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IGN have uploaded a hands-on preview of Dragon Age: Origins -- Awakening, the expansion pack to BioWare's Dragon Age: Origins pitched as a detailed examination of how many subtitles a developer can append to a game's name.
The article details the new specialisations, skills, and abilities for the game's various classes but unfortunately not much about the plot of the affair. My guess is best summed up by this choice of Old English: menn behofiaþ godre lare on þissum timan, þe is gendung þisse worulde; i.e. men require good teaching in this time, which is the end of this world.
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No matter how you finished the original Dragon Age, there's a lot of room to grow here, not only in terms of the unfolding story of the Darkspawn threat, but also in terms of your character's ability to confront the new menace that's facing the land. Be sure to come back to IGN in the coming weeks for our full review.
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Oh what do you know. The oldest of plots are supposed to be the closest to our hearts, I guess.
By the bye, why has anyone yet to point out that the Dragon Age-typeface means that the game's title reads as Ðragon Age: that is Thragon Age. Have BioWare no Icelandic players?
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Again I am here, and there is some good stuff for you coming up. The weather has turned to spring, but here spring goes to ‘oh my god it’s effing hot’ very quickly, so enjoying it while I still can.
From kotorfanmedia we have Prisoner24601 and Dinah Lance returning with Plan B TheJediSentinel
has an uncomfortable meeting for Revan in Meet the Parent
Princess Artemis give us a deliciously evil Revan with
Darkening and best of the week goes to Lady Tragic and Dead Letter
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The week was interesting, and yesterday even more so. They are training a bunch of us to do customer service via chat which changes my hours once again.
This week was dominated by Skyeprism more by volume of work than anything else. Though the only Pick of the Week was also from that author. Ice Roses: Kullde is interesting in that a new race is created, and we get to see it wander around from here on.
This is the first time I found only one Pick to choose. Maybe I’m getting old. Signing off…
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An interesting day yesterday. A friend had traded hours with me, so I arrived an hour early to leave an hour early. That wasn’t so bad, really. But then the driver of my bus was on a detour, without knowing the detour, if you know what I mean. Instead of taking one turn, he instead does a round robin through McCarren and ends up heading right back to where we had started.
Now at this point the could have merely made a single left, gone back, and made the correct turn. But just like any guy driving, he knew where he was going. So instead we ended up going around the airport on surface streets, which made us about 40 minutes late to where I get off for home. It was more amusing than irritating to me.
This week here was a bit like that. So without further ado…
From kotorfanmedia we have Skyeprism’s When they were young: Of Trouble and Speeders Kid’s fun with Evil Shall Giggle Spitting Cherry Pits 1
Clearing away what you don’t need with BrokenFate117 and Wings A woman waiting for her love with StarWars Chick’s One Thousand Words
And Rakeesh’s excellently choreographed fight in Lost Jedi, Dark Hero - Missing Scene - Arrival
Well, off to work in an hour or so. Maybe some writing? Signing off…
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So another week has passed, and more words flow past my face. The days are getting longer, and maybe next week I can go without a coat. Of course the chill of winter is going to go straight into the war hammer of summer here with triple digits…
From kotorfanmedia we have a bit of good stuff this week. We start off with Jaina Solo’s Revan's Retribution then Saphyre’s poignant Sisters. Sir Boss gave us
A New Line of Work and Revan says goodbye in Tatooine92’s Guilt
Payday!
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Dualshockers' Joel Taveras has put up a preview of Obsidian's delayed Alpha Protocol, detailing various things he saw at the Sega NYC Media Day. A lot of it is the same sort of thing that was being said by Obsidian and the reviewers before, but two paragraphs in particular stick out as something of a sea-change:
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Right away, one of the things you immediately notice is how good this game looks.... For Alpha Protocol however everything is bright, lush, and rich in detail.
The game moves just as good as it looks. Like other many popular 3rd person shooters, AP incorporates a cover system as well as stealth mechanics.
Interesting, given that before the delay the few reviewers who looked at the game were unimpressed by the game's lacklustre graphics and fairly ordinary combat. It would be nice if that wasn't all Obsidian have been sharpening up of late.
Also included in the review is confirmation of more than the three released locations of Saudi Arabia, Rome, and Moscow, as well as a few other bits and pieces of new information that make it worth wading through the first few paragraphs of recap.
More news, hopefully, to come; so far, it sounds like Obsidian may finally have managed to iron out and polish a game thoroughly. Perhaps this time Sega will try advertising it, too...
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Yet another week and I am here again. Have begun corresponding with a girl in Russia, and it it something to do that enjoy, like this. So without further ado…
From kotorfanmedia we have some fun stuff and skewed stuff to see. We start with Eisu’ hilarious comic book Fortune told , Nadia’s look at love on the dark side with
Just Another Test, and Midnight Hawk delving into Sion’s mind with Becoming Broken.
But Best of the week went to an author that shows not only despair but outrageous humor in two works, Mara Nedolo’
Nightmares of Gizka and
Après Moi, Le Deluge
Well I’m strapped for cash, having spent just over a thousand dollars in the last two months that I had not planned on. Going to be doing nothing but laundry and grocery shopping. Signing off…
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Few details are available on Obsidian Entertainment's other announced project, but a new teaser-trailer for Fallout: New Vegas has been released, showing... well, not a lot, actually. What is (behind the pre-rendered eye-candy) in the trailer is the announcement of a release date in "Fall 2010".
The accompanying press-release also lists that the game will be available on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, before enthusing thus:
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Fallout: New Vegas takes all the action, humor, and post-apocalyptic grime and grit of this legendary series, and raises the stakes.
Hopefully the stakes raised are in more than collar-grabbing animations.
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Landlords can be funny sometimes. This week they put in fire sirens in all of the apartments. That was on Monday, and they leave a not that they have to enter your apartment when they do. Not bothered because I work during the week. Then on Thursday there’s another note; they now have to check all the newly installed sirens, and they are going to do this between 1 and 3 PM. Again not a bother, but while I was standing waiting for a bus, I got a chance to hear what I would miss as a 30 unit complex they are refurbishing gets it’s test. Was I ever glad to be out of the house yesterday!
Everything this week came from Coruscant Entertainment Center, and let me tell you there was some really good work this time. I am waiting for a week where every one of the works gets picked as a pick of the week, but not yet people, not yet.
We start off with Prisoner24601 and Dinah Lance back again with the end of their saga, Balm Sonn4Jam3s starts a slash romance with A Jedi's Love: Chapter 1 Mayla begins with a eulogy in Fragments of Memories: Prologue JoySweeper contemplates life at the top in the Sith with Betrayed, and Lady of Arrakis starts off TSL with Wanderer's Redemption: Esoteric Pilgrim, Chapter 1.
But Best of the best goes to Obaona with this rendition of an Exile without the force still trying in Special.
Well it’s payday and I’m just hoping everyone I know will keep the pins in financially. Signing off…
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Chris Avellone continues his attempt to answer those questions that people frequently fire at him about game development. This second update looks at the amount of background material written for the average companion in party-based RPGs, using the document written for Kreia from KotOR II as an illustration.
Also, one thing I've found often can bog people down is they want to keep exploring the abstracts about a character, when I think sometimes the best thing to do is charge in, start swinging, and find a voice and attitude for the character. There's even times when I write a sample short story for how the player specifically encounters that character and see if that helps me to get rolling on themes and the spine of the character (I'm doing this on our current project, and it's a new approach).
Good stuff, I only wish there were more.
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