Moe Lane

…yeah, it’s a miracle that anybody leaves that site before they fall unconscious from lack of food/sleep; anyway, I came across this as part of the “Video Game Caring Potential” page:

Picking the Colonist backstory in Mass Effect results in a sidequest where you find a character who was from the same colony as you, but who was captured and enslaved and became severely messed up. She was rescued, but grabbed a weapon away and hid. She talks about herself in the third person, and you can either rush in and jab her with a sedative or talk to her, approaching slowly, and administer it without spooking her. On the way you can learn some of the details about what happened and tell her it’s not her fault. If you play it right, you can convince her to take the sedative herself, then, as she falls asleep in your arms, whisper the following to her:

• Shepard: You’ll dream of a warm place. And when you wake up, you’ll be in it.

Yup.  Dragon Age got me looking at Bioware games; Mass Effect got me hooked on them, and it was with stuff like this.

It’s a bit like Knights of the Old Republic, only without the problem of having to look like something that George Lucas came up with with regard to landscaping.  Dag, but most of the scenery in those movies is grim…

Yeah, yeah, yeah: heresy.  Seriously, though, the landscape is really pretty in this one.

This is staggeringly brilliant.

Well, if you’re into Dragon Age Origins then this is staggeringly brilliant.  If this doesn’t win the Bioware YouTube costume contest – or at least get a special mention – then there is no justice in this universe.

Via @tomabella.

They’d probably want to talk to my wife: she’s a long-time paper-and-paper roleplayer who does not play video games, but who has spent 100+ hours playing Dragon Age: Origins, with no regrets; and who would be going out and playing their other games if only we didn’t have two kids. I imagine that there’s at least three demographic sub-groups there that Bioware would like to target. I mean, sure, they know how to get me, but it’s not precisely hard…

I’ve been increasingly feeling like I’m under a midnight ‘deadline’ – if that even means anything – since it ended.  Then again, that might just be the Dragon Age: Origins… which is playing out like a mediocre tabletop roleplaying game.

THIS IS AN ABSOLUTELY AMAZING ACCOMPLISHMENT OF BIOWARE’S.  No, seriously.  That ain’t an easy goal to reach.

Moe Lane