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[DarthCaine]

Nothing?

[MorrigansLove]

There were no badass or epic moments in DA2.

[Galad22]

DarthCaine wrote...

Nothing?

You should practise your sarcasm skill.

Here I show you.

I felt So BADASS, when I kicked enemies in the feet and they blew up.
Or when bandit number 224 wasn't fast enough and I shot him with an arrow, and quess what he also blew up.

I am sorry, I need some practise too clearly!
You can't force sarcasm it seems.

[Mavkiel]

Yep, nothing really. If I had to pick, I'd say the ogre at the beginning of the game.

[Deified Data]

Beating the arishok with my sword and board warrior without kiting around the pillars and actually dueling the guy is pretty epic. Just getting up in his face and smacking away with your hardest abilities, using second wind, rinse and repeat. No other class is really capable of "dueling" the arishok, so much as striking from a distance like a coward.

[MorrigansLove]

Nothing can beat killing the archdemon. NOTHING!

[Shazzie]

(2 complete playthroughs, one Rogue and one Mage, and 1 partial playthrough as Warrior:)

My Rogue defeating the Arishok in single combat.


That was the one and only time I felt remotely badass in the game.

[tmp7704]

[Lord_Saulot]

erynnar wrote...

Sylvius the Mad wrote...

Revakeane wrote...

In my humble opinion, badassery is an integral component of games... especially in RPGs where you're supposed to identify strongly with the character.

I disagree completely with your basic premise.

In many games (action games, mostly), making the player feel empoered is a primary design goal.

But in an RPG, you (the player) aren't the one doing things in the game.  You are not your character.  I don't think identifying with your character is important, or even desireable.

Um that is what you are supposed to do in an RPG...role play that character, be that character, identify with that character.  If you don't find that desireable, okay. If you dont' want to be that character, also good for you.  But most of us who RPG, we want to identify with that characer and feel as if we are that character. Otherwise I could just go play a first person shooter, or hack and slash, or and MMORPG with no history or backstory to your character. 

Unless you were going for sarcasm? I iz confused...

Roleplaying a character, being a character, and identifying as a character are all fundamentally different things.  You can identify as a character in any game - most strongly in first person games regardless of genre.  But I find it hard to see what it has to do with roleplaying, which often requires a conscious understanding of how player and character differ.

[Rockpopple]

I kinda feel bad for all the people that found NOTHING enjoyable about Dragon Age II.

Not snark, I honestly feel bad for them. And I guess the snarky response would be, "Well I feel bad for people that DID enjoy Dragon Age II, hurr hurr", but really, how can you feel bad for people having fun?

I feel bad for people who didn't have fun with this, and I hope that there is another game they're playing and having fun with. Life's too short.

[Rrend]

Revakeane wrote...

In my humble opinion, badassery is an integral component of games... especially in RPGs where you're supposed to identify strongly with the character. Since I'm a badass mostly in my head, I really appreciate it when games make me feel really badass in virtual life (which is an improvement from pure mentally-stimulated fantasy).

Anyway, I got serious badass vibes when my FemHawke Rogue threw the murder knife into somebody's deserving throat, when my mage hawke ripped the ogre which killed my sister apart, when my warrior killed the High Dragon, and at the end, where people either back off in fear of you or KNEEL the hell down. Those instances were cool.

I strongly suggest that Bioware increase the number and magnitude of badass demonstrations in DA3 and any other game they have in development.

Any other instances?

Every time I get hasted, hit cleave, and then scythe slaughter a half a dozen mobs, I get badassery chills and goose bumps.

[MDarwin]

I will feel "badass", when I find "da Awesome Button".

[MDarwin]

tmp7704 wrote...

"Where is it? My preciouse Awesome Button? What has it done with it?"  

[Sylvius the Mad]

erynnar wrote...

[Um that is what you are supposed to do in an RPG...role play that character, be that character, identify with that character.

I don't understand why you're conflating those things.  Those are very different.

When roleplaying, my character might feel like a badass.  My character might feel frightened, or excited, or anxious, or hungry, or whatever - I'm not him.  That he feels those thngs is controlled by me, but chances are the entire time that's happening I just feel content.  Because I'm roleplaying, and that's something I enjoy doing.  I'm not badass - I'm a guy sitting in a dark room playing computer games.  But that my character is a badass is something I'll enjoy intellectually if badassery was part of that character's design (if it wasn't, then him being a badass will just annoy me).

[Hurbster]

I dont really have anything I can mention in a non-spoiler forum.

[neppakyo]

I felt like a bad ass when I dueled Loghain and then be-headed him.. oh wait wrong game...

[erynnar]

Rockpopple wrote...

I kinda feel bad for all the people that found NOTHING enjoyable about Dragon Age II.

Not snark, I honestly feel bad for them. And I guess the snarky response would be, "Well I feel bad for people that DID enjoy Dragon Age II, hurr hurr", but really, how can you feel bad for people having fun?

I feel bad for people who didn't have fun with this, and I hope that there is another game they're playing and having fun with. Life's too short.

Why do you assume that those of us with legitimate complaints, about the flaws of the game found NOTHING (as you so helpfully shouted) good about the game? I have found good things about the game. They just weren't enough to make a difference in whether I replay. And I won't be replaying, because the bad outweighs the good in my case. I didn't hate the game, but to me it wasn't worth $60 bucks and it felt like a chore to play. I have managed to slog through, with long amounts of time where I just set it down an walked away to play other games or write. I feel sorry for me too, not for you. I am glad you are enjoying it, and I hope you keep on enjoying it (no snark, really). I wish I was enjoying it half as much as I enjoyed Awakenings even. Alas, it is not to be.

[Rockpopple]

Why do you assume that I'm talking about those of us (yes, us)  with legitimate complaints? Where did I say that?

I said I feel bad for the people that found nothing about Dragon Age II. They're here, on this forum. It's not that hard to find them.

I don't feel bad who are enjoying some parts of it and not enjoying others. This game isn't perfect, so obviously people who have complaints about it (myself, for example) are plentiful. I'm specifically talking about people who have, to my knowledge, not found one good thing about this game. Not one.

And I shouted because I'm lazy and I don't like using <b>bold</b> when I'm only gonna use it for one word. Not a big deal imo.

Edit: well see, traditional tags don't even work. Another reason for the occasional SHOUT.

Modifié par Rockpopple, 07 avril 2011 - 11:51 .

[Barefoot Warrior]

neppakyo wrote...

I felt like a bad ass when I dueled Loghain and then be-headed him.. oh wait wrong game...

Too funny, that was the very first thing that I thought off to...

[PunchoT]

I have to say that bit with you controlling just Varric, defeating the Arishok (though that fight is just utter horsecrap), and killing the Ogre in the beginning. That's about it though. I strongly disagree with anyone that says killing the Dragon or Rock Wraith was badass. NO DEATHBLOWS!

[TJSolo]

Rockpopple wrote...

Why do you assume that I'm talking about those of us (yes, us)  with legitimate complaints? Where did I say that?

I said I feel bad for the people that found nothing about Dragon Age II. They're here, on this forum. It's not that hard to find them.

I don't feel bad who are enjoying some parts of it and not enjoying others. This game isn't perfect, so obviously people who have complaints about it (myself, for example) are plentiful. I'm specifically talking about people who have, to my knowledge, not found one good thing about this game. Not one.

And I shouted because I'm lazy and I don't like using <b>bold</b> when I'm only gonna use it for one word. Not a big deal imo.

Edit: well see, traditional tags don't even work. Another reason for the occasional SHOUT.

BBCode uses brackets.

[erynnar]

Sylvius the Mad wrote...

erynnar wrote...

[Um that is what you are supposed to do in an RPG...role play that character, be that character, identify with that character.

I don't understand why you're conflating those things.  Those are very different.

When roleplaying, my character might feel like a badass.  My character might feel frightened, or excited, or anxious, or hungry, or whatever - I'm not him.  That he feels those thngs is controlled by me, but chances are the entire time that's happening I just feel content.  Because I'm roleplaying, and that's something I enjoy doing.  I'm not badass - I'm a guy sitting in a dark room playing computer games.  But that my character is a badass is something I'll enjoy intellectually if badassery was part of that character's design (if it wasn't, then him being a badass will just annoy me).

Still not gettin' where your head it at. But that's okay. Though I will say your character feels nothing, it is a pixelated person with a program. So any emotions are implied by the game, and any depth is furnished by you. And I have mulitple layers of feelings. On one hand, a part of me feels content playing a good RPG (DAO, BG, BG2), the other part of me, the part that is stepping into my character's skin, feels the implied emotions, hence the I am role playing my little pixelated bot and if the story does what it's supposed to I supply the feelings that my character feels.

[Gnaeus.Silvanus]

Under 18 cover your eyes! When I plowed Anders and dumped him for Isabella? Take it Anders! Take it! Hahahahahaha

[Rockpopple]

@ TJSolo - Thanks.

[Fruit of the Doom]

Nothing, really. You were just some guy who did some impressive stuff, but runs away after things begin to get interesting.