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Post by jklinders on Aug 20, 2012 21:49:50 GMT 1
Actually I think his writer was changed. I have more than a few complaints about the game which I pretty much endlessly ranted on in the BSN. My rant is linked somewhere here. But it was still a halfway decent game. Needed a lot less padding and fetch quests and a bit more player input into the story which really only gives an illusion of player choice.
I really enjoyed playing a rogue. I also enjoyed the irony of being an openly non circle affiliated mage that no one including the supposedly hyper vigilant Templars could be bothered to accost.
I contend that the snarky dialog as delivered by the male actor for Hawke was delivered with just the right tone to pull it off. The non facepalming facepalms he got as a result were hilarious. Sadly it could not sustain me through the third act.
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Post by Aerecura on Aug 21, 2012 21:35:00 GMT 1
I really enjoyed playing a rogue. I also enjoyed the irony of being an openly non circle affiliated mage that no one including the supposedly hyper vigilant Templars could be bothered to accost. I contend that the snarky dialog as delivered by the male actor for Hawke was delivered with just the right tone to pull it off. The non facepalming facepalms he got as a result were hilarious. Sadly it could not sustain me through the third act. It actually bothered me so much that my Hawke could waltz around Kirkwall without so much as a warning that I modded it so that she never had her staff out except when fighting. Makes it a little more realistic, but still...she can firebomb a mass of thugs into oblivion and no one even blinks? Also, the female actress does a lovely job of the snarky dialogue too. The sarcastic dialogue options are the best ;D And a new favorite quote: "I like big boats and I cannot lie." (Isabela, of course)
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Post by Aerecura on Sept 4, 2012 15:22:07 GMT 1
Sorry for the double-post, but I felt compelled to share this one...
Hawke: When you tell people about our escape from Lothering, why do you make it seem like I have food all over my face? Varric: You're larger than life, Hawke. I had to give you a few flaws just to make you approachable. Hawke: Did you call me fat? Varric: Yes, that's pretty much how I tell it. "Hawke rolled into the fray like a gigantic pudding, covered in gravy." It's more dramatic that way.
God bless Varric, his wit, and his abundant chest hair (which, now that I've gotten a new laptop and can play with higher resolutions, I can see in extremely fine detail. Thanks, Bioware).
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Post by jklinders on Sept 4, 2012 16:34:07 GMT 1
Hawke has a few golden ones too.
If you use the mercenaries to smuggle you into Kirkwall and take the snark dialogue there is one encounter with a quest giver that had me giggling for hours.
It was the magistrate that was trying to get his son out of a fix and he tells Hawke that he needs one of his "special talents"
Magistrate- I need someone with your special talents. Hawke- I assume by that you don't mean my ability to juggle small rodents while humming Orlesian ballads? Magistrate- *blinking hard* I mean your ability as a mercenary, not...whatever it is you just described...
Both voice actors delivered these lines perfectly and I was giggling a bit even as I typed it out.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Sept 5, 2012 12:05:25 GMT 1
I always found MaleHawke more interesting to listen to then FemHawke. I dont know, for an person who worked as an farmer i think FemHawke sounds to posh.
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Post by Mister Buch on Sept 5, 2012 12:46:06 GMT 1
I agree with that - Male Hawke sounded much better than Lady Hawke. She sounded like aristocracy, which the character was, but not like a Lothering peasant, which she also was. And overall, I think the guy's acting was just way better.
I never found either Hawke very funny though. I think their deliver was off and their lines were really forced. I must be the only one -- but I really cringed at the juggling kittens line. I thought it was awful.
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Post by Clint Johnston on Sept 5, 2012 13:29:22 GMT 1
Wait... Buch found a flaw in Dragonage 2!!!!!!
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Sept 5, 2012 13:39:04 GMT 1
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww shiiiiiiiiit!
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Post by Mister Buch on Sept 5, 2012 13:49:45 GMT 1
I'm contaning my rage.
I've never universally praised Dragon Age 2. I never said it was even as good as Bioware's other efforts. I never even finished a second playthrough. I could (and have) write theses on how far short that game fell.
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Mass Effect 3 is the one I loved almost completely. If you want to make out like Mass Effect 3 contained even one poor character (okay two - Kai Leng) or performance I will eat your face. Dragon Age 2 is the one I thought was just okay - a crushing waste of several great concepts and a good start.
There are plenty of story-based games I actively dislike. And my optimism isn't limited to Bioware either -- I thought Origins was flawed, DA2 was very flawed. Come to think of it, Mass Effect 2 disappointed me a great deal and required large amounts of DLC, imagination and the sequel to fix it. 'Awakening' was crap, 'Overlord' was insultingly crap. 'The Darkspawn Chronicles' and 'Pinaccle Station' were crap beyond measure.
I'm not containing my rage at all.
Im not a BioWare apologist, and I try to make my opinions as objective as possible, without agenda. DA 2 started well but not brilliantly, tried a lot of new things which I really appreciate, had some good characters and dialogue, but failed so utterly in the third act that it was all but ruined. 6 out of 10.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Sept 5, 2012 13:53:50 GMT 1
I must be the only one -- but I really cringed at the juggling kittens line. I thought it was awful. If it was a negative reaction towards Dragon Age 2, I can assure you, you weren't the only one on this site who felt that way about it.
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Post by Mister Buch on Sept 5, 2012 14:07:46 GMT 1
If it was a negative reaction towards Dragon Age 2, I can assure you, you weren't the only one on this site who felt that way about it. Did you not like it, Glow? I wish you'd said something at the time.
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Post by jklinders on Sept 5, 2012 14:09:46 GMT 1
If it was a negative reaction towards Dragon Age 2, I can assure you, you weren't the only one on this site who felt that way about it. Did you not like it, Glow? I wish you'd said something at the time. The dislike was very subtle. I'm not surprised you didn't notice Buch.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Sept 5, 2012 14:44:24 GMT 1
Im recently playing it again for an cannon storyline for DA3. Im doing so in parts as to save my sanity. TBH I can see why this game is alright, it reminds me somewhat of The Legend of Korra now...except Kirkwall looks crappy while Republic City looks dope as all hell.
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Post by Cali on Sept 20, 2012 6:37:39 GMT 1
Addict: (Muffled) "Hey pig! I know you're down here!" Thomas: "Federal Agent! Come out peacefully or I will have to use force!" Addict: (Muffled) "Fuck you!"
- Condemned: Criminal Origins (2005)
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Post by Tillian Panthesis on Sept 27, 2012 9:08:26 GMT 1
That whole endgame speech in Planescape Torment, the one that answers that troubling question "What can change the nature of man?"
Avert your eyes if you don't want to spoiled by this speech.
Nameless One: What can change the nature of a man?
The Transcendent One: I have seen you live a countless lives, Broken One, I have lived your endless quests that accomplish nothing except spread your torment though the multiverse. Then, this is my answer and you are my proof: Nothing can change the nature of a man.
Nameless One: You are wrong. If there is anything I have learned in my travels across the Planes, it is that many things may change the nature of a man. Whether regret, or love, or revenge or fear - whatever you believe can change the nature of a man, can. I've seen belief move cities, make men stave off death, and turn an evil hag's heart half-circle. This entire Fortress has been constructed from belief. Belief damned a woman, whose heart clung to the hope that another loved her when he did not. Once, it made a man seek immortality and achieve it. And it has made a posturing spirit think it is something more than a part of me.
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