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Post by pairesta on Nov 28, 2014 14:29:12 GMT -5
Wow, Solas is a big ol racist! I'm a Qunari, as you know, and he just gave me a speech about how the Qunari are all frothing beasts held back by an extremely restrictive philosophy. Except for me. I'm "different". Woah, Solas. Woah. He thinks he's not racist because he has a Qunari friend. But damn that's harsh. He's not my favourite character, not by a long shot. "How come there's a Qunari History Month, but not a Human History Month?"
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Post by silentspy on Nov 28, 2014 16:17:04 GMT -5
I've been addicted for days. My hot rogue Inquisitor:
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Post by Generic Poster on Nov 29, 2014 9:47:54 GMT -5
Wow, Solas is a big ol racist! I'm a Qunari, as you know, and he just gave me a speech about how the Qunari are all frothing beasts held back by an extremely restrictive philosophy. Except for me. I'm "different". Woah, Solas. Woah. Pfffft. Solas. Yes, please tell me about how you like to go to places and dream some more. Very exciting. I've been using Dorian, Iron Bull, Sera, and me (dual wielding rogue elf).
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Post by disqusf3dme on Nov 29, 2014 11:42:22 GMT -5
Here's my Inquisitor! Made her a rogue, which seems to be popular. Ever since beating the Mass Effect trilogy as a renegade femshep a month or two ago, I've just wanted to play every game of this type as a saucy red head.
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Post by Tea Rex on Nov 29, 2014 22:06:05 GMT -5
Wow, Solas is a big ol racist! I'm a Qunari, as you know, and he just gave me a speech about how the Qunari are all frothing beasts held back by an extremely restrictive philosophy. Except for me. I'm "different". Woah, Solas. Woah. Pfffft. Solas. Yes, please tell me about how you like to go to places and dream some more. Very exciting. I've been using Dorian, Iron Bull, Sera, and me (dual wielding rogue elf). Throw Bull and Blackwall together. They're big buddies, and banter as such! I admit to mixing and matching, just to see what dialog is produced. Dorian and Vivienne have witty flirtatious banter. Sera, Verric and Bull have the funniest dialog no matter who they're paired with. And Cole! That lil weirdo has grown on me. He says odd stuff, which makes the convos quite fun. Even Cassandra gets a few good lines in. Only Solas is a continual stick in the mud.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2014 23:05:51 GMT -5
I ordered a PS4. I'm getting this asap.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2014 20:44:14 GMT -5
I'm working through the Dragon Age Keep to familiarize myself with the lore and various characters. To the surprise of none I continue to enjoy lore and fictional history to an unusual degree. Edit: If anyone is curious, the Warden was a Dalish Elf that took no lover and sacrificed himself to kill the archdemon.
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Post by disqusf3dme on Nov 30, 2014 21:11:42 GMT -5
Pfffft. Solas. Yes, please tell me about how you like to go to places and dream some more. Very exciting. I've been using Dorian, Iron Bull, Sera, and me (dual wielding rogue elf). Throw Bull and Blackwall together. They're big buddies, and banter as such! I admit to mixing and matching, just to see what dialog is produced. Dorian and Vivienne have witty flirtatious banter. Sera, Verric and Bull have the funniest dialog no matter who they're paired with. And Cole! That lil weirdo has grown on me. He says odd stuff, which makes the convos quite fun. Even Cassandra gets a few good lines in. Only Solas is a continual stick in the mud. Bull and Blackwall is by far my favourite banter combination. Although I think I may have that bug where you don't get a lot of banter or something. It's inconsistent, at the very least. As for general party combination, much like in the Mass Effect series, I find myself attached to the characters and care about immersion to a point where I try to use them all equally. I like to look at the setting too. If I'm going to a place like Val Royeaux, I'll bring someone like Vivianne. Or since I'm flirting with multiple characters, if I do a quest for say, Josephine (who I'm thinking about trying to romance), I won't bring Blackwall (who's my other option).
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Post by Gregson on Dec 1, 2014 13:13:44 GMT -5
BTW, anyone else digging the soundtrack as much as I am? I already said something about the tavern songs, but the sing-along was great, and in general I love the atmospheric score. When I first heard the Tavern songs I actually just wanted to sit and listen for a while. I'm not one to buy and listen to movie soundtracks and such, but those songs and the performance actually made me think that I'd like to listen to these eslewhere! I was impressed.
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Post by Gregson on Dec 1, 2014 13:15:38 GMT -5
Pfffft. Solas. Yes, please tell me about how you like to go to places and dream some more. Very exciting. I've been using Dorian, Iron Bull, Sera, and me (dual wielding rogue elf). Throw Bull and Blackwall together. They're big buddies, and banter as such! I admit to mixing and matching, just to see what dialog is produced. Dorian and Vivienne have witty flirtatious banter. Sera, Verric and Bull have the funniest dialog no matter who they're paired with. And Cole! That lil weirdo has grown on me. He says odd stuff, which makes the convos quite fun. Even Cassandra gets a few good lines in. Only Solas is a continual stick in the mud. I took out Dorian, Bull, and Cole once. They wouldn't say one damn thing to one another. They did not get along.
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Post by Gregson on Dec 1, 2014 13:34:16 GMT -5
I bought this game this weekend and am really enjoying. Especially now that I'm about 20 hours in and all of a sudden the game has Really opened up and taken off. I've only had experience with DA2 before this, haven't played any other Bioware games. Should I? I'm really impressed by the writing. Some minor annoyances : -a short loading screen where I can read info, lore, tips etc, followed by a much longer black loading screen. -It's a bit buggy, slow. I'm playing on a 360 and I actually wish I was on an xbox one. It seems the graphics and textures take a while to load on cut scenes etc. Sometimes Cassandra's eyebrows won't show up until she's pretty much done talking. By the way, what is Cassandra's accent, anyway? Is that french?
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Post by Tea Rex on Dec 1, 2014 14:45:54 GMT -5
I bought this game this weekend and am really enjoying. Especially now that I'm about 20 hours in and all of a sudden the game has Really opened up and taken off. I've only had experience with DA2 before this, haven't played any other Bioware games. Should I? I'm really impressed by the writing. Some minor annoyances : -a short loading screen where I can read info, lore, tips etc, followed by a much longer black loading screen. -It's a bit buggy, slow. I'm playing on a 360 and I actually wish I was on an xbox one. It seems the graphics and textures take a while to load on cut scenes etc. Sometimes Cassandra's eyebrows won't show up until she's pretty much done talking. By the way, what is Cassandra's accent, anyway? Is that french? She's Nevarran. I think the accent's based on Italian, but the government is like a cross between France and Spain. Antiva's accent is obviously Spanish, right? Though it looks like the politics is based on Venice.
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Post by Gregson on Dec 1, 2014 16:08:54 GMT -5
Meet Lykke, my sexy Inquisitor elf.
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Post by Gregson on Dec 1, 2014 16:10:26 GMT -5
She's Nevarran. I think the accent's based on Italian, but the government is like a cross between France and Spain. Antiva's accent is obviously Spanish, right? Though it looks like the politics is based on Venice. Italian, eh? that could make sense. But she's never talking about pizza pies, so it's hard to tell.
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Post by Tea Rex on Dec 1, 2014 16:45:41 GMT -5
My question is whether they're all speaking a common language, or if they're all speaking a specific language. Dalish and Qunari are the only other languages that I know of for sure, while everyone else speaks with Outrageous Accents (except the dwarves, who all have American accents).
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Post by CallMeCarlosTheDwarf on Dec 1, 2014 17:08:47 GMT -5
DA2's the worst Bioware game that I've ever played, so I'd definitely buy more Bioware games.
Everything I've played through ME2 is pretty much a masterpiece.
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Post by Gregson on Dec 1, 2014 18:01:02 GMT -5
DA2's the worst Bioware game that I've ever played, so I'd definitely buy more Bioware games. Everything I've played through ME2 is pretty much a masterpiece. Is Mass Effect very similar to Dragon age in gameplay? Or is it first person shooter, or something else?
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Post by Tea Rex on Dec 1, 2014 18:10:35 GMT -5
DA2's the worst Bioware game that I've ever played, so I'd definitely buy more Bioware games. Everything I've played through ME2 is pretty much a masterpiece. Is Mass Effect very similar to Dragon age in gameplay? Or is it first person shooter, or something else? It's a third person shooter, and the gameplay is quite different. Particularly in the second and third.
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Post by Lone Locust of the Apocalypse on Dec 1, 2014 21:23:39 GMT -5
I love KOTOR and ME1, like ME2 and dislike Skyrim. Is this game for me?
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Post by CallMeCarlosTheDwarf on Dec 1, 2014 21:55:59 GMT -5
Yeah, the reason I'm so leery about it (besides the fact that I will never fully trust Bioware again after having pre-ordered both DA2 and ME3), is that I really have zero interest in games like Skyrim.
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Post by Generic Poster on Dec 1, 2014 22:03:37 GMT -5
I love KOTOR and ME1, like ME2 and dislike Skyrim. Is this game for me? Yes.
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Post by Tea Rex on Dec 2, 2014 0:53:02 GMT -5
When I say "like skyrim", I mean that they have locations with open maps. That's about the only similarity. You don't really wander around aimlessly looking for adventure. Your quests stumble you into other quests, and so on.
And the maps aren't one giant location, either. So far I have...ten? I think ten locations on the world map, and each location has an entirely different look and feel - three different kinds of desert, three kinds of forest, a mountainy sea locale, a moory with mountains locale with a lake, a chalk-plains and hills place, a bog, each place explorable, but each with marked quests so that you don't feel without purpose. Seriously, the developers must have taken the criticism of DA2's copy-paste dungeons and upped their apology to 11.
Anywhoozles...so, I've done in two dragons now. Both assholes nearly took me out. With the second, Dorian I had died and it was just Blackwall limping along and me using Cassandra to hack at the damn thing's legs with an axe. Blackwall died and Cassandra made the killing blow a moment later. Skin of my teeth, that one.
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Post by Inamine on Dec 2, 2014 9:00:00 GMT -5
Did you take Iron Bull with you to kill a dragon? You really need to take him with you when you kill a dragon.
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Post by pairesta on Dec 2, 2014 9:20:53 GMT -5
My question is whether they're all speaking a common language, or if they're all speaking a specific language. Dalish and Qunari are the only other languages that I know of for sure, while everyone else speaks with Outrageous Accents (except the dwarves, who all have American accents). Everyone knows dwarves have Scottish burrs. DAMMIT DRAGON AGE
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Post by Tea Rex on Dec 2, 2014 9:36:09 GMT -5
Did you take Iron Bull with you to kill a dragon? You really need to take him with you when you kill a dragon. I have not. But now I will! I chose to romance Iron Bull, btw, because my only other male choice was Blackwall. I considered Josephene, but she's so adorable that I can't imagine her in bed. And there was no way I was going after Sera. Don't fuck crazy, even in a vidya game. Iron Bull's romance is actually pretty great. Lots of fun, silly scenes. We were in bed together talking about which word would be the safe word for each companion and adviser, for instance. (I suggested Bianca for Varric, Bull said, "no, it would have to be something he WOULDN'T cry out during sex").
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2014 9:59:22 GMT -5
Ahhhhh I want it so bad. Also as an unabashed Elder Scrolls fanboy I'm hoping the mainstream popularity of this game hits Bethesda right in the story department.
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Post by Tea Rex on Dec 2, 2014 10:13:33 GMT -5
Ahhhhh I want it so bad. Also as an unabashed Elder Scrolls fanboy I'm hoping the mainstream popularity of this game hits Bethesda right in the story department. That would be for the best. The design of Bethesda's games are quite lovely, really. And the fact that Oblivion and Skyrim are "living worlds" with even NPCs going about scripted lives is impressive. But they shirk story for gameplay in a big way. I got Soooo Boooored with the main story.
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Post by Baron von Costume on Dec 2, 2014 10:26:33 GMT -5
Yeah you guys are killing my resolve to hold off on building the new computer til after house purchase.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2014 10:27:24 GMT -5
Ahhhhh I want it so bad. Also as an unabashed Elder Scrolls fanboy I'm hoping the mainstream popularity of this game hits Bethesda right in the story department. That would be for the best. The design of Bethesda's games are quite lovely, really. And the fact that Oblivion and Skyrim are "living worlds" with even NPCs going about scripted lives is impressive. But they shirk story for gameplay in a big way. I got Soooo Boooored with the main story. I'm a big fan of wandering and exploring and dicking around in general, but I will concede that the Dragonborn/Civil war storyline merits about two paragraphs of summary.
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Post by Tea Rex on Dec 2, 2014 10:49:50 GMT -5
That would be for the best. The design of Bethesda's games are quite lovely, really. And the fact that Oblivion and Skyrim are "living worlds" with even NPCs going about scripted lives is impressive. But they shirk story for gameplay in a big way. I got Soooo Boooored with the main story. I'm a big fan of wandering and exploring and dicking around in general, but I will concede that the Dragonborn/Civil war storyline merits about two paragraphs of summary. Indeed. And for me, it wasn't just the main story. I'm as much of a Fake History nerd as you are, and when I pick up in-game books, I like to read them. I got into the habit to do this when I played Origins. The Bioware team does a hell of a job keeping their lore interesting - even the dryer history books aren't really that dry, because they're all written by different in-game historians and philosophers, and are each signed and dated. And you can even tell that they tried to make some consistency between the types of writers and the time periods that the writers were writing. So, someone writing in 2:40 Glory Age will have a different tone than someone writing in 8:70 Blessed Age. A person writing as a Chantry historian will have a different tone than a non-religious historian. And so on. I didn't notice this at first, but on a whim I started keeping track of the dates each book was written, and lo and behold I made the connections. Also, different writers have different commentary on the stuff they're writing. So you get the sense that the writers are real people. When I tried doing the same with Skyrim, I was surprised at the variation of skill in the writing. Some weren't terrible, but more often than not I'd leaf through a book and end up with the equivalent of some two-bit, crappy paperback swords and sorcery tale. Standard, stilted bullshit that frankly read like a bunch of programmers mimicking their favorite Tolkien moments but not getting why those stories are good.
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