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They'd better end up releasing it on the 360.

@onan Heres what you do. Buy it and appraise its value yourself, or don't and keep the mystery.

@ch3burashka Yeah, reading articles is hard!

@WINterfang I don't agree with the comparison either, but its a recurring theme I have encountered in lots of comment boxes and forums, so it seems to be an ingrained notion for a lot of people, so I can't really object to its usage in the article.

That whole pointing out the French for the Orlesians, on the other hand, was pointless. Suspension of disbelief requires not using real life illustrations for fantasy worlds/cultures/peoples. It adds nothing to the article, and only brings to question if the article writer was capable of enjoying DAO in the first place. Maybe I'm making too big a deal of it, I'm just going off tendencies I have noted.

@Verrier Fair enough, DAO wasn't your cup of tea. But the principle behind it, that RPGs you enjoy are good because you can play them out different ways to see different results remains true.

It had some weaknesses, but I found DAO to be quite a fun game. I actually cleared it 6 times, including the Awakening add on. And you liked Alistair? I think he came across as having a schizophrenic duality personality. That became apparent from multiple playthroughs. He had a high tendency to bitch, even when you do what he wants you to do.

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Know near the end of the game? If you decide Loghain should live, Alistair says no, he'll be king, and he'll kill Loghain. So, you think, sure I'll back him on that. Then, after Loghain lies dead, he says "Why did you make me king? Didn't you know I didn't want to be king?"

Er, what the bloody hell is this lunatic on about? Of course, you could point the blame at bioware, and thats probably justified. Its either blame Bioware on bad character creation, or figure Alistair is just pure nuts.

@(Unverified) ERP DERP DERP, stupid me, how the character joins you.

@Verrier The context of how you join the character justifies the approach they used. If you haven't seen it, you probably should play it again. Hell, its an RPG, so only playing once is really doing it wrong.

@onan Return to Ostagar isn't all that great, really. Its just a lot of combat. If you started Dragon Age recently, it might be nice to have. You get some good equipment and some vengence for what occurred at Ostagar.

@(Unverified) You shame the name unverified.

Anyone else smell lawsuit?




(A kinda odourless thing, but you just know its there.)