Lym And Her Games

This is what I get for not taking notes properly or not rewatching cutscenes before I write my squeeful gaming posts: I forget approximately half of what I wanted to say. <.< Here's the rest of it, before I pounce on the second act and forget my points altogether.

In which Otacon overanalyses Snake's motives so that I don't have to.

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Guess who bought herself Metal Gear Solid 4? (And guess who was completely taken off-guard when she didn’t have to show her ID at the checkout. Whut?) So yeah, I’ve decided to skip Portbale Ops for the time being. The controls are horrible and while I definitely want to go back to it someday, right now I’m a lot more interested in how the main plot concludes in, da-da-da-doooooom, Solid Snake’s final game.

What is it with all this da-da-da-doooooming, by the way? The ad on the back of the box is all “A last mission. The greatest sacrifice. The final chapter in the life of this exceptional hero.” but you know what? The more it’s trying to convince me of the opposite, the more certain I am that the *cough* exceptional hero *cough* is going to survive the game. Or maybe I’m just in denial sticking my fingers in my ears an go “lalelulelola, I can’t heeeeaaaar yooouuu!” We’ll see. For now, welcome to a few notes about Act 1.

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Would you believe it? After hours and hours of staring at the character creation screen, I actually started playing Dragon Age: Origins. Okay, Khana helped by creating a grumpy old dwarf and playing a bit of the dwarven commoner (well, more like dwarven beggar, really) Origin Story, which finally motivated me to start my own game with a character. Wohoo?

General impressions:
- You might be able to make your characters look old, but the Origin Stories will still pretty much assume that you’re a teenager/young adult. Khana’s “grumpy old dwarf” was called “boy” by everyone around him and was still living with his mother… who looked at least twenty years younger than him. The Mage Origin isn’t much better and tells you outright that you’re the same age as that guy over there who’s in his early twenties. (Well, at least the Mage Origin allows you to have a character of colour and not have him stand out completely, mostly because his family is not around. The dwarf commoner’s family is, and they’re all white, regardless of his own skin colour. M-maybe he was adopted?)

- The battle system reminds me a lot of Guild Wars (and basically every other MMORPG that I’ve tried for half an hour. Never been a fan of those.) but there haven’t been terribly many battles yet. Amusing detail: I tried the Dhalish Elves Origin Story for a bit with a rogue and within one battle with a random wolf he had blood all over him. (I guess the game’s rating has to come from somewhere…) My mage? Squeaky clean, even when the Really Dangerous Spiders and various other enemies came close enough to whack them over the head with my staff.

- The voice acting I’ve heard so far is really nice! (Which is good, because there is of course a lot of spoken dialogue. Actually, every line, even one coming from a random NPC, is voiced.) I’m a bit disappointed with the lack of detail when it comes to the characters’ body language in conversation (and the few cutscenes I’ve seen), but I guess that can’t be helped. If I want detail, I can just stare at peoples’ clothes. *g*

And now let me introduce you to my character, the basic premise of his Origin Story and my thoughts on him. I will then proceed to illustrate my point with pictures. XD

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