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Dragon Age 2: Fuckin' Bitches, Stabbin' Dragons
KvP:
Internet dissonance!
--- Quote ---Alright, I've only been into the game for about 9 to 10 hours. I just got past the point in which you *spoiler* from the *spoiler*.
I've been thinking back to see if I would've done anything that would have the game confused as to what the gender of my character is. The only thing I can *think* of is using the mirror in the black emporium (think that's the name) ... the mirror that allows you to change your appearance.
But anyway, I began noticing this as soon as I ran into Fenris, at least 3 or 4 times during his dialogue chain, I had an option to flirt with him, keeping in mind that my character is male.
Also, as previously stated, I just finished the quest to *spoiler . After doing so, I went to talk to Anders at his home base, and he was straight up hitting on me. When I shot him down, I gained 10 rivalry points with him, and now he's pretty much perma-pissed at me.
And, I have not had even ONE opportunity as of yet to flirt with a member of the opposite sex. Granted, the only ones I've got are Bethany (which doesn't/shouldn't count), Merril and Aveline. But out of the two that are not related, I've not had the option to flirt with either.
Now, this brings up a cotroversial topic, but I am not here to say that same-sex romance shouldn't be allowed for those who want to chase it ... but I most certainly do NOT want to ... and the game seems to be going out of it's way to practically force me into a same-sex relationship.
It comes off feeling somewhat on purpose ... alot like 'hey look! you can do same sex relationships! now! ... look! ... no seriously! we mean it! ... here, just incase you didn't believe us, here is ANOTHER opportunity!'
So yeah, I get it, it's possible, but perhaps you shouldn't make it feel like it's being shoved down my throat? ... figuratively speaking of course.
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Flashbacks!
Meanwhile, back at the bioboards... I'm pretty sure David Gaider is taking the piss at this point:
(Maria Caliban is one of the more prominent heralds of the 'shipper hivemind)
Johnny C:
update: okay i accidentally spent way more time playing this today than i meant to which is usually a sign that something was going right. the game is actually pretty fun but the environments do feel really, really empty, and i'm already starting to get sick of kirkwall.
KvP:
Yeah, I mean look at this:
It goes from pretty good on the left to pretty bad on the right. Like, a different floor texture would be good, even. It's way too empty.
I'm about 8 or 9 hours in and looking back on it, it's really quite noticeable how little dialog there is in this game compared to all other Bio games. I feel like it's stuck halfway between a full-on action game and an action RPG, and not in a good way. In the first 6 hours I talked to Aveline once, outside of quest stuff. That's unusual for Bioware.
Aside from the random teleport-spawning (which really does in your mages), combat gets marginally better as you advance levels and accumulate talents to use between DPS draining with your normal attack.
It's really unclear why they bothered including character stats in the game at all - it railroads you into exclusively pumping two stats associated with your class, because if you don't keep them high (dex+cun for rogues, str+con for fighters, int+will for mages) then you can't use new equipment. There are no exceptions to this. The skill trees, on the other hand, are pretty good.
Varric's the clear frontrunner in terms of the characters, but he doesn't have much competition. 5 years ago Merrill would've been fine with me but as it is I feel like she's nothing more than a less assertive, fantasy version of Tali (with some Aerie thrown in, given that she's the clear archetype being reheated). It is actively irritating me.
KvP:
:psyduck:
--- Quote ---Distinct racial physiology is an opportunity to explore different standards of beauty
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KvP:
Heads up, lots of bug reports for Isabela's joining quest. Roll your savegames so you'll have one from before you take it, just in case.
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