templar1138a said:
Hey there fellow gamers.
Is there a game or series of games that you don't really care about, but everyone else doesn't seem able to shut up? Does their inability to shut up about them make you more hostile towards the franchise?
Dragon Age (Origins and II).
I think the setting is sooooooooooo boring. Elves have pointed ears, used to be immortal, and live in the forest? Dwarves are short, stocky, build giant geometric cities underground, and love to drink? Humans are more numerous than other species while not having any particularly striking qualities?
Nothing like knowing what the entire world is like, including the politics between the species and who will eventually be the major antagonist/protagonist before I install the game.
I fight an ancient evil that's arisen from its burial grounds and happens to be a dragon? An absurdly powerful, but benign-looking witch who has her own conniving schemes helps me along the way in exchange for some seemingly small price?
Good thing these tropes haven't been around since before the dawn of recorded history, otherwise things might get interesting.
Sure, the games are good - but it blows my mind that BioWare is claiming that their fantasy world is entirely their own creation when almost all of my middle school years were spent reading about it.
Another are the Call of Duty/whatever games. I like Halo fine (and played 1-3 for the story), but if I want a multiplayer gun-fest I'll take TF2 over the others every time.