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Post by Gileadan on Jun 20, 2024 13:51:12 GMT
Are Chipper/Bubbly characters not well liked in entertainment media, or narrative RPGs specifically? I ask because it feels like you having such a character in your media seems like a pretty big negative for people Depends on the type of story for me. Veilguard is supposedly about "regret" and some blighted gods and their entourage tearing up the world. Might work, might not. BioWare likes to do the "cheerful group of quirky individuals snark their way to inevitable victory against all odds". The world might end but we all know it won't, it's just the background for a funny and possibly romantic romp. On the other hand there's probably a reason why there are no chipper/bubbly characters in "Das Boot" or "Stalingrad".
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 19, 2024 18:24:39 GMT
Wait what? Solas will be in our head like some uncool Johnny Silverhand? Oh dear I hope not.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 18, 2024 9:47:20 GMT
I'm not expecting much from the writing. I mean, Hawke went to Weisshaupt how many years ago now? What came out of it? Any plot thread can be ignored at any time.
It's the combat that really gets to me. I felt something was weird the first time I watched the gameplay video, now I checked a few moments in it again and now I know what bothers me.
1. The silly ass animations like the DA2 rogue throws-a-bottle-with-a-roundhouse-kick are back. Varric sometimes shoots Bianca while hovering in the air for a moment after a jump, bracing the crossbow under his feet. What a way to treat fine dwarven engineering.
2. Do your companions ever get attacked? Do they even have a hitpoint bar somewhere? They seem little more than providers of piddly extra damage and combo abilities. What an elegant way to solve the "companions too dumb to not constantly walk into the green shit on the floor" problem. Are we wearing a "I'm the protagonist KICK ME" sign?
Would have been interesting to know what difficulty that was at.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 18, 2024 7:24:04 GMT
Any word about all the elves that supposedly flocked to Solas's cause at the end of DAI? I was looking forward to them messing up this one too and then blaming humanity for it.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 17, 2024 18:47:58 GMT
Lay off people who do the work so there's more money for the suits who talk about work.
Urgh.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 17, 2024 11:12:01 GMT
Eh, Bianca's novelty had worn off near the end of DA2.
Varric should let it go and respec to double daggers or something. Don't let yourself be defined by your favourite tool.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 16, 2024 7:09:36 GMT
Now I do have one minor, repeat minor, UI quibble regarding the Ability Icons on the Radial UI. Notice the Ability Icons with direction? Depending on which side of the Radial UI the companion is on, the Icon could be pointing towards the target eg. Harding's (which "feels" right) or in Bellara's case, pointing away from the target (which "feels" wrong) - like the ability is directed away from the target. Because it's a Radial UI, it's like you're looking down a scope to your target, and everything should feel like it's directed towards that target. I respectfully disagree. The icons would have to change their looks depending on whether the game considers a companion as #1 or #2, i.e. places their icons on the left or on the right side. I think the top left "down arrow" of Harding's abilities is some kind of "down-strike" attack and will always look like that, while the ones pointing to the right are all longer range attacks that fly over the ground, so to say. I think it's better to give each ability a unique, non-changing icon that you learn to recognize quickly.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 14, 2024 18:47:12 GMT
Ah, the story's main theme is regret?
Now I know what to compare it to! Will we get a snarky hovering skull? A chaste succubus lady who sounds like Femshep? A suit of armour that sounds like Captain Anderson? A grizzled guy occasionally saying "Balance in all things"? A veritable Fortress of Regret?
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 13, 2024 8:04:39 GMT
Shame the DLSS question didn't specify the version. Would be nice to know if we get upscaling or frame generation. But then again, if it's a somewhat recent version of Frostbite I expect most of the bells and whistles. It's a bit funny that there's no restrictions to the race/class/background combinations. So you can be a Qunari mage Crow?
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 12, 2024 8:12:14 GMT
Fun fact:
The name Manfred is alemannic and consists of "Man" (man) and "fridu" (peace, safety) meaning "Man of Peace". I'm sure there will be peace once Manfred is done...
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 12, 2024 7:57:38 GMT
Either Lords of Fortune because I like the idea of "mercenary stumbles into the plot and now s/he's gotta fix that garbage" or Mourn Watch on the basis of "if anyone messes with the Veil here it's me and my buddies, not YOU".
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 12, 2024 7:45:02 GMT
Lets just appreciate the irony for a second of saying someone 'deserves to die'...for also killing people. No one deserves to die. The only death that is justified is always in cases of self defense or iminent threat, but if there is always a better way to do so then that should be done. There may be people whose death might make the world safer and better for everyone else, but "deserves" is a whole different thing.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 12, 2024 6:51:46 GMT
What's obtuse here? They talked about keeping the new protagonist hidden from Solas - the guy who managed to riddle the entire Inquisition with spies without anyone figuring that out - by finding someone unknown to Solas. So far, so good. Then they personally hang out with the new protagonist by accompanying him/her on their quest to stop Solas. Solas definitely knows about Varric and Harding, two well known Inquisition members. Sure, they might need someone new because the Inquisitor or the Inquisition is no longer in a good place to fight Solas, but that's not the argument that was being made. The argument was "bring someone Solas doesn't know". I would have expected a recruitment in secret, through coded messages or middle men and certainly no teaming up in person because that shoots the entire "Solas doesn't know the new protagonist" right out of the window. "Dear perspective recruit we are here to tell you about an evil god that is about to ruin the world and we are reaching out to ask you to join us in stopping this menace. Trust us." Usually most recrutiment does tend to take place in person, at least eventually. "Dear new recruit, we need you to stop this evil god. No worries, we're coming with. Sure, he knows who we are and has a lot of spies everywhere, but it's going to be fine. Trust us."
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 12, 2024 6:40:57 GMT
Yeah, I'm not thinking much of the writing at the moment. This entire thing about "a hero Solas doesn't know" then led to our new protagonist being joined by Varric and Harding who already went after Solas for an entire comic series so if he didn't see that coming then the entire reason for not bringing back the Inquisitor is absolute nonsense. Of course, in the meanwhile the wording changed from "a hero Solas doesn't know" to "a hero they won't see coming" so who's the "they" that this is aimed at? The elven gods? Some other not revealed baddies? Did whoever "they" are know the Inquisitor somehow? And of course Solas has another choice. He could simply alert the general public to the danger posed by the elven gods - then it would be more than 8 people opposing them. But nooo, he has to go through with his selfish shit that he knows will get a lot of people killed. Then again... many of BioWare's previous plots stand firmly on a central pillar commonly known as stupidity. It's practically required to make some of their stories work. Look at the mages and templars in DAI. And Solas of course. All do really stupid things that are needed to get the plot going. THis line of criticism has always been especially obtuse. Sure the last few years has indicated that the Inquisition/ Inquisitor wasn't well equipped to stop him personally that he could work around them...but it is just as clear that the Inquisition was still going to be involved in the process of investigating for people or resources that would be able to stop them. They wouldn't be the key, but they would LOOK for the key. The line in Tresspasser, which I just double checked, was 'then WE'LL find people he doesen't know...we will save our friend from himself...if we can.' And then we have seen this process, in TVN, in the Missing, of the Inquisition sending out agents trying to look for ways to stop him. And then has pointed to the reasons where Solas might know how to infiltrate and get around them. Now granted its a bold choice to, in the opening of the game, send this new protagonist into the middle of Solas's ritual...but then what choice do they have? In either of these things? Its not bad writing for people to follow through in doing what they say they are going to do and what they should be doing. What's obtuse here? They talked about keeping the new protagonist hidden from Solas - the guy who managed to riddle the entire Inquisition with spies without anyone figuring that out - by finding someone unknown to Solas. So far, so good. Then they personally hang out with the new protagonist by accompanying him/her on their quest to stop Solas. Solas definitely knows about Varric and Harding, two well known Inquisition members. Sure, they might need someone new because the Inquisitor or the Inquisition is no longer in a good place to fight Solas, but that's not the argument that was being made. The argument was "bring someone Solas doesn't know". I would have expected a recruitment in secret, through coded messages or middle men and certainly no teaming up in person because that shoots the entire "Solas doesn't know the new protagonist" right out of the window.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 12, 2024 5:40:44 GMT
Yeah, I'm not thinking much of the writing at the moment. This entire thing about "a hero Solas doesn't know" then led to our new protagonist being joined by Varric and Harding who already went after Solas for an entire comic series so if he didn't see that coming then the entire reason for not bringing back the Inquisitor is absolute nonsense. Of course, in the meanwhile the wording changed from "a hero Solas doesn't know" to "a hero they won't see coming" so who's the "they" that this is aimed at? The elven gods? Some other not revealed baddies? Did whoever "they" are know the Inquisitor somehow?
And of course Solas has another choice. He could simply alert the general public to the danger posed by the elven gods - then it would be more than 8 people opposing them. But nooo, he has to go through with his selfish shit that he knows will get a lot of people killed.
Then again... many of BioWare's previous plots stand firmly on a central pillar commonly known as stupidity. It's practically required to make some of their stories work. Look at the mages and templars in DAI. And Solas of course. All do really stupid things that are needed to get the plot going.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 11, 2024 20:27:04 GMT
Do I get slow motion and the Avengers theme when I toss my shield?
Not fond of that elemental weaknesses and resistances stuff. Sure, when it makes sense (a fire creature should be near immune to fire and weak to water/ice and some such) but if every Tom, Dick and Harry has some elemental resistance that I have to work around it will get tedious.
Also I will definitely wait until I see the PC port. It's always been treated like the red headed step child. Get Nixxes or someone else who knows what they're doing.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 11, 2024 18:01:33 GMT
Now I'm curious to see some mage gameplay.
Though judging from the UI, I suppose it's magical boomstick long range attacks and up to three spells? That would be a bit sad, but that's gameplay for modern audiences I suppose.
Also since the potion limit is still there I'd love to know if the barrier spam is still around too.
EDIT: also, fights against big non-humanoid creatures please. Did they fix those hitboxes?
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 11, 2024 15:35:05 GMT
So three abilities for Rook and each companion to choose from judging from the wheel? Very controller friendly.
It looked good! The combat seemed a bit weightless. Swing, swing, dodge back, use ability. And the good old potion limitation seems to be back.
Had to smile at the beginning with demons rampaging everywhere but everyone kept talking calmly (and the demons kindly ate someone else in the meanwhile).
Still, leagues better than that character trailer.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 11, 2024 8:39:31 GMT
I found the word "rampaging" associated with "gods" pretty interesting. What kind of gods are those? "Blood for the blood god! Skulls for the skull throne! Let the galaxy burn!" Doesn't give me "elven" vibes exactly.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 11, 2024 7:34:14 GMT
I'll have a proper gander at the previews but in the end they might not mean much. If something is a "10/10 bold and stunning" in the journo bubble it can still turn out to be a rather mediocre game.
That doesn't mean that it can't turn out to be great. If they get some good gameplay and half decent writing in there it has all the potential of being lots of fun!
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 11, 2024 6:35:20 GMT
Reznore "Also so much for new people Solas doesn't know." I know, that has been disappointing. Scout Harding and Varric are directly recruiting the next protagonist. I thought Varric would be an advisor not introduced until after the game was fully started. That we're a nobody and GAIN attention of the Inquisition. Now we're hand picked by people Solas knows is hunting him. What gives? Now I think that was just a silly way of saying "not the Inquisitor but a new protagonist". In the 20 second preview Rook is running around with Varric who really stands out with his shiny unique crossbow... trying not to be conspicuous. Some parts of the writing might be better enjoyed with the brain set relax mode.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 10, 2024 19:25:14 GMT
I now really wonder what kind of weird-ass post-processing made that model of Harding look so much worse in the trailer. This isn't half bad. And the 20 second preview put a smile on my face. A dwarf who must be a celebrity by now carrying a huge almost-as-big-as-himself one-of-a-kind super shiny crossbow says that we don't want to be conspicuous.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 10, 2024 15:16:49 GMT
I haven't seen the "too woke" shouting that much on this forum. It was mostly "omg that art style and that overall tone". It's technically impossible for Dragon Age to be "too woke" anyway since it's BioWare's IP and not set on Earth so they decide what's going on.
In the very end, the same is true for BioWare, Disney and everyone else, "cultural war" or not: they make a product, and people decide whether it's worth their time and money.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 10, 2024 10:01:34 GMT
The bits of dialogue we got for MEA before release was a red flag I'll never forget the feeling of impeding doom I got from that MEA trailer, with the song? "I'm only human after all don't put your blame on me" It was the game trailer equivalent of two uniformed guys with sad faces ringing your doorbell.
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Games: Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquisition, KOTOR, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire, Mass Effect Andromeda
Origin: ALoneGretchin
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 10, 2024 8:29:08 GMT
Red Lyrium Darkspawn (Darkspawn 2.0)?
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