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A friend finally talked me into playing Inqusition. I've never played a DA game before, in fact this is my first WRPG outside of Mass Effect, so this is a very bizarre experience so far. Boy those opening cutscenes were not made for Dwarf characters, my girl is out there climbing the air next to the rocks. I had heard a lot on my periphery about how much people don't like Sera, nothing specific, but I truly was not prepared for how bad she is
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Lmfso Sera still so terrible it hits
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Mar 23, 2024 02:23
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Sera kinda grew on me after a while. She's always annoying but after a while she gets in your head or something. Or she did for me. Like that Seinfeld episode where the girl keeps humming Co-stanza and can't stop thinking about George even though she hates him.
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Mar 23, 2024 05:26
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Sera is like a 5/10 character who gets a 2/10 introduction.
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Mar 23, 2024 05:30
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Scrap Dragon posted:A friend finally talked me into playing Inqusition. I've never played a DA game before, in fact this is my first WRPG outside of Mass Effect, so this is a very bizarre experience so far. Boy those opening cutscenes were not made for Dwarf characters, my girl is out there climbing the air next to the rocks. Can I just humbly recommend you stop Inquisition and go play Origins instead? Not only is it the infinitely superior game, DAI is built off of events in DAO and DA2. But if you continue on, please at least try DAO and DA2 after your DAI run. They're amazing games and very, very different from Inquisition.
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Mar 23, 2024 05:35
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NikkolasKing posted:Can I just humbly recommend you stop Inquisition and go play Origins instead? Not only is it the infinitely superior game, DAI is built off of events in DAO and DA2. I'd also argue both are better games, but I really dislike Inquisition.
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Mar 23, 2024 05:48
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I miss the inquisition multiplayer.
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Mar 23, 2024 13:52
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Origins' gameplay is so dated now that I feel like unless you want more Thedas specifically, BG3 is the better pick for the top-down strategy game.
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Mar 23, 2024 13:57
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Realistically this thread should have been closed and all posters banned once BG3 came out and rendered it obsolete
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Mar 23, 2024 14:14
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I liked sera she's my favorite romance character for girls. The best romance in the game is obviously cassandra
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Mar 23, 2024 14:17
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poisonpill posted:Lmfso Sera still so terrible it hits This is what happens when Bioware writes a gay-only character who serves as a handy checklist for recognizing signs of an emotionally abusive individual.
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Mar 23, 2024 14:34
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Sera is also kind of unpleasant as a willfully ignorant bigot. I guess that comes with the territory of leading the religious fanatic army though
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Mar 23, 2024 15:12
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I'm a sucker for Bioware's twee ladies and even I found Sera grating
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Mar 23, 2024 16:24
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Lord Cyrahzax posted:Sera is also kind of unpleasant as a willfully ignorant bigot. I guess that comes with the territory of leading the religious fanatic army though Tbf you can run a surprisingly irreligious inquisition. you can openly tell everyone your an atheist lol
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Mar 23, 2024 16:46
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Sera's my favourite person in Inquisition, I don't need to explain why as well.
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Mar 23, 2024 16:50
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Judge Tesla posted:Sera's my favourite person in Inquisition, I don't need to explain why as well.
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Mar 23, 2024 20:38
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Lord Cyrahzax posted:Sera is also kind of unpleasant as a willfully ignorant bigot. I guess that comes with the territory of leading the religious fanatic army though It's ironic that Solas hates her so much given his own blindspots and bigotry.
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Mar 23, 2024 22:49
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Sylphosaurus posted:Because you like terrible people with equally terrible haircuts? Partly I like how much she causes people to spit blood with rage over her mere existance, and secondly I like how she represents the little people, the servants, bakers and such, in a game that has a cast of nobles, Lords and heroes, it's nice to have someone who goes "This is all a bit stupid really isn't it" Sera is a comrade.
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Mar 24, 2024 09:59
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Didn't we already have that with Varric though?
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Mar 24, 2024 10:01
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She claims to represent the common people, but she's written in such a manner that it comes off as patronizing, and more as an insult to the little man from the writer. Anyway, I remember liking her party dynamic with Vivianne, every time they talked it was a competition in trashing each other steinrokkan fucked around with this message at 10:07 on Mar 24, 2024 |
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Mar 24, 2024 10:03
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Ginette Reno posted:Sera kinda grew on me after a while. She's always annoying but after a while she gets in your head or something. Or she did for me. Same. I think it's actually good that Sera fucks with people, and most of the people she fucks with suck and deserve it.
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Mar 24, 2024 10:26
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Knickers!!
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Judge Tesla posted:Sera is a comrade. Sera wants to have a playground where she can have fun shanking the occasional noble, but she doesn't give much of a poo poo about improving the lower class' lot. The only actual revolutionary in DA:I's cast is Leliana. 
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Mar 24, 2024 11:14
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sera's entire story feels like a backstory. we've established that she's probably got latent magic powers that she suppresses because of church dogma, and she has a rebellious streak but she doesn't really know what to do with it because she can't imagine a better world kinda feels like she's a mind-meld with solas away from becoming some kind of fanatical elven god-queen. shame that doesn't do poo poo for her "arc" in inquisition and I don't have any faith in the shambling corpse of bioware to make good on it
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Mar 24, 2024 11:49
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steinrokkan posted:She claims to represent the common people, Specifically, the common humans. City elves, the oppressed ethnic minority that's forced to live in segregated ghettos and the official doctrine of the church that Sera believes so fervently in is that elves don't have souls and thus are technically animals rather than people? gently caress em. Sera has no interest in change except for her personally. She is utterly dedicated to being One Of The Good Ones and gently caress everyone else.
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Mar 24, 2024 12:34
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Cythereal posted:Sera has no interest in change except for her personally. She is utterly dedicated to being One Of The Good Ones and gently caress everyone else. I don't really know what the pie throwing woman can do to change society, maybe throwing an egg at Empress Celene would get her to change her ways?
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Judge Tesla posted:I don't really know what the pie throwing woman can do to change society, maybe throwing an egg at Empress Celene would get her to change her ways? She doesn't even try, and indeed is enraged if you dare suggest that maybe elves are people too or maybe there are systemic and institutional problems instead of just a few bad apples. All Sera wants is for her personally to be unaffected by the lovely state of society.
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There's potentially some interesting topics to be explored through that Sera considers herself more of a human rather than an elf due to being raised in human society and rejects anything elvish, including her own innate magic ability. But it's Sera, so yeah that's not going anywhere.
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Doesn't she also have such severe tonal whiplash that it's impossible to tell whether she's a tortured prankster or a revolutionary or whatever? Vague memories of like breaking into Viscount McDuck's mansion to dye all his clothes red or something - oh no the guards have discovered our japery - loving kill them all lmao what a prank
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NikkolasKing posted:Can I just humbly recommend you stop Inquisition and go play Origins instead? Not only is it the infinitely superior game, DAI is built off of events in DAO and DA2. gently caress this, DAO plays like rear end, I'd have to be severely unemployed to play that one again. Watch a recap video or something. DAI is actually fun to play, has better characters, doesn't look like rear end and Trespasser DLC/epilogue is the peak of the series.
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Origins was never a looker even in its time but now is butt ugly, except many butts are also good looking but Dragon Age is not. I agree with the poster that said this series should probably be obliterated now that BG3 exists.
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DAO isn't even a victim of its technology aging its graphics, its poor looks are entirely self inflicted. Everything looks dour and filthy and miserable by design because their bright marketing gimmick at the time was "this is an edgy RPG that FUUUCKS, can you handle it?"
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I still maintain that DA2 has aged the best of the trilogy. Graphics are better than Origins, and it doesn't have Sera or Inquisiton's weak gambit system or the long sprawling open-world system that honestly was not very good. Friendship/rivalry system was also a good mechanic that meant you didn't have to agree with all your party members' bad decisions.
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steinrokkan posted:DAO isn't even a victim of its technology aging its graphics, its poor looks are entirely self inflicted. Everything looks dour and filthy and miserable by design because their bright marketing gimmick at the time was "this is an edgy RPG that FUUUCKS, can you handle it?" sounds like someone wasn't ready for the new poo poo
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It is definitely guilty of the mid-2000s bloom lighting zeitgeist. Shiny rocks! Shiny grass! Shiny trees!
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steinrokkan posted:DAO isn't even a victim of its technology aging its graphics, its poor looks are entirely self inflicted. Everything looks dour and filthy and miserable by design because their bright marketing gimmick at the time was "this is an edgy RPG that FUUUCKS, can you handle it?" Nefarious 2.0 posted:sounds like someone wasn't ready for the new poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka1G5cQkXrw never forget Epi Lepi posted:gently caress this, DAO plays like rear end, I'd have to be severely unemployed to play that one again. Watch a recap video or something. DAI is actually fun to play, has better characters, doesn't look like rear end and Trespasser DLC/epilogue is the peak of the series. This, pretty much.
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:sounds like someone wasn't ready for the new poo poo Which is funnier, this or using This is War in the ending credits?
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Honestly I think the Mage Tower alone singlehandedly dissuades me from replaying Origins again. There's more sloggy bits like the early Lothering stuff or like the entirety of Orzammar/Deep Roads, but it's really the Mage Tower.
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exquisite tea posted:I agree with the poster that said this series should probably be obliterated now that BG3 exists. Larian isn't making any more Baldur's Gate tho ApplesandOranges posted:Honestly I think the Mage Tower alone singlehandedly dissuades me from replaying Origins again. I've lost count of how many DAO playthroughs I've done but Skip the Fade has been installed for every single one of them but the very first lol
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Cross-Section posted:Larian isn't making any more Baldur's Gate tho Their other games are also better tactical fantasy rpgs than dragon age Personally the part I hate the most in DAO is the caves before the temple of Andraste. I don't know if they were actually as long and pointless as I remember them, or maybe if they just came at a point when my patience was wearing thin, but in each of my playthroughs they were the part I suffered through the most
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