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Post by Amirit on Mar 22, 2017 18:28:24 GMT
As you know, this time around we have an option to keep the pre-set first name (Sara or Scott) and if you do, that name will be used in conversations. While I love the feature - it's so refreshing to hear your protagonist name instead of a surname or a title - it makes me a bit nervous. Set name, set faces with CC limited to practically non existence. Is this the way to universally praised games with set protagonist (a la Witcher)? I'd hate it even if 2 protagonists (male and female) still will be an option. Hope to be mistaken on that but tendency to cut down unique feature because "the other game's doing fine without them" scares me.
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Post by Dana Dark on Mar 22, 2017 18:32:34 GMT
It's just an option.
There is plenty in the CC for good enough variation.
Technically, by setting up the CC the way they do (true for DA:I as well) it allows them to greatly reduce cost-complexity-time in mapping skeletal features to animations. Also helps ensure texture coverage, etc. It offers the biggest bang for your buck in a programming sense... but I am a HUGE fan of character customization, so I can understand the desire for MORE!!
Overall, I think most games will go this way with CC, but I don't think MA is going the route of forcing you to be one name, one look.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 18:34:55 GMT
As you know, this time around we have an option to keep the pre-set first name (Sara or Scott) and if you do, that name will be used in conversations. While I love the feature - it's so refreshing to hear your protagonist name instead of a surname or a title - it makes me a bit nervous. Set name, set faces with CC limited to practically non existence. Is this the way to universally praised games with set protagonist (a la Witcher)? I'd hate it even if 2 protagonists (male and female) still will be an option. Hope to be mistaken on that but tendency to cut down unique feature because "the other game's doing fine without them" scares me. All the protagonists in the BioWARE's games of the Dragon Age and Mass Effect series have a default name and appearance for the protagonist (maybe not origins, I can't remember). I did not find CC options limiting, and paid no attention to the suggestion for my Ryder's name. There is a HUGE difference between these default suggestions and playing Frodo, Geralt or Lara Croft, no matter how lovable those characters might be. |
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Post by NUM13ER on Mar 22, 2017 18:38:01 GMT
I wouldn't worry about a set protagonist becoming the norm, it already is for the vast majority of games and yet there's still room for titles that offer a custom character, especially in an RPG. I don't think that's going to change.
I'll be going with the default names with my protagonists for the first time in a BioWare game, specifically because they'll be used in game. It'll be nice to hear someone refer to the character on a first name basis for change.
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Post by trashcancat on Mar 22, 2017 18:43:33 GMT
Chosing your own character and your own story is one of the reasons people buy BioWare's games and I think they're well aware of that. I don't think it's going anywhere.
I don't mind the presets in the character creator, although allowing the player to chose texture elements or eyebrows, or giving a wider range of skintones would be very easy to achieve and I don't understand why it hasn't been implemented.
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Post by Kappa Neko on Mar 22, 2017 19:00:39 GMT
Who needs first names for protagonists anyway?
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Post by Amirit on Mar 22, 2017 19:03:28 GMT
I do hope you are all right about me being paranoid. Though, BW is trying regularly to change their own formula: JE - you have several preset protagonists, NWN - until first DLC you had only one companion with you (same with SWTOR, but in MMO it's understandable). So, I would not be so sure about anything anymore.
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Post by KaiserShep on Mar 22, 2017 19:06:50 GMT
I actually decided to roll with the default name to try it on for size. I'm not taken by the name Sara, but it's just so nice to actually be out of the perpetual surname/title pattern of Bio PC's for a while.
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