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Post by vertigomez on Jan 4, 2019 1:20:58 GMT
Something I'd like to see in the CC: the ability to change each eye individually. I remember you could do this in Skyrim. You could give your character heterochromia, you could make one eye blind, etc. That was really cool and added a lot to character customization.
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Post by phoray on Jan 4, 2019 1:32:56 GMT
What if you could scar close an eye? like where there is this awful scar and it makes your eyelid scar closed. or is that only for people who lost an eye?
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Post by vertigomez on Jan 4, 2019 2:34:46 GMT
What if you could scar close an eye? like where there is this awful scar and it makes your eyelid scar closed. or is that only for people who lost an eye? Hmm, I don't know.... I'm not sure what would make the eyelid stay permanently shut, unless it was the way the scar tissue developed? I know with modern eye injuries, if they have to remove the eye then they fill the socket with flesh from elsewhere for cosmetic and health reasons, so it looks less sunken-in and because otherwise it's just a big hole right by your brain that can get a horrible infection pretty quickly. I would think that having a functioning eyeball but not being able to open it would cause some sort of infection too, but I'm no expert.
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Post by phoray on Jan 4, 2019 2:39:33 GMT
*waves hands around* you and your realism. IB got a patch, wonder how they packed it back in the Qun.
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Post by vertigomez on Jan 4, 2019 3:19:20 GMT
*waves hands around* you and your realism. IB got a patch, wonder how they packed it back in the Qun. Details, minor details! Dunno about Bull, but it happened while he was down south, so maybe Stitches took care of it?
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Post by coldsteelblue on Jan 4, 2019 10:42:10 GMT
Glass eye?
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Post by vertigomez on Jan 4, 2019 15:36:20 GMT
In vidya game graphics, it would probably be indistinguishable from a normal eye.
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Post by noviere on Jan 4, 2019 21:49:55 GMT
One thing I hope they don't do is use that face scan thing they did in Andromeda. I found it really limited what could be done with faces in terms of customization. I'd prefer a lower fidelity if it meant more variety.
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Post by coldsteelblue on Jan 4, 2019 23:19:20 GMT
In vidya game graphics, it would probably be indistinguishable from a normal eye.
Yeah, true I suppose.
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Post by phoray on Jan 4, 2019 23:23:48 GMT
In vidya game graphics, it would probably be indistinguishable from a normal eye. Not of they go Mad Eye Moody with it!
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Post by Ieldra on Jan 5, 2019 11:02:30 GMT
One wonders - aren't there people anymore who want to play a regular, moderately good-looking guy or girl? I made one in DAI, and she still looked very distinctive, so there's no need for extreme measures if you want to look unique.
And that's what I want to do in DA4: play a moderately good-looking person and romance - if I'm to engage in one - another moderately good-looking person without any visible defects except maybe a non-disfiguring scar. I greatly resent I couldn't do that in MEA,btw.: they all looked like radioactive vegetables from space.
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Post by cankiie on Jan 5, 2019 12:05:47 GMT
One wonders - aren't there people anymore who want to play a regular, moderately good-looking guy or girl? I made one in DAI, and she still looked very distinctive, so there's no need for extreme measures if you want to look unique.
And that's what I want to do in DA4: play a moderately good-looking person and romance - if I'm to engage in one - another moderately good-looking person without any visible defects except maybe a non-disfiguring scar. I greatly resent I couldn't do that in MEA,btw.: they all looked like radioactive vegetables from space.
Pretty females appeals to the male fantasy though, and we can't have that in a fictional world! Can't find similar inane excuse for having handsome men though!
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Post by vertigomez on Jan 5, 2019 12:19:38 GMT
One wonders - aren't there people anymore who want to play a regular, moderately good-looking guy or girl? I made one in DAI, and she still looked very distinctive, so there's no need for extreme measures if you want to look unique.
And that's what I want to do in DA4: play a moderately good-looking person and romance - if I'm to engage in one - another moderately good-looking person without any visible defects except maybe a non-disfiguring scar. I greatly resent I couldn't do that in MEA,btw.: they all looked like radioactive vegetables from space.
I mean, I can play one of those in DAO and DA2 and almost every other RPG in existence. As far as scars and the like - "visible defects" - I just like them because they show my character's been in battle, that their lifestyle has taken a toll on their body. My Inquisitor is a regular, moderately good-looking qunari woman who also happens to have a few scars from living a mercenary's life. I consider all of my characters attractive; scars and missing limbs or a hypothetical missing eye don't detract from that a bit.
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Post by Andraste_Reborn on Jan 5, 2019 12:24:24 GMT
One wonders - aren't there people anymore who want to play a regular, moderately good-looking guy or girl?
Sure! However, I think that definitions of 'regular' and 'moderately good-looking' vary more widely than you might think.
I mean, one one the reasons I love playing dwarves - especially in DAO - is that I am built waaaaaaay more like your typical fantasy dwarf lady than any human woman I have ever been able to play as in any video game, even though DAO dwarves are about a foot shorter than I am. I don't always want to play as some weirdly tall and skinny person. (Which is not to say I won't play protagonists who are tall skinny humans or short skinny elves or tall buff qunari. Or men of all kinds, for that matter. But it's nice to have the option to stay short and broad and curvy and sturdy like I am IRL and also save the world.)
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Post by Ieldra on Jan 5, 2019 12:58:54 GMT
One wonders - aren't there people anymore who want to play a regular, moderately good-looking guy or girl? I made one in DAI, and she still looked very distinctive, so there's no need for extreme measures if you want to look unique.
And that's what I want to do in DA4: play a moderately good-looking person and romance - if I'm to engage in one - another moderately good-looking person without any visible defects except maybe a non-disfiguring scar. I greatly resent I couldn't do that in MEA,btw.: they all looked like radioactive vegetables from space.
Pretty females appeals to the male fantasy though, and we can't have that in a fictional world! Can't find similar inane excuse for having handsome men though! There's a reason why they're the male fantasy, and there's also no reason not to cater to it at times. Personality is the more important factor, sure, but no matter which sex I play - and I play both - I rather prefer to be somewhat good-looking, and have my romance options be the same.
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Post by Ieldra on Jan 5, 2019 13:10:51 GMT
One wonders - aren't there people anymore who want to play a regular, moderately good-looking guy or girl?
Sure! However, I think that definitions of 'regular' and 'moderately good-looking' vary more widely than you might think.
I mean, one one the reasons I love playing dwarves - especially in DAO - is that I am built waaaaaaay more like your typical fantasy dwarf lady than any human woman I have ever been able to play as in any video game, even though DAO dwarves are about a foot shorter than I am. I don't always want to play as some weirdly tall and skinny person. (Which is not to say I won't play protagonists who are tall skinny humans or short skinny elves or tall buff qunari. Or men of all kinds, for that matter. But it's nice to have the option to stay short and broad and curvy and sturdy like I am IRL and also save the world.)
Perception varies of course - my ex-gf was 152cm and as a matter of course I liked her that way a great deal I was mainly arguing against the perceived need to give your characters (and NPCs) all sorts of unusual features - some of them detrimental by any reasonable measure - in order to make them "more unique". Also, while on such feature might serve its purpose well enough, combining several will actually be detrimental as far as I'm concerned.
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Post by cankiie on Jan 5, 2019 15:27:09 GMT
There's a reason why they're the male fantasy, and there's also no reason not to cater to it at times. Well, that remains to be seen I'd say. Personality is the more important factor, sure, but no matter which sex I play - and I play both - I rather prefer to be somewhat good-looking, and have my romance options be the same. Overall, I just presented one excuse given as to why we should not have pretty women or handsome men in our video games. It is not my excuse, but it is one given by certain groups of people. I am happy to report that a large group of people who actually enjoy video games, and actually do pay for and play video games agree, that playing an aesthetically pleasing character, and looking at aesthetically pleasing NPCs is preferable, so that fantasy is not necessarily reserved to men. That said. It is easy to tell what men might find to be attractive. It is not as easy for women, perhaps, Jason Momoa is the latest new craze and I believe it is because he just emits masculinity all over.
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Post by colfoley on Jan 5, 2019 18:27:14 GMT
See though beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I personally condider Cass and Josie two of the most attractive women in gaming.
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Post by vertigomez on Jan 5, 2019 21:36:26 GMT
the perceived need to give your characters (and NPCs) all sorts of unusual features - some of them detrimental by any reasonable measure - in order to make them "more unique". Also, while on such feature might serve its purpose well enough, combining several will actually be detrimental as far as I'm concerned. Well, I can only speak for myself but for me it's not about making them a super unique special snowflake - it's more that I'm surprised that people who fight so much don't have more injuries. I really appreciate that Bull had scars, a missing eye, and wore a leg brace because as a soldier-turned-mercenary in his late thirties(??) that seems pretty realistic to me. Though I'm not sure what you mean by detrimental? The only comment people have in-universe in RPGs is just to say how good-looking you are, even if you deliberately clown it up in the CC. 😛
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Jan 5, 2019 21:42:32 GMT
the perceived need to give your characters (and NPCs) all sorts of unusual features - some of them detrimental by any reasonable measure - in order to make them "more unique". Also, while on such feature might serve its purpose well enough, combining several will actually be detrimental as far as I'm concerned. Well, I can only speak for myself but for me it's not about making them a super unique special snowflake - it's more that I'm surprised that people who fight so much don't have more injuries. I really appreciate that Bull had scars, a missing eye, and wore a leg brace because as a soldier-turned-mercenary in his late thirties(??) that seems pretty realistic to me. Though I'm not sure what you mean by detrimental? The only comment people have in-universe in RPGs is just to say how good-looking you are, even if you deliberately clown it up in the CC. 😛 I can only imagine when a video game is developed well enough for the AI to recognize and react to that.
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Post by colfoley on Jan 5, 2019 21:56:37 GMT
Well, I can only speak for myself but for me it's not about making them a super unique special snowflake - it's more that I'm surprised that people who fight so much don't have more injuries. I really appreciate that Bull had scars, a missing eye, and wore a leg brace because as a soldier-turned-mercenary in his late thirties(??) that seems pretty realistic to me. Though I'm not sure what you mean by detrimental? The only comment people have in-universe in RPGs is just to say how good-looking you are, even if you deliberately clown it up in the CC. 😛 I can only imagine when a video game is developed well enough for the AI to recognize and react to that. could you imagine though if it is the same line just different delivery. "You're pretty." "You're....*awkward grimace* kinda pretty"
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Post by gaycaravaggio on Jan 6, 2019 7:41:42 GMT
Did anyone say stat distribution yet? I want to be able to control it like in Origins and DA2. If I want to play a high-constitution mage, then gosh darn it I should be able to.
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Post by Ieldra on Jan 6, 2019 10:09:54 GMT
the perceived need to give your characters (and NPCs) all sorts of unusual features - some of them detrimental by any reasonable measure - in order to make them "more unique". Also, while on such feature might serve its purpose well enough, combining several will actually be detrimental as far as I'm concerned. Well, I can only speak for myself but for me it's not about making them a super unique special snowflake - it's more that I'm surprised that people who fight so much don't have more injuries. I really appreciate that Bull had scars, a missing eye, and wore a leg brace because as a soldier-turned-mercenary in his late thirties(??) that seems pretty realistic to me. Though I'm not sure what you mean by detrimental? The only comment people have in-universe in RPGs is just to say how good-looking you are, even if you deliberately clown it up in the CC. 😛 That Bioware games are too stupid to recognize it doesn't mean having one eye or hand isn't detrimental. I am unwilling to dispose of that consideration when I play.
Also, there are actually games which recognize such things, which give you options for physical disadvantages such as "one eye, -5 to all ranged attacks" or "disfiguring scar, -2 to all reactions", though of course that's balanced by giving you additional character points as a rule. Finally, I recall the funny conversations that could ensue if you played a really stupid character in Fallout 1 or 2. It's just that Bioware chose to largely decouple roleplaying from game mechanics, at least as much as they could get away with. It lessens the experience considerably, BTW., which was brought home to me recently again while playing Pillars of Eternity 1+2 - you don't have a personal disadvantage system at character creation there, it's all built into the races and classes, but you can select cross-class/race perks while you play, and those as well as your stats, your race and your class all affect conversations.
To wish for something similar would probably go against Bioware's design philosophy but I'd still like to see something similar almost more than anything else I've read in these wishlist threads.
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Post by arvaarad on Jan 6, 2019 11:03:02 GMT
Did anyone say stat distribution yet? I want to be able to control it like in Origins and DA2. If I want to play a high-constitution mage, then gosh darn it I should be able to. Is this more a matter of “conceptually, I want stats to be intrinsic to the character rather than provided by armor and weapons” or is it more “armor and weapons aren’t providing enough control over stats”?
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Post by cankiie on Jan 6, 2019 11:31:01 GMT
Did anyone say stat distribution yet? I want to be able to control it like in Origins and DA2. If I want to play a high-constitution mage, then gosh darn it I should be able to. Hear hear! The time for the type of armour utility slot deciding what stat my character has, should be over! Armour can help boost a specific. But I too want the stat-points back! I remember my plate wearing, dual-wielding arcane warrior back in DA:O.... good times
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