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    Dragon Age II

    Game » consists of 16 releases. Released Mar 08, 2011

    This sequel to Dragon Age: Origins features faster combat, a new art style, and a brand new, fully voiced main character named Hawke.

    Norway mass murderer Anders played DAII (SPOILERS imminent)

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    #1  Edited By GalacticPunt

    This is getting seriously creepy.

    LINK: CONFIRMED: Anders Behring Breivik Played "Dragon Age" Games

    No Caption Provided

    How big will the media reaction be?

    EDIT: To my knowledge, everyone in this thread appreciates the tragedy of all the lives lost two days ago. Giant Bomb's off-topic thread to discuss the incident itself is here.

    I have started this thread on the Dragon Age II board, because I came across a gaming connection that I believe is interesting to others. Discussing what impact, if any, this will have on the politics of gaming doesn't mean we don't care about the loss of life. I hope that people will start to actually read the article and comprehend each others' posts before jumping down each others' throats. Too much of this thread so far, is people flaming each other because they mis-read and misunderstood a post. For example: you don't need to dogpile on someone who lost a friend because they thought there was a cruel joke behind a a Spoiler tag. It's an understandable mistake, let's move on and be Excellent to each other.

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    #2  Edited By Black_Rose

    How is it creepy? And where are the spoilers? 
     
    I'm sure it was going to be blaimed on videogames and violent movies anyway, this doesn't make that much of a difference. 

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    #3  Edited By m0rdr3d

    Doesn't end there...  He also extolled the virtues of MW2 as a training simulator, and was an avid WoW player.  Apparently, his preference though was RPGs.  Say your goodbyes to your video games now.  Stupid politicians will be all over this.

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    #4  Edited By beforet

    Can we wait a few weeks before making jokes?

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    #5  Edited By EuanDewar

    I don't think this quite matters considering he was quoted as saying he used Modern Warfare 2 as a "Training Simulator".

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    #6  Edited By Mr_Skeleton

    @Beforet said:

    Can we wait a few weeks before making jokes?

    Must... resist...

    Seriously though this is fucked up. A person needs to be mentally unstable from the beginning to think that killing people in an act of terror can solve problems.

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    #7  Edited By Agent47
    @Beforet said:

    Can we wait a few weeks before making jokes?

    We should.....they won't.
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    #8  Edited By TheDudeOfGaming

    So...can someone explain to me what a medieval fantasy game, set in a fictional medieval fantasy universe, with magic and wands and s**** has to do with bombings and shootings of a raving lunatic? 

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    #9  Edited By DEMONOLOGY_24
    @Beforet said:

    Can we wait a few weeks before making jokes?


    my thoughts exactly
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    #10  Edited By laserbolts
    @EuanDewar

    I don't think this quite matters considering he was quoted as saying he used Modern Warfare 2 as a "Training Simulator".

    He seriously said this? This is not good.
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    #11  Edited By m0rdr3d
    @DEMONOLOGY_24 said:


                        @Beforet said:


    Can we wait a few weeks before making jokes?

    my thoughts exactly

                       

                   

    Did someone make a joke?  I missed it.  I thought this was a thread about a lunatic playing a video game and an uncanny resemblance to a character in said game.  No need to be sensitivity police here, boys.
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    #12  Edited By GalacticPunt

    @Black_Rose: @TheDudeOfGaming said:

    So...can someone explain to me what a medieval fantasy game, set in a fictional medieval fantasy universe, with magic and wands and s**** has to do with bombings and shootings of a raving lunatic?

    The last 20 minutes of Dragon Age II have A LOT to do with one mad bomber trying to start a revolution, I'll put it that way. If you read through the attached article, the ending of the game will be spoiled in detail, and the parallels will be more apparent.

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    #13  Edited By JB16
    @m0rdr3d said:

    @DEMONOLOGY_24 said:



                       

    @Beforet

    said:


    Can we wait a few weeks before making jokes?

    my thoughts exactly

                       

                   
    Did someone make a joke?  I missed it.  I thought this was a thread about a lunatic playing a video game and an uncanny resemblance to a character in said game.  No need to be sensitivity police here, boys.
     DA2 ending spoiled.
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    #14  Edited By m0rdr3d
    @JB16 said:


                        @m0rdr3d said:

    @DEMONOLOGY_24 said:


                        @Beforet said:


    Can we wait a few weeks before making jokes?

    my thoughts exactly

                       

                   
    Did someone make a joke?  I missed it.  I thought this was a thread about a lunatic playing a video game and an uncanny resemblance to a character in said game.  No need to be sensitivity police here, boys.

                       

                   
    At the end of DA2 Anders bombed a Templar church and killed hundreds including the head of the Templars. Sparking a war between the Templars and the Mages.

                       

                   

    Yeah, and how is that a joke?  People in the media are considering this seriously.  I didn't take it as the OP painting it in poor taste.
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    #15  Edited By VIGGO123

    @JB16 said:

    @m0rdr3d said:

    @DEMONOLOGY_24 said:

    @Beforet

    said:

    Can we wait a few weeks before making jokes?

    my thoughts exactly
    Did someone make a joke? I missed it. I thought this was a thread about a lunatic playing a video game and an uncanny resemblance to a character in said game. No need to be sensitivity police here, boys.
    DA2 ending spoiled.
    At the end of DA2 Anders bombed a Templar church and killed hundreds including the head of the Templars. Sparking a war between the Templars and the Mages.

    Do NOT fucking joke about this! I lost a dear friend in that attack, show some fucking respect!

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    #16  Edited By jacdg

    @JB16 said:

    @m0rdr3d said:

    @DEMONOLOGY_24 said:

    @Beforet

    said:

    Can we wait a few weeks before making jokes?

    my thoughts exactly
    Did someone make a joke? I missed it. I thought this was a thread about a lunatic playing a video game and an uncanny resemblance to a character in said game. No need to be sensitivity police here, boys.
    DA2 ending spoiled.
    At the end of DA2 Anders bombed a Templar church and killed hundreds including the head of the Templars. Sparking a war between the Templars and the Mages.

    Well. that is a pretty fucking ridiculous coincidence.

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    #17  Edited By Jeffsekai

    I don't get it.

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    #18  Edited By rmanthorp  Moderator

    I REALLY hope this thread get's locked. 
     
    REALLY.

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    #19  Edited By FlyingRat

    People lost their friends and family in those attacks, man. Be a little more respectful.

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    #20  Edited By SSValis

    I think video games have become far too popular for this to be a huge uproar. I don't think we will see anything like the Hot Coffee debacle for some time, unless you're killing babies or something.

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    #21  Edited By JB16
    @VIGGO123 said:

    @JB16 said:

    @m0rdr3d said:

    @DEMONOLOGY_24 said:

    @Beforet

    said:

    Can we wait a few weeks before making jokes?

    my thoughts exactly
    Did someone make a joke? I missed it. I thought this was a thread about a lunatic playing a video game and an uncanny resemblance to a character in said game. No need to be sensitivity police here, boys.
    DA2 ending spoiled.

    Do NOT fucking joke about this! I lost a dear friend in that attack, show some fucking respect!

    Uhh how did I joke about this? All I did was answer his question so he could see the similarity that the news article the OP linked was trying to show.
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    #22  Edited By iamjohn

    @VIGGO123 said:

    @JB16 said:

    @m0rdr3d said:

    @DEMONOLOGY_24 said:

    @Beforet

    said:

    Can we wait a few weeks before making jokes?

    my thoughts exactly
    Did someone make a joke? I missed it. I thought this was a thread about a lunatic playing a video game and an uncanny resemblance to a character in said game. No need to be sensitivity police here, boys.
    DA2 ending spoiled.
    At the end of DA2 Anders bombed a Templar church and killed hundreds including the head of the Templars. Sparking a war between the Templars and the Mages.

    Do NOT fucking joke about this! I lost a dear friend in that attack, show some fucking respect!

    No one is joking about it, stop overreacting.

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    #23  Edited By Blommer4

    People died, youth mostly. All you guys can think about is how it will effect your hobby? Disgusting...

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    #25  Edited By VIGGO123

    @JB16: I did not realize that actually happened in DA2, I though you made a joke, and for that I am sorry. I am pretty shaken up over the loss of my friend and really frustrated, but I apologize for overreacting.

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    #26  Edited By m0rdr3d
    @Blommer4 said:


                        People died, youth mostly. All you guys can think about is how it will effect your hobby? Disgusting...

                       

                   

    People are having a legitimate discussion about a crazy set of circumstances.  If you're too grieved or are simply unable to handle more than one view then don't go to such forums.  However, if you're using this issue to judge people from a high horse, that is what's truly disgusting.
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    #27  Edited By Jadeskye

    @Mr_Skeleton said:

    @Beforet said:

    Can we wait a few weeks before making jokes?

    Must... resist...

    Seriously though this is fucked up. A person needs to be mentally unstable from the beginning to think that killing people in an act of terror can solve problems.

    Oh man, i don't wanna get topical on you but you should really pick up a history book.

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    #28  Edited By iamjohn

    @Blommer4 said:

    People died, youth mostly. All you guys can think about is how it will effect your hobby? Disgusting...

    Perhaps you should take issue with the mainstream media that is trying to look at his terrible actions and place blame for it on the feet of video games or other entertainment media instead of us for (pretty seriously) discussing a news story. Oh wait, then you couldn't be a holier-than-thou prick. That sure would be unfortunate!

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    #29  Edited By Enigma777

    Wow, what an amateurish article. Not only did I see 3 different spelling errors in the text, but the guy didn't even do his research right. Case in point:

    "Mages" are controlled by a religious group called the "The Chant of Light,"

    How is this guy not fired?!

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    #30  Edited By NickL

    @iAmJohn said:

    @Blommer4 said:

    People died, youth mostly. All you guys can think about is how it will effect your hobby? Disgusting...

    Perhaps you should take issue with the mainstream media that is trying to look at his terrible actions and place blame for it on the feet of video games or other entertainment media instead of us for (pretty seriously) discussing a news story. Oh wait, then you couldn't be a holier-than-thou prick. That sure would be unfortunate!

    Could not have said it better myself.

    Media needs to stop pointing fingers at different things and giving the guy a scapegoat of sorts. The ONLY thing that should be blamed for this is the demented individual how did it, not some video game he played in his past.

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    #31  Edited By Enigma777

    @NickL said:

    @iAmJohn said:

    @Blommer4 said:

    People died, youth mostly. All you guys can think about is how it will effect your hobby? Disgusting...

    Perhaps you should take issue with the mainstream media that is trying to look at his terrible actions and place blame for it on the feet of video games or other entertainment media instead of us for (pretty seriously) discussing a news story. Oh wait, then you couldn't be a holier-than-thou prick. That sure would be unfortunate!

    Could not have said it better myself.

    Media needs to stop pointing fingers at different things and giving the guy a scapegoat of sorts. The ONLY thing that should be blamed for this is the demented individual how did it, not some video game he played in his past.

    You're right. I for one blame Hot Pockets. The guy was clearly a fan of them and he must have burned his mouth so much one day that he went on a rampage. Damn Hot Pockets!!!

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    #32  Edited By John1912

    wow, that is kinda crazy how much that actually looks like him.  Im sure Jack Thompson sees this as some sort of proof.  Its always lovely to see the depths of self denial ppl will sink to for an excuse.  I do expect some media talk about his MW2 comments, as training, as he called it I think.  Sure somewhere along the line Fox News will bring it up.  

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    #33  Edited By Catolf

    Man.. he does look a lot like anders..
     
    I am sorry for the loss of lives in Norway and I hope everyone can take this seriously. I just hope that the games he spoke off won't get the blame for why he took the actions he did. We need to focus on punishing him and not the games he played as some 'influence' 
    Sound slike he wasn't wraped too tight from the start..

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    #34  Edited By valrog

    This bears little resemblance with Dragon Age II other than that the involving parties have to do something with religion and templars.
     
    From what I've seen in our and foreign media, no one even said a word about video games. I don't know why you have to be so egoistic about it.

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    #35  Edited By niamahai

    i'm not believing anything till FOX news have their say.

    Nobody, and I mean NOBODY can beat FOX's authenticity in video game bashing.

    All these other sites are fucking posers.

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    #36  Edited By DeeGee

    @Blommer4 said:

    People died, youth mostly. All you guys can think about is how it will effect your hobby? Disgusting...

    If you don't have the mental capacity to think about two things at once, you probably shouldn't be riding that high horse of yours.

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    #37  Edited By Buscemi

    Joking or not joking won't bring anyone back, so why not joke? A little happiness is better than no happiness.

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    #39  Edited By Simplexity

    The bastard was by all accounts a "normal" modern human being, he listened to music (he specifically enjoyed trance guess we should ban that aswell), he watched tv and he played video games, none of those things remotely helped him commit the atrocities he committed no matter what his insane manifesto said.

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    #40  Edited By jdwfd

    There's a trend that's been around recently, called "Synchromysticism". The study of serendipitous events and whether or not such things are a sort of "language of the universe", or "Language of G-d". Been around since at least 2005, probably more likely since Pythagoras and long before even him.

    Few things:

    1) I am VERY VERY sorry to hear that anyone in our reality suffered at the hands of a fellow who'd snapped. This is MOST CERTAINLY NOT to minimize, nor make light or anyone's pain over the issue.

    2) In the light of Synchromystical events, it is exactly the sort of thin the media puts shame on people for believing in. This "Anders" connection *is* strangely uncanny, but only to anyone who has ever picked up a game of Dragon Age Awakenings (curiously named, no?) and beyond. Anyone else find it interesting that the often-referred-to-as "Luciferian eye" is a Bioware "Logo"? (Sybol of Logic?) I am not convinced of what it means but I can safely say that in this day and age, where ever one sees "The EYE" or a lone single solitary eye resting atop some structure, (Even in a Tolkein Novel), one tends to see controversy. Wherever there tends to be controversy, there tends to be a huge struggle between camps of thought trying to sort truth from lies. Good from Evil, Light from Dark.

    3) I am convinced that dragon age IS, in fact, a "Haunted" game. Haunted in the sense that there are so many reverberations and human parallels of strange events as to make it literally a composite of opposing thoughts; a masterpieces of literature that will probably be remembered for generations, or, for at least as long as people maintain an interest in electronic media. Not haunted as in possessed by spirits/daimons/fade entities or what have you, but definitely haunted by some of histories more haunting themes. THen again, for all its odd mentions of fade spirits, perhaps Bohm's Plasmatronic life forms have taken notice of it, and lent their own stinit on things. Just remember that Muslims and Hebes (Qunari and Elves, in this eye?) tend to look at the spirit world as fraught with any number of "good" spirits, as well as bad ones, when dealing with them, and that all the Abrahamic religions tend to look at dealings with the Djinn/Daimons/Fae what have you as frowned upon by G-d. Can't speak for G-d in that regard, myself, but definitely some food for thought.

    4) There is every chance I am clinically and legally insane, although I'm quite at peace with this notion, since I have no seething desire to do harm unto another, nor can I even begin to imagine myself picking up a gun and bleeding a single human being, let along a mass of them. The world, the galaxy, the universe, the multiverses, the OMNIVERSE, is all so much larger that us, and yet, at the same time, so painstakingly linked with us that we often miss an obvious point in doling out blame: "WE ALL SHARE THE LIFE EXPERIENCE!!!"

    5) The guy in the Dwarven Tapster's Tavern keeps coming to my mind, the screaming lunatic who "Won't die chasing a lie" as well as Gaxxkang. I do not believe this is coincidental so much as serendipitous. The question becomes: Important to whom?

    6) That someone other than myself had noticed the uncanny similarities in the picture as well as the theme lends credence to the notion {for me, at least} that there is absolutely no such thing as an original thought.

    I've rambled enough about this, and probably offended more than a few sensibilities. Anyone choosing to take offense to what I have said has opted either not to read the whole thing, or else is just given to a penchant for being upset. I take no responsibility for anyone's over reaction to my musings.

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