TheForgetfulBrain

Yayy, looking forward to it.

That is so sad a realization for Gawker.com They were, like, my breach into sanity for a while. Pretty much everyone here despises Kotaku, and moreso with each day. It used to surprise me too. I'm still neutral to the network, but I rarely comment there now. This place eats all my time. With large, gulping bites.

Wha... Post Game? You mean you beat it already? Holy balls. I'm quite drunk and only a few hours in - I am loving it to death, but too lazy/drunk to screenshot it right now. Will do so later!

I'll post my Hawke when I get home tonight - he looks like a more attractive version of my Warden - which absolutely makes no sense, unless you're living in the world of Devil May Cry 4, where the heroes look alike for absolutely no reason - but I'm still pretty pleased.

Figures - I try to post on Kotaku and it won't let me, keeps giving me an error. FINE THEN.

Yeah, I mean it's a mostly philosophical concept - it would be fascinating to put some physical application to it, but I'm not sure how that would occur.

I've often figured that there might be 'alien' life out there - it's just outside our perception. If we're expecting life to resemble that of humans... I don't know. Once you start questioning perception, you enter a whole other realm of possibility. You can't really 'know' anything for certain, once you question perception.

True story: I stopped believing in the Christian God (my parents are Episcopal) around the same time I stopped believing in Santa Claus. I believed in Santa Clause loooong after I stopped believing in a christian god. I was in my car seat when I stopped believing in said god, going over a mountain, trying to understand how exactly all that worked because it didn't make sense, and I told my mom it was making my head hurt, like there was a 'no access door' in my head that I couldn't get past and she told me to stop thinking about it - so I did. At which point, I became somewhat agnostic, with an athiest bent. I remember in 3rd grade quizzing my fellow students on whether or not they believed in god, and when a few of them said they didn't know, I remember proclaiming in glee, "Religion is dying!" Santa Claus, I believed in till 5th grade, when we had kindergarten pals for Christmas and one of the teachers told us, "You all know there is no Santa Claus - but don't go telling the kids that." I was flabbergasted and heartbroken - the possibility he wasn't real just never occurred to me. I remember storming to my mom's car when she picked me up that day, trying not to cry, yelling, "Why didn't you tell me!" Go figure. I guess I've always wanted so badly to believe in aliens or the supernatural or magic - just something outside of the boring every day. Except for religion - because that's always seemed just as improbable to me but not as interesting, yet many people actually sincerely believe in it. I dunno.

Tonight, I was drunk enough to Google that title with some sort of expectation of finding some actual game. In other words, bedtime. DA2. Fucking. I want to go home and play it more. It seems okay to me, if somewhat neutered. Like my poor cat that is left peeing on the walls because that's what he's been left with after the operation. Dark days, sirs. Dark days indeed.

Boss Fight!

Hey, my negative reaction is tempered by the fact that DA2 is still a good Bioware RPG. Better than Jade Empire, at least. Interesting! You know, I could never get into Jade Empire while it was out on Xbox. I tried twice, playing through the first chapter, and just couldn't dig it. It wasn't till years later I bought it on a Steam sale - and a year and a half later that I've been playing and really enjoying it. Yours is a very fair and unbiased negative reaction. You've tried, you're still enjoying it, you're just disappointed, and rightly so I suppose. I haven't had a chance to give the game its due yet, but I hope to soon. I'll probably still like it, but I am sad that it seems they missed on so many fronts what made Origins such an incredible game. Boo.

I am saddened by all these negative reactions. I still haven't been home much or had a chance to play past the introduction, but I really, really want to love this game. Hopefully Bioware takes note of the fan anger and knocks one out of the park with DAIII... A man can dream, anyway.

For those actually playing the game, the Facebook game is pretty fun though the art style sucks, and playing it earns you five items in DA2. I've got two Beta codes to anyone interested (I think it's still in Beta for some reason), first come, first serve: YYZD-W5ZN-3DP7-MTA4 YYZD-W77T-TSYM-BP37

True - to openly claim 100% that there is or isn't a god is just delusional. There is simply no way to verify something like that. Basically, everyone here dislikes extremists on either side, is what I'm getting from all this. Sounds reasonable enough to me.

I can't imagine someone as personable as you holding a distasteful view on politics. I won't have it! Note how I tend to stay out of all the extremely serious discussions - it's how I stay personable! :grin:

I'm that guy when it comes to politics! Politics and religion - the two subjects that can break casual friendships into tiny pieces in no time at all.

Yeahh, if I play this, I'm totally going to be a casual player - don't have time for anything more, sadly.

Manlyyy why'd you delete your pic First Little Pirate, then Leyez? Hey Leyez!

Somethings definetly up with people posting all this on launch day. Loads of people who haven't played the game. Some of the reviews specifically mention how they hated the demo. Demo or Impression Review != Game Review, but the internet does not care.

I used to be somewhere between agnostic and athiest, but I'm becoming a staunch athiest as life progresses. I very rarely speak about my views to anyone who doesn't agree, however, because as much as I dislike organized religion, I know I'm not going to change anyone's mind and they're not going to change mine, and I'm generally fine if religion makes someone happy, it's just not something I will ever be able to get behind.

I feel like a lot of us here are going to get this... Is that so? Because that would be awesome! TAY Guild! Yay!

Yep - game doesn't run as well as I was hoping on my machine with stuff maxed out, so I've turned down the AA and turned off occlusion. Hopefully we get some new drivers/patches to deal with the crappy performance soon. Yeah, I had to pause like crazy just to get through the first ogre battle in the introduction with the rogue on hard - it's nuts. But I kind of like it! Even though I know I'll be tearing my hair out later on... Argh... I want to get back to my house and play more! Sad face.