Post by Knightfall on Jan 6, 2010 12:07:30 GMT 1
So, I came away with a rather nice impression of Dragon Age: Origins in the end, after very nearly breaking the disc in half during the midsection of the game. To keep that lore in my head, I downloaded Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne onto my Kindle. So far, it's pretty good.
Everything happens kind of quickly. It follows a teen-aged King Maric and Loghain as they...I dunno, they're traveling around a lot. Maric becomes king just as the book opens when his mother is killed by Orlesians. He runs into Loghain during his flight and they have to help each other out from there.
It's actually kind of surreal so far, because this takes place only within a couple of decades of Dragon Age: Origins, so characters pop up, whose fate you eventually hold in your hand. It sorta brought me closer to the story, since I was sitting there pointing at the page going, "Oh, you're gonna get it soon. I'ma be the one to kill you."
Only a quarter of the way through the book. It's written by the lead writer of Dragon Age: Origins. He's definitely a better storyteller than Drew Karpyshyn when it comes to prose, since he doesn't beat you over the head with useless detail until you're thoroughly concussed. It's funny, dark, witty, and clips along at a nice pace: just what I like in a novel.
Though, he tries to adapt a tone of dignity throughout the story, almost Tolkien-esque, only he doesn't seem to have the skill to hold it for entire chapters, so you'll get odd words or phrases that sorta break up the images. Other than that, it has more than kept my interest so far.
Everything happens kind of quickly. It follows a teen-aged King Maric and Loghain as they...I dunno, they're traveling around a lot. Maric becomes king just as the book opens when his mother is killed by Orlesians. He runs into Loghain during his flight and they have to help each other out from there.
It's actually kind of surreal so far, because this takes place only within a couple of decades of Dragon Age: Origins, so characters pop up, whose fate you eventually hold in your hand. It sorta brought me closer to the story, since I was sitting there pointing at the page going, "Oh, you're gonna get it soon. I'ma be the one to kill you."
Only a quarter of the way through the book. It's written by the lead writer of Dragon Age: Origins. He's definitely a better storyteller than Drew Karpyshyn when it comes to prose, since he doesn't beat you over the head with useless detail until you're thoroughly concussed. It's funny, dark, witty, and clips along at a nice pace: just what I like in a novel.
Though, he tries to adapt a tone of dignity throughout the story, almost Tolkien-esque, only he doesn't seem to have the skill to hold it for entire chapters, so you'll get odd words or phrases that sorta break up the images. Other than that, it has more than kept my interest so far.