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BioWare Gear Store @biowaregearSpectres and Inquisitors! We’re looking for BioWare Gear ambassadors! Join our Ambassador Program, a select circle of connoisseurs and collectors with access to exclusive discounts, ability to earn money, and get early access to new products! Join us! api.brandbassador.com/s/l7k0rn What, no Freelancers? … Oh. Oh right.
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Post by Buckeldemon on Apr 16, 2022 22:03:51 GMT
What I find interesting, though sad, is that those that comnplain about a lack of inclusivity, themselves don't include those with a different view and called them names. Hm... Do these fall into a tribal group? Social media is full of examples. Sadder still, is a lack of intellectual discussions at our universities about social studies for fear of being called racists, homophobists, or plain phobists by any other name.
I mean, being bigoted against someone due to some innate characteristic (ethnicity, sexual orientation, ...) isn't that same as being "bigoted" against that bigotry.
You realize that Dragon Age had racial politics as a plot point as shown in the City Elf Origin. I mean I remember one of the major themes of the Witcher 2 is race relations and racism in general. Those racial politics were portrayed fairly even handedly and different enough, so as to not hit "too close to home." Bioware has not done this, but a fair number of Bioware employees have occasionally had some snarky posts insinuating the entiire stupidity of the "other political side" ... so the concern is whether Bioware might include some sort of "Gillette" portrayal within the game, full of insults and stereotypes toward the entirety of the "other side". I'm not sure if what fairly or even means with regards to the CE OS. Nobody ever tried to make some nonsense argument to the extent of "but view it from Vaughan's perspective" or something, which is totally okay in my book. Nothing like, to use an extreme example, proposing "murder" as a suitable middle ground or whatever between "civil rights" and "genocide". You realize that Dragon Age had racial politics as a plot point as shown in the City Elf Origin. I mean I remember one of the major themes of the Witcher 2 is race relations and racism in general. Universalist, “racism is bad; people who commit racism are doing bad things” is a message that 98% of Americans have believed since King. It’s a good moral, being shown thru allegory, that we pretty much all agree with, even if we quibble over whether the narrative portrayed it well. Modern, twitter-verse, “all white people are racist and I have a white tears mug”, “anti-racism” is much less of a universally accepted social more. As long as they give me a valid option to argue or tell a character preaching at me that I disagree, I’m cool. And so far, barring one hiccup that I can think of, I haven’t felt like I was being judged by Dragon Age characters. Unless I did something that obviously went against their moral code, but then I can always offer my own justification or try to placate them. (This is of course barring intentionally evil(ish) playthroughs where u may just punch them.) I’m not being preached at, I’m being treated like a difference of opinion has occurred. My agency as a person has been respected. Hopefully the trend continues. But, given trending progressive opinions regarding opposing views across a lot of social media, it’s not crazy to worry that a team that is obviously, purposefully, publicly signaling which side of politics they are on in a community update letter may have some trouble with that kind of objectivity. Then again, they may not. We’ll see. To be honest... it might be a local states thing like most things in heavily federalised nations, but I've got the impression that in the U.S. there's no consensus at all what racism even means these days. Seems like there's movements, there's backlash movements and there seems to be an awful lot of shit intentionally being thrown out that self-styled "humble middle ground" people seem to fall for, like Chris Rufo's "CRT" nonsense, which as he himself admitted is a scam.
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Post by Hrungr on Apr 16, 2022 22:55:44 GMT
Corinne Busche 🏳️⚧️ @corinnebuscheDoes the kiss in the Fade count as the first? Or is this waking moment the true first kiss? #DragonAge
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Apr 16, 2022 23:28:55 GMT
I hope the entire DA4 cast is gays and lesbians so that it doesnt feel like a checkbox. Well actually make sure we have at least one twink , one bear, and one gymbro. One twink, one bear and one gymbro sounds good (like a blues song) ... as long as there is one heterosexual romance and one playersexual romance for each binary sex (total four). Sure a token straight is allowed.
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Post by DragonKingReborn on Apr 17, 2022 0:28:36 GMT
Leave the discussion regarding gender and gender politics there, thanks. Apparently I wasn’t clear enough last time. Drop the gender/gender issues conversation thanks. And in all future conversations, refrain from deliberately baiting people that you disagree with, regardless of how backwards or offensive you find those opinions. If a post is offensive but doesn’t break any forum rules, you can either ignore the post, or put the user on block, hiding all of their posts. If you feel a post does break a forum rule (or rules), then use the report function and do not engage with the post in question.
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Post by AlleluiaElizabeth on Apr 17, 2022 1:46:34 GMT
Corinne Busche 🏳️⚧️ @corinnebuscheDoes the kiss in the Fade count as the first? Or is this waking moment the true first kiss? #DragonAge Corinne here, trying to spiral her fellow solavellans back into solavellan hell. And it’s working. (I think she’s a self proclaimed solavellan fan anyway?)
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Post by Sartoz on Apr 17, 2022 2:58:52 GMT
Corinne Busche 🏳️⚧️ @corinnebuscheDoes the kiss in the Fade count as the first? Or is this waking moment the true first kiss? #DragonAge
Hm... Sounds like that question of "what is the sound of one hand clapping"? I always thought that if you hit the table with the palm of your hand you'll know.
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Post by Sartoz on Apr 17, 2022 3:13:43 GMT
Anybody read Maciej Kurowski, the game's technical director, recent statements?
As in, "We take characters very seriously and do a lot of work to give them more personality than they have ever had in the past. I can't say more yet, but we will over time!".
Now I wonder if DA4 will have characters with verbal diarrhea?
Cinematic cut scenes at the pub will be interesting.
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Post by Sartoz on Apr 17, 2022 3:24:52 GMT
Oh, here is another quote from the tech director Maciej Kurowski
"At the beginning of this project, we came up with a few principles we wanted to rely on while building the game, and probably the most impactful one was having the right tools that best fit our game."
I hope this hints at UE5 game engine for DA4.
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Post by Sanunes on Apr 17, 2022 4:42:06 GMT
Oh, here is another quote from the tech director Maciej Kurowski
"At the beginning of this project, we came up with a few principles we wanted to rely on while building the game, and probably the most impactful one was having the right tools that best fit our game."
I hope this hints at UE5 game engine for DA4.
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Then the game would be delayed again. If they are going to switch it will be with the next Mass Effect game, but I am still skeptical of that for it would put a higher burden on how the game sells for the game would take longer to develop and therefore need to sell more units to be successful.
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Post by colfoley on Apr 17, 2022 5:21:53 GMT
The bsn drinking game would be super lit. Two shots every time Sartoz mentions UE5, 5 if I mention live service, 10 if Hanako mentions the Inquisitor.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Apr 17, 2022 6:04:14 GMT
The bsn drinking game would be super lit. Two shots every time Sartoz mentions UE5, 5 if I mention live service, 10 if Hanako mentions the Inquisitor. Do I specifically have to mention them? Or is anything negative about a new protagonist count as that too?
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Post by gervaise21 on Apr 17, 2022 7:30:59 GMT
Corinne here, trying to spiral her fellow solavellans back into solavellan hell. Looking on the bright side, Corinne has Solas uppermost in her thoughts; may be working on something Solas specific at the present?
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Post by QuizzyBunny on Apr 17, 2022 8:54:07 GMT
The bsn drinking game would be super lit. Two shots every time Sartoz mentions UE5, 5 if I mention live service, 10 if Hanako mentions the Inquisitor. And 1 glass of water for every bunny gif I post.
Someone has to keep you all sober!
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Post by biggydx on Apr 17, 2022 12:06:38 GMT
The bsn drinking game would be super lit. Two shots every time Sartoz mentions UE5, 5 if I mention live service, 10 if Hanako mentions the Inquisitor. I'm pretty sure Hanako would intentionally lead us to alcohol poison with how pissed off they are about DA4 not having the Inquisnoz.
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Post by Sartoz on Apr 17, 2022 13:45:00 GMT
The bsn drinking game would be super lit. Two shots every time Sartoz mentions UE5, 5 if I mention live service, 10 if Hanako mentions the Inquisitor. I'm pretty sure Hanako would intentionally lead us to alcohol poison with how pissed off they are about DA4 not having the Inquisnoz.
No Quizzy, according to Varric. So that's that.
And, I don't mind two shots of Prunelle de Bourgogne. I always enjoyed those after a meal in the French Quarter. Some of those buildings were early 1700s along with part of a fort wall built to defend from Indian attacks... oops, maybe I should say native people. Now that I think about it, those restaurants and pubs were built for short people.
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Post by AlleluiaElizabeth on Apr 17, 2022 13:54:00 GMT
The bsn drinking game would be super lit. Two shots every time Sartoz mentions UE5, 5 if I mention live service, 10 if Hanako mentions the Inquisitor. And 1 glass of water for every bunny gif I post.
Someone has to keep you all sober!
I hate saying it but… that is one of the ugliest bunnies I’ve ever seen. XD
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2022 17:03:16 GMT
That bunny is ... shall I say ... exceptionally "thirsty."
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His scrunched up face reminds me of Walter Matthau. lol grumpy old man bunny.
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Post by Walter Black on Apr 17, 2022 19:24:38 GMT
Anybody read Maciej Kurowski, the game's technical director, recent statements?
As in, "We take characters very seriously and do a lot of work to give them more personality than they have ever had in the past. I can't say more yet, but we will over time!".
Now I wonder if DA4 will have characters with verbal diarrhea?
Cinematic cut scenes at the pub will be interesting.
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Does anyone else think this could sound just a tad dismissive towards previous DA writers? On the surface it seems simple hype building, but given some of the devs' self congratulatory "everything's going to be soo much better this time" attitudes, I wonder...
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Post by githcheater on Apr 17, 2022 19:33:54 GMT
Anybody read Maciej Kurowski, the game's technical director, recent statements?
As in, "We take characters very seriously and do a lot of work to give them more personality than they have ever had in the past. I can't say more yet, but we will over time!".
Now I wonder if DA4 will have characters with verbal diarrhea?
Cinematic cut scenes at the pub will be interesting.
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Does anyone else think this could sound just a tad dismissive towards previous DA writers? On the surface it seems simple hype building, but given some of the devs' self congratulatory "everything's going to be soo much better this time" attitudes, I wonder... I am not sure how the "better personalities" statement can be legitimately made. All the DA companions had distinct personalies, and what one person likes, another person might dislike ...
... unless every companion in DA4 is Deekin ...
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Post by colfoley on Apr 17, 2022 19:34:20 GMT
Anybody read Maciej Kurowski, the game's technical director, recent statements?
As in, "We take characters very seriously and do a lot of work to give them more personality than they have ever had in the past. I can't say more yet, but we will over time!".
Now I wonder if DA4 will have characters with verbal diarrhea?
Cinematic cut scenes at the pub will be interesting.
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Does anyone else think this could sound just a tad dismissive towards previous DA writers? On the surface it seems simple hype building, but given some of the devs' self congratulatory "everything's going to be soo much better this time" attitudes, I wonder... Its an issue of 'what do you expect them to say?' that and they really don't have to say anything at this juncture. We still don't even have a title for the game yet so the fact that they are sending out random tweets saying that they are making a good game is indictive at least of something. Whether or not this is genuine happiness or just comparative happiness given the game is finally on the right track...who can say. But I tend to take it at face value that they are having a good time right now.
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Post by colfoley on Apr 17, 2022 19:41:37 GMT
I wouldn't think that that would be on the scripted and cutscene side of things but in the combat side of things but if they can do different scripted responses based on how you are playing at any given day....could be interesting.
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