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Post by pessimistpanda on Dec 30, 2018 2:09:30 GMT
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Post by Giant Ambush Beetle on Dec 30, 2018 3:02:42 GMT
I'd like the combat to get fixed so it is more enjoyable. In Inquisition combat was a total grind due to a number of factors, like enemies and companions having way too much health / weapons dealing not enough damage. Most fights usually resulted in people and monster hack and slashing at each other for minutes. Only awesome button special attacks did some damage. Also there was an over-abundance of mooks, I'd vastly prefer to fight MUCH fewer but more interesting and varying enemies. I have played games like Baldur's gate trilogy, Icewind dale I & II and Inquisition was the first RPG that managed to wear me out with repeating, never ending mook battles.-
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Post by count Catwell on Dec 30, 2018 9:46:49 GMT
In Inquisition I noticed that you did a fantastic job with the male characters - Cullen, Alistair, Blackwall, Dorian etc. but made almost all female ones ugly ( except Vivienne - I think you did a great job with her). I'm not sure how to take this. I have to give you some credit for taste, since you approve of Vivienne's character design, which I agree is very good, but how can you say Cullen, Alistair and Blackwall were "fantastic"?? The roadkill wrapped around Cullen's neck was so distracting and over-the-top, it made his face look as plain as milquetoast. Alistair was definitely a downgrade from DAO. And Blackwall? He was all beard and no height. I've seen tree stumps with more character. Not to mention what a creepy stalker he was, and a liar. Dorian, okay, the 'Stache plays.I I meant that they did a better job with the male character's faces than with most of the female ones, not their in-game character development or fashion. I have the same opinion of Blackwall as you
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Post by Andraste_Reborn on Dec 30, 2018 10:11:52 GMT
Meanwhile, I think that Blackwall is hot like burning and my favourite Inquisition romance. Of course, I also think that Inquisition has the most collectively attractive bunch of BioWare companions ever and don't get it when people complain they're not hot enough.
Which just goes to show that there's no accounting for taste and you can't please all of the people all of the time, I guess.
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Post by cankiie on Dec 30, 2018 11:40:45 GMT
Meanwhile, I think that Blackwall is hot like burning and my favourite Inquisition romance. Of course, I also think that Inquisition has the most collectively attractive bunch of BioWare companions ever and don't get it when people complain they're not hot enough. Which just goes to show that there's no accounting for taste and you can't please all of the people all of the time, I guess. I mean, I am not surprised that women and some homosexual men might consider Cassandra 'hot' I am surprised that some straight men consider her 'hot'
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Post by river82 on Dec 30, 2018 11:52:39 GMT
I'd like the combat to get fixed so it is more enjoyable. In Inquisition combat was a total grind due to a number of factors, like enemies and companions having way too much health / weapons dealing not enough damage. Most fights usually resulted in people and monster hack and slashing at each other for minutes. Only awesome button special attacks did some damage. Also there was an over-abundance of mooks, I'd vastly prefer to fight MUCH fewer but more interesting and varying enemies. I have played games like Baldur's gate trilogy, Icewind dale I & II and Inquisition was the first RPG that managed to wear me out with repeating, never ending mook battles.- Combat was a mess in Inquisition. So was exploration actually. Those are the 2 areas I would like Bioware to focus on for DA:4 (presuming it will be open world).
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Post by vertigomez on Dec 30, 2018 17:18:04 GMT
Meanwhile, I think that Blackwall is hot like burning and my favourite Inquisition romance. Of course, I also think that Inquisition has the most collectively attractive bunch of BioWare companions ever and don't get it when people complain they're not hot enough. Which just goes to show that there's no accounting for taste and you can't please all of the people all of the time, I guess. Right, and when people say Sera looks like a troll or Josephine has a horse face but Cullen is supposed to be the super hottest thing ever I'm just like... wtf?!? Different strokes for different folks.
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Post by ahglock on Dec 30, 2018 17:26:22 GMT
Meanwhile, I think that Blackwall is hot like burning and my favourite Inquisition romance. Of course, I also think that Inquisition has the most collectively attractive bunch of BioWare companions ever and don't get it when people complain they're not hot enough. Which just goes to show that there's no accounting for taste and you can't please all of the people all of the time, I guess. I mean, I am not surprised that women and some homosexual men might consider Cassandra 'hot' I am surprised that some straight men consider her 'hot' She’s reasonably attractive physically but I wouldn’t say hot. She’s repulsive in every other way.
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Post by House Targaryen on Dec 30, 2018 18:58:59 GMT
Meanwhile, I think that Blackwall is hot like burning and my favourite Inquisition romance. Of course, I also think that Inquisition has the most collectively attractive bunch of BioWare companions ever and don't get it when people complain they're not hot enough. Which just goes to show that there's no accounting for taste and you can't please all of the people all of the time, I guess. I mean, I am not surprised that women and some homosexual men might consider Cassandra 'hot' I am surprised that some straight men consider her 'hot' Not even close to being hot. She's ok looking.
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Post by PapaCharlie9 on Dec 30, 2018 21:32:11 GMT
I mean, I am not surprised that women and some homosexual men might consider Cassandra 'hot' I am surprised that some straight men consider her 'hot' She’s reasonably attractive physically but I wouldn’t say hot. She’s repulsive in every other way. C'mon, now. That voice and that accent ...
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Post by river82 on Dec 30, 2018 21:38:59 GMT
She’s reasonably attractive physically but I wouldn’t say hot. She’s repulsive in every other way. C'mon, now. That voice and that accent ... Fake French?
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Post by PapaCharlie9 on Dec 30, 2018 21:43:48 GMT
C'mon, now. That voice and that accent ... Fake French? As if "fake" somehow diminishes hotness. If that were so, a lot of plastic surgeons would be out of business. BTW, everyone's favorite poster girl for hot video game females -- Yennefer -- is totally fake. Her look is all magic, all glamour. She was born a hunchback.
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Post by cankiie on Dec 30, 2018 22:10:54 GMT
As if "fake" somehow diminishes hotness. If that were so, a lot of plastic surgeons would be out of business. BTW, everyone's favorite poster girl for hot video game females -- Yennefer -- is totally fake. Her look is all magic, all glamour. She was born a hunchback. Does not look like much of a hunchback afterwards though
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Post by river82 on Dec 30, 2018 22:15:08 GMT
She was born a hunchback. Papacharlie9 killing the wet dreams of straight male gamers everywhere 0.0
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Post by House Targaryen on Dec 30, 2018 22:37:06 GMT
C'mon, now. That voice and that accent ... Fake French? Miranda Raison speaks fluent French.
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Post by arvaarad on Dec 30, 2018 22:52:40 GMT
I'd like the combat to get fixed so it is more enjoyable. In Inquisition combat was a total grind due to a number of factors, like enemies and companions having way too much health / weapons dealing not enough damage. Most fights usually resulted in people and monster hack and slashing at each other for minutes. Only awesome button special attacks did some damage. You’re looking for abilities with sunder or armor penetration. Dollars to donuts, if your damage feels too low and it’s not getting fixed with equipment or leveling, it’s an armor thing. To clarify, I don’t mean “guard”. Armor isn’t the same as guard. Armor is the little number that appears near a creature’s health bar. It will look like a pretty small number relative to their HP, but the reason it’s a problem is because it reduces base weapon damage. Not weapon DPS. Not weapon damage after all your traits modify it. Base damage. So you can have all the strength, dex, or attack speed in the world, and the armor will keep scaling with your multipliers, because it gets multiplied too. Once the party has some ways to deal with armor, you can also look at things like positioning/timing. Rogues get a huge damage bonus if flanking in melee (even as archers) or when attacking from stealth, so spend the bigger abilities when you’re getting the biggest bonus. And things like Mark of Death, Horn of Valor, Pitch Grenade, and Mighty Offense Tonic should also be timed to happen when everyone has their big DPS available. Then if you want to get extra fancy, you can throw in abilities like Pincushion, which gives a stacking damage bonus that’s actually most useful for dagger rogues, since they attack the fastest. Give Sera daggers, Pincushion, Mighty Offense, and Flask of Lightning, and she will autoattack the enemies into a pulp. Throw in Cole’s Mark of Death and a Pitch Grenade while she does it, and even on Nightmare, Saarath will die before summoning any demons. And glitch out in midair when he does.
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Post by PapaCharlie9 on Dec 31, 2018 19:10:41 GMT
It's kind of weird to be talking about fake French anyway, since not-fake would mean Orlesian, or in the case of Cassandra specifically, Nevarran. Kind of like how an authentic West Country British accent is fake Fereldan.
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Post by taarsidathanhalsaam on Dec 31, 2018 19:26:21 GMT
4) Please stop with that social justice thing. You didn't have any problem with its absence from Origins, you even had a higher approval rating, you won't have a problem without it in the next Dragon Age 4, I can guarantee. If you really, really and I do mean REALLY have and want to make some sort of social message than please HINT it more elegantly and with more finesse. Don bash us on the head and face with it. Please give more credit to your audience. We are not five-year-olds, we'll understand it if you don't spit it out for us I don’t want to derail this thread, but... how did the “social messages” in Inquisition bash us on the head any more than in Origins? Origins had TONS of LGBT representation and feminist messages. When I played Origins and saw that the religion was “the pope and all priests are women, also we worship genderbent Jesus” I was like “wow, how did they get away with that?” Two bisexual party members, plenty of bisexual secondary characters, and your own character can be gay, lesbian, bi whatever you want! Not to mention all the powerful female combatants in your party and in every major battle cutscene (look at Ostagar cinematic again and youll see female warriors and beastmasters). I’m not gonna try to tell you you can’t dislike having social justice messages in your games, but Origins had pretty much the same level of progressive politics as Inquisition did.
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Post by cankiie on Dec 31, 2018 19:37:33 GMT
4) Please stop with that social justice thing. You didn't have any problem with its absence from Origins, you even had a higher approval rating, you won't have a problem without it in the next Dragon Age 4, I can guarantee. If you really, really and I do mean REALLY have and want to make some sort of social message than please HINT it more elegantly and with more finesse. Don bash us on the head and face with it. Please give more credit to your audience. We are not five-year-olds, we'll understand it if you don't spit it out for us I don’t want to derail this thread, but... how did the “social messages” in Inquisition bash us on the head any more than in Origins? Origins had TONS of LGBT representation and feminist messages. When I played Origins and saw that the religion was “the pope and all priests are women, also we worship genderbent Jesus” I was like “wow, how did they get away with that?” Two bisexual party members, plenty of bisexual secondary characters, and your own character can be gay, lesbian, bi whatever you want! Not to mention all the powerful female combatants in your party and in every major battle cutscene (look at Ostagar cinematic again and youll see female warriors and beastmasters). I’m not gonna try to tell you you can’t dislike having social justice messages in your games, but Origins had pretty much the same level of progressive politics as Inquisition did. I honestly think a big difference between then and now. Is that game developers and producers now are far more loud-mouthed about their policies than they have been in the past. This means that now people look at games as a political statement and people tend to divide at politics, by making a statement about how a game or a movie or any kind of product shall now support a specific kind of politics it immediately opens up a whole can of worms. Above, I think, is where the biggest problem lies, because as you mentioned no one really gave much of a s--- back in Origins, as a matter of fact, very few people truly gave a s--- about any games and their attempts at making political statements. It also kinda proves that one of John Epler's various statements which has lead to a plethora of what 'count Catwell' mentioned: "It is easier to ignore the politics when you agree with it" is kinda bullshit. Most people who play video games, do not in reality, actually care about a political stance in a video game. What they care about is having a great game. We have some who care about representation and all that, fair enough. But the people who are usually blamed for this and that? They don't really care. Lara Croft, Tomb Raider, was quite popular too before this entire debacle of politics in games (and representation) being extremely important. Now, it is not to justify what count Catwell said. But it might just give people a better understanding why the climate is what it is today. Or, well, it is my take on it at least
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Post by taarsidathanhalsaam on Dec 31, 2018 19:48:55 GMT
I respect that stance Cankiie, as I can see why it seems that way to observers today.
However, during the time of DA:origins and the original mass effect there WERE people who very much gave a shit about the social messages that games sent.
Don’t forget that it was the conservative social warriors that raised moral outrage over our games back then. The Jack Thompsons and the Fox News of the world saw sexualized content in our games as immoral. Don’t forget Which president is going around blaming gun violence on violent video games in the modern day.
The progressive social warriors can be annoying when they always want to feel included in stuff, but its the other side that has more consistently made gamers the scapegoat of the week, and tried to censor and impose their vision on gaming.
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Post by cankiie on Dec 31, 2018 19:58:06 GMT
I respect that stance Cankiie, as I can see why it seems that way to observers today. However, during the time of DA:origins and the original mass effect there WERE people who very much gave a shit about the social messages that games sent. Don’t forget that it was the conservative social warriors that raised moral outrage over our games back then. The Jack Thompsons and the Fox News of the world saw sexualized content in our games as immoral. Don’t forget Which president is going around blaming gun violence on violent video games in the modern day. The progressive social warriors can be annoying when they always want to feel included in stuff, but its the other side that has more consistently made gamers the scapegoat of the week, and tried to censor and impose their vision on gaming. Now I am also afraid we might end up derailing the thread. But you gotta remember, those were not the "gamers" themselves complaining about video games and politics. I hate labeling because the world is far more nuanced than basic labeling, but I digress. The real problem with 'gamers' and generally movies and what not, came when developers and producers began mentioning political beliefs, and came out with political statements and so on. It could also very well be, that gamers regardless of their own political stance found a common enemy in the media and politicians Btw, I did not really point out WHICH political statements was made, left or right, just that the problem really occurred once the game-developers started throwing it out there. John Epler was an example to something entirely different.
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Post by taarsidathanhalsaam on Dec 31, 2018 20:12:04 GMT
The real problem with 'gamers' and generally movies and what not, came when developers and producers began mentioning political beliefs, and came out with political statements and so on. It could also very well be, that gamers regardless of their own political stance found a common enemy in the media and politicians Btw, I did not really point out WHICH political statements was made, left or right, just that the problem really occurred once the game-developers started throwing it out there. John Epler was an example to something entirely different. Thats only if the “problem” in question is “game-developers talking about their political beliefs on twitter or wherever it is that people are reading them”. If that truly is the problem people are so up in arms about then fair enough, thats a new problem thats only recently become a thing. But these same devs would have put these same “political statements” in their games even in the past, they just wouldn’t have bothered talking about it on twitter. I think we agreed earlier that this is how it happened for Dragon Age: Origins? And then once these “political statements” like puting this or that minority or LGBT person in the game was included, then some media pundit would have made a stink about it, and the players would be having this same argument about politics. Basically, I’m just disagreeing with the good Count Catwell’s insinuation that only recently has the dev’s political beliefs/statements been inserted into the series.
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Post by cankiie on Dec 31, 2018 20:20:29 GMT
The real problem with 'gamers' and generally movies and what not, came when developers and producers began mentioning political beliefs, and came out with political statements and so on. It could also very well be, that gamers regardless of their own political stance found a common enemy in the media and politicians Btw, I did not really point out WHICH political statements was made, left or right, just that the problem really occurred once the game-developers started throwing it out there. John Epler was an example to something entirely different. Thats only if the “problem” in question is “game-developers talking about their political beliefs on twitter or wherever it is that people are reading them”. If that truly is the problem people are so up in arms about then fair enough, thats a new problem thats only recently become a thing. But these same devs would have put these same “political statements” in their games even in the past, they just wouldn’t have bothered talking about it on twitter. I think we agreed earlier that this is how it happened for Dragon Age: Origins? And then once these “political statements” like puting this or that minority or LGBT person in the game was included, then some media pundit would have made a stink about it, and the players would be having this same argument about politics. Basically, I’m just disagreeing with the good Count Catwell’s insinuation that only recently has the dev’s political beliefs/statements been inserted into the series. Indeed. That was my point, back then the game developers themselves didn't really announce their political beliefs out loud. And because Origins as an example had political statements in it, I concluded that most gamers in actuality don't really care about these statements, but they just care about having a great game.
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Post by Ieldra on Dec 31, 2018 20:25:45 GMT
I don’t want to derail this thread, but... how did the “social messages” in Inquisition bash us on the head any more than in Origins? Origins had TONS of LGBT representation and feminist messages. When I played Origins and saw that the religion was “the pope and all priests are women, also we worship genderbent Jesus” I was like “wow, how did they get away with that?” Two bisexual party members, plenty of bisexual secondary characters, and your own character can be gay, lesbian, bi whatever you want! Not to mention all the powerful female combatants in your party and in every major battle cutscene (look at Ostagar cinematic again and youll see female warriors and beastmasters). I’m not gonna try to tell you you can’t dislike having social justice messages in your games, but Origins had pretty much the same level of progressive politics as Inquisition did. I honestly think a big difference between then and now. Is that game developers and producers now are far more loud-mouthed about their policies than they have been in the past. This means that now people look at games as a political statement and people tend to divide at politics, by making a statement about how a game or a movie or any kind of product shall now support a specific kind of politics it immediately opens up a whole can of worms. Above, I think, is where the biggest problem lies, because as you mentioned no one really gave much of a s--- back in Origins, as a matter of fact, very few people truly gave a s--- about any games and their attempts at making political statements. It also kinda proves that one of John Epler's various statements which has lead to a plethora of what 'count Catwell' mentioned: "It is easier to ignore the politics when you agree with it" is kinda bullshit. Most people who play video games, do not in reality, actually care about a political stance in a video game. What they care about is having a great game. We have some who care about representation and all that, fair enough. But the people who are usually blamed for this and that? They don't really care. Lara Croft, Tomb Raider, was quite popular too before this entire debacle of politics in games (and representation) being extremely important. Now, it is not to justify what count Catwell said. But it might just give people a better understanding why the climate is what it is today. Or, well, it is my take on it at least I recall when DAO came out, I didn't even realize the setup was viewed as something special and politically relevant by some. For me, it was just how that fictional world worked. And that's that only way something like this can ever work for me, since when I play I want to be in the fictional world. These days, as you say, the voices are much louder and it's annoying and intrusive.
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