Two Bioware games
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alias_sqbrHave just started playing the Dragon Age downloadable content "Leliana's Song". It's set before the game and you play as the bard Leliana (one of the DA:Origins companions) before she got religion and ethics. I decided I was too squeamish to play "Darkspawn Chronicles", where you're an orc darkspawn going around killing all the good guys, but being a French Orelsian spy going around making derisive comments about British Ferelden cooking while killing the local guards and planting false evidence on those who've crossed you is fun. Plus the lesbian subtext is pretty much canon, even if it's evil (or at least very morally ambiguous) lesbian subtext.
Have also been playing Mass Effect, I'm currently noodling about the Citadel after finishing the first mission. I quite like it, but some of the choices that made sense in the pseudo-medieval setting of Dragon Age seem more unimaginative in a space setting. I'm particularly put off by the fact that ALL alien races, no matter how different looking to humans, are apparently interested in strip joints and brothels where the customers are all male and the employees all female, and all look attractive by the standards of present day human (and, specifically, Western) society. It is nice to know they progressed to adding male prostitutes in Dragon Age (despite it being less logical in that setting) but it's still annoying me now (especially since I just did a sidequest which involved going into a strip club and being hit on by a skeezy general). I'm quite liking Commander Shepard, though it doesn't feel like she's my character the way my DA:O characters did, and I can see the game being less fun to replay since there isn't as much chance to have a very different experience.
One thing I like about Mass Effect is that humans are neither an oppressed minority nor the most powerful race, but are kind of middling, in a vaguely similar political position to say Australia. Though there's a bit of that whole "young vibrant upcoming race showing the older races how it's done" thing which always has echoes of Western European/American smugness to me.
Have also been playing Mass Effect, I'm currently noodling about the Citadel after finishing the first mission. I quite like it, but some of the choices that made sense in the pseudo-medieval setting of Dragon Age seem more unimaginative in a space setting. I'm particularly put off by the fact that ALL alien races, no matter how different looking to humans, are apparently interested in strip joints and brothels where the customers are all male and the employees all female, and all look attractive by the standards of present day human (and, specifically, Western) society. It is nice to know they progressed to adding male prostitutes in Dragon Age (despite it being less logical in that setting) but it's still annoying me now (especially since I just did a sidequest which involved going into a strip club and being hit on by a skeezy general). I'm quite liking Commander Shepard, though it doesn't feel like she's my character the way my DA:O characters did, and I can see the game being less fun to replay since there isn't as much chance to have a very different experience.
One thing I like about Mass Effect is that humans are neither an oppressed minority nor the most powerful race, but are kind of middling, in a vaguely similar political position to say Australia. Though there's a bit of that whole "young vibrant upcoming race showing the older races how it's done" thing which always has echoes of Western European/American smugness to me.
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Date: 2010-07-16 12:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-19 04:14 am (UTC)I didn't know the kink meme had an off topic discussion section! *pokes*
they bend over backwards to avoid saying the word "rape", which in this game is seriously WTF
That sounds like it's going to be fun :(
I was wondering about the canon consistency. I guess creating a whole new city would be ~hard~ :/