Azrael the cat
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Re: Review
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Dragon Age: The Calling
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Warden
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I read it all! Very nice review, TNO.
Good point.
This whole DA world seems juvenile; from naming to lore..
Azarkon said:
Good point.
This whole DA world seems juvenile; from naming to lore..
Lesifoere
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Hümmelgümpf said:
This. Is amazing how one can tell exactly the level of quality just from the capitalization of one single word, but true.
TNO said:
:D :D :D
That's not really a compliment, though. And I'm not sure Gaider has higher aspirations than this, either--crapping out dumb fanfiction-esque generica aimed at Bioware fans seems to mark the pinnacle of his life achievement.
And I thought my writing was amateur level... holy shit.
Clockwork Knight said:
There's stupid, and there's really, really, really stupid. The 'lets send a stream of enemies after this guy one by one in slightly increased titrated difficulty" sequence is one. The fact Bastila can run around upper Taris with her lightsaber out in front of the Sith troops meant to be hunting for her is another. That Malak, when he has the drop on our hero with his ship immobilised infront of their ****-off large battle ship, he doesn't simply nuke it (so what if he loses Bastila? He's got an unstoppable superweapon.) That he keeps delaying you so he can 'unleash the full fury of the starforge' at you and get you in a bind where you die to his infinite respawn droids of doom. But you can just bash the door to the exit grid and walk away. And so on. He wasn't just short-sighted, brash and unintelligent, he was game developer idiot.
Anyway, even if Malak is a Palin level idiot (IQ =80, btw. Lol) the rest of the Sith, assumedly, are not idiots. But they are, cos it's bioware.
DraicKin said:
Hmm... tempting, although I'm quite busy atm.
P.S. OMFG I've just seen the end of the F3 LP. How the... what the fu- ... Screw being a medical student, I'm going to write shitty stories for AAA titles. That is the most idiotic thing I've ever seen in something that a writer got paid for.
[Wisdom] It was a deliberately back-handed complement (if someone told me my writing was generally better than fan-fiction, I'd flame em.) I'm english, we like elegant not-obviously-offensive stuff like that.
More seriously, I think BW should just hire some freelancers to do the novels (hell, Games Workshop routinely wanks its fandom by having community short story competitions) they wouldn't be anything good, but they'd be functionally mediocre, and they wouldn't risk damaging the reputation of your in-house writers as, well, people who can write. Failing that, use a ghost writer.
P.S. First lines of Gaider's first DA novel. DA: Stolen throne.
:facepalm: :Literaryabortion:
No, just no. I take back the offer of doing a let's read of this barring provision of a lifetime supply of hookers and blow.
St. Toxic
Arcane
Re: Review
Good show.
TNO said:
Good show.
GarfunkeL
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Annonchinil said:
Codex Playground. Top post has links to all LP's.
And lazy choice:
Fallout3, the ultimate in bad writing: http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=34530
And then the Muthafucking Shepards, start with male renegade:
http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=33923
and continue with female paragon, where the Biowhorism really sinks in:
http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=34444
Zeus
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I haven't read the chapter, but Dragon Age sounds fairly generic. It's a shame, too, because when I think dark fantasy, I think horror, and when I think horror, I think of the unknown.
I don't remember the last time any news about Dragon Age surprised me. Like TNO said, elves are elves. Anyone remember Anson Maddocks' design for the original Llanowar Elves? You see something like that and think, "Woah, that guy's a freakshow. Wonder what his deal is." It looks like the kind of elf who'd chew you down to bones and turn you into fertilizer. The elves in Dragon Age: Origins... heck, the whole game seems about as much a "Dark Fantasy" game as Alpha Protocol is a "Roleplaying" game. Yes, it's gritty, dimly lit, and according to the ESRB, mature. But that doesn't make it the least bit interesting or unusual. It's like that Lord of the Rings RPG on Gamecube with blood filters turned on.
P.S. Yay, 200 posts. :D
I don't remember the last time any news about Dragon Age surprised me. Like TNO said, elves are elves. Anyone remember Anson Maddocks' design for the original Llanowar Elves? You see something like that and think, "Woah, that guy's a freakshow. Wonder what his deal is." It looks like the kind of elf who'd chew you down to bones and turn you into fertilizer. The elves in Dragon Age: Origins... heck, the whole game seems about as much a "Dark Fantasy" game as Alpha Protocol is a "Roleplaying" game. Yes, it's gritty, dimly lit, and according to the ESRB, mature. But that doesn't make it the least bit interesting or unusual. It's like that Lord of the Rings RPG on Gamecube with blood filters turned on.
P.S. Yay, 200 posts. :D
Warden
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Clockwork Knight
Arcane
TNO said:
Thousands upon thousands of games are guilty of this. I tend to see it as a gameplay thing
I would review this, but it is just as bad as before, so there isn't really anything else to say.
Fair point, but KOTOR I think takes the michael with this mechanic. Especially when it is _harder_ to sent your forces in piecemeal then send them in all at once to whomp the player.
Clockwork Knight said:
Fair point, but KOTOR I think takes the michael with this mechanic. Especially when it is _harder_ to sent your forces in piecemeal then send them in all at once to whomp the player.
Warden
Arbiter
TNO said:
I think this 2nd half is worse than the 1st. Do you agree?
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