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[Duelist]

Thats my reply to has a rash shok

[The Loyal Nub]

here do you live cause $80 is a godsend XD

 

Well when I caved I recall it was Mom to the rescue. I've a better job now but $80 still hurts. However I'd rather bite the bullet than sweat all night that's for sure!

[AlexiaRevan]

i grew up in cali so im built for warm enviros. The sweater the better imo nice and warm

Ya live in an oven ? 

[Wissenschaft 2.0]

i know you fight Samson later. I'm asking if Calpernia replaces Samson if you go the Templar route?

That haunting music during in hushed whispers is perfect. I took Varric and Cassie with me. She greatly disapproved of my alliance with the mages. So after that, I flirted with her again. I romanced her before but something feels different this time. She seems to genuinely like Deshaun. Going from "did you need something?" to "I trust all is well?" while still in Haven...small ting but yeah.

(Sera has already dubbed him "sir floppy doppy pants" or whatever it is. I haven't taken her anywhere with me this playthrough. trying to use Varric more for once. It's been difficult not hearing her banter.)

 

Yes, Calpernia replaces Samson. And you get some more development of Cory. But Samson gets a mission where Cullen join you in the field. I'm not a Cullen fan but it was still fun none the less.

 

As for Cassandra, her responses to you chances with her approval level. So shes more clearly pleased to see you if you get her approval up quickly during the early part of the game.

[raging_monkey]

Well when I caved I recall it was Mom to the rescue. I've a better job now but $80 still hurts. However I'd rather bite the bullet than sweat all night that's for sure!

ah

Ya live in an oven ?

i wish. I put my jeans in the oven during winter here in alabama. Just 3 more months and im back in socal

[catabuca]

185! Wow you are completionist! I think Uncle is at that amount of time too. I managed about 97 hours before I caved as I wanted to see the ending.

 

I agree that you have to sort of lie in that bed you made and live with the consequences. In Origins I was never comfortable in the first playthrough with Alistair getting the crown. He had omitted his background and then refused to show mercy to Loghain (in my game) and I felt he would make a poor King and it sure seems that way in the world state I made for this game using the Origins results. But that's the beauty of the game in that you are presented with choices and you may never get that clear-cut, this is the most noble option, all nicely tied in black and white. You might get the choice of a lot of bad options much like real-life.

 

I will keep my first playthrough for the Keep so I can see how badly the world turns out with a murderous Leliana. It will be interesting. Hopefully there'll be some more benevolent world-states there too!

 

The bit I highlighted: that's why I really love recent BioWare games. It's why I love (*gasp*) the endings to ME3.

 

In a medium that is by design about achieving a preferential outcome (the very mechanics of video games are centered around achieving a goal, and that goal is presented as being the desirable, good thing), I welcome the move towards offering conclusions that aren't good versus bad. I love that there isn't a recognisable preferable ending for ME3, and that if you ask 10 people you'll get 12 answers about which is the 'best' colour to pick. And the thing about BioWare is that they make us think about why they might be the best options to choose. I've spent more hours than I care to admit talking to people about the finer intricacies of my decision-making processes, about my philosophies as set out in the Mass Effect and Dragon Age universes (although I contend they are part of the same universe, but that's another matter for another time). I love that there are inherent problems to each choice. It's a really interesting thing to do in a medium that for so long has walked the well-trodden path of 'do this right, get reward'. We call for games to be more complex and interesting and relevant and engaging, and so when that happens hell yes I embrace it with open arms, even if it means I have to make tough compromises and accept some amount of heartache for my characters along the way.

 

I really hope that after the furore over ME3 they don't get cold feet and that they continue to push our expectations and push us to feel uncomfortable and push us to have to approach games and decision-making in new and interesting ways.

[YourFunnyUncle]

Wow this thread is moving at pre-release speeds! Is it because Alexia is back?

 

185! Wow you are completionist! I think Uncle is at that amount of time too. I managed about 97 hours before I caved as I wanted to see the ending.

 

Finally finished Tressa's game on Sunday. 260 hours and a bit. I'm not sure but I think it counts when you hit escape and just have the options menu showing as part of the play time, so it may be a few tens of hours less in that case. I am incapable of not being a completionist though, at least with Bioware games. I also rather enjoy wandering around looking at the view in DAI...

 

Talking of Divines, I was so happy with how everything went in my playthrough until the very end. I said to Leliana that I supported her for Divine, but I got bloody Vivienne. I think it must be because I conscripted the mages. I just don't like the idea of allying with either side to be honest. They both messed up hugely in the war.

[AlexiaRevan]

Wow this thread is moving at pre-release speeds! Is it because Alexia is back?

 

Ya know it.....  

 

[Lady Luminous]

There will be spring one day... In May... 

 

Actually a few years we still had snow in May and skipped right to summer. One day there was a snow dump and the next day it was a heat wave and suddenly summer arrived. It was bloody weird. 

[Serza]

Wow this thread is moving at pre-release speeds! Is it because Alexia is back?

 

 

Finally finished Tressa's game on Sunday. 260 hours and a bit. I'm not sure but I think it counts when you hit escape and just have the options menu showing as part of the play time, so it may be a few tens of hours less in that case. I am incapable of not being a completionist though, at least with Bioware games. I also rather enjoy wandering around looking at the view in DAI...

 

Talking of Divines, I was so happy with how everything went in my playthrough until the very end. I said to Leliana that I supported her for Divine, but I got bloody Vivienne. I think it must be because I conscripted the mages. I just don't like the idea of allying with either side to be honest. They both messed up hugely in the war.

 

Already told ya, compare the time logged on Origin with time logged on save file, see if it roughly fits, if yes, it counts ESC time, if not... you get the idea...

[raging_monkey]

Ya know it.....  
 

beepbeep

[catabuca]

Wow this thread is moving at pre-release speeds! Is it because Alexia is back?

 

 

Finally finished Tressa's game on Sunday. 260 hours and a bit. I'm not sure but I think it counts when you hit escape and just have the options menu showing as part of the play time, so it may be a few tens of hours less in that case. I am incapable of not being a completionist though, at least with Bioware games. I also rather enjoy wandering around looking at the view in DAI...

 

Talking of Divines, I was so happy with how everything went in my playthrough until the very end. I said to Leliana that I supported her for Divine, but I got bloody Vivienne. I think it must be because I conscripted the mages. I just don't like the idea of allying with either side to be honest. They both messed up hugely in the war.

 

Oh dear, I fear my outcome may not be what I want it to be then. I conscripted the mages as well (although I probably shouldn't have done with this character, but she wasn't really quite sure what she believed to begin with, and tbh Sera has had quite an influence on her).

 

And yes, I think it does count when you're paused and tabbed out of the game. I think you can probably knock off about 10 hours from my total for times I was paused but eating my tea, and times I was screenshot hunting rather than playing. But I really am quite a slow player. Hell, I once had a DA2 playthrough that took waaaaaaaaay longer than it should have taken any sensible person.

[Lady Luminous]

Wow this thread is moving at pre-release speeds! Is it because Alexia is back?

 

 

Finally finished Tressa's game on Sunday. 260 hours and a bit. I'm not sure but I think it counts when you hit escape and just have the options menu showing as part of the play time, so it may be a few tens of hours less in that case. I am incapable of not being a completionist though, at least with Bioware games. I also rather enjoy wandering around looking at the view in DAI...

 

Talking of Divines, I was so happy with how everything went in my playthrough until the very end. I said to Leliana that I supported her for Divine, but I got bloody Vivienne. I think it must be because I conscripted the mages. I just don't like the idea of allying with either side to be honest. They both messed up hugely in the war.

 

I've done 3 playthroughs now, and I actually really like Vivienne as Divine.

 

I have to say though, each of my characters felt like their decisions truly mattered to them, and each world was shaped really differently because of their choices. That I really loved, and surprisingly my "ideal" game didn't give me the most fulfilling ending even though I'd picked all the "right" choices. 

[The Loyal Nub]

The bit I highlighted: that's why I really love recent BioWare games. It's why I love (*gasp*) the endings to ME3.

 

In a medium that is by design about achieving a preferential outcome (the very mechanics of video games are centered around achieving a goal, and that goal is presented as being the desirable, good thing), I welcome the move towards offering conclusions that aren't good versus bad. I love that there isn't a recognisable preferable ending for ME3, and that if you ask 10 people you'll get 12 answers about which is the 'best' colour to pick. And the thing about BioWare is that they make us think about why they might be the best options to choose. I've spent more hours than I care to admit talking to people about the finer intricacies of my decision-making processes, about my philosophies as set out in the Mass Effect and Dragon Age universes (although I contend they are part of the same universe, but that's another matter for another time). I love that there are inherent problems to each choice. It's a really interesting thing to do in a medium that for so long has walked the well-trodden path of 'do this right, get reward'. We call for games to be more complex and interesting and relevant and engaging, and so when that happens hell yes I embrace it with open arms, even if it means I have to make tough compromises and accept some amount of heartache for my characters along the way.

 

I really hope that after the furore over ME3 they don't get cold feet and that they continue to push our expectations and push us to feel uncomfortable and push us to have to approach games and decision-making in new and interesting ways.

 

I seem to have gotten "likes" back. Yay!

 

Anyway I have yet to play through all the ME games. I have them all as I bought them right before Christmas in a neat deal where I got them all for 20 or so bucks. The first hour I played of ME I noted that a character I met exclaimed "thank the maker!" in dialogue and it got me wondering if there is a connection between these two worlds!

 

I hope that BioWare do not abandon the hard choices for the next ME game. My suspicion is they will not given they are very much present here, in this game, and people who love this game seem to love the other series too (although not all). Oddly it was BioWare's own detractor's who got me interested. Every complaint about the moral choices and why can't games just let me be the hero or every nasty comment I read about "SJW's" only got me more interested in trying the series out. That and I like fantasy rpgs anyway or had started to love them. I've only been gaming since 2010 so I am a late-comer really. It's games like this that please the adult in me. I want some more noirish games with complicated choices and more sexier content. It's not a knock against straight up action games but I need a little more depth then just blam, blam sometimes. I'll give ME a go in more depth soon hopefully. 

[The Loyal Nub]

Wow this thread is moving at pre-release speeds! Is it because Alexia is back?

 

 

Finally finished Tressa's game on Sunday. 260 hours and a bit. I'm not sure but I think it counts when you hit escape and just have the options menu showing as part of the play time, so it may be a few tens of hours less in that case. I am incapable of not being a completionist though, at least with Bioware games. I also rather enjoy wandering around looking at the view in DAI...

 

Talking of Divines, I was so happy with how everything went in my playthrough until the very end. I said to Leliana that I supported her for Divine, but I got bloody Vivienne. I think it must be because I conscripted the mages. I just don't like the idea of allying with either side to be honest. They both messed up hugely in the war.

 

If there is one thing I'd love to see patched in it's an option to scold them both and reject them. Seems strange that option isn't there. It would make the game more perfect!

 

I want to do even more wandering into areas in this current game but I already see so much replay-ability. I could see going well over 400 hours easily just playing out every combination I can think of!

[Lady Luminous]

If there is one thing I'd love to see patched in it's an option to scold them both and reject them. Seems strange that option isn't there. It would make the game more perfect!

 

I want to do even more wandering into areas in this current game but I already see so much replay-ability. I could see going well over 400 hours easily just playing out every combination I can think of!

 

...I already have 410 hours thanks to holiday break and 3 playthroughs... 

 

Yes, I know, I'm an addict.

[The Loyal Nub]

Oh dear, I fear my outcome may not be what I want it to be then. I conscripted the mages as well (although I probably shouldn't have done with this character, but she wasn't really quite sure what she believed to begin with, and tbh Sera has had quite an influence on her).

 

 

Fear not! I conscripted the Mages, backed Viv, and got Leliana so...

[The Loyal Nub]

...I already have 410 hours thanks to holiday break and 3 playthroughs... 

 

Yes, I know, I'm an addict.

 

In awe. Just awe. You must not eat or sleep!

[Lady Luminous]

In awe. Just awe. You must not eat or sleep!

 

I eat... junkfood and leftovers and microwavables... 

 

I sleep... at 5 in the morning after staying up all night...

 

It was Christmas break! I cannot be held accountable for my actions!

[raging_monkey]

I eat... junkfood and leftovers and microwavables... 
 
I sleep... at 5 in the morning after staying up all night...
 
It was Christmas break! I cannot be held accountable for my actions!

you know how to partayy XD

[The Loyal Nub]

I eat... junkfood and leftovers and microwavables... 

 

I sleep... at 5 in the morning after staying up all night...

 

It was Christmas break! I cannot be held accountable for my actions!

 

You must fall asleep at your desk at work! I had 12 days off work and didn't come close to your numbers haha!

[Lady Luminous]

You must fall asleep at your desk at work! I had 12 days off work and didn't come close to your numbers haha!

 

No... I drink a lot of coffee though. 

 

Oh, over the 12 days I think I only amassed like 150-200 hours. The 400 is since the game's release. 

[catabuca]

I seem to have gotten "likes" back. Yay!

 

Anyway I have yet to play through all the ME games. I have them all as I bought them right before Christmas in a neat deal where I got them all for 20 or so bucks. The first hour I played of ME I noted that a character I met exclaimed "thank the maker!" in dialogue and it got me wondering if there is a connection between these two worlds!

 

I hope that BioWare do not abandon the hard choices for the next ME game. My suspicion is they will not given they are very much present here, in this game, and people who love this game seem to love the other series too (although not all). Oddly it was BioWare's own detractor's who got me interested. Every complaint about the moral choices and why can't games just let me be the hero or every nasty comment I read about "SJW's" only got me more interested in trying the series out. That and I like fantasy rpgs anyway or had started to love them. I've only been gaming since 2010 so I am a late-comer really. It's games like this that please the adult in me. I want some more noirish games with complicated choices and more sexier content. It's not a knock against straight up action games but I need a little more depth then just blam, blam sometimes. I'll give ME a go in more depth soon hopefully. 

 

I think you'll enjoy the trilogy. There are some very memorable characters, and lots of interesting things going on in the background. It's all a bit more linear than Dragon Age, it's a far tighter experience, but for some reason I've actually found it easier to form a bond with and roleplay my various Shepards than I have my wardens, Hawkes or Inquisitor.

 

The first Mass Effect was the second game I played after coming back to gaming after a break. It was my second 'new gen' (as it was then) game. (The first was GTAIV.) I fell head over heels in love with it, and it defined how I think about gaming now and how I can interact with it on a personal level. When I got to the end and the credits rolled I was in tears, and as soon as the credits ended I started a new game immediately. ME2 was the low point of the trilogy for me, because it felt far too 'gamey' with its mission complete and loading screens, and the idea of gaining loyalty and consciously picking the 'right' characters to do certain things to achieve the optimal result. It's still a good game though, and it improved on a lot of things even though I'm not its biggest fan. ME3 brought back a lot of what I loved about the original game, and improved on the things I enjoyed from the second. It still wasn't perfect, but I thoroughly enjoyed playing it.

 

I'm excited to hear they're looking at bringing back some sort of exploration in the fourth game, although I hope they tone it down a bit and don't go as far as DAI has gone -- my biggest gripe about DAI is that the main story feels very watered down and all sense of pacing is lost because of the huge swathes of nothing there is to play through in between -- I appreciate what they were trying to do, and they did some amazing things with this game, but for my taste they went too far in the opposite direction and I don't think the format they chose is the best one for a franchise that tries to tell engaging, immersive stories.

 

It's interesting you say you came to BioWare because of the negative stuff you heard -- I'm sure all the naysayers will be thrilled to know they converted someone to the company While BW don't get it right all the time, I can't think of another company I'd rather be loyal to. That's not to say I give them my blind, unthinking loyalty; only that I fully support and applaud their commitment to driving inclusivity in their games, and when they do misstep, while it might hurt all the harder because I don't want my favourite developer to do something like that, I stand behind them as they vow to try better next time.

 

I met a few very good friends as a result of being a BW fan. I can say, on a personal level, being a BW fan changed my life. That sounds corny and crap and I'd slap myself for it if I wasn't a huge wimp, but it's also honest.

[catabuca]

Fear not! I conscripted the Mages, backed Viv, and got Leliana so...

 

Haha, oh dear, it seems like we leave the fate of Thedas in the hands of capricious devs.

[AlexiaRevan]

 

I'm excited to hear they're looking at bringing back some sort of exploration in the fourth game, although I hope they tone it down a bit and don't go as far as DAI has gone -- my biggest gripe about DAI is that the main story feels very watered down and all sense of pacing is lost because of the huge swathes of nothing there is to play through in between -- I appreciate what they were trying to do, and they did some amazing things with this game, but for my taste they went too far in the opposite direction and I don't think the format they chose is the best one for a franchise that tries to tell engaging, immersive stories.

This...

 

So much this . They shouldve tied the story to every Map..

 

Instead...I was able to finish the game at lvl 17 and without touching more then those 4 starting Map..wich suck .