Adventures in gaming
Oct. 18th, 2013 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rheasilviaAs some of you know, I have recently begun playing video games. I've successfully avoided this for a long time, because I always knew it might become dangerously addictive. And what do you know – I was right. I am a sucker for any medium that will deliver a good story, and I have stumbled over Dragon Age.
My previous ventures into gaming have been few and far between. Long ago, there was a game called KGB, in which I played a KGB agent investigating a suspicious block of apartments in Moscow. I gave up on the game in frustration because I always ended up either starring in a snuff movie or transferred to Siberia. I still regret my incompetence as a government agent, though, because it was a good game, and I was a dedicated – if disillusioned and bitter – agent and really wanted to stop those bastards.
KGB was on a floppy disk! Yikes, that was so long ago. I still have the game, actually, and I remember it very fondly apart from the "inevitably ending up stuffed in trash cans" bit. I can't try to play it again, though, because I no longer have a floppy drive.
Next, there was a Blade Runner game in which I hunted renegade androids. I gave up on this game in frustration because my lab results were never in, and I couldn't continue my investigation without them. Foiled by lazy lab techs! I suspect I was lucky nobody had ever heard of Siberia. And also that nobody tried to stuff me into any trash cans.
Lastly there was The SIMS, which I gave up on in frustration because (perhaps fortunately) my computer wasn't entirely up to the task; it stopped erasing footprints after people had walked by, and I couldn't deal with the disconcerting white footprints all over the place. What can I say, I am a sensitive soul.
If you conclude from this that my frustration threshhold when it comes to video games is low, you may be right. ;-) Still, I overcame my initial frustration – and it was there – for Dragon Age Origins, and now Dragon Age II (which I am not yet finished with, so please, no spoilers!). My current computer still isn't entirely up to the task, but I make do, possibly because there have been no footprint-related mishaps so far. I can overlook the occasional person hanging out in a giant spider.
I suspect there will be more posts about this, so I apologize if you have no interest in the Dragon Age games.
Also, if you happen to know of other games with as wonderful and rich a world and characters as nuanced and interesting as the Dragon Age ones, please do rec them to me. :-) I already have the Mass Effect Trilogy waiting on my shelf... anything else I shouldn't miss?
(Sorry about the long silence, everyone. I am still alive! Real Life has merely been – real life. Enough said.)
My previous ventures into gaming have been few and far between. Long ago, there was a game called KGB, in which I played a KGB agent investigating a suspicious block of apartments in Moscow. I gave up on the game in frustration because I always ended up either starring in a snuff movie or transferred to Siberia. I still regret my incompetence as a government agent, though, because it was a good game, and I was a dedicated – if disillusioned and bitter – agent and really wanted to stop those bastards.
KGB was on a floppy disk! Yikes, that was so long ago. I still have the game, actually, and I remember it very fondly apart from the "inevitably ending up stuffed in trash cans" bit. I can't try to play it again, though, because I no longer have a floppy drive.
Next, there was a Blade Runner game in which I hunted renegade androids. I gave up on this game in frustration because my lab results were never in, and I couldn't continue my investigation without them. Foiled by lazy lab techs! I suspect I was lucky nobody had ever heard of Siberia. And also that nobody tried to stuff me into any trash cans.
Lastly there was The SIMS, which I gave up on in frustration because (perhaps fortunately) my computer wasn't entirely up to the task; it stopped erasing footprints after people had walked by, and I couldn't deal with the disconcerting white footprints all over the place. What can I say, I am a sensitive soul.
If you conclude from this that my frustration threshhold when it comes to video games is low, you may be right. ;-) Still, I overcame my initial frustration – and it was there – for Dragon Age Origins, and now Dragon Age II (which I am not yet finished with, so please, no spoilers!). My current computer still isn't entirely up to the task, but I make do, possibly because there have been no footprint-related mishaps so far. I can overlook the occasional person hanging out in a giant spider.
I suspect there will be more posts about this, so I apologize if you have no interest in the Dragon Age games.
Also, if you happen to know of other games with as wonderful and rich a world and characters as nuanced and interesting as the Dragon Age ones, please do rec them to me. :-) I already have the Mass Effect Trilogy waiting on my shelf... anything else I shouldn't miss?
(Sorry about the long silence, everyone. I am still alive! Real Life has merely been – real life. Enough said.)
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Date: 2013-10-23 05:47 pm (UTC)YES. Either you say "oh well, whatever" and shrug, or you are forced to kill your friend (and/or lover). My Hawke was already incredibly angry with Anders just then, but the fact that Anders brought him in a position where he was forced to kill him if he didn't want to condone what he had done - that made it so much worse. I would have needed an "explode with rage" option there. Although politically speaking, literally exploding with rage would have been a very bad idea, considering my Hawke was an apostate, too. *g*
And Anders just utters his stupid, deluded little martyr line, because of course he does not understand what this really means. *headdesk*
Aveline and Hawke together would make a terrifying force for, um, mostly-good. *g*
They so would! Kirkwall would be completely helpless against them. And Aveline and Hawke seemed like such a natural combination to me. Plus, I really love Aveline in general. She is so loyal and smart and strong and just - truly just, with all shades of grey accounted for. My poor Hawke was crushed when she asked him to help her woo Donnic. But that's realism for you; she has a type, and snarky apostate mages just aren't it.
Good point, with the romance options. A bipolar terrorist, a ditzy demon-bargainer, an amoral raider and... Fenris. (I actually felt that Fenris managing to fall in love with a mage was a pretty impressive statement, considering, but it would have been nice if he'd qualified his vocal categorical condemnation of mages just a tad at some point.)
I'm not really happy with any of the romance options, tbh, which I suppose is the point, or a point, anyway.
How do you mean? Because of the darkness and moral ambiguity of the entire setting?
I'll have to check out that kiss scene now. :-)