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Post by g_scoundrel on Apr 26, 2024 8:54:33 GMT
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Post by Sartoz on Apr 26, 2024 11:17:42 GMT
In a sense, it feel surreal. Are we really going to finally see the day?
LOL, If you are referring to EA's Financials coming up, all I see is the publisher announcing a number of games in development and possibly launching in the "current" fiscal year. I don't see firm dates.... more like "in the Fall" or "by the end of this fiscal year". It's quite possible that EA will simply confirm ( regarding DA4 ) that No-New-Bio will announce a "Summer Reveal". That is the safest thing to say.
So, I'm still yawning. No offense to anyone who is shivering in anticipation.
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Post by g_scoundrel on Apr 26, 2024 12:20:44 GMT
Sartoz: why so sceptical all the time? I swear I haven't seen a positive comment from you in a long time. Ac-cent-uate the positive, you know.
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Post by gervaise21 on Apr 26, 2024 12:27:26 GMT
1,100 pages! Wasn't someone speculating not so long ago about how long it would take to reach here?
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Post by Felya87 on Apr 26, 2024 13:05:36 GMT
1,100 pages! Wasn't someone speculating not so long ago about how long it would take to reach here? Yup. There is to wonder how many pages will be once the announcement is here... And how much the tread will grow right after!
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Post by Sandetiger on Apr 26, 2024 13:06:13 GMT
1,100 pages! Wasn't someone speculating not so long ago about how long it would take to reach here? I made a very tongue-in-cheek comment about reaching 2,000 pages 1,100 was more realistic EDIT: Countdown to the EA FY25 Annual Earnings Call: 11 days ; 1 week 4 days ; 7 business days
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Post by Sandetiger on Apr 26, 2024 15:03:26 GMT
This reminds me, I forgot to mention earlier but I took a casual look at the hirings listings for BioWare on the EA website, and there was just one: "Technical Animator - Create"
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"EA Create is looking for a Technical Animator to join our team in assisting BioWare on Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. EA Create is known to partner with AAA studios such as BioWare, Respawn, and Maxis, and assist on the critically acclaimed Madden and FIFA franchises. This is your opportunity to be part of a collaborative group with team members all over the world and have your work shown to millions of viewers, players, peers, and industry professionals.
You would report to a director within the Animation team and create high-quality performances in all aspects of your work. You know how to reveal attitude, emotions, and mood through a character's movement and behavior, and create memorable atmospheres which will appeal to players. It's essential to have knowledge of the timing and appearance of human and animal movement. In the end, the look of a game is one of the most significant factors contributing to the success of the game."
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"This is a temporary position.
Role Expectations:
- Populate game levels with existing animations.
- Review animations for quality before implementation.
- Troubleshoot technical issues within the game engine.
- Learn and work with proprietary animation run-time integration tools.
- Be an active participant within the team.
- Prompt attendance at all meetings and reviews.
- Organize your work and notes to be easily understood by team members.
- Collaborate with directors, animators, production and technical staff."
Just followed up on this on a whim and the listing is no longer up, so it looks like they filled this role pretty quickly.
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Post by Sartoz on Apr 26, 2024 15:53:33 GMT
True, I'm not a fountain of enthusiasm for No-News-Bio. I blame it on Mike Laidlaw. If you can find the posts I made soon after the launch of DAI , you'll know my reasons.
Basically I felt betrayed by Mike Laidlaw's famous (to me) phrase "... a PC game made by PC gamers for PC gamers". I was so enthusiastic about DAO + DA2 (having just played DA2 again) I pre-ordered the game. Then, DAI came along and total disappointment.
It seems, in some areas, I hold grudges. Anyway, I'm of the opinion my writing is neutral.... keeping a foot in reality rather than being swept into la-la land like marketing wants me to be. Plus, I also remember Mike's statement that Bio decisions are made if its good for Bio (ie: elimination of 50 staff positions... and DAI reflects this). Probably subjective on my part but hey.. it it what it is.
This neutrality served me well when Anthem came along... never bought it. Bought Andromeda 'cause I wanted another ME so bad.... was hardly impressed by its quality. Anyway, now I'm buyer beware.... my posts reflect this I guess.
EDIT: Ooops, replied to the wrong post...
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Post by Sartoz on Apr 26, 2024 15:56:01 GMT
Sartoz : why so sceptical all the time? I swear I haven't seen a positive comment from you in a long time. Ac-cent-uate the positive, you know.
Replied to you in the post where you said "PATION"
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Post by Sartoz on Apr 26, 2024 15:58:17 GMT
True, I'm not a fountain of enthusiasm for No-News-Bio. I blame it on Mike Laidlaw. If you can find the posts I made soon after the launch of DAI , you'll know my reasons.
Basically I felt betrayed by Mike Laidlaw's famous (to me) phrase "... a PC game made by PC gamers for PC gamers". I was so enthusiastic about DAO + DA2 (having just played DA2 again) I pre-ordered the game. Then, DAI came along and total disappointment.
It seems, in some areas, I hold grudges. Anyway, I'm of the opinion my writing is neutral.... keeping a foot in reality rather than being swept into la-la land like marketing wants me to be. Plus, I also remember Mike's statement that Bio decisions are made if its good for Bio (ie: elimination of 50 staff positions... and DAI game decisions reflects this). Probably subjective on my part but hey.. it it what it is.
This neutrality served me well when Anthem came along... never bought it. Bought Andromeda 'cause I wanted another ME so bad.... was hardly impressed by its quality. Anyway, now I'm buyer beware.... my posts reflect this I guess.
EDIT: Ooops, replied to the wrong post...
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Post by githcheater on Apr 26, 2024 20:13:23 GMT
True, I'm not a fountain of enthusiasm for No-News-Bio. I blame it on Mike Laidlaw. If you can find the posts I made soon after the launch of DAI , you'll know my reasons.
Basically I felt betrayed by Mike Laidlaw's famous (to me) phrase "... a PC game made by PC gamers for PC gamers". I was so enthusiastic about DAO + DA2 (having just played DA2 again) I pre-ordered the game. Then, DAI came along and total disappointment.
It seems, in some areas, I hold grudges. Anyway, I'm of the opinion my writing is neutral.... keeping a foot in reality rather than being swept into la-la land like marketing wants me to be. Plus, I also remember Mike's statement that Bio decisions are made if its good for Bio (ie: elimination of 50 staff positions... and DAI game decisions reflects this). Probably subjective on my part but hey.. it it what it is.
This neutrality served me well when Anthem came along... never bought it. Bought Andromeda 'cause I wanted another ME so bad.... was hardly impressed by its quality. Anyway, now I'm buyer beware.... my posts reflect this I guess.
EDIT: Ooops, replied to the wrong post...
Three posts in a row ...
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Post by Sartoz on Apr 27, 2024 14:20:30 GMT
Three posts in a row ... snip
A record?
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Post by githcheater on Apr 27, 2024 18:38:33 GMT
Three posts in a row ... snip
A record?
Actually a CD ... the song was from the late 80s, even though the guys that performed it are dinosaurs
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Post by g_scoundrel on Apr 27, 2024 19:19:36 GMT
Actually a CD ... the song was from the late 80s, even though the guys that performed it are dinosaurs You dare call a Beatle, Bob freaking Dylan, Roy freaking Orbison, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne dinosaurs? ...that said, maybe I am I dinosaur.
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Post by githcheater on Apr 27, 2024 20:08:21 GMT
Actually a CD ... the song was from the late 80s, even though the guys that performed it are dinosaurs You dare call a Beatle, Bob freaking Dylan, Roy freaking Orbison, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne dinosaurs? ...that said, maybe I am I dinosaur. I doubt anyone on this site is a dinosaur given that Tom Petty is the youngest born in 1950.
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Post by gervaise21 on Apr 28, 2024 16:42:34 GMT
Well, in Tresspasser (Gervaise correct me where I go wrong), our Quizzy had the option to romance Baldy, kill him, retire... and maybe something else. There are various options. If you romanced him in DAI, he seems to confirm he breakup saying that he will never forget you. Then you can either say you will never give up on him or you can come to your senses and take one of the other options. If you were friendly with him, you get his prolonged monologue about how terrible he feels about his past acts but how he doesn't intend stopping now. Then you can either say you will prove him wrong (redeem him) - how exactly is beyond me because what exactly are you going to prove? Presumably that he doesn't need to destroy the world but how does that redeem him? Well, I suppose he could finally admit he doesn't know everything and agree to abort his plan. Then in the final scene you say that we are going to save our friend from himself. Alternatively, you can just vow to stop him, in which case in the final scene you say you will do this no matter what it takes, so presumably kill him if you have to. That, of course, would also put a stop to his plan, unless it can't be stopped with him dead. Anyway, that option is also open to those who were never friends with him or hated his guts. The latter group don't even have to listen to his endless monologue. He basically says he foiled the Qun's plans because they "offend him" (fully mask off god there) and now he is going to destroy the world and he is only sparing the Quizzy because their death will cause needless chaos (which will also likely interfere with his plans), so enjoy what time you have left. Bye!
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Post by QuizzyBunny on Apr 28, 2024 16:59:56 GMT
I always get so thrown these days when people talk about Quizzy, as you know... that's me lol.
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Post by celestielf on Apr 28, 2024 19:15:35 GMT
Well, in Tresspasser (Gervaise correct me where I go wrong), our Quizzy had the option to romance Baldy, kill him, retire... and maybe something else. There are various options. If you romanced him in DAI, he seems to confirm he breakup saying that he will never forget you. Then you can either say you will never give up on him or you can come to your senses and take one of the other options. If you were friendly with him, you get his prolonged monologue about how terrible he feels about his past acts but how he doesn't intend stopping now. Then you can either say you will prove him wrong (redeem him) - how exactly is beyond me because what exactly are you going to prove? Presumably that he doesn't need to destroy the world but how does that redeem him? Well, I suppose he could finally admit he doesn't know everything and agree to abort his plan. Then in the final scene you say that we are going to save our friend from himself. Alternatively, you can just vow to stop him, in which case in the final scene you say you will do this no matter what it takes, so presumably kill him if you have to. That, of course, would also put a stop to his plan, unless it can't be stopped with him dead. Anyway, that option is also open to those who were never friends with him or hated his guts. The latter group don't even have to listen to his endless monologue. He basically says he foiled the Qun's plans because they "offend him" (fully mask off god there) and now he is going to destroy the world and he is only sparing the Quizzy because their death will cause needless chaos (which will also likely interfere with his plans), so enjoy what time you have left. Bye! I know you're approaching this from the view of someone who doesn't like Solas (judging from your phrasing), but I don't think the redeem vs kill choices are going to be meaningless. Re: "proving him wrong," I interpret that as finding another way to save the world from the Blight and/or the Evanuris other than ripping off the Veil like the bandaid it is. Of course, it will be difficult because (1) the Inquisition doesn't have Solas' lore knowledge, which he won't share other than hints through stuff like how alarmed he is that the Archdemons are being killed and (2) Solas thinks he knows everything (even though he obviously doesn't). But the Inquisition actually finding a way to break his determination (which a romanced Lavellan almost did already just by being herself when she knew nothing about his plans, per word of god) and/or mitigate the damage to the world would be a very interesting story to see. I think some big change in the Veil is going to happen either way, it just may be a question of whether Solas is ultimately the one to do it. As for redemption, I'd see Solas not going through with it as the start of a potential redemption arc, in the vein of sparing Loghain.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Apr 28, 2024 20:49:48 GMT
There are various options. If you romanced him in DAI, he seems to confirm he breakup saying that he will never forget you. Then you can either say you will never give up on him or you can come to your senses and take one of the other options. If you were friendly with him, you get his prolonged monologue about how terrible he feels about his past acts but how he doesn't intend stopping now. Then you can either say you will prove him wrong (redeem him) - how exactly is beyond me because what exactly are you going to prove? Presumably that he doesn't need to destroy the world but how does that redeem him? Well, I suppose he could finally admit he doesn't know everything and agree to abort his plan. Then in the final scene you say that we are going to save our friend from himself. Alternatively, you can just vow to stop him, in which case in the final scene you say you will do this no matter what it takes, so presumably kill him if you have to. That, of course, would also put a stop to his plan, unless it can't be stopped with him dead. Anyway, that option is also open to those who were never friends with him or hated his guts. The latter group don't even have to listen to his endless monologue. He basically says he foiled the Qun's plans because they "offend him" (fully mask off god there) and now he is going to destroy the world and he is only sparing the Quizzy because their death will cause needless chaos (which will also likely interfere with his plans), so enjoy what time you have left. Bye! I know you're approaching this from the view of someone who doesn't like Solas (judging from your phrasing), but I don't think the redeem vs kill choices are going to be meaningless. Re: "proving him wrong," I interpret that as finding another way to save the world from the Blight and/or the Evanuris other than ripping off the Veil like the bandaid it is. Of course, it will be difficult because (1) the Inquisition doesn't have Solas' lore knowledge, which he won't share other than hints through stuff like how alarmed he is that the Archdemons are being killed and (2) Solas thinks he knows everything (even though he obviously doesn't). But the Inquisition actually finding a way to break his determination (which a romanced Lavellan almost did already just by being herself when she knew nothing about his plans, per word of god) and/or mitigate the damage to the world would be a very interesting story to see. I think some big change in the Veil is going to happen either way, it just may be a question of whether Solas is ultimately the one to do it. As for redemption, I'd see Solas not going through with it as the start of a potential redemption arc, in the vein of sparing Loghain. You’re making a lot of assumptions about why Silas is doing this, trying to paint him as being more noble. What we do know is he wants to revert the world back to the world of the ancient elves when the physical realm and the Fade were one. And we know this act will result in the genocide of all the modern races. He states this. Can’t really redeem yourself from attempting to commit genocide.
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Post by Andraste_Reborn on Apr 28, 2024 23:15:44 GMT
I always get so thrown these days when people talk about Quizzy, as you know... that's me lol. Hey, imagine how I feel! (For anyone who doesn't know: I've been going by Andraste on the internet since the year 2000. Imagine my surprise when I booted up DAO for the first time and walked into the Cousland family chapel ...)
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Post by colfoley on Apr 28, 2024 23:46:11 GMT
I always get so thrown these days when people talk about Quizzy, as you know... that's me lol. Hey, imagine how I feel! (For anyone who doesn't know: I've been going by Andraste on the internet since the year 2000. Imagine my surprise when I booted up DAO for the first time and walked into the Cousland family chapel ...) I have another online friend like that. That's how I found out Andraste wasn't a Bioware original but celtic.
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Post by Absafraginlootly on Apr 29, 2024 1:41:27 GMT
Hey, imagine how I feel! (For anyone who doesn't know: I've been going by Andraste on the internet since the year 2000. Imagine my surprise when I booted up DAO for the first time and walked into the Cousland family chapel ...) I have another online friend like that. That's how I found out Andraste wasn't a Bioware original but celtic. It's always funny for me when I get to this point in the main quest on a new Lord of the Rings Online character:
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Post by Hrungr on Apr 29, 2024 4:17:56 GMT
DarkGoddessEris @darkgoddesseris.bsky.social @trickweekes.bsky.social (Trespasser spoilers) 2 questions
1. Is Solas' ability to turn people to stone a power he inherited from Mythal or is this something he would've been able to do at his full strength anyways?
2. Did Mythal willingly get absorbed or did Solas absorb her essence by force?
Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social Sorry, these are things that may get too close to things we explain in future games.
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Post by gervaise21 on Apr 29, 2024 7:10:13 GMT
I know you're approaching this from the view of someone who doesn't like Solas (judging from your phrasing), but I don't think the redeem vs kill choices are going to be meaningless. Re: "proving him wrong," I interpret that as finding another way to save the world from the Blight and/or the Evanuris other than ripping off the Veil like the bandaid it is Strange, I thought that is the conclusion I came to as well. Actually I romanced Solas first run and then latterly always ended up with him as a friend in the main game because in conversations with fellow companions he was often stating views that I held but was unable to express as the PC. I only know about the hate Solas options and outcomes in Trespasser through watching You Tube. That said, I have two basic Inquisitors to carry forward and am still unsure which will be the canon one I use first. One is my female mage Lavellan who romanced Solas, was devastated by his abandonment without proper explanation at the end of DAI and then left reeling by his revelations in Trespasser. Nevertheless, she vowed not to give up on him. Personally, I probably would have given up on him in her place but playing her that way does make her a complete contrast to my other Inquisitor. He is my male hunter Lavellan, who saw Solas as a wise mentor and good friend. Naturally, he wasn't as bothered about Solas disappearing at the end of DAI because their work was done in ending the threat of Corypheus and he appreciated that as a mage Solas might be a bit wary about what the future might hold for them. However, he was really conflicted by the revelations in Trespasser and, reflecting my own attitude on the matter, keeps switching between wanting to save his friend and feeling absolute betrayal by him. Bottom line is, he was always the protector of his clan and now he is determined to protect his world. This is where the binary choice they presented us with at the end of Trespasser had me annoyed. If in the course of saving the world I could also save Solas, fair enough, but saving the world always would always take precedence. Yet, that is not how it was framed. It was clearly presented as "Redeem" or "Stop at all costs (kill)". That had me puzzled immediately as I couldn't understand how I could possibly 'redeem' Solas unless he wanted to be redeemed. Clicking on that option, the dialogue given didn't make sense. "I will prove you wrong". What has that got to do with redeeming? What was I going to prove him wrong about? As you say, the only sensible answer was that his plan wasn't the only way to save the world. However, that begs the question, what are we saving it from? Solas claimed his original action was intended to save the world from the Evanuris who would have destroyed it. Then his actions effectively destroyed the world of the elves anyway and in order to put things right again, it will entail releasing the Evanuris (although he claims he has a plan for dealing with them). Based off the knowledge of the Inquisitor in game, as presented through their dialogue, there was no suggestion that what he was saving it from was the Blight. That is something that we have subsequently assumed must be the case. Then it makes sense that if we can find an alternative way of cleansing the world of the Blight, we will have proven him wrong and if he accepts our findings and abandons his scheme, we will have effectively redeemed him. However, I repeat that is something you can read into the choice based off your knowledge as a player, not role playing your Inquisitor as presented in game. Finally, at the end of Trespasser the Inquisitor can once again either declare they will stop Solas at all costs or save their friend from himself. So we are once again back to that dialogue choice and "redeeming" Solas being more important than saving the world and all the people, creatures and other aspects of the natural world which will be destroyed if he is successful. For me saving the world will always take precedence. If I can spare Solas' life, then I will but saving him is not my main aim as that dialogue would suggest.
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Post by Black Magic Ritual on Apr 29, 2024 12:40:59 GMT
Crazy how in less then two weeks we'll know if Dreadwolf is releasing this year or not
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