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Post by Iddy on Nov 29, 2019 0:17:34 GMT
Iddy share me some popcorn? Anytime, m8
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Post by Iddy on Nov 28, 2019 20:00:09 GMT
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Post by Iddy on Nov 28, 2019 18:20:29 GMT
As in the title.
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Post by Iddy on Nov 28, 2019 16:26:28 GMT
Now I know why it is called Dragon Age. It takes ages for a game to be released.
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Post by Iddy on Nov 28, 2019 13:56:39 GMT
The entire decade? No, no, not at all. According to both Leliana and the Hero of Ferelden codex, he only disappeared to go on this quest recently (in relation to the main game's time). The Hero of Ferelden disappeared "several years" after the fifth blight's end, according to the codex, and Leliana declares them disappeared to Cassandra not that long after the Kirkwall Rebellion. Some of Leliana's Trespasser epilogues mention her "occasionally reuniting" with the Warden, while mentioning nothing about any cure to anything, suggesting to me that the quest is ongoing. I don't remember Leliana or anyone else saying anything to indicate that the Warden took off recently. So around eight years up to twelve and counting, by Trespasser, seems to fit the timeline. Between Kirkwall's rebellion and Trespasser only makes 4 years at best. As for Leliana, I'm referring to when she says "He hasn't replied to my letters in some time. But I shouldn't worry, he can take care of himself". If it had been years, I'm sure she would've phrased it like that's old news and something she is already used to.
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Post by Iddy on Nov 28, 2019 13:15:25 GMT
You speak as though the Warden were going to spend the rest of his life on this quest. Not all their life. But my impression has certainly been that they didn't start with much in the way of leads, that the quest involves lots of travel, and that by the time of Tresspasser it has been going on for anywhere between eight and twelve years. That's a lot of time away from duty, friends and/or family to invest in something that might be a wild goose chase. The entire decade? No, no, not at all. According to both Leliana and the Hero of Ferelden codex, he only disappeared to go on this quest recently (in relation to the main game's time).
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Post by Iddy on Nov 28, 2019 11:55:55 GMT
I don’t get this “She can’t be with anyone but nonmage human Inquisitor” idea since the game and her romance is full of evidence to the contrary. For my part, I think it's very hard for people of wildly different social standings to have relationships. Culture clashes might seem romantic from the outside, but they aren't. So much uncertainty at the start of a relationship makes it much harder to find the sense of security and trust you need to have to make it last. Add an inter-species element, and the pairing becomes downright implausible. Josephine is a consummate noble, she breathes proper etiquette, and wants things to be the way they're supposed to in her own mind. I'd want her to have a husband she can dress up perfectly according to relevant customs without having to get creative with nonhuman body proportions, and drag to state dinners, dance with using the same steps she always has and parade around on her arm without causing mockery and vicious rumors that she would pretend didn't hurt her but which absolutely would. The game makes no point of any of that being an issue, even though it realistically very much would, so it just seems more natural if she's with another human of similar background where they wouldn't be a concern. Yeah, I think it would work better if Josephine was Cassandra's kind of noble, who has no love for that world. Speaking of couples, what do you think of Dorian/Iron Bull?
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Post by Iddy on Nov 28, 2019 11:40:28 GMT
Wouldn't those all be easier with a bit more time? In particular, what's stopping the reckless magic obsessed spouse from doing something colossally stupid when your Warden dies? Since you're already giving time up just for the chance to maybe have that time later, no. That's just a bad trade unless you have nothing to live for except growing old. Same with the reckless magic-obsessed spouse. Definitely leaving her unattended for over a decade now, in her restless prime, isn't worth possibly being there for her a little longer later on when she's a grumpy sixty-yearold witch who has hopefully learned to stop putting mysterious magical substances in her own body. Similarly, abandoning your child in his formative years just so you might be able to continue scolding him for not visiting more often when he's thirty isn't great parenting priorities. You speak as though the Warden were going to spend the rest of his life on this quest.
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Post by Iddy on Nov 27, 2019 16:41:50 GMT
I tried asking Patrick Weekes on Twitter, but didn't get a reply. And considering that the next game won't have anything to do with southern Thedas, we most likely won't hear anything about the Warden's success or failure.
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Post by Iddy on Nov 26, 2019 11:41:54 GMT
Served some brandy with rat poison to the guards at the Arl's estate. We thought it was cinnamon, we swear! You dirty....rat. falls over You deserved MORE
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Post by Iddy on Nov 26, 2019 1:24:43 GMT
The bigger plot hole is the fact that he can possess the body of Grey Wardens. Archdemons can't do this (that's why the sacrifice works), so why can he? Well, there's a simple answer to that - Corypheus is NOT an Archdemon. Don't you have any Solas sugarcoating to be doing elsewhere?
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Post by Iddy on Nov 25, 2019 20:02:03 GMT
I love that helmet
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Post by Iddy on Nov 25, 2019 13:08:44 GMT
You know, it's kinda weird that Sera talks about elves who shamed her for not being elfy.
The only ones she could've interacted with were city elves, and they're more like humans with pointed ears. They're unlikely to care about elfiness all that much, which is reinforced by the Vhenadahl codex:
"Mostly the old ways are gone. Each generation forgets a little more of the old tongue, a little more of the traditions. And the few things we keep become simple habits, the meaning long since faded.
So it is with the vhenadahl, the tree of the people. Every alienage has one, I'm told. Or they used to. When I was a little girl, my mother told me the tree was a symbol of Arlathan, but not even she knew more. Keeping the vhenadahl is just a habit, now. Many cities have let theirs wither and die, then chopped them up for firewood. No great loss."
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Post by Iddy on Nov 25, 2019 13:05:28 GMT
Inquisitor: What is the word out there? Skyhold bartender: Some people are complaining that you have the time to be bedding your allies. But I don't judge. Much.
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Post by Iddy on Nov 25, 2019 4:33:01 GMT
If the Inquisitor asks Josephine if she and Leliana are more than friends, she absolutely denies it.
But if you ask Leliana, she implies they had sex. So... what is the truth?
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Post by Iddy on Nov 25, 2019 0:53:05 GMT
For me the biggest plot hole was the whole red lyrium dragon idea being connected to his ability to body hop. Now it is never made clear exactly when he split his soul with the dragon. Was it back in ancient times? In which case why no mention of the dragon on the Grey Warden records of that time? You see if he only joined with the dragon after his awakening then clearly he was able to body hop before then. It didn't interfere with his ability to body hop once split with the dragon as he did so in front of our eyes in the Arbor Wilds. Then when his dragon is killed his essence returns to him, which you clearly see. However, in fact we don't actually kill him. Instead we throw him into the Fade where it is assumed he perished through his own self doubt and loss of certainty (this explanation being given in WoT2 as a reason why no trace of him could be found in the Fade subsequently). Thus, although killing his dragon certainly helped demoralising him, it wasn't the reason we were told we needed to kill it. Nowhere was it suggested to us that destroying his self belief and chucking him into the Fade was the way he could be permanently killed. So why did the Inquisitor suddenly come up with the idea, particularly if they didn't drink from the Well? I think if there had been no dragon involved then it might have made sense to capture him at the Well of Sorrows but the dragon clearly complicated matters and would have attempted to free him wherever we took him thereafter. So from that perspective, retreating until we had worked out how to deal with his dragon did make sense. I think it is actually pretty simple. Corypheus can only hop into the body of tainted creatures, so the dragon usually is his only option. The bigger plot hole is the fact that he can possess the body of Grey Wardens. Archdemons can't do this (that's why the sacrifice works), so why can he?
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Post by Iddy on Nov 24, 2019 23:16:38 GMT
Just finished the main story in the current run. Let me just say....that hug the Inquisitor gets from Cullen if romanced (when returning to Skyhold after Corypheus is defeated) is the most epic hug I've ever seen. The music that plays in that moment is amazing.
The whole romance is really satisfying. The sheer amount of dialogue and scenes makes it feel like the relationship is an integral part of the Inquisitor's daily life. Feels more real.
It was also nice to play an Inquisitor who gets along with Sera for the first time, lol. Not that I dislike her, but it takes a specific kind of Inquisitor to do that.
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Post by Iddy on Nov 23, 2019 18:02:16 GMT
I'm a bit stuck in WPHW, agonizing over the Well of Sorrows choice. I even left my PS4 in rest mode at the exact moment when you're supposed to decide.
My character is generally wary of magic, though not as much as she used to be due to Solas' influence.
On the other, she doesn't believe in elven gods, so the price doesn't sound as scary as it should.
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Post by Iddy on Nov 23, 2019 16:25:34 GMT
The Inquisitor does this at the end of WPHW and it's just so, so dumb. The circumstances when you finally fight him during "Doom upon all the world" aren't any easier, so what is the difference?
In fact, the conversation at the war table before heading to the Arbor Wilds sounded like the idea was to finish him off there. Like it was the perfect time and place. Then Corypheus shows up after you have already defeated Samson/Calpernia and taken the Well of Sorrows, with no army to back him up because they're busy fighting the Inquisition.
And what do you do? "Oh no, it's Corypheus! Run! Run! RUUUUUUNNNN!!!!"
It's one of those moments when things happen for no logical reason other than plot convenience.
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Post by Iddy on Nov 22, 2019 19:41:16 GMT
That is, what difference would its resources make? Solas completely outwitted Leliana and her spy network, which couldn't do so much as locating him. Let alone spying on him and his agents.
And what else is there? Uh... soldiers? This isn't a war like it was with Corypheus. The support of nobles? They can't really do anything. Money is always useful though, so there is that.
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Post by Iddy on Nov 22, 2019 16:50:34 GMT
I think I uploaded her before but I can't be bothered to check - so here's Katrija, my first and (until now) only Inquisitor: Human or dwarf?
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Post by Iddy on Nov 22, 2019 3:54:55 GMT
When my Inquisitor sentenced Florianne to do manual labor, Solas disapproved. I have no idea shy.
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Post by Iddy on Nov 22, 2019 3:53:30 GMT
Josephine is so very nobley that I find it a bit hard to believe she would fall for a Inquisitor of humble origins.
I mean, it's technically possible, but that's just game mechanics.
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Post by Iddy on Nov 20, 2019 19:10:11 GMT
Do you prefer to let Cullen keep his lucky coin or accept the gift?
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Post by Iddy on Nov 20, 2019 11:41:43 GMT
Canon Inquisitor. I'm afraid she'll have to wait for a couple years until Bioware lets her go after Solas.
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