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Post by Mister Buch on Sept 25, 2014 1:43:58 GMT 1
Sorry Glow, I can never tell. Your sarcasm trancends.... well me, anyway. A lot of things transcend me.
I think the weapons in Dragon Age use powerful magnets that correspond to the metals Thedas-ians have in their spines. This is why all weapons, including daggers, are mounted on the shoulders.
I am still looking for an explanation of all the belts though. I notice that most combatants wear an excess of belts. My Hawke has two on each arm, just..... wrapped around his arms.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Sept 25, 2014 3:18:42 GMT 1
I am still looking for an explanation of all the belts though. I notice that most combatants wear an excess of belts. My Hawke has two on each arm, just..... wrapped around his arms. It's because the only smith in Thedas more talented than Wade is Tetsuya Nomura.
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Post by Mister Buch on Sept 25, 2014 9:33:46 GMT 1
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Sept 25, 2014 12:02:47 GMT 1
I am still looking for an explanation of all the belts though. I notice that most combatants wear an excess of belts. My Hawke has two on each arm, just..... wrapped around his arms. It's because the only smith in Thedas more talented than Wade is Tetsuya Nomura. Not Rob Liefeld? I think he might have been responsible for the giant hands in DA:O.
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Post by Mister Buch on Sept 25, 2014 17:19:08 GMT 1
If Liefeld were involved then the belts would have knives in them. And everyone would look like either the Arishok or Dolly Parton.
There was a very cute sense of awkwardness about DA:O. All the hands were big, all the human women were tall and gangly, most of the haircuts looked slightly off, the moustaches looked like the guys had glued shoebrushes onto their face. Every rogue wore the same armour - which incidentally had a lot of belts on it - except Zevran who wore a gold-coloured version.
I've noticed that in Kirkwall everyone is wearing hoods. Background NPCs, thug gangs and mercenaries, priests, everyone. I guess it's to save space by giving them identical heads or something, but in my head they're all thinking about robbing my phone. xD
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Sept 25, 2014 18:24:47 GMT 1
Or they belong to the Assassin Order?
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Post by Mister Buch on Sept 26, 2014 15:50:53 GMT 1
THE ADVENTURES OF FENRIS
HAWKE - Do you think Danaerius might not come for you after all this time? FENRIS - I do not know. I have no memory of my past life. HAWKE - Wait, what? FENRIS - The last thing I remember is the lyrium being forced into my skin. And the pain of it. There is nothing before that. Not even my real name. HAWKE - Wait. In three years of us living next to each other and fighting dragons, you never mentioned this? FENRIS - Denaerius called me Fenris, his 'little wolf'. What? What's funny? HAWKE - And this is painful, memory-erasing lyrium implanting is where you got your uncontrolled rage and that cool thing you do with your hands, right? FENRIS - This is not a subject for-- HAWKE - Now Fenris. Seriously. Think carefully before you answer this. Is that your backstory, or were you watching an X-Men film last night? FENRIS - The mansion has Netflix, I don't know, I was drinking. HAWKE - 'Little wolf' and everything, fuck me... FENRIS - We should move on. HAWKE - Jesus Christ.
(DISCLAIMER - some of this conversation was actually not made up by me and is in the game.)
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Sept 26, 2014 16:36:05 GMT 1
The only thing missing is a healing factor yo.
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Post by Mister Buch on Sept 26, 2014 21:30:02 GMT 1
I feel quite restricted by this friendship / rivalry bar. It encourages you to needlessly flatter or yell at your party-members. Why would I want to play a character who has such extreme attitudes in such a morally ambiguous world? My character isn't engaging in the debates, he's just playing a points game -- "You're both right and this is indeed a dilemma... but I agree with Aveline because I'm at, like, 90%. *kills someone*" Also it makes me take certain people on certain quests. I'll never know what Isabela thinks about mages' rights because those quests are The Anders and Fenris show. It's a two-fer.
The 'make everyone like you by disagreeing as little as possible and giving them cakes' system in Origins wasn't any better (but at least you could cheat it), but really, what was the point of either of them? What's the goal here?
If I could just 'be myself' here rather than just opposing / agreeing with everyone regardless of what they say, then Hawke's approval meter would end up about average for everyone except Varric. "Fenris you're short-sighted but smart, Anders you're admirable and brave but you have a demon in you and you're going to get possessed, seriously see a doctor, Merrill you're adorable but grow up and throw the damn mirror away, and Isabela you're cool but cowardly. All right? Now how do you all like me?! About average? Well now you know how I feel!" I feel like I'm forced into manipulating people, and there's no reason I should - I'm not their leader. I'm not the Warden, hardening Alistair to make him free the elves, I'm just balancing the popularity wheels so my romantic interest will sleep with me and everyone will get a stat bonus. It's like playing that awful 'persuasion' minigame from Oblivion, ALL THE TIME.
Why make characters so full of contradictions if the player is meant to 100% agree / disagree with them? I just can't fathom what they were trying to achieve by this except 'something new and fiddly - therefore good'.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Sept 26, 2014 22:20:11 GMT 1
I think this is why everyon loves Varric so damn much. He is always your wingman. In fact I think Hawke and Varric just get swooped up into all this Mage-Templar buisiness which disturbs their shenanigans. Also who would want to rival Varric? He is the bestest guy! Sarky, has a cool crossbow, he's a cool Gimli guy, voiced by Brian Bloom.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Sept 26, 2014 23:10:48 GMT 1
Apparently, Inquisition doesn't have the influence bar. Good for them if it doesn't.
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Post by Mister Buch on Sept 27, 2014 0:23:56 GMT 1
That's excellent news. I hope that's right.
All right, this is my favourite installment yet:
^^^^^^THE ADVENTURES OF SIRRAH HAWKE^^^^^^
*Hawke stands in front of his window with the curtains open.*
*Click*
Hawke: "I should buy some curtains."
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Post by Mister Buch on Sept 27, 2014 0:28:55 GMT 1
I think this is why everyon loves Varric so damn much. He is always your wingman. In fact I think Hawke and Varric just get swooped up into all this Mage-Templar buisiness which disturbs their shenanigans. Also who would want to rival Varric? He is the bestest guy! Sarky, has a cool crossbow, he's a cool Gimli guy, voiced by Brian Bloom. Or it might be.....
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Post by Clint Johnston on Sept 27, 2014 1:50:18 GMT 1
Buch, you linked back to this page...
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Post by Mister Buch on Sept 27, 2014 11:43:11 GMT 1
Oh! That's a new one on me. xD Fixed.
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