Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 11, 2017 19:42:06 GMT
English comprehension much?
al·ter·na·tive ôlˈtərnədiv/ adjective 1. (of one or more things) available as another possibility. "the various alternative methods for resolving disputes" synonyms: different, other, another, second, possible, substitute, replacement, alternate; More noun 1. one of two or more available possibilities. "audiocassettes are an interesting alternative to reading" synonyms: option, choice, other possibility; More
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Attaching a connotation of inferiority to the use of the word "alternative" is nothing more than an exhibition of victim complex.
The justification for no armor or weapon customization for squadmates is they wanted to make the followers have their own personalities. Which, tbf, does make sense. His example was like if a squadmate's supposed to be a sniper, then the squadmate is a sniper. Sniper weapons, sniper armor etc.
Throw your mind -- DAI. To those who equipped Varric/Sera with double daggers or those who equipped Cole with a bow --- didn't the cutscenes not make sense? Sera keeps talking about putting an arrow in but you specced her as dual daggers. It just makes more sense this way to lock them into what they are/supposed to be.
FBeaumont @fenbeaumont While I'm happy about that, I do not love that Sara is the "alternative" & Scott is the "default."
FBeaumont @fenbeaumont It's 2017. Let's not do the whole "the guy is the protagonist but you can play a woman if you want" marketing thing. 😑
Jesus Christ. This is too much. This whole "Sara trailer" drama has gone full retard. I'm a woman too and while I'm happy to hear that Sara will be in a trailer, I'm not flipping my shit over the fact that Scott was first or has been featured more or whatever. Sometimes this fandom really annoys the shit out of me. /rant
people are also compaining that if there is a f/f scene it's to get the dudebros off and not for actual lesbians others are complaining that they'll show her with a dude because no homo
Even the romance thread is heading in this direction... I just thought people would be happy that a Sara trailer is coming.
Jesus Christ. This is too much. This whole "Sara trailer" drama has gone full retard. I'm a woman too and while I'm happy to hear that Sara will be in a trailer, I'm not flipping my shit over the fact that Scott was first or has been featured more or whatever. Sometimes this fandom really annoys the shit out of me. /rant
people are also compaining that if there is a f/f scene it's to get the dudebros off and not for actual lesbians others are complaining that they'll show her with a dude because no homo
Even the romance thread is heading in this direction... I just thought people would be happy that a Sara trailer is coming.
This, probably. Aaryn's tweet from Friday (I think?) said they weren't done yet. Besides, trailers like these take time to make.
As to the "alternate version" wording... Well, from my experience in advertising, there's a lot of people who can fuck up when going from A to B. In this case, probably the copywriter or the CM.
The justification for no armor or weapon customization for squadmates is they wanted to make the followers have their own personalities. Which, tbf, does make sense. His example was like if a squadmate's supposed to be a sniper, then the squadmate is a sniper. Sniper weapons, sniper armor etc.
Throw your mind -- DAI. To those who equipped Varric/Sera with double daggers or those who equipped Cole with a bow --- didn't the cutscenes not make sense? Sera keeps talking about putting an arrow in but you specced her as dual daggers. It just makes more sense this way to lock them into what they are/supposed to be.
It worked fine in ME 2 and 3. All you could do was change to a better weapon.
If it really is true that we can't even change their weapon to a stronger version then I sure as shit hope they will increase in power with each level.
Otherwise the often useless squadmates will be even more useless.
This thread has pretty much turned into a thread of people complaining about complaining. We really don't need everyone to come here and post about how they saw some random fan complain about something, every time something it happens.
Every side of every issue will have people complaining about something. We really don't need 1000 posts about it every time something happens. Jesus.
Edit: Honestly, if I see one more "As a women I think all these other women are........" or "As a gay man I think all these other gay men are......." posts I'm just gonna start a tweet only thread myself. We don't need anyone to speak for whatever race/gender/sex/sexuality they belong to.
The justification for no armor or weapon customization for squadmates is they wanted to make the followers have their own personalities. Which, tbf, does make sense. His example was like if a squadmate's supposed to be a sniper, then the squadmate is a sniper. Sniper weapons, sniper armor etc.
Throw your mind -- DAI. To those who equipped Varric/Sera with double daggers or those who equipped Cole with a bow --- didn't the cutscenes not make sense? Sera keeps talking about putting an arrow in but you specced her as dual daggers. It just makes more sense this way to lock them into what they are/supposed to be.
They managed to limit types of weapons we could put on squadmates in ME2/ME3, while giving us armor options. In DAI, companions each had different style. So imo... while I get where they come from, they proved in the past they can give us options while keeping companions/squaddies individuality.
If three humans are in the room, there will be six opinions.
The justification for no armor or weapon customization for squadmates is they wanted to make the followers have their own personalities. Which, tbf, does make sense. His example was like if a squadmate's supposed to be a sniper, then the squadmate is a sniper. Sniper weapons, sniper armor etc.
Throw your mind -- DAI. To those who equipped Varric/Sera with double daggers or those who equipped Cole with a bow --- didn't the cutscenes not make sense? Sera keeps talking about putting an arrow in but you specced her as dual daggers. It just makes more sense this way to lock them into what they are/supposed to be.
That is a fine explanation for weapons, but there's no justifying the armor. It's taking options away and selling them to us later. You know there will be alternate outfit DLC.
Post by blastoandbubin on Mar 11, 2017 19:51:14 GMT
Well, I know I've given Bioware a lot of grief over this (and I don't regret it, by the way - if that makes me a snowflake, so be it. Snowflakes are actually quite beautiful and vital to our life-sustaining water supply, there are certainly worse things to be called), but I'm super stoked that there is in fact an alternate version with Sara coming out.
I'm still side-eyeing the abundance of Scott cinematics and that his was released first, but that's life. I'm just happy I'll get to see the female protagonist actually getting the star treatment.
eta lol I realized this still sounds kind of grumpy; I am actually super happy right now, I genuinely thought poor Sara was going to get looked over. I'm back to being ott hyped, for sure
I take it this is going to be identical to the eyeroll-inducing "Humaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan" trailer? *Movie trailer announcer* You've almost caught a glimpse of your brain while watching SCOTT! NOW... you get to take those eye muscles to the next level with... SARA! Meh!
In any case, there are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
This thread has pretty much turned into a thread of people complaining about complaining. We really don't need everyone to come here and post about how they saw some random fan complain how something every time it happens.
Every side of every issue will have people complaining about something. We really don't need 1000 posts about it every time something happens. Jesus.
I suggest that we as a collective (of course with the voice of the OP, a mod, and a lot of frequent posters) set a few guidelines on how the Twitter thread should be managed. It is our main "chat" area and news feed but I agree -- sometimes I feel it becomes too toxic with complaining. I'm guilty of that myself. Personally the way I see it is we get news here and we talk about it a little bit then a thread is created then we talk about it in detail there, so as to free the Twitter thread with new updates.
Nope, they just asked again. He said they're totally baked in.
That's a major bummer.
Also looks like PeeBee is never leaving the Tempest.
She was already a permanent bench warmer for me so not much changes there. From the AI we've seen from the squadmates it'll probably only be the tanky krogan and AR/sniper users given preference again, just like OT.
This thread has pretty much turned into a thread of people complaining about complaining. We really don't need everyone to come here and post about how they saw some random fan complain how something every time it happens.
Every side of every issue will have people complaining about something. We really don't need 1000 posts about it every time something happens. Jesus.
I suggest that we as a collective (of course with the voice of the OP, a mod, and a lot of frequent posters) set a few guidelines on how the Twitter thread should be managed. It is our main "chat" area and news feed but I agree -- sometimes I feel it becomes too toxic with complaining. I'm guilty of that myself. Personally the way I see it is we get news here and we talk about it a little bit then a thread is created then we talk about it in detail there, so as to free the Twitter thread with new updates.
If I see one more "As a women I think all these other women are........" or "As a gay man I think all these other gay men are......." posts I'm just gonna start a tweet only thread myself.
We don't need anyone to speak for whatever race/gender/sex/sexuality they belong to. It's just getting worse and worse.
That sucks, but I figured squadmates wouldn't have alternate appearances. I was still hoping that they would have casual wear (while on the Tempest and Nexus), but that never happened in the OT, so that's no surprise either.