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That's because Rat Queens is written by someone with an ability to actually you know be funny
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Alouicious posted:That's because Rat Queens is written by someone with an ability to actually you know Rat Queens is amazing and everyone should read it. First collection has been out for a couple months now.
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Jun 17, 2014 03:03
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Captain Oblivious posted:New players almost certainly don't know that though. Which goes back to the source of most AD&D related problems! Yeah. I mean I have legitimately fond memories from my early teen years of getting my rear end kicked six ways to Sunday by this game precisely because I had no idea what the gently caress so I'm a weird case on this. Hell, I once cleared out the entirety of the Tomb of VARN in Might and Magic 6 without having done even half the things I was supposed to do before going there when I was a dumb kid. Dumb kid adventures were the best.
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Jun 17, 2014 03:31
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I actually thought Sarevok was a much better written villain than Irenicus, but David Warner's rendition is one of the best examples of video voice acting, ever, even today. Remember, Sarevok wasn't a brutish fighter who just killed people with a sword-he was a subtle political schemer who was trying to engineer a war. It'd have been a much cooler story if he were just an ambitious politician rather than a magical divine aspirant. With that said, I tend to think that Baldur's Gate represented a step back from Fallout, which preceded it by one year. Fallout introduced or popularized features like character stats playing an important role outside of combat, multiple quest solutions, and a reactive game world. Baldur's Gate was essentially a linear dungeon crawler. Also, I thought the combat in Baldur's Gate was weak because it was too reliant on luck and combat in Baldur's Gate 2 was weak because its challenge was limited to mage encounters that could invariably be beaten by set spell combos. But I loved the combat in Icewind Dale, so I think the problem was with encounter design rather than gameplay system or engine.
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Jun 17, 2014 03:38
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Yeah Sarevok's whole scheme was big intricate and clever, I agree. By comparison, Irenicus' revenge thing is a lot less interesting. But Warner loving sold it with the mix of contempt and total lack of passion in his voice so as a villain Irenicus is amazing and memorable.
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Jun 17, 2014 03:43
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http://imgur.com/a/ys1Gu/ There's issue one of Rat Queens. It's actually a quite nice little thing. Very tongue in cheek and pretty funny.
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Jun 17, 2014 04:45
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Bioware's writing is bad. As the first person to say this I'll accept praise as it is given.
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Jun 17, 2014 06:18
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After avoiding the Bioware forums for so long that I didn't even know they remodeled them, I figured to see how the crazies there were taking the news about the romance gating. http://forum.bioware.com/topic/502555-romance-discussion/page-464#entry16743544 In short, some absolutely outraged that Bioware's taking a 'step back' from the DA2 free for all approach. Some are terrified they might only be able to only have one romance due to the gating selections. Many pissed that Bioware's not been forthcoming with exactly how many are which orientation and preference because they need to know this to plot out romance arcs first before doing anything since romances are the only important thing in a Bioware game. There's also a lengthy derail discussing Quinari penis length and girth, and one guy who's ballistic over the possibility of not being able to kick party members if they refuse to accept a character due to race. And of course massive lists of people speculating on characters we only know a name and maybe a image on's sexual preference. Ah..Bioware forums..you never change.
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Jun 17, 2014 11:41
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M_Sinistrari posted:And of course massive lists of people speculating on characters we only know a name and maybe a image on's sexual preference. Talking about Dorian? I saw that and I was wondering if I missed something and why they were assuming he'd be gay. And upset about that, in some cases.
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Jun 17, 2014 11:57
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M_Sinistrari posted:There's also a lengthy derail discussing Quinari penis length and girth,  Yeah, I know, they're probably talking about the taste too. 
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Jun 17, 2014 11:58
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M_Sinistrari posted:After avoiding the Bioware forums for so long that I didn't even know they remodeled them, I figured to see how the crazies there were taking the news about the romance gating. I'd say it was good that Bioware was keeping these guys away from others, but we all know there was no way they'd ever have anything resembling a functional relationship in real life. BSN's creepy, creepy obsessive horniness remains as strong as ever. I wonder if these guys know that dating sims, the games they so clearly want the most, already comprise an entire genre for them to drool over. Edit: And I've just learned that, as of May of this year, there have been 4000+ pages of discussion by Cullen fangirls including fascinating rants on how he's the most amazing human in the game, how many moles he has, and somethings called Fade Cows.  It's somehow more sad than our old friend, Talisweat: http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/128/index/4786509/70#4822092 Geostomp fucked around with this message at 12:11 on Jun 17, 2014 |
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Jun 17, 2014 11:59
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Drifter posted:http://imgur.com/a/ys1Gu/ This honestly looks like DA2 filtered through Reddit and SA.
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Jun 17, 2014 12:13
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poptart_fairy posted:This honestly looks like DA2 filtered through Reddit and SA. Why don't more games have dropping shrooms as an option 
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Jun 17, 2014 12:22
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Geostomp posted:I'd say it was good that Bioware was keeping these guys away from others, but we all know there was no way they'd ever have anything resembling a functional relationship in real life. BSN's creepy, creepy obsessive horniness remains as strong as ever. If Bioware ever had the cojones to make a game without any romance, I would laugh myself to fainting over the explosion of outrage with how romance crazed these people are.
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Jun 17, 2014 12:24
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Geostomp posted:and somethings called Fade Cows.  quote:…and rider of Fade Cows. (Yes, you had to have been there.) No, no I didn't.
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Jun 17, 2014 12:58
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I'm playing Origins for the first time. The character I rolled is a elven mage with all points put into entropy spells. Should I put points into another school as well, or is entropy going to be enough to get me through the game?
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Jun 17, 2014 13:15
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unless you're playing on Nightmare or something it really won't matter. use whatever you think is fun
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Jun 17, 2014 13:27
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Good. Now all he needs to do is jam that sword through the cows head, and Bioware can sell it as a DLC.
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Jun 17, 2014 13:36
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Disco Infiva posted:Good. Now all he needs to do is jam that sword through the cows head, and Bioware can sell it as a DLC. It's the flaming sword from the DLC already, they are waiting for later to sell the fade cow as amount in another DLC.
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Jun 17, 2014 13:54
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Torrannor posted:It's the flaming sword from the DLC already, they are waiting for later to sell the fade cow as amount in another DLC. Nah, it's the stupid smelly sword that the Templars slap on everything because they think it looks cool
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Jun 17, 2014 13:57
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M_Sinistrari posted:After avoiding the Bioware forums for so long that I didn't even know they remodeled them, I figured to see how the crazies there were taking the news about the romance gating.
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Jun 17, 2014 14:04
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M_Sinistrari posted:After avoiding the Bioware forums for so long that I didn't even know they remodeled them, I figured to see how the crazies there were taking the news about the romance gating. Holy loving poo poo. Seriously? Does that really happen? poo poo, there's a huge market opportunity for softcore (or not) "romance simulators" out there, folks. One that's engineered specifically to genderfluid, otherkin, transqueer, *insert your new term here* folks. Oh yeah, and furries. In fact, I'm guessing that if you make one such simulator making fun of them from start to finish, they won't be able to get the joke and still masturbate happily to it for hours on end. Just make the graphics top-notch, voice acting well done and very intricate romance paths and dramas. Basically a huge medieval The Sims + drama dating game + sex simulator. If you manage to make women look really loving "empowered" in that game as well (maybe like this: https://twitter.com/tinderfessions/status/478696101437263873), I can't imagine it not spawning a huge franchise. What are you waiting for?
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Jun 17, 2014 14:06
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Andre Banzai posted:What are you waiting for? Doing porn would lower EA's share more that the extra business would provide.
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Jun 17, 2014 14:12
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Furism posted:Doing porn would lower EA's share more that the extra business would provide. I'm not taking about EA, of course. Imagine if a big developer would be crazy enough to tarnish their brand image with something like that.
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Jun 17, 2014 14:25
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Andre Banzai posted:Holy loving poo poo. Seriously? Does that really happen? poo poo, there's a huge market opportunity for softcore (or not) "romance simulators" out there, folks. One that's engineered specifically to genderfluid, otherkin, transqueer, *insert your new term here* folks. Oh yeah, and furries. I remember a news story about a girl who literally became a millionaire selling troll fantasy-romance e-novels. Like, actual monstrous trolls, not just the internet variety.
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^edit-That's actually a pretty popular ebook genre with the monster porn.Andre Banzai posted:Holy loving poo poo. Seriously? Does that really happen? poo poo, there's a huge market opportunity for softcore (or not) "romance simulators" out there, folks. One that's engineered specifically to genderfluid, otherkin, transqueer, *insert your new term here* folks. Oh yeah, and furries. If I remember rightly from the Awful Game Mods thread, when someone asked why there was such a preponderance of porn mods it essentially boiled down to there are a lot of hard/softcore simulators out there but they're microtransactioned on a scale that makes anything else look like free giveaways and there's horrible credit card fraud since the majority of these are run by shady organizations as well as money laundering so for people interested in this sort of thing, it's go for whatever other avenues that aren't as shady. Granted if Bioware did a romance simulator of their own, they'd make mad bank off how crazy their forumsbase is.
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M_Sinistrari posted:
Oh my god. I know what Bioware's new, explicitly "contemporary" IP is going to be: A slice of life dating simulator with DLC romantic partner packs. It'll sell like the Sims.
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Jun 17, 2014 15:24
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Lotish posted:Oh my god. I know what Bioware's new, explicitly "contemporary" IP is going to be: A slice of life dating simulator with DLC romantic partner packs. It'll sell like the Sims. Only to lunatics. I hope. One thing I do wish existed would be a visual novel style thing without the whole "anime" and "waifu" elements. I just want to play a story game without having mother-loving "sempai" written everywhere.
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Jun 17, 2014 15:56
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Josef bugman posted:Only to lunatics. I hope. Play 999.
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Jun 17, 2014 15:57
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Have we heard anything about how the Dragon Age Keep is coming along? With the actual game rolling out in a few months, it'd be nice if the Keep was operational and open to the public in advance. Did anyone on these forums actually get into the beta?
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Jun 17, 2014 16:34
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Will Dragon Keep be an extended version of that weird Mass Effect 2 interview between you, Jacob and Miranda in the beginning or will it just be a bunch of HTML form pages you check off and hit submit?
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Jun 17, 2014 16:39
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Drifter posted:Will Dragon Keep be an extended version of that weird Mass Effect 2 interview between you, Jacob and Miranda in the beginning or will it just be a bunch of HTML form pages you check off and hit submit? Probably the latter, but I think it'd be absolutely hilarious if the game started out with a 15 minute pop-quiz where Cassandra asks the Inquisitor about their knowledge of recent history.
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Jun 17, 2014 16:42
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More fun if they take a page out of Obsidian's book and people who aren't paying attention don't realize they're being given the opportunity to set what happened
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Jun 17, 2014 17:00
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"Everyone knows the Hero of Ferelden made Loghain mac Tir pork the witch of the Wilds in a secret ritual to save her own life. I mean, it's obvious, isn't it?" edit: Second chance at this video before it's pulled again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPM-cuhnEvI&t=154s marshmallow creep fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Jun 17, 2014 |
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Deltasquid posted:Probably the latter, but I think it'd be absolutely hilarious if the game started out with a 15 minute pop-quiz where Cassandra asks the Inquisitor about their knowledge of recent history. The latter. It's just a website. It will presumably spit out an import file when you finish.
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Schubalts posted:The latter. It's just a website. It will presumably spit out an import file when you finish. Wait. Will I still be able to use my savegames? Cause hell if I still remember all my decisions. Except loving mudering that rear end in a top hat Loghain and that other rear end in a top hat Anders in DA2. Screw them. I remember I actually feared I'd not be able to kill Loghain myself, leaving it to Alistair to finish the job. Man, was I happy to take that burden off his back. When my character got all bloodied from the strike, I got up and said out loud "man this game is awesome". This is how much I hated his guts.
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Jun 17, 2014 18:34
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Andre Banzai posted:Wait. Will I still be able to use my savegames? You won't be able to use your old savegames.
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Jun 17, 2014 18:39
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Andre Banzai posted:Wait. Will I still be able to use my savegames? The official word is "Probably not". There is a multitude of problems involved in it, from inconsistent world states, to whether they include all relevant flags and the fact that DA:I comes out on completely different platforms in the case of consoles. People keep asking, and they haven't positively ruled it out yet, but for now I would not expect anything but using the Keep.
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GhostBoy posted:The official word is "Probably not". There is a multitude of problems involved in it, from inconsistent world states, to whether they include all relevant flags and the fact that DA:I comes out on completely different platforms in the case of consoles. People keep asking, and they haven't positively ruled it out yet, but for now I would not expect anything but using the Keep. Sigh. And The Keep is not online yet, is it? This is going to take a lot of brainpower on my part. :-(
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Andre Banzai posted:Sigh. Look on the bright side, if you don't remember what you did, it doesn't matter if you get it wrong!
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