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[KnightofPhoenix]

Skadi_the_Evil_Elf wrote...
It's very much a short-term/long-term arguement, one that has many paralells in the real world, whith dire consequences for either thinking more for the short term, or long term. Sometimes, those big gambles pay off, sometimes, you end up in deeper sh*t than you started out with. Could go either way.

Definately. And I personally usually obsess a lot over long term considerations in real life (a potential source of indecision).
But there comes a time, like imo a Blight, where surviving and winning surpass the long run in terms of priority (doesn't mean the long run is ever irrelevent for me, I always think about them).
 
Risk is an inevitable part of warfare (and everything really), especially when one is backed into a corner and is fending for one's life.

[Skadi_the_Evil_Elf]

KnightofPhoenix wrote...

Skadi_the_Evil_Elf wrote...
It's very much a short-term/long-term arguement, one that has many paralells in the real world, whith dire consequences for either thinking more for the short term, or long term. Sometimes, those big gambles pay off, sometimes, you end up in deeper sh*t than you started out with. Could go either way.

Definately. And I personally usually obsess a lot over long term considerations in real life (a potential source of indecision).
But there comes a time, like imo a Blight, where surviving and winning surpass the long run in terms of priority (doesn't mean the long run is ever irrelevent for me, I always think about them).
 
Risk is an inevitable part of warfare (and everything really), especially when one is backed into a corner and is fending for one's life.

Like Duncan, in his Beard-blessed Bad-Ass Zen Master voice said in the epilogue: "The Blight was defeated, but at what cost?"

In a real life-situation, I think many, including myself, would choose to remedy the short term threat at the cost of the long-term, because when imminent doom and extinction looms over you, there just ain't a "later". The deciding factor, then, would be just how imminent and inescapable the current threat is. Which the game sends us mixed signals on, both pushing a feeling of do-or-die urgency, yet not really pushing that threat home (like, having to go through areas that were already hit and wiped out by the blight, or watching a whole town be wiped out by the horde).

[KnightofPhoenix]

Skadi_the_Evil_Elf wrote...
 Which the game sends us mixed signals on, both pushing a feeling of do-or-die urgency, yet not really pushing that threat home (like, having to go through areas that were already hit and wiped out by the blight, or watching a whole town be wiped out by the horde).

100% agree.
The game did an excellent job to tell us "Hey, welcome to stupidland!", but didn't show us the horrors of the Blight that well. Which reminds me of my old thread about how the 5th Blight seems to be very meeh.

Modifié par KnightofPhoenix, 07 mai 2010 - 12:16 .

[Costin_Razvan]

Oh, imagine the flak the game would have received had they actually shown war in all it's forms.

There is really a sense of desperation as you enter Lothering, but it's soon lost. They really did that area to well. With the frightened, desperate refugees who will do anything for some food. The doomsayer and the bandits.

Redcliff seemed weak in comparison.

Modifié par Costin_Razvan, 07 mai 2010 - 12:22 .

[Skadi_the_Evil_Elf]

I would have liked to have gone into and seen blight-stricken areas, villages filled with insane ghouls, ect. Make you think like hell ain't on your doorstep, it just walked right in your house and is making a cup of coffee.



But hey, this Blight was sponsored and organized by the former god of beauty, so what'd ya expect? probably made the horde stop and repaint everything they turned black to keep with that season's color pallatte.



And back around to the topic of the awesome dwarves, the only place where I actually felt like this Blight business was critical was in the Deep Roads, meeting Ruck, hespith, the Broodmother, and seeing the dead trenches.

[Costin_Razvan]

Make you think like hell ain't on your doorstep, it just walked right in your house and is making a cup of coffee.

You have an interesting line of thought there. Dare I ask for your NWN 2 fanfiction link, would seem like a good read.

[Skadi_the_Evil_Elf]

If you like, I can PM it, though it's not a particularly great read. It's pretty much post MOTB aftermath stuff.



I wish FR dwarves were as awesome as the DA ones.

[Axekix]

Costin_Razvan wrote...

Oh, imagine the flak the game would have received had they actually shown war in all it's forms.

There is really a sense of desperation as you enter Lothering, but it's soon lost. They really did that area to well. With the frightened, desperate refugees who will do anything for some food. The doomsayer and the bandits.

Redcliff seemed weak in comparison.

I thought RTO was actually a pretty good example of this tbh.  If you stop and really take in the scenery it's pretty grissly.  I was kind of jarred the first time i saw the old racist merchant on the ground with a sword jammed in his ribs.

[Costin_Razvan]

Oh? Never noticed that myself, from all the fighting against dozens of the spawn.

Skadi: Cheers for the link.

Modifié par Costin_Razvan, 07 mai 2010 - 12:50 .

[Gilsa]

Cross post from the Alistair thread because 75% of you don't read it and it moves so fast that the other 24% that do read it won't actually see it:

Edit: The top two images are Alistair and Teagan. I forgot to upload the new ones with Zev in it, but honestly, it plays out the same.

Gilsa wrote...

Dwarf height is not a hinderance for these scenes!





Obviously Morrigan is supposed to be kissing the human male face, but I don't think she's complaining in this picture, heh.


No complaints with this angle:


It's good to be a dwarf:

Modifié par Gilsa, 07 mai 2010 - 02:32 .

[thegreateski]

Ah yes . . . the Alistair thread.



a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

[Gilsa]

OK, I dug out the Zevran pictures. Just FYI -- there are two types of scenes you can trigger. The sensual ones (which you already saw) or the bad lover scenes in which they complain how much you suck. The animations are the same, but the dialogue is different. The funniest line was when Zevran said, "It's a gusher!" (Not pictured.)

[thegreateski]

I'm not sure how I feel about that.

My Male side is saying "!%@$ yeah!" and my intellectual side is saying "Morrigan and Leliana would never do that!"

Modifié par thegreateski, 07 mai 2010 - 02:50 .

[Gilsa]

Well, this mod is still in beta and Teagan/Alistair combo were just added today so I think it's posssssible that we can get Morrigan + another human female (Anora?) as an alternative. It's just a matter of substituting the models in stand in for the other.

[thegreateski]

Aren't Alistair and Teagan related?

[Sarah1281]

thegreateski wrote...

Aren't Alistair and Teagan related?

No. Eamon and Teagan are Rowan's brothers and if Rowan was Alistair's mother then he wouldn't have been a bastard.

[Herr Uhl]

thegreateski wrote...

I'm not sure how I feel about that.

My Male side is saying "!%@$ yeah!" and my intellectual side is saying "Morrigan and Leliana would never do that!"

You need to learn to disconnect the intellectual side.

[tmp7704]

thegreateski wrote...

Aren't Alistair and Teagan related?

As someone else pointed out, did that ever stop guys from fantasizing about bedding hot twins?

[thegreateski]

Herr Uhl wrote...

thegreateski wrote...

I'm not sure how I feel about that.

My Male side is saying "!%@$ yeah!" and my intellectual side is saying "Morrigan and Leliana would never do that!"

You need to learn to disconnect the intellectual side.

Well . . . I would do that . . .

But . . .

[Sarah1281]

Ah, no sound!

[thegreateski]

It's better that way.

[Sarah1281]

But now I don't know WHY the angel is homicidal and am just going to have to be paranoid.

[thegreateski]

Then my work here is done.

[WarChicken78]

Gilsa, may I ask, what kind of MOD that is, you're working on?

A Porn MOD?

[Axekix]

Herr Uhl wrote...

thegreateski wrote...

I'm not sure how I feel about that.

My Male side is saying "!%@$ yeah!" and my intellectual side is saying "Morrigan and Leliana would never do that!"

You need to learn to disconnect the intellectual side.

Seconded.  Everything is so much easier after that.