I'd probably recommend playing Defiance before Blood Omen 2. I've been kind of wishy-washy about that in the past, but the more I think about it, the more I think you'd be better off with Defiance played first. Defiance follows more directly from SR2, if I recall correctly. (And, if nothing else, it's simply a better game than BO2.)
This is coming from someone who played BO2 before Defiance. But it's one thing to play the games several months or years apart and another to play them relatively back to back.
My reasons why (spoilers for BO2 and Defiance below in gray text on gray background, block-select to see them):
If nothing else it could possibly explain why shows up in BO2 as , given that . As for why shows up in the game at all, however, given that ... I have no idea, and it is not explained in the slightest, even in the context of all the time screwiness in SR2.
Seriously, spoilers for both BO2 and Defiance up there, and it will probably be meaningless to you if you don't want to see spoilers for the games before playing them.
Suffice it to say, whichever order you play them in, just keep in mind that a small bit, but by no means all, of the WTFness seen in BO2 might, might, be partially explained by Defiance, if you tilt your head to the side and squint really hard at it.
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Date: 2010-02-23 10:05 pm (UTC)This is coming from someone who played BO2 before Defiance. But it's one thing to play the games several months or years apart and another to play them relatively back to back.
My reasons why (spoilers for BO2 and Defiance below in gray text on gray background, block-select to see them):
If nothing else it could possibly explain why shows up in BO2 as , given that . As for why shows up in the game at all, however, given that ... I have no idea, and it is not explained in the slightest, even in the context of all the time screwiness in SR2.
Seriously, spoilers for both BO2 and Defiance up there, and it will probably be meaningless to you if you don't want to see spoilers for the games before playing them.
Suffice it to say, whichever order you play them in, just keep in mind that a small bit, but by no means all, of the WTFness seen in BO2 might, might, be partially explained by Defiance, if you tilt your head to the side and squint really hard at it.