I actually really hate the whole "protagonisexual" thing that BioWare experimented with in Dragon Age 2
I'm glad they abandoned it for Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age Inquisition and characters have specific sexualities, especially in DAI.
Like, in DAI, Cassandra, Blackwall, Cullen, and Solas are heterosexual. Cullen and Solas are even particular about species, with Cullen not being interested in Qunari or Dwarves, and Solas only interested in having sex with elven ladies.
Sera and Dorian are homosexual, and Dorian's homosexuality is a plot point that is actually pretty central to his backstory and could not exist if they did the goofy "protagonisexual" thing of DA2.
Iron Bull and Josephine are bisexual/pansexual (Iron Bull's writer specifically identified him as pansexual). Bull's sexuality, again, is a pretty important part of his character and would get fucky by putting him in a box of only being into whatever the protagonist is.
I don't like the weird "quantum sexuality" concept for NPCs because A.) It reinforces the stupid BioWare fanbase idea of them being the gods of their own narrative and that everything should be their power fantasy where every character is their potential waifu at all times, and B.) It destroys potential storylines like Dorian's and C.) It's actually a form of bisexual erasure in it's own way (see: Anders in DA2).
I disagree.
While I don't like ingame romances, this applies to other character interactions sometimes, and I don't like being constrained based on a mechanical choice (i.e. class/race)
This isn't really a game mechanics issue though, in Dragon Age's case?
Like in Dragon Age your choice of race is barely a game mechanics choice. You get an incredibly minuscule mechanical benefit starting out. Dwarves get +25% Magic Defense. Qunari get 10% physical damage resistance. Elves get +25% Ranged Defense against all ranged attacks, including magical projectiles, and Humans get +1 Bonus Ability Point.
That's a joke. Those benefits are made kinda worthless after a few levels (Dragon Age Inquisition isn't a hard game unless you choose to make it very hard, in which case those racial benefits will not save you). That is not something you Character Optimize around, if you are a nerd for that shit. You pick a Qunari because you want to roleplay as a Qunari.
If you choose to play a Human, Elf, Dwarf, or Qunari in Dragon Age Inquisition that will have a significant impact on the game (especially that last one), not from a "game mechanics" standpoint but because it's a roleplaying game and the world reacts to what race you are. Like during the quest "Wicked Eyes, Wicked Hearts", you have to attend court with the Empress of Orlais. You have to conduct yourself at a royal function with a bunch of Orlesian nobility and shit. If you are an elf or god help you, a fucking Qunari, you literally lose points immediately because Orlesian nobility are fucking racist. Those are realities of Dragon Age's setting. You can overcome that disadvantage through your actions, but you literally start with a disadvantage versus being say, a human noble warrior from the Free Marches, scion of House Trevalyan, which immediately gains you points.
The idea that there should be some kind of impenetrable barrier between your game mechanics choices and your roleplaying and the setting is absurd. If I wanted a game like that, I wouldn't be playing BioWare's games, I'd be playing Skyrim where nobody seems to give a shit that I'm Argonian or whatever.
I went with Liara because I had no interest in the human ken doll Kaidan Whinolenko. Pschah.
ME2 garrus because he is my eternal bro. But then I played through it again, after getting ME3, having somehow fucked up the saves, Liara because why not, shadow broker was cool.
Which turned out to be the best choice for ME3 because TALI AND GARRUS OMG
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I actually really hate the whole "protagonisexual" thing that BioWare experimented with in Dragon Age 2
I'm glad they abandoned it for Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age Inquisition and characters have specific sexualities, especially in DAI.
Like, in DAI, Cassandra, Blackwall, Cullen, and Solas are heterosexual. Cullen and Solas are even particular about species, with Cullen not being interested in Qunari or Dwarves, and Solas only interested in having sex with elven ladies.
Sera and Dorian are homosexual, and Dorian's homosexuality is a plot point that is actually pretty central to his backstory and could not exist if they did the goofy "protagonisexual" thing of DA2.
Iron Bull and Josephine are bisexual/pansexual (Iron Bull's writer specifically identified him as pansexual). Bull's sexuality, again, is a pretty important part of his character and would get fucky by putting him in a box of only being into whatever the protagonist is.
I don't like the weird "quantum sexuality" concept for NPCs because A.) It reinforces the stupid BioWare fanbase idea of them being the gods of their own narrative and that everything should be their power fantasy where every character is their potential waifu at all times, and B.) It destroys potential storylines like Dorian's and C.) It's actually a form of bisexual erasure in it's own way (see: Anders in DA2).
I disagree.
While I don't like ingame romances, this applies to other character interactions sometimes, and I don't like being constrained based on a mechanical choice (i.e. class/race)
This isn't really a game mechanics issue though, in Dragon Age's case?
Like in Dragon Age your choice of race is barely a game mechanics choice. You get an incredibly minuscule mechanical benefit starting out. Dwarves get +25% Magic Defense. Qunari get 10% physical damage resistance. Elves get +25% Ranged Defense against all ranged attacks, including magical projectiles, and Humans get +1 Bonus Ability Point.
That's a joke. Those benefits are made kinda worthless after a few levels (Dragon Age Inquisition isn't a hard game unless you choose to make it very hard, in which case those racial benefits will not save you). That is not something you Character Optimize around, if you are a nerd for that shit. You pick a Qunari because you want to roleplay as a Qunari.
If you choose to play a Human, Elf, Dwarf, or Qunari in Dragon Age Inquisition that will have a significant impact on the game (especially that last one), not from a "game mechanics" standpoint but because it's a roleplaying game and the world reacts to what race you are. Like during the quest "Wicked Eyes, Wicked Hearts", you have to attend court with the Empress of Orlais. You have to conduct yourself at a royal function with a bunch of Orlesian nobility and shit. If you are an elf or god help you, a fucking Qunari, you literally lose points immediately because Orlesian nobility are fucking racist. Those are realities of Dragon Age's setting. You can overcome that disadvantage through your actions, but you literally start with a disadvantage versus being say, a human noble warrior from the Free Marches, scion of House Trevalyan, which immediately gains you points.
The idea that there should be some kind of impenetrable barrier between your game mechanics choices and your roleplaying and the setting is absurd. If I wanted a game like that, I wouldn't be playing BioWare's games, I'd be playing Skyrim where nobody seems to give a shit that I'm Argonian or whatever.
DA:O didn't fully execute on this
nobody seemed to give a shit that my mage was an elf, only caring if my elf was proper elf
but largely speaking they nailed it p good in DA:O and I'm glad to hear they went further with it in DA:I.
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I actually really hate the whole "protagonisexual" thing that BioWare experimented with in Dragon Age 2
I'm glad they abandoned it for Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age Inquisition and characters have specific sexualities, especially in DAI.
Like, in DAI, Cassandra, Blackwall, Cullen, and Solas are heterosexual. Cullen and Solas are even particular about species, with Cullen not being interested in Qunari or Dwarves, and Solas only interested in having sex with elven ladies.
Sera and Dorian are homosexual, and Dorian's homosexuality is a plot point that is actually pretty central to his backstory and could not exist if they did the goofy "protagonisexual" thing of DA2.
Iron Bull and Josephine are bisexual/pansexual (Iron Bull's writer specifically identified him as pansexual). Bull's sexuality, again, is a pretty important part of his character and would get fucky by putting him in a box of only being into whatever the protagonist is.
I don't like the weird "quantum sexuality" concept for NPCs because A.) It reinforces the stupid BioWare fanbase idea of them being the gods of their own narrative and that everything should be their power fantasy where every character is their potential waifu at all times, and B.) It destroys potential storylines like Dorian's and C.) It's actually a form of bisexual erasure in it's own way (see: Anders in DA2).
I disagree.
While I don't like ingame romances, this applies to other character interactions sometimes, and I don't like being constrained based on a mechanical choice (i.e. class/race)
This isn't really a game mechanics issue though, in Dragon Age's case?
Like in Dragon Age your choice of race is barely a game mechanics choice. You get an incredibly minuscule mechanical benefit starting out. Dwarves get +25% Magic Defense. Qunari get 10% physical damage resistance. Elves get +25% Ranged Defense against all ranged attacks, including magical projectiles, and Humans get +1 Bonus Ability Point.
That's a joke. Those benefits are made kinda worthless after a few levels (Dragon Age Inquisition isn't a hard game unless you choose to make it very hard, in which case those racial benefits will not save you). That is not something you Character Optimize around, if you are a nerd for that shit. You pick a Qunari because you want to roleplay as a Qunari.
If you choose to play a Human, Elf, Dwarf, or Qunari in Dragon Age Inquisition that will have a significant impact on the game (especially that last one), not from a "game mechanics" standpoint but because it's a roleplaying game and the world reacts to what race you are. Like during the quest "Wicked Eyes, Wicked Hearts", you have to attend court with the Empress of Orlais. You have to conduct yourself at a royal function with a bunch of Orlesian nobility and shit. If you are an elf or god help you, a fucking Qunari, you literally lose points immediately because Orlesian nobility are fucking racist. Those are realities of Dragon Age's setting. You can overcome that disadvantage through your actions, but you literally start with a disadvantage versus being say, a human noble warrior from the Free Marches, scion of House Trevalyan, which immediately gains you points.
The idea that there should be some kind of impenetrable barrier between your game mechanics choices and your roleplaying and the setting is absurd. If I wanted a game like that, I wouldn't be playing BioWare's games, I'd be playing Skyrim where nobody seems to give a shit that I'm Argonian or whatever.
DA:O didn't fully execute on this
nobody seemed to give a shit that my mage was an elf, only caring if my elf was proper elf
but largely speaking they nailed it p good in DA:O and I'm glad to hear they went further with it in DA:I.
In DA2 you could be a fuckin' Blood Mage in full view of everyone even though a huge chunk of the game's plot was a mass panic about blood mages
When designing DAI they were like "okay yeah you can't be a Blood Mage anymore because that's dumb for you to be allowed to be a Blood Mage and not have everyone around you freak out immediately"
If all you've eaten today is a bowl of soup six hours ago then a single beer can get you kinda fucked up
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
I actually really hate the whole "protagonisexual" thing that BioWare experimented with in Dragon Age 2
I'm glad they abandoned it for Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age Inquisition and characters have specific sexualities, especially in DAI.
Like, in DAI, Cassandra, Blackwall, Cullen, and Solas are heterosexual. Cullen and Solas are even particular about species, with Cullen not being interested in Qunari or Dwarves, and Solas only interested in having sex with elven ladies.
Sera and Dorian are homosexual, and Dorian's homosexuality is a plot point that is actually pretty central to his backstory and could not exist if they did the goofy "protagonisexual" thing of DA2.
Iron Bull and Josephine are bisexual/pansexual (Iron Bull's writer specifically identified him as pansexual). Bull's sexuality, again, is a pretty important part of his character and would get fucky by putting him in a box of only being into whatever the protagonist is.
I don't like the weird "quantum sexuality" concept for NPCs because A.) It reinforces the stupid BioWare fanbase idea of them being the gods of their own narrative and that everything should be their power fantasy where every character is their potential waifu at all times, and B.) It destroys potential storylines like Dorian's and C.) It's actually a form of bisexual erasure in it's own way (see: Anders in DA2).
I disagree.
While I don't like ingame romances, this applies to other character interactions sometimes, and I don't like being constrained based on a mechanical choice (i.e. class/race)
This isn't really a game mechanics issue though, in Dragon Age's case?
Like in Dragon Age your choice of race is barely a game mechanics choice. You get an incredibly minuscule mechanical benefit starting out. Dwarves get +25% Magic Defense. Qunari get 10% physical damage resistance. Elves get +25% Ranged Defense against all ranged attacks, including magical projectiles, and Humans get +1 Bonus Ability Point.
That's a joke. Those benefits are made kinda worthless after a few levels (Dragon Age Inquisition isn't a hard game unless you choose to make it very hard, in which case those racial benefits will not save you). That is not something you Character Optimize around, if you are a nerd for that shit. You pick a Qunari because you want to roleplay as a Qunari.
If you choose to play a Human, Elf, Dwarf, or Qunari in Dragon Age Inquisition that will have a significant impact on the game (especially that last one), not from a "game mechanics" standpoint but because it's a roleplaying game and the world reacts to what race you are. Like during the quest "Wicked Eyes, Wicked Hearts", you have to attend court with the Empress of Orlais. You have to conduct yourself at a royal function with a bunch of Orlesian nobility and shit. If you are an elf or god help you, a fucking Qunari, you literally lose points immediately because Orlesian nobility are fucking racist. Those are realities of Dragon Age's setting. You can overcome that disadvantage through your actions, but you literally start with a disadvantage versus being say, a human noble warrior from the Free Marches, scion of House Trevalyan, which immediately gains you points.
The idea that there should be some kind of impenetrable barrier between your game mechanics choices and your roleplaying and the setting is absurd. If I wanted a game like that, I wouldn't be playing BioWare's games, I'd be playing Skyrim where nobody seems to give a shit that I'm Argonian or whatever.
DA:O didn't fully execute on this
nobody seemed to give a shit that my mage was an elf, only caring if my elf was proper elf
but largely speaking they nailed it p good in DA:O and I'm glad to hear they went further with it in DA:I.
In DA2 you could be a fuckin' Blood Mage in full view of everyone even though a huge chunk of the game's plot was a mass panic about blood mages
When designing DAI they were like "okay yeah you can't be a Blood Mage anymore because that's dumb for you to be allowed to be a Blood Mage and not have everyone around you freak out immediately"
even though in DAI it would make the most sense for being a blood mage to be okay, because everyone on your side thinks you're basically jesus, so normal rules wouldn't apply
and the people that hate you would hate you more
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I actually really hate the whole "protagonisexual" thing that BioWare experimented with in Dragon Age 2
I'm glad they abandoned it for Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age Inquisition and characters have specific sexualities, especially in DAI.
Like, in DAI, Cassandra, Blackwall, Cullen, and Solas are heterosexual. Cullen and Solas are even particular about species, with Cullen not being interested in Qunari or Dwarves, and Solas only interested in having sex with elven ladies.
Sera and Dorian are homosexual, and Dorian's homosexuality is a plot point that is actually pretty central to his backstory and could not exist if they did the goofy "protagonisexual" thing of DA2.
Iron Bull and Josephine are bisexual/pansexual (Iron Bull's writer specifically identified him as pansexual). Bull's sexuality, again, is a pretty important part of his character and would get fucky by putting him in a box of only being into whatever the protagonist is.
I don't like the weird "quantum sexuality" concept for NPCs because A.) It reinforces the stupid BioWare fanbase idea of them being the gods of their own narrative and that everything should be their power fantasy where every character is their potential waifu at all times, and B.) It destroys potential storylines like Dorian's and C.) It's actually a form of bisexual erasure in it's own way (see: Anders in DA2).
I disagree.
While I don't like ingame romances, this applies to other character interactions sometimes, and I don't like being constrained based on a mechanical choice (i.e. class/race)
This isn't really a game mechanics issue though, in Dragon Age's case?
Like in Dragon Age your choice of race is barely a game mechanics choice. You get an incredibly minuscule mechanical benefit starting out. Dwarves get +25% Magic Defense. Qunari get 10% physical damage resistance. Elves get +25% Ranged Defense against all ranged attacks, including magical projectiles, and Humans get +1 Bonus Ability Point.
That's a joke. Those benefits are made kinda worthless after a few levels (Dragon Age Inquisition isn't a hard game unless you choose to make it very hard, in which case those racial benefits will not save you). That is not something you Character Optimize around, if you are a nerd for that shit. You pick a Qunari because you want to roleplay as a Qunari.
If you choose to play a Human, Elf, Dwarf, or Qunari in Dragon Age Inquisition that will have a significant impact on the game (especially that last one), not from a "game mechanics" standpoint but because it's a roleplaying game and the world reacts to what race you are. Like during the quest "Wicked Eyes, Wicked Hearts", you have to attend court with the Empress of Orlais. You have to conduct yourself at a royal function with a bunch of Orlesian nobility and shit. If you are an elf or god help you, a fucking Qunari, you literally lose points immediately because Orlesian nobility are fucking racist. Those are realities of Dragon Age's setting. You can overcome that disadvantage through your actions, but you literally start with a disadvantage versus being say, a human noble warrior from the Free Marches, scion of House Trevalyan, which immediately gains you points.
The idea that there should be some kind of impenetrable barrier between your game mechanics choices and your roleplaying and the setting is absurd. If I wanted a game like that, I wouldn't be playing BioWare's games, I'd be playing Skyrim where nobody seems to give a shit that I'm Argonian or whatever.
And it's fine of you enjoy that, I don't though.
Characters acknowledging your race/class etc is fine, requiring extra hoops to unlock a quest because you're lowborn or something, that's fine. Being locked out of story components completely because of them is not.
I don't really do multiple playthrough of games, I just don't have the time.
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Owners of NYC bodegas, which everyone else calls convenience stores, protested Donald Trump's executive order that bars immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
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Owners of NYC bodegas, which everyone else calls convenience stores, protested Donald Trump's executive order that bars immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries.
I really really liked Tyranny being a short RPG with vastly different campaign paths depending on your choices and want other RPGs to do that and completely eliminate filler
I actually really hate the whole "protagonisexual" thing that BioWare experimented with in Dragon Age 2
I'm glad they abandoned it for Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age Inquisition and characters have specific sexualities, especially in DAI.
Like, in DAI, Cassandra, Blackwall, Cullen, and Solas are heterosexual. Cullen and Solas are even particular about species, with Cullen not being interested in Qunari or Dwarves, and Solas only interested in having sex with elven ladies.
Sera and Dorian are homosexual, and Dorian's homosexuality is a plot point that is actually pretty central to his backstory and could not exist if they did the goofy "protagonisexual" thing of DA2.
Iron Bull and Josephine are bisexual/pansexual (Iron Bull's writer specifically identified him as pansexual). Bull's sexuality, again, is a pretty important part of his character and would get fucky by putting him in a box of only being into whatever the protagonist is.
I don't like the weird "quantum sexuality" concept for NPCs because A.) It reinforces the stupid BioWare fanbase idea of them being the gods of their own narrative and that everything should be their power fantasy where every character is their potential waifu at all times, and B.) It destroys potential storylines like Dorian's and C.) It's actually a form of bisexual erasure in it's own way (see: Anders in DA2).
I disagree.
While I don't like ingame romances, this applies to other character interactions sometimes, and I don't like being constrained based on a mechanical choice (i.e. class/race)
This isn't really a game mechanics issue though, in Dragon Age's case?
Like in Dragon Age your choice of race is barely a game mechanics choice. You get an incredibly minuscule mechanical benefit starting out. Dwarves get +25% Magic Defense. Qunari get 10% physical damage resistance. Elves get +25% Ranged Defense against all ranged attacks, including magical projectiles, and Humans get +1 Bonus Ability Point.
That's a joke. Those benefits are made kinda worthless after a few levels (Dragon Age Inquisition isn't a hard game unless you choose to make it very hard, in which case those racial benefits will not save you). That is not something you Character Optimize around, if you are a nerd for that shit. You pick a Qunari because you want to roleplay as a Qunari.
If you choose to play a Human, Elf, Dwarf, or Qunari in Dragon Age Inquisition that will have a significant impact on the game (especially that last one), not from a "game mechanics" standpoint but because it's a roleplaying game and the world reacts to what race you are. Like during the quest "Wicked Eyes, Wicked Hearts", you have to attend court with the Empress of Orlais. You have to conduct yourself at a royal function with a bunch of Orlesian nobility and shit. If you are an elf or god help you, a fucking Qunari, you literally lose points immediately because Orlesian nobility are fucking racist. Those are realities of Dragon Age's setting. You can overcome that disadvantage through your actions, but you literally start with a disadvantage versus being say, a human noble warrior from the Free Marches, scion of House Trevalyan, which immediately gains you points.
The idea that there should be some kind of impenetrable barrier between your game mechanics choices and your roleplaying and the setting is absurd. If I wanted a game like that, I wouldn't be playing BioWare's games, I'd be playing Skyrim where nobody seems to give a shit that I'm Argonian or whatever.
And it's fine of you enjoy that, I don't though.
Characters acknowledging your race/class etc is fine, requiring extra hoops to unlock a quest because you're lowborn or something, that's fine. Being locked out of story components completely because of them is not.
I don't really do multiple playthrough of games, I just don't have the time.
for a long time, i thought JRPGs were the worst genre of video game
i thought i hated them more than i hated any other genre, that they were the worst things to masquerade around as "RPGs" and that in doing so, they basically were bringing RPGs down as a genre
but i was wrong, oh god i was wrong, i was so wrong i am filled with so much regret
JRPGs are fine, they are not my cup of tea and i still don't like them, but they're basically linear movie-games with lots of maths for people who like that sort of thing
it's like if an Uncharted game had a weird combat system i didn't enjoy
sure fine whatever, i don't like it but it's not a fucking poison
no the real problem is that "western RPG" has actually come to mean amusement park sandbox garbage nonsense with no actual roleplaying that is produced by fucking BETHESDA for most people
skyrim, fallout 4, etc.
and i am the man standing on a sandy shore, swinging a rusted sword against the tide, pointlessly howling into the sea air
nobody gives a shit
but there's no god damn roleplaying in those fucking games
as amusement park rides, judged on their own merits, yes i can see why some people find them fun, they are not for me but fine fine i get it
the problem is that someone picks up Mass Effect and goes "yeah but where is my 550 hours of open world exploration" and i want to just press my thumbs into their eyes like they were oberyn martell
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oh and I really enjoyed the frequent-but-not-perfect roleplaying in Tyranny
Since the game frequently has no "good option", it forced me to think "hmm, I'm playing as a diplomat, a skilled and knowledgeable mage who escaped the fascist railroading by using a legal technicality, so I'm going to play this way" (this is actually my character's background, selected during character creation)
And holy fucking shit it worked
I sided with the rebellion to solve the edict, made them swear fealty to me, and when asked to explain my actions I said "My orders were to end the rebellion by eliminating all forces not loyal to Kyros in Ascension hall, since the traitors pledged fealty to me, and I am a servant of Kyros, I fulfilled the edict to the letter. Since the law states that Kyros' edicts are absolute, and I fulfilled the edict to the letter, I cannot have done anything wrong"
And Tunaan's like "well, fuck me"
Obsidian made a real attempt, it doesn't always work out right, but when it does it's really satisfying
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This isn't really a game mechanics issue though, in Dragon Age's case?
Like in Dragon Age your choice of race is barely a game mechanics choice. You get an incredibly minuscule mechanical benefit starting out. Dwarves get +25% Magic Defense. Qunari get 10% physical damage resistance. Elves get +25% Ranged Defense against all ranged attacks, including magical projectiles, and Humans get +1 Bonus Ability Point.
That's a joke. Those benefits are made kinda worthless after a few levels (Dragon Age Inquisition isn't a hard game unless you choose to make it very hard, in which case those racial benefits will not save you). That is not something you Character Optimize around, if you are a nerd for that shit. You pick a Qunari because you want to roleplay as a Qunari.
If you choose to play a Human, Elf, Dwarf, or Qunari in Dragon Age Inquisition that will have a significant impact on the game (especially that last one), not from a "game mechanics" standpoint but because it's a roleplaying game and the world reacts to what race you are. Like during the quest "Wicked Eyes, Wicked Hearts", you have to attend court with the Empress of Orlais. You have to conduct yourself at a royal function with a bunch of Orlesian nobility and shit. If you are an elf or god help you, a fucking Qunari, you literally lose points immediately because Orlesian nobility are fucking racist. Those are realities of Dragon Age's setting. You can overcome that disadvantage through your actions, but you literally start with a disadvantage versus being say, a human noble warrior from the Free Marches, scion of House Trevalyan, which immediately gains you points.
The idea that there should be some kind of impenetrable barrier between your game mechanics choices and your roleplaying and the setting is absurd. If I wanted a game like that, I wouldn't be playing BioWare's games, I'd be playing Skyrim where nobody seems to give a shit that I'm Argonian or whatever.
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ME2 garrus because he is my eternal bro. But then I played through it again, after getting ME3, having somehow fucked up the saves, Liara because why not, shadow broker was cool.
Which turned out to be the best choice for ME3 because TALI AND GARRUS OMG
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I get Oyatsu Box and have yet to be disappointed
DA:O didn't fully execute on this
nobody seemed to give a shit that my mage was an elf, only caring if my elf was proper elf
but largely speaking they nailed it p good in DA:O and I'm glad to hear they went further with it in DA:I.
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In DA2 you could be a fuckin' Blood Mage in full view of everyone even though a huge chunk of the game's plot was a mass panic about blood mages
When designing DAI they were like "okay yeah you can't be a Blood Mage anymore because that's dumb for you to be allowed to be a Blood Mage and not have everyone around you freak out immediately"
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
"hmmm, maybe the yogurt next"
even though in DAI it would make the most sense for being a blood mage to be okay, because everyone on your side thinks you're basically jesus, so normal rules wouldn't apply
and the people that hate you would hate you more
And it's fine of you enjoy that, I don't though.
Characters acknowledging your race/class etc is fine, requiring extra hoops to unlock a quest because you're lowborn or something, that's fine. Being locked out of story components completely because of them is not.
I don't really do multiple playthrough of games, I just don't have the time.
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Right, though?
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Watch it on youtube
and these are just the 100% legit stock photos, not the women... uh... eating other things as well
i thought i hated them more than i hated any other genre, that they were the worst things to masquerade around as "RPGs" and that in doing so, they basically were bringing RPGs down as a genre
but i was wrong, oh god i was wrong, i was so wrong i am filled with so much regret
JRPGs are fine, they are not my cup of tea and i still don't like them, but they're basically linear movie-games with lots of maths for people who like that sort of thing
it's like if an Uncharted game had a weird combat system i didn't enjoy
sure fine whatever, i don't like it but it's not a fucking poison
no the real problem is that "western RPG" has actually come to mean amusement park sandbox garbage nonsense with no actual roleplaying that is produced by fucking BETHESDA for most people
skyrim, fallout 4, etc.
and i am the man standing on a sandy shore, swinging a rusted sword against the tide, pointlessly howling into the sea air
nobody gives a shit
but there's no god damn roleplaying in those fucking games
as amusement park rides, judged on their own merits, yes i can see why some people find them fun, they are not for me but fine fine i get it
the problem is that someone picks up Mass Effect and goes "yeah but where is my 550 hours of open world exploration" and i want to just press my thumbs into their eyes like they were oberyn martell
Witcher 3.
I iust don't think Stephen Byerley really ate that ice cream #birther
I feel like Witcher 3 like, struck the balance
it was the great uniter
it had roleplaying, it had goofy skyrim exploration theme park shit
it just, had it all
Since the game frequently has no "good option", it forced me to think "hmm, I'm playing as a diplomat, a skilled and knowledgeable mage who escaped the fascist railroading by using a legal technicality, so I'm going to play this way" (this is actually my character's background, selected during character creation)
And holy fucking shit it worked
And Tunaan's like "well, fuck me"
Obsidian made a real attempt, it doesn't always work out right, but when it does it's really satisfying
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Sometimes it thinks I am a rich druggie needing rehab in South Florida. Other times I am buying a car. Other times I need plan b.