Awesomeness of Dragon Age knows no bounds.

[commie]

So after having being barely satiated with the goodness that was DA:O, I turned to DA:O Awakening and it just fucking took everything I had known about the Darkspawn and TURNED IT ON THE MOFOING HEAD!!!

The Darkspawn were already one of the most memorable and nuanced of opponents ever made for a RPG, but what Bioware did with them in Awakening made me re-evaluate everything I ever knew about RPG narrative and depth. I didn't do a single take, nor a double take. I HAD TO DO A TRIPLE TAKE!!!!

TALKING DARKSPAWN!!!!!

This shit is so enormous that I had to lie down for a moment to consider it. What genius it was to take a soulless enemy of mindless fodder and make them sentient and then to come up with the epic mystical reasoning behind the existence of a creature like 'The Architect' by having him say "I was born as I am, an outsider amongst my kind. Why? I do not know."

JAW HITS THE MOFOING FLOOR!!!

Take that MCA and your cryptofag nature of man shit! THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!!!

Imagine this: DRAGON AGE 3; TWO BLIGHTS AT ONCE.....AND........ A ROMANCEABLE ARCHITECT AS A COMPANION!!!!

CALM DOWN LEST YOUR HEADS EXPLODE!!!!!

This shit is so enormous, I'm thinking that Bioware must have already commissioned an army of writers to get this in the next game, but if they haven't then they're welcome to my altruistic suggestion.

DARKSPAWN.

 

[curry]

you done?

 

[Angthoron]

I will combine Konjad and KC in one image to give opinion of this thread.

 

[Roguey]

This will blow your mind: there's another talking darkspawn in DA2: Legacy. I think he's called Coprophilia or something.

 

[Ammar]

While I have little love for any of the DA games, I don't think the fact that even the Architect himself not knowing why he can speak and it not being answered in game is good.

Too many games to out of their way to explain every mystery and answer all the open answers. It's critical that such open questions are at least adressed in the sense that other people wonder and form theories about it as well. The whole Morrowind background lore is an wonderful positive example.

 

[Regdar]

One thing we do know for certain, is that there are going to be a lot more trannies in DA3.

Maybe Architect will be retconned into being a female hermaphrodite?

God help us all.

 

[meh]

You seem to get easily excited with shallow games. First TW2, now DAO. What's next, Arma3?

 

[SuicideBunny]

this thread should dine in retardo.

 

[Morkar Left]

Didn't you already post such shit one year ealier?

 

[Crooked Bee]

Thought this would be a thread about ponies.

 

[commie]

Didn't you already post such shit one year ealier?

I've only discovered the joys of Dragon Age a month ago.

You seem to get easily excited with shallow games. First TW2, now DAO. What's next, Arma3?

Makes a change from fapping over the depth of the 'attack' 'defend' 'cast' 'rest' of the early blob crawlers.

 

[Serious_Business]

Surely this is a statement of individualism versus the all-encompassing status quo. The talking derpspawn is the ultimate individual

Which brings us to the following enigma. Why do you, commie, wish to glorify the individual? Why do you long to be in his presence? Perhaps you have not turned your back on individuality. Perhaps your ideal is not one of emancipation and equality, but indeed, commie, you are not a communist, but a humanist! Thank Bioware for dramatically changing your world view as you reach ultimate wisdom fighting the derpspawn for hours and hours and hours and hours witty banter and hours and hours

 

[Gragt]

Did someone say "ponies"?

 

[commie]

Surely this is a statement of individualism versus the all-encompassing status quo. The talking derpspawn is the ultimate individual

Which brings us to the following enigma. Why do you, commie, wish to glorify the individual? Why do you long to be in his presence? Perhaps you have not turned your back on individuality. Perhaps your ideal is not one of emancipation and equality, but indeed, commie, you are not a communist, but a humanist! Thank Bioware for dramatically changing your world view as you reach ultimate wisdom fighting the derpspawn for hours and hours and hours and hours witty banter and hours and hours

What can I say? Dragon Age is SERIOUS BUSINESS.



Also, humanism and communist go hand in hand. The idea of creating a level playing field is to allow for the growth of the individual without said individual being forced to spend his life merely scratching in the dirt, trying to survive.

 

[Ruprekt]

It depends how you define human.

I am a pragmatist. I believe in capitalism - the ineluctable synthetic-apriori of will and action - and so my method for divining humanity involves a copy of The Witcher and a Gom Jabbar.

 

[commie]

It depends how you define human.

I am a pragmatist. I believe in capitalism - the ineluctable synthetic-apriori of will and action - and so my method for divining humanity involves a copy of The Witcher and a Gom Jabbar.

But how would that work? Is the 'human' the one that would take the Jabbar option or the one that accepts The Witcher? It would be far more cut and dried with an alternative such as a Bethesda game or a modern EA 'classic'.

 

[Angthoron]

Thought this would be a thread about ponies.

Make your own pony!

http://generalzoi.deviantart.com/#/d47efz4

 

[Ruprekt]

But how would that work?'

I have no id.... not being answered in game is good.

 

[Captain Shrek]

Surely this is a statement of individualism versus the all-encompassing status quo. The talking derpspawn is the ultimate individual

Which brings us to the following enigma. Why do you, commie, wish to glorify the individual? Why do you long to be in his presence? Perhaps you have not turned your back on individuality. Perhaps your ideal is not one of emancipation and equality, but indeed, commie, you are not a communist, but a humanist! Thank Bioware for dramatically changing your world view as you reach ultimate wisdom fighting the derpspawn for hours and hours and hours and hours witty banter and hours and hours

> individualism
>ism
> individuality
>ity

 

[Serious_Business]

Also, humanism and communist go hand in hand. The idea of creating a level playing field is to allow for the growth of the individual without said individual being forced to spend his life merely scratching in the dirt, trying to survive.

In the strict sense of the word, communism refuses humanism (as understood by 18th century morality) because it is too abstract. Communism is supposed to be founded in materiality and history. Humanism is a bourgeois ideology because it pretends to go beyond that - it does not take economics as the basis of its thought, but rather human potential. Man is more than a social condition in humanism, not so in communism. To pretend that communism is more than a materialistic reductive position is making your own brand of communism. You're going agaisnt the party's guidelines, comrade. You are a fraud

Now this thread is truly worthy of retardo

 

[Ruprekt]

And of course, from an anglosaxon perspective; thwarted polack positivism vs servile mitteleuropean will-derping, it's a joke.

 

[Infinitron]

Fun fact: DA:O's Codex entry on Darkspawn Emissaries mentioned that they could talk, but they never actually did, ingame.

 

[Kaol]

Spiritual successor to Baldurs Gate.

 

[hoopy]

Now I feel really bad about quitting the game after reaching the first town.

 

[RedScum]

Fellow comrade, i are proud.