The thing about the spiders in DA is their rape animation. It was a little unsettling. Other than that they didn't bother me.
I remember the first time I encountered them in the Mage Origins. The first time they descended from the ceiling with their hissing, I actually screamed. Not that I was entirely scared, but it was certainly startling enough to make me scream.
The hell, is it me are are half in the people in this thread afraid of spiders? RPGs are not really the genre in which arachnophobes are the safest from their phobia.
Then again, it's not as bad as an MMO player being afraid of rats.
I thought the spiders in Dragon Age looked mighty cool...
Why are fantasy RPG's so damn stuck on spiders? I mean christ... so much more creepier stuff out there. Like this leech thing from King Kong. Jesus Christ, now THIS is f*in scary.
imagine if they were five-foot spiders jumping on you and dragging you down and ripping you open and sucking out your juices while you're still alive, though.
just as bad.
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Tarantulas never really did anything for me. They're just big, lumbering, colourful blobs that barely even move.
Put me in front of a Brown Recluse or a Camel Spider and I will fucking bow to our arachnic overlords.
Camel spiders aren't real spiders, they're solifugids. Sorry for being anal but I am a spider geek and this mistake is common and it really gets on my tits.
Tarantulas never really did anything for me. They're just big, lumbering, colourful blobs that barely even move.
Put me in front of a Brown Recluse or a Camel Spider and I will fucking bow to our arachnic overlords.
Camel spiders aren't real spiders, they're solifugids. Sorry for being anal but I am a spider geek and this mistake is common and it really gets on my tits.
I never said they were spiders. I said they were "arachnics"... which they also aren't.
Question. Dragon Age is high on my 'do want' list of games. For the expansions, can I buy them in any order? If so, what expansions would you recommend after I get the game? Is there any sort of premium edition which includes some of the expansions already?
Question. Dragon Age is high on my 'do want' list of games. For the expansions, can I buy them in any order? If so, what expansions would you recommend after I get the game? Is there any sort of premium edition which includes some of the expansions already?
There is only one expansion and its released this month (the 16th, I believe). There are also 2 DLC quests that you can get. They take place during the original game. Personally, I thought Soldier's Keep was worth it because there was some cool Greywarden history elements to it, but Return to Ostagar was probably a bit over priced, IMO.
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Question. Dragon Age is high on my 'do want' list of games. For the expansions, can I buy them in any order? If so, what expansions would you recommend after I get the game? Is there any sort of premium edition which includes some of the expansions already?
There is only one expansion and its released this month (the 16th, I believe). There are also 2 DLC quests that you can get. They take place during the original game. Personally, I thought Soldier's Keep was worth it because there was some cool Greywarden history elements to it, but Return to Ostagar was probably a bit over priced, IMO.
That would be 3 DLC quests. One is free if you buy the game new, though.
The only must-buy DLC is The Stone Prisoner, which is free if you get the game new. It adds a ton of content and one of the best characters in the game.
The only must-buy DLC is The Stone Prisoner, which is free if you get the game new. It adds a ton of content and one of the best characters in the game.
I dunno... Warden's Keep is the only DLC with content (The blood skills) that carries over.
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The only must-buy DLC is The Stone Prisoner, which is free if you get the game new. It adds a ton of content and one of the best characters in the game.
I dunno... Warden's Keep is the only DLC with content (The blood skills) that carries over.
Wardens Keep was actually pretty fun to play through, and had some more interesting gear than the rest of the main campaign. The armour looked more interesting and you got a sword that looked like more than a standard longsword. I'd rate is as equal to Stone Prisoner. Return to Ostagar I haven't even gone through yet, so I have no idea how it plays.
The only must-buy DLC is The Stone Prisoner, which is free if you get the game new. It adds a ton of content and one of the best characters in the game.
I dunno... Warden's Keep is the only DLC with content (The blood skills) that carries over.
Wardens Keep was actually pretty fun to play through, and had some more interesting gear than the rest of the main campaign. The armour looked more interesting and you got a sword that looked like more than a standard longsword. I'd rate is as equal to Stone Prisoner. Return to Ostagar I haven't even gone through yet, so I have no idea how it plays.
I think all three are pretty decent values. Ostagar gets a bad rap, but it shines if you are into inter-party dialogue. It's worth it for:
the conversation you get if you bring Wynne and
Loghain
with you, alone.
Warden's Keep is a nice story with good loot, but The Stone Prisoner gives you one of the best characters in the game plus:
There's the initial, albeit short, quest to get Shale, all the Shale dialogue you can unlock, a ton of good inter-party banter, the fact that Shale is the most versatile fighter in the game and the sidequest and major plot tie-in in the Deep Roads. There's at least triple as much gameplay in the Stone Prisoner as Warden's Keep.
Have they said if you need your DA:O disc at all for starting Awakening? My disc is with my brother in Cali at the moment and I doubt I'll see it until he's finished
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Have they said if you need your DA:O disc at all for starting Awakening? My disc is with my brother in Cali at the moment and I doubt I'll see it until he's finished
If you don't, couldn't people just install their friend's original disc and play Awakening without ever owning the original?
... in fact, the same can be said if they made it the other way around.
I've never owned a 360 expansion that came on a separate disc... how do they combat piracy?
Have they said if you need your DA:O disc at all for starting Awakening? My disc is with my brother in Cali at the moment and I doubt I'll see it until he's finished
If you don't, couldn't people just install their friend's original disc and play Awakening without ever owning the original?
... in fact, the same can be said if they made it the other way around.
I've never owned a 360 expansion that came on a separate disc... how do they combat piracy?
Well, PC wise, isn't it usually you install the games, and then have the disc in for whichever one you are playing?
Console wise, it might actually install the whole thing and treat it like DLC.
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Uh, why? It's semi-official and depicts something they cut from the game, which does actually partially explain why Morrigan handles the following scene the way she does.
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Uh, why? It's semi-official and depicts something they cut from the game, which does actually partially explain why Morrigan handles the following scene the way she does.
...I can see why it was cut. Just doesn't mesh well with everything else.
Uh, why? It's semi-official and depicts something they cut from the game, which does actually partially explain why Morrigan handles the following scene the way she does.
...I can see why it was cut. Just doesn't mesh well with everything else.
That's great. Now why am I twisted?
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Uh, why? It's semi-official and depicts something they cut from the game, which does actually partially explain why Morrigan handles the following scene the way she does.
...I can see why it was cut. Just doesn't mesh well with everything else.
That's great. Now why am I twisted?
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Oh...I clicked on the image of Morrigan bawling first and I thought you were posting horrible fanwork again.
Is there any way to copy/paste what Pancake linked? Site's blocked from work and I can't see what all the fuss is about.
I'll give you a plot summary
Alistair walks outside after Riordan tells him about the sacrifice.
Morrigan is there and they trade barbs.
She asks him if he believes that you should do something awful to help a friend.
He's shocked that she cares about his opinion, but answers yes.
She cries.
She (presumably) talks to Flemeth (the way people talk to dead parents), telling her that she was right.
In regards to what Morrigan meant "doing something awful to help a friend" and also by what she meant when she conceeded that Flemmeth was right. What was she right about?
Perhaps by "something awful" she means breaking the Warden's heart by leaving him, and "she was right" means Flemmeth had warned her not to get emotionally attached to the Warden because it would end badly, but she did anyway.
Uh, why? It's semi-official and depicts something they cut from the game, which does actually partially explain why Morrigan handles the following scene the way she does.
Well, if you consider the Morrigan in the comic not to be like, Morrigan's 'good twin' exhibiting traits that that vile harpy-clawed harridan would never be found in possession of, then yes, it explains her attempts to sleep with you totally and utterly.
If, of course, you pay attention to the Morrigan in the game,
you are left instead with the likely conclusion that she plans little other than to sleep with you, bear an Old God child, and then possess it using the same technique her mother has used for the last few centuries. In particular, if you explored a few of the dialogue leaves within the "I want your taint inside me" conversation, you would see her intentions are certainly not in the vein of helping saving a friend in the least. She won't tell you how powerful it would be, what she would do with it, and she says she would leave immediately after and not tell you where she was going.
Because that's what friends do for friends???!?!?!
Yeah, I was really, REALLY pissed it didn't give me the option to cut Morrigan down like a dog at that point. I would have utterly raped her, and
She had basically just told me she wanted to absorb the power of the archdemon and use it for her own ends, without letting me in on the deal or giving me a hint of what she actually wanted to do with the power of a literal god.
I can't think of any character motivation for anything ranging from will-eat-babies-for-2-XP-points power hungry maniac to 'takes-a-kitty-saving-sidequest-while-the-world-burns' goody two shoes that WOULDN'T lead to offing her at that point.
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She just asked to have sex with you. This limits the possibility of actual rape somewhat.
The 'utterly raped' comment follows on from a sentence containing "cut [her] down like a dog". Unless this is a euphemism for sex that I have not yet encountered, I again am unsure of the likelihood of it being succeeded by penetration/scissoring(? I never really understood how having intimate girl time would get the taint across but okay there Bioware).
- She had started to warm up a bit, and I wanted to make a show of trust in her
- I didn't feel like wasting all the effort spent building up myself and Alistair
- I found it utterly hilarious how I was constantly telling Alistair who to sleep with (playing a fem Warden who'd dumped him for Leliana)
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I remember the first time I encountered them in the Mage Origins. The first time they descended from the ceiling with their hissing, I actually screamed. Not that I was entirely scared, but it was certainly startling enough to make me scream.
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Then again, it's not as bad as an MMO player being afraid of rats.
I thought the spiders in Dragon Age looked mighty cool...
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You do. When they crawl into your mouth at night.
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Birds, lizards, ants, centipedes, and a few others
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imagine if they were five-foot spiders jumping on you and dragging you down and ripping you open and sucking out your juices while you're still alive, though.
just as bad.
Camel spiders aren't real spiders, they're solifugids. Sorry for being anal but I am a spider geek and this mistake is common and it really gets on my tits.
It's funny because both of the following comments applied to both sets of pictures.
I never said they were spiders. I said they were "arachnics"... which they also aren't.
Uhh... HEY OVER THERE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms2klX-puUU
There is only one expansion and its released this month (the 16th, I believe). There are also 2 DLC quests that you can get. They take place during the original game. Personally, I thought Soldier's Keep was worth it because there was some cool Greywarden history elements to it, but Return to Ostagar was probably a bit over priced, IMO.
That would be 3 DLC quests. One is free if you buy the game new, though.
I dunno... Warden's Keep is the only DLC with content (The blood skills) that carries over.
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Wardens Keep was actually pretty fun to play through, and had some more interesting gear than the rest of the main campaign. The armour looked more interesting and you got a sword that looked like more than a standard longsword. I'd rate is as equal to Stone Prisoner. Return to Ostagar I haven't even gone through yet, so I have no idea how it plays.
I think all three are pretty decent values. Ostagar gets a bad rap, but it shines if you are into inter-party dialogue. It's worth it for:
Warden's Keep is a nice story with good loot, but The Stone Prisoner gives you one of the best characters in the game plus:
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If you don't, couldn't people just install their friend's original disc and play Awakening without ever owning the original?
... in fact, the same can be said if they made it the other way around.
I've never owned a 360 expansion that came on a separate disc... how do they combat piracy?
Well, PC wise, isn't it usually you install the games, and then have the disc in for whichever one you are playing?
Console wise, it might actually install the whole thing and treat it like DLC.
You're one twisted lady...you know that right?
Uh, why? It's semi-official and depicts something they cut from the game, which does actually partially explain why Morrigan handles the following scene the way she does.
...I can see why it was cut. Just doesn't mesh well with everything else.
That's great. Now why am I twisted?
Oh...I clicked on the image of Morrigan bawling first and I thought you were posting horrible fanwork again.
I didn't read it in order til afterwards. My bad.
I'll give you a plot summary
Morrigan is there and they trade barbs.
She asks him if he believes that you should do something awful to help a friend.
He's shocked that she cares about his opinion, but answers yes.
She cries.
She (presumably) talks to Flemeth (the way people talk to dead parents), telling her that she was right.
Perhaps by "something awful" she means breaking the Warden's heart by leaving him, and "she was right" means Flemmeth had warned her not to get emotionally attached to the Warden because it would end badly, but she did anyway.
Who else would Morrigan be referring to when she asks Alistair "Do you love her?"
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If, of course, you pay attention to the Morrigan in the game,
Because that's what friends do for friends???!?!?!
I didn't get to see the comic, so I didn't know that the Warden was depicted as a woman in it. But that makes sense.
I can't think of any character motivation for anything ranging from will-eat-babies-for-2-XP-points power hungry maniac to 'takes-a-kitty-saving-sidequest-while-the-world-burns' goody two shoes that WOULDN'T lead to offing her at that point.
The 'utterly raped' comment follows on from a sentence containing "cut [her] down like a dog". Unless this is a euphemism for sex that I have not yet encountered, I again am unsure of the likelihood of it being succeeded by penetration/scissoring(? I never really understood how having intimate girl time would get the taint across but okay there Bioware).
- She had started to warm up a bit, and I wanted to make a show of trust in her
- I didn't feel like wasting all the effort spent building up myself and Alistair
- I found it utterly hilarious how I was constantly telling Alistair who to sleep with (playing a fem Warden who'd dumped him for Leliana)