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Dragon Age 2: Fuckin' Bitches, Stabbin' Dragons
Caleb:
I just finished the demo.
I think that rogues are really cool to look at but their focus on damaging one target kinda relegates them to Mage control and taking out archers and other low HP stuff.
But against like regular boss characters and warriors they seems really underpowered.
Like I managed to get my party wiped because I was distracted by food and I actually had a really fun time playing with the female mage character. Like I managed to solo the ogre.
It seems like any character is fast enough to avoid stuff so the rogue's little jump thing seems useless other than looking cool. Like I ran around with the mage and never got hit with an attack.
Honestly it's going to be a tough choice between Rogue and Mage. One just seems really cool and the other one seems more fun to play with.
ackblom12:
I'm definitely going mage this game. Though knowing my history with RPGs I'll likely make a couple dozen characters and eventually finish the game a year from release when I finally remember I never beat it.
Caleb:
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--- Quote from: Johnny C on 23 Feb 2011, 21:31 ---as is isabella's fucking lip piercing
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How so? I didn't notice anything off about it.
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Says the SNAKE MAN WITH THE SPLIT TONGUE!!! Only Lies and Untruths from the the forked tongue of the Yuan Ti!!!
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: ackblom12 on 23 Feb 2011, 22:35 ---
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 23 Feb 2011, 21:31 ---as is isabella's fucking lip piercing
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How so? I didn't notice anything off about it.
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what's off about it is that she looks completely different and like just inflicts serious cognitive dissonance on me! it's just completely bizarre. i mean, in a movie or tv show i'm kind of willing to accept a drastic change in appearance because like a character might be played by someone else. but the way she looks in this game vs. how she looked in the first one is like so drastic but there's almost no reason for it. i can't figure out why an engine upgrade necessitates a boobtastic lip-pierced "edgy" version of the exact same character.
compare it with how they handled character redesigns in me2, you know? like you saw the same characters and they looked a little nicer but pretty much the same, right? garrus got a badass new scar but the first time you saw him he just looked like, well, garrus. with this game i like can't figure out why the art direction went to such gaudy extremes AND revamped extant characters in a way that like doesn't jibe with the first game at all.
and i dunno something about the dwarf guy just rubs me the wrong way i guess. maybe it's the noir dialogue.
i get the feeling that this demo really doesn't sell the game the way it wants to, you know? especially considering how, well, short it actually is, for a two-gig download. everything's condensed and rushed, and the fact that i'm not able to get a feel for the characters compounded with the like grating redesigns of some principals is frustrating. for what it's worth i think they've done the ME2 thing when it comes to the game's systems – that is, refined and narrowed and honed and trimmed away a ton of the fat. that, i like. i think it'll be fun to play. but there's a ton of stuff in the demo aesthetic- and story-wise that really make me furrow my brow.
ackblom12:
Ah, that's perfectly fair. I'm so conflicted on the art style right now. I think I'm going to end up liking it but it is a rather harsh change. For Isabella I honestly didn't see the lip piercing as all that edgy considering they made her a bit more decorated in general. Mixed with the style of earrings she has for example doesn't exactly scream edgy, it just screams Caribbean pirate. It is still a bit odd how much they changed her, but I can only guess they figured if they were going to go with a more stylistic approach anyways they might as well go whole hog. The boobs are still absolutely ridiculous.
The only thing I can think that might bother you with the dwarf might be that he has a massive jaw. It kind of looks like the Dwarven head proportions might have been changed slightly, but I could be wrong.
I definitely think the demo was just kinda... meh for the most part. I liked what they showed off but I felt like there wasn't enough play time allowed with the actual skills and skill trees. Hopefully, they managed to pull the story side of things all together though. I quite enjoyed the first (despite quite a few flaws it is probably my favorite Fantasy RPG since BGII, though ME stil has it beat hands down in general) and as long as they keep things consistent in this particular game I'll probably quite enjoy myself.
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