Gaming, post archdemon
Jul. 12th, 2012 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyphomandraOh man, that was so much easier! (the result of spending some time actually reading through all the tactics, and getting everyone to cluster round me but still fight rather than a) run off and die two screens away or b) stand next to me doing nothing). I only lost five dwarves. Anyway. I took Morrigan's deal (after, I must admit, judicious wiki-ing, and then hiding behind my hand for the embarrassing mostly naked bits) so got to hang around and chat to everyone afterwards, although I missed Shale somehow. (also, I could have done with missing Leilana - I know you like her, Patrick, but apart from one conversation with her about shoes I feel we have failed to connect, and the dialogue options tried to get me to hit on her again here). I also hit a bug - Queen Anora announced that she would put up a memorial to "Alistair and all the other Grey Wardens who died in our defence" or similar, and I was quite miffed at the thought that he'd died off-stage, until Arl Eamon talked about him and I then found him lurking on the dais. Grumpily. I was unfortunately not given any dialogue options telling him to get over himself, so instead disappeared off into the wilderness with Zevran and various bits of epilogue.
Overall I enjoyed it, but nowhere near as much as the Mass Effect series - I am still pretty burned out on traditional secondary world fantasy, and I also felt there was a fair bit of filler in the quests that bothered me more than, say, endless grinding in FFIII, for some reason. I probably would play it again, down the line, though, because some of my problems with it involved not working out certain game mechanics and interactions early enough.
I am unsure about Dragon Age II - on the one hand, I like the idea of working through such a large chunk of time in one game (10 years of game-time), and on the other hand at least one gamer friend of mine is very grumpy about the combat system and general mechanics. Hmm. Other recommendations solicited, gratefully!
Overall I enjoyed it, but nowhere near as much as the Mass Effect series - I am still pretty burned out on traditional secondary world fantasy, and I also felt there was a fair bit of filler in the quests that bothered me more than, say, endless grinding in FFIII, for some reason. I probably would play it again, down the line, though, because some of my problems with it involved not working out certain game mechanics and interactions early enough.
I am unsure about Dragon Age II - on the one hand, I like the idea of working through such a large chunk of time in one game (10 years of game-time), and on the other hand at least one gamer friend of mine is very grumpy about the combat system and general mechanics. Hmm. Other recommendations solicited, gratefully!
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Date: 2012-07-13 08:11 am (UTC)