{"id":894,"date":"2010-01-07T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=894"},"modified":"2010-01-07T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T01:04:00","slug":"on-dragon-age-journeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=894","title":{"rendered":"On Dragon Age: Journeys"},"content":{"rendered":"

 That’s how they getcha.<\/b><\/p>\n

I’ve been avoiding Dragon Age: Origins<\/a><\/i>.  Don’t get me wrong — I love Bioware <\/a>as much as, or perhaps even more than, the next guy.  I even played Jade Empire<\/a><\/i>.  But when I found myself choosing a new game, I settled on the devil-may-care wit of Nathan Drake<\/a> over the blood-besmirched plate-mail of this fellow<\/a>, whoever he is. <\/p>\n

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You know I’m right.<\/span><\/div>\n

I’m more of a Final Fantasy<\/a><\/i> guy, as you may have guessed.  All my occidental swords-and-sorcery needs are fulfilled by Warcraft.  And then this <\/a>happened.  Dragon Age: Journeys<\/i>, a well-designed casual RPG built by something called EA2D.   It’s pretty!  It sounds good!  It’s fun!  Dang it all.<\/p>\n

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While you’re watching The Biggest Loser, <\/span><\/div>\n
we’re gonna killify things and loot their steaming bodies. <\/span><\/div>\n

(If there’s any doubt left in your mind that EA will someday control all of mankind’s dreams from atop a sheer platinum tower, please cast it aside.  Seriously, what else to Potter <\/a>addicts, chop shop<\/a> owners, and regular people <\/a>have in common?  They have been right all along; it is, indeed, in the game<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

So fine.  I play their little flash romp through a few times.  No big, right?  No need for me to fall into the endless pit of expense that is DAO<\/a> right?  One might think that, but no.  No, the sly devils at EA added a few achievements to this little gem, and once these are successfully completed, content is unlocked in Origins<\/i>.  I am now the proud owner of a Helm of the Deep, an Amulet of the War Mage, and a snazzy little belt called Embri’s Many Pockets.  This for a game I don’t even own.<\/p>\n

…yet.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 That’s how they getcha. I’ve been avoiding Dragon Age: Origins.  Don’t get me wrong — I love Bioware as much as, or perhaps even more than, the next guy.  I even played Jade Empire.  But when I found myself choosing a new game, I settled on the devil-may-care wit of Nathan Drake over the blood-besmirched […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}