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A Song of Ice and Fire
If you like the DAO world, you'll love George RR Martin's - A Song of Ice and Fire series
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Brian The Grey
, oct. 22 2009 02:42
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Posté 22 octobre 2009 - 08:06
Stanley Woo
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A Song of Ice and Fire is very well written. The setting is very detailed, with all the different houses and heraldry researched and developed, vast amounts of political intrigue and in-fighting, and a lot of very dark and mature elements, including sex at a young age, incest, children fighting and dying, blood, gore, and people generally being malicious jerks to one another.
Dragon Age has many of those elements (though nothing violent or sexual involving children), but also contains something A Song of Ice and Fire doesn't currently have, a few chapters into the fourth book: hope. A Song of Ice and Fire is full of very tragic things happening to very good people, and it does not get any happier. Just when you think someone is finally going to have good luck, something terrible happens. When someone does something noble and heroic, Geroge R.R. Martin really likes that person to suffer for it. And all the jumping around between more and more characters is annoying.
Dragon Age Origins may be mature fantasy, it may be dark, it may sometimes be offensive, but it is, above all, heroic. Bad things happen along the way, but it's all in the name of the journey to defeat the big bad. There are triumphs and periods of happiness, of accomplishment, and a sense that the world is joining you in repelling this great evil. A Song of Ice and Fire enjoys wallowing in despair and helplessness.
Dragon Age has many of those elements (though nothing violent or sexual involving children), but also contains something A Song of Ice and Fire doesn't currently have, a few chapters into the fourth book: hope. A Song of Ice and Fire is full of very tragic things happening to very good people, and it does not get any happier. Just when you think someone is finally going to have good luck, something terrible happens. When someone does something noble and heroic, Geroge R.R. Martin really likes that person to suffer for it. And all the jumping around between more and more characters is annoying.
Dragon Age Origins may be mature fantasy, it may be dark, it may sometimes be offensive, but it is, above all, heroic. Bad things happen along the way, but it's all in the name of the journey to defeat the big bad. There are triumphs and periods of happiness, of accomplishment, and a sense that the world is joining you in repelling this great evil. A Song of Ice and Fire enjoys wallowing in despair and helplessness.
