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MrJacobs posted:It's on the Bioware website and you can transfer EA bux to Bioware bux if you are inclined. I was, but that was more for curiosity. I haven't tried it yet to hate my purchase, but I will eventually play and probably hate it, who knows. MotAssassin was the one that took place in Orlais, right, starring that no-name internet famous geekgirl? It was pretty unexceptional, but it got you out of that god drat city and cave. Although...it put you right back into a  The outdoor area was a nice enough change of pace. I say that because I embrace my Stockholm.
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Penakoto posted:Not even any DLC? There's already lots, they couldn't throw in a swordicorn code? I think when I read about it at gamestop, they said the game that comes with the dungeon master edition would be the deluxe variety, with all the goofy DLC.
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There's a tiny chance the Tarot deck is decent. Not $170 decent, but like, maybe fun to buy off eBay for $10.
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May 14, 2014 05:12
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precision posted:There's a tiny chance the Tarot deck is decent. Not $170 decent, but like, maybe fun to buy off eBay for $10. I'd really like to play around with the ink and quill, because c'mon. Surely not.
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Drifter posted:MotAssassin was the one that took place in Orlais, right, starring that no-name internet famous geekgirl? It was pretty unexceptional, but it got you out of that god drat city and cave. I watched a stream of Mark of the Assassin that my friend put up since I don't have the DLC and plot wise it feels really loving awkward. And that's saying a lot for DA2. Felicia Day's character was kind of a loving mess due to the subpar writing and the really out of place philosophical debate that came up every now and then trying to validate the Qun way. I guess the only thing I enjoyed watching and listening to were the silly accents and party banter as usual.
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May 14, 2014 06:11
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Oh god, I had forgotten that she was written as Qun. You're right, that was REALLY poorly done.
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May 14, 2014 06:25
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Which is a shame because I Love Felicia Day.
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May 14, 2014 07:47
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Soonmot posted:Which is a shame because I Love Felicia Day. But every time she's shown up on Tabletop herself, I instantly dislike her. On the actual topic of the thread; gently caress, I'm getting kinda excited for this. It looks like it actually can be good. And no major day-one DLC in sight yet either.
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May 14, 2014 09:00
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Groetgaffel posted:I like quite a bit of what she does, like her voice acting for Veronica in FO:NV, or the Tabletop show hosted by Someone in the Supernatural thread put into words perfectly why she makes so many of us cringe. She talks like the internet.
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I'm a fan of special editions that are $10 more and give you in game content, but not really a fan of something that costs $170 for real stuff. Nothing wrong with the real stuff for people who like to collect that kind of stuff, it's just with a wife who could give a poo poo about games and a 3-year-old, not really putting up displays to my favorite pass time. Looking forward to E3. And am I the only one who kinda dug the Qun in DA2. That dude made a lot of sense in that gently caress town that was Kirkwall before he started killing everybody. Any time I do a DA2 run, I'm always trying to gain the Airishok's respect. "You are not totally useless" *slight nod*. Baller.
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May 14, 2014 15:32
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May 14, 2014 15:34
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I just had a random thought that always makes me laugh when it crosses my mind. A poster was able to sum up Dragon Age 2 right when it came out better than anything I've seen since. Dragon Age 2: The Quest for More Money.
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I have a strong distaste for Felicia Day because I kept hearing people rave about The Guild, a show which is pretty much the definition of low-budget crap. I can't imagine why anyone would say anything good about it beyond "oh drat she's hot AND she plays video games! Maybe she'll marry me!"
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Spikeguy posted:I'm a fan of special editions that are $10 more and give you in game content, but not really a fan of something that costs $170 for real stuff. Nothing wrong with the real stuff for people who like to collect that kind of stuff, it's just with a wife who could give a poo poo about games and a 3-year-old, not really putting up displays to my favorite pass time. Looking forward to E3. A lot of players retroactively liked the Arishok because he's the only other person in the game who hates the the city of Kirkwall and everyone in it as much as the players 
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Spikeguy posted:And am I the only one who kinda dug the Qun in DA2. That dude made a lot of sense in that gently caress town that was Kirkwall before he started killing everybody. Any time I do a DA2 run, I'm always trying to gain the Airishok's respect. "You are not totally useless" *slight nod*. Baller. I think most people thought the Qunari were fine, in that they felt a similar way about the game world that the players did, and were both frustrated by it. Don't mistake our negative Qun talk regarding Mark of the Assassin for not liking the Qunari in general. Felicia Day's character spent a deal of time trying to 'argue' the positive points of the Qun and it came off as REALLY childish and 7th grader repeat-what-my-dad-said simple.
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May 14, 2014 16:02
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PantsBandit posted:I have a strong distaste for Felicia Day because I kept hearing people rave about The Guild, a show which is pretty much the definition of low-budget crap. I can't imagine why anyone would say anything good about it beyond "oh drat she's hot AND she plays video games! Maybe she'll marry me!" I only watched a season of that show it wasn't my thing but it's pretty easy to see why people like it.
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May 14, 2014 16:07
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Darkhold posted:Yes I can't imagine why people watch a show filled with nerd jokes and references. I mean it is low budget after all nobody could think she's funny or can act. Only it wasn't funny or well written. That was part of the "crap" part of it. I mean, maybe people could get some enjoyment out of it but I can't imagine how. It's like an even more poorly written, more stereotypically "gamer" big bang theory. It's the gamefuel of shows.
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May 14, 2014 16:08
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PantsBandit posted:Only it wasn't funny or well written. That was part of the "crap" part of it. I mean, maybe people could get some enjoyment out of it but I can't imagine how. It's almost like taste is subjective or some bullshit.
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Crappy Jack posted:It's almost like taste is subjective or some bullshit. Yes and "I" have a strong distaste for Felicia Day because "I" think her show was terrible. I don't remember insisting you agree.
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PantsBandit posted:Yes and "I" have a strong distaste for Felicia Day because "I" think her show was terrible. I don't remember insisting you agree. Yes, but nobody cares what you think. I'm very sorry that an internet TV show makes you so angry.
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May 14, 2014 16:16
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Crappy Jack posted:Yes, but nobody cares what you think. I'm very sorry that an internet TV show makes you so angry. Ok well gently caress off I guess then? I'm not really angry and people were discussing liking/not liking Felicia Day. Regardless this is a really dumb derail.
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May 14, 2014 16:18
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Shugojin posted:A lot of players retroactively liked the Arishok because he's the only other person in the game who hates the the city of Kirkwall and everyone in it as much as the players That and he's one of the only decent characters with an actual motivation that doesn't fall back on "lol dark magic" in the game. Considering he's a fanatical zealot who starts a war based solely on the demands of his religion, says a lot about Kirkwall.
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I love references they make the recognition sectors of my brain light up and then I tell the people around me that that's from a thing and I know the thing it's from. better than jokes, for sure
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So I finished Masked Empire and comparing to Weekes' other writing it did feel less fluid. I don't know how controlled or detailed their outline is when these writers need to write novels that turn into game scripts (let alone scripts in a set series). Sure we know there are points they have to hit, but how many and how often? I guess I felt that Weekes probably had a lot of people over his shoulder to completely deliver X with no delineation whatsoever? I guess this makes me question Felicia's DA2 piece--she wrote it and I'm not the biggest fan of her, but was she also bound by a too-rigid outline? I don't know much about it.
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The Qunari fundamentally have a system I disagree with (making people live their entire lives as one thing with wishing to change being punishable by death), but the way the typical Qunari sticks to his principles in the face of great adversity is admirable, and they always exercise great patience compared to most of their human, elven and dwarven contemporaries. When you think about it, though, they're basically big ogre versions of the fairies from the Tinkerbell cartoons. You are born with a talent that decides your "caste" for life (sten, arishok, whatever-their-priests-are-called versus tinker, animal, fast-flier fairies) and you never raise your own children (well, for fairies that's not really an issue anyway) so family life is fundamentally different from how it is for humans, etc. Can we get Pick to weigh in on this?
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Lotish posted:The Qunari fundamentally have a system I disagree with (making people live their entire lives as one thing with wishing to change being punishable by death), but the way the typical Qunari sticks to his principles in the face of great adversity is admirable, and they always exercise great patience compared to most of their human, elven and dwarven contemporaries. I feel it's less like the fairies and more like the bees in A Bee Movie.
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Geostomp posted:That and he's one of the only decent characters with an actual motivation that doesn't fall back on "lol dark magic" in the game. Considering he's a fanatical zealot who starts a war based solely on the demands of his religion, says a lot about Kirkwall. I can only imagine the poo poo he was thinking when he's watching the Templars and Mages fighting. Like these fuckers here think I'm the rear end in a top hat. Jesus can I get out of this shitville please?
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I like the Qunari. The thing that puts them horns and shoulders above others is that they aren't whiny assholes that bitch and moan all day. They have a way of doing things and they stick to it. I can respect that, even if I don't agree with all of their philosophy. Here in real life we call them the people that grew a spine.
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Lotish posted:The Qunari fundamentally have a system I disagree with (making people live their entire lives as one thing with wishing to change being punishable by death), but the way the typical Qunari sticks to his principles in the face of great adversity is admirable, and they always exercise great patience compared to most of their human, elven and dwarven contemporaries. My thing is, I don't mind if you do this to people who agree to join the Qun or people who decide to live in that culture. It's when you try to force it on foreign nations that I have an issue. Like those elves who wanted to join and people were like gently caress that poo poo, I said why do you give a poo poo? Let them join. Criminal/not criminals, you don't really have any grounds to stand on to throw that judgement around Kirkwall. Edit: The more I think about it, Kirkwall might be the shittiest place in the setting, but I don't know much about the Tevinter Imperium except that everyone hates them. But gently caress, if Kirkwall hates you I don't know if I want to be on that side of the argument. Honestly I wish at the end of the game, my character had a chance of just saying gently caress all you guys I'm out after trying to defend the mages just for them to prove the others right by resorting to dark magic. And I don't think all mages in the world are like that, because they didn't do that poo poo in Ferelden. I mean their top loving mage, made a body out of other mages. Who does that poo poo? Shard fucked around with this message at 17:13 on May 14, 2014 |
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Have we actually seen in-game shots of the Qunari at this point or is it all just concept art? I hope they scale back on their design a little bit. I preferred Sten in Origins, despite looking relatively human people still were prejudiced against him because they saw him as having monstrous ideals, as opposed to literally looking like a monster. Also, because he was ostensibly a murderer but let's just ignore that for a second. They definitely are an interesting group though. I like it when Bioware expands on their more calculated, less emotional races. I wish they had done more with the Elcor in Mass Effect.
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PantsBandit posted:Have we actually seen in-game shots of the Qunari at this point or is it all just concept art? I hope they scale back on their design a little bit. I preferred Sten in Origins, despite looking relatively human people still were prejudiced against him because they saw him as having monstrous ideals, as opposed to literally looking like a monster. Also, because he was ostensibly a murderer but let's just ignore that for a second. We have seen Iron Bull.
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Darkhold posted:Yes I can't imagine why people watch a show filled with nerd jokes and references. I mean it is low budget after all nobody could think she's funny or can act. That's me. Somebody lent me the DVDs or the  or whatever and that was alright. If you're not into RPGs and possibly MMOs you won't get half the jokes though.I had no idea she became an Internet legend and she's clearly overrated.
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Torrannor posted:We have seen Iron Bull. And there were a couple of screenshots somewhere of some qunari heads, male and female, that looked like models either for defaults in the character creator or of unfinished NPCs.
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Geostomp posted:That and he's one of the only decent characters with an actual motivation that doesn't fall back on "lol dark magic" in the game. Considering he's a fanatical zealot who starts a war based solely on the demands of his religion, says a lot about Kirkwall. Well, he did at least delay making a war on Kirkwall until after the one Chantry lady tried to frame the Qunari for the murder of the ruler's son. It may possibly be reasonable to bring a war when the other side already set you up as having done it.
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the Qunari redesign in 2 just made them look like lame versions of tieflings so gently caress that
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Alouicious posted:the Qunari redesign in 2 just made them look like lame versions of tieflings so gently caress that They were so grumpy because they were missing tails. They were all "Where the gently caress are our sweet-rear end tails, yo?" and then decided gently caress the world.
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Alouicious posted:the Qunari redesign in 2 just made them look like lame versions of tieflings so gently caress that "Redesign" doesn't cover it. Every Qunari is portrayed as an emotionless robotic rear end in a top hat, but when replaying DA:O in the Fade level when Sten is back with his dead brothers they joke and shoot the poo poo like normal people. I don't really know at what point the Qunari went from "dangerous odd foreign power" to the "militant islamic borg" that Gaider made infamous, but it's been terrible for the DA setting.
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I've been playing Awakening and had Anders in the party for a conversation with Wynne. When Anders said, "[The Libertarians] want to break away from the Chantry? But that's crazy!" I laughed.
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