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Post by Hrungr on Sept 3, 2017 4:47:27 GMT
Mike Laidlaw mentioned in his stream that shortly he'll be off to Bucharest for work. Apparently there's a great opportunity for... something there. I had to google it, but sure enough, EA does have a studio there. Curious to see what will come of that. Their studio is one of the teams that works on FIFA, but maybe they're expanding? I imagine with the bulk of the DA team on Anthem, they might be looking at other studios to help out with DA...
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Post by midnight tea on Sept 3, 2017 5:04:40 GMT
Mike Laidlaw mentioned in his stream that shortly he'll be off to Bucharest for work. Apparently there's a great opportunity for... something there. I had to google it, but sure enough, EA does have a studio there. Curious to see what will come of that. Their studio is one of the teams that works on FIFA, but maybe they're expanding? I imagine with the bulk of the DA team on Anthem, they might be looking at other studios to help out with DA... It might be about certain detail or mechanic in the game. After all, didn't the team behind Need For Speed games helped with developing Nomad and how it drives for MEA? |
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Post by DragonKingReborn on Sept 3, 2017 5:31:08 GMT
Mike Laidlaw mentioned in his stream that shortly he'll be off to Bucharest for work. Apparently there's a great opportunity for... something there. I had to google it, but sure enough, EA does have a studio there. Curious to see what will come of that. Their studio is one of the teams that works on FIFA, but maybe they're expanding? I imagine with the bulk of the DA team on Anthem, they might be looking at other studios to help out with DA... It might be about certain detail or mechanic in the game. After all, didn't the team behind Need For Speed games helped with developing Nomad and how it drives for MEA? Following that logic....what could sports games developers offer developers an RPG? My two cents: follower AI. Non controlled team mates in sports games (that I've played, anyway) are almost always in the right place at the right time. If DA is moving away from player control of the whole team, improved companion AI is a must. |
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Post by midnight tea on Sept 3, 2017 5:41:14 GMT
It might be about certain detail or mechanic in the game. After all, didn't the team behind Need For Speed games helped with developing Nomad and how it drives for MEA? Following that logic....what could sports games developers offer developers an RPG? My two cents: follower AI. Non controlled team mates in sports games (that I've played, anyway) are almost always in the right place at the right time. If DA is moving away from player control of the whole team, improved companion AI is a must. We don't know whether or how much they're moving away from player control, but improved AI would be beneficial no matter what they decide to do with party control. |
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Post by tacsear on Sept 3, 2017 9:13:53 GMT
Mike Laidlaw mentioned in his stream that shortly he'll be off to Bucharest for work. Apparently there's a great opportunity for... something there. I had to google it, but sure enough, EA does have a studio there. Curious to see what will come of that. Their studio is one of the teams that works on FIFA, but maybe they're expanding? I imagine with the bulk of the DA team on Anthem, they might be looking at other studios to help out with DA... Football minigame for DA4 confirmed? |
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Post by Grog Muffins on Sept 3, 2017 9:37:59 GMT
I'm a simple Romanian, I see Mike will visit us, I get a teensy bit excited.  Then I remember I don't work at the EA offices and my workplace is nowhere near their building, either.  The EA offices in Bucharest deal with FIFA but they also do a lot of game testing. Like, really a lot. Maybe they're expanding their QA? As far as I know, the people working at EA here test games made strictly by EA Studios, not other studios under EA's umbrella. Also, maybe he's doing some location scouting? I kind of remember them doing something like that in France and (I think) Germany for DAI. Romania has really beautiful landscapes, pretty castles and a lot of old timey, medieval towns. The flight from Canada all the way here is super long, it would be a shame if he didn't get to see some of the sights (even if no location scouting is happening). |
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Post by phoray on Sept 3, 2017 11:51:44 GMT
Mike Laidlaw mentioned in his stream that shortly he'll be off to Bucharest for work. Apparently there's a great opportunity for... something there. I had to google it, but sure enough, EA does have a studio there. Curious to see what will come of that. Their studio is one of the teams that works on FIFA, but maybe they're expanding? I imagine with the bulk of the DA team on Anthem, they might be looking at other studios to help out with DA... Football minigame for DA4 confirmed? You made me laugh so hard. Still, Thedas is lacking sports. The closest is a Tourney but I think it suffers from the involvement of Orlesians. I say with a sneer, for I will always be Ferelden at heart. |
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Post by Heimdall on Sept 3, 2017 12:25:05 GMT
Football minigame for DA4 confirmed? You made me laugh so hard. Still, Thedas is lacking sports. The closest is a Tourney but I think it suffers from the involvement of Orlesians. I say with a sneer, for I will always be Ferelden at heart. I'm still disappointed DA2 never got a Grand Tourney DLC actually. |
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Post by phoray on Sept 3, 2017 12:43:58 GMT
Still, Thedas is lacking sports. The closest is a Tourney but I think it suffers from the involvement of Orlesians. I'm still disappointed DA2 never got a Grand Tourney DLC actually. DAI could have done it as well, considering we were a true free marcher that had access to all of South Fereldan Thedas |
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Post by tacsear on Sept 3, 2017 13:27:37 GMT
Football minigame for DA4 confirmed? You made me laugh so hard. Still, Thedas is lacking sports. The closest is a Tourney but I think it suffers from the involvement of Orlesians. I say with a sneer, for I will always be Ferelden at heart. Nug racing is also a thing, though it is not really a sport |
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Post by Nightscrawl on Sept 3, 2017 13:29:46 GMT
Don't they do a lot of mocap for these sportball games? Maybe it's that?
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Post by elanor on Sept 3, 2017 13:57:44 GMT
So if Anthem is out in 2018 then DA4 is nowhere nearby release...
And I couldn't care less about Anthem.
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Post by phoray on Sept 3, 2017 14:13:00 GMT
So if Anthem is out in 2018 then DA4 is nowhere nearby release... And I couldn't care less about Anthem. Fall 2018, as per twitter, or so I am told. I dunno. I have no interest in MMO anything, but if Bioware managed to put an actual story and romances into it, I'd probably play it. They've pretty much told us zilch about it, other than a heavily edited trailer and some buzz words. |
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Post by Nightscrawl on Sept 3, 2017 14:36:43 GMT
So if Anthem is out in 2018 then DA4 is nowhere nearby release... And I couldn't care less about Anthem. Fall 2018, as per twitter, or so I am told. I dunno. I have no interest in MMO anything, but if Bioware managed to put an actual story and romances into it, I'd probably play it. They've pretty much told us zilch about it, other than a heavily edited trailer and some buzz words. They have those elements in SWTOR. However, as a long-time WoW player, I can say that the MMO environment kills story and roleplay immersion for me. Being surrounded by thousands of other players that have all been told they're The One by whatever NPC takes something out of the experience. With SP games, I know that other people are playing the same game in some other location, but I can ignore their existence in a way that I can't in the MMO environment. I might check out a DA MMO if they made one, but I can't see myself getting really into it as I have with the SP DA games. |
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Post by phoray on Sept 3, 2017 14:43:45 GMT
Fall 2018, as per twitter, or so I am told. I dunno. I have no interest in MMO anything, but if Bioware managed to put an actual story and romances into it, I'd probably play it. They've pretty much told us zilch about it, other than a heavily edited trailer and some buzz words. They have those elements in SWTOR. However, as a long-time WoW player, I can say that the MMO environment kills story and roleplay immersion for me. Being surrounded by thousands of other players that have all been told they're The One by whatever NPC takes something out of the experience. With SP games, I know that other people are playing the same game in some other location, but I can ignore their existence in a way that I can't in the MMO environment. I might check out a DA MMO if they made one, but I can't see myself getting really into it as I have with the SP DA games. I'm late to being a gamer and I can't play games more than 10 minutes without a controller/game pad. Unless I want to sign up for pain. So SWTOR is off my gaming list. Haha, I'd forgotten about that. Everyone was "the One." Anthem has avoided that (I think?) by making you a Contractor (or whatever they'd calling it). Kinda like a Witcher could just do witcher jobs without them being "the one." So maybe they've narratively avoided that problem. |
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Post by marikahaliwell on Sept 3, 2017 14:47:31 GMT
I'm a simple Romanian, I see Mike will visit us, I get a teensy bit excited. Then I remember I don't work at the EA offices and my workplace is nowhere near their building, either. The EA offices in Bucharest deal with FIFA but they also do a lot of game testing. Like, really a lot. Maybe they're expanding their QA? As far as I know, the people working at EA here test games made strictly by EA Studios, not other studios under EA's umbrella. Also, maybe he's doing some location scouting? I kind of remember them doing something like that in France and (I think) Germany for DAI. Romania has really beautiful landscapes, pretty castles and a lot of old timey, medieval towns. The flight from Canada all the way here is super long, it would be a shame if he didn't get to see some of the sights (even if no location scouting is happening). There's an EA studio in our backwater country??? Just kidding  the Hinterlands and Ferelden reminded me always about some places in Romania. Indeed, there are some beautiful locations to get inspired by. |
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Post by themikefest on Sept 3, 2017 14:48:21 GMT
Football minigame for DA4 confirmed? If that happens, I like for my character to wear a Carolina Panther football jersey. excellent. Oh yeah. Go Panthers  |
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Post by tacsear on Sept 3, 2017 15:11:09 GMT
Football minigame for DA4 confirmed? If that happens, I like for my character to wear a Carolina Panther football jersey. excellent. Oh yeah. Go Panthers We have different understandings of football my friend |
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Post by phoray on Sept 3, 2017 15:16:40 GMT
If that happens, I like for my character to wear a Carolina Panther football jersey. excellent. Oh yeah. Go Panthers We have different understandings of football my friend is probably more likely. Always thought Football was a little complex. |
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Post by PapaCharlie9 on Sept 3, 2017 15:50:36 GMT
If that happens, I like for my character to wear a Carolina Panther football jersey. excellent. Oh yeah. Go Panthers We have different understandings of football my friend Football, Fahrenheit, and foot-pounds ... the three F's that spell AMERICA! |
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Post by PapaCharlie9 on Sept 3, 2017 15:56:08 GMT
The EA offices in Bucharest deal with FIFA but they also do a lot of game testing. Like, really a lot. Maybe they're expanding their QA? As far as I know, the people working at EA here test games made strictly by EA Studios, not other studios under EA's umbrella. Seems like as good a guess as any. The mocap idea is possible too, though we've seen twitter evidence that there's a mocap studio in Vancouver that Bioware uses. FIFA is also well known for real-life face textures for players. Would you like to put your own face on your DA4 PC? Could also be realistic face textures for NPCs. |
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Post by Grog Muffins on Sept 3, 2017 17:20:19 GMT
I'm a simple Romanian, I see Mike will visit us, I get a teensy bit excited. Then I remember I don't work at the EA offices and my workplace is nowhere near their building, either. The EA offices in Bucharest deal with FIFA but they also do a lot of game testing. Like, really a lot. Maybe they're expanding their QA? As far as I know, the people working at EA here test games made strictly by EA Studios, not other studios under EA's umbrella. Also, maybe he's doing some location scouting? I kind of remember them doing something like that in France and (I think) Germany for DAI. Romania has really beautiful landscapes, pretty castles and a lot of old timey, medieval towns. The flight from Canada all the way here is super long, it would be a shame if he didn't get to see some of the sights (even if no location scouting is happening). There's an EA studio in our backwater country??? Just kidding the Hinterlands and Ferelden reminded me always about some places in Romania. Indeed, there are some beautiful locations to get inspired by. Yep, in one of the office buildings adjacent to the AFI Shopping Mall in Bucharest. Sorry if you were kidding about not knowing about the office, kinda hard to pick up on that sort of thing in writing.  The EA offices in Bucharest deal with FIFA but they also do a lot of game testing. Like, really a lot. Maybe they're expanding their QA? As far as I know, the people working at EA here test games made strictly by EA Studios, not other studios under EA's umbrella. Seems like as good a guess as any. The mocap idea is possible too, though we've seen twitter evidence that there's a mocap studio in Vancouver that Bioware uses. FIFA is also well known for real-life face textures for players. Would you like to put your own face on your DA4 PC? Could also be realistic face textures for NPCs. Doesn't EA have one of the best mo-cap studios and it's in Canada? Or at least considerably closer to Bioware Edmonton? Anyway, the guess about follower AI I think is pretty spot on. But, also, now that you mention it, FIFA does have some great face making technology, it would be great to have that level of complexions in the CC. I love love love L.O.V.E. DAI's CC  but I see where they can improve on it. |
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Post by melbella on Sept 3, 2017 17:22:39 GMT
I'm still disappointed DA2 never got a Grand Tourney DLC actually. DAI could have done it as well, considering we were a true free marcher that had access to all of South Fereldan Thedas Blackwall and Varric have a banter for plotting how to have Josephine get them a tourney invite. Could have easily been a side quest. |
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Post by Hrungr on Sept 3, 2017 17:36:21 GMT
The EA offices in Bucharest deal with FIFA but they also do a lot of game testing. Like, really a lot. Maybe they're expanding their QA? As far as I know, the people working at EA here test games made strictly by EA Studios, not other studios under EA's umbrella. Seems like as good a guess as any. The mocap idea is possible too, though we've seen twitter evidence that there's a mocap studio in Vancouver that Bioware uses. FIFA is also well known for real-life face textures for players. Would you like to put your own face on your DA4 PC? Could also be realistic face textures for NPCs. Yeah, the mocap studio in Vancouver is the Capture Lab, and it's one of the best mocap studios in the world. And IIRC, they're also the mocap studio primarily responsible for the work on FIFA. BioWare definitely uses them, and obviously being just a short flight away makes them the most convenient. I think they've also used a studio down in California somewhere. So for mocap work, I think they're covered in NA. I assume if Mike's going there, it's going to be something relatively important, which is why I thought maybe they're pulling some of that team onto DA. Location scouting was mentioned, and while I wonder if Mike would go there himself for just that, Romania would obviously be a great location to draw inspiration/photogrammetry references from. |
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Post by Nightscrawl on Sept 3, 2017 17:36:46 GMT
DAI could have done it as well, considering we were a true free marcher that had access to all of South Fereldan Thedas Blackwall and Varric have a banter for plotting how to have Josephine get them a tourney invite. Could have easily been a side quest. I'm still disappointed that there wasn't an option about the tourney when talking to Blackwall as a non-mage Trevelyan. Instead, I had to ask about it like a boob. I headcanon that my guy has actually been in one. |
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Then I remember I don't work at the EA offices and my workplace is nowhere near their building, either. 
the Hinterlands and Ferelden reminded me always about some places in Romania. Indeed, there are some beautiful locations to get inspired by. 
but I see where they can improve on it.
