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Post by Mister Buch on Apr 12, 2012 20:20:26 GMT 1
Oy vey.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Apr 12, 2012 20:37:34 GMT 1
... Still better than the Mass Effect 3 ending. Especially "Oedipius Rex". Funnily enough, I would rather kill my father, sleep with my mother and blind myself than play through the ending (or another Dragon Age game) again. Dude....very Freud-esque of you there.
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Post by jklinders on Apr 12, 2012 21:11:56 GMT 1
Funnily enough, I would rather kill my father, sleep with my mother and blind myself than play through the ending (or another Dragon Age game) again. Dude....very Freud-esque of you there. More like Oedipus. Only about a 3000 year difference there.
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Post by Mister Buch on Apr 12, 2012 21:18:03 GMT 1
It's both - Freud's 'Oedipus complex' is named in reference to the play. You're both right. In any case it reminds me of a comment on the 'RiffTrax' for The Matrix 3: "I'm reminded of Socrates by this scene... in that I want to drink hemlock and die."
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Post by jklinders on Apr 12, 2012 21:46:24 GMT 1
Ah yes, but I was distracted by the whole self blinding thing which I am reasonably sure was not referenced by Freud.
Not really a fan of the creepy old bugger anyway. Someone as sexually repressed as he was should have spent time learning about his own responses before obsessing over how the opposite sex gets off. The damage he may have done to women's sexual health with his whole immature vs mature orgasm malarkey has likely still not been fully realized.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Apr 12, 2012 22:04:46 GMT 1
Well it;s a good thing Jung detached himself from that guy. Both end up shagging most of their female patients though....oh yes...
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Post by Mr. Glow on Apr 16, 2012 7:31:13 GMT 1
That said, an RPG where the majority of the characters have French accents, you spend a lot of time in a decadent royal court and your character is some sort of foppish noble(wo)man with a powdery face and ridiculous wig could actually be sort of fun. It'd be the exact opposite of Skyrim's rugged, rustic roughness.
BioWare'd probably mess it up by including that Templar/Mage war storyline, though, which I do not care for at all.
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Post by Mister Buch on Apr 16, 2012 12:37:05 GMT 1
I liked the Templar/Mage thing a lot.... when it was a brief part of Fereleden's complex makeup. I felt like we'd already explored it enough in DA:O, so I got bored of it pretty quickly in the sequel.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Apr 18, 2012 19:55:55 GMT 1
I wouldnt mind a war between Ferelden and Orlais...could give it a Witcher 2 spin.
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Post by Cali on Apr 19, 2012 3:05:02 GMT 1
I wouldnt mind a war between Ferelden and Orlais...could give it a Witcher 2 spin. To be honest, I liked the Templar vs Mage conflict as well as The Witcher 2's kingdom vs kingdom intrigue. But I'd like to see more civilized good vs demonic bad. In the immortal words of John from Repercussions of Evil: "No! I must fight the demons!" Yeah, I wanna fight the demons/darkspawn/hellbeasts this time around. And yes, maybe it would be a good twist if I "was the demons".
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Apr 19, 2012 10:13:05 GMT 1
And then you became a zombie.
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Post by Cali on Apr 19, 2012 21:05:28 GMT 1
Dern straight.
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Post by Knightfall on Apr 20, 2012 7:54:00 GMT 1
I liked the Templar/Mage thing a lot.... when it was a brief part of Fereleden's complex makeup. I felt like we'd already explored it enough in DA:O, so I got bored of it pretty quickly in the sequel. Agreed, there. It's cool when there are compelling little events like this going on within a story that's a bit broader. But it's like they took a magnifying glass to one specific part of the world and blew it out of proportion. Still, Mage/Templar civil war is pretty dang compelling, but it just wasn't pulled off very well in the game. They got off on the right foot by painting both sides as neither good nor evil, so it made the little decisions more tough. But, I mean, you spare a bunch of blood mages to give them a second chance, and they end up coming back to kill you, anyway. That happened every single time, more or less. And even the whole thing about choosing sides was silly to begin with. It negates everything you did beforehand. I actually helped the mages primarily and ended up culling them at the endgame. It was weird. At least BioWare stepped it up to three options in time for ME3. =D
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Apr 20, 2012 9:21:39 GMT 1
DAYUM, sick burn!
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Post by Tillian Panthesis on Apr 20, 2012 10:42:17 GMT 1
I see what you did there, Knight.
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