GhostofAnakin

Dragon Age 2. I've never played the DLC with Felicia Day, so I figured why not.

It was still supposed to be the capital of Ferelden. Even small countries tend to have rather large (comparatively speaking), densely populated capitals. So I don't think Ferelden being small, in comparison to say Orlais, should excuse Denerim from looking like a deserted village square with a handful of merchants and 3 kids running around in one spot. At the very least, Denerim should have had more people meandering about.

I just realized I butchered my first sentence. I meant that Denerim in DA:O should have been the size of Kirkwall in DA2. Kirkwall, with it's various areas, just seems a lot bigger than Denerim was. DA2's issues arise when you realize there's not really anywhere else other than Kirkwall to visit. DA:O had a bunch of other places of decent size to travel to.

Kirkwall should have been how big Denerim was. Unfortunately, there should have been much more than Kirkwall and some outlying sections in DA2 as well. Also, Isabella's party banter is the most amusing no matter who else is in the party.

I played the hell out of my CoD MW disc. Loved the concept of the series moving to a modern setting at the time. But have since lost interest in the series. I'm tempted to buy Far Cry 3.

Have you tried the DLC for Borderlands 2 yet? Thoughts?

IMO, one of the dumbest decisions made was to turn the series into a MMO instead of doing a single player KOTOR III.

The defenders on the Bio boards are trying so hard to justify the price of the Omega DLC by comparing it to things like eating out or going to the movies, instead of just using the logical comparison: other DLC.

I know for the PC it's not considered a 2012 game (or is it?), but for me my early front runner is the Witcher 2 for the XBox360. It's the game I've spent the most time on in 2012, and was a breath of fresh air after my disappointment over ME3.

Heh, just having finished my play through of DA:O, the bolded hit home for me. Denerim's supposed to be the New York or Los Angeles of Ferelden, so to speak. Crowds of people wherever you look. Instead, there's like a handful of folks standing around, but the place is otherwise deserted. If Assassin's Creed does one thing well, it's the atmosphere of the cities. They really do feel like actual cities full of people, rather than just an empty space.

As a general rule, I don't like to judge a DLC on its length. However, when you're starting to charge $15 or more for the DLC, then I do think the number of game hours it provides for you needs to be taken into account. As an extreme example, I don't care how good a DLC is. It could be the greatest DLC ever made and a fantastic 2 hours of fun, but it shouldn't be the same price as a full priced game that offers you 20+ hours of game play. If people are okay with $15 for around a 3 hour DLC, it's a slippery slope to $20 dollars, then $25, all the while the actual content isn't increasing along with the price. Because the argument then would be "you usually pay $15 anyway, what's an extra 5 bucks?". I wouldn't have an issue with Omega's price tag if the content was obviously a lot more than in previous DLC. But when it's roughly the same size and length of even their recent Leviathan DLC, but for some reason is priced $5 more? That's when I start to have issues.

I don't know about you PC folks, but the pricetag on XBox360 seems pretty high. I believe $15 for, what I've read on the Bio boards, is about a 2.5 to 3 hour DLC seems steep. Especially when you compare it to the price of the recently released Borderlands 2 DLCs. Then again, maybe my lack of interest since I finished the game back in March is causing me to look at the DLC price too closely. I just haven't had the same desire to replay ME3 at all like I usually do with most RPGs I purchase. *shrugs*

Decided to order Halo 4 for Cyber Monday, since it's only $39.99 right now (regularly $59.99). I guess that will be my next game whenever it arrives. I also ordered Resident Evil 6 at a discount. I know some of the reviews were bad, but I'm a Resident Evil fan and, damn it, I enjoyed RE5 even when reviews said it wasn't "Resident Evil".

I don't know what to play now. I'm not really in the mood to replay a game, and none of the current new games appeal to me.

Finally finished my DA:O play through as a mage. I decided to sacrifice since it was the only ending I'd never done before ... and still didn't unlock the achievement for experiencing all the different endings. What is it with seemingly every RPG deciding that the best way to end games is to throw wave after wave of enemies at you for the final hour? Does every game really have to mark its upcoming conclusion by tossing the player into basically one person horde/survival mode?

Y'all are nuts. The Witcher 2 is a good game.

Almost at the Landsmeet to confront Loghain. It's kind of dragged the last little while (the alienage thing was kind of meh).

I should get around to a new play through one of these days. I've played all the classes other than the veteran class (I think that's the name -- the one unlocked after finishing rookie background).

Still playing Dragon Age Origins. In the Brecelian Forrest, tracking down Witherfang. I can't complete one quest because it requires my character to use a bow, but I don't have the dexterity to use one. Strangely enough, both Zevran and Leliana have bows equipped, but I can't take control of them for the task. So the quest will either have to wait until I put more points into my character's dexterity stat, or it will have to go unfinished. Not sure why you can't use a party member to complete the task, since all it is is shooting a bow across a chasm.

I was going to pick up Abercrombie's trilogy off of Amazon, but the shipping estimate kind of scared me off. It's currently at 3-6 weeks for me. I'm impatient that way. I prefer my books delivered within a week, otherwise I might as well just go to a local book store to purchase them there.

I'm in favor of this. Bodies remain there until you leave the area.

Old World Blues is the only DLC I haven't played. Dead Money's story was pretty cool, but the constant beeping I found more annoying than fun. Lonesome Road was good, too. An interesting DLC that adds depth to the Courier's background. Honest Hearts was solid, but the story was a bit disappointing.

Gah. My screw up when I overwrote my save file in BG2 has sapped me of playing it. To get to the point I was at would take dozens of hours of replaying the same areas I'd *just* played, and I just don't have the motivation to do it.

So I'm on the right track with my Leliana/Andraste theory, aren't I. This is why it confuses me as well. If the writing team wanted to keep Leliana around for DA2 (and presumably the entire series), why even have the option to kill her? If it was to give players the illusion that their choices matter, it's kind of short-term anyway since the writer's made that choice irrelevant by bringing her back for DA2. IMO, it's worse to make characters killable and then bring them back anyway than to make characters unkillable in the first place. The latter may frustrate some folks who seem to like killing their party members, but the former is just plain nonsensical and breaks story immersion.