Two funny posts in one day

[drwex]

What's the world coming to? Anyway, Zero Punctuation (the wonderful people behind the 'lightning and shurikens' review) have posted their review of Dragon Age:Origins.

Don't be drinking anything.

Comments

[gentlescholar.livejournal.com]

About two minutes in he really got me with the trousers bit. Thanks for the link!

It's the brit-humor thing

[drwex]

Part of what makes these funny for me is that he's got that accent and uses British English like "trousers" and "spanner".

[chienne-folle.livejournal.com]

I liked the bit about standard fantasy contexts, but as always, I thought the review was unfair. I guess fair isn't really their goal. :-)

I don't know what things are like if you play as a guy, but playing as a woman, the romantic possibilities did NOT talk about the relationship and the troll trying to kill you in the same tone of voice. Alistair was sweet and noble and shy, and Zevran was cute and sexy and full of joie-de-vivre, and both of them were voiced extremely well. The one queer opportunity for women seems to be Leliana, and she was badly voiced, but since she wasn't voiced very well during the rest of the game, I don't think it was being bisexual that did her in. :-) Maybe she's the one the Zero Punc people tried to romance. I guess I can't blame him; I'd keep my distance from Morrigan, too. :-)

DA:O is stil on my list

[drwex]

I'm working through Borderlands now and plan to get Dragon Age afterward.

The review was, I thought, pretty spot-on in terms of generic fantasy and he does admit that he's been playing the game for 25 hours straight...

[mrf-arch.livejournal.com]

I laughed until I wept.

"spotted like a menstruating leopard" FTW.

[stephenray.livejournal.com]

Yahtzee is my hero.

Also, this is really funny... starts a bit slow, but there is a belly laugh within...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDeawqKzEVM