Game Informer's latest "TidBits" column features a a glorious list of "inside baseball" stats from Dragon Age: Origins. Some of the numbers are simply cute, while others are positively frightening: "QA analyst Bruce Venne played 1,957.55 hours of Dragon Age PC in 5,352 games." Consequently, "The Bruce" was awarded to staff that played more than Venne in any given month -- the honor was bestowed only once.
While the list is mostly packed with numbers, there are some notable non-numerical did-you-knows, like the staff's affectionate nickname for the Ogre, "Fluffy," and, unsurprisingly, the revelation that one of the BioWare crew makes chain mail "from scratch."
Check out the full list of Dragon Age tidbits on Game Informer.
Reader Comments (19)
Posted: Mar 9th 2010 1:19PM Kid Icarus said
man...the life of a tester. i put about 90 or so hours into this game and i thought i did just about everything.
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Posted: Mar 9th 2010 11:00AM Hooch said
It's the same as home made cooking or baking.
"Hey guys, try some of these pies I made all by myself"
Well, you didn't. You bought the ingredients separately and only had to add the finishing touches, in fact, you spent about 1/1000th of the time that was actually spent on cultivating and manufacturing the ingredients.
That almost annoys me as "I could care less". When I hear people say that, it really pisses me off. You could care less? Oh great, then you'll be interested in what i also have to say. Damn people and their poor grasp of negatives.
I am crazy though...
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"Hey guys, try some of these pies I made all by myself"
Well, you didn't. You bought the ingredients separately and only had to add the finishing touches, in fact, you spent about 1/1000th of the time that was actually spent on cultivating and manufacturing the ingredients.
That almost annoys me as "I could care less". When I hear people say that, it really pisses me off. You could care less? Oh great, then you'll be interested in what i also have to say. Damn people and their poor grasp of negatives.
I am crazy though...
Posted: Mar 9th 2010 11:29AM Mez Jr said
@hooch
Making something entails taking its components then converting those components into the desired product. So "I made this pie by myself" is a correct statement.
If you want to get hung up on semantics you can say, "No the oven and all your tools helped" but nobody cares about ovens and ovens don't require credit as they have no ego. So pointing that out only makes you an asshole.
I'm with you on the "I could care less" though.
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Making something entails taking its components then converting those components into the desired product. So "I made this pie by myself" is a correct statement.
If you want to get hung up on semantics you can say, "No the oven and all your tools helped" but nobody cares about ovens and ovens don't require credit as they have no ego. So pointing that out only makes you an asshole.
I'm with you on the "I could care less" though.
Posted: Mar 9th 2010 10:56AM Hooch said
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB4dwxZv_zQ
Included in this video: Fluffy performing the Asari strip dance.
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Included in this video: Fluffy performing the Asari strip dance.
Posted: Mar 9th 2010 11:52AM (Unverified) said
It's "Enchantment? Enchantment!"
You now have to turn in your geek card. Shame on you.
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You now have to turn in your geek card. Shame on you.
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