Let's make Kirkwall a better place for everyone!
I finished another playthrough of DA2 and, I want some closure. I mean, I know it's setting up from DA3, but that's forever away and DA2 just ENDS and we don't know what happens to anyone and there are failing to be vast numbers of epic, beautifully plotted novel length fics with Hawkes and Wardens that are the Hawke and Warden I played resolving Thedas' fate, FOR SOME REASON. (Though I did find this fic which I thought a lovely epilogue.)
I killed Anders this time and it was great. His whining is too much, even if he is entirely right - which he is - he got abandoned for the whole game.
I quite love how Bioware characters develop after a couple of playthroughs so I completely change my mind about them. (Wynne used to be lovely, now I insult her for funs; Leliana I used to find daft and now she always get in the party if poss.) So, Anders is annoying but NOT QUITE as annoying as Aveline who I didn't try to be friends with this time and IT WAS AWESOME. Hawke is really really awful to her and instead of her all happy and proud and staying as Guard Captain, she ends up getting really angry and bitter at Hawke and deciding to go back to Ferelden. Brilliant! (Should say, I don't think these are Bad Characters just cause I don't like them, I think they're smashing characters and anyway other people like them.) Love the change in the friend-o-meter so I don't have to be nice to everyone.
And Fenris and Sebastian kept having conversations about Fenris going to the Chantry and pretending he wasn't, which was a nice little bit of characterisation that develops from Act II to III and the Act III stuff was new to me, heh.
Also, Bioware have released the next DLC for the game and it's an items pack. Which is exactly like being Made of Evil, or something, apparently. I went to the forums and it was Quite Incredible. BIOWARE ARE MAKING YOU BUY THE EXTRA CONTENT YOU KNOW. They have guns that they are pointing at your head and they're TAKING YOUR MONEY IN EXCHANGE FOR SOME CRAPPY ARMOUR. Yeesh. I like the DLC, cause I like having shiny new clothes to put on computer game characters. But no-one made me buy the sodding thing, I managed that All By Myself.
Best of all was one thread where a dude was pretty much demanding free stuff since the game wasn't good enough for him. It was special. Very special. Because, obviously, when you go to the cinema and end up hating a movie, the sensible thing to do is demand the studio make you a short film to your liking. Or you should go demand authors send you free short stories because you didn't think their last novel was good enough and they MADE YOU BUY IT, DAMMIT. MADE YOU.
And, of course, if you're that worried about spending money on something you may not enjoy, what you absolutely must not do is be patient and wait for reviews to come out from sources you trust so you can make a more informed call. That would be silly.
Much lovelier, this comic. Spoilers for Act III, and makes no sense unless you've played the game, but lols if you have. Probably. I loled, anyway.
I killed Anders this time and it was great. His whining is too much, even if he is entirely right - which he is - he got abandoned for the whole game.
I quite love how Bioware characters develop after a couple of playthroughs so I completely change my mind about them. (Wynne used to be lovely, now I insult her for funs; Leliana I used to find daft and now she always get in the party if poss.) So, Anders is annoying but NOT QUITE as annoying as Aveline who I didn't try to be friends with this time and IT WAS AWESOME. Hawke is really really awful to her and instead of her all happy and proud and staying as Guard Captain, she ends up getting really angry and bitter at Hawke and deciding to go back to Ferelden. Brilliant! (Should say, I don't think these are Bad Characters just cause I don't like them, I think they're smashing characters and anyway other people like them.) Love the change in the friend-o-meter so I don't have to be nice to everyone.
And Fenris and Sebastian kept having conversations about Fenris going to the Chantry and pretending he wasn't, which was a nice little bit of characterisation that develops from Act II to III and the Act III stuff was new to me, heh.
Also, Bioware have released the next DLC for the game and it's an items pack. Which is exactly like being Made of Evil, or something, apparently. I went to the forums and it was Quite Incredible. BIOWARE ARE MAKING YOU BUY THE EXTRA CONTENT YOU KNOW. They have guns that they are pointing at your head and they're TAKING YOUR MONEY IN EXCHANGE FOR SOME CRAPPY ARMOUR. Yeesh. I like the DLC, cause I like having shiny new clothes to put on computer game characters. But no-one made me buy the sodding thing, I managed that All By Myself.
Best of all was one thread where a dude was pretty much demanding free stuff since the game wasn't good enough for him. It was special. Very special. Because, obviously, when you go to the cinema and end up hating a movie, the sensible thing to do is demand the studio make you a short film to your liking. Or you should go demand authors send you free short stories because you didn't think their last novel was good enough and they MADE YOU BUY IT, DAMMIT. MADE YOU.
And, of course, if you're that worried about spending money on something you may not enjoy, what you absolutely must not do is be patient and wait for reviews to come out from sources you trust so you can make a more informed call. That would be silly.
Much lovelier, this comic. Spoilers for Act III, and makes no sense unless you've played the game, but lols if you have. Probably. I loled, anyway.