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Baron Dupek
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Wait, so Farmer class gain no XP at all from monsters (I heard he gain lesser XP at first)? Seems like Food will be no factor now, must be plenty of it for Farmers alone. Oh well...
Brb, playing Harvest Moon before LoG2.
Brb, playing Harvest Moon before LoG2.
DraQ
Arcane
Actually, that's a whole different thing, "Bros before hos" does transcend race or species.
baturinsky
Arcane
Looks like someone is not confident about his sexual identity. And maybe racial purity too.
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Essegi
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Wrong username in quote.:D
baturinsky
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Sorry, fixed
pippin
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Is the Farmer the new Shepherd (from Ultima)?
Well, after finishing Origins, I felt like importing my Warden into Awakening. Yes, I am aware of what I'm doing. Still, here are some random moments from the game.
After some sidequesting, a peasant mob starts complaining about lacking food and basic stuff. Since I have Persuasion maxed, I try to use that... but they attack anyway. After slaughtering them, the reaction was something like "gee, sometimes you have to kill all those peasants for things to go back to normality". My white male human noble warden clearly didn't checked his privilege.
Dorf city, like the black marsh, was an interesting location. Dorf lore was interesting in Dragon Age, at least it was more than just beign fantasy jews. But the giant golem is ridiculous, I mean, it's not even hard (more on this later), but it's confusing, since you have to deal with the graphic effects of their fire attacks. You spent the whole fight looking at flames. However, you find a cool set of armor here. Not everything was lost.
This will be under spoilers just in case:
Ok, so in Bio's logic a brood mother can have nipples but a regular woman can't. I mean, we all know how atrocious sex scenes are in DA:O. Some Biodrone told me that people often wear clothes during sex, and yeah, they do because of kinky reasons, but it's not that fucking fantasy bikini. I demand nipple freedom, goddamnit!
This is one of the last scenarios of Awakening - I already fought the good fight at Amaranthine, and I'm chasing the "mother" now. I took this one because I literally laughed at this: there's this architect vs mother conflict, which has darkspawn fighting some sort of civil war, and during one of those fights, this huge dragon arrives out of nowhere. I can't take this seriously, I really can't. Dragon Age is a good source of humor.
So, having 80-90% of the game completed (from what I gather), I can tell you this: Awakening is better than Origins, and that can be a compliment if you want it to. It's like 1/3 of Origins in terms of completion time (if you do everything), there are no romances (source of butthurt among biodrones), the areas are smaller (no Derp Roads of Mage Towers here), and the quests are brief, to the point, and more related to the main events than the usual Origins crap. Also, there is some vague sense of urgency about solving quests, since when you provide resources for your keep you feel you have accomplished something. On the downside, you can't lose/die. Origins wasn't hard, but in Awakening you're ridiculously overpowered. You have three specializations, gold is not an issue, magic items are OP as fuck (+3 to all atributes is normal here), etc. In general lines, I'd say Awakening feels like the Icewind Dale to Origins' Baldur's Gate. More fights, less talk, but this is still modern Bio, so YMMV.
Well, after finishing Origins, I felt like importing my Warden into Awakening. Yes, I am aware of what I'm doing. Still, here are some random moments from the game.
After some sidequesting, a peasant mob starts complaining about lacking food and basic stuff. Since I have Persuasion maxed, I try to use that... but they attack anyway. After slaughtering them, the reaction was something like "gee, sometimes you have to kill all those peasants for things to go back to normality". My white male human noble warden clearly didn't checked his privilege.
Dorf city, like the black marsh, was an interesting location. Dorf lore was interesting in Dragon Age, at least it was more than just beign fantasy jews. But the giant golem is ridiculous, I mean, it's not even hard (more on this later), but it's confusing, since you have to deal with the graphic effects of their fire attacks. You spent the whole fight looking at flames. However, you find a cool set of armor here. Not everything was lost.
This will be under spoilers just in case:
Ok, so in Bio's logic a brood mother can have nipples but a regular woman can't. I mean, we all know how atrocious sex scenes are in DA:O. Some Biodrone told me that people often wear clothes during sex, and yeah, they do because of kinky reasons, but it's not that fucking fantasy bikini. I demand nipple freedom, goddamnit!
This is one of the last scenarios of Awakening - I already fought the good fight at Amaranthine, and I'm chasing the "mother" now. I took this one because I literally laughed at this: there's this architect vs mother conflict, which has darkspawn fighting some sort of civil war, and during one of those fights, this huge dragon arrives out of nowhere. I can't take this seriously, I really can't. Dragon Age is a good source of humor.
So, having 80-90% of the game completed (from what I gather), I can tell you this: Awakening is better than Origins, and that can be a compliment if you want it to. It's like 1/3 of Origins in terms of completion time (if you do everything), there are no romances (source of butthurt among biodrones), the areas are smaller (no Derp Roads of Mage Towers here), and the quests are brief, to the point, and more related to the main events than the usual Origins crap. Also, there is some vague sense of urgency about solving quests, since when you provide resources for your keep you feel you have accomplished something. On the downside, you can't lose/die. Origins wasn't hard, but in Awakening you're ridiculously overpowered. You have three specializations, gold is not an issue, magic items are OP as fuck (+3 to all atributes is normal here), etc. In general lines, I'd say Awakening feels like the Icewind Dale to Origins' Baldur's Gate. More fights, less talk, but this is still modern Bio, so YMMV.
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SuicideBunny
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most monsters drop food, and monsters respawn over time (or mebbe story progress, hard to tell). super op class: ratling farmer with mutation and endurance. every 4 levels +1 to all stats, every time you eat cheese xp and chance of random + to a stat.
ScottishMartialArts
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Some screen shots from my playthrough of the MiG-21 campaign:
Sagaris is the best.
panzertoter
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SMA, what's that game? Lock On?
DCS?
Multi-headed Cow
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(niece killed my son and heir so naturally i stripped her of all titles, imprisoned her, and took her as a concubine to provide me with more sons. CRUSADER KINGS 2)
ScottishMartialArts
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Digital Combat Simulator, the MiG-21Bis module that came out a few weeks ago.
Machocruz
Arcane
The SJWs were right. The patriarchy hurts men too.
Kingpin!
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Penny Arcade's RPG with dumb name 1:
I'm impressed. I created a bro, customizing even the colors...
And he shows up exactly as I made him not only as a 3D model during combat & exploration...
But also in 2D art, during cutscenes and dialogs. More games should do this.
The rest of the game is just like Costume Quest though. Lite-JRPG about clicking buttons at the right time, but with PA's horrible humour. Ugh.
I'm impressed. I created a bro, customizing even the colors...
And he shows up exactly as I made him not only as a 3D model during combat & exploration...
But also in 2D art, during cutscenes and dialogs. More games should do this.
The rest of the game is just like Costume Quest though. Lite-JRPG about clicking buttons at the right time, but with PA's horrible humour. Ugh.
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