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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 4, 2023 18:07:18 GMT
Inquisitor? Pleaseeee and just like that I'm back on the hype train Only if as a playable protagonist please. If a NPC we can’t control, keep them out of this completely(other than a note that they rescued Josephine and her family and they’re safe in the south please).
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 4, 2023 17:42:41 GMT
Full reveal 2024.... essentially another nothingburger to keep the rabid masses sated. Basically, though not completely since they’re now committing to a time rather than “We can’t wait to talk more about it Soon.”
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 4, 2023 17:41:56 GMT
Why was Tevinter omitted in the trailer? My guess is since they’ve talked about Tevinter a lot, this was to show everywhere else that will be involved. Plus the final shot with the map is of Tevinter.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 4, 2023 17:28:56 GMT
Not a fan of them straight up making the Crows heroes. “The Crows fight for everyone.”? Oh yeah that must be why most people even from Antiva don’t like them. They were an assassin’s guild, not a heroic order. At least the ugly city in Antiva isn’t Antiva City. It's grossly wrong, but it could also be internal propaganda. Not a fan of them straight up making the Crows heroes. “The Crows fight for everyone.”? Oh yeah that must be why most people even from Antiva don’t like them. They were an assassin’s guild, not a heroic order. At least the ugly city in Antiva isn’t Antiva City. It's possible that the character saying those things believe that, and it's not necessarily a overall sentiment shared by the population. It seems there'll be at least two cities, given that Minrathous was specifically referenced in the blog. Perhaps, but the fact BioWare used it for the trailer plus how they’ve been depicting them in the comics and short stories has me think they truly want us to see the murder of murderers that way. I expect one big city for each region as a central hub. Like Weisshaupt for Anderfels, Treviso for Antiva, etc.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 4, 2023 17:25:25 GMT
Not a fan of them straight up making the Crows heroes. “The Crows fight for everyone.”? Oh yeah that must be why most people even from Antiva don’t like them. They were an assassin’s guild, not a heroic order.
At least the ugly city in Antiva isn’t Antiva City.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 30, 2023 22:01:44 GMT
That is actually one thing I was implying by 'background lore in text entries'. I didn't just mean old history, but newer history of timelines, logs, of Cerberus remnants, or the chain of those influenced by Cerberus, influencing the future of the Alliance. TIM in ME2-3 can be kept entirely canon, but the context was that the implants were starting to get rather hardcore on his mentality by then, eventually totally obvious at the end of ME3. But there's the gap between the origins comic and meeting him in ME2, and there's going to be a gap between his death and whatever's next. I don't see the concept of Cerberus being ignored, I just don't know if its going to be as minimal as a couple text mentions (somehow), or they'll be elevated as basically the full (not practically; over 50% of enemy units in ME3 was or seemed to be Cerberus) antagonist (somehow). Personally I'd hate either extreme. I'm with you in preferring that elements of Cerberus ideology seep back into the Alliance post-war after the effects of known events and the added new events to the timeline. Things that have humanity retreating, even if the relationships with the rest of the galaxy are more complicated than before. Earthexit in the midst of wide interspecies cohabitation. It's less Earthexit( that's Terra Firma thing) and more Humanity Rules the Space that I have in mind.
Terra Firma wants to isolate Earth from entire galaxy, including other human colonies, while Cerberus wants human dominance of galactic affairs. This is the only ideological distinction we got with Cerberus and it mainly comes from the books. So you want humanity to be the villains?
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 28, 2023 19:16:52 GMT
And that's another thing that's annoying about Andromeda. The inevitability of synthetics coming into conflict with their organic creators. The whole reason why the we had to leave the Milky Way in the first place as that dilemma was responsible for burning the whole place down to begin with and Alec along with his creation SAM completely solves the whole conflict behind the billion year long harvests of the Reapers in the first 30 seconds. Forget that AI have always caused conflict and their creation, intentional or accidental, have screwed over the other races of the galaxy time after time. Rather some human special forces soldier, who tinkers on AI in his spare time, managed to avoid all of that and create the only example of an AI that disproves the Catalyst's entire argument. You mean besides EDI? And really the Geth since they never wanted to fight but the Quarians started it? The Catalyst’s logic has always been flawed. Or at least operating in such a long term scale that it doesn’t register with us (in which case SAM doesn’t disprove him yet).Why should we hold his views as gospel now?
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 28, 2023 16:36:45 GMT
EA Working On Player-Voiced Characters In Gameswww.veryaligaming.com/ea-player-voiced-characters-games/Rundown:- Electronic Arts’ newly issued patent aims to enable players to make their in-game characters communicate using their own voices. - The patent outlines a system that involves inputting speech content data into a synthesiser module, which generates source acoustic features representing the desired voice or style. - The heart of the patent is a voice converter, which uses an acoustic feature encoder to meld the source acoustic characteristics with a target speaker embedding associated with the player, replicating the player’s voice for the in-game character. - This technology can generate speech audio in the player’s voice, allowing the character to speak with the player’s unique, personal voice, and it can even capture non-verbal elements of speech like tone, emotions, and emphasis. - The input data for this system can take the form of text, allowing players to type the dialogue they want their character to deliver, making it a more practical and versatile approach compared to traditional methods that require extensive recorded speech data. This is absolutely disgusting and as someone trying to become a voice actor, absolutely terrifying. Especially since this’ll be taking anyone who uses this thing’s voice and keeping them in an archive to be used whenever they please. No doubt that will be a condition to use it that most people won’t read cause they’ll hide it in 18 pages of writing with a Do You Agree click.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 28, 2023 16:18:50 GMT
One more thing to dislike Alec. Wouldn't it make sense to try and make SAM available to as many as possible because it would be too risky to have it available to only a handful of people? And if it didn't seem necessary to have SAM at all in order to settle in Andromeda, why is it used as a criterion for being a Pathfinder? I wish the game had characters criticizing or even thinking out loud about these aspects. SAM is a great tool to have but it's basically coincidental that Alec developed it further than anybody knew and if he hadn't done that, everybody would have been screwed. Alec did want to make SAMs for as many as possible though. It’s what got the Ryder family blacklisted since the Alliance and Council didn't trust AI. The Andromeda Initiative were allowed to develop the five SAMs they did because they argued their necessity but had to follow strict guidelines, so Alec kept the abilities of our SAM secret since otherwise they all would have been scrapped.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 27, 2023 18:47:20 GMT
At the time, our SAM is the only one that the Initiative has access to. And the only one geared towards human physiology. Most don’t know that SAM’s connection to Ryder is keeping Ryder alive, so those who do saw them being Pathfinder as a way to explain the connection without them finding out. So did they have plans to manufacture more SAMs at some point, since so many have implants? Or is the Ryder twins having implants the nepotism people talk about? I try to be attentive with each playthrough but I'm still unclear on details such as these. So if Ryder wouldn't live with SAM, does that mean Alec couldn't have survived without SAM either even if he had a helmet? Because of the special connection? So basically, if Ryder hadn't had a cracked helmet and Alec had transferred Pathfinder authority to Cora instead in some other occasion where he was going to die, Cora would have gone through the same as Ryder - nearly dying, then being forever reliant on SAM? Did Cora fully understand this? Probably not, since she didn't know about Alec's "profiles". No, there is nothing that suggests they planned to build more SAMs. The only ones who have implants that connect to them are members of the Pathfinder teams since the SAMs were made to help them with scouting planets and other Pathfinder duties. Ryder couldn’t live without SAM because of what happened on Habitat 7. Parts of Ryder died due to the exposure so SAM picked up the slack. Sort of like the Relic in Cyberpunk 2077. As for the nepotism, most of that is just people criticizing. The only valid thing about Ryder being more special is because Alec built SAM to save his wife. Since her kids share her DNA, he works for them beyond what he would for others. I think in one of the novels it says how Cora would never be able to use SAM like Alec could.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 24, 2023 11:00:16 GMT
I think the silliness is in claiming that only the one with this special kind of SAM that Alec had can be a pathfinder, even though the other pathfinders have a regular kind of SAM. So wtf can't we just install one in Cora? At the time, our SAM is the only one that the Initiative has access to. And the only one geared towards human physiology. Most don’t know that SAM’s connection to Ryder is keeping Ryder alive, so those who do saw them being Pathfinder as a way to explain the connection without them finding out.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 24, 2023 1:29:13 GMT
Andromeda vs ME3? I hate the ME3 endings as much as anyone, but at least ME3 wasn't aimed at, and written for, pre-teens. Ah, yes. The rated M game is totally geared towards consumers who can’t even get T games.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 23, 2023 9:49:38 GMT
What about a very advanced civilization that hid themselves from the "outside" because they are xenophobic? The reaper destruction jolted them severely and now some want to open up to the survivors. These could help humans with their reconstruction efforts. Perhaps, even offering some of their low end tech = human equivalent or somewhat better. There's probably a very good chance that the Raloi will re-emerge and re-engage with the galactic community again. I'll be interested to see whether we get to see the Batarians again, seeing as they got absolutely hammered by the Reapers and the assumption was that they were all wiped out. There’s still plenty of Batarians around. There’s more than enough in the Terminus System even if all the ones in Batarian space were wiped out, which we know is the case since there were a lot of refugees and enough to man a whole fleet. And there are some who went to Andromeda.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 22, 2023 1:11:20 GMT
I got Evie Frye!
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 22, 2023 0:59:03 GMT
Ooh, good catch, that makes sense. I'm no big fan of the Council but constructing a gateway of any kind when you can't be sure what's going to come out of it is monumentally stupid. Didn't they learn anything from Doom? It could lead to an interesting situation though with humanity getting booted from the Council and such. We could have so many smug, insufferable Volus characters... I think a lot depends on whether this is just Cerberus constructing its own relay, or whether the Systems Alliance is covertly backing them in that endeavor. I'm inclined to think it's just Cerberus off doing its own thing. The main reason being that the planet in the latest trailer appears to me to be the same planet as the one beneath the relay that's being constructed. There's also Cerberus colours on the relay, and on the stockpiled canisters in the new trailer. Most people seem to think that the N7 figure is some sort of agent/infiltrator, so I suspect that the Systems Alliance have sent an N7 to investigate/disrupt what Cerberus are up to. The obvious question of the back of this though is just what the **** are Cerberus up to? Where is this new relay paired to? By the goddess, I hope they don’t involve Cerberus in any way, shape, or form in this. They have been so overused. Plus why would anyone bring them back after they supported the Reapers?
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 22, 2023 0:55:28 GMT
The ME2 Story is not what made ME2 the most loved ME Game out of the Trilogie. It´s all about the companions. If you play ME2 you will get emotionally attached to them. And there is the Suicide Mission, where all the beloved Companions can die The Story itself is mediocore The ME1 Story is the best out of the Trilogie in my opinion The Main problem from Andromeda is, that the Story is mediocore and the companions are annoying.
Edit: And SAM sucks
The ME2 companion roster is my least favorite in the entire franchise. I disliked or couldn’t care less about most of them.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 19, 2023 17:19:10 GMT
Disagree about that being a staple of BioWare games. DAO, DA2, DAI, and ME3 didn’t have huge plot twists either. Any plot twists they did have are on par with MEA’s, like the Angara being a created race or the Kett using other races to make Kett(even if this is a copy of Collectors=Protheans). Unlike the C=P twist these are not story driven plot twists. They are Plot holes. The Angara and Khett being similar -especially considering if you look at the anatomy of the Khett you can see Angara features through out -even the way the eyes and limbs move makes the Borg-ify process pretty much an astute catch. Though I will admit I liked the conversion process but believe it should have been ALOT more painful. If your going to ripoff the Borg then make it really hurt. Also who does it help discovering the Angara are being converted? No one. Your in no position to change the empire from your small place in the galaxy. Maybe the Khett Empire could be corrupt Jardaan whose technology went rabid? That I could grant you. Also the Angara being created brings up the question: Who let some out while others remained in stasis? Maybe the Jardaan ran out of time to release all? Or maybe personalities were not yet downloaded into the stasis Angara? Too many questions reside from these. A plot twist may have a hole two but can come to conclusion when some sensibility MEA does not. Again proof of no third act. If it had this it would have been a much better game. That’s not lack of a third act. That’s setting things up for future games. They explicitly stated stuff like the Jardaan, Mysterious Benefactor, etc were part of a megastore that was going to cover multiple games. Just like how ME1 left many questions about Reapers but didn’t answer them.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 19, 2023 17:16:29 GMT
Disagree about that being a staple of BioWare games. DAO, DA2, DAI, and ME3 didn’t have huge plot twists either. Any plot twists they did have are on par with MEA’s, like the Angara being a created race or the Kett using other races to make Kett(even if this is a copy of Collectors=Protheans). As to Dragon Age and ME3 they do have plot twists that are important and advanced the story and not outright brazen holes. Granted maybe not as grandiose as Revan... but to start with DAO has two imo -I don't consider the "Warden must die to kill dragon a plot-twist. The two here are certain outcomes of the Landsmeet result in getting companion Loghain when not trying and story playing out with his view point can change your whole view of the game. The other is Flemeth's shapeshift reveal -which though crude does have an overarching plot twist that -that she can what I call "ghost possess". DA2 as for plot twists does have the Bethany/Carver dual situation but that is seen a mile ahead. Then there is the Anders reveal but yeah lets skip that. The only one worth note here is the insane Merideth's lyrium sword that explains her role in the story and her increasing insanity and the satisfying end. DA3/I also has two for me. Those being Corypheus and Flemeth -again. Still both are a stretch -one for ultimately winning at immortality and the other being related to an elvish deity? OH and for me I don't care about Solas. He can stay where his twist is even if he ties in with one. As to ME3 as much as he is distained its still there: One word: Udina. There is also the plot twist we were given of the Hudson to that goes reverse to his statement: RED, GREEN, BLUE. None of these are plot twists.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 18, 2023 23:07:47 GMT
A plot twist is just an extreme change in the story meant to shock the audience. That's what it was. Not going to keep talking about this because I'm not prepared for people ignoring how impactful this *twist* was to players at the time. Yes MEA has twists. They're just flat duds. As you said, “Other players aren’t you.” To others they were bigger twists than anything the Shepard Trilogy did.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 18, 2023 21:22:27 GMT
Eh, the “A Warden has to die” twist wasn’t really a twist since almost everyone thought that the moment they said a Warden is the only one who can kill an Archdemon. In that thought I personally don’t count Sovereign being a Reaper as a twist since we knew Reapers were an advanced synthetic race and how many times we heard “It’s Sovereign doing this for Saren” by then. As for Solas, that wasn’t a 3rd Act plot twist but a teaser for the next game. Also personally saw him being the Dread Wolf since before the game but definitely after first talking to him but that’s just me I guess Sovereign being a Reaper wasn't The Twist in ME1, it was that everyone was galactic cattle since essentially forever. DAI's Solas was The Twist. You don't have to agree, but it was what people experienced with faces due to not paying enough attention. Other players are not you. Agreed with DAO but technically it’s at least more of a swerve than a twist. 1.That’s not a twist though, since the only time we hear of races before the Protheans is Liara saying there is a pattern of advanced races disappearing so we already knew that. 2. But it’s not an Act 3 twist, which means it’s a game that didn’t do that so it’s not a staple of BioWare games. Overall if these tiny things are considered twists, then MEA absolutely has twists.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 18, 2023 5:18:24 GMT
DAO - sacrifice DA2 - ok yeah DAI - Solas ME3 - lol wtf was that Ok, I'm being cheeky. Eh, the “A Warden has to die” twist wasn’t really a twist since almost everyone thought that the moment they said a Warden is the only one who can kill an Archdemon. In that thought I personally don’t count Sovereign being a Reaper as a twist since we knew Reapers were an advanced synthetic race and how many times we heard “It’s Sovereign doing this for Saren” by then. As for Solas, that wasn’t a 3rd Act plot twist but a teaser for the next game. Also personally saw him being the Dread Wolf since before the game but definitely after first talking to him but that’s just me I guess
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 18, 2023 4:15:48 GMT
Andromeda is without question the best game in the franchise. ME:A Isn't the best but it isn't the worst Bioware game in existence. That falls to CrapAnthem. ME:A could be better if they had just finished the game or at least given it its THIRD ACT. A staple of Bioware games is to have a major plot twist on entry into that third act: Your Revan, Your the Spirt Monk, Collectors are Protheans ect. An example you may understand is that of Ratchet's species not being extinct but in another dimension -though I don't think that occurs right before the Third Act of one of those games. Just getting caught up on the franchise. The ME:A we got had no major plot twists, no revelations and especially no conclusions. I mean a plot twist like the Angarians being the Jardaan or the Jardaan being "Precursor" Humans -cliché as either of those two is -would still have been better than what we got which was... nothing. Personally I would have preferred this after playing ME:A... The Meridian biome is also an active rogue roaming Death Star and its your moral duty to destroy Meridian to save the galaxy or to let Meridian exist while it kills everything else not on it -now that would have been satisfying. Disagree about that being a staple of BioWare games. DAO, DA2, DAI, and ME3 didn’t have huge plot twists either. Any plot twists they did have are on par with MEA’s, like the Angara being a created race or the Kett using other races to make Kett(even if this is a copy of Collectors=Protheans).
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 15, 2023 17:43:08 GMT
Been to see The Marvels. It's a fun film. Not top tier MCU, but well worth watching. Occasionally tonally dissonant, but not to the extent it spoiled the film. Often moving too. There is a mid-credits stinger, but not one at the end (well sort of, it's so insignificant as to be irrelevant and certainly not worth staying for). It was great to have a superhero movie where the superhero is optimistic about being a superhero again.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 13, 2023 22:41:27 GMT
Andromeda is without question the best game in the franchise.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 10, 2023 17:25:28 GMT
Wouldn't use Quarians still in their suits as evidence for anything. Remember Tali did say that they might still wear them because of how the suits have become part of their culture. Well I've this before when the first teaser dropped. Destroy/control ending might be both canon. Here we have blue and red colors (control, destroy and also paragon and renegade with the symbol looking exactly the same as both of these choices. I'm not so sure if both of those endings are gonna be canon though). All three endings might be in since 600 years have passed which is a long time but idk... Some geth may have fled to Andromeda before the reaper war. Probably what that ark 6 is for? So some will still be alive. I was only being semi-serious I think the most likely route is some sort of vague/generic explanation as to why whatever choice was selected things turned out the same and essentially reset after a period of time, such that we end up with a blended future state that negates none of the selections (bar refuse obviously). I still think that would suck personally, I'd rather they just picked an ending, went with it and then built the next game out from that choice, but I doubt they'd do it. I can see that. Like either Synthesis or “as centuries past now almost everyone is integrated with machines” or something. Reapers are either dead or left after repairing the galaxy. Geth either alive or had some outside the blast radius. And so on. Really the harder choices are the ones not in the ending, like the Genophage or the Geth/Quarian War. Not a huge fan of merging them like that either, but the alternative would almost certainly be Destroy as canon so I’ll take them not making my Shepard commit the largest genocide in our cycle’s history.
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