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Sexgun Rasputin posted:eff bioware for doing competent pr on this game  - “I'm here to set things right. Also? To look dashing. That part's less difficult.” Bioware's character writing is going to be as strong as ever.
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A Steampunk Gent posted:
if i can dick this dude down with my burly dwarf rogue, goty.
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Aug 28, 2014 08:25
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Sexgun Rasputin posted:if i can dick this dude down with my burly dwarf rogue, goty. You can, congratulations! As long as that burly dwarf rogue is male of course.
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Aug 28, 2014 09:10
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Raygereio posted:Origin did not make a good first impression. When it launched, it was in terms of functionality just the old EA download manager with a lovely reskin, none of the existing bugs fixed and with a host of new bugs. The real problem with Origin is that EA uses this to release their games exclusively on that platform. If I want to play Mass Effect 3 on Steam, I can't. I don't like being force-fed a specific service. Sure, they are free to do what they will with their games, but this is an rear end in a top hat move. I hasn't escaped me that Valve does the same (you can play their games only on their platform), but they are a game developer, not a publisher, so the amount of games exclusive to Steam is much, much smaller. Still an rear end in a top hat move. I like the cynicism of these huge companies twist the idea of free market to accommodate for their
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In fairness to them, EA has a valuable product that they want to make money from, and Steam while in general pretty benevolent has an equally corporate near-monopoly on digital distribution. It's easy to think of Origin as awful and Steam as great (because Steam is a better piece of software with a far larger consumer base), but they're really just competing businesses and there isn't anything intrinsically shady about EA taking their games off Steam so that they can monetise exclusivity to their own platform. I mean, I still wish they didn't. Origin sucks!
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Aug 28, 2014 11:48
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Having to buy stupid Bioware Funny Money for some things is also a good reason to hate Origin. Our DLC is $24, but you can only buy Dumby Dollars in increments of $10.
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Aug 28, 2014 12:35
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graynull posted:Having to buy stupid Bioware Funny Money for some things is also a good reason to hate Origin. Our DLC is $24, but you can only buy Dumby Dollars in increments of $10. DA:I won't use goobledogock points though. You'll be able to buy DLC directly via Origin. Raygereio fucked around with this message at 13:10 on Aug 28, 2014 |
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Aug 28, 2014 13:06
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Raygereio posted:Bioware's goobledogock points aren't an Origin thing. That was Bioware's own lovely system that they originally set up for DA:O. No clue why they kept it for ME3. The MP DLC will be free, SP DLC will be available for real money. The MP item packs will be in game gold or a new currency you can buy called Platinum. Hopefully the packs won't cost something like 1000 platinum and you can only buy platinum in odd amounts. (who am I kidding it's EA}
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Aug 28, 2014 13:30
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WeaponBoy posted:You mean you got banned from the forums and consequently got banned from Origin as well? That's absolutely not supposed to happen. Hell, a banned Origin account is only supposed to be denied access to some stuff like future purchases, not losing all of their previous games. Pretty sure it was either Rynaga or KittenEmpress either way though, the only game I had on it was SimCity, and I charge back'd it after I got banned so it doesn't actually matter. It's just a reason I'll never use Origin as a platform. And yeah, I've been told that shouldn't have happened from the beginning, and that I could fight it, but I don't really care to fight it over pride or anything. I got my money back, EA lost a customer, it's a win win deal for me. 
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Aug 28, 2014 17:20
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KittyEmpress posted:Pretty sure it was either Rynaga or KittenEmpress I couldn't find any accounts with those names that weren't marked as active. It's possible you got a temp ban of some sort or they flat out deleted the account, but anyone who is moderating forums shouldn't have the ability to do that.
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Aug 28, 2014 19:29
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KittyEmpress posted:EA lost a customer Well, not if you buy it on the console
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Aug 28, 2014 23:15
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Thor-Stryker posted:Hope you guys are ready to buy 1,000 gold chests to unlock that IX Ultra-Rare Axe Shaft. The only difference between this and ME3M is the combat and the maps. I'm guessing they will have learned their lesson from ME3 and not make everything client side since it was trivially easy to cheat up millions of credits in 5 minutes with a few file edits. Pretty sure you only got banned if you did it in plain sight of another player who reported you too (although I stopped playing long ago so maybe they became more vigilant, but at the height of the game's popularity they were not). You're still gonna have people trying to find the Firebase White vs. Geth type exploits to make grinding easy though since you can't just buy what you want.
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Aug 28, 2014 23:29
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Hopefully the randomness in the maps will curtail stuff like humping the cover in that one room for forty minutes.
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Aug 28, 2014 23:36
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It was definitely me who started railing on Origin so I guess I'll include I'm not wild about Steam either and will circumvent it when I can.
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Aug 29, 2014 00:11
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I'm not a huge fan of Steam but at least it has like, a bajillion games and good sales. Origin... less so.
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Aug 29, 2014 00:13
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Shugojin posted:I'm not a huge fan of Steam but at least it has like, a bajillion games and good sales. Origin... less so. They've actually offered their entire library of games for free (by accident) at one or two points in the past. 
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Aug 29, 2014 00:41
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Lotish posted:Only complaint I had was the random nature of the packages meant I never got the guns I wanted after earning the credits. But in this case, we can take stuff we don't want and break it down to make other stuff, even unlocking other characters in the process. Obviously I'll need to see it in practice before I pass judgment, but in theory I can get behind that. That and the fact that everything had ten levels of upgrades and you wouldn't stop receiving cards for characters you already unlocked turned me off ME3's multiplayer. I just wanted to try all the new guys, but I couldn't stop getting cards for, say, Human Soldier or Avenger X. I did not want to play another dozen matches to hope that I won the lottery this time.
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Aug 29, 2014 01:46
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Has there been any new information on mounts? I wanna ride a bear. [insert preemptive joke about romance options]
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Aug 29, 2014 01:54
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BrianWilly posted:Has there been any new information on mounts? I wanna ride a bear. Not to my knowledge. I mean, you have a horse, or a swordpony if you have the DLC preorder stuff, but that's about it. Were there supposed to be lions and poo poo that we could ride?
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Aug 29, 2014 02:00
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They have said there will be mount variety in the game besides the normal horse, so you don't need the preorder DLC to have more than just one mount type. I remember they said something about a lizard-like horse or mount being an option, though as I recall they were quick to point out that doesn't mean you can ride a dragon or wyvern.
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Aug 29, 2014 03:07
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Lotish posted:They have said there will be mount variety in the game besides the normal horse, so you don't need the preorder DLC to have more than just one mount type. I remember they said something about a lizard-like horse or mount being an option, though as I recall they were quick to point out that doesn't mean you can ride a dragon or wyvern. So a manticore. Sounds awesome.
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Aug 29, 2014 03:23
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Frankly, I would like my own Leopold.
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Aug 29, 2014 03:35
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I'm hoping this means we get Dewbacks or Dewback Equivalents.
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Aug 29, 2014 03:37
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Lotish posted:Frankly, I would like my own Leopold. If we play as a dwarf we just ride around on the shoulders of one of our companions.
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Drifter posted:If we play as a dwarf we just ride around on the shoulders of one of our companions. I actually do this in a tabletop game I play in. It's just a great mental image.
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Aug 29, 2014 04:32
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Seeing as the characters in multiplayer banter with one another, I really hope they go pretty meta if everyone picks the same one. Even if it's just slightly jokey comments about how they always agree. Not acknowledging it in any sense would be a bit stupid.
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Geostomp posted:That and the fact that everything had ten levels of upgrades and you wouldn't stop receiving cards for characters you already unlocked turned me off ME3's multiplayer. I just wanted to try all the new guys, but I couldn't stop getting cards for, say, Human Soldier or Avenger X. I did not want to play another dozen matches to hope that I won the lottery this time. Yeah, that got pretty annoying, but it sounds like DA3 is going to have a crafting system wherein you can break down the loot you get into components if you decide you don't want it...hopefully that will cut down on the useless loot grinding at least a little bit.
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Spikeguy posted:I actually do this in a tabletop game I play in. It's just a great mental image. Had it not been the Frostbite engine my day one mod would be to have, if you weren't a dwarf, you riding Varric's shoulders.
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Aug 29, 2014 15:51
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Drifter posted:If we play as a dwarf we just ride around on the shoulders of one of our companions. Only acceptable if the mount is the original Grey Warden PC. And all he says is his most famous line regarding a ladder.
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Drifter posted:Had it not been the Frostbite engine my day one mod would be to have, if you weren't a dwarf, you riding Varric's shoulders. 
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Aug 29, 2014 16:10
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poo poo, of COURSE there would be a strobe effect shader wherever we walked.
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Raygereio posted:Origin did not make a good first impression. When it launched, it was in terms of functionality just the old EA download manager with a lovely reskin, none of the existing bugs fixed and with a host of new bugs. Right now my own Origin quagmire is half their fault and half my own doing: -Reinstalled Mass Effect 2 on Steam -Whoops, BioWare Social Network is broken and I can't get the DLC installers! -Oh whatever, ME1 and ME2 are cheap. I'll just buy the triolgy on Origin. -*buy* -Wait, what's Redeem Product? I wonder if this works with Steam keys? -*redeem* -Well, gently caress. Fast forward to me having two copies of ME1 and ME2, one copy of ME3 and an outstanding refund request that might cost me my Steam keys for ME1 and ME2 since Origin customer service reps had no idea what I was talking about when I gave them the above timeline. Five minutes of explaining resulted in the first rep telling me to contact Steam customer service even after I told him I bought the games before Origin even existed, and when I asked for his manager I somehow ended up talking to EA Sports. The ME2 licenses are slightly different as only one appears to support cloud saves and the other gets a Cipher Error if I try to open it without running an update on the first one. Yeah it's my own fault for not trying to redeem existing CD keys first, but EA's treatment of paying customers is industry-worst. Furism posted:The real problem with Origin is that EA uses this to release their games exclusively on that platform. If I want to play Mass Effect 3 on Steam, I can't. I don't like being force-fed a specific service. Sure, they are free to do what they will with their games, but this is an rear end in a top hat move. I hasn't escaped me that Valve does the same (you can play their games only on their platform), but they are a game developer, not a publisher, so the amount of games exclusive to Steam is much, much smaller. Still an rear end in a top hat move. Shumagorath fucked around with this message at 18:42 on Aug 29, 2014 |
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Some tweets coming out of PAX- A war nug will be one of the mounts. You will have the option to turn of friendly fire. You can swim, but if you go too far, you'll get fatigued and probably die.
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Leelee posted:Some tweets coming out of PAX- GOTY
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Aug 29, 2014 20:16
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Aug 29, 2014 20:27
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Dragon Age Keep Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rNDZ0Ih3v0&feature=youtu.be
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Aug 29, 2014 20:30
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Keep definitely more involved than I thought.paragon1 posted:I'm hoping this means we get Dewbacks or Dewback Equivalents. Brontos just have to be an option. If a War Nug is in, how can a Bronto not?
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Haven't watched it yet but there is a 45 minute Q&A if anyone's interested.
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Leelee posted:Dragon Age Keep Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rNDZ0Ih3v0&feature=youtu.be The Keep looks like it's 1000% better than buggy savegame imports.
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