Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

This sound for me like Mary Kirby with Lucanis.
Maybe Neve and him wheren't romances first, but have to be beacuse of less companions?

I didn't say it's a fact, I explicitly said that's the feeling I get. It's pure speculation.but I'm hardly the only one who feels this way.

As for hardships of development, most certainly, I don't want to downplay the fact EA can be dicks. I just think it didn't stop Bioware before from delivering in the things they were known for so many years (story characters lore) even if other technical aspects tended to suck (yeah I'm referring specifically to DA2)

The fact is I think this game is bad (before anyone jumps at me, I'm not saying it's a fact the game is bad, just that it's a fact I think it's bad, please pay attention to the difference) makes me want to try and analyze why that is.

Now it could be the people in Bioware weren't competent enough to create something good out of the shit storm EA left them (if that is the case, which is not so hard to believe)

But many people in Bioware proved before they are very competent game makers... That's why I raised the "not care" speculation.

And when I say they don't care I don't mean they hate Dragon Age now and want to destroy it. Life is not so black and white. In my mind it's just more akin to a dungeon master that got dungeon master fatigue, even though he created his own world, something made him tired of keep developing it.

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I explained it yesterday, but the short version is that if you hear "x is bad" when discussing media and immediately assume the writer thinks it's a fact, it seems like bad faith to me. If I say a piece of media is good or bad I would have to be a major asshole to think it's a fact and not my opinion. If you assume I'm a major asshole it says more about you than me I think (not talking about you specifically, just the general sentiment that if I say a video game is bad it means I think I'm the highest authority to tell or something) I think it's madness

I think it really all boils down to people who concieve anyone who says the game is bad as personally attacking them (otherwise I have no idea how can you interpret someone saying a piece of media is bad/good as anything other than an opinion

I think it is a very good conversation to have, you have absolutely nothing to apologize about. I think we all should try to always improve at communicating our ideas and opinions.

Well... these are crude storyboards from the exploratory phase that took the resident concept artist maybe half an hour to make   

...Hard to believe some people just pick some of those selectively to spin a story about how "Dragon Age would have definitely gone in THAT direction if something *presumably bad* didn't happen"   

Cue "that's not how this works!" meme.

Slandered Gaming is great! 

And yeah the discourse is nuts. Some very nasty people out there. 

It's so stupid; everyone has pronouns. Also, it was a stat/inventory screen. It made sense.

I love those little guys! Most things about the Hossberg Wetlands are horrible, so it's always nice to see them just chilling in the mud .