[Massive Spoilers] Solas Romance dragonage

I should note that I am, as I type this, huddled under my desk behind a barricade of overturned office chairs in preparation for the hordes of ravenous fangirls that will break in any second and rip me limb from limb, but I don't get the fascination with Solas.

I didn't find it heartbreaking, so much as supremely disappointing. We've seen satisfying heartbreak. Hell, in the dwarven female origin story you can have one last final goodbye kiss with your lover before he is exiled to the surface and you are turned out into the deeproads to die. That was satisfying heartbreak, and the whole thing played out over what, half an hour including all the combat and exploring and talking to people not him? I get the quantity versus quality argument, but I don't see it here. There's no sense that this is even a tough decision for him. They build it up like it will be -- "But the thought of losing you... [I love you, my heart]" and then he just slaps it off with he won't distract you from your duty anymore? Really? This isn't an option in the scene, but laughing out loud was my reaction to that supposedly heart breaking break up.

Some sense that he doesn't want to, but must, some tipping moment where it almost goes your way, that might have been better, but I couldn't even take the ending as written seriously. I think his entire romance would be panned as badly as Jacob in Mass Effect if not for the reveal. I feel like if he was just some elf -- even some elf with a damn good reason to not romance you, there wouldn't be nearly the amount of twitterpation about it. Him being a morally ambiguous elven god is what turned a meh romance sub plot into something suddenly worth watching because soooooo much feels.

Except I apparently missed all the parts that actually evoked feels. Feels cannot be imparted via the reveal, the feels have to be there to begin with, otherwise it's just romance written in refrigerator logic.

With that said, I will now very quietly sit down so you can yell at me all proper like.

Submitted December 12, 2014 at 03:05AM by Dramatological http://ift.tt/1wEw93i dragonage

An open letter to Bioware from PS3 Owners dragonage

Bioware,

First off, I would like to thank you, Dragon Age Inquisition is one of the best games I've played in years. I've been a fan of Bioware RPG's since Dragon Age Origins and Jade Empire back in the day. I think that DAI is a great addition to your belt and you really did a great job of addressing previous mistakes. DAI is a fantastic game that shines in it's own light.

What isn't fair, is how you've treated those with a Playstation 3. I had a choice, to buy DAI for PC or for PS3 and I chose PS3 so I could sit out in the living room and be closer to my family. It's only been three days since release and I am faced with a problem.

I WANT TO PLAY DAI, so much. It's an amazing game and I can't get enough of it. I want to get immersed in the world and become the inquisitor. The game's performance on the PS3 however is lacking. In the last hour, the game has frozen my brand new PS3 three times, and this is nothing new or exciting for me, this has been a constant problem since I first booted up the game. I have to hard reboot my system and then run a check for corrupted files which takes 5-10 minutes each time. It's unplayable. I regret buying this game for 70 US dollars and now I'm looking into buying a PS4 and ANOTHER copy of the game, or shelling out another 70 dollars and doing what I did not want to do in the first place and playing on PC.

You SHOULD NOT, have released this game on PS3. You took my 70 dollars and gave me something useless. I've been gaming for a long time, if the content is good enough I can overlook bad graphics or slowdowns, or audio glitching, or textures not loading properly, or things like my potion menu glitching out so I cannot heal myself, but I can't even overlook that stuff if I can't play the game for more than 30 minutes without it crashing.

I WANT TO PLAY YOUR GAME and I want to enjoy it and I want my family to watch and enjoy it too. I can't afford to buy another copy now so I might just have to leave DAI to the wayside.

In addition I would like to request a refund of my game. I'm not stupid, I understand how ridiculous that is with third party vendors and such, but I would like you to know that that's what I deserve, and that's what anyone who purchased this game for PS3 deserves.

Thank you for your time

EDIT: I'm not begging for any money. I don't expect a refund and it's my fault for buying the game (Caveat Emptor). The game should not have been released in the state that it's in.

Would anyone sell a refrigerator that stops cooling randomly?

Submitted November 21, 2014 at 08:10PM by Devfire http://ift.tt/1r4Hu51 dragonage

Mages, Refrigeration, and Food in Dragon Age dragonage

Thinking about living in Skyhold got me thinking...

I have a decent knowledge of food safety and food preparation thanks to working in all facets of a supermarket in my early college years. I also noticed that ice magic is a thing in Dragon Age.

Now I know that the Chantry loves to hunt Apostates, but couldn't one such mage open a business creating "refrigerator/freezer rooms" where food can be stored? Just conjure some ice blocks and insulate the room (we have seen evidence of this as early as Ancient China with ice cellars), and you can store food as we do in modern times. Since the mage can just make ice out of thin air, what's to stop others of similar talent from doing this everywhere, especially in Circle Towers?

Why can't I get a cold beverage, or keep my meat cold, or store chocolate or frozen treats in Thedas? Mages there is money to be made in this!

Submitted October 04, 2014 at 07:21PM by Red-Geist http://ift.tt/1rVqzq6 dragonage