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angharad_gam) wrote2017-06-19 10:28 am
angharad_gam) wrote2017-06-19 10:28 am
On the balance of evidence, perhaps the horrible thing after all
Still sick. I woke up this morning croaking like a frog.
Dragon Age: Origins is quite an elderly game now, as the life span of video games goes. It came out in 2009. The game play and controls have a few interesting quirks. The one that is amusing me the most at the moment is the combination of the 'select target for interaction' control being a bit too sensitive, and the companion characters having 'next time the main character talks to me, no matter where they are' as a trigger for 'enter the next personal plotline cut scene conversation'. So you can be trying to open a chest deep in a dungeon and suddenly find yourself having a D&M about someone's terrible childhood. Or similar. The best has been accidentally triggering the next in a romantic sequence of conversations whilst trying to loot bodies in the aftermath of a battle. Especially since the conversation was basically about how rare it was to find beauty in the midst of the carnage of war. Yes, that's lovely dear. Can we get back to ransacking the corpses now?
Dragon Age: Origins is quite an elderly game now, as the life span of video games goes. It came out in 2009. The game play and controls have a few interesting quirks. The one that is amusing me the most at the moment is the combination of the 'select target for interaction' control being a bit too sensitive, and the companion characters having 'next time the main character talks to me, no matter where they are' as a trigger for 'enter the next personal plotline cut scene conversation'. So you can be trying to open a chest deep in a dungeon and suddenly find yourself having a D&M about someone's terrible childhood. Or similar. The best has been accidentally triggering the next in a romantic sequence of conversations whilst trying to loot bodies in the aftermath of a battle. Especially since the conversation was basically about how rare it was to find beauty in the midst of the carnage of war. Yes, that's lovely dear. Can we get back to ransacking the corpses now?