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I'll do it for you Bruce

I'm having trouble recalling the romance options in IWD and IWD2... Well it depends on how you roleplayed your party. Mine had seven orgies before they even got to Kuldahar.

Yep. No need to go all ad-hom and make it personal.

I'm too afraid to look this up... What is that? It is a dating website. Nothing freaky, I used it myself a bit back when I was single. I guess the implication is that promancers are all single, pining to be in a relationship. I can neither confirm nor deny this accusation.

Playing through the Dragon Age saga. Played DA:O again, still like it. Played Awakenings and the DLC mostly for the first time. Slightly more cheesey. I did enjoy the horror B-movie thing Golems of Amgarrak had going on. Now playing DA2. You guys had given me really low expectations but eh it's alright. Kind of like Mass Effect 2 in Dragon Age.

This makes no sense. First Lyrium is a magical substance that gives you access to the spirit world. It is hardly HNO3 or whatever. Secondly in DA:O it was just a skill Alistair could teach anybody, like one might teach any combat skill. So I am not sure what the basis of that assumption was. You did not get any scene of Alistair teaching you intense meditation or anything.

Since the original games were such a big thing to my childhood might as well get those novellas. The $40.00 tier for me.

Yes yes I semantically was off there. But you know what I mean. It is not like people today, or even people in the 1990s, are clamoring to go back to the world of The Bard's Tale. But, you know, hey maybe it will be cool.

Yes they were. But back then it was just expected that games were super hard. Each dungeon level was a major project to conquer.

Bard's Tale 2 was my first CRPG ever. I remember when I got it for my birthday in 1987. I felt like I was holding the Holy Grail. I remember that dark night in 1989 when I won the third game and my party I created back in 1987 became literal gods. That was beautiful man. But that style of game is so archaic and the plots so non-existant I am not sure why one would remake it. But it is InXile, one of the keepers of the CRPG flame, so I will back it.

Um the ashes of the prophet literally does heal the sick and you get to talk to people who knew Andraste personally. The only lame reason the non-believers have to counter this is there is alot of Lyrium in the area. I don't care how much lyrium is around if the scull of St. Peter could actually miraculously heal the sick and I could talk to Pontius Pilate and he was all 'yep I talked to Jesus, it's all true'. Well let's just say most of us would run not walk to the Cathdral to become Catholics. The actual Catholics amongst us might even start practicing. Fade and Demons = SCIENCE!

Well to be fair it sure looks like the Darkspawn are a punishment for the hubris of the Tevinter Imperium. If I actually lived in that world I would find that pretty convincing. But yeah I agree with your take on Qistana's interpretation. You really have to twist and stretch things to come to her conclusions.

I don't think DA is even saying religion causes more harm than good. It is left ambiguous. Everytime it looks like the Chantry has been proven correct, or incorrect, they put a little seed of doubt in there for you. While that idea that religion does more harm than good is a perspective some people might have I don't think the series is saying that at all. Some of the most sympathetic characters are quite religious IMO.

They kind of matter if it is the third Ice Cream in the Ice Cream series. It is not like people didn't know what sort of Ice Cream they were getting. Unless there is something radically different about DA:I but that is not the sense I am getting.

Is that what sparked this? It was pretty random for you just to dart in here with this randomly. It might be I don't know. It seems weird they just appointed a new head writer and are going to shut it all down after a successful title just because their forums are sucking it up. That would require me to actually go to BSN and I don't do that anymore. That is surprising if true. Maybe you are on to something. We shall see. But if you are correct, it is down to some unknown amount of loyal fans, then surely they would still be getting lots of views. Maybe there is another forum the DA fans hang out on now.

It is a good strategy here to make claims that cannot possibly be refuted since they are vague and meaningless. I respect that.

Thier own forum didn't lie, they don't even interact with the forumers anymore.... I don't blame them. Those forums were horrible back in 2010. I wouldn't be caught dead in that toxic environment.

Well I am in again. My Avoozl have mercy on my soul.

I really hate DLC that takes place in the main game in RPGs. It always has a tacked on feeling, the content would have been better served being part of the main package and being better integrated. DLCs that take place as mini-expansions as a separate story are good though. I also strongly dislike promotional items and powers that just inexplicably show up in your characters inventory at the start of the adventure. If you are going to have that stuff have it show up in the story somewhere. In BG2 at least it was sold at the store in Athkatla. Come on, you can have your extra content but you still need to do good game design people.

IWD was beautiful. One of my favorite RPGs ever. But I think you had to have grown up playing the Gold Box games or Wizardry or The Bard's Tale. That game was a love letter to them. They even had quite a few references to them. I remember one encounter literally had the text 'Death and Drek you curse as before you stands 3 Salamanders' just like The Bard's Tale II. So today it is kind of nostalgia for nostalgia. I don't know if people who are not almost 40 like me would enjoy it. It has great fights and itemization and beautiful environments at least. And I loved the plot and the twist at the end.

To answer the question...eh...maybe Eder and Pallegina seem like the most likely options I would go with. Romance is typically cheesy regardless of the medium. Not that I mind.

Ok you named BG2. That is one. Which are the other RPGs? I mean both DA2 and DAI had more options for women. None of the ME games had more options for men. Ok I think there were a few more for men in ME3 so that is two (maybe there were a ton for either gender). Neither of the KOTOR games gave more options for men. So how is this rare? Granted not every RPG with romances is made by Bioware but they are the standard for this sort of thing. I am not claiming you are wrong just...I have no clue where you are coming from here.

Nothing in the game was changed at all. Just the backer crap nobody ever reads or looks at.

These are great for my kids to watch cartoons and stuff on. That is about all we use them for now.

Good post Sensuki. I really enjoyed the game but, as usual, I find your critiques convincing and well thought out. Thanks again for the hard work you did on beta testing this game.