Comments on: Dragon Age Interview Plus Magic Book’em, Danno.

By: kr8

kr8 — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:34:03 +0000

From the interview:
“It’s kind of like having a blue period.”
That kinda sums it up for me. Seems they think a lot more of their story telling abilities than what is really there. I’ll give it a miss.

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Fri, 15 May 2009 05:59:15 +0000

I JUST WENT TO PENNY ARCADE TODAY, I SAW THAT!
FEDORA FREAK WE MUST MAKE LOVE

ALSO, IF SADAUKER ELITE HAD THE SAME IDEA, I SUGGEST YOU PUT HIM IN THE BODY OF THE VIDEO INFO TOO, RATHER THAN DOWN THERE AT THE BOTTOM. SINCE HE IS OBVIOUSLY AN AWESOME PERSON LIKE US.

By: Gravey

Gravey — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:40:02 +0000

Yakety Sax version whipped up in a shameful “me-too” moment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqYCkCnCvEg

I regret nothing.

By: Okami

Okami — Thu, 14 May 2009 07:52:36 +0000

@Fedora Freak: Sooo… You think beeing linked to by Penny Arcade is somehow more prestigious than beeing linked to by Rock Paper Shotgun, do you? They have the better writers there? The nicer community? Interesting….

;)

By: Fedora Freak

Fedora Freak — Thu, 14 May 2009 01:46:50 +0000

PENNY ARCADE LINKED TO MY VIDEO
CONGRATULATIONS PSYCHOPOMP AND I

I AM SPEECHLESS WITH EFFERVESCENT DELIGHT
DEFENESTRATE ME, I MUST KNOW ‘TIS NOT A FANTASY

By: Sonic Goo

Sonic Goo — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:41:58 +0000

That interview has a lot of ‘hey we’re gonna do this and that and it’s really cool’ without telling me why it’s really cool. It doesn’t tell me why I would want that game. I’m not convinced.

By: Jahkaivah

Jahkaivah — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:31:21 +0000

@JKjoker

Agreed, the game seems in desperate need of it’s very own Minsc.

Of course that is not to say it wont have one, as a general rule all the great comic reliefs in games come as a surprise… but somehow I feel Bioware has missed the mark there.

By: The Fanciest of Pants

The Fanciest of Pants — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:01:59 +0000

Fuck.

Yes.

Irreverent music makes ANYTHING better.

By: DK

DK — Tue, 12 May 2009 09:32:58 +0000

“And the first Baldur’s Gate is, iirc, Bioware’s first game.”
Nope. First one was Shattered Steel – a fantastic mech game with a great narrator/player character companion AI going crazy.
P.S. – Sorry, forgot to tell you great post!

By: DK

DK — Tue, 12 May 2009 09:15:52 +0000

“And the first Baldur’s Gate is, iirc, Bioware’s first game.”
Nope. First one was Shattered Steel – a fantastic mech game with a great narrator/player character companion AI going crazy.

By: vicx

vicx — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:46:48 +0000

I have watched too many game trailers. Once a hobby now a job, I have seen plenty and the depiction of violence in them is taking on a ‘brawno’ aspect. Yeah I know its what plants crave – but really? I’m not a complete pre-post-violent media reactionary; my main beef is with the aesthetic. Depictions of struggle, fighting, agression, and domination are familiar and overused but the bloodlust aspect packaged into trailers these days is the new OTT voice-over guy. I see why they do it – its easy to add basic bloody violence and it will hit some buttons. But it shits me now that bloodlust aka bloody violence is considered transparently interchangable with the other staples of human struggle presented for education and entertainment not just in trailers but in the actual games. The developer diaries are the most telling cause you see a developer on screen talking up his last 3 months of fulltime employment working on evisceration and the new brain bowl animation for headshots that differs wether you are using hollow points or not. Yeah I call wasted developer hours. End game is when the bloody violence ends up getting shoe horned into every title aimed at a male audience even when it makes no sense. I guess I don’t dislike violence as much as I have a distaste for lazy fuckhole marketroids selling mouldy game cheese in free infomerical slots. Absolutely Bird Fucked!

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:57:05 +0000

I think it should be know, that Hulk Hogan is my favorite commenter.

You are the *real* internet superhero.