Posts made by HelloRaptor

Two warriors? Agh, what. I don't even...

Is one of them at least spec'd for two handed?

What difficulty are you guys playing on, anyway?

When it comes to XP though here's what's interesting: Most players will detest being unable to ever catch up in the power curve; everyone wants to be special. However players also detest when everyone catches up in the power curve; that's when no one is special.

The first of those grates on my nerves far more than the latter, which is more or less understandable when talking about games where there being a power curve is part of the setting.

@Monogram

You do know that anyone could wear Legion of the Dead armor in DA;O and Awakenings, right? No, I know that's not an excuse because that doesn't make any canonical sense, but still.

People used warrior characters in DA:O and Awakenings? O_O

Re: Sera

I didn't really use her hardly ever. I just found the tone of her voice extremely grating, though I've seen videos of some of her banter with folks that was pretty funny. I did like doing prank stuff with her, I guess.

My fourth (well, three and a half) playthrough will be as a female elven mage who's going to leave Verric at Skyhold all the time and just travel with Sera (spec'd to daggers), Solas, and Cassandra, and tell everybody else to piss off.

@monogram

Don't play a dwarf if you like your romance options to be very few.

Er... the only race locked romance options are Cullen and Solas. So technically humans get one more option (Cullen) and elves get two (Cullen and Solas).

So based purely on race (Dwarf) that leaves 6 optoins. I dunno that I'd call Dwarves having 6 and humans having 7 leaving dwarves as having 'very few' romance options.

I hate Sara.

Sera. It's SERA. Why do people even make this mistake? All of you need to die in a fire. >.<

I don't like her much either, though.

Both of these builds need to be nerfed big time. Otherwise the game lacks any real challenge. The Archer/Assassin especially so since you can simply snipe enemies from a distance and because the AI only reacts within a certain distance, and you can shoot farther than that distance, most enemies will just stand there until dead.

Uh... you do realize you can do that with mages, too? Anything you can click on, you can hit with your activated projectile powers, more or less. Any mage with any kind of projectile power can kill pretty much anything they can see from a distance. Archer/Assassin isn't terribly special in that regard.

Couple that [Knight Enchanter] with an armor mastercrafted with Enchanted Obsidian(which gives you 3 armor per hit)and you're nigh-unkillable.

There's another one that gives you 5 Guard per hit, and either of them make most characters pretty close to unkillable. I solo'd the level 23 dragon on a dagger rogue just to see if I could, and you totally can. Knight Enchanter certainly adds a level of invincibility on top of that, but it's real OPness is that it can do so while also dishing out such incredibly insane amounts of damage, especially against Guard and Barrier, which a number of Elite enemies (and dragons) use to bolster their HP.

Legion of the Dead armor is pretty awesome. If you're a dwarf warrior. I believe it's the best overall armor in the game. Why that would be reserved for just a dwarven warrior is beyond me, but most tier three armors fall just slightly short of it.

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Do you even Dragon Age?

The Legion of the dead is an elite subset of the Dwarven army. Hence Dwarven warriors only.

I'm curious how the DLC for it will be. It's a BioWare game by EA, OF COURSE there's going to be DLC.

I'm not convinced. The only DLC they've even whispered about is multiplayer stuff. Seems like they put everything in the main game they intended to, more or less. Plus they've got a fuck ton of devs dedicated to the next Mass Effect game at the moment.

I'm sad. I wanted this to be cool but it's not skyrim and I just can't get into it.

Not being Skyrim is not a criticism. Skyrim's got its place, but ugh. This was so much better than that. The best thing Skyrim had going for it is modding, which it's a shame this doesn't have.

My problem with Sara is that there is absolutely zero growth with her. She's childish, hypocritical, short-sighted...I could really go on and on. Her calling out Varric on his stuff is fine, someone does, but everything else, she is a horribly written character with zero depth and zero growth as a character. Everyone else, that actually do some amount of evolving from where they were when you first met them, but Sara is nothing but static. She wants everything to fit into her little world where everything caters to what she thinks it should be. If it wasn't so obscenely immature, I could maybe go with it. But it's not.

While I don't like Sera, this seems like... enh. Not to put too fine a point on it, but you looking at it that way is exactly why she's written to see things the way she does. These games are full of people making big sweeping decisions 'for the good of the world', who can't (or won't) let themselves get bogged down thinking about what the decisions they make do to the everage person. The ones who are stuck living with the outcome or fallout of those decisions, who make up the bulk of the world those decisions take place in.

She's not supposed to get past that, and pretty resolutely says as much. That somebody has to think of the little guy, because the bulk of the movers and shakers are so focused on The Big Picture that they don't have the time, energy, or luxury of doing so.

If everyone were like Sera, the big decisions would never get made, but as she points out more than once there's no shortage of people ready and able to make those big decisions for everybody else. She even gets frustrated because she realizes that those big decisions HAVE to get made, and she doesn't like having to face the fact that her worldview isn't one that lets that happen. Sera isn't going to save the world, and she knows it, and it frustrates her that looking out for the little guy might end up with all the little guys everywhere getting killed.

I don't really like her, but I feel like you're sort of proving the validity of her point by pretending it's just childish nonsense. Plus you accused them of adding her to appease the tumblr crowd which just makes you sound like an ass.

And she looks like Gollum.

Yeah, she is pretty fugly.

Because your tears are so delicious. ^_^

It's on Crunchy, yeah.

Zombies AND Mage ... wait, Mages would just wipe out the zombies and we'd just be left with Mage >.<

A zombie apocalypse for Mage would probably look like Resident Evil, with the Seers having been wiped out when one of their own fell to the Abyss and used their labs and resources to produce and distribute an Abyssal virus that turns humans into the menagerie we see there. Resident Evil has a pretty full spectrum of zombie-type-creatures, and an Abyssal plague spread in the same fashion would be as much a threat to Mages as to anyone else.

You can run, but you can't really escape. You hide, but they'll eventually find find you. You can try to tamper with them directly with magic, but risk backlash or corruption as you interact with Abyssal forces. You can turtle up and protect yourself for a while, but that's only sending up a flare to attract the attention of bigger, badder things.

So there you go, Zombies AND Mages.

I think we've more or less agreed about a number of anime in the past.

@Cobaltasaurus , go watch Dusk Maiden of Amnesia.

I'm kind of with Admiral here.

If you think the ending of Season 1 of Black Butler was perfect, and anything more would ruin it for you, don't watch any of the seasons after that. You can rewatch season 1 as much as you want and enjoy it for as long as you want. If the knowledge that somewhere out there, there are more episodes that would ruin what you like about it, that you don't have to watch is itself enough to ruin the show for you then it says more about you than about those episodes.

If, on the other hand, you saw the last episode of Season 1 and thought "Man, this can't be how it ends, I can't wait to see what's next." then there not being anything next is likely to suck for you.

I personally prefer to err on the side of More Episodes Is Better, if only because it's the only scenario where both types of people can get what they want out of the show itself. The first can stop watching if they feel like a good ending has been reached, the latter can keep watching to their heart's content.

Tastes vary pretty wildly, and it's pretty rare for continuing a show to make everybody unhappy, so even if I'm not so into or even dislike a new season, I don't think I've ever really thought that I wish they'd never made it, or lost interest in the stuff about it I did like. I still rewatch early stuff that had later stuff that didn't do it for me. More to the point, there are a few shows I watch the later episodes or seasons for where the initial stuff didn't do it for me. An opportunity I wouldn't have if they'd skipped out on it.

Sorry @Glitch, can't understand you with your mouth full of dicks. Try eating a smaller bag next time, you glutton.

I generally copy&paste whatever bits catch my eye into notepad before I get around to posting, since I might not post just then and I don't want to scan back for it. I'll try to add a @whoever, though, just for you two delicate flowers.

@Glitch & @Thenomain

I watched the first season. It was pretty clever and funny, but I don't think I ever picked up on the second season.

It's easier to mitigate a gigantic grid with travel and map commands than it is to mitigate a tiny grid with temprooms.

This. Forever this.

My logical brain tells me a grid is largely unnecessary, and yet whenever I RP without one I do feel like something is missing. Not something hugely important, but something. I like the comparison of them to sets. It's just one more piece that helps with immersion a little bit.

I feel this way too. Though, I feel the same way about room ownership. If I went on a game and found that I wasn't allowed to own-on-my-charbit my own build project, especially if that included having to put in a +request any time I wanted to add or remove +views, change descs around, etc? Man, I'd be out of there so fast. I dunno if it's just because it feels way too control-freaky (no offense, IV, seriously) or what, but I'd just feel weird about it. Irrationally so, to the point I wouldn't enjoy myself there.

I've never really encountered what I'd consider good reasons for why things would be that way. Not that others might not find the reasons good, but me not so much. I don't really WANT to go idle in a quiet/idle room, especially since people tend to avoid paging when I do, and there's even odds I'm at my computer with half an eye towards responding if anybody does.

I generally feel like the crunch put on player ownership of stuff in general has been one of the more unfortunate trends over the years, but I also started on a place that not only let people own a bunch of shit, but encouraged them to build and learn to manipulate it in different ways.

And just think, if you'd started with that instead of backpedaling to it, you'd have missed out on yet another chance to show us all what a super dedicated feminist you are. A++ performance.

You don't have to like the show. There's plenty about it that people dislike, and even if I don't agree, that doesn't make them idiots.

You're exactly what I described you as because of dumb shit like this, and it's hardly the first time you've declared yourself the authority on what any self-respecting woman would like or hate.

Fate/Zero is not something I would ever recommend to a self-respecting woman unless I specifically wanted them to HATE it.

Yeah, why would any self-respecting woman enjoy a show that routinely lampoons the main character's white knight, women-shouldn't-fight complex as ridiculous, and showcases virtually every other character with more than a few minutes of screen time pointing out how wrong he is, and how competent and badass the majority of the women are? I can't even imagine. </sarcasm>

You are allowed your guilty pleasures!

I've got plenty of pleasures, and I'm not terribly guilty about most of them. I enjoyed the completely ridiculous power fantasy that was Mahouka, and didn't bat an eye at most anything in No Game No Life. I am really easily entertained, so I don't by any means expect that anything I like is actually super good.

That doesn't mean your characterization of the show itself isn't shit, even if you're more or less right about one of the primary characters.

So, to be clear HR, your argument is.. I'm a White knight becuase I'm pointing out how fucking dumb it is that the main character is a White Knight?

If you really don't see how you declaring that no self-respecting woman would enjoy a show because <insert virtually anything at all, but especially a show where a male savior complex is routinely shown to be completely misguided and unnecessary within its narrative> makes you a big of a shield pounding white knight as that character is, there's no help for you.

Since you seem to have trouble grasping it, I don't think you're a white knight because you're pointing out that the main character is one. I said as much myself. It's a recurring point that everyone in the show thinks it's stupid too. I think it because, and here I'll quote it for you again:

Fate/Zero is not something I would ever recommend to a self-respecting woman unless I specifically wanted them to HATE it.

Maybe they'd hate it. Maybe they wouldn't. I don't really feel like I'm in a position to say which, let alone claiming that their enjoyment of it would have any bearing on their self-respect. But if that's working out for you, you go on with your bad self.

That makes marginally more sense. Except at no point is there actually the suggestion in the narrative that Saber needs to be protected, and pretty much everyone else in the entire story routinely treats Emiya like a weirdo for acting that way. Even Archer takes him to task for it. You've clearly seen enough to get the implication I'm slapping you in the face with there.

She's never treated like a weakling, and what moments of weakness she does have are pretty blatantly due to as yet unrevealed plot points. She routinely holds her own or bests the other Heroic Spirits, who by and large treat her with varying degrees of respect or wariness she deserves. The times she saves his life outnumber the opposite by a pretty wide margin, and the times he 'saves' hers are frequently unnecessary.

Yes, the main character has a massive white knight complex, but it's never shown to be the case that it's justified. It's just something that's a quirk of his world view. If you seriously think that a story is sexist because it includes characters who are sexist, I weep for you. And before you mention any romantic inclinations that might spark out of his white knight behavior, I'll point out that it's almost always driven home that appreciating the impulse to protect them isn't the same as saying they need to be protected, and any such feelings are followed swiftly by beating him up or trying to leave him behind so he'll stop being an idiot.

Anime is certainly full of shows that showcase the full range of Women Are Helpless Dolls Who Need Saving By A Strong Man, but the Fate series (yes, even that one) isn't really like that. The only ones who get treated like fragile dolls in a narrative sense are the ones who are actually, literally, homunculi with frail constitutions.* And there's at most two of those given any air time.

For kicks, here's seven full minutes of Saber fighting toe to toe with Berserker, and the closest Emiya gets to 'saving' her is the handful of seconds where he's dragging her off because he knows the magical equivalent of a tactical nuke is about to be dropped. A tactical nuke fired by another wildly powerful character that does less damage to Berserker than Saber's half-potency attack earlier in the same encounter.

Yes, he's kind of an ignorant little shit with a hero complex, and everyone berates him for it at one time or another. It's a character flaw. The fact that a couple of times it turns out his actions are necessary, like when someone has already been a total fucking badass and isn't up for round two, it's a stopped clock being right twice a day, not presented as any vindication of his position.

But hey, all of that aside, at least they put her in hyper sexualized, skin tight armor, right? No? Well, at least it's still a dress, you can probably make something out of that if you want.

It's nice of you to once again declare yourself the champion of women everywhere, stomping your foot and raising your fist to let them know what they should be offended and turned off by, but even leaving aside how ridiculous you are, you're pretty far off the mark here. Very gentlemanly of you to try and protect the delicate sensibilities of the women folk from being upset by this.

Why the fuck is everyone recommending Fate/Anything? Seriously? Even as a dude I wanted to punch the protagonist of Fate/Zero in the face for being a total fucking tool/white knight. Fate/Stay Night is significantly better than Fate/Zero, but the problem is that as much as I want them not to be- they are related.. and Fate/Zero is not something I would ever recommend to a self-respecting woman unless I specifically wanted them to HATE it.

...what the fuck are you on about? That made virtually no sense.

And fuck, did we ever get ignore added back in? I knew I was missing something.

@surreality said:

A series that is funny, and almost no one has heard of: Ghost Stories.

There's a catch, though: you have to watch the dub,

Does not compute.

I understand what you're saying, but I've yet to hear more than a couple of English voice actors for anime who haven't made me want to drill into my ears to make it stop.

Most stuff already got covered before I got here. Alzie and whoever posted just prior to that hit most of the notes I would have.

Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya

I wasn't super keen on the second season, but the first season was pretty awesome. In large part because the Fate stuff has some of the most absurdly awesome and brutal combat sequences and dropping magical girls into it was A++. Especially since Illya basically gets shit on in super tragic ways in the other Fate stuff, generally, so seeing her as the main character was awesome.

Not really based on your list, because others have already addressed that, I'll toss a few up. Apologies if I repeat anything already offered:

Finished Or At Least One Full Season

Akame ga Kill - Fantasy/Murder/Brutal-but-Awesome
Alchemists of the Dusk Sky- Fantasy/Slice of Life/Sweet
Ao no Exorcist - Modern Fantasy/Demons/Best-Supporting-Character-Ever
Amagi Brilliant Park - Foul mouthed fairy mascots?
Shikabane Hime - Action/Horror
Dusk Maiden of Amnesia - Ghost Story/Humor
Dead Man Wonderland - Supernatural/Horror/Action
Kill la Kill - No description would do this justice.
**Nanana's Collection'' - No this isn't the naval one. Action/Mystery/Puzzles/Ghost?
No Game No Life - NEUTRON BOMB. Also lots of boobs. Humor/Fantasy
Raikuen Tsuihou ~ Expelled from Paradise - VR/Mecha/Post-Apoc
RWBY - Web series. Each season is 2 hours. I have them collected if you want.
Shingeki no Bahamut - Angels/Demons/Fantasy
Soul Eater - Why haven't you watched this already? >_>
Soul Eater Not - Soul Eater prequal-concurrent-ish slice of life + action
Tokyo ESP - Girl Power KIIIIIIIICK
Unbreakable Machine Doll - Wizard Fight Club
Wakfu - French voices, Eng subs, Korean animators. Action/Adorable/Awesome.
Yumeku Merry - Dreams/Rabits/Monsters/Weird
Yuki Yuna wa Yusha de Aru - Magical Girl(ish)/Action/Adorable/Therewillbetears
Zetsuon no Tempest - Shakespeare/Modern Fantasy/Apocalypse

There's some current stuff worth watching, but honestly there's enough anime out there to keep yourself busy until the current stuff has finished its seasons at least, so you can watch it all at once when you're ready.

DISCLAIMER: I am easily entertained. Not everything on my list is necessarily good, by some standards, and a couple by many standards. @Glitch is probably gnashing his teeth at more than a few.