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[ExistsAlready]

So I completed the DA2 demo. Yay for me. I could nitpick about how things have changed and how change makes me feel threatened or I could complain about the one thing that really, really grated on my nerves the  whole way through. Well, besides the doofy hats on the Hurlock Bolters.

Lothering.

A town that serves as something of a hub for the local farms. When I think farmland, I think green, grassy, generally pleasant surroundings. Something like it was in Origins but...more so. The protagonist and his family are fleeing for their lives, on foot, with the Darkspawn horde busy chewing up everything behind them.

As such, I  expected them to be passing through something like farmland. Maybe with the whole evil red sky the Darkspawn horde seems able to conjure up wherever it goes. Maybe with crops and houses blazing in the distance. Or some hint of the massive army you're escaping, perhaps stepping on some poor bastard's corn.

But no! It's Mars! It's slightly red. It's rocky. It's barren. It's the polar opposite of farmland, or anything near farmland. It's ugly, it's boring to look at. What it does look like is how the area would appear if you returned, after the Darkspawn had Blighted all over everything and ruined the land. In that regard it'd be perfect.

It makes me sad to look at. That and those ugly Hurlock hats. But you can kill the Hurlocks and then they go away. You can't escape Mars.

Modifié par ExistsAlready, 22 février 2011 - 11:09 .

[XX-Pyro]

Not as bad as in Oblivion where the sky turns red near any gate, but I understand your point.

[Gavinthelocust]

ExistsAlready wrote...

But you can kill the Hurlocks and then they go away. You can't escape Mars.

I want this on a t shirt or something.

[Big Mabels Diet-Plan]

Get your ass to mars, get your ass to mars, get your ass to mars

[Chrumpek]

Agreed with you, mars + best looking interface (sarcasm off) and darkspawn that look like enemies of the justice friends... yay! ~^

[MasterSamson88]

That's because it's burnt and tainted farmland.

[Cuthlan]

Those are blightlands. That is why we couldn't go back to those areas after the blight was quelled... there was no artwork to account for how drastically the appearance of the land changes during a blight.

[kjdhgfiliuhwe]

ExistsAlready wrote...

it's boring to look at

My inner geologist would take issue with that!

[scootermcgaffin]

You mean the places that have been burnt and destroyed and tainted with Blight look desolate? Why I never!

[Dave of Canada]

A land tainted by Darkspawn literally called the "Blightlands" isn't supposed to look pretty with rainbows in the sky.

Modifié par Dave of Canada, 22 février 2011 - 11:11 .

[Vicious]

The blight eats the land. That's why it looks the way it does.



I would guess they are in the middle of it.



This is known in the LORE, but unfortunately Bioware has thus far done a crappy job of telling us little stuff like that.



So you have to read the DA:O Codex or the dragon age Wiki.

[Chris Priestly]

Vicious wrote...

The blight eats the land. That's why it looks the way it does.

This.

[RosaAquafire]

Blightlands, tainted lands, significance of the legion of blackened trees, etc. That said:

ExistsAlready wrote...
But you can kill the Hurlocks and then they go away. You can't escape Mars.

Your entire whiney post is justified by this. Hats off, sir.

[Taleroth]

kjdhgfiliuhwe wrote...

ExistsAlready wrote...

it's boring to look at

My inner geologist would take issue with that!

Let that geologist out!  It needs to be free!

[Chaos-fusion]

Vicious wrote...

The blight eats the land. That's why it looks the way it does.

You are not supposed to be encouraging developers with their love of brown!

I understand it, but sheesh, Pick black with grey speckles, anything but brown!

[DarkShamrock27]

I apologies if this has been asked and answered but does anyone know if the pause and issue orders will be available for console or is that gonna be just PC only? Reason I ask is I found myself in the demo stunning an opponent with my warrior and fumbling around trying to get my Mage into position to lay waste to my stunned enemy. It would be a lot easier with the DA:O pause and order.

[Blood-Lord Thanatos]

Mr. Priestly, can you tell us what your favorite color is?

[Killroyomega]

ExistsAlready wrote...

But no! It's Mars! It's slightly red. It's rocky. It's barren. It's the polar opposite of farmland, or anything near farmland. It's ugly, it's boring to look at. What it does look like is how the area would appear if you returned, after the Darkspawn had Blighted all over everything and ruined the land. In that regard it'd be perfect.

The land is already blighted. If you listened to the conversations, you learn that you are originally heading south towards the Kokiri Wilds, not north.

Modifié par Killroyomega, 22 février 2011 - 11:20 .

[kjdhgfiliuhwe]

Taleroth wrote...

kjdhgfiliuhwe wrote...

ExistsAlready wrote...

it's boring to look at

My inner geologist would take issue with that!

Let that geologist out!  It needs to be free!

I think it's too early for me to be going out on a bender (sorry to the five geologists in the world who aren't alcoholics ).

[Amyntas]

The Blight is a great excuse. Does it eat bowstrings as well?

[Darkhour]

Chris Priestly wrote...

Vicious wrote...

The blight eats the land. That's why it looks the way it does.

This.

It doesn't eat it that fast.  If that were the case every battle with darkspawn would be in a barren waste. The Kocari Wilds looked fine to me.  The only blighted land I recall was in Awakening when going into the deep roads. Even Ostagar didn't look blighted upon returning and that was after a year of darkspawn control.

Modifié par Darkhour, 22 février 2011 - 11:27 .

[Gavinthelocust]

Amyntas wrote...

The Blight is a great excuse. Does it eat bowstrings as well?

It also turns sheaths invisable.

[kjdhgfiliuhwe]

Gavinthelocust wrote...

Amyntas wrote...

The Blight is a great excuse. Does it eat bowstrings as well?

It also turns sheaths invisable.

Could you imagine having to sheathe a greatsword? 

[ExistsAlready]

I still want more trees. Or Blight meat. Some things on fire, perhaps.

Darkspawn ravaged, sinning-against-nature countryside not a Necron tombworld.

Modifié par ExistsAlready, 22 février 2011 - 11:26 .

[pumpkinman13]

 Plus I imagine they're out in what used to be the Korkari wilds... which were pretty bleak and barren already... add some Blight and you get Mars.