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Post by Gileadan on Aug 20, 2021 5:29:45 GMT
According to the Wiki (which may not be accurate since I think it gets at least one Cassandra / Golden Age condition wrong), the "Golden Age" sentence is unique to Cassandra. I got it for Cassandra having high approval, alliance with Templars, rebuilding the seekers. That's weird, since the wiki says she has to give up on the Seekers. But you are right where that exact phrase is said, though I'd argue the line where she says "She meets with their leaders, urging unity. Miraculously her words take root, and - for now - the Chantry remains strong." with Inspired Leliana is equal to that. Both are talking about how miraculous their leadership is, while dreading it not lasting. Yeah, the fact that the wiki states that she has to give up on the Seekers is the bit I think is inaccurate. I may have a shitty memory for many things, but for DAI I remember my decisions and result quite clearly. In fact, the restoration of the Seekers, if I remember right, led to a new time of justice for everyone and was part of the reason for the Golden Age. And hearing the words "Golden Age", which pretty much means peace, harmony and prosperity for everyone, gave me the feeling of "yeah, that went pretty darn well". But I'm not here to rain on your Inspired Leliana ending, especially with her conflict solving skills I can definitely see why it appeals to many.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 20, 2021 5:03:28 GMT
The game actually tells you that Cassandra is the best choice in the epilogue voiced by Morrigan. Her rule leads to "A Golden Age - if it can last" if certain conditions are met. And I'm pretty sure that Morrigan is not suspected to be a Chantry-lover. That was the first ending I got, so I patted my own shoulder and thought "job well done". Pretty sure Morrigan says that about Softened Leliana as well. According to the Wiki (which may not be accurate since I think it gets at least one Cassandra / Golden Age condition wrong), the "Golden Age" sentence is unique to Cassandra. I got it for Cassandra having high approval, alliance with Templars, rebuilding the seekers.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 20, 2021 4:51:40 GMT
The game actually tells you that Cassandra is the best choice in the epilogue voiced by Morrigan. Her rule leads to "A Golden Age - if it can last" if certain conditions are met. And I'm pretty sure that Morrigan is not suspected to be a Chantry-lover.
That was the first ending I got, so I patted my own shoulder and thought "job well done".
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 19, 2021 6:50:38 GMT
Cassandra, she seems the most balanced to me.
Vivienne is too harsh.
Leliana clearly needs therapy.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 18, 2021 12:45:26 GMT
I'm oddly reminded of the 30 vs 60 FPS discussion and all those "the human eyes can't tell the difference" and "30 FPS is a more filmic experience" arguments.
I'd likely only notice the very obvious c*ck ups like Shiala because I find her original look very memorable, including the scene's lighting, but it does seem that a lot of lighting was simplified and made more uniform.
Can I holster my gun now?
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 17, 2021 21:56:55 GMT
If Varric returns in any capacity I'll be convinced that he's the real protagonist of the Dragon Age franchise and we just played his various sidekicks.
I don't get why BioWare always insists on making their worlds seem smaller than they are by having familiar faces pop up no matter where we go. It makes me wonder about how little confidence they must have in their new creations if they keep bringing back their old ones to generate player interest.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 17, 2021 19:16:23 GMT
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel, I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine...
I'm back at Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus, now with the Heretek DLC installed. My faithful cohort of tech-priests smashed the heretek uprising on the Caestus Metalican. One Skitarii Vanguard and a Kastelan Robot were destroyed in the final battle, and my cohort limped out of it badly hurt. But the Omnissiah guided their hands (and mechadendrites) as they brought the fury of Mars down onto the enemy. The remains of the arch-heretek Epsilus Dammoth-Yoth were burned and cast into space, for some knowledge should not be sought.
MACHINA IMPETRARE
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 17, 2021 15:03:22 GMT
My friend's family has covid. They are all vaccinated, so they should be safe. However, we just saw them and spent two hours with them, albeit outside. So we are now in a self-imposed isolation and getting tested. My family is vaccinated, of course, but this goes to show that the delta variant is everywhere. Aw, I'm sorry to hear that. Best of luck with your test results. I'm fully vaccinated too, but I still act as if I wasn't all the time. Delta's a real creeper.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 17, 2021 10:43:58 GMT
My country is leaning towards "lockdowns are for the unvaccinated, and Covid tests will no longer be provided for free" now. To access certain public spaces during a potential lockdown (so far we are not having one... yet), you'd need to bring either a certificate of double vaccination, a certificate of somewhat recent recovery from Covid, or a negative Covid test. Since said Covid tests can only be two days or so old, unvaccinated people would have to continue to spend money on them once they aren't free anymore. This led to some howling and protests, but also to vaccination rates increasing again after a noticeable slump.
I'm very grateful to live in a place with good health care and emergency capacity, but it's working the medical staff to the bone. Vaccinations are being thrown at anyone who wants them, no appointment necessary, just show up and sign on the dotted line. Congratulations, you did the right thing.
Anti-vaxxers keep reminding me of that scene in Full Metal Jacket where the entire platoon has to do push ups while Private Paula is eating his donut...
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 12, 2021 18:05:41 GMT
I gotta admit that the Keep is a genius idea. They practically outsourced the manual correction of any faulty quest flags to the player base.
That said, I'd prefer if the next story was more self contained and didn't drag the baggage of two or three previous games along with it. Same world, new protagonist, new companions and hopefully somewhat new storyline.
And no fricking after credits teaser scene. Be content with a story actually ending. You're not Marvel, BioWare, and your characters don't quite have RDJ's charisma.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 12, 2021 9:32:37 GMT
I never send about half of the posts I type up on this forum. I write my piece, all pleased with myself, then read it again and think "uh, nothing good will come from that" and quietly hit the magic X in the upper right corner.
The good karma for that should be delivered any day now. Any day now...
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 11, 2021 16:00:18 GMT
Like so many problems this probably started with a suit and a Powerpoint presentation.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 11, 2021 15:58:54 GMT
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 11, 2021 5:35:33 GMT
Philosphy and Ethics class taught me that every individual's freedom ends where the next individual's freedom begins, i.e. do what you want unless you negatively impact someone with your actions.
In this case, everyone's free to jump without a parachute, as long as they don't hit anyone on the way down and the splat is not in someone else's garden.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 9, 2021 18:26:16 GMT
I just amuse myself with the thought that if Liam was picked for that position, what were the other candidates like? I mean, their job was to pick a crew that could handle 20,000 lives depending on them, and this is what they chose. Though it's probably easier to write a bunch of characters that produce big pings on the QuirkMeter3000 than a group of rather normal but competent people who still have interesting personalities somehow.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 7, 2021 19:55:40 GMT
Playing an alien would mostly be a cosmetic option anyway. Just because of resource cost alone the character would probably say 98% of the same things as a human protagonist would, which means that his or her perspective on things would be 98% human too.
But as I've said elsewhere, I'd totally buy an episodic game about a badass alien bounty hunter who never removes his helmet, possibly titled "The Turian".
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 6, 2021 22:52:00 GMT
I don't know how much is too much criticism of policy on these boards, but I might link a story. We have a governor here of a very populous state. He is clearly positioning himself for a run for US President in 2024. He has made it unlawful for schools in his state to implement local mask mandates as the delta variant rips through the local population. His state has been one of the very worst places to be for COVID-19 at every turn. Doctors and educators are begging to be allowed to protect public health on a local level; sort of "if you won't help, at least stay out of the way". Several school districts are implementing/maintaining orders against his wishes. His response is to threaten their funding. It's incredible. I think the politics threshold on this thread is probably pretty low. I had posted a video of another politician and her fans cheering over their low vaccination rates, and the post got reported and removed for being political. As for the rest, unless there is a second state where those things are true, that is where I live. I can't fully express my disgust without probably offending whoever reported me before and getting reported again, but this governor is as dangerous as he sounds, and I hope the rest of the country is paying attention. Meanwhile, ICU beds are filling up, mostly with unvaxxed individuals, but if you come in to the hospital as a car accident victim and you get substandard care because the workers are stretched so thin, you're screwed regardless. It baffles me that people do not understand this. I have a friend of a friend who has a patient-facing non-medical role in an urban hospital not too far from me. She said so many people have quit that they are now mandated to work 7 days per week. Trying to stay vague here, they only have about a dozen ICU beds left for a very large region. This gave me some major World War Z vibes Reminds me of a lady from... uhm, a country east of here who stated that no, she'll never get vaccinated, that would be like "letting in the enemy". Then she went back to her job... at the local nursing home for senior citizens.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 6, 2021 22:36:03 GMT
I got my digital vaccination certificate from the nearest pharmacy on my smartphone now. If any Covid related restrictions will come into effect again - which will probably happen sooner or later once enough people who just had to have their vacation in Spain are back home - this will be my out of jail card that will allow me to continue to visit restaurants and businesses and all that.
When I visited the pharmacy, I was carrying all my vaccination related documents with me just to be on the safe side, the pharmacist saw the ones issued by the military back in the late 80s and it turned out we served in the same unit. And if I hadn't dropped the document stack in the car and my girlfriend hadn't reordered them when picking them up, he would have never seen that particular document.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 6, 2021 12:18:58 GMT
I always thought that when it comes to the Dragon Age franchise, the term "tactical combat" referred to the option to give each party member a series of "if (condition) then (action)" guidelines in DAO, like "if ally hitpoints < 20% then cast heal". This was linked to the skill "Combat Tactics" which bought a character extra slots for more condition/action precepts.
I really enjoyed that, it was like a mini game of its own.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 6, 2021 9:02:35 GMT
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to post something traumatizing. It was of course all meant in the context of video games. For example, when purple Hawke jokes about boneless women flopping about, most people probably laughed... One of countless examples of why I hate Purple Hawke. Bunch of women are dead, but sure joke about it you psychopathic piece of shit. Purple Hawke seems to balance some thin line between sarcastic humour and outright psychopath (and sometimes falls down on the wrong side), and I've always wondered whether it's intentional to show how living a life of being surrounded by death and destruction - Hawke and gang kill hundreds of people after all - makes the character numb towards the trauma of death or they were going for some kind of Tarantinoesque humour, or maybe the writers thought this was all good fun and video game deaths don't matter unless it's a companion or close relative. But this is why I like to refer to purple Hawke as Psycho Clown Hawke.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 6, 2021 7:22:34 GMT
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to post something traumatizing. It was of course all meant in the context of video games. For example, when purple Hawke jokes about boneless women flopping about, most people probably laughed... What I meant with my initial comment, and obviously did not make clear, is that the two situations were not comparable because games are not real life. As in, I could see how someone might have difficulty taking the video game situation seriously, whereas the real life one would be horrifying to witness. It was a somewhat flippant comment that ran away from me a little bit, it seems But yes, I laughed at the boneless women joke, along with feeling a healthy dose of secondhand embarrassment because...come on now, Hawke. Well, Hawke certainly delivers it like no one else. Yes, I get what you mean. I should have made clear that people dying in real life are never a funny thing.
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 6, 2021 6:13:19 GMT
If you knwe the preson suer but I think as players we didn' thave a bond with those characters a tthat point as we'd only been playing 5 minutes. No, I would definitely still find it traumatizing to watch a total stranger run into traffic and die. Why would that be funny? I'm sorry, I didn't mean to post something traumatizing. It was of course all meant in the context of video games. For example, when purple Hawke jokes about boneless women flopping about, most people probably laughed...
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 5, 2021 21:25:22 GMT
The first sibling death in DA2 remains one of the greatest achievements of unintentional comedy in gaming. There is no time to develop a bond with your family, and the sibling's death seems to happen on a completely random brain fart or whatever caused him or her to charge the darkspawn on their own. No foreshadowing, no nothing.
It's like wandering down the sidewalk with a bunch of strangers when suddenly one of them pulls a brown paperbag over his head, giggles and capers into the oncoming traffic, and everyone else suddenly stares at you, expecting you to care somehow while you're wondering wtf you just watched.
That said, DA2 can be great fun with the right party (Varric, Isabela and Aveline for me, I'm not into playing the party therapist) with some genuinely funny banter. Just don't let the waves of enemies charging from the room you thought you cleared 30 seconds ago bother you, you should have checked that closet after all.
Give DA2 a shot, it has its moments.
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Agent 46
Clearance Level Ultra
Games: Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquisition, KOTOR, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire, Mass Effect Andromeda
Origin: ALoneGretchin
Posts: 2,843 Likes: 7,112
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Clearance Level Ultra
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gileadan
Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquisition, KOTOR, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire, Mass Effect Andromeda
ALoneGretchin
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 5, 2021 14:31:15 GMT
More Jedi: Fallen Order? Awesome.
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Gileadan
N5
Agent 46
Clearance Level Ultra
Games: Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquisition, KOTOR, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire, Mass Effect Andromeda
Origin: ALoneGretchin
Posts: 2,843 Likes: 7,112
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Agent 46
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7,112
Gileadan
Clearance Level Ultra
2,843
August 2016
gileadan
Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquisition, KOTOR, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire, Mass Effect Andromeda
ALoneGretchin
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Post by Gileadan on Aug 4, 2021 13:31:05 GMT
I got Max Payne 1 & 2 from the Rockstar Store (Steam won't sell them to me but accepts the keys from Rockstar) and installed the 2021 FixPack for Max Payne.
Man... it's one of those trips down memory lane that I never tire of.
We'll see if I'll play through all difficulties of MP2 again to get the alternate ending.
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