I decided to go back and give Dragon Age a shot now that I have a PC that can handle them.
Some things about PC are cool: mods are win. Sebastian's hands need to be the same color as his face, dammit. It was really messing with me. Turns out there is a mod for that. Thank you, bored gamers.
Sometimes, you just have to go back to the basics. Plenty of flashy new games, but I like familiar stuff.
I've tried playing the first Dragon Age so many times. In theory, it should totally be my kind of game... But I just can't. It doesn't capture me at all.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
@auspice said in General Video Game Thread:
I've tried playing the first Dragon Age so many times. In theory, it should totally be my kind of game... But I just can't. It doesn't capture me at all.
Same. I have played through about half of it a couple times. Something about it just doesn't click. IDK what it is.
If Morrigan wasn't a 10/10 character, I probably wouldn't have tried so hard.
I really enjoyed Inquisition, aside from all of the characters being god awful trash heaps (except Cassandra and the Iron Bull guy).
It was always the teeth for me in Dragon Age. I think it was the first game I used mods on because of those teeth.
@insomnia said in General Video Game Thread:
It was always the teeth for me in Dragon Age. I think it was the first game I used mods on because of those teeth.
15th Century Peasant Romance Comics, via Hark, A Vagrant!
I played the first Dragon Age as a City Elf, and that beginning hit me right in the nethers so hard that I had to find out what happened. There is only one callback to the intro, but it tore out my heart and spit in my face.
That they tamed the Alienage outlook in later Dragon Ages made a lot of sense, but I still think of DA:O and DA:A as the “correct” vision for Dragon Age.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
I hadn't geared a new max level alt on WoW in months... and it's fun! The early stages where every other item you get is a huge +60 ilvl upgrade is really addictive.
Healing as a paladin still feels clunky though. So many cooldowns.
What, Paladins, conceived as the Bard of the Fighter class, not being great at everything?
Mind you it’s the duty of game designers to make every available option at least seem like fun; “clunky”is not the term you want to hear.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
@thenomain Sometimes it's habit. I've been playing a restoration druid for long enough that perhaps everything would feel clunky - paladins are great at healing those closest to them, and one of their big AoE heals is cone-based which in smaller groups doesn't hit enough people due to positioning.
@arkandel said in General Video Game Thread:
Healing as a paladin still feels clunky though. So many cooldowns.
I am terrible at rotations. I hate them. "Make sure you push every ability you have exactly the milisecond it comes off CD, in an exact specific order to stack various debuffs/etc." is not my idea of fun.
I got really into Guild Wars 2 for a few months earlier this year, until discovering that I can't be assed to bother with "rotations" to maximize my DPS even on the rogue (or w/e it's called) class that is basically just "SPAM AUTO ATTACKS". And it was flat out required for 'end game' stuff.
@tempest You'd hate Ultima Online. The PvP consists of using Magery status locks to make sure your opponent can't heal or is trapped behind a poison status that will have to get resolved first. Then you disrupt their actions with quick but harmless spells, before moving in for the kill.
Alternatively, you could go melee, with alchemy and bandages. So you'd spam potions for yourself and throw explosives at your enemies.
@tempest said in General Video Game Thread:
I really enjoyed Inquisition, aside from all of the characters being god awful trash heaps (except Cassandra and the Iron Bull guy).
DEEP BREATH um wow you take that back Varric Tethras is the best Dragon Age companion ever, even if he did get sad between 2 and Inquisition, he is still my fake platonic true love. (also cassandra and iron bull are gr8)
@kanye-qwest said in General Video Game Thread:
@tempest said in General Video Game Thread:
I really enjoyed Inquisition, aside from all of the characters being god awful trash heaps (except Cassandra and the Iron Bull guy).
DEEP BREATH um wow you take that back Varric Tethras is the best Dragon Age companion ever, even if he did get sad between 2 and Inquisition, he is still my fake platonic true love. (also cassandra and iron bull are gr8)
I liked Varric in DA:2. He felt out of place for some reason in Inquisition.
Also, since we're back on DA.
I will never forgive Bioware for making the elf chick (I don't even remember her dumb name) in Inquisition so fucking ugly.
@tempest The companion one? Sera? I more will not forgive them for making her a MANIC RANDOM PIXIE GIRL. lulzsorandombees like fuck off with that shit. But then, I hate elves, so I loved that the elves were both ugly weirdos. Screw you, racist grandpa.
@tempest It's different when you're healing because there aren't really rotations per se since you're reactive rather than proactive.
The issue is overhealing as well; with DPS you can't really blow a damage CD, even though you might not use it optimally (i.e. in the proper phase, during heroism, etc), but if for example you hit your big CD right after another healer does you might waste it almost completely.
@kanye-qwest said in General Video Game Thread:
@tempest said in General Video Game Thread:
I really enjoyed Inquisition, aside from all of the characters being god awful trash heaps (except Cassandra and the Iron Bull guy).
DEEP BREATH um wow you take that back Varric Tethras is the best Dragon Age companion ever, even if he did get sad between 2 and Inquisition, he is still my fake platonic true love. (also cassandra and iron bull are gr8)
sits here in the "I kind of like Solas, even though he's a lying jackass" corner
a.k.a. Packetdancer (or "Pax" for short)
@sparks He's a sympathetic character. I get that. He's also an asshole.
Varric would never do us like that.
@sparks When I found out the thing at the end with him I just about peed myself, with all the little things finally falling into place. During the game I could take or leave him, after I finished it once he is totally one of my favorite characters hands down no question. Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch a jerk in such a 'omgwtfbbq' way.
The most unforgivable thing about Inquisition is that nothing in it made me give a shit about any of the characters. Nothing.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
@ganymede I got super emotionally invested in most of them. I am sure this is a surprise.
I decided to go back and give Dragon Age a shot now that I have a PC that can handle them.
Some things about PC are cool: mods are win. Sebastian's hands need to be the same color as his face, dammit. It was really messing with me. Turns out there is a mod for that. Thank you, bored gamers.
Sometimes, you just have to go back to the basics. Plenty of flashy new games, but I like familiar stuff.
