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[oddlittleturtle]

No one came to play today?

[fiannan]

Wow, congrats! How many playthroughs would you say it took you to unlock all of those?

[fiannan]

Oh, jeez. That's impressive! I love ME1, but I'm not sure I could handle playing the whole game that many times. I've finished it three times now, and I don't even have all the achievements for taking each squadmate on most of the missions yet (I've only unlocked Garrus and Wrex's, due to poor planning in my first two playthroughs, ugh). And I can't even imagine playing it on Hardcore, let alone Insanity. I've been replaying the whole trilogy before Andromeda comes out and I've discovered that I'm just not very good at Mass Effect, haha. I usually play on Normal and bump the difficulty down to Casual whenever things get too hairy. Insanity in ME3 sounds bad enough, but in ME1? No thanks!

[itches]

Vetra has a character kit

[shukuchan]

I know it's because she's a turian... but I really hope she's actually a good character because I'm probably going to try to romance the shit out of her... I know she won't be Garrus, and that would honestly suck to have a - wait, nah, it wouldn't truly suck to have a female Garrus. Just would like a new turian to, er, woo. XD

[fiannan]

I like her little butt cape thing. Her colour scheme is pretty nice, too. Kind of wish she was wearing heavier armour, especially since her character profile makes it sound like she's a soldier-type, but I do like her design.

Bioware Cats

[tov01]

Here is Varric learning how to use a giant hamster wheel. You're welcome. pic.twitter.com/iPUEj5kXD7
- Mary Kirby (@BioMaryKirby) February 10, 2017

Edit: Now with video

Continuing adventures in cat training. pic.twitter.com/ejSUYrPhGe
- Mary Kirby (@BioMaryKirby) February 11, 2017

"Meaningful sidequests"

[rose_in_shadow]

""We are approaching the completionist aspect very differently, because we've done and learned a lot from Inquisition," Condominas says. "But we've also observed what other games have been doing, like The Witcher."
- PC Gamer article

Re: "Meaningful sidequests"

[tersa]

lol the "Hinterlands problem". I'm glad they recognized the gamer psychology fail they faceplanted into in DAI.

RE: Re: "Meaningful sidequests"

[rose_in_shadow]

What's funny about the Hinterlands for me anyway, it was only a problem that first playthrough. After I realized I could freely travel in and out of it without in-game consequences, I lost that maddening feeling of "I'm going to miss something!"

Re: "Meaningful sidequests"

[tersa]

Well, yeah, but that first playthrough of MEA is what I'm thinking about. :D