This is basically what is keeping me from playing it. I don't want Origin on my machine, so my only option is to pick it up on 360... except if I do that, I can't install the play disc for god knows what reason.
You don't have to install Origin; just have an account and go to the website. Or do you have to have Origin to play it at all?
PC requires Origin, even if you buy the disc version.
That's stupid.
On PS3/Xbox 360, it does. The graphics are clearly catering toward next gen consoles and PC, so for PS3/360, there's lots of aliasing, extra brightness. It honestly looks a little worse than Origins, and the text is tiny. Anyone getting it on console, go for next gen.
After a lengthy mid-year drought, now too much is coming out at once. (Brofist for Pokemon; I can only afford one more game this year and it's going to be that.)
Ah, got it.
In one of my RPG projects focused on Dwarves, I had an item that was a false beard for dwarven females to pass as males when adventuring with non-dwarves (since under several layers of clothing and armor, it would be hard to tell). I called it a 'merkin'.
Which is totally applicable if you're playing Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit. Otherwise, it's up to whomever wrote the specific world the story / campaign are set in.
I'm in a Dragon Age tabletop RPG campaign, and in fact the party has just recently entered Orzammar. When we were in the Diamond Quarter, there were Casteless or lower caste Dwarves, particularly females, dressed to try and attract a "patron". I made the whole group, including GM, laugh when I referred to them as "Dwarfstitutes."
This is basically the entire back story of the Casteless Dwarf's sister in Origins: your sister is getting tarted up by a local slum lord so she can marry into a noble family and basically get shit done for him. Courtisans are apparently a huge fucking deal in Orzammar.
The DM explained that through a friendly NPC: Dwarves, particularly Noble caste, have a low fertility rate. To make sure there is an heir for one's House, Dwarves of high status are encourage to take on Courtesans - marriages are mostly political and business arrangements anyway. If the Courtesan produces a child, if it is of the same gender as the higher-caste parent, both Courtesan and child are raised to the higher caste; if it is of the same gender as the lower caste/casteless parent, they both remain casteless / low caste. Thus, for Casteless, offering themselves up to Nobility is their ticket to a better life.
Play Borderlands 2. The story is FAR superiour... even the Pre-sequel is pretty good, storywise.
Now don't get me wrong... Borderlands 2 isn't a master piece of storytelling. But it's coherent the entire way through, it explains why what happened in Borderlands 1 is so important, and it's MUCH, MUCH funnier.
