It’s hardly unusual for the Mario series to milk to death an idea or character’s predicament. Paper Mario – The Wizards of “M” Image by Flickr user Erik Mallinson ( CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Did you catch that they were first created as food substitutes? I’m sure they tasted awful, besides being, y’know…deadly. Cake favors heavily into the first game, and in the second one we have lemons and potatoes, as well as those propulsion and repulsion gels. Or, there was but…? Well, you know how it ends.īy extension, food becomes something of a running gag generally in the Portal series. But as we all know now, there really wasn’t any cake. Cake is the ultimate “prize” in the original Portal, and its many mentions by GLaDOS throughout the game only seem to enforce that notion. It’s hard to argue with the classics, right? Portal’s “the cake is a lie” meme has become a classic in its own right. Portal – All the cake and none of the cake Image (also used for lede) by Flickr user duncan c ( CC BY-NC 2.0) A skewered Qunari near it provides a definite clue as to the journal’s probable author. However, in the Trespasser DLC, players can stumble across a mysterious and unattributed journal. When queried as to what happened, Sandal’s only utterance is “enchantment!” And the party remains both confused and delighted.Īnd what of Sandal in Dragon Age: Inquisition? Unfortunately, he and Bodahn are only mentioned in passing.
There, in the midst of bloodshed (near the end of Dragon Age: Origins) or certain doom by the hand of a formidable Darkspawn Ogre ( Dragon Age II), Sandal remains unharmed and with his wits about him. While the scenarios are never fully explained, he appears twice in the games surrounded by death and/or chaos that he’s somehow magically defeated. In fact, you know you’re on to something with Sandal every time he says “enchantment!” But there’s more to Sandal’s simple ways than meet they eye. Bodahn and Sandal join the team, and while Bodahn has a knack for finding the best good, Sandal, who speaks little save for a few words, is a whiz at enchanting weapons and armor. "This isn't fun.It’s in Dragon Age: Origins when we first meet Sandal and his foster father/traveling merchant, Bodahn. "Every game has become about either protecting Bastion or killing him," one Reddit user wrote. In fact, he's so tough now that lots of players are saying Bastion has become a staple of the new competitive season. This buff made a huge impact on his survivability.
Now, whether you think it's reasonable Bastion should be able to survive one of the most devastating ultimate abilities in the game is up for debate, but one thing's for sure: The pre-buff Bastion would have crumbled into a pile of nuts and bolts with just one or two hits. Three, it looks as though Lúcio activates his amp it up ability, healing the Bastion even more. Two, Bastion activates his newly revamped self-healing ability while Genji is frantically slashing him. The reasons Bastion seems to survive in this instance are threefold: One, Bastion has a new passive ability that reduces the damage he takes in sentry form by a whopping 35%. Overwatch Update: Buffed Bastion is a powerhouseįor example, here's a clip that was shared on /r/Overwatch by Berzuh in which you can see a Genji use his ultimate, focusing exclusively on a Bastion in sentry mode. Several clips of this newly buffed Bastion are surfacing online, and it's enough to make any Overwatch player tremble in fear. The Overwatch community has a tendency to cry wolf when Blizzard tweaks any of its heroes (remember the outcry around D.Va and Roadhog?) - but this time around, it really does seem like there might be a problem. And the online consensus is that maybe Blizzard took things a little too far. The latest big Overwatch patch ( version 2.05, quickly followed by 2.06 for PS4) made Bastion - a hero who's always been thought of as a " troll pick" - an absolute powerhouse. However, in his post, Kaplan was quick to caution the community against hyperbolic reactions to new buffs or nerfs. Changes that should scale back his power will be on the public test realm later today. Update: Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan responded to the Bastion outcry on the forums, confirming that Bastion is too overpowered right now.