Video games
Jan. 5th, 2019 08:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizbeeIt took about 45 hours of gameplay all up, but I finished Assassin's Creed: Origins on Thursday! (By comparison, Dragon Age: Inquisition took me about 300 hours -- the general estimate for most players was 150-200, but I'm a completionist, and I also died a lot.)
It took me a really long time to get the hang of Assassin's Creed -- not just building the muscle memory for combat mechanics, but figuring out the best strategies. I tend to Leeroy Jenkins my way through in Bioware games, but that's a lot less effective in AC, and I had a hard time breaking out of the "just power through, mow people down and hope for the best" mentality and telling myself that it was okay to spend a quarter of an hour quietly sitting in a haystack, luring guards to their death one by one.
I feel like a replay would be more satisfying in terms of combat and achievements and general efficiency, but on the other hand, it's not like the story will change. But maybe I'll get Odyssey when it drops in price, and then pretend it's an extremely bloodthirsty Queen's Thief game.
I had some ... disquiet over the portrayal of Egyptian, Greek and Roman NPCs, all of which were voiced to sound ever so slightly ridiculous? While the important Greeks and Romans were Posh British? It jumped out at me, that's all.
Now I'm replaying Dragon Age: Origins, this time as a dwarf noble/dual wielding rogue. Who would really like people to stop accusing her of crimes she didn't commit, and if the humans could stop assuming she is familiar with their weird worship of a lady they set on fire, that would be great, too.
(The advantage of the silent player character, I've realised, is that you can imagine her dialogue, which in this case is haughty and often mildly sarcastic.)
I have to say that, if anything, combat mechanics for DA:O are even worse on Xbox than on PC, although at least I'm not constantly sending my characters off to stand in places away from the action. Bioware definitely made some choices.
My plans this time around:
It took me a really long time to get the hang of Assassin's Creed -- not just building the muscle memory for combat mechanics, but figuring out the best strategies. I tend to Leeroy Jenkins my way through in Bioware games, but that's a lot less effective in AC, and I had a hard time breaking out of the "just power through, mow people down and hope for the best" mentality and telling myself that it was okay to spend a quarter of an hour quietly sitting in a haystack, luring guards to their death one by one.
I feel like a replay would be more satisfying in terms of combat and achievements and general efficiency, but on the other hand, it's not like the story will change. But maybe I'll get Odyssey when it drops in price, and then pretend it's an extremely bloodthirsty Queen's Thief game.
I had some ... disquiet over the portrayal of Egyptian, Greek and Roman NPCs, all of which were voiced to sound ever so slightly ridiculous? While the important Greeks and Romans were Posh British? It jumped out at me, that's all.
Now I'm replaying Dragon Age: Origins, this time as a dwarf noble/dual wielding rogue. Who would really like people to stop accusing her of crimes she didn't commit, and if the humans could stop assuming she is familiar with their weird worship of a lady they set on fire, that would be great, too.
(The advantage of the silent player character, I've realised, is that you can imagine her dialogue, which in this case is haughty and often mildly sarcastic.)
I have to say that, if anything, combat mechanics for DA:O are even worse on Xbox than on PC, although at least I'm not constantly sending my characters off to stand in places away from the action. Bioware definitely made some choices.
My plans this time around:
- On my first playthrough, I recruited Wynn really, really late into the piece because my mage didn't go back to the circle, and I didn't even realise I had another party member to collect. This time, I'm gonna do the circle first.
- Then I'm getting Shale. (Thank heavens the Stone Prisoner DLC is still available in the XBox store, and free. Life without Shale is not worth living.)
- I'm honestly not sure I want to romance anyone. I love Alistair with all my heart, but I don't think my Warden is into humans. Zevran is too sleazy, and Leliana is too overawed (and also, my warden really has doubts about the whole Andraste-Maker thing; she is far too polite to express them, but, you know).
- (I can't believe it took me this long to realise that Bioware did the "overawed female love interest who evolves into a ruthless, brilliant spymaster" thing twice with Leliana and Liara.)
no subject
Date: 2019-01-05 11:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-05 11:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-06 09:34 am (UTC)Don't forget Vivienne :D
Now I'm imagining what new characters the others could play. John Barrowman as a charming dwarf noble adjusting to the surface. Burn Gorman as a blood mage who burned down his circle. Naoki Mori as the templar who helped him. Whoever voiced Myfanwy as a dragon.
no subject
Date: 2019-01-05 11:48 pm (UTC)(I love Morrigan and Alistair. Bless.)
no subject
Date: 2019-01-06 01:13 am (UTC)Lizbee:
I agree with this with all my heart.
I romanced Leliana, though, and it was fun. Did you play the Leliana's Song DLC at all? I have only played through once, but I did all the origins, and dwarf noble is sure a fun one though I think I prefer dwarf casteless.
no subject
Date: 2019-01-06 01:02 am (UTC)