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Post by Sifr on Dec 9, 2020 9:55:41 GMT
To be honest I thought she would fit the slot for the female mage. Leggy's outfit made me think of a mage. In DAI we had two male mages and one female, so this time round how about one male and two female? That was my initial thought too, that Leggy looks like she could easily be another Witch of the Wilds in that outfit.
No, according to the lore biotics and kinetic barriers are not able to protect people from environmental or slow moving things. Kinetic barriers can hold in atmosphere though, as we see ships routinely pass through them when exiting docking bays (such as those on the Citadel) that are open to space. We've also seen them patching hull breeches or acting as emergency forcefields, such as at the start of ME2 when the SR-1's cockpit has a barrier around it to protect Joker from the rest of the decompressed CIC, as well as in the ending cutscene, where Shepard stops at a damaged part of the hull being supported by barriers and looks out at open space.
Maybe she's blind and doesn't need her eyes because a spirit helps her see... Maybe she's using some kind of (blood) magic to see through the eyes of her crows?
I have always loved the idea of seeing a "Bloodraven" type character, a blind hedge-mage who compensates for their lack of sight by "warging" into nearby animals to see or scout the area around them.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 9, 2020 9:11:52 GMT
Like how Manu Intiraymi attacked another Star Trek actor on twitter and his character ended up being recast and killed off on Picard Which only annoyed Trek fans because of petty and meanspirited it came across as.
No-one defends Manu's actions, nor would anyone consider Icheb to be a fan-favourite character from Voyager, but was it really worth bringing back the character just to drop a bus on him because of his actor's transgressions? They could have easily not brought him back at all and given Seven a better plot that didn't have her go all John Wick after his death.
Same thing is true of the Two and a Half Men finale where they resurrected Charlie Sheen's character and had him appear from behind (played by a body double), only to drop a piano on him and cut to Chuck Lorre saying "Winning". Obviously, Charlie Sheen was a complete nightmare to work with, but it didn't exactly look any less childish of the producers for having sunk to his level with that stunt.
It'd be far better to simply leave Cullen out of future games (not that he needs to appear anyway), rather than recast him or kill him off simply because they're squabbling with Ellis.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 5, 2020 18:35:40 GMT
What happened to Leggy? Could still be waiting in the wings. After all even if the characters in the new artwork are companions that makes only three, one from each class, two male and one female. So to balance things you'd need at least one female mage, a male rogue and a female warrior. Who cares about balance, did you see those legs?
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Post by Sifr on Dec 5, 2020 18:30:11 GMT
She could've easily let the Orlesians capture her. Yes, she probably would've died, but at least those elves would still be alive, and be servants at the very least, instead of slaves. And the crew she was responsible for would have all been hanged alongside her, so she decided to put her crew's live first over that of the slaves. I'm not denying she's a bad person for having killed those slaves (or y'know, being a pirate in general), but it wasn't just her neck on the line if the Orlesian navy had managed to catch them, it was all the people under her command.
It's not like she didn't hate herself for making that that decision either, we see her regret at doing it and how some of her crew (particularly the elves) couldn't even look her in the eye afterwards. And we know that her regret over this event lead her to free slaves she found on another ship, despite it earning her the ire of Castillon and putting her in debt to him.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 5, 2020 18:04:15 GMT
Maybe people finally are ready to accept the teachings of the Space Core as the path to true enlightenment? SPAAAAAAACE!
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Post by Sifr on Dec 5, 2020 17:57:18 GMT
John Epler @eplerjcLore continuity is for cowards. Where's Thedas' Second Moon, John? Where's the Second Bloody Moon!
(And this, my dear friends, is why I'm not on Twitter. I just know that I'd be too Qunari in my adherence to the lore and end up accusing the devs of being maraas imekari.)
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Post by Sifr on Dec 5, 2020 17:35:20 GMT
Well it's not like they had a choice, the Mass Effect 3 endings were so world altering it was going to be hared to write around it. I've said it before, Destroy is overall the best ending from a storytelling perspective.
With it, you get a post-apocalyptic Milky Way where everyone's struggling to rebuild society and many Mass Relays have been destroyed or damaged. You could have a game about a team of explorers attempting to chart the remaining Relays and opening previously inactive Relays to try to find new ways and damaged part of the network, in the hopes of re-establish contact with colonies and races that have been cut-off since the end of ME3. This would also lead them to unexplored areas of the galaxy and maybe even to races that managed to never be discovered by the Citadel Council.
(Making our protagonist quite literally a "Pathfinder")
There you go, Bioware, a game set in the Milky Way that would deliver on the premise of Andromeda, that doesn't fundamentally break the universe like Synthesis or Control did. No reprogrammed Reapers to fix the mess and leave us with a cosy catastrophe, but actually delivers on the brutal consequences of a post-Reaper invasion Milky Way would look like and operates under the confines of established lore.
See how easy that was?
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Post by Sifr on Dec 5, 2020 16:55:03 GMT
I think not wearing a helmet in space is ridiculous and only happened due to the rush that was Andromeda I think wearing a bikini suit in a cold area that literally has a mechanic where it's so cold you'll die is stupid and all companions should have gotten real all terrain suits like the protagonist. Can't biotics create barriers capable of maintaining atmospheric pressure in a vaccuum though? The characters with outfits that are exposed to space seem to always be biotics, so maybe that's meant to be the handwave?
Not that I don't agree that it's ridiculous to have people not wearing a hardsuit or helmet in space or other extreme environments.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 5, 2020 16:43:38 GMT
I believe that the next character is Sten as the new Arishok. Of course he could die in the cage offscreen but i always imagined that someone else let him go. Sten/Arishok short Stenshok is too cool to have him not in all world states. Yeah, as the Darkspawn swarmed on Lothering, it's easy to imagine that Sten was either released by someone showing mercy or he busted himself out of the cage (which I reckon he could have done at any time if he'd really wanted to). From there, he could have tracked down his sword the same way we did, allowing him to return home with his honour intact. Maybe in that scenario, he atoned for the murders he committed by protecting some refugees from Darkspawn along the way? Whatever the reason given, you're right that Sten as the Arishok is far too cool to pass up just because some people didn't recruit/save him. Maybe a caveat to the quantum character rule should be that aside from plot important deaths (Cailan, Duncan or Arl Howe), any potential deaths in Origins will necessarily count going forward. DA2 and DAI already seem to operate under this rule anyway with the amount of "dead" characters that still manage to show up alive.
Just for fanservice but after Ellis recent behavior Cullen shouldn´t be back ever in a DA game. Also the character Cullen should be view on its own so please Bioware don´t kill him off because his voice actor from one language is crazy.
If Cullen was told to start taking lyrium again, the Trespasser epilogues claim he ultimately succumbs to lyrium madness and Scout Harding possibly mercy killed him to end his suffering. That they gave him at least one bad ending where he's dead, makes me think that he's not likely to return.
(Same is probably true of the Iron Bull as well, which sucks because I'd love to see Freddie Prinze Jr come back, you could tell he had a lot of fun playing him).
Also a minor quibble, but calling him "crazy" if he indeed does have some sort of mental health issues might not be the best thing.
Personally I don't mind (I've got Aspergers and I'm definitely a little bonkers), but I know that some people with mental health issues might object to that word as being insensitive, since it seems like people are either treating their problems as unimportant or somehow their fault. Not rebuking you or anything, just giving a friendly heads up that some people might take that word the wrong way.
Not that any mental health issues are an excuse for his recent behaviour, but if he does need help, maybe it'd be better to try to give it to him rather than getting on his case and causing him to spiral out even further. If something has set him off this badly, maybe we shouldn't try to set him off more, I don't think anyone wants him to turn up missing again.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 5, 2020 14:32:13 GMT
A couple were. The rest were awful. Really, I thought most people considered ME2 to have the best cast in the trilogy?
Besides Jacob and Morinth, the rest of the cast was pretty solid all round.
The only grumble I have is that Kasumi and Zaeed should have been integrated more and that both Tali and Legion should have been available earlier in the game (especially since there is cut dialogue for Legion that hints we were supposed to get him earlier).
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Post by Sifr on Dec 5, 2020 14:24:55 GMT
Our default stance is to try not to reuse quantum characters. That is characters who can be in a lot of different states after a previous game (especially if they might be dead) - Mark Darrah
That's the only reason I said he probably won't. But hey, Darrah's gone now, maybe they change their philosophy or create another exception The only time they seem to make exceptions to this rule is when it's more interesting for the story they're trying to tell.
Like how keeping Leliana alive meant she could play a subsequent role working for the Divine in DA2 and DAI and how in the novel Asunder, keeping Wynne alive meant readers got to see what her relationship was like with her long-lost son Rhys (mentioned in Origins).
So yeah Anders could be back for a cameo if Bioware of course wanted him back but he can´t back as major character.
Same goes for Cullen but he should be in retirement.
Anders very nearly did come back in DAI.
They had some concept art of a wildly bearded and disheveled Anders, who'd seemingly gone insane from his possesion and become like the Mad Hermit from the Brecilian Forest. Obviously they chose to not to have him appear and according to a Hawke that romanced him, he's fine, although still struggles with Justice's influence on him.
I agree that Cullen should remain retired.
They can't really top his role in Inquistion and almost all of his endings managed to wrap up his story one way or another. Even as a fan of the character, I can't think of any real reason to bring him back again, since with the disbandment or merger of the Inquisition with the Chantry, there's no forces left for him to command.
(As for the Shadow Inquisition that's continuing to hunt Solas in secret, that's more geared for people like Leliana than Cullen to run)
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Post by Sifr on Dec 5, 2020 13:52:39 GMT
Bioware is going the ME2 route, where Rule of Cool/Sexy take over instead of lore and logic. I mean, between Varric and Isabela, I think the ship sailed a long time ago. That said, I’ll wait to see if there’s some explanation for Crow Lady. Sailed, wrecked and sunk to the bottom of the ocean... and I'm okay with that.
Varric, Isabela and the companions in ME2 were awesome.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 5, 2020 13:48:15 GMT
Besides Anders who was already been replaced with Adam Howden Ellis other roles aren´t that memorable and pretty minor. In DAO Ellis had voiced Cullen / Cesar / Ash Warrior Leader / Disciple Cathaire / Taoran Hawkwind / Patter Gritch / Adventurer Leader / Maleficar / Blood Mage / Skinny Frank / Denerim Mercenary / Ostagar Soldier / Circle Tower Mage / Crow Assassin / Circle Tower Apprentice / Crows Thug / Matthias - The Stone Prisoner DLC / Felix de Grosbois - The Stone Prisoner DLC (voice) www.imdb.com/title/tt1541718/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#castAnd in DA 2 & DAI only Cullen. So not a big loss if you asked me. Alix Wilton Regan only voiced the Inquisitor in DAI, after voicing a ton of minor characters in DAO and DA2, while Nick Boulton only voiced Hawke and Xenon in DA2 and DAI, after playing a ton of minor characters in Origins. The reduction in number of roles wasn't due to lack of vocal talent, but because they were now playing a member of the main or supporting cast.
(Otherwise you'd get something like Oblivion where half the NPCs have the same voice and can end up talking to themselves).
On a semi-related note, when will Shaun Dingwall finally get a larger role, he's been stuck playing background characters for three games now? Either give him a character with a bigger role in DA4 or bring back Fergus Cousland!
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Post by Sifr on Dec 5, 2020 13:32:32 GMT
I wouldn't take anything Ellis says seriously. Didn't he disappear for a bit and his family said he had bipolar or something? Man's definitely not well and this kinda seems like a manic episode. It's kinda hard to verify though.
We know that a couple years ago he disappeared for a few days and no-one knew where he went, to the extent there was even a missing person report filed with the local police before he was found. The person that brought it to everyone's attention, spearheaded the search and mentioned he was bipolar claimed to be a family friend, but Ellis later claimed that he was neither Bipolar nor knew the person who'd claimed to know him online.
On the one hand, his disappearance does seem consistent with someone having a manic episode and it's plausible he might not wanted people to know, so refuted knowing the person because he upset at being outed without his consent. That said, that the information came from an anonymous source who I don't think we ever verified as knowing him, means it's questionable if his claim about Ellis being bipolar was true... all that was confirmed was that he did go missing for a few days?
But this latest thing certainly leans more to the possibility he might be bipolar.
And then he make this recently.
I wonder why Bioware and EA hasn´t already removed it from Youtube. Ellis doesn´t own Cullen or any other DA content.
I dunno, is it any different than Kimberly Brooks (Ashley) and Raphael Sbarge (Kaidan) recording the ME2 romance letters? Or both Mark Meer and Jennifer Hale doing a dramatic reading of "Commander Shepard" by Miracle of Sound?
Sometimes voice actors like to do these kinda things as a gift for the fans.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 5, 2020 12:57:41 GMT
Crow lady has shown up again in the latest art. She like Morrigan, Leliana and Vivienne merged together to become Zorro!
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Post by Sifr on Dec 5, 2020 11:28:04 GMT
We're only told that Corypheus and Archdemons will go to the nearest blighted creature, be it Darkspawn (or Grey Warden in the case of Corypheus). There's been no suggested limit to how far it can go, the only limiter is that there must still be at least one Darkspawn or Grey Warden left to go to. This does raise the question of why Corypheus's soul can override a Grey Warden's, but an Archdemon's can't. Doesn't the imply that there is some degree of distance limitation to resurrection though, as otherwise he wouldn't have been shown to keep Grey Wardens and the Red Lyrium Dragon always closeby to allow him convenient vessels to hop into if he was killed?
I thought that's why taking the Grey Wardens from him at Adamant was such a devastating loss for him, because it limited the amount of potential vessels at his disposal. We know that after Adamant he brought what remained of the enslaved Wardens with him to the Arbor Wilds, so perhaps he was concerned about keeping his Wardens safe and believed they'd be better protected if surrounded by the rest of his forces.
The game also made it seem like taking down the Red Lyrium Dragon was imperative to defeating Corypheus, as not only would it leave him without his biggest source of firepower besides the Orb, but would eliminate the only other nearby tainted creature for him to respawn into.
My suspicion on why Corypheus can take over Wardens but Archdemons can't, is that it has something to do with the drop of Archdemon blood that's often used to prime the Joining Ritual. When an Archdemon attempts to possess a Grey Warden, it would leap in only to find another Archdemon (or perhaps the same one) is already seemingly present. This causes the resurrection magic to go haywire (perhaps trying to resurrect two Archdemons in one body) that ultimately overloads and destroys the vessel.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 5, 2020 10:19:38 GMT
Sure, but have the new people done anything to get you to think they were borderline competent. The place has mostly been new people for a while and we got MEA and Anthem. And therein lies the problem, according to what's come out about the development of Anthem and Andromeda.
Supposedly, the issue lies in bad decisions or incompetent management from certain people at the top of EA and Bioware, while those at the ground level are either too new, too worried about their job security to really push back or question those decisions. Meanwhile others in the middle have become jaded because they know that they won't be listened to even if they do say something.
This has allegedly created a chaotic and unhealthy working environment which lead to many of the devs working on MEA leaving the company (some due to stress) or jumping to another project after completing their assigned work (not even sticking around to see it launch), as well as why Anthem kept having flight added and removed until very late in development, because no-one really knew what the game was supposed to be about?
For a company that makes games where fostering cooperation and communication between various groups is often vital to success, they're not that great at following that same principle in real life.
I mean, the Inquisitor never decided to shut down the tavern because they got fed up with people in the Inquisition questioning or criticising their decisions, requiring those members to have to set up their own bars outside of Skyhold in order to meet?
(That said, this is based on information given by ex-employees, so take it with a pinch of salt.)
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Post by Sifr on Dec 5, 2020 9:50:28 GMT
Seems Gamefaqs has been shutdown, drat, now where am I gonna find a comprehensive strategy guide to rely on? The site still works for me. At worst, Steam has guides ( BG, BG2). Ah, guess it was only a temporary hiccup with the site and whoever claimed it was shutdown had me fretting over nowt?
Didn't know that Steam had guides, that might be more helpful to me... especially since I've only gone and deleted all my old BG bookmarks like a total nit.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 5, 2020 9:41:04 GMT
How about "Balefire" for the green-flamed Spirit/Mortalitasi guy?
From an Old English word meaning either a funeral or sacrifical pire, often used in witch rituals. Would be appropriate for a spirit working for the Mortalitasi and a nice play on the Veilfire that either engulfs or is his face?
(Or is it the other way around and Veilfire derives it's name from the dev's making a pun?)
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Post by Sifr on Nov 30, 2020 12:38:29 GMT
Seems Gamefaqs has been shutdown, drat, now where am I gonna find a comprehensive strategy guide to rely on?
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Post by Sifr on Nov 30, 2020 12:31:09 GMT
RIP David Prowse RIP David Prowse.
Most people only talk about him playing Vader, rather than how he saved a ton of kid's lives as the Green Cross Code Man.
(Even in the 90s they still showed this advert to kids in primary schools)
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Post by Sifr on Nov 30, 2020 12:16:40 GMT
Soo....slightly off topic-but-not-quite. But now seems like a good time to bring it up. But should any of us be worried if we left a Warden in the Fade in DAI's Here Lies the Abyss? The taint may not have progressed that much in them but they still technically qualify as a blighted creature. Even if they are killed by the Nightmare, are we certain that the taint will not spread? I mean, there's a part of me that thinks the writers never thought that far ahead and our decision didn't matter that much. But there's also a part of me that hopes that they did, and we just have to wait to see the consequences in DA4. It's also a detail that always bothered me. I'd be more concerned about Corypheus being given access to another Grey Warden to reform from. I dunno, wasn't the Anchor supposed to be the only thing that prevented the group at Adamant from dying when the Inquisitor pulled everyone into the Fade with them? As the Inquisitor didn't travel into the Fade with Corypheus, being thrown into the Fade in pieces may well have been something that even he couldn't recover from.
But even that aside, the resurrection does seem to rely on proximity to work.
Despite distance sometimes being treated as a relative concept in the Fade, it's stated in Inquisition that Nightmare's domain was very close to the Black City and it did appear much closer in the sky than how we've seen it previously. There was also a codex entry in Origins that talks about mages in the Circle attempting to reach the city in dreams and how dangerous it got the closer they approached, which was how they first encountered Shah Wyrd.
So distance does seem to kinda exist in the Fade and could have left Corypheus "too far away" to resurrect, even if being sent into the Fade didn't immediately kill him?
Mmm, if Wardens could spread the Taint so easily as darkspawn do, I think we would have heard about it. People would be catching it from them on the reg. Gotta assume the warden ritual renders it inert in some way. It seems that Wardens are asymptomatic carriers of the Taint until they reach the Calling, at which point they reach the Ghoul stage and become infectious.
I guess that the early Wardens purposefully designed the Joining ritual with the goal of allowing people to survive infection (which normally results in death or ghoulification), while simultaneously slowing the progression of the taint to a crawl and preventing them from spreading the taint to others.
In that way, it's kinda like a primitive form of attenuated vaccine, albeit one that's only 50% effective and only suppresses the symptoms, rather than providing life-long immunity. That's why people still die during the Joining and why depending on the person's physiology, it can take anywhere for 5-30 years to succumb to the disease.
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Post by Sifr on Nov 30, 2020 10:58:27 GMT
I am actually ashamed of myself since that is my favorite DA villain too. But then it has bee ages since I've played DA 2. The Arishok was never a villain.
He was just a soldier on an impossible mission, who only wanted to go home.
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Post by Sifr on Nov 28, 2020 7:36:14 GMT
One of James T. Kirk's ancestors?
(Seriously, he looks just like Shatner)
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Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquistion, KOTOR, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire
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Post by Sifr on Nov 28, 2020 7:23:41 GMT
Warriors: Cassandra, Fenris, Loghain (Who will win the brood off?) Mages: Solas, Dorian, Morrigan (Who has the most scathing wit?) Rogues: Varric, Sera, Isabela (Who can steal the most trousers?)
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