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Would an accent like Mother Giselle's compared to Leliana's come from a different part of France? They're so different.
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Pattonesque posted:There was a sizable contingent of people who were all on Leliana's VA for having a fake French accent when she's from, like, actual Paris She's French Canadian IIRC.
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exquisite tea posted:She's French Canadian IIRC. Quick wiki check says nope, she's mostly a French stage actress. She's also done a lot of stuff in London, so maybe some British infected her accent.
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Mar 28, 2018 03:30
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Which is still appropriate, since you find Leliana living in fantasy England.
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People have become so used to the faux-accents that they think the real accents are fake. At least, when I see the most complaining about accents being wrong it's usually when the actor/ress is using their native accent.
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I wasn’t expecting plotting gold, but when the characters brag about what masters of intrigue the Orlesian nobles are I thought things would be better than the assassin telling you that they’re an assassin and leaving you to fend off their “trap” of one fade rift when you’re renowned as the person who closes fade rifts every day. The ball was pretty fun though. I brought Sera and Iron Bull to stick it to the man. snoremac fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Mar 28, 2018 |
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eating only apples posted:I always get a kick out of Solas lurking in the background looking irritated
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So I just found this thread. Dragon Age Origins and 2 were my first ever WRPGs back at the end of 2014. I will always love and appreciate them for that. I also think they both are good games. Of course I know the general attitude towards DA2. I was just kinda curious if people at least thought the Arishok was hands down the best antagonist in the series thus far? I love that he doesn't even have to be an antagonist, you can do what I did on my first run and say "Isabela, you caused all this so gently caress off." Hell, the whole earning the Arishok's respect thing was also genius. Great voice and design, too. DA2 made me think the Qunari were the best parts of the setting.
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The Arishok was fine but other people seem to think he's more interesting than I do. I'd rank him below Loghain and Solas in terms of interesting motivation and depth.
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Mar 29, 2018 20:20
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People mostly like the Arishok because he hates the bullshit game he's stuck in as much as the player does.
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da2 qunari character design is way better & more alien than inquisition where ur just putting a qunari Snapchat filter over a human
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Stroop There It Is posted:The Arishok was fine but other people seem to think he's more interesting than I do. I'd rank him below Loghain and Solas in terms of interesting motivation and depth. I liked the Arishok a lot, but I would also put him in a rank below those two characters you mentioned. If we go to Tevinter in the next game, it's likely that there will be once again heavy Qunari involvement. Come to think of it, the only games that did not feature them prominently was Origins.
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We paid for the horns, we’re gonna use the horns
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Mar 29, 2018 21:08
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I forget the Arishok even exists until I suddenly have to talk to him/kill him.
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PureRok posted:People have become so used to the faux-accents that they think the real accents are fake. At least, when I see the most complaining about accents being wrong it's usually when the actor/ress is using their native accent. I always think of Daphne from Fraiser who is from where I'm from in the UK but they forced her to use a weird fake accent for her role because they told her nobody would understand her. NikkolasKing posted:So I just found this thread. Dragon Age Origins and 2 were my first ever WRPGs back at the end of 2014. I will always love and appreciate them for that. I also think they both are good games. I can't imagine a world where my first western RPG was Dragon Age 2. Or that if Origins was your first and DA2 your second you still somehow enjoyed the second game!
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Taear posted:I can't imagine a world where my first western RPG was Dragon Age 2. Or that if Origins was your first and DA2 your second you still somehow enjoyed the second game! My WRPG play order went: DAO > DA2 > ME1 > ME2 > ME3 > Fallout 3 and NV and Fable Trilogy and Skyrim and yeah, kinda breaks down around here in terms of my memory. But I mean, DA2 had the best relationship system I've ever seen in a BioWare game. I thought it had a much more fun battle system than DAO. One thing it had over any other DA game was the battle dialogue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa8CHfVk4IA After how immersive this made DA2 combat, the deafening silence within my party in DAI made it even less fun to play than it already was. Seriously, I cannot express how much I love that every character in DA2 has a special reaction to stuff happening to other characters. (Anders is KOed) Aveline: That moody mage is down. Naturally I missed the origins in DA2. Some of the origins like Dwarf Noble could be their own game and be amazing. I could see myself playing a whole game of just that. I also missed being able to talk to my companions whenever I really felt like it. DAO has a much more satisfying climax than DA2 does. I like both games a lot. It's apples and oranges for me. NikkolasKing fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Mar 30, 2018 |
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NikkolasKing posted:
Oh, you're insane. That's fine then. Like, I hate combat, I am completely down with it being really easy or really simple. And even with that I was annoyed by the stupid way DA2 did it. You went from having total control in DA:O to having none at all and it kept teasing you that the fight was over and another wave would just pop in out of nowhere.
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Taear posted:Oh, you're insane. That's fine then. The controls were literally identical between the two games besides auto-attack not being a thing on console until they patched it in. 2 also did wave combat because Origins mostly boiled down to 'unload your best AOE' to nuke literally every fight in the game. I don't think it ended up working that well in practice, but it was an interesting idea and I'd like to see more encounter design expanding on it in the future tbh. Having to actually conserve resources in normal fights for waves and not just alpha strike everything has a nice combat feel most other rpgs don't do outside of boss fights.
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DA2 battle system is infinitely superior to DAO, where in DAO it takes your character 15 minutes to swing a sword. DA2 combat flows very very well.
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DA2's combat mechanics were solid and a huge improvement over DA:O. Animations and pathing were better, the classes were better balanced, cross-class combos added some tactical depth, systems such as aggro actually worked and weren't really buggy, etc. DA2's encounter design was what made the combat not all that fun to play. Zore posted:2 also did wave combat because Origins mostly boiled down to 'unload your best AOE' to nuke literally every fight in the game. I don't think it ended up working that well in practice, but it was an interesting idea and I'd like to see more encounter design expanding on it in the future tbh.
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I’ll say it. I liked sync kills
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Raygereio posted:DA2's combat mechanics were solid and a huge improvement over DA:O. Animations and pathing were better, the classes were better balanced, cross-class combos added some tactical depth, systems such as aggro actually worked and weren't really buggy, etc. What the gently caress
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Ainsley McTree posted:I’ll say it. I liked sync kills mods??????
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I agree with that guy, DA2's combat was fun as heck. I played it immediately after DAO and really liked it. It's just every time you were done, another wave of enemies dropped in from nowhere. Do that three more times and that's the encounter. If they'd thought of ways to make the enemies more interesting to fight, it would have been great. Corypheus was interesting, iirc. There was also that one boss somewhere that did all the rock spikes all the time, that was also fun, if you like having all your party dead all the time. Also that might have been Corypheus. So there was at least one interesting boss. e: also DA:I repeated that rock spike boss in The Descent and it was horrible and a loving chore where I ran around as Dorian for half an hour trying to revive the others while chipping away at its health when it let me. Wow that was awful eating only apples fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Mar 31, 2018 |
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eating only apples posted:I agree with that guy, DA2's combat was fun as heck. I played it immediately after DAO and really liked it. It's just every time you were done, another wave of enemies dropped in from nowhere. Do that three more times and that's the encounter. If they'd thought of ways to make the enemies more interesting to fight, it would have been great. Corypheus was interesting, iirc. There was also that one boss somewhere that did all the rock spikes all the time, that was also fun, if you like having all your party dead all the time. Also that might have been Corypheus. So there was at least one interesting boss. Lol what the gently caress, I can't take this
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Da2 fan looking in the mirror https://i.imgur.com/FmYjcHV.gifv
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eating only apples posted:I agree with that guy, DA2's combat was fun as heck. I played it immediately after DAO and really liked it. It's just every time you were done, another wave of enemies dropped in from nowhere. Do that three more times and that's the encounter. If they'd thought of ways to make the enemies more interesting to fight, it would have been great. Corypheus was interesting, iirc. There was also that one boss somewhere that did all the rock spikes all the time, that was also fun, if you like having all your party dead all the time. Also that might have been Corypheus. So there was at least one interesting boss. I think the boss in the deep roads had a mechanic you had to deal with by hiding behind a pillar or something. that was something
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A Buff Gay Dude posted:Da2 fan looking in the mirror  Although I thought it was funny in DAO that at a high enough level actually using rogue abilities was much less effective than just popping on that speed power and auto-attacking because of all the ridiculous critical bonuses made that the highest DPS in the game. At least in DA2 and DAI you had to, like, press other buttons sometimes.
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Zore posted:The controls were literally identical between the two games besides auto-attack not being a thing on console until they patched it in. Ainsley McTree posted:I think the boss in the deep roads had a mechanic you had to deal with by hiding behind a pillar or something. that was something
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Zore posted:The controls were literally identical between the two games besides auto-attack not being a thing on console until they patched it in. Wave combat is fine but it's a little ridiculous that positioning is pointless in DA2 since enemies teleport in behind you. I'd at least like some kind of warning for where the waves are coming from.
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Zore posted:The controls were literally identical between the two games besides auto-attack not being a thing on console until they patched it in. Total control of your party.
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I am sick of boys like Anders and Blackwall getting me all hot and then being like 'oh I'm too much trouble you can't be with me' so I dump them right then and there. Who should I bang out of Sera, Iron Bull and Josephine? In terms of entertainment value.
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Bull.
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That dwarf scout lady.
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snoremac posted:I am sick of boys like Anders and Blackwall getting me all hot and then being like 'oh I'm too much trouble you can't be with me' so I dump them right then and there. Who should I bang out of Sera, Iron Bull and Josephine? In terms of entertainment value. Bull. Especially if you saved the Chargers.
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Dienes posted:Bull. Especially if you saved the Chargers. I’m leaning towards Bull but wanna get Sera to the point where I can reject her for laughs. Rejecting Anders post-sex was my fave part of DA2.
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snoremac posted:I let them die because it was more interesting! Depending on where you are in the game, you can ride the Bull, then break it off to be with Sera. I don't think you can do it in reverse, though.
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Sleeping with Anders or Merrill then telling them to go back to their slums is probably among the more pointlessly evil choices in DA2. #1 is still refusing to let Gamlen meet his own daughter, leaving him to die alone and miserable.
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Dienes posted:Depending on where you are in the game, you can ride the Bull, then break it off to be with Sera. I don't think you can do it in reverse, though. Reverse Bull is an advanced technique that some claim to have performed, though I have my doubts.
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NikkolasKing posted:Sleeping with Anders or Merrill then telling them to go back to their slums is probably among the more pointlessly evil choices in DA2. Now, getting your sister executed, that'd be my pick for number one.
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