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Post by Soulforge on Apr 17, 2017 6:50:38 GMT
Drell. There's honestly no topping Thane for me, but they're such an interesting race. Geth would be good too, but I'm not sure how they'd pull that off. The Geth could just build their own ship or stow away on the quarian Ark. If we are able to build ships capable of reaching Andromeda, the Geth certainly are. Geth do not infiltrate.
Geth do not intentionally infiltrate.
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Post by Soulforge on Apr 17, 2017 3:37:41 GMT
I am referring in part to being forced to work with Cerberus, yes. Shepard is annoyingly eager to do so regardless of how the player may think. The options pretty much boiled down to "Yes", "Sure!" and "BRB, glassing Palaven!" But there were other moments of hijacked agency. Such as Garrus being your bro, no matter how you treat him. Shepard's atrocious "defense" of his/her actions on Horizon to the VS. The inability to properly comment on the Lazarus Project. The lack of sh*ts given over the Collector reveal. It's particularly jarring if you go directly from ME1 to ME2 and have done all the Cerberus quests (even more so as a Sole Survivor). For Shepard it would probably have been maybe 2-3 months, but apparently all that stuff just slipped his mind. It almost feels like the game was pulling in different directions on Cerberus, since while Shepard can't bring up any of the stuff that s/he knows they've done ("Hey, you killed my squad!") and most of the crew sings Cerberus's praises, you also hear news reports about Toombs and Admiral Kahoku, and get some remarks from your original team. Cerberus' direction changed so much because of fan response iirc. I remember so much speculation and interest in elaborating on them in the ME1 forums, then ME2 happened. Then people overwhelmingly hated being forced to work for them, leading to the cartoonish ME3 Cerberus.
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Post by Soulforge on Apr 17, 2017 3:28:45 GMT
With how the Angara get pissy enough over the Initiative's exiles, I can't wait to see the mental gymnastics of explaining Batarian slavery to the Angara. If BW puts them in Andromeda, they'll probably just go the route of "Oh, it was mostly the 'nice' Batarians that came with us" like they did the Krogan.
At least their VI in the Cultural Exchange Center would be hysterical.
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Post by Soulforge on Apr 17, 2017 1:23:31 GMT
Vetra looks sexy without Visor even in game and the eyes even though its a bug but the fanart wow What was that again that Vetra takes off the Visor only for sexy time yeah sure i did not see that. Those hips in #4 . She probably does, but given that we don't actually see the sexy time...
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Post by Soulforge on Apr 16, 2017 10:03:41 GMT
Does it bother anyone that the main game had Keepers, Elecor, Hanar, Volus, Turtians, Asari, Human, Krogan, Salarian, Geth, and Quarians and then this game with a much higher budget in a brand new galaxy has less species overall? I mean hell, we can even throw in Thrasher maws and varran for the first one. This game only seems to have the Australians, Kett, and the Rem then the same copy and pasted animals that weren't explained why they are on just about every planet. At least varren were explained and so were the maws in the first one.... we basically aren't limited to just ONE side of the new galaxy like the first game was and then shown the other side of the milky way in the 2nd game then all over in the 3rd.... we have access to all of this new galaxy and you're telling me this is all there is? I just feel like this was a stupidly limited game in the amount of species we got. Hell we don't even have all of the original races in this game either.... you can't tell me that the Volus, Elecor, Hanar AND Quarians all on one damn ark but the Human one had a mix of everything and the Nexus too for that matter which had a mix of all the races but those. I don't know this just bothers me to the core and I can't seem to find a thread on it with the search feature and was wondering what everyones thoughts were. We only see 1 cluster in Andromeda, Heleus. By comparison, we see 17 in ME1. And that's only including the ones we can travel to in ME1, not the ones that contain all those species' homeworlds.
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Post by Soulforge on Apr 16, 2017 9:06:42 GMT
The Kett are what I would expect from the Collectors, if they were autonomous. But minus the religious aspects. I didn't mind the Kett so much as the Archon. I hoped there was some sort of lesson learned from Corypheus' non-presence in the story, but no such luck.
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Post by Soulforge on Apr 16, 2017 8:58:04 GMT
ME1 Ashley, but not ME3. At least mods can fix the visual parts of that damage.
Zaeed Massani, because what could possibly be more important than Zaeed Massani not getting bested by some fucking kids' game?
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Post by Soulforge on Apr 16, 2017 8:52:20 GMT
SAM wishes he had JARVIS' sense of humor.
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Post by Soulforge on Apr 16, 2017 8:28:14 GMT
I was very strongly on record on the old bioware forums about how if the Inquisitor returns as the playable character for a future installment, I won't buy that game. I liked the Inquisitor well enough but I have absolutely no interest in playing as them again, and short of having the game come with a free, all expense paid date night with Claudia Black, there is absolutely nothing Bioware can do to make me interested in playing such a game. I wouldn't have hated Hawke being playable for more than one but given that the next one Hawke would have been playable for is Inquisition - I to this day have no doubt in my mind that the early drafts of Dragon Age 3 involved Hawke becoming the Inquisitor before the backlash against Dragon Age 2 caused them to panic and scrap that - I wouldn't want to play Hawke in Dragon Age 4 anymore than I want to play the Inquisitor. And given that there's a perfectly valid chance that both Hawke and the Warden are dead in any given player's playthrough, it would have to be the Inquisitor with some nonsense to account for the missing arm. I think whoever said that a returning protagonist comes with too much baggage had a point. The Inquisitor is on a first name basis with the Divine - there's a one in three chance that the Inquisitor could possibly be banging the Divine. I don't want my PC for DA4 to be able to pick the Divine out of a line up. I don't want my DA4 Protag to have ever danced at the Orleasian Winter Palace, or to have met an elven goddess. My personal issue is that I feel the Inquisitor became too refined. Sure they could get a little rowdy with Bull and Sera but they still ended up being a little too clean cut for my tastes. I don't have a problem with a PC being able to be played that way but I'd like playing a gruff, rough around the edges barbarian character who wouldn't be caught dead waltzing around a palace dance floor to be a perfectly viable option, as well. It was most likely why they had to lose their hand anyway, to stifle the requests that the Warden got. IIRC, part of the canned Exalted March expansion for Hawke was rolled into Inquisition. I liked my Dwarf Inquisitor, but I agree they became too refined. After all the dialogue perks, he felt like he had way too much free time to be so well-read with all that was going on. An Ex-Carta enforcer that knew the intricacies of the underworld, nobility and politics, in-depth magical study, and a focus on Chantry history. There should have been some restrictions on those perks. On the other hand, those perks are probably the only plausible reason for the dwarf background to possibly succeed at the ball . I don't think there's really a danger of a repeating playable character in Dragon Age without a large shift in direction though. They've always said Dragon Age has been about Thedas, not any single character. I was fine going to an orlesian ball even though none of my Inquisitors would normally attend such an event. The main problem I had with the quest is that the Quizzy wore the formal red outfit no matter what. While my HN Inquisitor might do that, my DM Inquisitor would keep her dalish robes at all times (not like they look inelegant anyway) and my QW would keep her armor cause she doesn't give a flying fuck about noble customs. Yeah, at least there was some vindication at the end. I could never tell if it was intended to shift back to the formal outfit or the armor at the end of the ball, because both happened different times. I liked the notion that when my dwarf returned to the ball to end everything, he cast off his mask (the formal suit), and he was back in his element with his Legion of the Dead armor and battleaxe.
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Post by Soulforge on Apr 16, 2017 7:33:28 GMT
Some of the cryo pods are useless (all the ones about credits, if you craft a lot, or all the ones about crafting if you buy your equipment) so it's ok to make some choices This. Right now even one of the better ones (Fusion Mods) is buggy and actually makes some of those mods worse, if the descriptions are to be believed.
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Post by Soulforge on Apr 16, 2017 7:25:51 GMT
Not a feature per say, but cut out the tutorial-style dialogue in Peebee's loyalty mission. I think it was there for press builds, but in the public release having a tutorial more coddling than the prologue isn't suitable when the main story is mostly over.
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Post by Soulforge on Apr 16, 2017 7:20:13 GMT
The CC was my main problem during early access. It needs a lot of work to be comparable to DAI. Spoiler tagged for length: DAI Options (63 fields) 1. Face Shape 2. Skin Tone 3. Complexion 4. Eye Color 5. Hair 6. Hair Color 7. Beard 8. Ear Size 9. Ear Position 10. Earlobe Size 11. Cheekbones 12. Cheek Shape 13. Brow Size 14. Forehead 15. Eye Shape 16. Eye Size 17. Eye Position 18. Eye Rotation and Spacing 19. Eyebrow Style 20. Eyebrow Position 21. Eyelash Style 22. Outer Iris Color 23. Inner Iris Color 24. Nose Shape 25. Nose Size 26. Nose Position 27. Nose Bridge Size 28. Bridge Position 29. Nose Tip Size 30. Nose Tip Position 31. Nostril Size 32. Broken Nose 33. Mouth Shape 34. Mouth Width 35. Mouth Position 36. Lip Thickness 37. Jawline 38. Jaw Size 39. Jowls 40. Chin Size 41. Chin Shape 42. Double Chin 43. Adam’s Apple 44. Scars 45. Scar Intensity 46. Scar Horizontal Position 47. Scar Vertical Position 48. Tattoo Design 49. Tattoo Color 50. Eye Shadow Color 51. Eye Shadow Intensity 52. Under-Eye Color 53. Under-Brow Color 54. Under-Brow Intensity 55. Eyelash Color 56. Eyeliner Color 57. Eyeliner Intensity 58. Blush Color 59. Blush Intensity 60. Lip Color 61. Lip Color Intensity 62. Lip Liner Color 63. Lip Shine
MEA Options (43 fields) 1. Skin Tone 2. Brow Height 3. Brow Depth 4. Cheek Height 5. Cheek Width 6. Cheekbone Width 7. Chin Height 8. Chin Depth 9. Chin Width 10. Jaw Width 11. Eye Height 12. Eye Depth 13. Eye Width 14. Lip Thickness 15. Mouth Height 16. Mouth Depth 17. Mouth Width 18. Nose Height 19. Nose Depth 20. Nose Width 21. Nose Size 22. Hair Style 23. Hair Color 24. Facial Hair Style 25. Outer Color 26. Inner Color 27. Eyeliner Style 28. Eyeliner Opacity 29. Eyeliner Color 30. Eye Shadow Style 31. Eye Shadow Opacity 32. Eye Shadow Color 33. Lipstick Style 34. Lipstick Opacity 35. Lipstick Gloss 36. Lipstick Color 37. Blush Style 38. Blush Opacity 39. Blush Color 40. Scar Style 41. Scar Intensity 42. Tattoo Style 43. Tattoo Color
A few notes: - Some options in are consolidated in DAI's CC, such as Mouth Height/Depth in MEA is just Mouth Position in DAI.
- I'm not entirely sure why DAI has eye color in one category, and then outer/inner iris later in the creator.
- One of MEA's main strengths over DAI is hair. DAI doesn't have the same hair color variety and has over a dozen versions of bald or near-bald.
- It is much easier to make a believable non-white character in DAI.
- DAI's sculpting and scars blow MEA's out of the water.
- Dragon Age CCs have usually been more powerful, but they don't spend resources on marketing defaults in the same way.
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Post by Soulforge on Apr 16, 2017 4:10:58 GMT
I came to say I had a dream about Vetra last night where we snuggled and it was the best thing ever. That is all. That's a good dream. To celebrate, here's some NSFW F!Ryder/Vetra art.
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Post by Soulforge on Apr 16, 2017 2:41:30 GMT
I want to believe in Reyes, although the "duel" is really despicable... Some call it cheating, others call it cunning, clever or tactics. Or both. Despite my dislike of Reyes, I liked that they made him attempt this in the duel. It brings to mind that duels in the wild west were never as honorable as fiction usually portrays them.
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Post by Soulforge on Apr 16, 2017 2:36:58 GMT
No, refuse wouldn't make anything better. As much as I love the speech/delivery from both Shepards, or shooting the Catalyst, it throws away everyone in the galaxy. Personally I think if Synthesis didn't exist, we wouldn't have had to even go to Andromeda in the first place. But it does, and we did.
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Post by Soulforge on Apr 16, 2017 1:56:45 GMT
While I prefer repeating protagonists to watch them grow over time, I've always liked that Mass Effect and Dragon Age had that distinction between them. All I want is race/voice selection to stay. But for the past crop of protagonists, I don't see how the Warden on-screen could ever be done justice. My Hawkes turned out fine, minus purple Hawke not having as much snark as I would prefer, and recreating their appearances was a challenge. Inquisitor should be fine as an npc, and you'd really have to twist things to let them be playable again.
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Post by Soulforge on Apr 16, 2017 1:37:33 GMT
Reyes tries to fuck you over to fuck somebody else over and then calls people in for a one on one fights with snipers waiting. And positons himself right in front so he can look them in the eye while they go down. Thats not somebody you can trust but if you shoot someone like that youd wanna hope theyre dead. Picked Sloane, didn't shoot Reyes. Let the evolutionary process decide. "I'd never stab you in the back, Shepard. Warriors like you and me - straight to the face."
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Post by Soulforge on Apr 16, 2017 1:31:38 GMT
AVP rewards delivered from forward stations. No, I do not want to leave a planet every 30 minutes to watch the Tempest take off, pick up my Milky Way research, watch the Tempest land again, and then resume whatever I was doing. I'd also be okay with letting them accumulate without pickups instead.
On an unrealistic note, I'd eventually like the ability to assign armor stats in crafting. Something like crafting Hyperguardian armor with the stats of Kett or Heleus with N7 stats.
Oh, and spare clips mods not turning all my guns light red.
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Post by Soulforge on Apr 16, 2017 1:01:47 GMT
On my first file I saved Sloane on impulse, I have to admit it was fun having a decision like that be based on interrupts. I didn't like both of them personally, but Sloane is easier to predict than Reyes. I had him pegged for the Charlatan in his first meeting and questioned everything he said to Ryder from that point on. Finding the notes in the Collective base about putting on their best behavior when the Pathfinder is around didn't do him any favors either.
Personally I prefer my fairies microwaved.
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Post by Soulforge on Apr 16, 2017 0:17:01 GMT
Some companion customization needs to return, even if it is just limited to selecting the weapon a companion can use within a locked-in class. For example Cora being limited to shotguns, but the player deciding which shotgun she uses. They also need to bring back some armor customization for squadmates. I liked Peebee, but her spending the entire game running around with an exposed midriff and no proper combat armor killed suspension of disbelief. I didn't use her on on certain planets (Voeld, for instance) for that reason, even though I might have otherwise liked to. Yeah, I would've given Cora a decked out Crusader. I think Drack's weapon suits him, though the Claymore should've made it to Andromeda. It's really damn silly how the Initiative Krogan left all the preexisting Krogan guns in the Milky Way. I do think most of the squadmate weapons suited them though.
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Post by Soulforge on Apr 15, 2017 21:30:39 GMT
I didn't know anyone from BW read this forum, just assumed they didn't I guess. Without knowing what they were asking about still doesn't really change my opinion. Shutting down your own forums isn't exactly a sign you want feedback. /shrug But now they opened up to the "EA Answers HQ" for bug-reporting and "feedback". I sometimes suspect closing BSN was as much an EA move as it was BioWare's but that said we all know that BioWare employees started disliking their boards after David Gaider spoke out about how much toxicity there was. "BSN" is also notorious on other sites like Reddit and NeoGAF for being a shithole and people always talk about the user activity here as if we're a bunch of lunatics. Sometimes we are but I don't always get if the SP-boards, the MP-boards or the fandom-boards are the ones they're specifically thinking of. There's probably the most amount of toxicity going on in the story/writing-critiques thread and there was also the blunder on the old BSN where people photoshopped Dorian and Josephine to be white over "SJW-backlash" which offended everyone at NeoGAF and elsewhere. Tali sweat didn't exactly help the image of the boards either, lol. I remember Gaider getting blamed for every decision you could imagine, with some skewed perception that the writers have the final say.
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Post by Soulforge on Apr 15, 2017 21:24:00 GMT
...Meaningful feedback from twitter?
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Games: Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquistion, KOTOR, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Mass Effect Andromeda
Posts: 160 Likes: 327
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Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquistion, KOTOR, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Mass Effect Andromeda
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Post by Soulforge on Apr 15, 2017 10:01:38 GMT
Scale it down in terms of open world. I've only played DAI once, and I'm not sure that will ever change. The main story felt far too short and lacked impact. I'd rather have a well-told main story with great sidequests than vast empty maps with MMO style drudgery. Andromeda improved upon the formula, but not by much. I don't usually like open world, especially in BioWare games.
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Soulforge
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Games: Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquistion, KOTOR, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Mass Effect Andromeda
Posts: 160 Likes: 327
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Jun 24, 2017 19:04:54 GMT
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Soulforge
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Mar 17, 2017 22:21:25 GMT
March 2017
soulforge
Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquistion, KOTOR, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Mass Effect Andromeda
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Post by Soulforge on Apr 15, 2017 6:35:10 GMT
Despite being an unstoppable juggernaut of headbutting destruction, Shepard felt more relatable to me, mostly because of backgrounds. I personally related far more to a Spacer who signed up with the Alliance Navy because they were a military brat, rather than being one half of twins to a distant and awkward father that jumps galaxies. Aside from Hannah Shepard, players usually got to decide how their family life went.
But maybe that's also because of the Ryder family's presence in the story. Alec is supposed to be distant, and Ryder's reactions reflect that. But it's difficult to feel a connection to the twin. DAO did it surprisingly well for me, the origins that had families made me invested in a short amount of time, and successfully colored each Warden's world view. I think having the twin instead of Liam in the prologue might have helped.
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