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I view it as a cenotaph to Bioware as it was at its peak. Here's hoping it stays for a long, long time so I could come and pay annual respects.

Damn, will have to log in then, really don't want to lose my Darths Continentia, Halitosis and Bertie Wooster, my bounty hunter Payme, Jedi Knight Izno Goud, Cathar trooper Gary Kittenberg...

Seriously, never encountered "Do not want" meme before? Or never was interested how it came into existence?

My very first Shepard looked very much like lady who owned craft beer store on my that time home-work route. Very nice lady, was fun to chat a little while shopping at hers. My one true Shepard forever.

I kinda feel now how Romans were when Caligula made his horse a senator.

Yeah, with the world's name Thedas (aka The Dragon Age Setting), one of the towns named Lothering etc. it does look more like something that evolved from D&D session that took 4 years. Thing is, the world made sense and had enough verisimilitude so that if I had questions of how and why something happened, it was easy to find explanations without breaking game's inner logic and it was fun to play (still is). Second game had this too if you squinted at the story through tacked-on decisions like "We need boss fight either way!" or "No time for too different branches", but it was buried under the pile of stupid. By the third game pile of stupid turned into mountain of stupid, and from what I read about the last one they pretty much threw everything away and now's it just generic high fantasy.

And some of us dye transmogs in Bozo the Clown colours.

Attractive is fine, but judging by screenshots and often discourse itself a lot of people equal "attractive woman" with "woman wearing beach/bordello attire when game does not take place in either", meanwhile dudes always dress sensibly. I'm all for equality that goes both directions, so if your game dresses ladies in brothelcore, gimme a dude I can send into battle wearing purple polka dot thong and nipple clamps.

Oh well. The lesson all other countries should take from this is never, ever neglect your education systems.

Hey, maybe Bioware's execs let EA's execs write Veilguard out of gratitude, judging by general opinion on its story Anyway. All this talk of DA made me reinstall Origins, which I don't think I need to spend more time with, since it's one of very few games I collected 100% cheevos for, but here I am. I love how things make sense in it. It's also less brown than I remember it.

If it allows me to kick those Pixary twee bobbleheads into a well King Leonidas style I'm good with it. Won't even need a ~*snarky*~ quip afterwards.

I agree that it was never dark fantasy, just plain old heroic fantasy with darkish curtains. But when compared side to side with this safe and fluffy amalgamation of Fortnite and Disney, I can see how in retrospect DA:O might look pitch-black. P.S.: Speaking of Fortnite, maaaaybe in a few years I could slip this DAV as a gateway drug into RPGs to my nephew, who is currently Fortnite-loving eight-year old.

I skipped Anthem no problem, this one also looks skippable. Especially with scathingly dismissive reviews like this: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/dragon-age/with-the-veilguard-dragon-age-has-forgotten-its-dark-fantasy-roots-and-become-biowares-avengers/

So because of some youtuber you wasted money that would have bought you lots and lots of beer on something you don't need or want?

Finished Hades. Well, sort of. Beat up my dad on the third try and full God mode, went out, said hello to me mum and got dragged back to Hell. Guess what, if I want to ask her (and dad) questions on what and why, I have to complete the cycle again. And then probably again if I have more questions, I guess. ... u wot m8?????? Oh, and to unlock stories of those interesting characters you meet along the cycle you have to stuff them with gifts that are either random or dropped by bosses also randomly, and you'll need a lot of them so better be ready to grind those three environments with same mooks over and over again. Guess what? No thank you! . Supergiant games, where intriguing story is thwarted by tedious, annoying, bad, no good game mechanics, 3 games out of 3.

Some bangers from the nineties are much better in accoustic

I assumed that we are not to be fighting Deathclaws, cazadors and other critters that serve as roadblocks any time soon, because we're talking here exactly about how to sneak around them, no? But regular mooks, including Legion retribution squads, are all doable.

Nah, you'll be fine, just not overpowered enough to facetank perhaps. I usually go North via dodge-the-Cazador route and it's way more fun this way, you have to utilize whatever you have in your inventory. I once went to Lonesome Road on hardest difficulty at something like level 8. It was very immersive.

I hate this pixel trend so very much that I see pixels --> instant ignore. Video tech evolves and keeps evolving, then why the f do I have to scrape my eyes on the corners of huge ugly rectangles? Leave it in the past where it belongs and good riddance Aaaaanyway, now when I know Drova is a RPG, I might look past fugly aesthetic, especially since I was late to Gothic train (too ugly and UI too horrible for today's me, sorry). Speaking of beautiful aesthetic, that's one of reasons I like Hades despite of its "Do it again, stupid" game loop - everything is very lovingly drawn and animated. Another reason is characters, they're well written and always have something new to say, I wonder if they ever run out? Racked my godmode DR up to 50%, read up a little, got the double dash everyone swears on, indeed a life saver that trivialized the first boss lady and helped me go really quite far where I ignobly died to a swarm of pink butterflies. Also got a laundry list of things to do, decided to concentrate on ticking things off it instead of getting cranky about repeats.

Hades. How comes I can play RPGs, both nerdy and Skyrim-y, over and over and over again for hundreds of hours and never get bored but with this - roguelike I think it's called? - I'm all "Oh my goooood the same room the same mooks lemme ouuuuut I've been here forever!!! " when stats say I only did 11 short runs? Me being bad at twitchy speedy combat definitely isn't helping any, there's a god mode but to max it out I'll need like 30 (!!!!!) runs so I dunno. Oh well, at least combat isn't the thing of nightmares like in Pyre and I didn't yet rageuninstall it like Bastion. Muzik's lovely though.

I read that those liquidated pieces of sh†t had large sums of money and fake documents, possibly trying to cross into Egypt, which would be hard to do when surrounded by human shields, and read a version that its six shields were murdered some time earlier. Also, if Israel wanted some sort of spectacle of poetic justice, wouldn't it make more sense to do it closer to October 7? Either way, good riddance.

What does that even mean, enough people clicked on "Preorder"? Aaaanyway, was about to say "Will buy when it's 75% off", but then read that it's going to be a "parry timing" setting in it, meaning there's parry mechanics, and I hate parrying in games with power of thousands of blue suns. Memories of some scrawny crackbrain with sh†tstained pants and bent, rusty fork parrying my flaming radioactive maul delivered by 10str character with all the melee perks in FO4 still cloud my mind in red hot searing rage.

Deadpool and Wolverine. Crass sex jokes in that sterile, boring superhero world were lots of fun, still I prefer times when Deadpool did not want to join the club of dorks in silly costumes.

Watched Dungeons & Dragons. Very entertaining movie, though I found myself rooting for Hugh Grant and Red Wizard, they were just cooler than the main group. Also paladin was great, can't remember last time I wanted to push someone face down the bog this much.