IntenseDebate - cogsandcurls

12 years ago @ Mark Plays - Mark Plays 'Dragon Age... · 0 replies · +1 points

DA2/Asunder spoilers: Fur'f tbvat gb or urnq bs gur Punagel sbe lrnef, haqre gur anzr Qvivar Whfgvavn I.

12 years ago @ Mark Plays - Mark Plays 'Dragon Age... · 2 replies · +15 points

Speaking as a bisexual girl, I didn't get the same "ugh bisexuals are so promiscuous, amirite?" thing from Marjolaine's actions at all, and I think it's interesting that that's what Mark got from it. Maybe I'm judging it on the context of knowing she's one among many bisexual people in Thedas, many of whom are fiercely monogamous, maybe it's the fact that I'd spent a lot of time talking to Leliana by the time I played this DLC, but that moment, to me, was Marjolaine acting like an Orlesian bard, *not* any kind of statement about her sexuality. I guess it might be a little problematic that the only active Bards we ever meet are both girls, and so it plays into the "women, use your charms to manipulate people for personal gain!" problem a smidge, but that's a different conversation, I think.

I will say that this DLC got five times more interesting to me once I actually sat down and realised Dorothea's significance in Thedas. I love Leliana but that was the crowning moment of the DLC for me.

12 years ago @ Mark Plays - Mark Plays 'Dragon Age... · 0 replies · +4 points

Omg you're going to play Walking Dead??? I am so happy. SO HAPPY.

12 years ago @ Mark Plays - Mark Plays 'Dragon Age... · 0 replies · +1 points

This is what happened to me. ONE YEAR AND THREE COMPLETE PLAYTHROUGH LATER, I am still hooked.

I would be really interested in hearing you discuss character arcs and stuff once you've played some more, though. There is amazing depth to a lot of these characters that I don't think you got the full scope of in this playthrough - partly because there is just no way to see every nuance of every character in a single playthrough, ever.

12 years ago @ Mark Plays - Mark Plays 'Dragon Age... · 1 reply · +9 points

"Dragon Age: Morally Ambiguous People Choosing Terrible Things"

And with that one line, Mark, you have summed up the entire Dragon Age franchise. Bravo!

12 years ago @ Mark Plays - Mark Plays 'Dragon Age... · 0 replies · +1 points

Gur bayl crefba ur'f npghnyyl pbaarpgrq gb ba n zrnavatshy yriry ng nyy va guvf tnzr vf Zbeevtna (naq Funyr), fb V fhfcrpg ur'f tbvat gb tb sbe vg. Jurgure ur'yy npghnyyl fhpprrq va crefhnqvat Nyvfgnve gb tb guebhtu jvgu vg vf nabgure znggre, gubhtu.

12 years ago @ Mark Plays - Mark Plays 'Dragon Age... · 0 replies · +1 points

UNUNUN V XABJ, EVTUG?

Zl yngrfg Jneqra jnf gur svefg bar V npghnyyl qvq gur Qnex Evghny jvgu. Fur jnf n tnl ynql jub unq erwrpgrq Nyvfgnve'f ebznagvp biregherf rneyvre va gur tnzr. Vg jnf yvxr n qbhoyr-junzzl bs funggrevat nyy bs Nyvfgnve'f ebznagvp ubcrf naq qernzf va bar sryy fjbbc. Jubbcf!

V thrff ur pna gnxr pbafbyngvba va gur snpg gung ur naq uvf OSS obgu yvirq gb frr gur rcvybthr, gubhtu.

12 years ago @ Mark Plays - Mark Plays 'Dragon Age... · 0 replies · +2 points

I agree with you on most counts. But I do have a City Elf who recruited Loghain.

In my case, I had a City Elf who erred on the side of unsentimental when it came to social/tactical issues and, while deeply supicious of nobility in all its forms, had some lingering respect for Loghain because, well, Loghain isn't nobility, or wasn't. Like that Warden, he was a common man in an environment where he was actively oppressed, who then clawed his way up to power and responsibility through a combination of toil and luck.

Plus you're about to fight a war, and he's an experienced General.

There are some decisions which are more difficult to rationalise on the surface in Dragon Age (say, a mage killing all the mages), but I've yet to find one that doesn't at least have the potential to make sense if you craft your character's personality and motivations in a certain way.

12 years ago @ Mark Plays - Mark Plays 'Dragon Age... · 0 replies · +1 points

Fbeel, V fubhyq unir pynevsvrq: V jnf ercylvat gb ObeaVa'f dhrfgvba nobhg jurgure ur znxrf na nccrnenapr nf Jneqra, abg nobhg jurgure ur nccrnef nf Xvat.

12 years ago @ Mark Plays - Mark Plays 'Dragon Age... · 2 replies · +1 points

Abg va Njnxravat, ab.

IntenseDebate Comment System

Connect with cogsandcurls

People I'm following

cogsandcurls