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Post by Gileadan on Sept 24, 2024 17:51:29 GMT
Uh? Gee, I don't know, maybe because BioWare made it about the companions? Companionship is fine. Romances are fine. The degree to which people take it, especially when it comes to Solas, is a kind of extreme >_> Well, what would you think about a person in real life who just can't stop talking about their ex for ten years...?
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Post by ellanathehamster on Sept 24, 2024 17:57:03 GMT
WE. WERE. ON. A. BREAK!
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Post by Andrew Waples on Sept 24, 2024 18:03:12 GMT
EA:"pre-orders are within expectations." Some gamers: "THEY'RE LYING. EA BAD."
I guess they don't realize that lying to your shareholders/investors is bad.
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Post by IllustriousT on Sept 24, 2024 18:07:07 GMT
EA:"pre-orders are within expectations." Some gamers: "THEY'RE LYING. EA BAD." I guess they don't realize that lying to your shareholders/investors is bad. It's still early too. I will preorder like a couple days before it's release.
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Post by OhDaniGirl on Sept 24, 2024 18:25:16 GMT
pulverize Emmrich's hipbones Goodness me. I don't know if I should run further away, or go join the fun.
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Post by midnight tea on Sept 24, 2024 18:28:39 GMT
Uh? Gee, I don't know, maybe because BioWare made it about the companions? Companionship is fine. Romances are fine. The degree to which people take it, especially when it comes to Solas, is a kind of extreme >_> Well, you say that, but what I saw on BSN doesn't come near what can be found on (former) Twitter, where devs can see comments that declare that they'll pulverize Emmrich's hipbones Like, nothing can really prepare a person for how openly thirsty Twitter fandom is (I saw the same with BG3), which is very weird to me, since it's prolly the place where things (still) have a high chance of reaching the devs or VA, and... well, I get hyperbole or humorously hamming things up, but I'd sooner dig to the Earth's core with a spoon than send a comment publicly declaring I'd bone a character "till the room becomes a biohazard" (edit: had to re-send the post)
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Post by colfoley on Sept 24, 2024 18:30:03 GMT
I think Bioware probably wants to have some balance between revealing too much vs too little about the companions. We have already some ideas on how the companions work in the game. I don't recall how DAI was marketed. Did we know about DAI companions equally before launch or did we know more about some and less about others? honestly a huge step up thing from DAI. I remember them saying they would reveal more about the companions but somehow never did basically just marketing some but not all.
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Post by colfoley on Sept 24, 2024 18:32:09 GMT
Companionship is fine. Romances are fine. The degree to which people take it, especially when it comes to Solas, is a kind of extreme >_> Well, you say that, but what; I saw on BSN don't come near what can be found on (former Twitter, where devs can see comments that declare that they'll pulverize Emmrich's hipbones Like, nothing can really prepare a person how openly thirsty Twitter fandom is (I saw the same with BG3), which is very weird to me, since it's prolly the place where things we (still) have a high chance of reaching the devs or VA, and... well, I get hyperbole or humorously hamming things up, but I'd sooner dig to the Earth's core with a spoon than send a comment publicly declaring I'd bone a character "till the room becomes a biohazard" (edit: had to re-send the post) IDK think a lot of people embrace it for some reason. Just saw ANOTHER IGN vid like this week of Lae'zel and Shadowhearts voice actors reading thirsty internet comments.
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Post by biggydx on Sept 24, 2024 18:34:36 GMT
Companionship is fine. Romances are fine. The degree to which people take it, especially when it comes to Solas, is a kind of extreme >_> Well, you say that, but what I saw on BSN doesn't come near what can be found on (former) Twitter, where devs can see comments that declare that they'll pulverize Emmrich's hipbones Like, nothing can really prepare a person how openly thirsty Twitter fandom is (I saw the same with BG3), which is very weird to me, since it's prolly the place where things we (still) have a high chance of reaching the devs or VA, and... well, I get hyperbole or humorously hamming things up, but I'd sooner dig to the Earth's core with a spoon than send a comment publicly declaring I'd bone a character "till the room becomes a biohazard" (edit: had to re-send the post) I swear there's gotta be a Venn diagram somewhere with the overlap between Dragon Age players and Hazbin Hotel watchers.
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Post by sloth on Sept 24, 2024 19:03:10 GMT
there is a Playstation State of Play happening today, right?
I guess it's possible that they'll show something about DA:TV?
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Post by Reznore on Sept 24, 2024 19:04:43 GMT
Bioware started it. #RideTheBull
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Post by sjsharp2010 on Sept 24, 2024 19:16:06 GMT
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Post by sjsharp2010 on Sept 24, 2024 19:32:25 GMT
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Post by flyingovertrout on Sept 24, 2024 19:32:53 GMT
I hope Emmerich will be a cool mentor figure for my Mourn Watch Rook. I 'll probably feel really bad about getting Greatly Disapproves from him, though.
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Post by illuminated11 on Sept 24, 2024 20:17:53 GMT
So, I didn’t get into the community until way after DAI had come out, so all I know is from what I’ve been told (mostly from here, actually). Supposedly some people, including gays, didn’t appreciate Dorian’s personal quest. It was a whole thing and DG got a lot of hate for it, from all sides. Since he wrote Dorian’s quest based on personal feelings, It’s not impossible PW has done the same with Taash and fears the same reaction. That’s all I was saying. I can try to break it down from my experience: IIRC some people (I assume genuinely) misunderstood Dorian's personal quest, thinking it was about his dad being upset that Dorian is gay specifically (yes that's the real life subtext) more than it being about Dorian not willing suck it up and procreate for the legacy of the family (the totally lore-accurate in-setting reason). There's also the blood-magic-mind-control-Dorian-into-conforming thing being analogous to real-life staying in the closet and 'conversion therapy'. I can understand getting mixed up because the writing works on two levels--one for the characters and one for the audience (like imo good writing should)... and sometimes our media literacy just fails us and we miss the point. Then there are others who say they get it but they consider that "injecting politics in my escapism" and that it's preachy and divisive and 'bad writing.' That's certainly an opinion but I like it when fiction has something relevant to say (and would rather someone attempt to do so clumsily, than not say much at all, or say something but not have the courage to be anything but wishy-washy about it) so I can't sympathize much. Then finally there are just the plain bigoted assholes who think they're being sly by hiding behind one of the previous camps, supposedly concerned about lore or historical accuracy or writing quality but they're usually very bad at obfuscating their visceral disgust for gay people for too long. From what I've heard from people in the gay community, some of them also took umbrage with the sense that Dorian was written to be a "gay best friend" to female Inquisitors first, and a gay man second. I think that's unfair to Gaider, personally, since he poured his heart out into the character, but it's worth acknowledging.
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