Mike Laidlaw @mike_Laidlaw Had an amazing time with @alixwiltonregan, @kessel_run , and @abzybabzy last night. Mae knows some cool places here in Montréal.
Potential VA for the next game...?
@abzybabzy (ABUBAKAR SALIM) has done voice work before, but not for BioWare.
Mike Laidlaw @mike_Laidlaw Had an amazing time with @alixwiltonregan, @kessel_run , and @abzybabzy last night. Mae knows some cool places here in Montréal.
Potential VA for the next game...?
@abzybabzy (ABUBAKAR SALIM) has done voice work before, but not for BioWare.
Well, he's dreamy.
Mountains. Cold. "Let's bring Dorian!" It's good to be Champion!
Lori Fisher hunts monsters. Not with a sword or a gun, but with an interdimensional creature called Handler. Together they take down “feeders”—aliens who prey on mankind. When Lori touches a feeder, Handler’s impossibly large jaws appear and drag the beast into another dimension.
It’s a living—or was, until a job for the Lake Foundation goes wrong, and Lori stumbles across the Nix, a group of mutant teenagers held captive on the docks. Now the Lake Foundation is hunting Lori, and if they find Lori, they find Ben, the brother Lori would do anything to protect. There’s only one thing to do: strike first.
Lori teams up with the Nix to take on Lake, and to discover why the Nix were kidnapped in the first place. But as she watches their powers unfold, Lori realizes the Nix are nothing like her. She has no powers. She has…Handler. Maybe she’s not the monster hunter after all. Maybe she’s just the bait.
I'm very hyped for this (sorry for 2 day necro).
Inquisitor: Is that innuendo? Sera: No, it's at the front!
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@abzybabzy (ABUBAKAR SALIM) has done voice work before, but not for BioWare.
Well, he's dreamy.
Agreed. And his accent reel is entertaining. I like his native accent, but his American isn't too bad, from the little bit I hear. I could easily see him being a Tevinter NPC with his normal voice, though.
Miraiya @miramuraiya @patrickweekes I am unsure how good of an idea this is so i might delete later out of shame. I wanted to talk to you directly though. When Iron Bull talks about Cole's watchword it felt like he didn't consider it valid and even childish. Which triggered me because I identify with Cole a little, and not having my stop seen as valid is a legit fear of mine. I wondered if I had misunderstood Iron Bull? And just to clarify, I don't hate you as a person for writing it, but it did make me afraid. And a little angry with IB in general.
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes That's fair. The Iron Bull, on a core level, supports and cares about Cole, but does not GET him. That's what I was going for. That's one of the weird and difficult things about writing people who have to feel real -- sometimes they don't get each other. Some folks disagree on issues or dislike each other's politics, but others just can't see how the other side works. That's sad, but human.
^ I have no idea what that is even referring to at all, so you're 1-up on me.
During the Iron Bull romance, the Inquisitor and Bull have a conversation about what various people's safe words would be. Bull jokes that Cole's would be 'stop' implying that Cole would not get the point. (Personally, I thought it was pretty funny.)
^ I have no idea what that is even referring to at all, so you're 1-up on me.
During the Iron Bull romance, the Inquisitor and Bull have a conversation about what various people's safe words would be. Bull jokes that Cole's would be 'stop' implying that Cole would not get the point. (Personally, I thought it was pretty funny.)
Ah, thanks. I went through the Cole banter with Bull and didn't see it. I suppose I just missed it.
I think it's sort of funny if I can read the line in isolation. However, one reason I would never do either Iron Bull or Sera's romance is because I don't like how they talk about their sex life in public. But I guess you know what you're getting into with those characters when you start.
Mountains. Cold. "Let's bring Dorian!" It's good to be Champion!
Post by thats1evildude on Jun 3, 2017 11:16:37 GMT
Well, your safe word is supposed to be something you wouldn't call out during sex, so "stop" isn't a very good one, since it gets paired with "don't" so frequently.
The only worse examples I can think of would be "Oh God" and the F-word.
Winter @the_Masquerade7 @mike_Laidlaw If I may ask, with DA4 will the Dialog Wheel be just as good as it was in DAI. With all due respect to Mass Effect Andromeda the DW there is, IMHO, the weakest I've seen as I felt it gave me little to no control over the Ryder's. The DW in DAI on the other is fantastic & I love, Love, LOVE how much control I had over my Inquisitor which makes the Inquisitor, hands down, the best protagonist.
Mike Laidlaw @mike_Laidlaw Glad you enjoyed, and thank you for the notes!
Barb White @zella1902 @mike_Laidlaw Would you be so kind as to settle a debate? What percent of Thedas population are born mages?
Mike Laidlaw @mike_Laidlaw I don't think we've ever locked it down. It's fairly rare. (Unless you're a game protagonist, of course)
I remember Viv saying it's something like a 100 to 1 when she's talking about mages being outnumbered or whatever. So maybe that's a good rough estimate.
Barb White @zella1902 @mike_Laidlaw Would you be so kind as to settle a debate? What percent of Thedas population are born mages?
Mike Laidlaw @mike_Laidlaw I don't think we've ever locked it down. It's fairly rare. (Unless you're a game protagonist, of course)
I remember Viv saying it's something like a 100 to 1 when she's talking about mages being outnumbered or whatever. So maybe that's a good rough estimate.
Iirc that was referring to mage-templar war, not their general number.
If three humans are in the room, there will be six opinions.
I remember Viv saying it's something like a 100 to 1 when she's talking about mages being outnumbered or whatever. So maybe that's a good rough estimate.
Iirc that was referring to mage-templar war, not their general number.
Mages vs the world was her context. It's why she thought the rebellion was insane.
I remember Viv saying it's something like a 100 to 1 when she's talking about mages being outnumbered or whatever. So maybe that's a good rough estimate.
Iirc that was referring to mage-templar war, not their general number.
Yeah, it's a fair question. Looking at Thedas as a whole, I could see (1 in 100) being BioWare's intention. But with the sheer number of mages we run into in these games (and tbf, the limitations of game engine displaying large populations), I can imagine many people thinking it's more like 1 in 10 (or more).
Iirc that was referring to mage-templar war, not their general number.
Yeah, it's a fair question. Looking at Thedas as a whole, I could see (1 in 100) being BioWare's intention. But with the sheer number of mages we run into in these games (and tbf, the limitations of game engine displaying large populations), I can imagine many people thinking it's more like 1 in 10 (or more).
I think it may have more to do with the narrative - the PC is naturally at the center of events (as is the audience, of course), and that usually means stumbling into larger numbers of mages along the way.
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
I'm more interested in knowing the % that survive the joining. The way it works out in DAA seems especially contrary to the previous narrative. Poor Mhairi dies, but everyone else, all five DAA followers, live through it. I get plot magic and all that, but it still seemed odd to me.
For mages, the numbers are going to be skewed because the people are not intermingling in normal situations. The Tevinter altus breed for magic, so those numbers are out. In the southern Circle system, mages were discouraged from having their own unions. In addition, since mages were taken out of the population, they weren't around to possibly breed with non-mages (Malcolm/Leandra). It would be rare to manifest a mage in the south because mages are weeded out of the population.
Unless the devs come out with some sort of estimate, in-game circumstances make it impossible to know what the birthrate would be because they're all skewed in one way or other.
Mountains. Cold. "Let's bring Dorian!" It's good to be Champion!