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[Caddius]

This is great! Now my coworkers are wondering what I'm laughing about.

I can't help but picture all of the Keepers staring at him incredulously and trying to figure out if he's drunk. 

[Maria13]

What happen... Damn!

 

Such lovely artworks last night my picture archives are groaning under the weight of awesome Solas pics...

[lynroy]

I can't help but picture all of the Keepers staring at him incredulously and trying to figure out if he's drunk.

"Go home, Solas. You're drunk."

I love how he calls them nerds.

[Kappa Neko]

 
I'll spoiler this because way off topic
 

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Would I recommend it? It's hard to say.
 
I mostly hated XIII because there was no sense of exploration and because (of all things) the relationship between Hope and Snow made no sense to me. In general, the plot was okay, but the characters sucked.
 
In XIII-2, the characters continue to suck. Fang and Vanille are barely in the game, so if you're wanting to see them again, you'll be disappointed. The game is pretty much nothing but sidequests and exploration with barely any main plot to tie it together, so it's the opposite of the first game in that respect. And the plot is entirely driven by time travel, so there's that.
 
Mostly, the game sucks. It's tedious and the characters are boring.
 
It's hard to say why I thought it was depressing without spoiling it. If someone were specifically interested in seeing if the game made them feel bad, then I might recommend it. But things that affect one person that way won't necessarily affect another person the same, so there's that risk that you'll have trudged through it and then be unmoved by what I felt was depressing. It may not be worth the risk.

This all sounds rather awful tbh *g* I'll pass, I think. What's the point when the characters and the story suck? Thanks for your opinion!

 

[Colonelkillabee]

This all sounds rather awful tbh *g* I'll pass, I think. What's the point when the characters and the story suck? Thanks for your opinion!

 

Wisest decision of your gaming career, tbh

[Caddius]

Wisest decision of your gaming career, tbh

Anyone else remember the good old days of just wandering into game stores and picking out whatever game looked cool or the cashier recommended and going home that day and installing it on a disc and having a wonderful time?

Me, I remember getting this old strategy game in the store and my dad had to spend two weeks fiddling with the computer to get the darn game to work, and it turned out to be complete crap anyway.

Except for the fabulous hats the Portuguese soldiers wore. Or they might have been geese. I'm not too sure. They were those kinds of graphics.

[Colonelkillabee]

Anyone else remember the good old days of just wandering into game stores and picking out whatever game looked cool or the cashier recommended and going home that day and installing it on a disc and having a wonderful time?

Me, I remember getting this old strategy game in the store and my dad had to spend two weeks fiddling with the computer to get the darn game to work, and it turned out to be complete crap anyway.

Except for the fabulous hats the Portuguese soldiers wore. Or they might have been geese. I'm not too sure. They were those kinds of graphics.

 

Sure but I was much more easily entertained back then too Now, I'd rather play chess than a mediocre videogame.

[Siha]

In theory it's enough to own DA, ME, Rage, Hitman, and Deus Ex anyway.

[Avejajed]

I have a good old days of gaming story:

 

Years ago- I was just out of high school but I was still about seventeen, so it must have been like '99, my brother, who must have been eleven or twelve at the time had a weekend free of my mom, who was out of town on some kind of meeting. She left us money for pizza and to rent some movies or video games from the local movie rental place. 

 

So we order some pizza and run to down to rent a few movies. Then we decide look at this new game, Silent Hill. WHY NOT WE SAID.

 

We grab some movies, the pizza, and our shiny new Silent Hill and head home.

 

We decide we're going to wait until it's nighttime to play this game. So wait until like 9 p.m., turn off all the lights and settle down for some fun.

 

Fifteen minutes in, we turn all the lights on in the entire house. An hour later, we're taking turns trying to play- when he'd get too scared I'd take it, and vice versa. Had to turn off the controller vibration because it was stressing us out. First look at a flayed child my brother screamed like a girl and threw the controller across the room. Fell asleep in the living room about 8 a.m. because neither one of us could sleep. Only played it about two hours. Never finished the game until I was much older.

[Caddius]

I have a good old days of gaming story:

 

Years ago- I was just out of high school but I was still about seventeen, so it must have been like '99, my brother, who must have been eleven or twelve at the time had a weekend free of my mom, who was out of town on some kind of meeting. She left us money for pizza and to rent some movies or video games from the local movie rental place. 

 

So we order some pizza and run to down to rent a few movies. Then we decide look at this new game, Silent Hill. WHY NOT WE SAID.

 

We grab some movies, the pizza, and our shiny new Silent Hill and head home.

 

We decide we're going to wait until it's nighttime to play this game. So wait until like 9 p.m., turn off all the lights and settle down for some fun.

 

Fifteen minutes in, we turn all the lights on in the entire house. An hour later, we're taking turns trying to play- when he'd get too scared I'd take it, and vice versa. Had to turn off the controller vibration because it was stressing us out. First look at a flayed child my brother screamed like a girl and threw the controller across the room. Fell asleep in the living room about 8 a.m. because neither one of us could sleep. Only played it about two hours. Never finished the game until I was much older.

That's fantastic. 

My own childhood gaming horror was much more tame than yours.  My dad had just gotten the recently released Xbox, thanks to a cousin in Microsoft's discount and generosity. (This is Washington. Everyone has a cousin in Microsoft.) He'd gotten a football game that he was quite excited about, and this new-fangled Halo game. He told me very sternly not to go downstairs while he was playing it, because it was 'M for Mature'. Naturally, I was crestfallen, and snuck to the door to try to listen under, ostensibly to ask him a question about where the peanut butter was when he came back upstairs. I could hear the faint sounds of gunfire, shouting, and my dad cursing. Apparently 2001 was quite boring for me, since I stood next to the door for an hour twiddling my thumbs. (I did eventually leave for the peanut butter, and revised my story to asking for another puppy, because I had ambitions.) 

 

Then he opened the door and I did my best to look innocent. He laughed at me for snooping, and then said, "Why don't you come down and have a looksie?"

So I played the opening level of Halo when I was about five because my dad got lost on the Pillar of Autumn. On the tutorial mission. On the part where there's a giant stairwell directly in front of you, and Sergeant Johnson is shouting, "Move up the stairs! Come on!" I naturally walked up there first thing, and witnessed my first facepalm from my father.

 

I became his co-op pilot in all Halo's since, as he desperately needed my navigating ability, even if I did mostly jump and melee things and refuse to use anything but the Pistol. Everything was and dandy until the infamous 343: Guilty Spark mission. When the Elite was found with his scrambled insides, I was terrified and disgusted, and muttered about, "Maybe we should leave?"

 

"You'd think the marines would have seen their movies and know what was coming," My dad agreed, "They should just leave."

Too embarrassed to clarify, I went on to play the level that would give me nightmares for years. 

The exact same scenario happened when I went to see War of the Worlds with him and I was whimpering in my seat because this was before I was introduced to turians and the idea of aliens was the scariest thing 'evah'.  The man still can't pick up any hints.

[Kappa Neko]

Oh you liked the Archer class in DAO? xD Okay then, hehe. My Mahariel was a sword and shield warrior too and it was pretty fun shield bashing enemies while trying to protect your squishier companions. xD

 

It's been a while since I've played DA2 so I don't know if my opinions on the DA2 companions will change. I really should pick it up and play it again but I'm afraid it's only going to elicit a negative reaction from me again. 

 

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And I was wondering when the reactions from Fenris fans on this thread was going to appear. Apparently it's okay to talk crap about other characters but saying you don't like Fenris is a big no-no.   I get it now...

 

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Nah, you're not the only one who dislikes Fenris. I don't hide my disgust. The Fenris romance was so terrible to me that I wished there had been an option to smother him in his sleep. I was so annoyed and eventually disturbed by his scary anger issues and non-stop mage bashing. I know he had it rough. I did feel sorry for him at first, but jeez, there is a limit to my patience. Despite all my support for powerless Hawke, I really wished there had been a way to soothe his rage. I mean, he had a MAGE for a lover and STILL kept on spewing hate for mages into Hawke's face all the time!

Worst video game romance decision in my life. I've never felt so disgusted with a pixel lover. When he wanted to kill his own sister without any consideration for her shitty situation, the character was dead to me. I was so horrified with Fenris, I can't even describe how much I regretted my choice.

I wanted to go for Anders initially, but he came on so strong he totally creeped me out, I went for Fenris. ended up wishing I had romanced Merrill... funny how I always end up thinking the female romance options would have been better. (With the exception of Alistair. )

I would have picked Aveline if she'd been an option. Male or female Hawke, don't care. I'd have gladly picked Cassandra over Solas too.

 

So, to sum it up: dislike Fenris, regretted romancing Solas, also don't like Zevran (yeah, the elves are not working out for me even though they used to be my favorite race *sigh*). Don't understand the glitterotica thing either, don't care about smut.

Haven't received an anthrax envelope yet. So I think you'll be fine. ^^

 

[Colonelkillabee]

I have a good old days of gaming story:

 

Years ago- I was just out of high school but I was still about seventeen, so it must have been like '99, my brother, who must have been eleven or twelve at the time had a weekend free of my mom, who was out of town on some kind of meeting. She left us money for pizza and to rent some movies or video games from the local movie rental place. 

 

So we order some pizza and run to down to rent a few movies. Then we decide look at this new game, Silent Hill. WHY NOT WE SAID.

 

We grab some movies, the pizza, and our shiny new Silent Hill and head home.

 

We decide we're going to wait until it's nighttime to play this game. So wait until like 9 p.m., turn off all the lights and settle down for some fun.

 

Fifteen minutes in, we turn all the lights on in the entire house. An hour later, we're taking turns trying to play- when he'd get too scared I'd take it, and vice versa. Had to turn off the controller vibration because it was stressing us out. First look at a flayed child my brother screamed like a girl and threw the controller across the room. Fell asleep in the living room about 8 a.m. because neither one of us could sleep. Only played it about two hours. Never finished the game until I was much older.

LOL I knew where this was going as soon as I saw Silent Hill You should play dead space. Of course at night, vibrations, surround sound if you have it.

[Avejajed]

That's fantastic. 

My own childhood gaming horror was much more tame than yours.  My dad had just gotten the recently released Xbox, thanks to a cousin in Microsoft's discount and generosity. (This is Washington. Everyone has a cousin in Microsoft.) He'd gotten a football game that he was quite excited about, and this new-fangled Halo game. He told me very sternly not to go downstairs while he was playing it, because it was 'M for Mature'. Naturally, I was crestfallen, and snuck to the door to try to listen under, ostensibly to ask him a question about where the peanut butter was when he came back upstairs. I could hear the faint sounds of gunfire, shouting, and my dad cursing. Apparently 2001 was quite boring for me, since I stood next to the door for an hour twiddling my thumbs. (I did eventually leave for the peanut butter, and revised my story to asking for another puppy, because I had ambitions.) 

 

Then he opened the door and I did my best to look innocent. He laughed at me for snooping, and then said, "Why don't you come down and have a looksie?"

So I played the opening level of Halo when I was about five because my dad got lost on the Pillar of Autumn. On the tutorial mission. On the part where there's a giant stairwell directly in front of you, and Sergeant Johnson is shouting, "Move up the stairs! Come on!" I naturally walked up there first thing, and witnessed my first facepalm from my father.

 

I became his co-op pilot in all Halo's since, as he desperately needed my navigating ability, even if I did mostly jump and melee things and refuse to use anything but the Pistol. Everything was and dandy until the infamous 343: Guilty Spark mission. When the Elite was found with his scrambled insides, I was terrified and disgusted, and muttered about, "Maybe we should leave?"

 

"You'd think the marines would have seen their movies and know what was coming," My dad agreed, "They should just leave."

Too embarrassed to clarify, I went on to play the level that would give me nightmares for years. 

The exact same scenario happened when I went to see War of the Worlds with him and I was whimpering in my seat because this was before I was introduced to turians and the idea of aliens was the scariest thing 'evah'.  The man still can't pick up any hints.

 

The only games I had at five?

 

 

[Avejajed]

LOL I knew where this was going as soon as I saw Silent Hill You should play dead space. Of course at night, vibrations, surround sound if you have it.

 

NOPE.

 

I still don't much like survival horror. I like reading about it. I couldn't bring myself to even play P.T., but I watched it on youtube. Slowly. With lots of pauses.

[Caddius]

NOPE.

 

I still don't much like survival horror. I like reading about it. I couldn't bring myself to even play P.T., but I watched it on youtube. Slowly. With lots of pauses.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is one of the only ones I've ever played.

I enjoyed most of it as a bit of an adrenaline rush. Except for the basement level. For whatever reason, I completely lost my cool down there. I was practically hysterical. I only kept playing so I would be able to fall asleep with the thought, "I'll never go back there again."

[Colonelkillabee]

NOPE.

 

I still don't much like survival horror. I like reading about it. I couldn't bring myself to even play P.T., but I watched it on youtube. Slowly. With lots of pauses.

Even I took a break after playing the first one for two levels. Everyone I know that said they played through did so with the volume on low and in the day. Chumps.

[RebbyWriter]

Jumping into the OT conversation real quick, if you don't mind.

 

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I was a nerd so I didn't do "scary" games. I played arcade games  like Tekken and get pissed when my sister would just keep kicking my body as it laid on the floor! ARGH!

Then I played Carmen Sandiego games (I swear, most of what I know from history comes from Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?)

 

But my dad got me Final Fantasy VIII for one Christmas and that's when I fell in love with RPGs/JRPGs.

 

On my mind: I just woke up from a crappy dream about school and it makes me not want to go to class. Really? I seem to dream about anything but DA/Solas.

[Avejajed]

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is one of the only ones I've ever played.

I enjoyed most of it as a bit of an adrenaline rush. Except for the basement level. For whatever reason, I completely lost my cool down there. I was practically hysterical. I only kept playing so I would be able to fall asleep with the thought, "I'll never go back there again."

 

Is that where there isn't any actual fighting, you just have to keep going and stay in the light or whatever? That's right up with Alan Wake for me, where I couldn't finish and heard people saying DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE in my sleep.

[Avejajed]

Even I took a break after playing the first one for two levels. Everyone I know that said they played through did so with the volume on low and in the day. Chumps.

 

Of PT? I don't think I could actually play it. I should try and record it. 

 

I think the only one I played straight through was SH3. I only played it because it had a girl protagonist. 

 

I can't really watch gory movies or really anything with "torture" like Saw or Hostel, and any games that are like that. But for some reason I don't even bat an eye at The Walking Dead which is pretty gory. (Last night's episode was the worst for me in regards to gross)

[Colonelkillabee]

Is that where there isn't any actual fighting, you just have to keep going and stay in the light or whatever? That's right up with Alan Wake for me, where I couldn't finish and heard people saying DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE in my sleep.

Run and hide, yes. And hide well... hate that ****, give me a gun or something to wack things with and I'm good. Running and hiding, uh uh.

[Kappa Neko]

I have a good old days of gaming story:

 

*snip*

Omg, you're like my uncle who used to enjoy showing me scenes from horror movies under the pretense that it was something funny when I was a small child. I learned my lesson eventually, but not before he showed me the swimmer getting eaten in Jaws and that scene in Alien where Lance Henriksen gets speared and white stuff gushes from his body... (I never actually watched any of the Alien movies.)

My best friend and me crapped our pants "playing" Silent Hill when we were 16. I'd have been traumatized at age 12...

 

Anyone else remember the good old days of just wandering into game stores and picking out whatever game looked cool or the cashier recommended and going home that day and installing it on a disc and having a wonderful time?

Me, I remember getting this old strategy game in the store and my dad had to spend two weeks fiddling with the computer to get the darn game to work, and it turned out to be complete crap anyway.

Except for the fabulous hats the Portuguese soldiers wore. Or they might have been geese. I'm not too sure. They were those kinds of graphics.

No, I don't actually. I never bought games that way, I think. Even as a kid I ordered my mom to get me specific games I heard of from friends or saw in a magazine or on TV. I never set foot into a game store until I was 20 or so... never in my life bought a game a cashier recommended.

I liked all the games I played as a kid. The smurf game rocked! Then again, kids like everything...

A a teenager I only played JRPGs and Tekken. And Zelda. Oh, and SimCity! There are few games I regretted buying. I usually have a pretty good idea of what I'll enjoy. I don't own that many games, though. I'm not a Steam game horder either. I used to buy one game, play it. Then buy the next one. Now with Steam, I have yet to play half of the games I own, BUT I only own 22, so... not planning on buying any more games before I've caught up. Ok, I bought Rayman Legends on the Ubisoft sale yesterday. BUT I've been waiting for it to be cheap for a year. It was an exception... really.

 

[Caddius]

Run and hide, yes. And hide well... hate that ****, give me a gun or something to wack things with and I'm good. Running and hiding, uh uh.

I find the things you can't fight much scarier than beasts than can die when you shoot them.

Mind, there are plenty of games with enemies that you can fight that are scary as hell. *glances at broodmother*

And there are certain Youtube videos of Amnesia players twisting the AI so that the monsters become partners in comedy. 

[Colonelkillabee]

Of PT? I don't think I could actually play it. I should try and record it. 

 

I think the only one I played straight through was SH3. I only played it because it had a girl protagonist. 

 

I can't really watch gory movies or really anything with "torture" like Saw or Hostel, and any games that are like that. But for some reason I don't even bat an eye at The Walking Dead which is pretty gory. (Last night's episode was the worst for me in regards to gross)

Nah Deadspace. I'd love to play PT but that's PS4 exclusive isn't it?

 

Walking dead's pretty easy for me to watch usually. Cannibal stuff though, not zombies, but humans eating humans. Ugh, that was gross for me. Which is why I loved that first episode of this season so much. They were just brutal. Made me feel bad for livestock for a few minutes.

[phaonica]

This all sounds rather awful tbh *g* I'll pass, I think. What's the point when the characters and the story suck? Thanks for your opinion!

 
 

Wisest decision of your gaming career, tbh

 

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Yeah, I only forced my way through the series because I wanted to give it a chance. There were notable, interesting, things in all three games, including how shockingly depressing that second title was. But for the most part, there are far better ways to spend your time.

[CapricornSun]

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Nah, you're not the only one who dislikes Fenris. I don't hide my disgust. The Fenris romance was so terrible to me that I wished there had been an option to smother him in his sleep. I was so annoyed and eventually disturbed by his scary anger issues and non-stop mage bashing. I know he had it rough. I did feel sorry for him at first, but jeez, there is a limit to my patience. Despite all my support for powerless Hawke, I really wished there had been a way to soothe his rage. I mean, he had a MAGE for a lover and STILL kept on spewing hate for mages into Hawke's face all the time!

Worst video game romance decision in my life. I've never felt so disgusted with a pixel lover. When he wanted to kill his own sister without any consideration for her shitty situation, the character was dead to me. I was so horrified with Fenris, I can't even describe how much I regretted my choice.

I wanted to go for Anders initially, but he came on so strong he totally creeped me out, I went for Fenris. ended up wishing I had romanced Merrill... funny how I always end up thinking the female romance options would have been better. (With the exception of Alistair. )

I would have picked Aveline if she'd been an option. Male or female Hawke, don't care. I'd have gladly picked Cassandra over Solas too.

 

So, to sum it up: dislike Fenris, regretted romancing Solas, also don't like Zevran (yeah, the elves are not working out for me even though they used to be my favorite race *sigh*). Don't understand the glitterotica thing either, don't care about smut.

Haven't received an anthrax envelope yet. So I think you'll be fine. ^^

 

 

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I played a mage and his mage-bashing was what I couldn't stand. Probably why I couldn't romance him. Not that Anders was any better, but that's another story altogether. Yeah, I understand the reasons why he's like that and why he feels that way about mages but like you, my patience was starting to wear out. >_<  In short, I feel the same way as you do about him.

 

As for elves, I love playing them, but it was only in DAI that I chose an elf as my canon romance (as heart-breaking as the Solas romance is, I do really like it). I like Zevran as a character but I prefer Alistair for my Mahariel even though she did sleep with Zevran at one point... (Hey, I wanted that achievement! xD)

 

And thanks for sharing that with me. I haven't received any death threats so far so that's a good sign. xD