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

[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.