Tag: mark of the assassin

Finished DA: Mark of the Assassin this morning.

Pretty good, at least on the first run-through: if you missed the ability to sneak around and ambush people like you could in Dragon Age Origins then this will please you.  There’s combat, traps, a good primary NPC to interact with, and a critical moment where Bioware apparently does not choose to railroad you into going along with a predetermined, particular moral/ethical decision.  I think that it still takes you to the boss fight – but, hell, it’s a video game.  I want to be taken to the boss fight.

Also, the party’s running commentary was pretty good.  Again, at least the running commentary among the NPCs that I normally bring along to these things.

Gee, the Bioware servers have melted down.

Weren’t you people all supposed to have jumped on downloading the Dragon Age 2: Mark of the Assassin DLC ahead of time?  …Guess that there’s honest people in the world who don’t take advantage of the mistakes of others, after all*.

Dammit.

Moe Lane

*Don’t even think that I wouldn’t have bought the DLC early if I had been told about it in time.  I don’t steal stuff, but if the vendor accidentally makes it available ahead of time, well, that’s not my screw-up, is it?

Hey, new Dragon Age 2 DLC! (Felicia Day)

I thought that the name would get your attention. New Dragon Age 2 DLC: Mark of the Assassin.

It appears we’ll see Felicia Day as a video game character in BioWare’s Dragon Age universe before we see her in the previously announced live-action web series, Dragon Age: Redemption. BioWare revealed that the next DLC pack for Dragon Age II will feature Day’s Elven assassin character and be ready for download on October 11.

Looks kind of Mass Effect 2: Kasumi – Stolen Memory:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0_41SWzCwk&feature=player_embedded

…which ain’t a criticism: I liked that adventure pretty well.  Ten bucks for what’s supposedly supposed to be pretty stealthy; that should appease some of the people who spent the entire first game hiding and sneaking. Continue reading Hey, new Dragon Age 2 DLC! (Felicia Day)