Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

It's really hard to take the critiques of the artstyle seriously when people constantly compare to PIXAR of all things. It feels that people are just trashing the game just to trash it. 

It's not that "I don't see a problem" (???) is that you were trying to make a point about walking a thin line between realism and "toon-style" while illustrating that argument with an example of uncanny valley that has nothing to do with it.

That's the problem there. The facial animations that you find uncanny didn't aim at any stylization, they actually tried to be realistic (the GotG is a movie employing live actors, and for most of nits run Gamora is simply an actress in green makeup) - it's just that it was bad CG, with badness stemming from the fact that Disney demands a stupid amount of work, made fast, by overworked CG artists. 

In fact, a sizeable chunk of the "uncanny valley" specimens isn't stemming at all from mixing realism with stylization (most art across ages, including a lot of modern western art, is exactly that), it's when people are actually aiming at realism, and mucking things up.

...eh, it seems to me that I gotta add "uncanny valley" to the list of concepts people tend to overuse, like "show don't tell" or "mary sue".

a-freaking-men.

Since you're here, i might as well ask. I understand if you can't answer my question, ofc. Are there any restrictions regarding what armor type different classes can equip? Can mage wear heavy armor, for example?

he's been playing it for the last nine years I am sure he is sick of it by now.

Honestly one of the main reasons I hesitate about ever getting into game design...or streaming.

Me, a mage looking at that Mourn Watch 'aspirational' rogue armor

I need to clarify. I'm not talking about transmog. From what i understand as far as transmog goes you can use whatever armor you want. I ask if i can actually equip heavy armor as a mage.

It is. People tend to conflate and generalize things like "Fortnite" and "Pixar" to describe anything that's stylized or less than ultra-realistic. It's not a fair assessment.

Have a nice day!

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Bet no more big tits, Mirandas or butts. Gotta go for the lowest denominator... Fair looking faces as the default char models...  My wonder is how the CC will be programmed. Will Bio decide to remove the DA4 limitations? Allow for a gamut of body types? 

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