Outline · [ Standard ] · Linear+ Dragon Age, ITT, we get all excited

[Prole]

Oh Hell. What's the point of even correcting it now?

I have to blame someone for these typos... but who?

My assisstant? No.

Rosemary, the telephone operator? No.

Henry, the mild-mannered janitor..?

[JDubYes]

Oh Hell.  What's the point of even correcting it now?

I have to blame someone for these typos... but who?

My assisstant?  No.

Rosemary, the telephone operator?  No.

Henry, the mild-mannered janitor..?

How many times did you check this post? Be honest now, we have eyes everywhere...

Oh, and there should've been three dots after "janitor" instead of two.

[Argh! Zombies!]

I'm not being a typo nazi, I just enjoyed that one. Chicken soup for the soul, gor for the Sont.

Do I want this game? As someone who was only able to bond with RPGs when they became open (Oblivz, Fawoot) will this be all dungeony and traditiony? I haven't played KOTOR or Mass Effect or Baldur's Gate.

[JDubYes]

I'm not being a typo nazi, I just enjoyed that one. Chicken soup for the soul, gor for the Sont.

Do I want this game? As someone who was only able to bond with RPGs when they became open (Oblivz, Fawoot) will this be all dungeony and traditiony? I haven't played KOTOR or Mass Effect or Baldur's Gate.

Never played Baldur's Gate, but the others gave you some options with regards to the order you do things in, but aren't exactly sandboxy. You can pick which planet to go to, or to some extent what order to do things in once you're there, but exploring of the scale seen in the Bethesda games is definitely out.

Don't know much about this though, as Knights and Orcs and Elves and Wizards and things have never interested me, so it's possible that it could be less linear.

[Garwoofoo]

Never played Baldur's Gate, but the others gave you some options with regards to the order you do things in, but aren't exactly sandboxy. You can pick which planet to go to, or to some extent what order to do things in once you're there, but exploring of the scale seen in the Bethesda games is definitely out.

Baldur's Gate was a fair bit more sandboxy than any of the later BioWare games, often allowing you to go off and get yourself slaughtered in areas that were too tough for you, should you so desire.

Wizards and goblins are far more my thing than sci-fi so this is likely to be right up my street. However, has anyone actually heard anything about the storyline? I hope it's at least passably interesting (I thought Oblivion's plot was actually pretty good) as it's all too easy to do generic fantasy bobbins #101 and chuck it out the door. At least BioWare's characterisation and dialogue should remain intact.

[JDubYes]

Wizards and goblins are far more my thing than sci-fi so this is likely to be right up my street.  However, has anyone actually heard anything about the storyline?  I hope it's at least passably interesting (I thought Oblivion's plot was actually pretty good) as it's all too easy to do generic fantasy bobbins #101 and chuck it out the door.  At least BioWare's characterisation and dialogue should remain intact.

Orcs and Elves have never appealed to me, I don't really know why. Maybe it stems from finding all the similarly Knight-themed bits of our history so boring (especially in comparison to big chunks of Feudal Japanese history, which I find fascinating), an aversion to tunics, or something else entirely, but I've always just found limited appeal in the settings or characters in most examples of the genre (hence hating Fable).

Even The Lord of the Rings was something I'd avoided most of my life because it didn't appeal, and I think it's only the quality of the films (which I nearly refused to watch) that swayed me. I'm not completely averse to the fantastical by any means, but this kind of thing just generally just leaves me cold.

"Sci-fi" is a term I always consider a bit vague, as if pedantry is your thing you could say that an awful lot of things are Sci-Fi. A lot of the stuff I like is sci-fi, but at the same time I'm not as fond of Star Wars as most of you guys are, flat-out dislkie Star Trek in all it's forms (though the new film looks interesting), and nearly didn't watch the new Battlestar Galactica thinking it'd be much the same.

I suppose I like a bit of relatability in my entertainment, something I recognise as being not completely unfamiliar. Bearing in mind what my favourites are in terms of films that could be categorised as fantasy (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, stuff what has Zombies (or, occasionally, Vampires) in) or sci-fi (Blade Runner, Aliens, Escape From NY), and what my preferences are in terms of games (Fallout and Borderlands appeal more than Dragon Age, Oblivion or even Mass Effect), then that would seem a reasonable assumption.

[Prole]

How many times did you check this post? Be honest now, we have eyes everywhere...

Oh, and there should've been three dots after "janitor" instead of two.

Sadly, I obviously don't learn my lessons. I see at least one typo in that post, and that's not counting the lack of dots. (There's a question mark at the end which has a dot so it counts. Ish.)

I blame And. Even though this might make him Hong Kong Phooey.

[cavalcade]

before it was set in the Dragonlance Universe

Woooooah! Back up there! Really?

[cavalcade]

Do we like Dragonlance? By that I mean, those people on the forum who know about these things. I like Dragonlance, and would love a decent film or game based on the universe, but I'm not sure if it's the done thing to like it (I'm talking the core stuff Dragons of oochity ooh, not the later stuff).

[DoktorSeven]

Do we like Dragonlance? By that I mean, those people on the forum who know about these things. I like Dragonlance, and would love a decent film or game based on the universe, but I'm not sure if it's the done thing to like it (I'm talking the core stuff Dragons of oochity ooh, not the later stuff).

There was a pretty decent animated film done a couple of years back. Starred Kiefer Sutherland as Raistlin and Lucy Lawless as Goldmoon. It had its problems (kind of rushed and a weird CGI/hand-drawn animation hybrid that didn't fit visually at times) but I liked it, on the whole.

[cavalcade]

I didn't know this!

[Luscan]

Woooooah! Back up there! Really?

Really.

This game started life in the Aurora Engine and under the auspices of a Dragonlance tie-in.

In relation to the film: Yeah it was good. Apparently Sutherland took it really, really seriously and spent days learning the correct pronunciation of all the spells.

[cavalcade]

I can't find it illegally. To amazon!

[Luscan]

I can't find it illegally. To amazon!

Have we tickled cavalcades nerdgland?

[DoktorSeven]

Have we tickled cavalcades nerdgland?

Ew!

*goes to sanitize hands*

[cavalcade]

I knew a guy who created his own Dragonlance Staff of Magius. It had tiny metal contacts in the grip, and only if you were wearing the right glove would the orb on the top light up. Awesome.

[And]

Dragonlance. Blimey that takes me back 20 years or so.

[cavalcade]

Was awesome. Like Lord of the Rings, but following the RULES.

Later stuff wasn't so good. But the Dragons of Doodly Doo series and the other three after that were soopah.

[And]

Was awesome. Like Lord of the Rings, but following the RULES.

Later stuff wasn't so good. But the Dragons of Doodly Doo series and the other three after that were soopah.

Yeah, I remember reading and loving the first three, than another trilogy then it got a bit complicated involving time travel and stuff. And my library never had all off the others in when i need them so drifted off into pratchett.

[feltmonkey]

my main WoW character is called Rastlain. yeah, i know that's a mis-spelling, but it's intentional. i occasionally get whispers ingame saying things like, "OMG Dragonlance!"

i'm properly excited about Dragon Age, but as is always the case with me, had deliberately not made myself aware of the release date. i prefer to have these things sneak up on me rather than spend months waiting. having ignored it, it's suddenly nearly here and all i have to worry about is how i'm going to scrape together the money for it.

as for Bayonetta, that 40/40 in Famshitsu thing, it looks laughably terrible. just from the trailer, i can confidently say it has the worst voice-acting ever seen in any medium - game, film, comedy interludes in rap albums - any of them. it looks a generic button-bashing difficulty-spike-em-up with an alledgedly deep combat system, only available to sufferers of Aspergers Syndrome. exactly the sort of tripe Famitsu loves.

forming opinions based on youtube videos? i'm all for it.