#this post sounds so negative but i promise it's not mean to lmaoooo i am hyped im just very overwhelmed | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

danielnelsen · 3 years ago

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finally playing dai!! first impressions:

playing on ultra quality graphics is very cool

characters are getting realistic to the point of entering the uncanny valley. choosing specific settings for my lips felt very strange

i leave footprints in the snow????????

you cant get it to pause when combat starts so im very overwhelmed

does your health regen over time??? i cant tell and it’s concerning me

whyy do you have to be so close to things to see that you can loot them, im gonna miss 90% of the loot in this game

I CAN JUMP

i am less stressed now that varric is here

i am more stressed now that cullen is here

you cant assign attributes anymore and im sad about it

you cant set custom tactics (i think) which is fine for my first playthrough, but im sad about it for future playthroughs when i know what im doing

the fact that missions have a timer means im gonna constantly be like “i’ll just play until the next one’s done” and i will never sleep again

i deeply miss the map in the corner. im gonna get so lost in this game rip.

maybe i just need some time to adjust, but i dont like how a lot of systems have been changed

a lot of this sounds very complain-y but i am enjoying it so far and look forward to really getting into the story and getting to know the characters!!!!!!!! and also getting to know my character. it’s interesting playing a qunari mage that’s considered to be essentially a prophet of the christianity-equivalent.

#especially given the very obvious (and problematic) parallels you can draw between the qun (and qunari in general) and some irl cultures #which definitely makes act 2 of da2 rub me very much the wrong way #(to be fair act 3 is also bad in the way they portray the plight of an oppressed group)#(i love da2 to bits but the more you think about the story the worse it gets lmao my children all deserved so much better)#this post sounds so negative but i promise it's not mean to lmaoooo i am hyped im just very overwhelmed #i half considered lowering the game to medium or even low quality graphics just to feel less overwhelmed #aside: ive just discovered that you can drag tags around on posts???????? good to know omg #but like.. obv da2 made a lot of mechanics much simpler and in some cases that was good but in others it wasnt #(eg i liked crafting in dao. i didnt use it much but that's bc ive only played once; it's cool and i miss it)#(on the other hand i like that they made combat and looting simpler with the auto-fight/loot button)#(i guess the takeaway here is that i enjoy when the add features but not when they remove them lmao makes sense)#it seems like theyve made some things more complicated in dai which im not necessarily a fan of #we'll see. summing up my experience so far in one word would just be 'overwhelmed'. but it's only been 1 session of playing so we'll see.#im also going in 100% blind (including with mechanics) so that doesnt help rip #ash plays da #ash plays dai #tldr: i play for story so mechanic changes are stressful

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