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Telling carradin to atone for his sins by leading the dwarves to a new prosperity instead of tossing himself in the lava would have been great. Especially since that would mean shanking bhelen and making harrowmont sad.
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Bogus Adventure posted:She also ignores how the Dalish manage to avoid having abominations running around willy-nilly. Looks at witherfang
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alex314 posted:There should definitely be a romance option that gets shut down the moment PC gets promoted into position of seniority with their romance target. Like that Yeoman Chambers romance in ME2.. This highlights my point that bioware romances, which tend to be pretty creepy and/or rapey are not exactly a hill you want to die on for being included in things.
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Mar 27, 2019 18:25
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Cythereal posted:Queer women are also only acceptable to that strain as long as they're not actually lesbian, and it's portrayed in such a way as to please straight men. Ah, the pussy galore principle.
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DoctorGonzo posted:yeah witcher 3 sold like crap...wait Witcher 3 did well, bit it has nothing on fifa when comparing its income to its cost to make.
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Apr 3, 2019 14:05
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Honestly, guns need skill points is a decision that didnt bug me, but holy crud did giving minigames the same treatment annoy the hell out of me.
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May 6, 2019 00:51
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Yeah, but it's still a gatekeeping stat like persuade. Theres a ton of optional areas/loot/options locked behind those games so I'm pretty much forced to go down that tree to do the entire level because the minigames go bonkers without it later on. It's like how there's no reason not to have persuade skilled up in darn near every game that has it because quests and stuff is behind it. If its functionally mandatory outside of challenge runs and extreme roleplaying runs why bother including it at all?
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May 6, 2019 02:22
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Cythereal posted:Also, Bioware's first gay character and same-sex romance for a PC even if they had to axe almost all of it and drat near lost the character thanks to LucasArts. Huh?
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Yeah, the bit with your dysfunctional party falling apart at the seems and betraying itself all over was really cool. And then it falls flat on its face.
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May 20, 2019 02:43
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In theory yes, but unless you're gaming the system you'll likely fail the relationship check on more of the party given how often getting points with someone causes you to lose them with someone else. Or in the case of the gnome there being a tiny number of them in places you wouldn't think of bringing him without a guide.
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May 20, 2019 10:37
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I play it in 4k fine.  It does hilarious things to the skill bar if you make it too long though. I'd recommend the mod that gives sten a second specialty point so he doesn't suck. And I like to remove the game auto leveling your party because it's really bad at it. Which does have the side effect of making the game a lot easier.
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May 24, 2019 10:43
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I mean, the big reason to leave them be would be that ea has so much money that almost nothing is stopping them from making as many microtransaction games as they want. So there's pretty much no opportunity cost to diversifying their interests and snapping up a handful of independent developers that do something other than microtransactions. It protects the company so that if "games as a service" ever crashes it still has options for weathering the storm while they find something new
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Are you implying that there aren't any elves to be seen right now? Hang on, I can fix this. Gonna go get another bioware dev to quit and have ea announce they're rebooting the project again. E:Wait, how do you grind in kotor or dragon age 1? The level cap is tiny and everything scales to your level. FoolyCharged fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Sep 10, 2019 |
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Sep 10, 2019 20:34
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chaosapiant posted:You can hit max level on one play through if you kill threshermaws on foot. Just get them down with the Mako and then snipe them. poo poo tons of XP. Nope. Max level is locked behind new game+ by the achievement system.
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Vichan posted:I loved the friendship/rivalry system because it allowed you to disagree with your companions' respective philosophies while still befriending them in a sense. My favorite thing about dragon age as a series is that it wants really badly to tell a tale of the poor oppressed mages, but then repeatedly shows them as absolutely needing the treatment they get. I remember running a counter fir a while in the recently finished sslp of origins on how many major plot segments had the problem be caused by a mage and it was hilariously lopsided.
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Ginette Reno posted:It's a complicated issue because on the one hand there are examples of societies living without Templars and doing fine. Tevinter is one example, but also the Ancient Elves and Avvar both live with and embrace spirits and they do fine and aren't overrun by demonic influences. It's kind of telling that your defense of mages is that some are just plain Jane abominations enslaving the weak, portraying themselves as gods, and ruling with with a cruel, iron fist instead of being abominations(tm) with demons.
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PetraCore posted:Okay, here's the thing with Tevinter - it's always pointed to in-universe as 'this is what free mages would be like', but that's bullshit. Tevinter existed long before the Chantry and Andraste as a conquering mageocracy. The Chantry briefly upended that social structure, then it reasserted itself, with the recent descendants of magically-inclined nobility once again taking the reigns as soon as they found a bullshit justification for why it was totally in line with their own personal Chantry doctrine. Well yeah, most everyone else is also evil(woo! Grimderp!), but the point is that it is a LOT harder to find the good mages than good non mages. The only real groups that aren't shown where mages run amuck on the regular are splinter side groups the games dont really explore. Like to go back to my original point in origins: Jowan breaks every rule ever, including blood magic, BEFORE he finds out that they want to tranquil him for some reason. And then in the mage tower it turns out it wasn't just Jowan doing blood magic, but half the freaking tower: who also go full abomination. Jowan then poisons eamon because the only friend a crazy blood mage has is the crazy despot. Meanwhile Conner the abomination is on the verge of destroying the town, and will do so without intervention. On the dalish side of things, the local mage elder has out of vengeance cursed innocent men to a werewolf curse which threatens to destroy his entire clan Flemeth is an eldrich horror. And her daughter is little better, just much weaker. The tevinter mages you meet are currently enslaving people because it's tevinter's national sport. The warden mage in the DLC keep is a blood mage that summoned demons currently running amuck all over the keep. And so on. Meanwhile your examples of good mages are: Irving Wynn The rare mage PC that isnt running around mind controlling people and spewing blood And that's it? I really cant think of any other positive mages. E: I guess the Danish intro also has merril before she goes off the deep end?
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chaosapiant posted:I have literally never heard anyone disparage BG2. Even when it came out it won RPG of the year in PC Gamer (beating Diablo 2) and everyone agreed it was an instant classic. I never got to it because I could never get more than an hour or two into BG1. Therefore it must be a bad game because the plot set up is so bad I never actually booted it. Of course I also think diablo 2 was bad, so...
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Well, considering I just did that...
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Oh dear me posted:The groups I listed - ie most of Dragon Age society - are also constantly vulnerable to armed monitors and bodily and lethal punishments if they get too sassy, they just have to work or starve, as well. I mean, origins has two to three peasant revolts depending on your origin. The alienage origin and throwing the tevinter slavers out are both peasant revolts and you get one from the other side in awakening. NikkolasKing posted:Anders is a fantastic character because people liked to pretend that Awakening Anders and DA2 Anders are totally different when in reality DA2 Anders is a very logical development. Awakening Anders was full of resentment at the injustice he and other Mages suffered, too. He hated the Templars. But he was too much of a selfish coward to do anything a bout it. In the recent lp that finished I finally noticed just how many sinister undertones they gave Anders in awakening. Take for instance the first time you meet him. He's sitting alone in a room with his guards dead and the only defense you ever get from him or anyone else is "uhhh this isnt what it looks like." Sure, theres a dark spawn invasion going on and it's possible that they did, in fact, kill the templars with Anders as the lucky survivor, but the game very much leaves it open that he murdered them or stood back and watched them die. He's like moridin, people ignore a lot of his bad poo poo because he makes them laugh and has a kitty. FoolyCharged fucked around with this message at 11:10 on Oct 31, 2019 |
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Oh dear me posted:Those victims are city elves, who the game does acknowledge are oppressed, but the game places all the emphasis on their species, not the feudal system. The human servants in the game are not portrayed as victims, and actual peasants are essentially invisible. Fair point. The revolt in awakening does get into that, but it also has the optimal solution of murdering the nobles inciting it(Because the peasants can't be angry in the midst of an orc invasion on their own?) and talking the crowd out of it so it never reaches an actual revolt for most players.
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It is kind of hard to figure out which one sucks the most with how much face sucking is in the newer ones
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I mean, if you personally kill the archdemon loghain gets confused about how he thought that bringing him along for that was the entire point. You don't know the person who strikes the killing blow will die at that point, but the odds of him dying in the battle are pretty high. Alistair has a much simpler reason to oppose it. He doesn't want the man who killed his dad, branded him and outlaw, and tried to murder both himself and his surrogate father repeatedly to have any shred of redemption.
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Glenn Quebec posted:But they never bothered to account for it? I think Bioware's rapid decline could have been slowed quite steadily if the marketing guys and execs understood that and knew it was ok. Trying to turn everything into a bunch of choices that carry over and have weight across 300 hours of gameplay was just a terrible idea. And then they kept trying to do it.
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Glenn Quebec posted:Oh yeah it was marketings fault that they couldn't pull through on their cool as heck concept they did with their other game, Mass Effect. You mean the games that got routinely criticized for undermining your choices in previous games? (i.e the rachni in ME3, Perpetually angry Conrad in 2, all the people who died getting replaced with stand ins that oftentimes change little more than a snippet of dialogue, and so on) It was marketing fluff in Mass Effect and it was blindingly obvious marketing fluff responding to ME with Dragon Age
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The best thing about dao's graphics these days is setting the resolution to 4k and watching the quick bar trip over itself in confusion. Of course the text doesn't scale for 4k so you need a mod for the game to be playable.
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Everyone describing DAOs combat as sluggish confuses me, because outside of boss mobs the game is rocket tag, even on nightmare. Especially when mages on either side are involved.
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Lord Cyrahzax posted:If Tranquilizing everyone at birth or executing every kid that shows signs of magic appeals to you, that’s the “source” In DAO the dalish zone is entirely caused by a mage turned abomination. In DA2 you get a blood mage let loose by her dalish clan as a party member. Plus theres the whole remnants of a society ruled by mages presenting as gods thing. They're... not exactly the poster child for mages should be free.
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CottonWolf posted:Male dwarf noble. I think that gives the most interesting start. Yeah, but gorim is so broken everyone picks that for physical characters. Go for a dual wielding warrior dwarf commoner.
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Actually, I've changed my mind. You know what you should do class wise? Be an archer warrior. Nobody's ever run that one.
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NikkolasKing posted:I don't think Cailan was pretending. He was a sheltered prince but he doesn't seem to have been a bad person given he was the one and only person supporting the Grey Wardens without having to be compelled to. I think he even mentions being kept away from them and sounds absolutely sincere in his desire to know how things are going. It's also funny to watch Duncan awkwardly tell him the alienage is a shithole, we'll talk about it after the battle.
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SyntheticPolygon posted:Does it? One of her early conversations is about how she used girl appeal to lure templars to
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If memory serves theres a mod manager on nexus to install most of them. Was it me2 that had the comical hijacking of the DLC installer to make the game install them for you?
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Dao ultimate is still on steam.
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I cant speak for the sequels, but in origins 2-handed warriors get a ludicrously slow attack rate. Having a haymaker class is fine, but the speed was so slow enemies died before it could connect and they didnt smash big targets near hard enough to compensate. E: I remember watching the inquisition OP and all the big fights were just the PC flying all over for forever because nothing did any damage to the point of comedy. I couldn't actually imagine playing that repetitive mashing against hp sacks FoolyCharged fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Mar 22, 2020 |
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Ainsley McTree posted:It’s a silly line friend, no need to fight Like hell we don't! *Walks up and then aggressively crabwalks into place to make the animation work*
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ilitarist posted:You need something like reapers for ME2 to work. The reapers literally have gently caress all to do with me2 for 99% of the game and it was better for it.
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Dont forget about the inability to withdraw consent even if they initially had it either.
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Admiral Ray posted:The Qun loving SUCKS but they are right about mages and the Fade, gently caress magic. drat straight. I remember in the DAO lp that ran here I had a running counter of the number of major plot events caused by mages vs total major plot events. It did not paint a pretty picture. It's really funny how much bioware wanted you to side with the poor, oppressed mages when the actual game events suggest the opposite.
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Skippy McPants posted:People who complain that Anders is different weren't paying attention in Awakening. His world view back then was just as warped and myopic. The only thing Justice did was give Anders the drive to intact his terrible ideas. Ok, but.. he had a kitty!
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