Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

Oof, still writing dialogue then? That sounds like something done fairly early on in production.

Someone please tell me I'm wrong. :/

Edit: Is he talking about VO work? That would be better.

Well it is pre-production, so it doesn't surprise me they're still writing dialogue.

VO doesn't tend to happen until late in development. The story is going to evolve over over time. Some things get cut, some get changed, things get reflowed, and so on. So before you get people in the booth, you want to make sure as many things as possible (quests, etc.) are locked in. Even though you know that things can change right into the 11th hour.

From what I understand, they do make these notes (and act things out themselves to make sure the words feel right) at the writing stage, so when it eventually goes to VO they have some guidance.

It just sounds to me that he wants one of the other writers to change a line. Just a discussion the Writers' Pit.

Probably at this stage it's for a trailer. :::fingers crossed:::

To me Weekes sounds like he's talking to a writer, asking them to write a line with more growly sounding words so that the eventual delivery will be more growly and not asking the voice directing person to ask an actor to deliver it more growly. He's talking about a line and not delivery for one (and yes I realize it can mean both in this case but I'm still inclined to think writing rather than VO even if only Occam) and it's not that hard to intuit how a line will likely sound with how you're writing it if you're very familiar with the language (ie it's your first language).

I agree that the game is generally green-lit- but I think that this is because how much time and money was spent on development already. Though we do know that EA refused few concepts of a game in the past (the last soft reboot was before the end of 2018) and who knows when they will accept something and let Bioware enter the production.

As for the teaser- it was shown without EA consent, or, rather,, knowledge. Many insiders (and one of them I trust 100%) confirmed that Bioware went rogue with The DredWolfRises teaser.

I'm not speaking about the article. I'm speaking about a post of an ex Bioware employee who mentioned it& my friend, that currently works there confirmed that teaser on TGA was not something EA was aware of. 

I guess the decision to run the Dread wolf rises ultimately was Casey's. Unless the insider source is him who knows if was in contact with upper management or not. Casey hasn't been fired yet so...

Honestly, even if there's a kernel of truth there (for example, EA or part of BW not knowing all the details about the teaser before it aired or perhaps that going with the teaser on TGA was up in the air before Hudson's made the final decision), I think "BW/Casey going rogue" has been debunked already. If that really happened, we know journalists would be all over it, yet AFAIK those who write about Bioware seem to consider VentureBeat's news on that a flub.

The article that has spawned the rumor however does mention that "EA is a big company, and it’s possible that some people were in the loop. But Dragon Age 4’s tease on the BioWare blog was not typical and caught many within the company off-guard" - and I do believe that. As mentioned above, we can infer from Schreier's article that not everyone working for Bioware is in the loop about all projects (or their marketing strategies) at all times or in intimate detail. That would also explain why one supposed insider contacted/was contacted first by the site and made an impression that this was a rogue action, while other contacts (seemingly higher on the ladder) have denied it.