Gainful Employment
Yes, it is true. I have a job.
I can’t go into details, of course, but I will say that today was my first full day and I had a lot of fun. Hopefully I’ll do a good enough job that they decide to keep me. Fingers crossed!
Meanwhile, I finished up Dragon Age 2 just prior to starting work. It’s… I’m still trying to decide how I feel about it. On the one hand, I never finished Dragon Age Origins, because — while good — it felt bloated rather than epic, and it just didn’t hold my interest or make me care enough to see it through. On the other, I did finish Dragon Age 2, but I didn’t care about anyone in it, either. The Qunari were really the game’s most compelling characters. If the entire game had focused on their storyarc as opposed to the disjointed mess that it went with instead, I might be writing a very different post.
It doesn’t help that I very closely followed all of the news for The Old Republic during PAX East while I was playing it (thanks, Darth Hater!) and found it about a million times more interesting, visually stunning and fun-looking than what I was actually playing. I’m getting pretty excited for TOR. It looks better and more polished every time they show it off, and I am a huge sucker for Star Wars.
You probably just went through DA2 too fast in anticipation of your new job. Gotta take it slow, savor it… I know with DA Origins, I enjoyed the second playthrough a great deal more than my first, for that reason.
I’m not sure if there’s really any way to slow down and enjoy “literally every single mage you meet (other than your sister) is a blood mage or an abomination, giving credence and full justification to the crazed Templars’ actions and really really absurdly-named ‘Tranquil Solution’. Also you save the first game’s villain’s life and none of your decisions meaningfully impact anything.”
Bear in mind that I went in wanting to enjoy it and actively tried to do so. :/