Tale

One interesting thing about the Qunari is that the first cinematic in DA2 with drawings of them even has them be hornless. But that's more trivia than anything significant.

Oblivion has better major quests. And better enemy variety. And that's the only nice thing I can say about it.

Theoretically yes. But all I can see on a practical level is "never get that drunk." Because when you're at a place with drunk people, something bad is going to happen and someone has to be level headed enough to take people to the hospital, take them home, or call the police. And it's better to be the problem solver than the problem. Maybe that's why I'm so boring. But I like being boring.

Dragon Age 2 and I'm bored with it. So, I'm in the first Act and I have no motivation. Some of the quests are interesting, but terribly short. The main plot is to gather money for a get rich quick scheme. :/ The companions are really kind of boring. The two that aren't broody don't talk a whole heck of a lot. And nobody's funny.

Took kitty to the vet because of a growth I found a couple days ago. Vet says it looks like a wart or extra nipple, but should get it removed to be sure. With a dental cleaning, that's a $1200 procedure. Without, a little under $600... :/ He was so eager to get back in the house afterwards he scratched me backhand style across the lip. Just flailing all directions to be let down.

I think you can make a game better that way, if you use it right. If Dragon Age 2 had all the same resources and opportunities of Origins, but shifted the Origins resources over to improved reactivity, it could have been a fantastic tradeoff. But... that's not really the situation as it stood. Imagine entire class quests with dungeons that were unique. But also, given how little time they had to work on Dragon Age 2, cutting races seemed like the right idea. If they'd had to implement race reactivity into the game they had, it wouldn't have saved it.

Poor Allan. Well, if you ever have a showing in Dallas, I'll be sure to harrangue you about something. Like the possibility of bromances, blood dragons, the hints in the setting that magical aptitude is more widespread than believe and whether or not that's intended or accidental, or if you personally got to meet Claudia Black (OMGOMGWHAT'SSHEREALLYLIKE). No no, don't spoil it by answering any of that now.

It looks fantastic, but I'm a bit confused about the placement of the movie in the Riddick universe. Does this one happen before the events of Chronicles? It happens after Chronicles. There's even a motion comic prequel, about 5 minutes long, doubles as a trailer. The writer/director says he wants to do another "epic" like Chronicles next.

Trying to watch the Riddick movies in preperation for Riddick tomorrow. Getting pretty good reviews so far.

Blood Dragon DLC confirmed!

Ahh, the terrible boss fights and boss cutscenes in Mass Effect 3. This is one of my favorite circlewhatsits. No sarcasm, I could read people criticizing it for hours. At a certain point I just took it as assumed that everyone silently agreed not to do those things anymore about the early 2000s. But that's the problem with silent agreements, not everyone hears about it. The EVA fight in particular reminded me of the second boss fight in a D&D game I was in a few years back. It was the guy's first time DM'ing, not counting the around 3 sessions that preceeded this specific fight. It's the first time he actually started deviating from the module he was working out of, trying to add his own flavor to the game. We were standing around whacking at the boss with it doing absolutely no damage. And then in shows up is DMPC who does something awesometm, then proceeds to win the encounter without us contributing anything meaningful. That comparison is exactly what I mean when I say "amateur."

Or the Eluvian is scheduled to become super important. It was in DAO, Witch Hunt, and DA2.

More Dragon Age. On Awakening now. I remember being challenged at this game previously. I'm playing Hard, but I just one-shot Queen of the Blackmarsh at level 27. I guess having... /sigh 325 hours in the game, I should have the strategies down by now. But this is only my third time through Awakening, so there might be surprises still!

I watched the full PAX demo and I have to say I'm really impressed. It might even be worth getting if all agency in the storyline is absent. I can kind of understand that. My first character was an elf, but to be honest here the non-humans are almost tacked on. The main plot is a human nation where humans are fighting humans for human reasons. And the one elven love interest is Zevran. The Dwarves and Elves get a large sidequest. When a game is all about humans, I'd wager people will play as humans. I wish there were stats for Morrowind.

Shrimp fried rice and a Lucky U IPA. I did not do a good job at the fried rice, but it was my first time. And I've decided I don't like IPAs based on this one beer...

Exactly. I now have my suspicion that the way they're getting around drastic changes to the setting from the Mage/Templar war is that it's only the crazy "Red" Templars and the Abominations that are fighting. With all the less extreme Circle mages and Templars sticking around to go back to how things were afterwards, if under the Inquisition.

They're clearly Jedi.

A book can too, either way it's dead trees doing magic because stuff. Or more specifically because they wanted an excuse to give mages a weapon slot item.

Makes as much sense as a staff. FEEL THE MAGICAL POWER OF WOOD

Kossit, Tale, Qunari is the religion, Kossith is the race. That is, unless the RP options are where you can align yourself with the Qunari goals. But even that would be regardless of race. Even David Gaider prefers people call them Qunari. I'm calling them Qunari. http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/371/index/14893267/1 Besides, the player will probably be a Tal-Vashoth. Kossith isn't even technically correct. Kossith was the ancient culture, and the word is antiquated and unused. http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Kossith

Glad to hear about Qunari. Hope mage will be an option for them.

You'd be surprised at what follows from what. And while I'm wary to be overly speculative about what can and can not be done, I'll just say that even at the most optimistic, giving unique features to the PC is an extra cost they may not desire to incur.

Until I hear otherwise I'm going to disallow linking to the video. If the publisher is pulling them from youtube then I'm going to ask that be respected on these forums. Feel free to talk about it if you have seen it, however.

My memory always sucked and I've found I really only remember stuff I think about. It's possible you're just moving to a different schema. How you interact with trivial stuff may be changing.

I had a troubled youth. Where I came from you couldn't go outside without being confronted by drugs. Everything they say about slippery slopes, for me it was absolutely true. Some "harmless" recreational drugs at first, but then that wasn't enough. I started looking for excitement elsewhere. And I needed money to support it. I had to deal, I had to steal, and it got to a point where I didn't know which one I was doing to support which. It all just spiraled out of control and I lost myself. And I absolutely hate this, but it took the death of a friend to straighten me out. He was a good kid. He didn't deserve what happened to him. He was driving to the police station to bail me out one day and he was hit by a drunk driver who was out partying that night. The one guy who tried to help me was killed by someone just like me. And I couldn't handle that. How many people had I hurt who were good like him? I don't even know. I wish I did, I wish I could make it better. But I cleaned up. I made better of my life. And I hope, without a belief in any higher judgement, that I will have caused more good with the time since then than bad before. And even though this may be my last act, I hope it will do more good still. You see, I saved some money I'm not proud of. I dared not use it because I didn't deserve it. But you, the people with me here, I believe in you. I want you to use it to do good. You'll find it BLARGH