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I always get the itch this time of year to run back Dragon Age Inquisition, but maybe this year I’ll actually go back and play Origins. I genuinely love the world of DA and can’t wait for DA4.

Civ is one of those games I don’t allow myself to play single-player, just so I have time to do anything else.

“two cultures rubbing up against each other in unusual ways.” Read more

This fashion non-troversy is driven by millennials who are insecure about becoming olds. Wear what you want and let the youths play. Read more

In a new interview with Empire Magazine (via Comic Book), Tom Hiddleston stated fans should look to Loki’s shapeshifting.........

What wave mechanic so frustrating that it was clearly another victim of the damn rush. If you look at the first Act or the DLC that came out, you could see the concept of it was pretty good as it brought uncertainty to combat. The number of waves was uncertain there, it required being aware of both the environment and… Read more

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The fact that whichever leader you side with betrays you anyway already feels like you’re already doing the neutral path.

I feel similarly about the idea of a third choice. I love having to make hard decisions, where both options have their own horrible drawbacks. Giving me the choice to walk away, or even worse, to reach some perfect conclusion where everybody’s happy... it just feels shallow. Of course that’s the choice everyone SHOULD … Read more

One of the few consolations about DA2 gaining that new appreciation is that hopefully the DA4 development will now look also at that game and what it did well. It felt like ‘Don’t do anything that DA2' was a guiding developmental principle in DAI and I thought it really hurt the game on a lot of fronts.
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I’ll go one further and say that DA2, flaws and all, is the best Dragon Age game. Part of that is because the other two are also extremely flawed games, even if people don’t want to admit it or those flaws didn’t bother them for whatever reason. But I feel like everything I love in Bioware games - deep, interesting… Read more

I’ll be honest, I have no idea they would have implemented that third choice. Doesn’t mean that it wouldn’t have worked, just that every idea I can come up for the neutral option feel really underwhelming considering the stakes at that point. Also on that Anders point, even if you could interrogate Anders, I strongly… Read more

Dragon Age 2 is the only game I really wish had gotten that full developmental cycle, the explanation to my general view being that games need to come out at some point. Considering what it achieved even with that rushed dev cycle is just staggering, I can only imagine what they would have been able to do with the… Read more

I am glad for them, I do hope they are enjoying themselves. I only hope the only options for pants aren’t low rise and mom jeans again (it was on my town) and that is all. Read more

Left Hawke in the Fade exactly once. Could not deal with Varric’s broken heart. Also, Ash, have you ever read through the piece written by Mary Kirby (Varric’s writer)?  It is not what I expected but explains his sadness in DAI. Read more

he’s a literal “who” for me apart from getting banned from Japan for making fun of a suicide victim (or was that the other one?) Read more

My thoughts exactly!! Now can we cancel all the Pauls? Logan, Jake, Rand, hell even Paul Ryan? That would be awesoooommmeee!!! Read more

I’m sorry but that choice in the first game to me was always more “ok, who do you want to die. Mr Boring or Space Racist.”

Careful, Kaiden’s got people in these Mass Effect streets ready to fight. I, however, am not such a person.

He’s not on WWE’s payroll. He was a visiting star that guested on two SDLs and had a spot in the Mania where he took a stunner. He wasn’t coming back regardless of this.