor who

[cuntvonkrolock]

there should be more butch lesbian characters in musicals

#butch cosette? butch katherine plumber?? BUTCH ELPHABA??????? #so many missed opportunities

[sassy-hedgie]

in my doctor who rewatch and finding myself annoyed they had a whole plot about a ‘nice dalek’ and going inside a dalek and everything….and somehow the whole ‘oswin’ dalek thing never comes up????

like i know they kinda hand waved how much she even remembers from that time but idk it felt a bit silly

#struggling to not stop my rewatch in 12 again but man…………..I hate his and Clara’s dynamic SO much #it’s all him insulting her left and right and treating her like crap #her season with 12 just fully obliterates all of her character development and just makes her ‘sassy’ and yet still helpless in a way #that’s just so frustrating #so much of Clara’s stuff could have been SO GOOD #had she been written halfway decently #bc as a character concept impossible girl could’ve been amazing #and instead just fell flat and silly #so many missed opportunities #I just hate how messy and unfinished her plot feels

[cheeseburgersinparadise]

blizzard doesn’t have the GUTS to make a second fat character and IT SHOWS

#SO MANY MISSED OPPORTUNITIES #JUNKER QUEEN SHOULD BE THICC #MAI COULD HAVE A BELLY #make a fat robot it’s literally A ROBOT IT CAN LOOK LIKE WHATEVER YOU WANT

[margolovescoffeeandbooks]

gossip girl would've been much better if the creators weren't a bunch of cowards

#so many missed opportunities #dan and nate dating #dair endgame #no reveal of gossip girl #these are only examples #there's much more

[dovahvhenan]

baldur's gate 3 is a masterpiece until act 3 and then it's still somewhat pretty good right up until the last... hour or so. they definitely made some decisions on that whole ending sequence and they were not good ones.

#baldur's gate 3 #v disappointed tbh #finished the game at 170 hours and the ending just kinda left a bad taste in my mouth #so many missed opportunities #so many decisions that i feel make no sense and could have been better #and bugs #so many bugs

[soulless-bex]

glass onion is all over my dash and i seems sooo good, i wanna watch the gay detective movie, but someone (cough my dad cough) won’t let me have netflix

and now i suffer

#we love being a minor lmao #and before anyone makes that suggestion #i’d rather not have viruses on any ofy devices thanks #no illegal movie sites #glass onion #glass onion netflix #netflix #i am netflixless and suffering #so many missed opportunities #because i basically live in an anti technology house