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Dragon Age 2: Fuckin' Bitches, Stabbin' Dragons

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KvP:
Somebody pointed me towards a quote of Gaider's defending the bi romances that make so many homophobic kids uncomfortable:

--- Quote from: David Gaider ---So long as romances of any kind are optional and need to be actively pursued by the player in order to be experienced, they simply don't have a leg to stand on. Advocating that nobody should be able to have content you don't intend to personally use is largely pointless-- outside of a vague notion that such efforts should go towards other things, instead. Personally, it's not a lot of effort to include them. The resources we can devote to a minority of players isn't great, but I imagine to those players it's quite worth it... and I would hope that some folks could be sensitive enough to be happy for those players, at the very least out of the selfish notion that they may one day end up in the minority of some content issue and receive the same consideration if nothing else.
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Quaint that he would take up the cause of minorities, considering they're not really worth making overtures to:

--- Quote from: David Gaider ---We didn't (and won't) do strictly gay romances because a romance is very expensive content-- both from a writing, cinematic and testing perspective. It's one thing to add the extra costs to piggy-back on top of an existing romance plotline (and by this I don't necessarily mean "add gay option to straight romance"... it could just as easily be the reverse) and quite something else to have a romance created from whole cloth.
--- End quote ---

Meanwhile, back at the Bioboards, the mods seem to have the week off or something (?) and the forums have become even more entertaining as a result (spoilers past first post).


--- Quote ---(Re: Everybody's a Goddamn Blood Mage)
Maybe its the games way of saying it bites you in the ass, much like backing the Communists did for alot of your more smart and rich Russians.
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Johnny C:
everybody is a fucking blood mage, that's a good point

KvP:
Seriously I can't think of a single mage aside from Bethany who isn't a blood mage.

Another retcon - in DA:O, demonic possession was something that happened to practitioners of blood magic, which you could only learn via pact with a fade spirit. In DA2, demonic possession apparently happens when someone with latent magical ability, however untrained, enters into a situation of extreme stress or minor physical harm (that or the demonic pact trade in Kirkwall is a buyer's market). There's no ambiguity ala DA:O - mages are literally bombs just waiting to go off and the Templars, who seemed draconian before, are now completely justified in the most draconian anti-magic efforts.

If anything, I'd attribute it to the need to have melee fighters in mage-centric battles - abominations fight hand-to-hand. It also is just kind of indicative of the serious lack of non-combat solutions to a lot of quests.

Johnny C:
like do you realize that after this term ends i'm going to buy and replay da:o probably just to see if i'm being too fond in how i remember it? and to see how the story holds up?

not sure how i feel about the qunari in this game either

KvP:
I would advise looking up a few mods first - The Fade portion of the Circle Tower mission is fun once, but a slog on replay. There are mods to remove things like that. You'll probably have fun, until you get to the Deep Roads. Errybody hates the Deep Roads.

If you're hoping to maybe shake DA2 up with a different save import from DA:O, you probably shouldn't bother - People have compared notes and apparently many of the major DA:O decisions (character deaths, who gets crowned ruler of Ferelden, etc.) are entirely ignored, not even in a "they don't mention it" way, either. There are apparently aspects of the storyline that are canon no matter what you actually did.

Speaking of major decisions, will there be any reason to revisit this game, should one finish it? I'm mopping up all the missions in Act 1 and I feel like there's probably nothing I haven't seen that will be revealed in a second playthrough. I feel like Bio may have taken a look at replay statistics and decided it wasn't worth the bother.

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