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What game should we play in November?

Poll ended at November 1st, 2024, 01:19

Dragon Age: Origins
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Jade Empire
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Mass Effect
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System Shock 2
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Underrail
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loregamer wrote: March 2nd, 2025, 08:16
Holy ****, the wabbajack modlist I would've been using turned some NPCs black and all the elves to look like DA2 elves
https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/5560
https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/3682

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I always use Dragon Age Redesigned. It fixes wonky faces without straying from the originals and it's very modular, so you can pick and choose what changes you prefer.
https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/686
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logincrash wrote: March 2nd, 2025, 08:33
loregamer wrote: March 2nd, 2025, 08:16
Holy ****, the wabbajack modlist I would've been using turned some NPCs black and all the elves to look like DA2 elves
https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/5560
https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/3682

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I always use Dragon Age Redesigned. It fixes wonky faces without straying from the originals and it's very modular, so you can pick and choose what changes you prefer.
https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/686
I'll check it out, thanks. I thought this modpack would just be improving textures and adding bug fixes and stuff, not adding "More Hairs for Kids and Diversified Children" :?
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I'm actually really mad about this. I'm gonna fork this Wabbajack list and upload it
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loregamer wrote: March 2nd, 2025, 08:16
Holy ****, the wabbajack modlist I would've been using turned some NPCs black and all the elves to look like DA2 elves
https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/5560
https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/3682

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logincrash wrote: March 2nd, 2025, 08:33
I always use Dragon Age Redesigned. It fixes wonky faces without straying from the originals and it's very modular, so you can pick and choose what changes you prefer.
https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/686
Thanks for sharing this, boss man. I'm doing an NPC visual overhaul and apparently I'd have to make the head morphs from scratch and override them (You can't just import the original head morphs into the toolset).

The guys who made this were cool enough to make it open source, though. So I can just work off of this mod as a base :salute:

When you get the chance, can you lemme know which version you recommend?
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loregamer wrote: March 4th, 2025, 00:21
logincrash wrote: March 2nd, 2025, 08:33
I always use Dragon Age Redesigned. It fixes wonky faces without straying from the originals and it's very modular, so you can pick and choose what changes you prefer.
https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/686
Thanks for sharing this, boss man. I'm doing an NPC visual overhaul and apparently I'd have to make the head morphs from scratch and override them (You can't just import the original head morphs into the toolset).

The guys who made this were cool enough to make it open source, though. So I can just work off of this mod as a base :salute:

When you get the chance, can you lemme know which version you recommend?
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I always used the lore version because even the "recommended" version made people look too generically beautiful like, for example, here:
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I also never installed the companion morphs from this mod because they all look pretty good in vanilla. Leliana, Alistair, Wynn and Oghren are already perfect for what they're supposed to be. Zevran's huge lips could be fixed up a bit, but otherwise he's fine. Morrigan's tiny eyes could use some improvement and then she'd be great.
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I'd recommend installing a mod that fixes the gorilla arms proportions on female dwarves:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/tmp7704/down ... roportions
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Not gonna play this **** again. I still have deep road nightmares to this day.
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Ryzer wrote: March 24th, 2025, 23:41
Not gonna play this **** again. I still have deep road nightmares to this day.
Thanks for the heads up
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Oyster Sauce wrote: March 24th, 2025, 23:42
Ryzer wrote: March 24th, 2025, 23:41
Not gonna play this **** again. I still have deep road nightmares to this day.
Thanks for the heads up
I didn't mind the deep roads. It was a bit long, but I went there last. So it was basically a playground where I got to use my most powerful abilities for a while before the game ended.
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J1M wrote: July 3rd, 2025, 01:26
Oyster Sauce wrote: March 24th, 2025, 23:42
Ryzer wrote: March 24th, 2025, 23:41
Not gonna play this **** again. I still have deep road nightmares to this day.
Thanks for the heads up
I didn't mind the deep roads. It was a bit long, but I went there last. So it was basically a playground where I got to use my most powerful abilities for a while before the game ended.
I liked how it felt like grueling dungeon crawling. Deeper and deeper. The sense of scale and depth of the Deep Roads really hit home for me. But yeah, like yourself I'd usually go there or Denerim last
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Was watching a streamer play Origins for the first time. Loaded up the game to look up some things in the achievements section.
Got a strong craving to start playing, got scared and closed the game.
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How about Oarzammar and it's water instead of lava and the Dwarves all have oars to navigate the underground lakes in their little boats?
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logincrash wrote: August 19th, 2025, 19:01
How about Oarzammar and it's water instead of lava and the Dwarves all have oars to navigate the underground lakes in their little boats?
Cave dweller societies? I've seen that somewhere... :pipe-thinking:
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What if instead of the Deep Roads it was the Beep Roads and it's just a modern highway with regular cars driving on it, situated inexplicably in the middle of the fantasy world of Thedas?
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So is this game actually good? From what I've known it is basically a mediocre at best singleplayer MMORPG, but this site seems to love it so I might give it a try.
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Tinky Winky wrote: September 4th, 2025, 04:18
So is this game actually good? From what I've known it is basically a mediocre at best singleplayer MMORPG, but this site seems to love it so I might give it a try.
The "singleplayer MMORPG" is the third one(Dragon Age Inquisition)
It's decent enough. Not bad, not great, pretty good with all the expansion content.
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Tinky Winky wrote: September 4th, 2025, 04:18
So is this game actually good? From what I've known it is basically a mediocre at best singleplayer MMORPG, but this site seems to love it so I might give it a try.
It is a Bioware-style game with RTwP combat. If you know what that is, you already know if you want to play it or not. If you don't, then you should play it to expand your vocabulary.
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Fear and Lothering in Thedas
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rusty_shackleford wrote: September 4th, 2025, 04:20
Tinky Winky wrote: September 4th, 2025, 04:18
So is this game actually good? From what I've known it is basically a mediocre at best singleplayer MMORPG, but this site seems to love it so I might give it a try.
The "singleplayer MMORPG" is the third one(Dragon Age Inquisition)
It's decent enough. Not bad, not great, pretty good with all the expansion content.
J1M wrote: September 4th, 2025, 05:09
Tinky Winky wrote: September 4th, 2025, 04:18
So is this game actually good? From what I've known it is basically a mediocre at best singleplayer MMORPG, but this site seems to love it so I might give it a try.
It is a Bioware-style game with RTwP combat. If you know what that is, you already know if you want to play it or not. If you don't, then you should play it to expand your vocabulary.
Bruh it REALLY is a singleplayer MMORPG, the whole gameplay loop is centered around MMORPG tier trashmob dungeons with dialogues and a few puzzles. My expectation is low enough so I still managed to finish this along with all the DLC campaigns, but if it's the best Dragon Age game, then I don't want to out try the supposedly declining ones.

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Anyway this is my endgame stats of the main game, played as an Elven (ElvARYAN) mage.
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Tinky Winky wrote: September 13th, 2025, 05:13
rusty_shackleford wrote: September 4th, 2025, 04:20
Tinky Winky wrote: September 4th, 2025, 04:18
So is this game actually good? From what I've known it is basically a mediocre at best singleplayer MMORPG, but this site seems to love it so I might give it a try.
The "singleplayer MMORPG" is the third one(Dragon Age Inquisition)
It's decent enough. Not bad, not great, pretty good with all the expansion content.
J1M wrote: September 4th, 2025, 05:09
Tinky Winky wrote: September 4th, 2025, 04:18
So is this game actually good? From what I've known it is basically a mediocre at best singleplayer MMORPG, but this site seems to love it so I might give it a try.
It is a Bioware-style game with RTwP combat. If you know what that is, you already know if you want to play it or not. If you don't, then you should play it to expand your vocabulary.
Bruh it REALLY is a singleplayer MMORPG, the whole gameplay loop is centered around MMORPG tier trashmob dungeons with dialogues and a few puzzles. My expectation is low enough so I still managed to finish this along with all the DLC campaigns, but if it's the best Dragon Age game, then I don't want to out try the supposedly declining ones.

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Anyway this is my endgame stats of the main game, played as an Elven (ElvARYAN) mage.
nah it's pretty good, you probably just played it wrong
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rusty_shackleford wrote: September 13th, 2025, 05:14
Tinky Winky wrote: September 13th, 2025, 05:13
rusty_shackleford wrote: September 4th, 2025, 04:20


The "singleplayer MMORPG" is the third one(Dragon Age Inquisition)
It's decent enough. Not bad, not great, pretty good with all the expansion content.
J1M wrote: September 4th, 2025, 05:09


It is a Bioware-style game with RTwP combat. If you know what that is, you already know if you want to play it or not. If you don't, then you should play it to expand your vocabulary.
Bruh it REALLY is a singleplayer MMORPG, the whole gameplay loop is centered around MMORPG tier trashmob dungeons with dialogues and a few puzzles. My expectation is low enough so I still managed to finish this along with all the DLC campaigns, but if it's the best Dragon Age game, then I don't want to out try the supposedly declining ones.

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Anyway this is my endgame stats of the main game, played as an Elven (ElvARYAN) mage.
nah it's pretty good, you probably just played it wrong
It's okay-ish, worth for a single playthrough, far better than skyrim and oblolivion for sure. I actually didn't find the Deep Road to be troublesome though, since it's just identical as the rest of the game.
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Tinky Winky wrote: September 13th, 2025, 05:17
rusty_shackleford wrote: September 13th, 2025, 05:14
Tinky Winky wrote: September 13th, 2025, 05:13



Bruh it REALLY is a singleplayer MMORPG, the whole gameplay loop is centered around MMORPG tier trashmob dungeons with dialogues and a few puzzles. My expectation is low enough so I still managed to finish this along with all the DLC campaigns, but if it's the best Dragon Age game, then I don't want to out try the supposedly declining ones.

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Anyway this is my endgame stats of the main game, played as an Elven (ElvARYAN) mage.
nah it's pretty good, you probably just played it wrong
It's okay-ish, worth for a single playthrough, far better than skyrim and oblolivion for sure. I actually didn't find the Deep Road to be troublesome though, since it's just identical as the rest of the game.
Did you play all the DLC content/expansion, or just some of it?
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Tinky Winky wrote: September 13th, 2025, 05:13
rusty_shackleford wrote: September 4th, 2025, 04:20
Tinky Winky wrote: September 4th, 2025, 04:18
So is this game actually good? From what I've known it is basically a mediocre at best singleplayer MMORPG, but this site seems to love it so I might give it a try.
The "singleplayer MMORPG" is the third one(Dragon Age Inquisition)
It's decent enough. Not bad, not great, pretty good with all the expansion content.
J1M wrote: September 4th, 2025, 05:09
Tinky Winky wrote: September 4th, 2025, 04:18
So is this game actually good? From what I've known it is basically a mediocre at best singleplayer MMORPG, but this site seems to love it so I might give it a try.
It is a Bioware-style game with RTwP combat. If you know what that is, you already know if you want to play it or not. If you don't, then you should play it to expand your vocabulary.
Bruh it REALLY is a singleplayer MMORPG, the whole gameplay loop is centered around MMORPG tier trashmob dungeons with dialogues and a few puzzles. My expectation is low enough so I still managed to finish this along with all the DLC campaigns, but if it's the best Dragon Age game, then I don't want to out try the supposedly declining ones.

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Anyway this is my endgame stats of the main game, played as an Elven (ElvARYAN) mage.
This post is really funny. If you play Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition you will understand why. You have not seen trash mobs or MMO design yet.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: September 13th, 2025, 05:18
Tinky Winky wrote: September 13th, 2025, 05:17
rusty_shackleford wrote: September 13th, 2025, 05:14


nah it's pretty good, you probably just played it wrong
It's okay-ish, worth for a single playthrough, far better than skyrim and oblolivion for sure. I actually didn't find the Deep Road to be troublesome though, since it's just identical as the rest of the game.
Did you play all the DLC content/expansion, or just some of it?
I would believe the game is a consistent texture if one plays on the lower difficulties.
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J1M wrote: September 13th, 2025, 05:22
Tinky Winky wrote: September 13th, 2025, 05:13
rusty_shackleford wrote: September 4th, 2025, 04:20


The "singleplayer MMORPG" is the third one(Dragon Age Inquisition)
It's decent enough. Not bad, not great, pretty good with all the expansion content.
J1M wrote: September 4th, 2025, 05:09


It is a Bioware-style game with RTwP combat. If you know what that is, you already know if you want to play it or not. If you don't, then you should play it to expand your vocabulary.
Bruh it REALLY is a singleplayer MMORPG, the whole gameplay loop is centered around MMORPG tier trashmob dungeons with dialogues and a few puzzles. My expectation is low enough so I still managed to finish this along with all the DLC campaigns, but if it's the best Dragon Age game, then I don't want to out try the supposedly declining ones.

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Anyway this is my endgame stats of the main game, played as an Elven (ElvARYAN) mage.
This post is really funny. If you play Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition you will understand why. You have not seen trash mobs or MMO design yet.
I don't want to know how bad those sequels actually are but the ending section of both DAO and Awakening play like some MMO city raid special event. And for some reason Bioware think it's a good idea to have the players experience the same MMO design twice (or three times if you count the Darkspawn mini campaign one)
rusty_shackleford wrote: September 13th, 2025, 05:18
Tinky Winky wrote: September 13th, 2025, 05:17
rusty_shackleford wrote: September 13th, 2025, 05:14


nah it's pretty good, you probably just played it wrong
It's okay-ish, worth for a single playthrough, far better than skyrim and oblolivion for sure. I actually didn't find the Deep Road to be troublesome though, since it's just identical as the rest of the game.
Did you play all the DLC content/expansion, or just some of it?
All of them for sure. Most of them except Awakening are pretty short, like 1-1.5 hours short.
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Tinky Winky wrote: September 13th, 2025, 05:26
I don't want to know how bad those sequels actually are
DA2 has wave-based combat where enemies drop from the ceiling in waves
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