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girlofprey) wrote2013-05-10 11:44 pm
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And today in Dragon Age: Origins...
I beat the High Dragon and Flemeth the Shapeshifter. Both in normal mode. Hurrah. However, my inventory was little different after beating Flemeth, and even though I'm sure it's fine it's sort of panicking me, so I'm probably going to do that fight again tomorrow anyway. Using a bunch of dragon fighting and fire resisting gear and keeping Wynne topped up with lyrium so she could keep healing us I managed to do it in one go though, so hopefully it won't be a problem. I also went round to all the black vials I could still get to and killed all the Revenants, which I couldn't do a while back. The only monster that's eluding me now is Gaxkang. Bloody Gaxkang.
I'm basically doing a replay of the game from just before going to Redcliffe the second time, to arrange the Landsmeet, and doing all the downloadable content and side quests I didn't do before. Sometimes because I didn't realise a random encounter I couldn't do was important, and didn't know why it went away when Leliana wasn't in the group. Leliana. Partially it's so I can get some better endings, partially it's so I can build up as much XP as possible so the final fight will hopefully be a little easier. I'm a little concerned that some of the advantages I had in the final fight were slightly down to luck, which I might not have a second time round, but whatever. It's not like lots of people don't beat the game more than once. And partially it's just so I can, you know, do the quests, since as I understand it, even if you live through the end of the game, you don't get to go back and do any more quests, Bethesda games-style. Or, well, Mass Effect 2 style. But my point is, I'm redoing the last part. And they give you some pretty bitching items in the dlc, so I'm hoping for the best. Starfang, my baby. I did actually buy the Ultimate Edition of the game, but I didn't realise you had to actively download and install the dlcs from the disc. Or that when you purchased the one that was missing, you had to download and install that. So I didn't play them the first time around. But now I have.
I think I'm going to change the storyline this time. I don't always like doing that - I do feel like when you're playing a role-playing game you should stick with your choices and abide by them, otherwise you're sort of ruining your own character a little bit? But there've been plenty of times where I've just plain thrown that rule out, and there is in fact a moment where I feel okay making a slightly different choice. Essentially because I made it differently the very first time. When you rescue Anora and then get caught by Ser Cauthrien, at first I didn't mention Anora was there. But since that triggered a battle I didn't think I had a hope of beating, instead of waiting to see what would happen, I immediately loaded a save, thinking you had to say something else to stay alive. At which point I said Anora was there, at which point she betrayed us. I didn't realise it was one of those battles you have to lose, and when I did I didn't bother going back and doing it again. And it's interesting that it's such a little moment, but I do think it changed so much. I have no idea what Anora does in any other case, of course, but if she hadn't betrayed us, maybe I would have been happier supporting her as queen, given that she's pretty good at it and Alistair hates leading and doesn't actually want the job. And then maybe she wouldn't have betrayed us again, and I would have been happier picking her for queen. I have spoilered myself so I know what happens, and I am pretty confident I can make things come okay out of that. And then if my character has already made a decision to keep Alistair for herself, sort of, maybe she'll be happier about making a Devilbaby too to save both of them. Probably this will fuck things up for the kingdom a little bit, and maybe the elves, and maybe eventually even the world, with Morrigan's help. But I feel in the mood for a happy ending for my character, and it's the only one where she and Alistair get to live and stay together and do the things they both enjoy. And it makes for a slightly better character to import to the post-game DLCs rather than, you know, a dead one. Or one who's just lost her boyfriend, who may have already decided to leave her because of being king and fertility/elf reasons. Not that those aren't good characters to import to DLCs, just like I say. I'm in the mood for a happy ending. Or happy-ish, at least.
By the way, I'm kind of annoyed that I didn't get the ending where Alistair sacrifices himself out of love for me. I mean, it would have been tragic. But I totally romanced him! I just didn't have his approval in QUITE THE CORRECT PERCENTILE. Whatever Alistair.
I do know about and am intrigued by the ending where you get Loghain as a companion. At which point Alistair either runs away to become a drunk, or becomes a bitter king who hates you and is married to another woman. But I can't really see the character I have right now ever doing that. Because she's an elf, and military decisions and throwing his toys out of the pram may be right or wrong or whatever, but he sold elves into slavery to fund his power grab. And tortured people. And that more than anything is why I felt she'd think he needed to die. Otherwise, I was totes on the point of letting him go through the Joining, UNBEKNOWNST of the hissy fit Alistair would throw. So yeah, maybe with another character, someday. But I can't see it happening with this one. Which is a shame, because it's yet another sort of happy but really fucked up ending, giving both Alistair and the PC a chance to live through the ending, but you know. With him hating her. And possibly being a crazy drunk. Sadface.
What I'd quite like to see, on a kinkmeme maybe, is an AU where Riordan just sort of insists that they put Loghain through the Joining. Because he was the senior Warden after all. And I know The Youngest Grey Warden is kind of a badass, but people constantly asking her permission to do things and getting her to decide WHO WILL BE THEIR KING is kind of weird. So Riordan insists just because he knows better, Loghain joins the Grey Wardens, both Alistair and PC are extremely annoyed about this because of Duncan and slavery reasons but don't personally blame each other so no-one leaves, and all three have to try and defeat the Archdemon at the end while sort of hating each other. When Loghain's a Grey Warden they're like a TERRIBLE FAMILY so they can't just leave or kill him, but neither of them wants to give him the time of day. And Loghain continues being a crazy fuck-up, and despairs of their mutual lack of strategic ability. And maybe The Youngest Grey Warden still goes ahead and makes a Devilbaby, just in case it comes down to her or Alistair at the end. So after the game, they all live, and have to try to rebuild the Grey Wardens together. While bickering. Whenever Loghain complains too much they threaten to send him to Orlais. 'For training'. Years of training. That shuts him up pretty quickly. And eventually they learn to grudgingly get along. Because I love happy endings. HAPPY ENDINGS FOREVER.
And tonight on Coronation Street, David was ill and fell over, and his older brother had to rush to his side and help him and tend to him. I did wonder if they'd mention his epilepsy ever again. And now they have. Sally should really be more careful about talking about Kylie and Nick's secret though, since if it gets out, David will kill everyone. Everyone on the street. Honestly Sally, do you not love your street at all? Or daughter? Or self? Tut.
I have heard weird things about the Tina pregnancy storyline coming up, but mainly I just think Tina, Gary and David should just go live together with the baby, and possibly Kylie and Nick's baby as well (it is probably Kylie and Nick's baby), after David terrifies everyone with his scary eyes into just letting him look after it. A happy OT3 is all I'm looking for. With Tommy involved as little as possible just because I think he's boring. I cannot guarantee their kid/s would be the most well-adjusted who ever lived. But they would be the best protected. And with the best three parents. And David would never have to worry about being left alone with the kids, because there would probably always be at least one of the other two around to help out. EVERYBODY WINS.
I beat the High Dragon and Flemeth the Shapeshifter. Both in normal mode. Hurrah. However, my inventory was little different after beating Flemeth, and even though I'm sure it's fine it's sort of panicking me, so I'm probably going to do that fight again tomorrow anyway. Using a bunch of dragon fighting and fire resisting gear and keeping Wynne topped up with lyrium so she could keep healing us I managed to do it in one go though, so hopefully it won't be a problem. I also went round to all the black vials I could still get to and killed all the Revenants, which I couldn't do a while back. The only monster that's eluding me now is Gaxkang. Bloody Gaxkang.
I'm basically doing a replay of the game from just before going to Redcliffe the second time, to arrange the Landsmeet, and doing all the downloadable content and side quests I didn't do before. Sometimes because I didn't realise a random encounter I couldn't do was important, and didn't know why it went away when Leliana wasn't in the group. Leliana. Partially it's so I can get some better endings, partially it's so I can build up as much XP as possible so the final fight will hopefully be a little easier. I'm a little concerned that some of the advantages I had in the final fight were slightly down to luck, which I might not have a second time round, but whatever. It's not like lots of people don't beat the game more than once. And partially it's just so I can, you know, do the quests, since as I understand it, even if you live through the end of the game, you don't get to go back and do any more quests, Bethesda games-style. Or, well, Mass Effect 2 style. But my point is, I'm redoing the last part. And they give you some pretty bitching items in the dlc, so I'm hoping for the best. Starfang, my baby. I did actually buy the Ultimate Edition of the game, but I didn't realise you had to actively download and install the dlcs from the disc. Or that when you purchased the one that was missing, you had to download and install that. So I didn't play them the first time around. But now I have.
I think I'm going to change the storyline this time. I don't always like doing that - I do feel like when you're playing a role-playing game you should stick with your choices and abide by them, otherwise you're sort of ruining your own character a little bit? But there've been plenty of times where I've just plain thrown that rule out, and there is in fact a moment where I feel okay making a slightly different choice. Essentially because I made it differently the very first time. When you rescue Anora and then get caught by Ser Cauthrien, at first I didn't mention Anora was there. But since that triggered a battle I didn't think I had a hope of beating, instead of waiting to see what would happen, I immediately loaded a save, thinking you had to say something else to stay alive. At which point I said Anora was there, at which point she betrayed us. I didn't realise it was one of those battles you have to lose, and when I did I didn't bother going back and doing it again. And it's interesting that it's such a little moment, but I do think it changed so much. I have no idea what Anora does in any other case, of course, but if she hadn't betrayed us, maybe I would have been happier supporting her as queen, given that she's pretty good at it and Alistair hates leading and doesn't actually want the job. And then maybe she wouldn't have betrayed us again, and I would have been happier picking her for queen. I have spoilered myself so I know what happens, and I am pretty confident I can make things come okay out of that. And then if my character has already made a decision to keep Alistair for herself, sort of, maybe she'll be happier about making a Devilbaby too to save both of them. Probably this will fuck things up for the kingdom a little bit, and maybe the elves, and maybe eventually even the world, with Morrigan's help. But I feel in the mood for a happy ending for my character, and it's the only one where she and Alistair get to live and stay together and do the things they both enjoy. And it makes for a slightly better character to import to the post-game DLCs rather than, you know, a dead one. Or one who's just lost her boyfriend, who may have already decided to leave her because of being king and fertility/elf reasons. Not that those aren't good characters to import to DLCs, just like I say. I'm in the mood for a happy ending. Or happy-ish, at least.
By the way, I'm kind of annoyed that I didn't get the ending where Alistair sacrifices himself out of love for me. I mean, it would have been tragic. But I totally romanced him! I just didn't have his approval in QUITE THE CORRECT PERCENTILE. Whatever Alistair.
I do know about and am intrigued by the ending where you get Loghain as a companion. At which point Alistair either runs away to become a drunk, or becomes a bitter king who hates you and is married to another woman. But I can't really see the character I have right now ever doing that. Because she's an elf, and military decisions and throwing his toys out of the pram may be right or wrong or whatever, but he sold elves into slavery to fund his power grab. And tortured people. And that more than anything is why I felt she'd think he needed to die. Otherwise, I was totes on the point of letting him go through the Joining, UNBEKNOWNST of the hissy fit Alistair would throw. So yeah, maybe with another character, someday. But I can't see it happening with this one. Which is a shame, because it's yet another sort of happy but really fucked up ending, giving both Alistair and the PC a chance to live through the ending, but you know. With him hating her. And possibly being a crazy drunk. Sadface.
What I'd quite like to see, on a kinkmeme maybe, is an AU where Riordan just sort of insists that they put Loghain through the Joining. Because he was the senior Warden after all. And I know The Youngest Grey Warden is kind of a badass, but people constantly asking her permission to do things and getting her to decide WHO WILL BE THEIR KING is kind of weird. So Riordan insists just because he knows better, Loghain joins the Grey Wardens, both Alistair and PC are extremely annoyed about this because of Duncan and slavery reasons but don't personally blame each other so no-one leaves, and all three have to try and defeat the Archdemon at the end while sort of hating each other. When Loghain's a Grey Warden they're like a TERRIBLE FAMILY so they can't just leave or kill him, but neither of them wants to give him the time of day. And Loghain continues being a crazy fuck-up, and despairs of their mutual lack of strategic ability. And maybe The Youngest Grey Warden still goes ahead and makes a Devilbaby, just in case it comes down to her or Alistair at the end. So after the game, they all live, and have to try to rebuild the Grey Wardens together. While bickering. Whenever Loghain complains too much they threaten to send him to Orlais. 'For training'. Years of training. That shuts him up pretty quickly. And eventually they learn to grudgingly get along. Because I love happy endings. HAPPY ENDINGS FOREVER.
And tonight on Coronation Street, David was ill and fell over, and his older brother had to rush to his side and help him and tend to him. I did wonder if they'd mention his epilepsy ever again. And now they have. Sally should really be more careful about talking about Kylie and Nick's secret though, since if it gets out, David will kill everyone. Everyone on the street. Honestly Sally, do you not love your street at all? Or daughter? Or self? Tut.
I have heard weird things about the Tina pregnancy storyline coming up, but mainly I just think Tina, Gary and David should just go live together with the baby, and possibly Kylie and Nick's baby as well (it is probably Kylie and Nick's baby), after David terrifies everyone with his scary eyes into just letting him look after it. A happy OT3 is all I'm looking for. With Tommy involved as little as possible just because I think he's boring. I cannot guarantee their kid/s would be the most well-adjusted who ever lived. But they would be the best protected. And with the best three parents. And David would never have to worry about being left alone with the kids, because there would probably always be at least one of the other two around to help out. EVERYBODY WINS.