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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 7, 2023 4:00:57 GMT
Ou joy. Cannot wait to see how they absolutely bastardize my favorite video game character. Huh. I've always thought of Josephine as a neutral character no one feels strongly about. What do you like about her? Many things. Simply put: Love her personality and how she’s just a genuinely good person. Love her being a pacifist and always wanting to solve problems without violence even in a world as violent as Thedas. Plus parts of her character and story helped me in real life with personal things.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 4, 2023 23:51:20 GMT
I’m imaging a 2027 release date since I see DAD coming out late 2024.
Kind of fitting actually, both being a decade since the last game in the franchise.
Hopefully after that nowhere near as long gaps, though long enough for the health of the devs.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 4, 2023 23:47:35 GMT
I'd be almost surprised if we don't meet the Inquisitor, at this rate. Sorry Hanako, I guess. But I wouldn't predict anything like they're a companion, and I'm not even sure if I think they'll be an 'Advisor' or similar. Might be bigger than Hawke in DAI though. And I even think they might bring back Hawke in some form or else do it in a DA5. The Warden is a whole other matter - but Inquisitor feels almost inevitable to me. They could tone them based on your choices/patterns in DAI, and you can partially operate in significant connection to what remains of the Inquisition, their status influencing at least one major quest/line, and part of the ultimate fate of Solas. That's my default until more info comes . So they’re going to use the same method they used for Hawke in DAI? Ugh, it’s going to be everything I and everyone else who hated that dread. May Andraste watch over us all.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 4, 2023 20:06:11 GMT
Not a fan of them straight up making the Crows heroes. “The Crows fight for everyone.”? Oh yeah that must be why most people even from Antiva don’t like them. They were an assassin’s guild, not a heroic order. At least the ugly city in Antiva isn’t Antiva City. But they fight for everyone in their eyes. If you can pay them they will fight for you. Nothing in this said hero. It only said they are there and don't run away.
It’s the tone in the voice that says the hero part. And like you said they omit the “who can pay” part.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 4, 2023 20:05:14 GMT
Not a fan of them straight up making the Crows heroes. “The Crows fight for everyone.”? Oh yeah that must be why most people even from Antiva don’t like them. They were an assassin’s guild, not a heroic order. At least the ugly city in Antiva isn’t Antiva City. Pre-Qun invasion, I agree. But if the short stories are canon, then the Crows have taken on something of a freedom fighter role recently. Like, yeah they're still a murder gang, but they're the local murder gang, who the populace knows and who had rules. And they're picking battles with invaders on their turf, who harass their citizens, that the Antivan government can't do anything about. Antiva has always had a very weak central authority and the Crows have always acted as this weird mix of "shady assassins' guild" and "Antivan institution". I get it, I just hate it. Especially since we'll almost certainly be forced to support them and agree with them. Would much prefer being able to destroy the organization.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 4, 2023 18:58:58 GMT
Ou joy. Cannot wait to see how they absolutely bastardize my favorite video game character. Welcome to how fans of Anders in Origins felt when they played DA:2 Trust me I know. While he wasn’t my favorite I liked Awakening Anders and hate what they did with him.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 4, 2023 18:37:30 GMT
Don't want Josephine in this either. Don’t want to see her character ruined(like dropping her pacifism) and/or killed off. I absolutely expect BioWare to do one or both of these. Sorry but we are going to Antiva and it’s only fair to assume that we met her in Antiva. Also unlike Zevran who could be writen out (some adventures somewhere else) Josephine is no quantum character and works for all possible world states. Yeah Bioware will bring her back. Ou joy. Cannot wait to see how they absolutely bastardize my favorite video game character.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 4, 2023 18:30:47 GMT
But Silas is still more villainous. At least with Falon’Din people would still be alive, as opposed to Silas who is plotting to commit global genocide. Another monster sorry loser who want´s to rule or destroy Thedas and still lose at the end. Who cares?
I prefer the more grey scenario of Tevinter vs the Qunari.
Oh I agree. Unfortunately we were doomed to this once they made Solas the villain without having Inquisitor as protagonist to add some nuance.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 4, 2023 18:28:33 GMT
Inquisitor? Pleaseeee and just like that I'm back on the hype train No they can´t get an Inquisitior NPC right and in DAD we would play as one else "who has no magic hand" Antiva: Absolute must Josephine and if alive Zevran. It´s about the crows so Zevran has to show up. Rivain: Isabela of course Anderfels / Weisshaupt: Nathaniel would be nice. I don´t need Blackwall or Oghren. Tevinter: Dorian and Calpernia (yes even all this years i hope that she more than a NPC. She like Harding could a companion and romance) Don't want Josephine in this either. Don’t want to see her character ruined(like dropping her pacifism) and/or killed off. I absolutely expect BioWare to do one or both of these.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 4, 2023 18:15:50 GMT
Maybe but i don´t believe it. We hear before him important NPC from other countries so why should be the male voice not be from Tevinter? My money is on Archon Radonis.Also passible, but so much more boring than Falon'din))))) imagine the drama, if Solas fucked up (again) and let out one of the worst evanuris. Having some dure from Tevinter (even the archon) playing the role of "true enemy" just isn't on the same caliber. If they want to paint Solas as "not a monster" but someone, who had only bad options to choose from, it need to be reflected by someone truly villainous. But Solas is still more villainous. At least with Falon’Din people would still be alive, as opposed to Solas who is plotting to commit global genocide.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 4, 2023 18:07:18 GMT
Inquisitor? Pleaseeee and just like that I'm back on the hype train Only if as a playable protagonist please. If a NPC we can’t control, keep them out of this completely(other than a note that they rescued Josephine and her family and they’re safe in the south please).
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 4, 2023 17:42:41 GMT
Full reveal 2024.... essentially another nothingburger to keep the rabid masses sated. Basically, though not completely since they’re now committing to a time rather than “We can’t wait to talk more about it Soon.”
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 4, 2023 17:41:56 GMT
Why was Tevinter omitted in the trailer? My guess is since they’ve talked about Tevinter a lot, this was to show everywhere else that will be involved. Plus the final shot with the map is of Tevinter.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 4, 2023 17:28:56 GMT
Not a fan of them straight up making the Crows heroes. “The Crows fight for everyone.”? Oh yeah that must be why most people even from Antiva don’t like them. They were an assassin’s guild, not a heroic order. At least the ugly city in Antiva isn’t Antiva City. It's grossly wrong, but it could also be internal propaganda. Not a fan of them straight up making the Crows heroes. “The Crows fight for everyone.”? Oh yeah that must be why most people even from Antiva don’t like them. They were an assassin’s guild, not a heroic order. At least the ugly city in Antiva isn’t Antiva City. It's possible that the character saying those things believe that, and it's not necessarily a overall sentiment shared by the population. It seems there'll be at least two cities, given that Minrathous was specifically referenced in the blog. Perhaps, but the fact BioWare used it for the trailer plus how they’ve been depicting them in the comics and short stories has me think they truly want us to see the murder of murderers that way. I expect one big city for each region as a central hub. Like Weisshaupt for Anderfels, Treviso for Antiva, etc.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 4, 2023 17:25:25 GMT
Not a fan of them straight up making the Crows heroes. “The Crows fight for everyone.”? Oh yeah that must be why most people even from Antiva don’t like them. They were an assassin’s guild, not a heroic order.
At least the ugly city in Antiva isn’t Antiva City.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 30, 2023 22:01:44 GMT
That is actually one thing I was implying by 'background lore in text entries'. I didn't just mean old history, but newer history of timelines, logs, of Cerberus remnants, or the chain of those influenced by Cerberus, influencing the future of the Alliance. TIM in ME2-3 can be kept entirely canon, but the context was that the implants were starting to get rather hardcore on his mentality by then, eventually totally obvious at the end of ME3. But there's the gap between the origins comic and meeting him in ME2, and there's going to be a gap between his death and whatever's next. I don't see the concept of Cerberus being ignored, I just don't know if its going to be as minimal as a couple text mentions (somehow), or they'll be elevated as basically the full (not practically; over 50% of enemy units in ME3 was or seemed to be Cerberus) antagonist (somehow). Personally I'd hate either extreme. I'm with you in preferring that elements of Cerberus ideology seep back into the Alliance post-war after the effects of known events and the added new events to the timeline. Things that have humanity retreating, even if the relationships with the rest of the galaxy are more complicated than before. Earthexit in the midst of wide interspecies cohabitation. It's less Earthexit( that's Terra Firma thing) and more Humanity Rules the Space that I have in mind.
Terra Firma wants to isolate Earth from entire galaxy, including other human colonies, while Cerberus wants human dominance of galactic affairs. This is the only ideological distinction we got with Cerberus and it mainly comes from the books. So you want humanity to be the villains?
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 28, 2023 19:16:52 GMT
And that's another thing that's annoying about Andromeda. The inevitability of synthetics coming into conflict with their organic creators. The whole reason why the we had to leave the Milky Way in the first place as that dilemma was responsible for burning the whole place down to begin with and Alec along with his creation SAM completely solves the whole conflict behind the billion year long harvests of the Reapers in the first 30 seconds. Forget that AI have always caused conflict and their creation, intentional or accidental, have screwed over the other races of the galaxy time after time. Rather some human special forces soldier, who tinkers on AI in his spare time, managed to avoid all of that and create the only example of an AI that disproves the Catalyst's entire argument. You mean besides EDI? And really the Geth since they never wanted to fight but the Quarians started it? The Catalyst’s logic has always been flawed. Or at least operating in such a long term scale that it doesn’t register with us (in which case SAM doesn’t disprove him yet).Why should we hold his views as gospel now?
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 28, 2023 16:36:45 GMT
EA Working On Player-Voiced Characters In Gameswww.veryaligaming.com/ea-player-voiced-characters-games/Rundown:- Electronic Arts’ newly issued patent aims to enable players to make their in-game characters communicate using their own voices. - The patent outlines a system that involves inputting speech content data into a synthesiser module, which generates source acoustic features representing the desired voice or style. - The heart of the patent is a voice converter, which uses an acoustic feature encoder to meld the source acoustic characteristics with a target speaker embedding associated with the player, replicating the player’s voice for the in-game character. - This technology can generate speech audio in the player’s voice, allowing the character to speak with the player’s unique, personal voice, and it can even capture non-verbal elements of speech like tone, emotions, and emphasis. - The input data for this system can take the form of text, allowing players to type the dialogue they want their character to deliver, making it a more practical and versatile approach compared to traditional methods that require extensive recorded speech data. This is absolutely disgusting and as someone trying to become a voice actor, absolutely terrifying. Especially since this’ll be taking anyone who uses this thing’s voice and keeping them in an archive to be used whenever they please. No doubt that will be a condition to use it that most people won’t read cause they’ll hide it in 18 pages of writing with a Do You Agree click.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 28, 2023 16:18:50 GMT
One more thing to dislike Alec. Wouldn't it make sense to try and make SAM available to as many as possible because it would be too risky to have it available to only a handful of people? And if it didn't seem necessary to have SAM at all in order to settle in Andromeda, why is it used as a criterion for being a Pathfinder? I wish the game had characters criticizing or even thinking out loud about these aspects. SAM is a great tool to have but it's basically coincidental that Alec developed it further than anybody knew and if he hadn't done that, everybody would have been screwed. Alec did want to make SAMs for as many as possible though. It’s what got the Ryder family blacklisted since the Alliance and Council didn't trust AI. The Andromeda Initiative were allowed to develop the five SAMs they did because they argued their necessity but had to follow strict guidelines, so Alec kept the abilities of our SAM secret since otherwise they all would have been scrapped.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 27, 2023 18:47:20 GMT
At the time, our SAM is the only one that the Initiative has access to. And the only one geared towards human physiology. Most don’t know that SAM’s connection to Ryder is keeping Ryder alive, so those who do saw them being Pathfinder as a way to explain the connection without them finding out. So did they have plans to manufacture more SAMs at some point, since so many have implants? Or is the Ryder twins having implants the nepotism people talk about? I try to be attentive with each playthrough but I'm still unclear on details such as these. So if Ryder wouldn't live with SAM, does that mean Alec couldn't have survived without SAM either even if he had a helmet? Because of the special connection? So basically, if Ryder hadn't had a cracked helmet and Alec had transferred Pathfinder authority to Cora instead in some other occasion where he was going to die, Cora would have gone through the same as Ryder - nearly dying, then being forever reliant on SAM? Did Cora fully understand this? Probably not, since she didn't know about Alec's "profiles". No, there is nothing that suggests they planned to build more SAMs. The only ones who have implants that connect to them are members of the Pathfinder teams since the SAMs were made to help them with scouting planets and other Pathfinder duties. Ryder couldn’t live without SAM because of what happened on Habitat 7. Parts of Ryder died due to the exposure so SAM picked up the slack. Sort of like the Relic in Cyberpunk 2077. As for the nepotism, most of that is just people criticizing. The only valid thing about Ryder being more special is because Alec built SAM to save his wife. Since her kids share her DNA, he works for them beyond what he would for others. I think in one of the novels it says how Cora would never be able to use SAM like Alec could.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 24, 2023 11:00:16 GMT
I think the silliness is in claiming that only the one with this special kind of SAM that Alec had can be a pathfinder, even though the other pathfinders have a regular kind of SAM. So wtf can't we just install one in Cora? At the time, our SAM is the only one that the Initiative has access to. And the only one geared towards human physiology. Most don’t know that SAM’s connection to Ryder is keeping Ryder alive, so those who do saw them being Pathfinder as a way to explain the connection without them finding out.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 24, 2023 1:29:13 GMT
Andromeda vs ME3? I hate the ME3 endings as much as anyone, but at least ME3 wasn't aimed at, and written for, pre-teens. Ah, yes. The rated M game is totally geared towards consumers who can’t even get T games.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 23, 2023 9:49:38 GMT
What about a very advanced civilization that hid themselves from the "outside" because they are xenophobic? The reaper destruction jolted them severely and now some want to open up to the survivors. These could help humans with their reconstruction efforts. Perhaps, even offering some of their low end tech = human equivalent or somewhat better. There's probably a very good chance that the Raloi will re-emerge and re-engage with the galactic community again. I'll be interested to see whether we get to see the Batarians again, seeing as they got absolutely hammered by the Reapers and the assumption was that they were all wiped out. There’s still plenty of Batarians around. There’s more than enough in the Terminus System even if all the ones in Batarian space were wiped out, which we know is the case since there were a lot of refugees and enough to man a whole fleet. And there are some who went to Andromeda.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 22, 2023 1:11:20 GMT
I got Evie Frye!
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 22, 2023 0:59:03 GMT
Ooh, good catch, that makes sense. I'm no big fan of the Council but constructing a gateway of any kind when you can't be sure what's going to come out of it is monumentally stupid. Didn't they learn anything from Doom? It could lead to an interesting situation though with humanity getting booted from the Council and such. We could have so many smug, insufferable Volus characters... I think a lot depends on whether this is just Cerberus constructing its own relay, or whether the Systems Alliance is covertly backing them in that endeavor. I'm inclined to think it's just Cerberus off doing its own thing. The main reason being that the planet in the latest trailer appears to me to be the same planet as the one beneath the relay that's being constructed. There's also Cerberus colours on the relay, and on the stockpiled canisters in the new trailer. Most people seem to think that the N7 figure is some sort of agent/infiltrator, so I suspect that the Systems Alliance have sent an N7 to investigate/disrupt what Cerberus are up to. The obvious question of the back of this though is just what the **** are Cerberus up to? Where is this new relay paired to? By the goddess, I hope they don’t involve Cerberus in any way, shape, or form in this. They have been so overused. Plus why would anyone bring them back after they supported the Reapers?
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