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Post by Pounce de León on Nov 18, 2020 12:03:33 GMT
"In the grim darkness of the 24th century, there is only nerds perving out over Tali." Is that sufficiently optimistic? Tali? My God. There is no future for our species anymore. Indeed. No word about asari? I get the tentacle blues.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Nov 18, 2020 18:08:27 GMT
The MEA characters had actually story arcs and their own dreams/desires/goals and that is why they were better than the ME1 characters. They also were allowed to failed, Cora's belief that the asari had all the answer was wrong. Liam's trying to get things done by any means was wrong. Vetra not accepting her sister is adult is wrong. Drack thinking he's a relic is wrong, Pathfinder Ryder trying to live up to their father was wrong. and so on. They all learn from their mistakes and grow as characters by the end. They grow and change. Liara, Mordin, and Wrex are the only characters in the MET that have anything like that and it took them 3 games to grow. They also don't dwell on their daddy issues which is a huge plus from the MET.
Were they allowed to fail? Nothing done actually caused any failure.
Cora's entire story arc is finding the Asari Arc. Finds out her idol isn't perfect and made a questionable choice. Then be upset over her previous idolization of Sarissa as Ryder comforts her.
Liam tries to get really buddy buddy with the Angara and tries his own methods to bridge the gap. This eventually leads to a pirate group in an unarmed discarded Kett ship kidnapping some people because he gave away confidential information. Which would be a problem save for the fact scientists in shuttles show up and manage to alter the gravity in the Kett ship over and over again and everyone is rescued without a problem or even a potential death. Then Ryder just scolds him for doing that and nothing more.
Vetra doesn't accept her sister is capable of handling things. Right before Vetra is proven 100% correct as she crosses the wrong person. Gets her sister captured. Shows up to try and help and gets captured as well and almost killed because of her own actions. Proving Vetra is 100% correct about everything she feared happening to her sister.
Drack is the pretty standard grizzled old veteran thinks he is past his prime and a relic of bygone days with nothing left for him to do. You help him get his revenge on the guy who exploited the krogan and he realizes he still has a use. Drack like the others never actually failed. I do think his story wraps up better but only because of the post game scene were you find out Kesh had babies and he has a whole talk about how he will teach them what the krogan were and what they are now. Which is a nice wrap up to his whole "I can still help my people" bit.
They all have a story arc in the most technical sense but only Drack actually manages to complete one and actually have it mean anything. Cora a long time solder being upset that her idol isn't the person she thought she was is pretty teenage angst level stuff. Vetra is proven entirely correct that her sister would be killed if she followed her into her life style and so was 100% justified in keeping her at arm's length and not letting her get involved in her stuff. And Liam was the worst because his action had the potential for real consequences to other people. The entire mission plays that up heavily only for everything to work out just fine without any real negative consequences to anyone. All the good people are safe and all the bad pirates are shot dead or died when the kett ship exploded.
Failure would be if Vetra's sister died because of her constant attempts to keep her safe and keep her at arms length resulted in her pushing her way into Vetra's world and being killed because she didn't know what she was doing. With Vetra dealing with the grief her actions caused and the realization that if she wasn't so protective she never would have tried to jump in like that to prove she isn't a child and would still be alive.
Failure would be if Liam's actions got people captured, killed and converted by the Kett and resulted in several colonies being devastated because he acted without thinking. Having to come to terms with the death and blood that are now on his hands because he thought he knew "better" then everyone else.
Cora failed but only in the sense she never seemed to out grow the mentality of a middle schooler who legitimately thinks the actors are 100% like the people they portray in movies and TV shows. Granted I might be a little harsh on Cora but that is only because I am completely unable to even grasp the concept of idolizing someone that much that I would be upset when I find out they are a douche bag. That sort of effect for me is restricted entirely to intimidate family members and my wife and that is only because of deep layer of personal trust that would be destroyed.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Nov 18, 2020 18:27:43 GMT
Sounds lovely and Proper Warhammer 40k Now if only there was a mod that replaces the Alliance with the Imperium for Mass Effect.... I'd play the crap out of that. 😁 But I mean, you can't really have a Warhammer RPG man, there's no moral dilemmas. The answer to every situation is shooting the guy while screaming "THE EMPEROR PROTECTS!" and if you don't pick that option, you get killed by your Commissar who stands behind you the whole game, screaming "AS THE EMPEROR WILLS!" after every guy gets shot lol
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Post by therevanchist25 on Nov 18, 2020 18:33:04 GMT
Just reading the URL made me legit irate. This company is done. They are clearly way too far up their own ass to see daylight anymore....
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 18, 2020 19:13:58 GMT
Now if only there was a mod that replaces the Alliance with the Imperium for Mass Effect.... I'd play the crap out of that. 😁 But I mean, you can't really have a Warhammer RPG man, there's no moral dilemmas. The answer to every situation is shooting the guy while screaming "THE EMPEROR PROTECTS!" and if you don't pick that option, you get killed by your Commissar who stands behind you the whole game, screaming "AS THE EMPEROR WILLS!" after every guy gets shot lol Ohoh, you can be a puritan or a radical though. Do everything by the book or go "hmm, if it works for Chaos, it might work for me." And then there's Commissar Cain, of course. The characters that deviate from doctrine and stereotype in the Warhammer universe are always the most interesting one.
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Post by The Elder King on Nov 18, 2020 20:02:56 GMT
Just reading the URL made me legit irate. This company is done. They are clearly way too far up their own ass to see daylight anymore.... The mods already stopped us to continue this conversation on another thread, but in any case, there’s another version of it, since analyzing his words, and tweets that he still has up, you can make the case he wasn’t referring to the full criticism on the games but the harassments. The Legendary announcement thread has the discussion still up. Putting aside the tweets, and whatever opinion we may have of them, I don’t think they don’t listen to criticism. While Skyrim’s influence was clear in all RPGs after it, it was also clear that they wanted to make DAI’s map as big as they could to counter DA2’s being too small with a lot of reused maps. They did however went too far with that.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Nov 18, 2020 20:51:53 GMT
Just reading the URL made me legit irate. This company is done. They are clearly way too far up their own ass to see daylight anymore.... The mods already stopped us to continue this conversation on another thread, but in any case, there’s another version of it, since analyzing his words, and tweets that he still has up, you can make the case he wasn’t referring to the full criticism on the games but the harassments. The Legendary announcement thread has the discussion still up. Putting aside the tweets, and whatever opinion we may have of them, I don’t think they don’t listen to criticism. While Skyrim’s influence was clear in all RPGs after it, it was also clear that they wanted to make DAI’s map as big as they could to counter DA2’s being too small with a lot of reused maps. They did however went too far with that. Bioware has not known the meaning of the word moderation in a great many years. They hear complaints about something and stupendously over-correct to where it becomes a problem the OTHER way. As for the other thing, maybe, but I've seen too many instances of self righteousness to give them the benefit of the doubt anymore...
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Post by The Elder King on Nov 18, 2020 21:00:19 GMT
The mods already stopped us to continue this conversation on another thread, but in any case, there’s another version of it, since analyzing his words, and tweets that he still has up, you can make the case he wasn’t referring to the full criticism on the games but the harassments. The Legendary announcement thread has the discussion still up. Putting aside the tweets, and whatever opinion we may have of them, I don’t think they don’t listen to criticism. While Skyrim’s influence was clear in all RPGs after it, it was also clear that they wanted to make DAI’s map as big as they could to counter DA2’s being too small with a lot of reused maps. They did however went too far with that. Bioware has not known the meaning of the word moderation in a great many years. They hear complaints about something and stupendously over-correct to where it becomes a problem the OTHER way. As for the other thing, maybe, but I've seen too many instances of self righteousness to give them the benefit of the doubt anymore... It's fine if you don't, I just wanted to inform that there are two ways to interpret it, as he was vague in his original tweets. As for the over-correction, indeed. It's unfortunate, expecially in regards of DAI, where the open world maps being too big not only were criticized, but also cost them development time and resources that they could've spent in other areas of the game.
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Post by Son of Dorn on Nov 19, 2020 0:42:14 GMT
Now if only there was a mod that replaces the Alliance with the Imperium for Mass Effect.... I'd play the crap out of that. 😁 But I mean, you can't really have a Warhammer RPG man, there's no moral dilemmas. The answer to every situation is shooting the guy while screaming "THE EMPEROR PROTECTS!" and if you don't pick that option, you get killed by your Commissar who stands behind you the whole game, screaming "AS THE EMPEROR WILLS!" after every guy gets shot lol Hey, you could turn that into a musical! 🤣
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Post by therevanchist25 on Nov 19, 2020 7:49:50 GMT
But I mean, you can't really have a Warhammer RPG man, there's no moral dilemmas. The answer to every situation is shooting the guy while screaming "THE EMPEROR PROTECTS!" and if you don't pick that option, you get killed by your Commissar who stands behind you the whole game, screaming "AS THE EMPEROR WILLS!" after every guy gets shot lol Hey, you could turn that into a musical! 🤣 Did someone say musical??
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Post by gothpunkboy89 on Nov 19, 2020 16:22:38 GMT
Hey, you could turn that into a musical! 🤣 Did someone say musical??
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Post by Pounce de León on Nov 19, 2020 16:32:28 GMT
But I mean, you can't really have a Warhammer RPG man, there's no moral dilemmas. The answer to every situation is shooting the guy while screaming "THE EMPEROR PROTECTS!" and if you don't pick that option, you get killed by your Commissar who stands behind you the whole game, screaming "AS THE EMPEROR WILLS!" after every guy gets shot lol Ohoh, you can be a puritan or a radical though. Do everything by the book or go "hmm, if it works for Chaos, it might work for me." And then there's Commissar Cain, of course. The characters that deviate from doctrine and stereotype in the Warhammer universe are always the most interesting one. As long as I can ram with starships I'm good. Moral dilemmas are for Hive worlds. BTW, I do think we go to Hive World in Fatshark's new setting. Not much of an RPG but satisfying bolter gunnery is just fine by me.
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Post by Ascend on Nov 19, 2020 21:49:05 GMT
The mods already stopped us to continue this conversation on another thread, but in any case, there’s another version of it, since analyzing his words, and tweets that he still has up, you can make the case he wasn’t referring to the full criticism on the games but the harassments. The Legendary announcement thread has the discussion still up. I'm not sure they know the difference between criticism and harassment.
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Post by The Arbiter on Nov 20, 2020 12:29:34 GMT
So, are you arguing the MET's obsession with T&A (not exclusive to ME in any way, shape, or form, but hard to argue otherwise) is a good thing or a bad thing? At the time, I just thought it was standard practice in the industry.
Or that he doesn't see Miranda as a character but as a piece of meat or just T&A so that his fantasy character (which is all this is a male power fantasy) to have sex with her because he couldn't get anywhere near a woman like that without going to jail.
Isn't that the point of a video game? FANTASIZING WITHOUT THE FEAR OF punishment? you are taking things too seriously. BTW, I do have a woman IRL! as if women do not fantasize about masculine men as well lol. Now let's not talk about Japanese RPG... because women characters in those games are..... well.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Nov 20, 2020 15:06:36 GMT
Or that he doesn't see Miranda as a character but as a piece of meat or just T&A so that his fantasy character (which is all this is a male power fantasy) to have sex with her because he couldn't get anywhere near a woman like that without going to jail.
Isn't that the point of a video game? FANTASIZING WITHOUT THE FEAR OF punishment? you are taking things too seriously. BTW, I do have a woman IRL! as if women do not fantasize about masculine men as well lol. Now let's not talk about Japanese RPG... because women characters in those games are..... well. Indeed....
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Post by gothpunkboy89 on Nov 20, 2020 15:43:19 GMT
Or that he doesn't see Miranda as a character but as a piece of meat or just T&A so that his fantasy character (which is all this is a male power fantasy) to have sex with her because he couldn't get anywhere near a woman like that without going to jail.
Isn't that the point of a video game? FANTASIZING WITHOUT THE FEAR OF punishment? you are taking things too seriously. BTW, I do have a woman IRL! as if women do not fantasize about masculine men as well lol. Now let's not talk about Japanese RPG... because women characters in those games are..... well. Depends on the game. However they do play things equally as men are equally portrayed in the same way. Even their 14 year olds have the bodies of Olympic champions
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Post by ahglock on Nov 20, 2020 15:49:05 GMT
Isn't that the point of a video game? FANTASIZING WITHOUT THE FEAR OF punishment? you are taking things too seriously. BTW, I do have a woman IRL! as if women do not fantasize about masculine men as well lol. Now let's not talk about Japanese RPG... because women characters in those games are..... well. Indeed.... She disturbingly reminded me of a ex, and not a good ex.
Overall I prefer their design to where our design is going. In general their personalities come from a culture I am not familiar with, but again Aeriths personality quirks and mannerisms kept reminding me of that ex.. So they aren't all unrecognizable to me. And unrecognizable in the sense I don't see it often where I live not in that I don't see it and understand it in their media.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Nov 20, 2020 16:29:39 GMT
Indeed.... She disturbingly reminded me of a ex, and not a good ex.
Overall I prefer their design to where our design is going. In general their personalities come from a culture I am not familiar with, but again Aeriths personality quirks and mannerisms kept reminding me of that ex.. So they aren't all unrecognizable to me. And unrecognizable in the sense I don't see it often where I live not in that I don't see it and understand it in their media.
I know I hated Fenris's design, he looked more like an action figure than a person, and in general I guess that is how I feel about JRPG design. What the west is doing these days is I would argue more varied. More...ugh, Representative. (such a tainted word these days). You still get hot attractive characters, and ones that are...less so. It's more believable imo. Ofc, the crux of that is, "maybe I don't want believable, maybe I want full on escapist fantasy surrounded by impossibly gorgeous people". A valid desire to be sure, and one the Western developers likely are never going to sate again. I think that ship has long sailed. Impossibly gorgeous is pretty much the JRPG standard across the board. Which is a shame, in the sense that. I typically don't like playing JRPGs. I get bored fairly quickly.
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Post by ahglock on Nov 20, 2020 17:25:11 GMT
I know I hated Fenris's design, he looked more like an action figure than a person, and in general I guess that is how I feel about JRPG design. What the west is doing these days is I would argue more varied. More...ugh, Representative. (such a tainted word these days). You still get hot attractive characters, and ones that are...less so. It's more believable imo. Ofc, the crux of that is, "maybe I don't want believable, maybe I want full on escapist fantasy surrounded by impossibly gorgeous people". A valid desire to be sure, and one the Western developers likely are never going to sate again. I think that ship has long sailed. Impossibly gorgeous is pretty much the JRPG standard across the board. Which is a shame, in the sense that. I typically don't like playing JRPGs. I get bored fairly quickly. I like old school JRPGs and their turn based combat. And FF7 remake was fantastic. Sure, I'd of preferred full ATB, but how they integrated it was amazing. A great blend between action and turn based. If DA4s combat is half that fun their game may not be total ass, but given how terrible the game play was in both DA2 and DAI I am not expecting much. DA2 at least had a good story, and characters. DA1 the story was okay, the open world outside the hinterlands was engaging for a bit, the characters not so much, and the game play was boring as heck.
I don't need full escapist, but I'd say if you are planning romances in the game they probably should be and make sure they fit all the core personalities types. I'm not huge into that part of the games so its not a big loss but the last couple bioware games with them, I can't over emphasize how unappealing all the female options were to me.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Nov 20, 2020 17:44:59 GMT
I know I hated Fenris's design, he looked more like an action figure than a person, and in general I guess that is how I feel about JRPG design. What the west is doing these days is I would argue more varied. More...ugh, Representative. (such a tainted word these days). You still get hot attractive characters, and ones that are...less so. It's more believable imo. Ofc, the crux of that is, "maybe I don't want believable, maybe I want full on escapist fantasy surrounded by impossibly gorgeous people". A valid desire to be sure, and one the Western developers likely are never going to sate again. I think that ship has long sailed. Impossibly gorgeous is pretty much the JRPG standard across the board. Which is a shame, in the sense that. I typically don't like playing JRPGs. I get bored fairly quickly. I like old school JRPGs and their turn based combat. And FF7 remake was fantastic. Sure, I'd of preferred full ATB, but how they integrated it was amazing. A great blend between action and turn based. If DA4s combat is half that fun their game may not be total ass, but given how terrible the game play was in both DA2 and DAI I am not expecting much. DA2 at least had a good story, and characters. DA1 the story was okay, the open world outside the hinterlands was engaging for a bit, the characters not so much, and the game play was boring as heck.
I don't need full escapist, but I'd say if you are planning romances in the game they probably should be and make sure they fit all the core personalities types. I'm not huge into that part of the games so its not a big loss but the last couple bioware games with them, I can't over emphasize how unappealing all the female options were to me. See that's the crux of every romance debate. There is no "This is what beauty is" standard for people. So people who sit there and go "ugh they need to step it up, they were all horrible looking" that is just a bad roll of the dice for that person, because their particular combination of aspects they want from a partner physically was not there. Where as I, for example, heavily favored Aveline, and thought Cassandra was the best romance option Bioware has provided to date. It's just rolls of the dice. Sometimes you crap out.
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Post by regack on Nov 20, 2020 17:50:48 GMT
It's just rolls of the dice. Sometimes you crap out. Kinda like real life... Which I guess takes away from some of the escapism of Impossibly gorgeous... too bad you can't choose the other characters as well... that would be interesting though, defaults for everyone, but a character creator/tweaker for support characters as well. I'll file that idea under "never gonna happen".
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Post by NotN7 on Nov 20, 2020 22:20:17 GMT
It's just rolls of the dice. Sometimes you crap out. Kinda like real life... Which I guess takes away from some of the escapism of Impossibly gorgeous... too bad you can't choose the other characters as well... that would be interesting though, defaults for everyone, but a character creator/tweaker for support characters as well. I'll file that idea under "never gonna happen". LOL! true
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Post by ahglock on Nov 21, 2020 2:59:14 GMT
See that's the crux of every romance debate. There is no "This is what beauty is" standard for people. So people who sit there and go "ugh they need to step it up, they were all horrible looking" that is just a bad roll of the dice for that person, because their particular combination of aspects they want from a partner physically was not there. Where as I, for example, heavily favored Aveline, and thought Cassandra was the best romance option Bioware has provided to date. It's just rolls of the dice. Sometimes you crap out. When it comes to physical beauty we can say its all in the eyes of the beholder type stuff but there are pretty standard attractiveness sets that the majority of a gender will find attractive, having none of those is a miss IMO. Personality wise there are a set of archetypes that people usually find attractive, avoiding almost all of those is also a pretty big miss. Will that still hit a itch for a handful of players, sure. But generally that isn't your target. Your target is the majority. make sure at least they are covered before hitting niche appeals.
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March 2017
therevanchist25
Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquisition, KOTOR, Jade Empire, Mass Effect Andromeda, Anthem
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Post by therevanchist25 on Nov 21, 2020 7:12:45 GMT
See that's the crux of every romance debate. There is no "This is what beauty is" standard for people. So people who sit there and go "ugh they need to step it up, they were all horrible looking" that is just a bad roll of the dice for that person, because their particular combination of aspects they want from a partner physically was not there. Where as I, for example, heavily favored Aveline, and thought Cassandra was the best romance option Bioware has provided to date. It's just rolls of the dice. Sometimes you crap out. When it comes to physical beauty we can say its all in the eyes of the beholder type stuff but there are pretty standard attractiveness sets that the majority of a gender will find attractive, having none of those is a miss IMO. Personality wise there are a set of archetypes that people usually find attractive, avoiding almost all of those is also a pretty big miss. Will that still hit a itch for a handful of players, sure. But generally that isn't your target. Your target is the majority. make sure at least they are covered before hitting niche appeals. And what, exactly, about Josephine is NOT this "stereotype" of beauty that you insist is a "big miss"? She's feminine, wears dresses, has a soft voice, has long hair, has decent amount of make up, flawless skin. So tell me, since you insist this is about physical attractiveness, how in gods name does she NOT meet the nonsense stereotype of "beautiful woman"? Go ahead, I'll wait to see how many bs reasons like "jawlines" you can muster to avoid saying something really foolish.
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