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Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue

A thread for the discussion of games: board, LARP, MMORPG, video, tabletop RPG, game theory etc. etc. and all attendant news, developments and ancillary subjects thereof, as well as coordinating/scheduling games either online or IRL. All are welcome to chime in, talk about their favorite games or learn about gaming of any sort.

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billytea - Jan 13, 2015 1:25:16 pm PST #24019 of 26133

You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Yeah. Take all the time you need.

Laga - Jan 14, 2015 9:20:21 am PST #24020 of 26133

You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

yes to pausing.

Kalshane - Jan 17, 2015 3:31:38 pm PST #24021 of 26133

GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

Finally finished Dragon Age: Inquisition today. Total playtime: 165 hours. Finished pretty much every side quest (though I apparently missed a few companion quests because they're bugged), killed every dragon (but didn't get the achievement, because again, bugged) and thoroughly explored every zone. Enjoyed it a lot, despite the bugs. Will definitely give it another, less completionist play-through after they release some more patches so I can make different choices.

I played a Dalish elf mage, and I felt like, other than one or two situations, that they did a good job of having my race and class make a difference in how people treated my character. I'll probably play a human warrior next time through who actually follows Andraste and the Maker to get a different perspective.

Kiba Rika - Jan 19, 2015 11:59:31 am PST #24022 of 26133

I may have to seize the cat.

I'm playing Inquisition right now as a dwarf warrior - race/class definitely makes a difference. I'm so impressed by the expansiveness of this world.

amych - Jan 19, 2015 3:09:56 pm PST #24023 of 26133

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Qunari rogue, and I strongly suspect we've all had very different games.

Kalshane - Jan 20, 2015 4:50:10 am PST #24024 of 26133

I'm tempted to do a Qunari run at some point. That would definitely be a different perspective. I am curious about a dwarf run, since the two dwarven origins in DA:O were so well done (I've played through all the origins in DA:O but stopped after reaching Ostagar with all except my elf mage and human rogue, whom I completed the game with.)

Right now I'm replaying DA2 and enjoying having a different perspective on certain events and dialogue after finishing DA:I.

Kiba Rika - Jan 20, 2015 5:12:16 am PST #24025 of 26133

I may have to seize the cat.

Right now I'm replaying DA2 and enjoying having a different perspective on certain events and dialogue after finishing DA:I.

I never played the first couple - tried the first one and didn't get into it, just skipped the second one. But I had fun going to the Dragon Age Keep website and making all the choices from the first two games.

Kalshane - Jan 20, 2015 7:39:53 am PST #24026 of 26133

What character did you try to play in DA:O, Kiba? I know some people initially didn't care for it until they tried a different origin and/or class.

I liked all of them, though I felt like the Dalish elf was the weakest and had the least tie-ins to the plot. (Which is funny, as the default Warden if you don't use The Keep is a Dalish warrior.)

Both Dwarf origins gave a very different perspective once you get to Orzammar. The human origin gave you a very personal stake in the story and the mage origin gives you a lot of information about the setting as a whole. The city elf ties into a later plot and being an elf in general makes a difference in how people treat you. The Dalish, unfortunately never encounters anyone or anything from their origin. (Though a plot point from it does come up in the later two games.)

Kiba Rika - Jan 20, 2015 6:03:29 pm PST #24027 of 26133

I may have to seize the cat.

It was so long ago and I played so briefly, I can't recall.

amych - Jan 24, 2015 5:39:23 pm PST #24028 of 26133

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Finished DA:I, and now I'm feeling slightly mournful about being done, in that way where you know you can go back into the world and do random side missions and close more rifts or whatever but you know you never actually do.

And then, because I'm a basically decent person, I handed over the controller for S. to take his turn for the first time this weekend, and he's almost up to the final sequence in the main story, but has done a slightly different set of side quests in a different order, and as a result he has a giant stack of friendship quests left. And I suddenly found myself incredibly jealous -- I'm completely in it for story and exploration, don't give a rip about badges, would happily play on a difficulty level so easy there were no fights at all (except for the fact that they make Iron Bull so incredibly gleeful, and who would want to miss out on that)... and I fucking miss these characters and want to spend all that time focusing on them again.

(And yes, I can and will replay. But I will still miss the relationships I made with these characters in this go-round, with this character.)

(Also, my dwarf noble from my first DA:O playthrough was totally the great love of Leliana's life. Just saying.)

I'm such a sucker for Bioware's schtick. That is all. A prepaying and lining up at midnight on release night sucker.

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