So will you start defending skyrim in 2026?
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Dragon Age Dragon Age: The Veilguard Pre-Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]
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luj1
You're all shills
It isn't good, but it is old. And it is literally the beginning of decline.
No shit. But I would rather play DAO than Pillars.
luj1
You're all shills
This is already happening you analbanian
Guys like fluent, rusty and JCD13 (or whatever his name was) were known Skyrim advocates
Ok biodrone
luj1
You're all shills
If you don't agree, you should be Ashamed (Avowed)
DAO is a game from the Dark age of RPGs, true. But it is not an utter embarassment like Pillows
DAO is a game from the Dark age of RPGs, true. But it is not an utter embarassment like Pillows
Lacrymas
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DA:O's writing is less bad than Pillars' and the combat in Pillars is less bad than DA:O's. That doesn't mean any of it is good. The combat in Pillars is actually tolerable up until the end of WM1 but goes downhill immediately after. Still, comparing the two is absurd, none of them are good in a big picture kind of way.
Fallout Tactics
Falksi
Arcane
The thing with Origins is that, even though it's in that OK-to-good range (7 maybe 8 out of 10 at a push and with everything falling to it's best) it was successful in the respect that it evolved traditional 2D CRPG-ing into 3D whilst keeping some of the core soul which made the original 2D games so brilliant. It didn't do as good a job with them as the original 2D ones, Baldurs Gate 1 & 2 are vastly superior to Origins, but Origins is one of the few modern RPGs I've played where I can feel both a modern grounding and the influence of it's forefathers. Simply put, it was a good second step for 3D CRPGs, much like KotoR was a good start.
Everything after that completely fucked it all up though. Origins should have become deeper and more complex, not simplified and shallower.
Everything after that completely fucked it all up though. Origins should have become deeper and more complex, not simplified and shallower.
9ted6
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I liked the way Origins presented its world. There were no massive lore dumps and instead everything was just small pieces at a time telling you about the larger world with just the right amount of detail to make it seem interesting.
Of course with how it all went to complete shit as soon as they actually started fleshing out the world in the sequels and books maybe it was just an illusion of good writing. There's no telling if all the retarded worldbuilding after Origins was always their intention or not.
Lacrymas
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There were massive lore dumps if you bothered to read the journal entries (which I did, like I always do because of various reasons). I don't remember any of it being particularly interesting but I haven't seriously played DA:O in probably 10 years.
Child of Malkav
Erudite
Everyone is going to try to copy something, some aspect from BG3 and hope they strike gold.
Rhobar121
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We all know that the Americans and British are too stupid to draw any conclusions from this other than that controversy sells.
Gargaune
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Goldschmidt
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Dragon Age Origins beats Baldur's Gate 3 simply because it has the superior camera system, fully tailored to pc.
Turn based is for fuckin crippled autists (although I do like it in Jupiter Hell).
Turn based is for fuckin crippled autists (although I do like it in Jupiter Hell).
Kiste
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One of them non-binary, the other one a two-soul otherkin ratmonkey. It's Bioware, after all.
La vie sexuelle
Learned
I suspect that in a few years Codex will be lamenting: "Bioware is such a decline compared to Larian, where the bear was cisgender".
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Bioware is already decline compared to Larian.
Bioware has never made a turn based game. Correct me if I'm mistaken.
La vie sexuelle
Learned
True. I think, maybe it's my naivety, that as a human Swen loves boobs and unnecessary violence, but ESG forced him to be LGBT+ (or at least their forms).
Swen likes the following:
Elves
Reptilian humanoids
Mages of all sorts
Cats
Random loot
Ultima 7
The edgelord stuff is Jan(the lead and once upon a time only writer), for whatever reason he always loved juxtaposing lighthearted humour and edge.
La vie sexuelle
Learned
This is the spirit of bande dessinée:
I'm sure Swen read them voraciously in the '90s.
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