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The 15 greatest character creators in Xbox history (and their mutant offspring) buff.ly/2eUFKOz

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Ugh, why do people make ugly characters - on purpose - and then post them everywhere? Why would you even want to play the game with a char like that? Do not get.

Ugh, why do people make ugly characters - on purpose - and then post them everywhere? Why would you even want to play the game with a char like that? Do not get.

Playtesting on an early build of Dragon Age: Inquisition revealed that the combat system was in shambles. But rather than make sudden overhauls or throw it out and start again, Schreier reports that lead encounter designer Daniel Kading got approval to grab the whole development team once a week for an hour of combat playtesting sessions. For these sessions, he and a group of other designers devised a set of encounters and post-playtest surveys that would help them pinpoint the problems.

When surveys came back during the first week of Kading’s experiment, the average rating was a dismal 1.2 (out of 10). Somehow, that was comforting to the Inquisition gameplay team.

“Morale took an astonishing turn for the better that very week,” Kading said. “It’s not that we could recognize the problems. It was that we weren’t shirking from them.”

The experiment worked. Every week they tweaked the combat systems based on playtest feedback, and every week the rating improved. After four weeks, when the experiment ended, the average rating from the surveys was 8.8.

TAKEAWAY: When part of a game isn't coming together, it can do wonders for both team morale (and the game itself) to not only recognize that you have a problem, but also turn your full attention to fixing it.

Wait, so the word means the opposite what it means? ...What kind of Escheresque reality we've entered?!

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Don't they have those types of romances since KotOR, for demi at least? In fact, you can't even boink your LI in that game. Other examples:
Kisses in Jade Empire.
DA:O - Alistair and Leliana won't put out unless you get pretty high up on the romance scale.
ME - sexy times occur after courting the LIs throughout the entire game.

I think the idea is to be romantically involved, but constantly yammer on about how much you don't want to have sex with each other. Which sounds like a barrel of laughs to me, personally.

Well, you can at least imply sex is happening.

Possible DA4 romance news

Gamedam Meister‏ @gamedammeister
@mike_Laidlaw @biomarkdarrah @patrickweekes In the next DA game if/when you do one, could there be romances for ace/demi players please?

Patrick Weekes‏ @patrickweekes
@gamedammeister It's something we have considered. There's a lot of conflicting opinion on what that would look like.

Don't they have those types of romances since KotOR, for demi at least? In fact, you can't even boink your LI in that game. Other examples:
Kisses in Jade Empire.
DA:O - Alistair and Leliana won't put out unless you get pretty high up on the romance scale.
ME - sexy times occur after courting the LIs throughout the entire game.