wankgate | 251: back in my day wank meant something

251: back in my day wank meant something

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

never really played a blood mage before anyway so this is whatever

to me it's more the idea that it's 'too evil'

bioware was a game company that basically pioneered the option to have an evil route in video games going back all the way to the KOTOR series, and made romance options in rpgs popular. then they started moralizing in their games. i guess it was only a matter of time before they got rid of the 'evil option' altogether.

It's this for me, too, because it feels like another instance of something being dumbed down to be "safe" because no one has critical thinking or media literacy anymore.

you guys talk like using blood magic as the player character ever had actual impact on anything

mte. it wasn't even an option in the last game. looking for reasons to get pressed about this is twitter brainrot behavior.

It's not specifically blood magic that's the problem, but the reasoning they gave for removing it. They aren't going to put the other subclasses in either, so it just sounds like the game is going to be even more boring and watered down.

I'm not pressed about it this just killed what little interest I might've had because it's another bad sign on top of the existing issues.

it's the implication that it's 'too evil' for the PC

i.e. 'our PC isn't evil'

or in other words, 'you can't be evil anymore even though we've been allowing this in pretty much every rpg we ever made'

this isn't hard, anon

blood magic was a shitty specialty anyway, id rather they actually make useful ones.

+1 it came with too many downsides for me to find it useful or fun when there were better, more enjoyable mage subclasses to play with.

the "too evil" justification is weird and i would have rather they just not give an explanation like that at all. but i'm not going to be pressed about it, esp if the game makes up for it with better subclasses.

this just sounds like more complaining for the sake of complaining about a game that isn't even out yet.

yea the 'too evil' thing is eyerolly for an explanation, agreed there, but like

in my ideal dragon age game world rather than trying to merge it with combat tactics as a specialty id instead make it story mode options. like how in inquisition you had special dialogue choices at times for your race/class option, mages would every now and then get a little "blood magic?" option for solving problems. especially if it gave you an instant success for stuff it would hammer in how tempting it is and give more of a chance for genuine repercussions for using it.

skill issue

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

251: back in my day wank meant something

Re: DRAGON AGE

Re: DRAGON AGE

Re: DRAGON AGE

Re: DRAGON AGE

Re: DRAGON AGE

Re: DRAGON AGE

Re: DRAGON AGE

Re: DRAGON AGE

Re: DRAGON AGE

Re: DRAGON AGE

Re: DRAGON AGE