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Post by witchcocktor on Aug 18, 2023 22:15:43 GMT
I think Jaws of Hakkon got side quests right. In general the DLC has the best gameplay content in DA:I, so I definitely think they learned their lesson.
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Post by witchcocktor on Aug 18, 2023 16:04:31 GMT
I hope DAD has lots of sexy and '' impractical '' hair and armor. We are going to Tevinter for gods sake, time to amp it up a little, no?
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Post by witchcocktor on Aug 18, 2023 15:00:28 GMT
So, apparently BG3 sex% is an official speedrun category now... There should be a RideTheBull% speedrun category for DAI. Though my favorite is the Punch Solas speedrun category!
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Post by witchcocktor on Aug 18, 2023 6:35:23 GMT
BioWare @biowareCaption this image! #DragonAge
Quick! We need something more outrageous than bear sex for DA:D! So... c'mere you...
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Post by witchcocktor on Aug 16, 2023 1:28:04 GMT
The flirting starts quite early in Act 1, and during the party with the tieflings you can get to banging pretty fast. Nothing like Dragon Age where you have to wait for the main story to progress before you are locked into something. Though I have to say I banged Astarion and he generally seems to like me and think fondly of me, I even made him an ascended vampire for the lolz, but the romance never triggered (got no achievement for romancing Astarion, and the ghoul at camp is calling me out for being maidenless). Maybe something is interfering with the romance though... Act 3 spoilers. for Astarion it seems there is something very specific that you can easily miss in order to continue with the romance and it doesn't really have to do with his quest. Don't click if you don't want to know you have to talk to a drow merchant in Moonrise towers that wants him to bite her because of some vampire fetish, and you have to stick up for him and allow him to refuse. After he'll have some confession that he started off using you but now he's actually caught feelings I've been told by others that the romance doesn't trigger/progress without this scenario. If you already did this, then I guess it's just bugged. EDIT: to stay more on topic, I don't mind there not being a heart icon and turning down companions who get the wrong idea. I only ask that I'm given ways to let them down gently, because on occasion I do feel bad about hurting imaginary pixels, there are some games I've played where the let down option sounds so cruel lol. I also really enjoy when this can lead to a nice friendship where you can get a lot of the same/similar content without a romance. By the end of DAO I felt I was pretty close to Morrigan without a romance and that was nice. Ugh, knew it. I told him to bite her. Or rather '' it's up to you whether you do it or not '' and then he did it anyway, and got REALLY pissy at me at camp.
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Post by witchcocktor on Aug 15, 2023 16:00:03 GMT
Act 3 This is where I call it quits. Baldur's Gate is a big city full of life and is definitely most impressive, but navigating this city is taking a huge toll on my enjoyment, because of the poor performance. I just don't want to explore anymore and every new quest I get is a dagger through the heart. And I have a PC that's supposed to run the game just fine, yet even with low quality settings it can get really messy. This is where their ambition got in the way of good performance, I think.
The totally immersive hardcore gamer quest design where you aren't just shown exactly the place in the map you should travel to/what you should do is also becoming a nuisance.
I'll get back to it eventually because I want to see how my romance with the Emperor concludes in the end (or if I become a mere thrall, I'm okay with that too) but right now I'm just completely wiped and am fine just leaving the game's conclusion until later.
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Post by witchcocktor on Aug 15, 2023 14:34:42 GMT
The flirting starts quite early in Act 1, and during the party with the tieflings you can get to banging pretty fast. Nothing like Dragon Age where you have to wait for the main story to progress before you are locked into something. Though I have to say I banged Astarion and he generally seems to like me and think fondly of me, I even made him an ascended vampire for the lolz, but the romance never triggered (got no achievement for romancing Astarion, and the ghoul at camp is calling me out for being maidenless). Maybe something is interfering with the romance though... Act 3 spoilers.
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Post by witchcocktor on Aug 14, 2023 14:04:52 GMT
I hope DA stays with a good romance/friendship system as they have with all of their games. The system in BG3 is a disaster from what I've heard.So hopefully Bioware knows their strength. As long as i can play the game and the story is Bioware good i am okay with that. I play games for the story and choices i can make. Yeah, in the span of 5-6 hours I banged the vampire and had Gale get kinda sassy at me for picking the vampire over him. It's a bit much, I suppose. Dragon Age is right for locking romance and friendship progression behind main scenario quests. It works much better that way. Of course, Dragon Age's more restrictive nature is a downside to many, but after playing BG3, I'm more and more convinced that DA is on the right path. Perhaps a middle ground between DA:I and DAO can be found in terms of roleplaying choices, but I am honestly appreciating DA:I more and more. Not to say BG3 is bad, not at all, I 110% understand the appeal of the ridiculous freedom you are given to play almost any which way you want, and the number of choices you can make, but I'm feeling like this with BG3: I'm just not the type that is good at taking advantage of such vast amounts of freedom. Though honestly, I also really dislike the combat and the movement in this game. I hate hate HATE clicking everywhere. The movement and camera is jank af for me, I'll eventually get used to it but man...
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Post by witchcocktor on Aug 10, 2023 2:05:30 GMT
Bioware can still swoop in and entice the crowd that aren't particularly enjoying BG3's style of gameplay but want the immersive RPG experience, but they definitely need to get the action combat just right. I recall some people saying that Anthem's combat was the only good thing about it, and I would say much of the same about Mass Effect Andromeda, so I hope the Dragon Age team is getting assistance from devs who have worked on those more action-based entries, as jumping from DA:I to straight action sounds daunting in the least for developers who haven't developed action games beyond DA:I.
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Post by witchcocktor on Aug 9, 2023 2:20:44 GMT
lot of that going around to. To be brutally honest with you, this board has been the worst I've seen of fandoms becoming pissy with each other over BG3, a game virtually the entire community is rejoicing btw. But I guess if I looked around reddit I'd find some subs that are pretty bad also. What? There are barely 10 different people talking about the game in this very thread. Unless all the pissyness is located somewhere else, I don't really get what you are saying about this board specifically. I think it's fair to be annoyed at '' THIS IS THE NEW STANDARD FOR ALL RPGS GOING FORWARD! '' statements as a fan of other rpg series that aren't trying to establish the same style of roleplaying experience as BG3.
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Post by witchcocktor on Aug 8, 2023 2:46:22 GMT
The good thing about BG3's success is that it proves that (turn-based) single-player RPG is not a dead boomer genre. The bad thing about it's success is that not every RPG is trying to do what BG3 is trying to do, and it's going to be insufferable to discuss the genre and the games coming out in the next year or two because of the comparisons that are going to be made. I'm already seeing FFXVI and BG3 being compared just because both are RPGs, despite them setting out to do COMPLETELY different things. boomers have money too. They have the money, but generally not the time to play while simultaneously yelling about gay bear sex on social media platforms!
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Post by witchcocktor on Aug 8, 2023 2:28:11 GMT
The good thing about BG3's success is that it proves that (turn-based) single-player RPG is not a dead boomer genre.
The bad thing about it's success is that not every RPG is trying to do what BG3 is trying to do, and it's going to be insufferable to discuss the genre and the games coming out in the next year or two because of the comparisons that are going to be made. I'm already seeing FFXVI and BG3 being compared just because both are RPGs, despite them setting out to do COMPLETELY different things.
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Post by witchcocktor on Jul 20, 2023 2:28:58 GMT
Speaking of Dorian, major death flags for DAD. Why do you say that? A generally liked character being killed off for (cheap) emotional reactions sounds like something that would happen considering DA:I was low on it's companion death count. But in all seriousness, his position in Tevinter will not go unnoticed (and hasn't), and the more influence he has, the bigger the target he will become. He already was this close to dying in the Dorian x Iron Bull route. I am not ruling out the perversion of his goals and ambitions becoming a plot point either, if he is allowed even more influence and a bigger position of power, but this seems more unlikely.
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Post by witchcocktor on Jul 19, 2023 18:05:21 GMT
Speaking of Dorian, major death flags for DAD.
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Post by witchcocktor on Jul 19, 2023 7:56:41 GMT
I love Varric's role in the franchise, would hate to see him go. Though I admit I thought his DA:I writing was kind of shit, even juvenile, and he had completely lost his mojo and charisma, but that probably had to do with the Inquisitor not having much of a personality to challenge and/or counterbalance Varric's constant moping.
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Post by witchcocktor on Jul 11, 2023 15:01:40 GMT
I could be convinced of omitting romances entirely from future installments, as long as the world otherwise stays unapologetically sexually diverse. Romances are just a straight-forward way of doing just that.
But honestly, it'd be quite weird to be such a character-driven RPG where you might hang around ten or so people on the daily for a year, even multiple years, and never even have the question of romance or an otherwise intimate relationship pop up. Like I don't think any intimate friend group where people can potentially be attracted to each other can remain completely unscathed by said topic, but weirder things have happened I suppose.
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Post by witchcocktor on Jul 11, 2023 12:11:48 GMT
Doesn't make up for previous silence but this is BG3 time in the spotlight. I don't think Bioware can compete (regardless of how promising any sort of previews would look), as sadly it is a competition and Bioware has A LOT to prove that Larian really doesn't, and the stakes are higher for Bioware. Probably best to sit this comparison match out.
Not that Bioware seems to have anything planned for the near future anyway *shrug*
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Post by witchcocktor on Jul 11, 2023 2:28:06 GMT
Hinterlands is one of the best areas in DA:I. Probably my favorite overall if we are being honest.
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Post by witchcocktor on Jul 10, 2023 19:10:10 GMT
If it's anything like Mass Effect Andromeda, we won't know anything concrete about the romances until the release/very close to release. Probably for the best, even if romances are very important to my enjoyment of Dragon Age, it feels cheap and awkward to use that feature as a selling point, when characters, story and gameplay especially are so much more important.
I would like to know whether they are going for '' everyone is bisexual '' route like in DA2 though, or stick with DA:I style distribution of romances. I cannot WAIT for the MESS that will ensue if they are going for the DA:I route.
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Post by witchcocktor on Jul 10, 2023 1:40:16 GMT
witchcocktor how dare you not mention Ameridan among the hot Elves in DAI! I don't know why, but there was something about him that was so attractive. Sad we won't see him more! And I just finished Jaws of Hakkon again this Saturday, shame on me! Ameridan is definitely up there but I'd say most of his appeal comes from his voice actor being really good. Dude sounds hot.
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Post by witchcocktor on Jul 9, 2023 21:13:29 GMT
Solas is so unattractive to me that I can only say if he has a werewolf form, that can only be an improvement. Better than his nosferatu impression eh? Nosferatu is at least quite styling! Unwashed apostate hobo, not so much. Though in all fairness male elves in DA:I are one the more... unfortunate side, I can't say you come across many attractive ones throughout the game (Abelas looks decent I suppose, but that's 90% because of his armor and how we can't see what tragic DA:I hairstyle they have given him). Though I don't think even DAD can daddy-fy Solas for me lmao.
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Post by witchcocktor on Jul 9, 2023 20:42:10 GMT
Solas is so unattractive to me that I can only say if he has a werewolf form, that can only be an improvement.
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Post by witchcocktor on Jul 8, 2023 13:57:30 GMT
Pretty sure that in the current year of '' gaming journalism '' if there is cause for concern over people leaving Bioware and there is a clear culprit of why that is happening, it would come to light sooner than later.
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Post by witchcocktor on Jul 7, 2023 7:40:09 GMT
Final Fantasy XIV has a pretty unique approach to MMORPGs in all fairness, so I can definitely see how valuable their background could be even in a single player action RPG. Not to say developers from other MMOs couldn't have anything to offer on games of other genres, but XIV dev and MMO dev are pretty distinct from each other when it comes to boss designs. Though XIV influences brought the good AND the bad into XVI from the looks of it, which is rather funny.
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Post by witchcocktor on Jul 1, 2023 23:34:59 GMT
Greedfall was fine for what it was. The crowning jewel for that game was one of the endings you could pick that was so freaking wrong but so good, especially if you romanced someone.
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