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Oh come on... they are called darkspawn for petes sake. How much darker can you get? Looking forward to continue my (still the first playthrough) game this weekend. Went to Denerim, to get started on the landsmeet. After several reloads I eventually figured out that there was a fight in there that I wasn't supposed to win. Good thing too, because the odds sure were stacked against me. Saved the princess and got offered half the kingdom.

Canadians Guard Dog, Canadians... Scandinavians are something different (insert generic joke about americans and geography here) Got my economic stimulus package (thats the sp pension from atp for the local danes) courtesy of the danish state. I guess I have to go looking for some danish cheese down in the grocery store in order to stimulate danish economy

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Start of old thread End of old thread Umm, no pictures. Not enough time for gaming lately

Hey, it's not like they didn't borrow the majority of the magic concept from Warhammer The Warp Fade, Warpstone tokens Lyrium potions, Demons seeking out Psykers mages etc. Ok, so they have one chaos god more than Games Workshop

There is probably a name for people who quote themselves, but who cares It doesn't matter if people have a go at theories with hammer and chisel if necessary, as long as they try to expand out visions.

Fallout The Musical! Featuring Elvis and The Andrews Sisters (or whoever made music in the 50'es)

They are. Not to mention that they are wallowing in oil reserves... Why did you think they paid off Obama with a Nobel prize?

I seriously did wonder why he would bring ancient Chinese religions into the discussion Ah well, languages. Love them or hate them, hard to live without them. Reminds me of my early encounters with English speaking cultures. Being starved for a cup of coffee, I went into a small shop at the side of the road (in London) and asked the girl behind the counter for a cup of coffee. After the seemingly mandatory "How are you?", which native English speakers seems so fond of, she got straight to the point: "Flat white or long black" she asked me. I just stared at her and wondered if my accent was that bad. I tried it again a bit slower... A cup of koh...fee... plees? (note my subtle use of Please to hide my exasperation?). She then proceeded to point to a blackboard on the wall with various names of stuff listed under the heading "Coffee". Seriously, I just wanted a cup of coffee, not a pet dammit. Doesn't need fancy names for it. In the end I went for something that sounded like it might have coffee in it and ordered a "moh...kah...". Yeah right, got me something that was more hot chocolate than coffee You learn as long as you live.

Leliana is actually quite decent if you give her some decent lightweight protection and try to get those two abilities that causes arrows to cause critical hits automatically and the "arrow of slaying" ability. Even better when you get the arrows that disrupts spell casting Of course certain oversized reptiles still wipe the floor with my party, but those I've met so far has been optional and I decided to skip them. Not really playing the game for the combat.

Sorry, just having some bizarre visions of the sudden explosion of neighbour feuds in the suburbs, when they start grabbing bits and pieces of each others gardens, because they haven't been used for a few decades

Indeed... these spam threads are getting tiresome.

Let me guess ? Just kidding, the name seemed familiar

At least it didn't pretend to be anything but spam...

Some of my best friends lived together for 12 years before marrying. Talk about checking things out first

Start of old thread End of old thread I almost spilled my coffee when Oghren started to explain to Wynne how Alistair kept twirling his pike and he even caught him out in the forest doing it, much to Alistairs embarrassment...

You don't say I got caught with my chainmail pants down the first time. No freezing or otherwise spells brought along (a relatively low level Wynne) when I succumbed to curiosity and poked my nose where it didn't belong. Cost me my little stockpile of health and injury potions and in the end, a party member (last man standing alive) with less than a handful of HP brought it down... in my third attempt or so. Second attempt was spend practising the for me relatively unknown buffs.

A happy day to you too Aristes I don't remember what Thanksgiving is about (read it a while ago), but it seems to involve turkeys somehow.

Too many people with too many spurious claims on that stretch of land. Currently it is "might is right" that determines who controls it. I say give it to Italy, it was after all a Roman province. The middle east run by Berlusconi...

I liked the Deep Roads for the most part. Almost expected to hear the "Dorns Deep" theme playing any moment The combat had an artificial feel to it though, as if your were playing a long string of "set pieces", trying out different enemy combos only for the sake of providing tactical challenges, not because they would ever have naturally occurred in that way. Completely irrational, I know, but it was just a feeling I couldn't shake off. The last fight was a a bit of a challenge. Orzammar was the second place I went and my party wasn't really built for, nor prepared for the fight and I didn't want to load an older save before starting on the Anvil. I wonder if the fight would have different if I had sided with the other side Setting and atmosphere great, combat too contrived and monotonous in places

there's an entire thread around here somewheres. Assassins Creed 2 thread

I suspect the lack of familiarity with the setting may have something to do with it? It took me a while to "get into" the setting too.

Ferelden = Rohan with dogs? Tevinter Imperium falling to blood magic reminded me of the Roman Empire & the Mithras cult decadence. I imagined Ferelden the old celtic communities of western Europe. Some seems inspired by old germanic tribes like the Franks (Orlais), Lombards (Antuvia) and I wouldn't be surprised if I some day found Goth and Vandal influences I imagined the Qunari more like Huns than Almohads though, seeing that they feature here and there as mercenaries.

I spent a lot of my time on the jury rigging screen. Just as well as I never made friends with the combat and had my butt handed to me without mercy.

Moved to the place where gamers hang out... I had Bloodnet way back in time on my Commodore Amiga. Had a rather unique atmosphere.