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Nice! I so look forward to working with Kate Mulgrew again. That is one classy, talented lady.
Reblogging because mild spoilers. Does this mean she is in DA3? Please, let it be true, let it be true, I love you Kate Mulgrew. BAM! Poetry.
Edit: it’s not really a spoiler. It wouldn’t be a Dragon Age game without the witch of the wilds effing with people. I would love to see a classic BioWare plot twist involving Morrigan though. -
Batwoman #18
Yo, I’m glad Maggie said ‘yes’ to Kate’s proposal but I really wish we could have seen her reaction to the whole my girlfriend/fiancé is freaking Batwoman reveal. Not this whole apartment shopping stuff that seems rather depressing.
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Mass Effect & The Next Gen
So next gen prolly won’t be backwards compatible. So how to I get my future Mass Effect in when my old 360 finally bites the dust?
Do I assemble a PC collection and re purchase DLC (the good DLC anyway)?
Do I buy another 360 when they get dirt cheap as the new Xbox comes out?
Or do I go next gen and see if they sell Mass Effect on the XBOX live store? I don’t know if they’ll do that.
Decisions decisions but I need to be able to play my Mass Effect every now and then!
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Next-Gen Consoles
Well, if Microsoft and Sony insist on some sort of always online restriction I’ll be sitting this console cycle out and game on my laptop. Steam will at least let you play in offline mode and as someone who doesn’t have internet at home this is important to me.
I can deal with the no used game policy. It’s shitty and it means me and my bro can’t share games but I can live with it. What is absolutely impossible to live with is the always on internet connection. I can’t just “live with it.” or hate it but have it anyway. I physically won’t be able to play video games anymore.
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ME3 upcoming DLC
Are there any other known features on the upcoming DLC for ME3?
Other than:
Lots of feels - According to Sam Hulik and new music.
Seth Green will be in it.
All the writers are involved.
It’s the last DLC for ME3
There may be a casino according to Casey Hudson’s tweet.
Scary looking Krogan - Gambles tweet.
And apparently is not related to the ending. According to everyone at BioWare.
Yet it’s being hyped up a lot with very little actually being said about it. The unusual factors being Seth Green and all the writers are involved. Both are unusual for DLC. Also these types of teasers are not too common. I can’t remember them doing this for previous DLC.
I keep thinking back to a tweet from Michael Gamble during the peak of the outrage over the ending where he said something along the lines of: if you knew what we had planned you would hang on … - Something like that. So there is a small part of me that wants this DLC to be about the ending. I want the DLC to matter unlike the other DLC which was, while fun, inconsequential in the end. Especially the Omega DLC. Why wouldn’t Aria stay on Omega? Seriously?
In the end it seems the faint hope of FemShep and Liara’s little blue babies grows dimmer and dimmer. Thank goodness for the 1 second breath scene and fanfiction.
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So most of the Final Fantasy XIII fandom accepts Fang and Vanille’s relationship as canon. In Lightning Returns can Square just make it official already, let them be an official couple. Pleeeeaaaasse!
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Concerning Final Fantasy XIII Ships
Best Final Fantasy XIII ship is Fang and Vanille because it’s practically main text. But if you aren’t going to ship them then in my opinion the Fang/Lightning ship is the way to go. None of this Hope/Lightning stuff HE’S 14 people! Gosh!
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WILL SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO DEFEAT CID RAINES.
I bought the strategy guide book thingy and that one has the Hope Fang Lightning strategy using Delta Attack Relentless Assault and Evened Odds mainly. But I still can’t beat him. I’ve gotten him staggered but once he metamorphosed (is that a word?) I couldn’t get him staggered again. Please help!
He’s an effing hard boss. It literally took me a couple of hours of dying and replaying to get it.
If I remember correctly I used Lightning Sazh and Snow. (It’s been awhile)
For the first bit I had Light - Medic Sazh - Syn Snow - Sen once Sazh buffs the party switch to a paradigm like relentless assault and if you make your switches fast enough you can beat him after the first stagger. I’m pretty sure he transforms after he’s taken a certain amount of damage so you’re not working against a clock or anything. Best thing you can do is hit him hard and fast and use your sentinel. When you have him staggered use launch to keep in the air.
If that doesn’t help YouTube has some walkthroughs. Cid is the first of the really hard bosses IMO so you just have to use some strategy.
Good luck! I hope that helps, even if it’s just a bit.
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Teddie's Geek Spot: Mass Effect III, 9 Months Later
In the back of my mind I still have hope. I might be crazy but I remember Gamble saying something on twitter along the lines: if you knew what we have planned you wouldn’t be so upset, or you would keep your game. Or something like that. I could be crazy but all this talk about the upcoming DLC with all the writers and new music etc I think it’s going to be big.
As it stands I didn’t like the endings all that much but it is open enough (with Destroy) that my Shepard will be reunited with Liara so they’ll have a future and that makes me happy enough.
But I think there are still things that BioWare has planned and I’m looking forward to it.
Plus I hear the Edmonton team is working on new IP which is really cool!
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Omega
The part where Shepard said to Aria: “Mordin Solus is dead.” So matter-o-factly.
I cried a bit.
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Those Video Game Awards
I recently fried a few brain cells watching the perpetual commercial that is the Video Game Awards.
On the surface to someone who has never seen them before they look like the Oscars for video games but probably more laid back. I suppose if the Oscars were actually a long commercial for movies that haven’t come out yet (but will be nominated for next years awards) that they would be more comparable. It wouldn’t hurt for the people at them to pander to the audience by going to the lowest common denominator and utilizing ridiculous stereo-types either. Then the resemblance would be uncanny. But the only similarity between the two is that they are awards shows.
It was all kinds of wrong. Less than half the awards were actually given out on the two hour broadcast. I lost track of how many times the word nerd was used. I don’t know a single person who actually calls themselves a nerd, but whatever. In the end if felt like a feeble attempt by a rich executive to capitalize on the audience without actually knowing the audience. “Hey fellow nerd?” Nope, doesn’t work.
Then it seemed like every B list celeb that was there to present an award (and capitalize on their B list cred) felt the need to justify themselves being there by explaining how they loved video games when they were a kid. Can I just say something? I am pretty sure that 99% of kids have played video games. They have made a cultural impact. It really goes without saying if you were a kid in the 80’s - 90’s you played a video game or two. You don’t need to justify it. Plus when the emphasis that the presenter is giving is on the fact that they played when they were kids it actually sabotages their being there. I just think ‘Oh you played when you were a kid, and you’re 35 now? Why are you here? Oh right, you were in that TV show and the promoters thought they could get a bump in the ratings if they paid you to show up.” It just comes off as insecure. Don’t be insecure. Be yourself.
Then the awards were voted on by the lovely people of the internet, myself included. I’m pretty sure that most of the games that won awards actually came out in the last few months leading me to believe that hype about a fresh game actually compelled people to vote rather than a good solid game. But that could be just me being bitter that Jennifer Hale didn’t win the award for Best Performance by a Human Female.
The winners were good though. I mean I love Borderlands and Claptrap as much as the next person so I don’t want to take away from their win.
Then the ads. Oh my the ads. For those of you who haven’t realized it, I’m a woman. That’s only relevant because there was this Dr. Pepper ad that was patronizing to women and then the tag line at the end was “Not for women” WTF Batman? What ad exec in their right mind would instantaneously stop selling to 50% of the population? Not to mention that statistically speaking women on average actually do more of the spending of the coin and controlling of the household money. Unless they were that convinced that women would never watch the Video Game Awards and thus never know that what was going on.
Guess what? I was watching. And so was my poor Grandma who I hope with every fibre of my being didn’t notice the massive inflatable penis behind Tenacious D during the last song.
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The Faulty Feminist: Dear David Gaider (and other DA writers)
Thank you for creating a character like Aveline, who from the first second we meet her is established as a badass when she PUNCHES a darkspawn in the face.
Thank you for creating a character who is both incredibly strong and incredibly loving, and who is capable of getting the guy in the…
Thank you for the kind words! Luke Kristjanson took the concept and did a fabulous job with it. I’ve had a love for strong female characters probably ever since I saw Sigourney Weaver in “Alien” and “Aliens”, and really I just wish it wasn’t rare enough that you needed to call it out as noteworthy. Hopefully you like what we have in store for you with DA3 just as much.
Aveline ranks up there on my list of all time favourite characters. So yeah, I second the thank you.
