Director - "Ok Felicia - we need you to evoke an accent that displays your vulnerability, yet playful demeanor - with a British spin to it".
Day - "What? I thought I was just here to be cute. Can I just crack wise and say a few lines from The Guild? Pretty please?"
Director - "FUUUUUUUUUU".
Oh wait it was for the money, nvm.
@PossibleCabbage
It's about 4/5 hours. It isn't really worth replaying; each companion gets a unique quest, but all save Isabella and Aveline's are mere fetch-quests.
Before Bioware basically became a slave to EA, pumping out un-creative content, they knew what they were doing.
Dragon Age: Origins was a throwback to a sub-genre they helped create - they wanted to make something that honored the Baldur's Gate series. On PC, that did that quite well - with the isometric view and hotbars, it was pretty much a spiritual successor.
DAII on the other hand, didn't really contribute much to gaming as a whole. It was a decent action romp filled in a sea of decent action romps. Origins, other than the fantasy setting, hasn't really been represented since KOTOR (another Bioware game!).
And all of these DLCs look just as bad.
In the DA universe, different races have different accents. Humans are British, Dalish elves are Irish or Welsh, city elves and dwarves are American. I'm not a huge fan of Day's voice work, but the accent (or lack thereof) is quite deliberate.
You're the best reviewer on the site, and you've made me want to buy DAII.
Write about games MORE (Your write up on the weapon leveling mechanics tying into the character and plot of FFIX is still one of my favorite articles on the site ever)!
Otherwise,no part of that phrase computes, especially regarding Dragon Age 2. That doesn't even quite add up right for Varric and that Dwarf was a sexy beast. Not as much as the Arishok, but still...
Switching from fronts to backs, that extended stealth sequence sounds like a good excuse to make use of all of those Stealth skill tree abilities that went almost completely neglected in favor of messily hacking people to death face-to-face while most of their hits whizzed ineffectually past Hawke.
Maybe once it is on offer as part of some Xbox Live sales event, it'll be worth drawing my attention away from the other major releases of the last few and next few months if for no other reason than the DLC has more Felicia Day for everyone.
Basically, it's Felicia Day's fanfiction turned into DLC. It's so damn ridiculous. Her character sounds like it was written by a 12-year-old.
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Jimmyx, did you write the script for this one?
If Dragon Age 3 is set in Orlais I'm going to murder David Gaider.
Two hours worth of that French accent is all I can stand.
And fuck off, Leliana is damn near perfect. :)
Jk, bro, but still.
NO ONE CAN STOP TALLIS. SHE'S GONNA SAVE EVERYONE CUZ SHES PACIFIST.
AND IF YOU THINK SHE'S GONNA KICK ASS ON THE WAY TO THE TOP, YOU MAY BE RIGHT, BUT SHE'S LIKE THE GODDAMN BATMAN. SHES THE FUCKING NIGHT, BROTHER. YOU'D BETTER FUCKING BELIEVE IT.
DAVID GAIDER FAPS TO HER EVERY NIGHT. [B]NO ONE CAN STOP HER. NOT HAWKE OR THE WARDEN. SHES SO MUCH MORE RIGHTEOUS THAN BOTH. AND SHE PUTS THAT MOTHERFUCKING CHANTRY BACK TOGETHER WITH HER TELEPORTATION BECAUSE SHE FUCKING CAN.
FUCK THE REST. DEAR CHRIST SHE'S SUPERMAN/BATJESUS TO THEDAS. [/B]
Also. I'm drunk.
I think the story from Gaider a while back was that the plan was to give all Dalish Welsh accents, but they couldn't get enough Welsh voice actors--they're apparently committed to voice actors using only their natural accents--and that necessitated a bit of fudging.
It was an enjoyable enough piece of DLC, but I think I enjoyed it in spite of Felicia Day and not because of her.
Sounds like it does at least a few things wrong if you ask me, and all for a $10 asking price. $5 would be acceptable -maybe- and I'll probably be waiting for it to hit that price on a sale.
After Legacy I've realized that we can't trust DA2's DLC like we could trust the first games, which is sad.
Funny thing About Day that I've noticed: people (usually news sources and talk show hosts) call her the "ambassador to geekdom", but you go to a thread having to do with her and its full of people who either can't stand her, or her acting, or just plain don't know who the hell she is. I get she likes what she likes and does what she does according to that, but people need to quit putting her on a pedestal. Its unsightly. No ones putting any one like Team Unicorn on that kind of pedestal, and if you as me they've more worthy of that place then Day seems to be.
DA2 sucked, EA is a crappy games company, and Felicia Day isn't a geek heroine if she can't figure those two things out. It's like signing up your metal band to open for John Tesh... All cred goes out the window.
I know it's obligatory for every game to have exactly 5 DLC packs nowadays, but I can't honestly believe that anyone who finished DA2 thought... Oh, if only it was 5 hours longer!
I finished it, then immediately started a new game. I like DA2 a lot. Come at me, bro.