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[Lynroy: Final Edition]

Not really. If it's dealing with difficulty, you apply a scale that takes into account your level and the level of items you have. If it's dealing with making them actually dangerous, and villainous, you write towards that. DA:I had bad writing in this manner. He felt like a schooby doo villain and not some wanna be god. They wrote all of his scenes wrong. They didn't show of his level of power. They didn't give us reason to fear him. There wasn't anything in the game to tell us that this guy is the real deal. That's one of my biggest gripes with this game. They couldn't even get their villain right.

I do enjoy DAI, but I definitely agree with this. Corypheus was not handled well.

[Al Foley]

OMG, It's DLC? I had no idea! This changes absolutely everything! I know they couldn't reveal a lot, but they didn't have to be so insufferably vague about it. The fact that it is DLC makes it all the more frustrating to me.

 

Like I said I didn't find it vague, really at all.  I understood pretty much everything was going on.  

Not really. If it's dealing with difficulty, you apply a scale that takes into account your level and the level of items you have. If it's dealing with making them actually dangerous, and villainous, you write towards that. DA:I had bad writing in this manner. He felt like a schooby doo villain and not some wanna be god. They wrote all of his scenes wrong. They didn't show of his level of power. They didn't give us reason to fear him. There wasn't anything in the game to tell us that this guy is the real deal. That's one of my biggest gripes with this game. They couldn't even get their villain right.

And yet its something that most games get wrong in my opinion from my experience.  Either make them to easy, by virtue of the fact that you have been building your power throughout the entire game, and so they are ******, or they are way too uber hard...or it comes down to a QTE love fest.  I can't think of a single game I have played with a good end game boss.  Actually wait.  DA 2.  Freaking Meredith man. 

[Lynroy: Final Edition]

Please enlighten me as to what the Hell Valta, or whatever her name is, is on about with her very vague remarks.

[Lady Luminous]

Please enlighten me as to what the Hell Valta, or whatever her name is, is on about with her very vague remarks.

Did I miss something? Who is Valta?

[straykat]

You know, the more i learn about Hellblade the more i like it. They are really taking the mental illness angle seriously:

 

While schizophrenia is thankfully not in my laundry list of issues, i HAVE experienced a sleep-deprivation induced psychosis-like episode while in the army with full audio and visual hallucinations with accompaniying paranoia. Still the most terrifying experience of my life. But at least it went away with sleep and i somehow managed to hold myself together enough carry out my duties. Living with stuff like that 24/7 would be living hell.

 

Interesting. I don't have experience with it per se either, but I was mistakenly diagnosed that way once (but it was drugs).

[Al Foley]

Please enlighten me as to what the Hell Valta, or whatever her name is, is on about with her very vague remarks.

Specify. I mean sigh.  

 

I only had two questions going into the DLC, what are Titans, and why did they wake up all of a sudden?  Both of those were answered.  I had only one real question coming out, what else is down beneath the Deep Roads? And kinda sorta what happened to Valta?  But not really a question for me considering I certainly put enough inference in it that I can pretty much guess what happened to her. 

[straykat]

So i just yesterday installed Neverwinter Nights 2 again and am already regretting it. It's addictive as anything but every little thing takes a day and a half to do. Must...finish...awesome...character...story X_x

 

I never could get far in it. I might have given it another chance one day.

 

At the time, I hated Obsidian.. both for that and for Kotor 2. Then NV and AP won me over again.

[straykat]

The good thing about boss fights is that there are literally thousands of ideas to rip off. You don't have to be original necessarily.

 

But RPG developers tend to have their heads up their asses in general and just emphasize stats and health. Typical video games revolve boss fights around pattern recognition instead. The RPGs that do it well borrow this instead of stick in a PnP mindset.

[Lady Luminous]

Someone tell me what Sera thinks pushing my bed off the balcony will do?! Lol, she's such an oddball.

[Lynroy: Final Edition]

Specify. I mean sigh.

I only had two questions going into the DLC, what are Titans, and why did they wake up all of a sudden? Both of those were answered. I had only one real question coming out, what else is down beneath the Deep Roads? And kinda sorta what happened to Valta? But not really a question for me considering I certainly put enough inference in it that I can pretty much guess what happened to her.

Everything at the end after you kill the titan guardian. I thought Solas was good at non-answers. That boiled egg has nothing on Valta. I am seriously confused about what the **** happened.

[Al Foley]

Everything at the end after you kill the titan guardian. I thought Solas was good at non-answers. That boiled egg has nothing on Valta. I am seriously confused about what the **** happened.

My questions were answered in a satisfactory manner.  

[Lynroy: Final Edition]

Did I miss something? Who is Valta?

You definitely did if you've played descent and don't know who Valta is. She annoyed the hell out of me. *drink because I'm complaining*

[Lynroy: Final Edition]

My questions were answered in a satisfactory manner.

That is not an answer to my inquiry.

All this Descent talk has made me realize how I'm so not looking forward to going through it with Maeve.

[Roamingmachine]

Someone tell me what Sera thinks pushing my bed off the balcony will do?! Lol, she's such an oddball.

 

A big bang?

[Lynroy: Final Edition]

One gif = one drink as per the rules.

[Duelist]

The good thing about boss fights is that there are literally thousands of ideas to rip off. You don't have to be original necessarily.

But RPG developers tend to have their heads up their asses in general and just emphasize stats and health. Typical video games revolve boss fights around pattern recognition instead. The RPGs that do it well borrow this instead of stick in a PnP mindset.

Never got into PnP but the typical Bioware boss fight isn't all that far removed from World of Warcraft, the sole exception that I can remember being Malvernis from DA2 Legacy.
Everything else is a health sponge.

[Lady Luminous]

You definitely did if you've played descent and don't know who Valta is. She annoyed the hell out of me. *drink because I'm complaining*

Oh, lol, no I've still yet to play Descent.

I thought you were talking about someone who'd hidden their post on the DQ, lol. Or another thread and not linked it.

[Tragedienne of Heavens]

Never got into PnP but the typical Bioware boss fight isn't all that far removed from World of Warcraft, the sole exception that I can remember being Malvernis from DA2 Legacy.
Everything else is a health sponge.

Mph... At least WoW bosses have mechanics *drink*

[straykat]

Never got into PnP but the typical Bioware boss fight isn't all that far removed from World of Warcraft, the sole exception that I can remember being Malvernis from DA2 Legacy.
Everything else is a health sponge.

 

Yeah, Warcraft is mostly like that afaik. I heard they gave patterns/puzzles for the raid bosses though.. But I'd never play anything like that.

[straykat]

 

 

Mph at least WoW bosses have mechanics *drink*

 

 

What's Mph? Are those the raids?

[Lynroy: Final Edition]

Oh, lol, no I've still yet to play Descent.

I thought you were talking about someone who'd hidden their post on the DQ, lol. Or another thread and not linked it.

Then you are excused from not knowing Valta. Back to the bar I go for a refill.

[Al Foley]

One gif = one drink as per the rules.

Since when is that a rule?

 

[Tragedienne of Heavens]

What's Mph? Are those the raids?

That 'mph' was an onomatopoeia (edited my post to make it more clear). 

 

Since when is that a rule?

Since the early days of the DQ.

[Lynroy: Final Edition]

Since when is that a rule?

That's been in the rules since the first 10 pages. I'm the reason for that rule too.

[Al Foley]

That 'mph' was an onomatopoeia (edited my post to make it more clear). 

 

 

Since the early days of the DQ.

 

 

That's been in the rules since the first 10 pages. I'm the reason for that rule too.

I see.