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Post by Lebanese Dude on Aug 9, 2020 1:46:15 GMT
The way he snapped his head back in disbelief. Whoever animated this really took the time for those details. Must have been fun.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Aug 7, 2020 21:41:39 GMT
He does that for the characters he plays. He was Ianto Jones in Torchwood and such was the impact of his character that after he was killed off, the fans made a Wall of Ianto Memorial in Cardiff where it was filmed. You have to hand it to Bioware, they do get some quality VAs for Dragon Age. Did Ianto speak in iambic pentameter too?
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Aug 7, 2020 21:35:04 GMT
Happy with the inquisitor I ended up with on my first playthrough in years. Male Trevelyan Templar. No mods. And I just started a second playthrough on a Female Elf Mage... gonna take this one more slowly as I'll be busy but I'm excited to try out being an elf in DAI for the first time. No mods.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Aug 7, 2020 21:24:51 GMT
A male KISA who isn't straight for once.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Aug 7, 2020 19:56:41 GMT
Ok I did NOT realize Solas was such a smooth talker to female elves like... I ... I see why the Solas fandom is so ... it helps that he is voiced by Gareth David Lloyd. I think it makes it.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Aug 7, 2020 19:49:56 GMT
Ok I did NOT realize Solas was such a smooth talker to female elves like... I ... I see why the Solas fandom is so ...
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Aug 6, 2020 18:20:55 GMT
The purpose of the origin introduction doesn't necessarily need to be a device to teach you about the environment, in fact it's far better if it does not teach you about the wider world, as the wider world ideally needs to be mysterious and unknown in order to maximise that 'wow' factor once you discover it. It's far better purpose is to teach you about the character you play. Who are they? What is their role? How do they react? DA:O keeps things small scale within the origin intros. Your knowledge of the world is limited to your immediate einvironment - the forest, the alienage, the castle, the mage circle, Dust Town, the Diamond Quarter. You know next to nothing about areas outside this small scale environment save for sketchy pieces of lore told through occasional codexes, or snatches of dialogue, and even those can be skipped or missed. This is your world, and within it you have a brief role to play, as the child of a noble placed in charge of a castle, a city elf who's wedding joy has been destroyed by a corrupt noble etc. I understand that but the entire point of Origins is to emphasize the origin of your character and how it influences your approach to the various quests. It's literally in the title. The same presentation wouldn't work in Dragon Age Inquisition because the focus is less on your character and more on the Herald of Andraste. That's why most of the early game dialogue involves your relationship with the title, Andraste, the Chantry, and more or less your position on what it should represent (Mage vs Templar). It's not an accident. It's intended. And frankly this is the third title in a series. The Codex is there to assist newbies for RP, but for most people (especially those on these forums) you know exactly what you're getting into.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Aug 6, 2020 16:36:07 GMT
I just wrapped up a DAI playthrough after having not played Dragon Age for years. I haven't followed up here much but I'm getting the impression it won't be out for a while. Well, shit. What have I done to myself D: *starts another playthrough... maybe Female Elf... * .. maybe Solas romance... Goes without saying.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Aug 6, 2020 16:20:28 GMT
They could have had you walk around the Temple in DAI before the explosion happens, but then you'd know the context of the attack. That would change the first half of the game entirely, and kinda throw the central theme of "Faith" off a cliff.
Personally I don't mind either approach. DAO and DAI introductions set out to accomplish different things.
People who argue that DAO gave you more time to learn about the environment forget that you really don't learn much outside of your immediate location and racial or mage group. That's part of the theme... your origins.
In DAI, the first thing you're exposed to is the Chantry culture. I don't see how that's any different. Rather than focus the RP on what your race is, the RP is whether you accept being a chosen one. The leader of the... inquisition.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Aug 6, 2020 16:09:14 GMT
I just wrapped up a DAI playthrough after having not played Dragon Age for years. I haven't followed up here much but I'm getting the impression it won't be out for a while.
Well, shit. What have I done to myself D:
*starts another playthrough... maybe Female Elf... *
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Feb 22, 2020 12:58:40 GMT
K I'm gonna need DA4 to come out soon. Been wanting to play the DA series again but I put it off so I can have a refresh before the game releases. It's gonna be like 2030 isn't it?
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Nov 28, 2019 22:46:30 GMT
I'm lowkey amused by the reactions.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Oct 30, 2019 4:04:28 GMT
The product will definitely be worth the wait in the end, and the comics will be nice. One would hope they knock it out of the park after that long though. I just can't imagine myself stewing about it for 3 years. Yikes.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Oct 30, 2019 2:34:12 GMT
Well glad I've disconnected myself from Dragon Age hype. It's altogether way too long. I'll be back when I'm 32
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Oct 18, 2019 20:18:58 GMT
I think the predictions are way too pessimistic.
I expect a 2021 release date at most.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Oct 5, 2019 16:32:37 GMT
Yes but only if they serve a greater narrative purpose, or if they are heavily built up beforehand. The Kaidan/Ashley decision is one of my favorites. I didn't feel like the decision was meaningful at all. Whoever is alive will do exactly the same things in the next titles, so the choice doesn't really matter. I would have liked the choice just fine if the survival of either person had lead to some difference in the outcome.
I don't mind the character deaths, I like feeling things in video games, even the bad stuff when the game has done the work and made me care enough for it to matter, and it isn't just random. I mean accidents happen, people can get squished just standing in a wrong place, but that would suck.
The idea that decisions need to have tangible outcomes to mean something has always interested me.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Sept 10, 2019 3:05:07 GMT
Yes but only if they serve a greater narrative purpose, or if they are heavily built up beforehand.
The Kaidan/Ashley decision is one of my favorites.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jul 24, 2019 22:55:44 GMT
Crunching isnt inherently bad as long as it's done judiciously, in moderation, and compensated.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Apr 4, 2019 13:05:15 GMT
Well if there's a silver lining to all this Anthem debacle is that they will hopefully resolve many of these issues before and during Dragon Age 4's development, which hopefully means a great game waiting for all of us!
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Apr 4, 2019 12:47:53 GMT
Also, he lied about Anthem microtransactions scheme and never retracted. He has no credibility, he is fully committed to feeding off internet outrage regardless of truth. You do know that he also makes positive reviews of games that are actually good, right?
The badmouthing of any reviewer on BSN who dares say something negative about Bioware at this point is hilarious.
I've always liked Angry Joe. I find him authentic and his slaptick stuff with Other Joe quite funny. But that's beside the point.
He has a pro consumer stance that I enjoy and support. He may not be the most intellectual person and sometimes doesn't understand game mechanics properly and thus gives false info in his reviews. But hey, he's a human being. I too sometimes don't understand how something works even after dozens of hours. I'd like to point out that Angry Joe himself has been subject to "toxic" people on the internet. Almost quit his channel. Suffered from depression, I think, due to how ungrateful people are.
How does crucifying a Youtuber over mistakes in their videos compute with the "nitpicking anything Bioware does is baddie bad" crowd here? The hypocricy sometimes...
And as far as Schreier's article goes: I find it disgusting how some people here are still in denial about Bioware's unsustainable company culture and mismanagement and are even trying to downplay it by latching onto ONE person's report who may as well be making shit up if we want to doubt credibility here, it goes both ways, that it wasn't THAT bad? Stop enabling mismanagement and awful working conditions!!!
Bioware has been near destroyed by bad leadership and lack of people who can work with Frostbite. Deal with it. Six years in pre-production, are you kidding me??? Then hacking a game together in a year?! That's unacceptable on so many levels. To the devs who worked without direction and had all their hard work ditched, to the consumer who buys a broken game and even EA, who is wondering where all their money is going. I cannot blame EA for asking for results after SEVEN YEARS.
It's not quite as bad is not what anybody should be taking away from this mess. Seeing your favorite company in shambles like this sucks. But this is the reality. The sooner you deal with it the better. Five stages of grief and all that. Without acceptance of how bad things are, nothing will ever change for your beloved company and any future game they may still produce.
What I find disgusting is how you blatantly ignore the article itself saying this is a general issue in the gaming industry with multiple other sources verifying this as actually being part of their companies as well, even for great games that your streamer of choice supports. Just because a game turns out good, doesn't mean it didn't burn out its employees. The main difference here is that there's a problem in management, as you said. Perhaps you should reconsider your praise for the great video games without fully understanding what went on behind the scenes as we all seem to have had the luxury of getting when it comes to BioWare due to its hilariously over the top scrutiny. Otherwise you look like a hypocrite. Actually not even that, just another biased person with an agenda to fulfill... like your dear streamer of choice.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Apr 4, 2019 12:43:01 GMT
Point me a Bioware game that isn't polarizing. Even their greatest hits have harsh critics, haters even. For example I put down ME1, JE, DAI and Anthem as the worst Bioware games. Guess how many here think of them as Bioware's best and think KOTOR, ME2/3, DA2, DAO are boring? 😁 There will always be critics for every game. The PS4 God Of Wat for example is an astounding game that won almost universal praise. Almost. Similarly, even Baldur's Gate 2 has its critics. For myself, as an example, Neverwinter Nights 1? Didn't care much for it. Jade Empire? Neither. ME1? Was OK. However, I believe there was a real decline in DA2/ME3, mainly because of a small production cycle and regardless of how impressive the final product is for that production cycle, these games did not reach the level of quality that the titles deserved. I understand criticism and even hate, because something isn't to one's taste, but we can all see, I think, and identify the drop in quality, regardless of personal preference. I've argued against this in the past but I think BioWare should reconsider being platform accessible. It's evident that the less platforms a game has to support, the more polished it ends up being. This is natural, since platform support takes a significant amount of resources. PS4 exclusives get the benefit of exclusivity deals as well, but I don't think PS4 would be the right platform. PC makes the most sense to me,. Not sure if players would accept this. I imagine it might be too late at this point. Of course I doubt EA would go along with it too.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Apr 4, 2019 12:39:13 GMT
It's unsurprising that the Kotaku article employs sensationalism to make the situation seem more dramatic and dire than it really is, but I still think the overall message of the game industry as a whole having unsustainable issues needs to be addressed, from both the developer and consumer standpoint.
Also some days I feel reddit needs to be purged. The anthem subreddit is nothing but a whiny echo chamber right now.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Apr 3, 2019 20:37:43 GMT
I personally do find it hilarious how BioWare is taking the entire brunt of an epidemic that plagues the entire gaming industry. The very same article mentions how great games that faced the very same issues it did. However BioWare is consistently under disproportionately large scrutiny. What I also find hilarious is how gamers think they aren't complicit in this problem, as if their increasingly irrational demands and inapplicable comparisons wouldn't cause issues. Particularly RPGs, where every aspect of the game has to be flawless while also being the least popular game paradigm. It would be a very cheap exercise to please me, considering I don't care for top notch graphics, I don't care for voice acting, and I don't care for motion capture. So I don't see how I am part of the problem :S As a gamer of predominantly AA or indie games my demands are not so ... demanding. AAA games need to bring in ALL THE PEOPLE though, and one of the key method of doing this is increasing the graphics, and increasing the marketing push, both exponentially increasing costs. This exponential increase in costs means they need to please even more ALL THE PEOPLE. The problem is ALL THE PEOPLE want different things, so while pleasing one person isn't too hard, pleasing 20 million people who all want different things is much harder. And it's these 20 million conflicting demands which is the problem. When I read criticisms about games, often I just see comparisons to other games. What X did right and what Y did better. Plenty of times those changes didn't exist on that game's release, yet gamers expect their shared experience to be reflected across both games.... as if developers just play each other's during development and always have time to adapt to that feedback in time. Worse yet is when those comparisons are inapplicable. A legendary comparison around these parts is the Witcher, as if that game has to deal with far more content through companions throughout the entire game while also supporting team-based combat.... And what sucks the most to developers nowadays, despite different players having different perspectives and requirements, we see those same players form a collective hive mind where they share their grievances with a game and then adopt other people's criticisms as their own and then unfairly judging the game based on what EVERYONE views as problematic rather than just themselves. Games are buggy as ever. People think they are getting worse. That's hilarious to anyone who picked up a game that wasn't Tic-Tac-Toe level of complexity from a decade ago. The main difference is that internet culture was far younger and people didn't discover everything that was wrong with a game within a click. I'm not advocating for ignorance, but when it comes to entertainment, looking up what's explicitly wrong with a game is akin to reading all the plot holes of a movie or book and ruining it for yourself even if it would have otherwise been a pleasant experience. Dragon Age Origins is a hilarious example of this. That god awful memory leak... Missing conversations... mismatched animations... So while you are correct in that AAA try to do too much to please as many people as possible, the bigger problem is how our very, very young internal culture has easily become a hive mind wherever it sets its sights on....and it definitely feels that BioWare is a target.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Apr 3, 2019 17:01:20 GMT
I personally do find it hilarious how BioWare is taking the entire brunt of an epidemic that plagues the entire gaming industry.
The very same article mentions how great games that faced the very same issues it did. However BioWare is consistently under disproportionately large scrutiny.
What I also find hilarious is how gamers think they aren't complicit in this problem, as if their increasingly irrational demands and inapplicable comparisons wouldn't cause issues. Particularly RPGs, where every aspect of the game has to be flawless while also being the least popular game paradigm.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Apr 3, 2019 2:15:10 GMT
Jason Schreier @jasonschreierI've spoken to several current and former BioWare employees since my article went live today, including some I hadn't interviewed earlier. General consensus has been sadness and disappointment at BioWare's statement, which read as disheartening to those who hoped for change. Thats...worrisome. Nah that's just sensationalism. It's standard procedure to issue responses like these to external clientele. Our hope from a realistic perspective is that they will be held accountable from within moving forward.
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