And the letters left out, O, R, D, F, S spells DORFS!
FAVOURITISM FOR DWARVES!!! THIS IS PRESIPOSITROUS!
Lothering - L(ord) o(f) the ring(s)
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spiritage
, janv. 03 2010 07:32
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#27
Posté 06 janvier 2010 - 04:19
David Gaider
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Yeah, no kidding. Why not call it "Lordring" or something if we intended it to be a tribute? Silly.Torias wrote...
Errr, the human mind can "find" patterns in anything, even when they are not there...
#28
Posté 06 janvier 2010 - 04:26
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David Gaider wrote...
Yeah, no kidding. Why not call it "Lordring" or something if we intended it to be a tribute? Silly.Torias wrote...
Errr, the human mind can "find" patterns in anything, even when they are not there...
Oh, now you're just grumpy somebody decoded your clever pun!
#29
Posté 06 janvier 2010 - 04:29
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Well "Thedas", the continent that Ferelden is on, had it's origins in shorthand... "the da setting".... so anything's possible I guess.
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Posté 06 janvier 2010 - 04:52
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If you take the first letter of every word in every book of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, enter them into a computer, and let a random number generator pull out eleven of those letters, you might spell David Gaider.
True story.
True story.
#31
Posté 06 janvier 2010 - 05:42
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David Gaider is Sauron of the Fifth Age.
#32
Posté 06 janvier 2010 - 06:09
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spiritage wrote...
who is starscream? :/
No biggy really........nothing to lose sleep over, honestly. yup, you heard it here first, people.
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Posté 06 janvier 2010 - 06:13
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spiritage wrote...
who is starscream? :/
No biggy really........nothing to lose sleep over, honestly. yup, you heard it here first, people.
And on topic, of course you'd say it is only coincidence, after all, who'd want to pay royalties, as opposed to HOMAGE?
What is with these forums? sheesh can't even edit a post without it duplicating itself!!
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#34
Posté 06 janvier 2010 - 06:33
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ohupthis wrote...
spiritage wrote...
who is starscream? :/
No biggy really........nothing to lose sleep over, honestly. yup, you heard it here first, people.
Yeah, yeah...nothing to be concerned with. This new generation isn't being deprived of magical entertainment they'll never forget, or anything. Why even bat an eye...???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <Bursts into tears.>
#35
Posté 06 janvier 2010 - 07:03
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Dudes i totally agree , when i first saw the movies it immediately reminded me of LOTR
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Posté 06 janvier 2010 - 07:24
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Have to agree with the Bioware folks..there are anagram applications on the Net..you can pretty much create what you wish with those with the letters from anything else.
Dragon Age: Origins is a jewel unto itself, its original and its a good game. I closed betaed and played Lotro...no comparison. Lotro = mmo DA:O = rpg.
DA:O definitely a more challenging and interesting game.
Dragon Age: Origins is a jewel unto itself, its original and its a good game. I closed betaed and played Lotro...no comparison. Lotro = mmo DA:O = rpg.
DA:O definitely a more challenging and interesting game.
#37
Posté 06 janvier 2010 - 01:19
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I found substantially more similarities between Dragon Age: Origins and A Song of Ice and Fire than DAO:O has with LOTR. However Bioware has been working with some classic archetypes both historically and in fantasy fiction so it would be easy to draw reasonable comparisons with some aspects of the best known 'classic' work in the fantasy field.
However, as most everyone could agree, similarity does not mean it was intentionally sourced from LOTR or A Song of Ice and Fire (among others). I could compare the Sun with a tomato for both are round and have reddish hues. However it doesn't mean whatever source wrote our design documents stole the sun from the tomato.
However, as most everyone could agree, similarity does not mean it was intentionally sourced from LOTR or A Song of Ice and Fire (among others). I could compare the Sun with a tomato for both are round and have reddish hues. However it doesn't mean whatever source wrote our design documents stole the sun from the tomato.
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Posté 06 janvier 2010 - 01:26
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i think its good if it is intended as a tribute, LOTR is fantastic after all both the films and the books. most fantasy games have something from LOTR, it set such a good base its incredibly difficult to not follow it in some way, and i think its only a good thing.
Its such a shame that LOTR hasn't been made into a really good game up to this point, ive played the old ps2 games of it and they were great at the time but it could make for a fantastic RPG or RTS game(yes i know there are some, but they are not up to scratch imo).
Its such a shame that LOTR hasn't been made into a really good game up to this point, ive played the old ps2 games of it and they were great at the time but it could make for a fantastic RPG or RTS game(yes i know there are some, but they are not up to scratch imo).
#39
Posté 07 janvier 2010 - 02:29
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to be completely honest i do believe this was unintentional but the funny thing is the name "Lothering" always reminded me of LotR but for some reason i couldnt make out why.. and now i think i've found the answer:)
i seemed to have found the unintended pattern and not even realize it
i seemed to have found the unintended pattern and not even realize it
#40
Posté 07 janvier 2010 - 02:33
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Well, Thedas is "The D(ragon) A(ge) S(etting)."
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#41
Posté 07 janvier 2010 - 02:39
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RoudyRogue wrote...
LOL, I actually just rewatched all three movies with my parents the other day and was playing this game while I was watching and realized how incredibly similar the two are. If only we had hobbits...
If by similar, you mean DAO is a very uninspired none-too-subtle "homage" to LOTR (blatant rip-off would be too strong, but vry apropriate with just a few tweaks), then yeah.
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Posté 07 janvier 2010 - 02:40
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Theres the random encounter with two dead elves (frodo + sam) and 9 wraiths. One of the bodies has a note saying "we should have just taken the flying eagles"
Now thats what i call a reference to LotR
Now thats what i call a reference to LotR
#43
Posté 19 février 2010 - 02:38
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Actually, the name came from the movie "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" as it is explained on the DAWiki:
http://dragonage.wik...othering#Trivia
But none the less, a nice and funny find.
And I must agree with most posters here that in the general storystyle, it does have similarities to the LotR movies, but not the games.
http://dragonage.wik...othering#Trivia
But none the less, a nice and funny find.
And I must agree with most posters here that in the general storystyle, it does have similarities to the LotR movies, but not the games.
Modifié par Salem Black, 19 février 2010 - 02:38 .
#44
Posté 19 février 2010 - 02:58
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David Gaider wrote...
Yeah, no kidding. Why not call it "Lordring" or something if we intended it to be a tribute? Silly.Torias wrote...
Errr, the human mind can "find" patterns in anything, even when they are not there...
Here David, to save you the trouble, I'll just link to your previous response where you explained the Lothering name:
Linky
"That's because it has nothing to do with Lord of the Rings.
I'd
just watched "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" the night before, in
fact, and needed a name for the village. "Loathing" didn't quite work.
In fact, for a while we jokingly referred to the plot there as "Fear
and Lothering in Ferelden". But that was corny. ../../../images/forum/emoticons/smile.png"
Don't say I never did anything for you
edit: meh... it takes me so long to actually post. People ninja me by 20 minutes.
Do I get the slowest poster ever award?
Modifié par melkathi, 19 février 2010 - 03:00 .
#45
Posté 22 février 2010 - 10:33
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The pattern that is there is the fact that the whole genre of games we call RPG's today came from the pen and paper games inspired by Tolkien's trilogy. The whole idea of a party based adventure into forgotten realms (literally) was born out of the Lord Of The Rings. It should look similar, but is not intended and actually should be a confirmation to Bioware of the game's success.
Modifié par AnnaBananaBamBamBoo, 22 février 2010 - 10:34 .
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Posté 22 février 2010 - 11:54
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David Gaider wrote...
Yeah, no kidding. Why not call it "Lordring" or something if we intended it to be a tribute? Silly.Torias wrote...
Errr, the human mind can "find" patterns in anything, even when they are not there...
Your a more honest man than I. I would have said, "Yeah, yeah, totally, you got me, it was all a clever tribute all along, I can't believe you plebs only just figured it out. You know, there are 12 more hidden tributes, and when you decode them all you get a meta-tribute that unlocks a new thing", and then sat back and grinned as the gullible scrambled to find them all.
