Well, those 8 hours were also spent earning a paycheck and cleaning the house
The volcanic dragon isn't the only one with 4 arms
And Tolkien didn't invent the idea, he just popularized it, and I'm not criticising him for that. Without Tolkien, Dom3 probably wouldn't be in the same form it currently is, if it existed at all. It's other authors and artists who have gone on to take the heart and soul out of dragons, for reasons of sentimental commercial popularity.
Dragons talking is fine, dragons taking tea is fine too, but dragons as toothless cartoons or melodramatic soap opera stars or even beasts of burden, doesn't sit right with me at all.
By the way, this thread in no way is intended-or should be taken-as a criticism of the Devs, Dom3, or even the way dragons themselves are portrayed in the game. There's about a million different areas of the game that took a great deal of attention to get right, and if Dom 3 had been all about dragons, I know we would have had some truly spectacular examples.
I'm just working on a very narrow focus here, which they didn't have the great luxury of taking, and I wouldn't be able to do that, if all the other elements in the game hadn't come together so well.
So thanks, as always, Kristoffer and Johan, for making this all possible.