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Post by Gileadan on Jun 21, 2023 8:55:23 GMT
If Varric returns again as a companion there can be no doubt who the true protagonist of Dragon Age is.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 20, 2023 20:51:19 GMT
Trailers are just that... trailers. We don't know how good the finished products will be and how much other studios including BioWare will attempt to copy them.
I haven't looked at Starfield at all and only watched one Outlaws trailer which gave me some weird "school girl cosplaying in a Star Wars theme park" vibe. Right now I'm barely mildly interested in either.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 20, 2023 12:38:24 GMT
Well, all this was taken right out of Warhammer 40,000 where psykers (mages) are being collected by the Inquisition (the chantry templars) and are forced to undergo a ritual called the Sanctioning (the Harrowing) that aims to find out whether a psyker (mage) is susceptible to being possessed by a daemon (demon) which would transform him/her into a powerful horror called a daemonhost (abomination). With one difference: in the Warhammer 40,000 setting, the failures are killed off and the successful ones become Sanctioned Psykers and are no longer being imprisoned while in Thedas even those that make it through the Harrowing are still being imprisoned and treated poorly, producing scores of very dangerous people who are probably very angry at those who imprisoned them in the first place. And that's stupid. Took me a second to remember the lore here and it might be a little fuzzy on the first part still but if you don't go through the Harrowing you are made Tranquil. If you fail during the Harrowing, IE possessed, you are killed by the Templar who is watching over you. Well yes, but those who succeed are still imprisoned and taught terrible offensive spells at the same time. It's like giving guns and grenades to prison inmates. I mean teaching could be limited to healing spells (when those still existed...), that would greatly lower the kill count if a mage went bonkers. It's like making a bomb that will maybe go off in the enemy's camp and maybe in yours.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 20, 2023 10:34:53 GMT
The oppression of mages is one of these hilariously logic defying things that make the setting look so half baked. People don't trust mages, so the poor mages get herded into circles... where they are often being treated badly, BUT ALSO being taught spells that let them annihilate people by the dozens. Imagine if present day authorities would lock up any people with suspicious violent tendencies into secure facilities, and then give them martial arts and commando training and free assault rifles and grenade launchers to go with it. And when one of them escapes and blows up half a city it's just his/her own fault, not that of the idiots that supplied him/her with the hardware. It does speak to how non mage societies view mages in the first place though. As tools. Which Dragon Age is a setting with blights and the mages were also the only thing which were really able to staunch the invasion of the Qunari. Plus any number of any other societal benefits like healing. So, unless the solution is to just automatically kill anyone who exhibits any magical talents at all then of course this would be an issue. A. Because mages are dangerous you'd want to turn them on your enemies and B. because mages are dangerous the logic is to contain them. Even the Qunari with their extreme authoritaarinism and sewing the mouthes of their mages shut they also turn them on their enemies with powerful spells. Well, all this was taken right out of Warhammer 40,000 where psykers (mages) are being collected by the Inquisition (the chantry templars) and are forced to undergo a ritual called the Sanctioning (the Harrowing) that aims to find out whether a psyker (mage) is susceptible to being possessed by a daemon (demon) which would transform him/her into a powerful horror called a daemonhost (abomination). With one difference: in the Warhammer 40,000 setting, the failures are killed off and the successful ones become Sanctioned Psykers and are no longer being imprisoned while in Thedas even those that make it through the Harrowing are still being imprisoned and treated poorly, producing scores of very dangerous people who are probably very angry at those who imprisoned them in the first place. And that's stupid.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 20, 2023 9:53:24 GMT
There's also the oppression of mages in the south. If you don’t trust a thing to be safe, you’re less likely to actively research ways to harness the power for the general good. The oppression of mages is one of these hilariously logic defying things that make the setting look so half baked. People don't trust mages, so the poor mages get herded into circles... where they are often being treated badly, BUT ALSO being taught spells that let them annihilate people by the dozens. Imagine if present day authorities would lock up any people with suspicious violent tendencies into secure facilities, and then give them martial arts and commando training and free assault rifles and grenade launchers to go with it. And when one of them escapes and blows up half a city it's just his/her own fault, not that of the idiots that supplied him/her with the hardware.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 20, 2023 9:48:16 GMT
"No, that super advanced AI named SAM in your head can't just brute force that alien sudoku, because... reasons."
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 19, 2023 6:58:13 GMT
I find it interesting that Mr. Darrah's company is named "Triage Games". I suspect their job is getting messed up projects patched up and out of the door?
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 18, 2023 10:23:19 GMT
Never worry about some company writing fan fiction about your inquisitor. It’s not fan fiction. That’s literally what happens in the epilogue card if you romance her. What I meant was "feel free to ignore whatever they may write in the future to contradict that". Sorry for not being clear enough.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 18, 2023 7:59:18 GMT
And my female trevelyan has suffered more then enough. Lost her arm. Fought a would be God. Had a mountain fall on her. Etc etc. It's literally time for a new hero since mine is living quite comfortably enjoying a much earned rest...relatively speaking. And this is doubly true when she doesen't have to lead from the front. She can do a lot of good in the South. Tripply so since her participation in the war will be a negative considering Solas has proven on three separate occasions to be ahead of the Inquision and able to anticipate their moves. Meanwhile my Inquisitor is living in Antiva. Can’t wait to see how they butcher that to make it match other Inquisitors. And Solas is only winning that so far because BioWare is beating the Inquisition with the Idiot stick to try to make him seem smart. They can’t actually make him seem smart, so they’re just making everyone more stupid so he looks smart in comparison. Meanwhile again the Inquisitor is explicitly established to constantly be surprising Solas. it's likely they'll be filled in early in the game by Varric/ Harding. What happens after that is anyone's guess. Oh boy. Instead of playing a story of someone trying to avenge their family who were killed by a friend, we’re going to play a story of someone who heard someone did something bad to another person’s family. I can’t wait. Never worry about some company writing fan fiction about your inquisitor.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 12, 2023 12:29:23 GMT
Yes, of course it was work. But it was wasted work except for the last 18 months. If I work on a project all week and on Friday I delete everything and start from scratch because of design changes or because management has no clue where the project should be going, then what good was that work and what did my employer - the people who pay my salary - get out of it? What if I keep doing that for years? I strongly doubt I would still be employed just a few months down the road. Which does serve to illistrate the point I was trying to make in the first place, though probably unsucessfully. If BioWare did that then it is very likely that they would've been closed down because that sounds downright...corrupt to their relationship. But then since they weren't closed down then logic suggests that they didn't and EA and BioWare now understand this, if nothing else that seems to be one of the legacies from both Anthem and Jedi Fallen Order that A. you need time to develop your games and B. SP games can still work. Prework is a thing and preparing the wheels. In short that time wasn't wasted, they might've had mission creep and other issues, but they did learn from it, and then they were forced to speed through the final production phases likely because EA was pressuring them to meet some deadline. I don't blame the devs and neither did EA most likely. It was a leadership/management problem, and BioWare's top brass was probably replaced for a reason.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 12, 2023 11:43:06 GMT
I based my comment on Jason Schreier's article about how Anthem went wrong, and the quote "It’s a story of a video game that was in development for nearly seven years but didn’t enter production until the final 18 months, thanks to big narrative reboots, major design overhauls, and a leadership team said to be unable to provide a consistent vision and unwilling to listen to feedback." says it all. Seven years of "development", 18 months of actual work that created the result we got. EA paid for the full seven years. How was my comment not fair? If there's any better data than Schreier's article, based on interviewing developers that worked on the project - let me know and I will happily reevaluate my opinion. And it's not like it got better after Anthem was released. Some optimistic fans (and some of those seemed to be outright cultist material) expected BioWare to pull a No Man's Sky and deliver an amazing post launch fix, but their now infamous road map crashed and burned like the original game and the project first got moved to a new team and then cancelled. And everyone involved took a paycheck from EA during all this time, for precious little results. EA has shut down studios for smaller problems. what you have is a profound misunderstanding of Schreier's commentary. Granted I'm not going to claim they didn't make mistakes in the project and indeed there is a chance they are being repeated with Dreadwolf (though with more time to fix it), but again the production phases of the game aren't the only work that happens on a game. And Schrier basically says that in the comments when talking about the big narrative and design changes. Again could be a problem, could be indicative of the industry, but it is work. Yes, of course it was work. But it was wasted work except for the last 18 months. If I work on a project all week and on Friday I delete everything and start from scratch because of design changes or because management has no clue where the project should be going, then what good was that work and what did my employer - the people who pay my salary - get out of it? What if I keep doing that for years? I strongly doubt I would still be employed just a few months down the road.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 12, 2023 8:11:45 GMT
Smuggler's Creed?
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 12, 2023 7:46:06 GMT
BioWare Austin is gone, obviously. Frankly I'm surprised that EA kept BioWare around at all after the Anthem disaster (and the glaring incompetence discovered in its aftermath) - they paid a big studio like BioWare for 7 years worth of game development but only got 18 months worth of rather awful results out of it in return. That's a massive waste of time and resources and BioWare's products have never been big crowd pleasers anyway. In that context the fact that DA4 is being developed at all by BioWare (and not farmed out to some new other studio) looks like a last chance act of mercy to me. Not sure how fair of an assessment this is and it goes to a rather common argument that I see in other situations that amounts to 'just the work I see is them working'. An anology over in the sports world many people make the claim that people who play sports get paid way too much money because all they do is throw balls around for 3 hours every Sunday. But that is just not the case considering sports players are on the clock for things like practice, team events, events to the public, etc etc. Similarly to game development a game being in 'production' is not the only time a game is being worked on given both pre and post production. And if Anthem really was in development for 7 years that would've encompassed at least some of the dev time behind Mass 3 and all of the time of Dragon Age Inquision as well as all the time for Mass Effect Andromeda. Much like in the current situation with Dreadwolf they couldn't have just dropped everything on those three games just to work on Anthem, they've never had the people to pull off working on four games at once. And the fact that EA hasn't closed BioWare down and really there is no real threat of it for reasons I've already discussed demonstrates that they and BioWare finally understand this. That you can't just meander through game dev for years and then have a final shortened period of rush, these games need that time to grow and get going...and the fact that Dreadwolf wasn't released in say 2022 is a pretty big indication of this...and closing down a game that has been live for over a decade now doesen't really change that. I based my comment on Jason Schreier's article about how Anthem went wrong, and the quote "It’s a story of a video game that was in development for nearly seven years but didn’t enter production until the final 18 months, thanks to big narrative reboots, major design overhauls, and a leadership team said to be unable to provide a consistent vision and unwilling to listen to feedback." says it all. Seven years of "development", 18 months of actual work that created the result we got. EA paid for the full seven years. How was my comment not fair? If there's any better data than Schreier's article, based on interviewing developers that worked on the project - let me know and I will happily reevaluate my opinion. And it's not like it got better after Anthem was released. Some optimistic fans (and some of those seemed to be outright cultist material) expected BioWare to pull a No Man's Sky and deliver an amazing post launch fix, but their now infamous road map crashed and burned like the original game and the project first got moved to a new team and then cancelled. And everyone involved took a paycheck from EA during all this time, for precious little results. EA has shut down studios for smaller problems.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 11, 2023 20:59:33 GMT
Supposedly also adds many reworks to the base game such as armor and cybernetics. Also, the police system was reworked to include a five star system of pursuit intensity. 1 star being a few cops on motorbikes, 5 stars calls in Max Tac and may lead to a boss fight. This is unconfirmed because the guys who playtested Phantom Liberty died before getting to 5 stars.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 11, 2023 6:16:39 GMT
BioWare Austin is gone, obviously.
Frankly I'm surprised that EA kept BioWare around at all after the Anthem disaster (and the glaring incompetence discovered in its aftermath) - they paid a big studio like BioWare for 7 years worth of game development but only got 18 months worth of rather awful results out of it in return. That's a massive waste of time and resources and BioWare's products have never been big crowd pleasers anyway.
In that context the fact that DA4 is being developed at all by BioWare (and not farmed out to some new other studio) looks like a last chance act of mercy to me.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 6, 2023 7:35:54 GMT
I only played one RPG where the dual protagonist feature really worked for me (Mors Westford and Alester Sarwyck in Game of Thrones) - not that there's many to begin with. As far as DAD is concerned I don't think any of the previous protagonists would be overly interesting to me as "the other guy".
The Inquisition is hopefully done - they will be idiots anyway now just like any other faction we were a member of before.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 5, 2023 6:13:22 GMT
Saw the ultra-greedy cosmetics shop. 20+ bucks for a single outfit? Not a dime from me, Kotickvision-Blizzard.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 4, 2023 7:20:45 GMT
I was just minding my own business in this totally not cursed looking swamp and luckily I never get distracted by random things I see on the way to the next objective and suddenly there was this angry lady in some not overly fashionable rags and accused me of things I've never done and there was just no reasoning with her.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 2, 2023 7:38:29 GMT
And here I thought all this NFT / crypto bullshit had died quietly in a ditch because nobody was talking about it anymore. That said, I do like unlockable cosmetics in games. You gotta look respectable while going about your business. You actually bring up a good point of discussion. Should cosmetics that are unlocked in one playthrough be transferred to any subsequent playthroughs? Not many games do this, admittedly, but I remembered the golden nug from Inquisition and how it let you transfer blueprints found across all your playthroughs (IIRC). I wonder if the same logic could apply with cosmetics so you can start with your 2nd character looking the way you want on the onset. I'd actually say it depends on the individual cosmetic and how you got it, but that's just me. For example, if you get a special cosmetic for joining a certain faction in game, I'd unlock that separately in every playthrough. If you got it for a very hard in game achievement, it should remain unlocked for subsequent playthroughs.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 1, 2023 7:29:22 GMT
And here I thought all this NFT / crypto bullshit had died quietly in a ditch because nobody was talking about it anymore.
That said, I do like unlockable cosmetics in games. You gotta look respectable while going about your business.
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Post by Gileadan on May 31, 2023 13:27:55 GMT
There's some speculation that the protagonist in DA:D will not be 'The Chosen One' and that they may be just a regular person embroiled in some weighty events. I hope so, as I'm heartily sick of being' The Chosen One' in video games, special by dint of birth, and special and unique due to pre-ordained destiny rather than any real choice or effort on my behalf. I want to be just some total nobody, living somewhere in a Tevinter slum, scrounging around for scraps of food, running away and hiding from ruffians who I have no chance of facing down, invisible to all and utterly unimportant in every respect. If I go on to do great things that impact Thedas I want it to be because I was put into a near-impossible situation, worked my ass off to get out of it, and managed to survive and thrive through a combination of pure dumb luck and being pushed to the absolute limit. I wonder if that will be the case, or if it's going to be yet another: " The fate of the world rests upon you and you alone, you have been chosen to fulfil your epic destiny....blah blah blah..." Time will tell I guess. This. I'd be happy to start out as Private Nobody and maybe rank up to Sergeant Nobody by the end of the story.
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Post by Gileadan on May 30, 2023 14:47:57 GMT
I'm actually not sure what point he was trying to make. That AI won't be writing *better* stories and characters than human writers one day? As in more appealing to humans than something written by other humans? That much seems obvious. Can AI cobble together something that's about as good as mediocre human writing? Probably yes at some point, and that will likely be enough reason for some dev teams to switch out human writers for AI. And that was the point I was trying to make: if the result of human effort is something of the DAI side content quality level, might as well have an AI do it. It could probably automate the generation of dialogue trees and just need you to manually place NPCs and objects. but the trouble is that is low level content in the first place. Yes, that might be tempting for some devs and some gaming genres but it won't always work. These low level tasks, to some extent, will always be a part of large RPGs. But that wasn't all Inquistion was, nor most RPGs...and can you imagine a DA game if that is all it was? Low level procedural quests, not just as a Time sink but the entire game? As the entire game à la BioWare, no. Even though DAI had lots of low effort side content and only about 10 - 12 hours main quest you can't take that main quest away and replace it with generic side jobs. I certainly wouldn't want to play that. But a Diablo-style ARPG where most people care about gameplay and progression and the story is just some generic stuff that leads to new areas? Yes, I can absolutely imagine that.
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Post by Gileadan on May 30, 2023 6:35:29 GMT
I don't know. DAI's side content was so generic that ChatGPT could probably create the same stuff or better with the press of a button. I think that is the exact point he was trying to make. I'm actually not sure what point he was trying to make. That AI won't be writing *better* stories and characters than human writers one day? As in more appealing to humans than something written by other humans? That much seems obvious. Can AI cobble together something that's about as good as mediocre human writing? Probably yes at some point, and that will likely be enough reason for some dev teams to switch out human writers for AI. And that was the point I was trying to make: if the result of human effort is something of the DAI side content quality level, might as well have an AI do it. It could probably automate the generation of dialogue trees and just need you to manually place NPCs and objects.
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Post by Gileadan on May 30, 2023 5:30:48 GMT
I don't know. DAI's side content was so generic that ChatGPT could probably create the same stuff or better with the press of a button.
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Post by Gileadan on May 29, 2023 14:03:24 GMT
A recurring plot point in BioWare games is that any faction the PC is not a member of is almost comically inept which is then the reason for "how could all this shit happen anyway?".
Just look at DAI's mages, templars, wardens... and the Inquisition during the two years between the end of DAI and the start of Trespasser. Absence of player character = stupidity and incompetence.
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