Cursed!; Programming note

[owlmoose]

So yesterday or the day before, T and I were out driving, and he made an offhand comment about how I hadn't been called in for jury duty for awhile. I should have made a sign to ward off evil or something, because guess what came in the mail today?

December 9th. Yay.

Meanwhile, tomorrow Bioware will lift the embargo on spoilers in reviews of Dragon Age: Inqusition, which I suppose is as good a time as any to make my Tumblr hiatus official. I've barely been over there since my Hawaii trip anyway, so it's more a formality than anything. By the way, have I mentioned how nice it is to see more Tumblr people following me here now, and more folks commenting? Definitely nice. :) Welcome aboard!

I also need to finish my signup for DA Holiday Cheer tonight. That'll be a good note on which to take a Tumblr break. (Is it wrong that I'm actually looking forward to this Tumblr break?)

Comments

[owlmoose]

Per dragon_age, "November 11th (that's tomorrow in North America) marks the curtains rising on spoilery reviews by game journalsts." That's all I know, but it's good enough for me.

[sarasa_cat]

Ah. That curtain was lifted in the UK a day or two ago. Not sure why (or perhaps those reviewers were breaking their agreement?)

FereldenWench just mentioned that tomorrow Bioware's twitch stream is going to demo the first HOUR of playthrough, starting from the beginning, showing everything. Talk about spoilers!!!

I know that they need to do this to get people who aren't committed to consider buying the game. So, this is it. It's all a big danger zone from here on.

I am hoping I can start playing on Friday the 21st of Nov but I know people who cannot play until xmas-newyears holiday. It will take me forever to play the game unless I find time to marathon during the winter holiday. Tbd.

I told tumblr I was mostly gone until February.

[ex_tklivory319]

Not surprisingly, Tumblr is (apparently from what my other online friends have said and not because I've gone there) quite spoilery and whiny at the moment for several reasons, most of them involving leaks in the reviews or various videos around the web from the reviews. Sooooo... yeah, i'm not even checking my messages anymore. It's not that i want it totally unspoiled, but I am content with what I know, and that's enough for me.

Hopefully your jury duty experience is like mine: in and out in a couple of hours from lack of actual cases (last time I went, they settled out of court an hour after I arrived. Perfect!

[sarasa_cat]

At 12:01am the 13th, I believe (but not sure of timezone), EA Access subscribers get access to DA Inquisition so spoilers will run amok at that point. People are already announcing that they will do twitch streams of their play through.

[ex_tklivory319]

Perfect. Now I know when to get off the internet. *sigh*

One of my other friends got a wee bit spoiled, and she said she wished she hadn't. I'd honestly like to learn as much as I can from the game and no other source. I think knowing too much about DA2 before I played it did lessen the experience for me, and I want to avoid that if at all humanly possible for DAI.

My other friends and I have an agreement: we have a shared doc into which we will post screenshots ONLY of our character from the CC (so we can gush about our Quizzies) and then nothing else until we all agree we've seen enough that we might, maybe wanna talk about a couple of things.

That's pretty much my first two weeks with DAI. If I do anything else, it will be writing. Oh, and eating turkey, of course. Tryptophan is good for RPG skills, don't'y'know.

[sarasa_cat]

I don't yet have any plan for sharing/not sharing DAI info once I start playing.

I don't mind learning certain kinds of pre-release info about the game from the developers but I am extremely selective about the kinds of fannish discussions/info/speculations/fanworks I am exposed to until I've played a game once. It isn't just a matter of spoilers but also headcanon/fanon. I don't want to over think the game when only tiny tidbits are out.

For professional reasons, I have been selectively spoiled on a few of DAI's cut scenes. Of those, a small handful are ones where that I don't mind from the first few hrs of the game, one that is merely a character development scene (which is fine), and one set of scenes from an actual quest that I would have preferred *NOT* to know about because it spoils a plot decision for that quest, but it appears to be nothing major.

Ah… DA2. I went into that game with ZERO spoilers and ZERO knowledge of what I was getting into. Personally, I was able to guess a few major plot points because I am a very careful and thorough player and Bioware tends to foreshadow through a megaphone. Although that didn't lessen my experience. On the other hand, if I had be spoiled on those elements rather than guessing them, it wouldn't have been as much fun.

DA:O: Up front in the official Prima Game Guide the writer put a giant unmarked spoiler for KING ALISTAIR on the same page that has info on how to spec him as a useful warrior. Grumble. I would have much preferred to learn the bastard royal connection just outside Redcliffe like I was supposed to.