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Arcsquad12 posted:I don't know how anyone can enjoy the actual game play of the Dragon age games unless you're a spergtastic min-maxer who enjoys setting a thousand AI variables so he doesn't have to click during a fight. You shouldn't have to deal too much with that. Origins is easy with the DLC gear. You can be a Warrior who gets 100% magic resistance which makes Nightmare a joke. Or a Mage who doesn't even need gear. Or a Rogue who can stack so much cunning you backstab for ridiculous amounts. DA2 has DLC gear too but it's not as overpowering as the stuff in Origins. Also I think the Nightmare mode in that is the hardest of the three by virtue of the fact that it forces friendly fire. And none of the classes seem as individual OP as the stuff you can do in Origins or Inquisition. Inquisition can be broken over your knee regardless of class if you craft stuff. The only way it becomes a big challenge is if you use the trials.
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Any tips to make your second playthrough Opposite day jackass character playthrough fun for Inusistion? The hinterlands relly is hell also i'm dating solas
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Sinners Sandwich posted:Any tips to make your second playthrough Opposite day jackass character playthrough fun for Inusistion? The hinterlands relly is hell also i'm dating solas One thing: tell them at any and all points that you have your own gods and you ARE NOT the chosen one. You have to start this from the very first convo and keep it up till at least haven. No middle ground “maybe I am” but instead “I am not the herald and Bugger your silly made up gods”. Good, funny bits. Plenty of sarcastic and joke responses around on top of it. Plus Solas will help you see just how legit they really were. My only regret is I couldn’t dedicate myself to the dread wolf as my god from the start. That would have been an amusing touch. Dating Solas gives you far more insight and it really gives the end and Trespasser more punch. Best romance ever. Was recommended to me and I am so glad I rerolled a fem dalish. Making a mage is even more cherry on the sundae just FYI. Have fun. It’s the best run. Thinking about doing my dwarf faithful run but I’m torn on dagger rogue as I really dig on Cole. Might just go human tank so I can be the atypical poster boy. Torn because I really like playing Dwarves. Edit: dagger rogues take some watching early game but they are beastly DPS. They will melt most baddies. Sword and board are the vastly superior tank. Upgrade challenge and fill that tree as you won’t be disappointed. DogsInSpace! fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Dec 3, 2017 |
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Sinners Sandwich posted:Any tips to make your second playthrough Opposite day jackass character playthrough fun for Inusistion? The hinterlands relly is hell also i'm dating solas You could turn that trial on that magnifies companion disapproval, that should help you see their 'I hate you' scenes. But I did think DA:I was disappointing in this regard, especially after DA2 - the player character never really sounds different.
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Tempest Rogue is very fun in DAI for the ridiculous damage and escapes and hitting-every-button you get from it. Also, it means you don't have to use Sera!
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Bogart posted:Tempest Rogue is very fun in DAI for the ridiculous damage and escapes and hitting-every-button you get from it. Also, it means you don't have to use Sera! Also once you get the throwing daggers ability and some gear you can pretty much solo Dragons. Pop Lightning Flask to get into position, then Pop Fire Flask and spam Throwing Daggers. The damage will continue to ramp up the more you spam until that poor Dragon is getting hit for 8k a hit. I would kill Dragons in under a minute with that build.
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Please stop making me want to do another Tempest, I haven't finished my boring archer run yet
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eating only apples posted:Please stop making me want to do another Tempest, I haven't finished my boring archer run yet Is there a Dragon Age in which archery isn't dull? I've just started a new DA2 game specifically to find this out, but I suppose it'll take a while to get enough skills to be sure of how dull they are.
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Agean90 posted:Yeah the whole "wizards are persecuted" thing falls flat when 95% of wizards outside the party cant go shopping without summoning a bunch of demons or resorting to blood magic because some dude on the street was rude to them Hmmm yeah nearly a millennium of hideously cruel and unrelenting oppression for being born the way you are absolutely won't drive people to desperation or anger 
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Of course mages would make good bankers and merchants, it's just biology
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Please go ahead and rob our bank! We have a whole pond full of people who tried to rob us.
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Mister Adequate posted:Hmmm yeah nearly a millennium of hideously cruel and unrelenting oppression for being born the way you are absolutely won't drive people to desperation or anger Or maybe don't build a Mage Circle and/or prison in a city that sits atop a gigantic demonic pit where blood sacrifices were committed for generations.
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I have a minor bowel movement every time my Bookmarked Threads show this thread as having four unread posts.
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BrianWilly posted:I have a minor bowel movement every time my Bookmarked Threads show this thread as having four unread posts.  if I'm being honest
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Yeah I have to remind myself to read this thread every time it just has two or three new posts PS hi, I am the most ridiculous fan of this series: I got a tattoo about 18 months ago. On my calf; ignore the pores.
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Oh dear me posted:Is there a Dragon Age in which archery isn't dull? Inquisition archers are great. Grab the skill that pulls you to an enemy + the skill where you backflip away while shooting a bunch of exploding arrows and go to town.
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Just finished trespasser. The wolf is a gently caress. Iron Bull is a gently caress. Cannot wait to kill all qunari and elfs.
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eating only apples posted:Yeah I have to remind myself to read this thread every time it just has two or three new posts nice! Are you going to get any other colors?
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HIJK posted:nice! Are you going to get any other colors? Not planning on it at the moment - it matches my opposite calf tattoo, which is the Red Tree from Deadly Premonition, and is black and red. Eventually maybe I might expand it but depends on how I feel about the game in a couple of years. It might turn into a full sock with characters and everything, or more likely it'll stay as it is.
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Robo Turnus posted:Iron Bull is a gently caress. That's what you deserve.
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Robo Turnus posted:Iron Bull is a gently caress. 410,757,864,530 DEAD TEMPLARS also I didn't do the Keep thing when I started this run and I wish I had; I didn't realize Hawke would show up, and I assume that Hawke is your character from DA2 if you imported save data. Aw well.
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Yeah there is literally no reason to save the qunari horde over the people you've met, one of whom you've hung out with a bit. Not like the Chargers are great or anything but they're better than Unnamed Horde and Bull doesn't seem to give two shits anyway. I'm honestly a bit disappointed I'll never get to stick a knife in his heart because I like the Chargers - well, I like having Krem around - and that's enough for me to save them first. I don't even like Bull. I'll use Sera over him. (also if you hang with him it's more than implied he does a sexual assault or rape on a mega-drunk Dorian, which is more than enough for me to never take him along, ever) eating only apples fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Dec 4, 2017 |
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Nephthys posted:It's not that they aren't worth making, they just don't make ALL THE MONEY like lootbox simulators do. Ya I understand. It is really hard to compare those two games because they have very different business models and development cycles/costs. Fifa games also probably cost next to nothing to make at this point. As someone who use play/buy every Fifa(big soccer fan) they rarely upgrade assets or even implement gameplay changes such as new physics or game mechanics. The cost of production on these sports games must be insanely low for EA. They pay for the league licenses, server maintenance and marketing. The turnover is probably insane, big triple a games like DA can't compete with that kind of business model. Only maybe mobile games can compete with that kind of turnover since production cost and coding is a lot easier on android/os so you can hire less experienced programmers.
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Bull is absolutely begging for a reason to defect at the point you choose between the Chargers and the Qun warships; he could've no problem blamed the whole thing on the Inquisition and stayed in good with a bit of subterfuge (you know, his specialty  ), but he wanted to go uhhh whats the dumbass word TAL VASHOTH that's it and be one of the Chargers instead of one of the Qun. I mean, look at 99% of the other Qunari you meet. Big hint: they don't use names, they use titles.(But yeah the whole Bull/Dorian thing is not my cup of tea one bit. Dorian deserves better.)
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There's not much justification for choosing the Qunari for any character really. They have a long history of not negotiating.
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Bogart posted:Tempest Rogue is very fun in DAI for the ridiculous damage and escapes and hitting-every-button you get from it. Also, it means you don't have to use Sera! Tempest Rogue is so insane that even with a slightly gimpy build where I just spammed that shadow strike uppercut move with fire flask (which will only hit them 4-5 times because of the knockback instead of like twenty) I steamrolled everything but the Deep Roads. The only issue was being a glass cannon but I imagine that health leeching power added in Trespasser makes it even easier.
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Von_Doom posted:Thinking about doing my dwarf faithful run but I’m torn on dagger rogue as I really dig on Cole.
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Robo Turnus posted:The wolf is a gently caress. Iron Bull is a gently caress. Indeed.
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eating only apples posted:Yeah there is literally no reason to save the qunari horde over the people you've met There is an obvious reason, which is that they are a horde: or, at any rate, an entire ship's crew, which is surely going to be more people than a half dozen chargers. Saving the dreadnought is the morally correct choice. Getting to kill Bull afterwards is just a bonus.
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eating only apples posted:I don't even like Bull. I'll use Sera over him. It's been said but the AI is absolutely worthless when they're playing Bull. I used him in my Mage game and he was dead the entire goddamn time.
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eating only apples posted:(also if you hang with him it's more than implied he does a sexual assault or rape on a mega-drunk Dorian, which is more than enough for me to never take him along, ever) It’s been a long time since I played/watched any of these scenes but I missed this one! Given the way most fans support this possible couple I’m surprised. Do a lot of folks just interpret the dialog differently or do they still struggle with the idea of taking advantage of a drunk person’s lack of inhibitions is rape/assault since there’s no clear consent? Taear posted:It's been said but the AI is absolutely worthless when they're playing Bull. I used him in my Mage game and he was dead the entire goddamn time. On a less  note yep, went through the same thing. It’s like Cassandra was the only professional in the whole group. I kept getting WoW raid flashbacks.
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I really dont understand why after selling really well and becoming a classic Bioware decided to turn the Dragons Age franchise into whatever the hell it is today DAO was so good. I remember watching this stream they were doing prerelease where people were racing to finish the game and when I saw they were actually getting owned in the combat I knew the game was going to be great
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babypolis posted:I really dont understand why after selling really well and becoming a classic Bioware decided to turn the Dragons Age franchise into whatever the hell it is today EA at the time wanted to diversify their output and bought up all these prestige studios expecting them to deliver a game of DA:O's quality every 24 months. Bioware was RPG Game Dev, Visceral was Horror Game Dev, etc. Obviously a developer like Bioware who had a characteristically deliberate approach to game design and iteration couldn't keep up with the greatly accelerated timetables and stumbled with DA2 and ME3. Over time they realized this approach wasn't as profitable as just homogenizing every single product into sports & shootman game with lootboxes and unceremoniously dumped all their subsidiaries.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:It’s been a long time since I played/watched any of these scenes but I missed this one! Given the way most fans support this possible couple I’m surprised. Do a lot of folks just interpret the dialog differently or do they still struggle with the idea of taking advantage of a drunk person’s lack of inhibitions is rape/assault since there’s no clear consent? In my experience, people's distaste for Dorian/Iron Bull tends to come from the fact that their last banter before hooking up (or one of the last ones, I could be wrong on the order) has Bull doing a whole "I'm a big bad Qunari, I could totally hold you down and conquer you" thing, which he backs down from (with an "Oh. Is that not where we're going?" response) when Dorian has an "uh what" reaction--it's pretty clearly supposed to be sort of a roleplay flirting thing, not a real rape threat. And after they do hook up, Dorian mentions it first happened after an ill-advised night of drinking. But Dorian also leaves his underwear in Bull's room as an excuse to come back rather than just suggesting they have another go, and if you talk to him about their hookup, he compares it to Fereldan beer--he likes it, but he's embarrassed to like it/feels that he shouldn't, so he's quiet about it until Trespasser, when time has passed and he's grown more comfortable. Don't get me wrong, I think it's completely fair if people are put off by the above/think unfortunate implications still matter in-universe even if they weren't intended by the writers. And it's true that many victims of assault (and others) don't even recognize it as such if they willingly got drunk. But it's not accurate to reduce it to "Bull definitely assaulted a black-out drunk Dorian and people who like them as a couple are okay with that" which I've seen some people do. Anyway if my game is anything to go by, people don't need to worry about that hookup getting rubbed in their faces because it was something like 100 hours before they banged in my first playthrough.
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effervescible posted:IB-Dorian explanation Thanks. I did not remember the rape so was getting concerned. I liked IB and Dorian. Dorian especially. babypolis posted:I really dont understand why after selling really well and becoming a classic Bioware decided to turn the Dragons Age franchise into whatever the hell it is today Same. I miss the old wheel and combat from DAO. Hell many things about DAO. I play on the xbox exclusively and having to stick with just a small amount of spells and skills is annoying. One of the best things about levelling up a mage is the sheer amount of spells to choose from. I LOVED having a giant spell reservoir to draw from. Petrify and stonefist? Yay. grease and fireball? Yes please. Frozen baddie meet crushing prison. The quick bar is nice and all but I like it as just a quick bar as opposed to the only things I can access in combat. I also miss long term pets. If I work to having a necro let me summon a bloody skeleton. At least one. Ranger having a permanent buddy? Yes, please. Also I miss the old specializations. They were a minor addition as opposed to having to choose a path. SubponticatePoster posted:Respec him into archery and Sera to daggers. Meshes much better with their specializations, as cams points out. Ooooh nice. Two Rogues, 1 tank and 1 mage? That sounds challenging. I've gotten spoiled to using two mages constantly. If I can ask: is there that much more of a payoff for faithful andraste human than dwarf? I've already been the ultimate outsider so I'm thinking doing a human might be the best reverse to that. Robo Turnus posted:Just finished trespasser. The wolf is a gently caress. Iron Bull is a gently caress. Cannot wait to kill all qunari and elfs.
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I see Solas as just another side of the same coin as Corypheus: Haughty arrogant old dudes who want to forcibly revert the world back to some abstract ideal that never really existed, that they themselves played a central role in loving up to begin with. gently caress that noise, Thedas may be a steaming shitheap but at least it's OUR shitheap, so go gently caress off to the veil and leave us alone.
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exquisite tea posted:I see Solas as just another side of the same coin as Corypheus: Haughty arrogant old dudes who want to forcibly revert the world back to some abstract ideal that never really existed, that they themselves played a central role in loving up to begin with. gently caress that noise, Thedas may be a steaming shitheap but at least it's OUR shitheap, so go gently caress off to the veil and leave us alone. By all accounts, the world of Dragon Age has never not sucked for anyone except the elite few in power. The best the current out group can ever hope for is to luck into a position of power like the Inquisitor where what they actually are and want will be conveniently ignored and rewritten by history to support the ruling class and status quo (see: Andraste, the first Inquisitor guy, Thane Shartan, etc) or to become a certified Uncle Tom like Sera. One reason why I dislike Sera so much. The seemingly "smash the state!" girl is actually the most fiercely devoted to maintaining the status quo.
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