Dragon Age News Thread

Shortened form of "babe", possibly an acronym for "Before Anyone Else" but I doubt that version. It really has little to do with latin, and everything to do with gross language habits.

Don't be so prescriptivist fam, it's the antithesis of being on fleek. Ya'll should aim to be more finna woke for your baes.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but the quote does say 'incorrectly' - the Danish æ isn't a diphthong and hence 'bæ' is pronounced differently from 'bae'.

Anyway, mayb(a)e we should make room for more tweets or will this page be remembered as Page 404: Tweet not found?

So it should be written "ba'e"?

Being serious now -- everything else I've posted on this digression has, as I hope, been eminently obvious as tongue-in-cheek -- ^this is a statement that needs to be repeated early and often. Language is all about that old Vulcan IDIC.

You're giving these people a lot of credit. My theory is they couldn't care less about stuff like pedantry, they're just always smashed off their face and pronouncing that extra consonant is way too much work  

EDIT: And oh look, now there's one less character to write. How awesome is that?! 

This article used a whole lot of words to say absolutely nothing. 

Yeah, and I'm sure the cine people would love to give that to us, but considering Epler had to take effort to tweak the animations for a fem Hawke rubbing their arm in Mark of the Assassin (compared to the male model), I'm going to go and say it's not so simple.

We can't even give a platonic hug most of the time if a situation calls for it, much less hold hands.


Aaaannd when they did this people cried about ninjamancing. You can pry my icons from my cold dead hands, writer person.


This person clearly has no idea wtf they are talking about (as relates to DAI, anyway, I've no idea about the other games). And yes, I totally agree that comparing the optional romances in a game designed around a larger plot to those of a romance-oriented game is a fool's errand. Of course those are going to be "better." But, my argument is that Bioware romances can be more substantive because of the characterization developed in the rest of the game that has nothing to do with the romance content. Consider Solas and how the rest of the game impacts his romance, or Cullen's lyrium addiction, or making Cassandra divine, or the choice you make with Bull's Chargers. Think of the people who want a plot-relevant LI. Hell, I love the fact that, if a follower, I can drag my LI on all of these adventures; listening to Dorian whine about the weather is part of the fun; hearing combat barks of concern from my LI if I get injured is part of the fun.

I have no interest in normal dating simulators because that's all they are. I need more meat in my games. DAI allows me to headcanon events that pertain to the romance, but are a actually part of the overall narrative. After all, how a couple goes through and overcomes struggle, how one person supports another, is also a big part of relationships.

There are disapproval points with Cass if you flirt with her during one of investigate options (I think it was tell me about yourself one) and your approval is too low with her, so BioWare's already trying that.