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DA2 was doomed from the start knowing that body hair was supposedly being squeezed for information on Hawke's current whereabouts in the hopes of calming some bigger problem. Dragon Age Inquisition is the failure of getting Hawke in time to murder everyone involved in the Templar and Circle revolts while finding some new dweeb to be the hero. I really new some new direct information to try to see the potential light in this game again. 
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Dragon Age 2 is alright if you're roleplaying as somebody who knows they're in a subpar game. All snark, all the time, David Caruso it up. It's too bad it comes nowhere near it's potential... which IS buried there under a huge pile of poo poo. Don't pay more than a couple bucks you never care if you see again, though.
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May 6, 2014 21:43
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I want to add, that I really enjoyed the idea that I wasn't running all over the world and was staying in one city for the entire game. At the time I was playing it, it was refreshing to not be the only person who could save the world for once and was just a lady trying to earn some cash in the city. That said, I wish they did more with it. Make the city bigger, and show drastic changes over the course of a decade there. I'd still like to see something like that. Maybe a ME game set in the Citadel. It's big enough.
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May 6, 2014 21:55
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Spikeguy posted:I want to add, that I really enjoyed the idea that I wasn't running all over the world and was staying in one city for the entire game. At the time I was playing it, it was refreshing to not be the only person who could save the world for once and was just a lady trying to earn some cash in the city. That said, I wish they did more with it. Make the city bigger, and show drastic changes over the course of a decade there. I'd still like to see something like that. Maybe a ME game set in the Citadel. It's big enough. http://store.steampowered.com/app/264240/ - Consortium. You should give that game a shot. You'd probably really enjoy it. It's not got quite the scope of what you'd described, but...
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May 6, 2014 22:06
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That is one of the dumbest worst games ever Drifter, with writing that makes DA2 look like a god drat masterpiece.
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May 6, 2014 22:18
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nah it's actually probably three times as good as DA2, so, mediocre to decent
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May 6, 2014 22:36
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I dunno, it really tries to make itself seem smart. For all its failings, DA2 never felt like someone was going 'hahaha I am so clever look at how smart I am. People will look at this and go 'wow, this writer is a genius.'. That's the entirety of what Consortium felt like. Also everyone taaalked reeeeeeaaallly sloooww and had to say four paragraphs worth of dialogue. And most of it was skippable, except for four or five points where two NPCs are talking to each other and you're watching, that take over 8-9 minutes to clear up and give you control.
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May 6, 2014 22:55
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Lotish posted:Hm. From the sounds of it, what with a supposedly playable prologue and the whole process of setting up the Inquisition itself sounding like it would take more than a cutscene to play out, I'm curious what they're going to call you before you settle into the groove of being called the Inquisitor? Are people just going to call you "Qunari" if you picked that race or are they going to get more creative and call you something like "Prongs?" I imagine they'll call you by the last names given for the PC.
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May 7, 2014 17:03
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BenRGamer posted:I imagine they'll call you by the last names given for the PC. You'd think that, but I cannot recall ever being called Brasca or Aeducan or Cousland or what have you outside the origin in DAO
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May 7, 2014 17:20
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They'll just refer to you with generic pronouns like in FFX and that'll be the end of it. At some point they'll probably forget to write a line taking into account playing a woman, so there'll be a few "He"'s that slip in there.
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May 7, 2014 17:32
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I eagerly await the day when voice technology advances to the point where characters will refer to me by my true name "sniperdude420"
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May 7, 2014 17:36
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PantsBandit posted:I eagerly await the day when voice technology advances to the point where characters will refer to me by my true name "sniperdude420" Black and white had a recorded namebank that would try and match your windows name to one of the prerecorded names and then it would whisper it at random times. It was p cool. What I'm saying is I feel like P. Molynoeaaouux peaked 13 years ago.
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May 7, 2014 17:44
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Alouicious posted:You'd think that, but I cannot recall ever being called Brasca or Aeducan or Cousland or what have you outside the origin in DAO (Oh Tim Curry  )https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62AFkwbbUdU
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May 7, 2014 18:05
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Alouicious posted:You'd think that, but I cannot recall ever being called Brasca or Aeducan or Cousland or what have you outside the origin in DAO But you were called Hawke in DA2. I'm pretty sure they will follow the recent examples in the ME and DA franchise.
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May 7, 2014 18:10
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Torrannor posted:But you were called Hawke in DA2. I'm pretty sure they will follow the recent examples in the ME and DA franchise. They've already confirmed that you'll have set last names for every race and all that. We're just discussing how often it'll come up in the game.
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May 7, 2014 18:15
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Crappy Jack posted:They've already confirmed that you'll have set last names for every race and all that. We're just discussing how often it'll come up in the game. Referred to by last name by party members and anyone reasonably close to the PC and called "Inquisitor" by strangers I'd guess.
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May 7, 2014 18:24
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Walrus Pete posted:Referred to by last name by party members and anyone reasonably close to the PC and called "Inquisitor" by strangers I'd guess. And "Inquisitor" "Last Name" when people are being formal.
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May 7, 2014 18:25
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It's going to be almost always 'Inquisitor'.
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May 7, 2014 18:29
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Dan Didio posted:It's going to be almost always 'Inquisitor'. Mostly so they don't have to record a line a dozen times or try to cut in a name halfway through a line already recorded, which would pretty hard to make sound good. "Inquistor...Brasca, is there something I can help you with?" "Careful how you speak, churl! You are in the presence of Inquisitor...Vashoth!"
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May 7, 2014 18:41
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They did promise lots of race-specific dialogue, with less background specific dialogue. So hopefully there will be some good variation. I'm just hoping for lots of racist dialogue options if you play as a non-human.
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May 7, 2014 18:52
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Lotish posted:Mostly so they don't have to record a line a dozen times or try to cut in a name halfway through a line already recorded, which would pretty hard to make sound good. Nobody can actually remember your last name and has to pause for a few seconds to get it.
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May 7, 2014 18:56
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StashAugustine posted:Nobody can actually remember your last name and has to pause for a few seconds to get it. Even better, nobody can remember it, so your character has to remind them every single time in the exact same delivery so they just record one voice saying it one time. "That's absolutely right, Inquisitor....uh....wait, wait" "Cousland." "Of course. We'll get right on it, Inquisitor...poo poo...sorry, one more time?" "Cousland."
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May 7, 2014 19:01
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What, you mean people didn't like the idea of your love~you~forever~!waifu still calling you Hawke in dialogue? Yeah, that's a legitimate thing that made me unhappy in DA2 - having Isabella/Merill/Fenris/DLC PRiest Guy go from calling you darling/dear to calling you HAWKE like you're barely associated again as soon as a conversation ends is horrible.
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May 7, 2014 19:03
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KittyEmpress posted:What, you mean people didn't like the idea of your love~you~forever~!waifu still calling you Hawke in dialogue? Mass Effect has this too, what with you getting your game on with up to three lucky squaddies across the franchise, but they all call you Shepard. And this is why your name is always "Douchebag" no matter what you enter in Stick of Truth.
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May 7, 2014 19:18
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Lotish posted:Mass Effect has this too, what with you getting your game on with up to three lucky squaddies across the franchise, but they all call you Shepard. It kind of works with Garrus though. I feel like their relationship would be extremely formal.
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May 7, 2014 19:44
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PantsBandit posted:It kind of works with Garrus though. I feel like their relationship would be extremely formal. ME is also just a military oriented game. Last names are pretty normal in that context. If you're friends or dating somebody that you happen to interact with professionally, they'll probably still do the last name thing just cause it's kind of a professional standard. Now, in private settings it doesn't make sense, but on missions or with the rest of the crew, it's not that out of character.
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May 7, 2014 19:51
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Shepard is Shepard.
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May 7, 2014 19:58
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Lotish posted:And this is why your name is always "Douchebag" no matter what you enter in Stick of Truth. Man that was the best. I love how they worked around the issue by having Cartman just being Cartman.
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May 7, 2014 19:58
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Furism posted:Man that was the best. I love how they worked around the issue by having Cartman just being Cartman. And then everyone else just rolls with it because Butters is a pushover playing follow the leader, Kenny is impossible to understand, and by the time you meet everyone else they've heard you called Douchebag so much they don't know you by anything else and don't care!
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May 7, 2014 20:07
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Drifter posted:http://store.steampowered.com/app/264240/ - Consortium. I love that game. I bought it last Christmas.
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May 7, 2014 21:00
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PantsBandit posted:It kind of works with Garrus though. I feel like their relationship would be extremely formal. It's not. And regardless, it doesn't really work when Shepard refers to any potential lover by their first name.
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May 7, 2014 21:12
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Kajeesus posted:It's not. And regardless, it doesn't really work when Shepard refers to any potential lover by their first name. You're wrong on both accounts. A huge aspect of their relationship is the fact that Garrus sees Shepard as an authority figure, even when they're romantically involved. This also explains why Garrus would refer to Shepard as such, because Shepard has always been his superior.
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May 7, 2014 21:14
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Maybe in ME2, but in ME3, every other line about the relationship is something like "Well, here's what your boyfriend thinks..."
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May 7, 2014 21:18
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 Is that horse holding a sword in it's mouth??? Because that's worth the pre-order, right there.
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May 7, 2014 22:53
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wanna ride that reindeer
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May 7, 2014 22:53
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It looks more like someone jammed a sword through the horse's lower jaw and out it's forehead and called it a unicorn. That looks like the hilt jutting out the bottom of the jaw.
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May 7, 2014 22:55
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That unicorn looks like somebody took a normal horse and impaled it clean through the head with a sword. Also, the throne looks like something out of Crocodile Dundee. Edit: Beaten on unicorn impalement, but would add that the weapons remind of of Dragon's Dogma which isn't a bad thing at all.
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May 7, 2014 22:57
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Lotish posted:Mostly so they don't have to record a line a dozen times or try to cut in a name halfway through a line already recorded, which would pretty hard to make sound good. Are voice actors paid by the line or something? If they already got them in the booth how much extra time and work could it be to have them do additional takes.
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May 7, 2014 23:37
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That is definitely an horse with a sword through its jaw, which is actually pretty 
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Aw I wanted a real unicorn so I could be the ~*prettiest princess qunari*~
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