Pet Peeve: The Undying

Sindrí-argent-dawn · July 5, 2019, 9:04am

kills both

Elenthas-argent-dawn · July 5, 2019, 9:07am

URGH ANOMEN. He’s just the worst. It doesn’t help that he’s such a twit to Keldorn who is a cool chill paladin who is nice and friendly and accepting of other faiths and just wants Anomen to be a good member of his order but Anomen is such a DICK. (I make sure Keldorn goes back to his family 'cos I want him to be happy )

Anomen connects to a peeve I discovered while making sure I didn’t break his personal quest - apparently if you romance him there is no “winning move” with his sister’s killer.

If you encourage him to take revenge on the person his dad says killed his sister, then that person didn’t do it, but if you encourage him to let the law do its thing then that person did do it and Anomen loses his (admittedly awful drunken abuser) Father.

Basically the killer changes on choices you make which couldn’t influence that, which is ~bad writing~ imho

But you only discover that if you romance him so whatever lol go back to the copper coronet nerd I got my quest xp.

Vixí-argent-dawn · July 5, 2019, 9:09am

Tbh, it wouldnt be a first since -all- of BfA is written this way, particuarly in the war campaigns, to the point where every single individual character of the opposing faction(including like dockworkers, peasants etc) are all bloodthirsty, chaotic evil psycopaths who madly laugh and scream about how great it is to murder people of “X” faction.

Jenit-argent-dawn · July 5, 2019, 9:13am

I’ve sort of come round on Anomen because he’s clearly supposed to be a dick that you don’t like to begin with, his knighting plotline actually goes places and if you make him ‘fall’ there’s actually repercussions for you and him. If don’t he does eventually admit he was being a dick.
He’s still an annoying character but he’s sort of redeemed because unlike a lot of Bioware annoying characters you’re definitely not supposed to like him much for most of his arc.

Elenthas-argent-dawn · July 5, 2019, 9:16am

He’s definitely preferable to Cernd who I always forget is in the game until I get to Trademeet and get asked to let him out of his cell.

Jenit-argent-dawn · July 5, 2019, 9:17am

Cernd is possibly the most boring character in any crpg. He’s somehow more boring than the BG1 characters who have 2 lines in the whole game.

Elenthas-argent-dawn · July 5, 2019, 9:17am

And yet he still manages to be a bad person in addition to a boring character.

Oh well, at least he gets his comeuppance in his epilogue.

Kaytlinne-argent-dawn · July 5, 2019, 9:19am

Quiet day at work. Naff all to do.

Can’t go home early because management have work that comes back to us at the end of a normal shift (4.30pm) which we then have to finish up and put away before we can go.

Gotta love going home an hour+ late on Friday when everyone else here buggers off at Lunch and, yes, its within our contracts.

Vixí-argent-dawn · July 5, 2019, 9:29am

While I never played BG, some of the “older” bioware rpgs as fun as they are really have some issues with a couple of companions, romance or not.

The times I played Kotor(I need to finish that game) i absolutley despised Carth. Most of his interactions are kinda obnoxious. You can basically just go “hello Carth” to which he replies “MY OLD CREW WAS BETTER THAN YOU AND I HAVE BAGAGE, I DUN TRUST YEEEE”

Mass effect, as much as I love it, have Liara thrown upon you as a romance, as is Kaidan(Havent played male shep so cant comment on Ashley other than she is super annoying in the 2nd and 3rd game)

Have like 2 or 3 conversations with them, and you are already kinda semi-locked into a romance that sometimes is difficult to stop unless, as Elenthas commented on BG, you need to be kinda vicious and make them disslike you to some extent.

Dragon Age: Origins have the same problem with Zevran and Leliana. Alistair atleast takes some time to build up to.

Moody-argent-dawn · July 5, 2019, 9:32am

Just like irl hehe am I right fellow gamers? xD

Shadowtwili-argent-dawn · July 5, 2019, 9:35am

Jessicka is mine.

BE GONE, VILE CREATURE OF THE DAY NIGHT!

Elenthas-argent-dawn · July 5, 2019, 9:37am

The Infinity Collection which is all BG1+2, Icewind Dale and Planescape Torment are all on a mega sale right now, so it’s a pretty good time to pick them up, even if you won’t play them for a while.

Vixí-argent-dawn · July 5, 2019, 9:38am

They do seem pretty fun! I think its just BG 1 and 2 i havent played. I finished Jade Empire recently. Short game, but very fun playstyle honestly.

Akamito-argent-dawn · July 5, 2019, 10:21am

Need more games like Dragon Age: Origins tbh. Excellent blend of old school and new school.

Vixí-argent-dawn · July 5, 2019, 10:38am

For it’s faults, I liked Inquisistion alot tbh. The problems I had with it was the god-awful herb farming, and the mini-quests were really boring. Oh and it running on Origin and the frostbyte engine.

But I liked the main story, I liked most of the characters, and I liked the gameplay and I -loved- the dragon boss battles. Not as good as Origins, but better than DA2.

Rhaewon-argent-dawn · July 5, 2019, 10:39am

Ahh dragon age. The series that to me got progressively worse with every installment.

I absolutely despise Inquisition. Graphical fidelity is it’s only redeeming factor in my eyes

Akamito-argent-dawn · July 5, 2019, 10:39am

I tried playing Inquisition again recently and just struggled to get into it. There was so much busywork on the world map and I hate that kind of stuff.

Sure I could just play through the story but the completionist in me won’t let me, it wants me to do everything visible but I just don’t have the time for it. If it was content of substance like in Witcher 3 that would be one thing, but it just isn’t.

Vixí-argent-dawn · July 5, 2019, 10:42am

It has gone downhill, and I am not looking forward to 4 anymore much. And I personally dissliked the graphical upgrades in Inqusistion, because they did it in a really poorly optimized engine just for the sake of “Lets have purdy graphics”

I feel your pain, I am a massive completionist myself. And Inqusistion is one of the worst games(worst than TES) when it comes to the energy and fun in getting everything done 100%.

Akamito-argent-dawn · July 5, 2019, 10:44am

I think it’s been documented somewhere that Inquisition and ME: Andromeda were forced onto the Frostbite engine by way of being owned by EA, which wasn’t designed with RPG’s in mind and they had a hell of a time trying to get it to do what they wanted.

Sure it looks sweet, but it plays awkwardly.

Tellingworth-argent-dawn · July 5, 2019, 10:46am

What? You completely missed the point, chum. It’s not 5% vs 95% - it’s 95% vs 100%, unless you want to claim that not including triggering models somehow alienates every non-arachnophobe.

I’m not even necessarily saying that it’s a deliberate design choice by Blizzard - just that it would make sense if it was.