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Yeah, Inquisition's focus on being as big and grand as possible--while also having almost no urgency so that you can do as much open-world loving around as you want--tells me that BioWare learned what I think was the wrong lesson from Dragon Age 2. I respect a lot of what they were trying to do with the story, but they cut so many corners and rushed the game so thoroughly that it ended up being a bad game, and I find that really frustrating. I also think it's just what general audiences expect from big AAA games, RPG or otherwise. I can't really blame people--most people don't play as many games as I do and probably aren't fatigued by the same things I am. There might have been some early concept of Inquisition's story that was a very "human-scale" thing focusing on trying to save Thedas from tearing itself apart in the Mage/Templar conflict, and early feedback would have been: "I don't know, this isn't very exciting," or, "I'm just not grabbed by this," that kind of thing. The only developer I can think of trying more "human-scale" stories in big releases is probably Naughty Dog. The Last of Us is a very personal story, and so is Uncharted 4, underneath all the bombast and explosions. Hell, Uncharted 4 is the first game in the series not to feature any sort of supernatural element at all, or even a hint at one, and the main conflicts are mostly within Nate's group, with the mercenaries and Rafe Adler there just to give Nate something to act irresponsibly about.
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moist turtleneck posted:Southern Salarian sounds legit good to me When I think "Southern Salarian" Boomhauer immediately comes to mind and I'm ok with that
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Arcsquad12 posted:
"hello darkness my old friend"
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Dragon Age 64 lookin good.
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Man, Dragon Age 2's engine is really bad. There's not so great parts in the gameplay they've shown in Andromeda, but I don't think it will be as bad giraff neck Merrill and dead inside Hawke.
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poisonpill posted:My character was making conversation with the gay mage dude and out of nowhere he starts hitting on me and, my character not being gay, and me also not wanting to play a Japanese dating simulator, politely declined. He had a hugely negative reaction and there were basically no more dialogue options for the rest of the game. My character told Dorian he wasn't interested, but they still had friendly and somewhat flirtatious banter throughout the game and he turned out to be one of my favorite characters. I liked helping him to patch up things with his family.
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I'm elbow deep in a series ME run, finished up the original and started 2 last night. ME3 really spoiled me as a vanguard with Nova. I keep forgetting that I don't have my panic button attack and charging into groups of enemies unprepared. Really missing that combat roll too, say what you will about me3 but the gameplay was perfect imo
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Vichan posted:I'm pretty sure they force a romance on to you in one of the DLCs if you didn't romance anyone.  ) even a couple of times it can poo poo the bed and try to hard track you into one. That might have been patched though.
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CharlestonJew posted:When I think "Southern Salarian" Boomhauer immediately comes to mind and I'm ok with that I didn't realize how much I wanted this until you said it just now.
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can i just have an entire party of salarians
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I'm really interested to see if Bioware puts tits on the female turians and salarians. I bet they do.
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Nevets posted:I'm really interested to see if Bioware puts tits on the female turians and salarians. We've already seen females of both species. Neither of them had tits. Hell, female salarians are indistinguishable from the males.
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I'd be happy for Bioware to not use humanoid features for sexual dimorphism in fuckin aliens
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I think if there's a time for sexual dimorphism then loving aliens would be it.
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I'd like to see a female krogan without the headdress, but I know that probably won't happen. e: vv Huh, guess I'll have to go and rewatch it. Any noticeable differences? Bloody Pom fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Dec 13, 2016 |
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They've already shown a female Krogan without a headdress in the second briefing video.
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Bloody Pom posted:I'd like to see a female krogan without the headdress, but I know that probably won't happen. 
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Bloody Pom posted:I'd like to see a female krogan without the headdress, but I know that probably won't happen. Meet Nakmor Kesh, one of the chief Nexus engineers: 
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Hedrigall posted:Meet Nakmor Kesh, one of the chief Nexus engineers: About what I expected, really.
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Zzulu posted:We'll probably get a Saren type character as the antagonist, someone who wants to actively resist the new races entering the galaxy It's quite cool that a talky blockbuster video game has you playing as an immigrant. Give us DLC where we tear down an ill-conceived space wall.
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exquisite tea posted:The one I remember the most is Alistair glomming all over your female Warden for the entirety of the game if you were just nice to people in general. Bioware really wants you to have virtual sex with their characters. The best part of dragon's dogma was showing up to fight the dragon and he's kidnapped who he thinks is your love interest. There's almost no hint of it even being a system in the game and the game defaults your partner to being the underage princess, but if you spend a lot of time in a shop he might kidnap that NPC instead, and having the dragon offer you his deal and dramatically reveal the fat general store NPC as your love is the funniest loving thing.
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Romanceable twin of Conrad Verner please
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LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:The best part of dragon's dogma was showing up to fight the dragon and he's kidnapped who he thinks is your love interest. There's almost no hint of it even being a system in the game and the game defaults your partner to being the underage princess, but if you spend a lot of time in a shop he might kidnap that NPC instead, and having the dragon offer you his deal and dramatically reveal the fat general store NPC as your love is the funniest loving thing. Hell yeah it is. 
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You forgot the "standing like Im wearing high heels even though Im not wearing any shoes"
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KoB posted:You forgot the "standing like Im wearing high heels even though Im not wearing any shoes" They already are. Krogans, Turians, and Salarians all have high heel feet built into their design.
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Arcsquad12 posted:They already are. Krogans, Turians, and Salarians all have high heel feet built into their design. But those are just animal feet 
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Bloody Pom posted:But those are just animal feet Well yeah, but digitigrade feet have "high" heels.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Well yeah, but digitigrade feet have "high" heels. 
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SgtSteel91 posted:Man, Dragon Age 2's engine is really bad. Isabela looks way better in 2 than 1 though, and surely we can at least put the models on par with Dreamcast rather than N64! And we've all seen Shepard do a lot of crazy wonky stuff, it's part of the charm
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Heavy Metal posted:Isabela looks way better in 2 than 1 though, and surely we can at least put the models on par with Dreamcast rather than N64! And we've all seen Shepard do a lot of crazy wonky stuff, it's part of the charm http://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/2636/
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They should make all the characters Isabela, also I'm still mad Bioware didn't make the one DLC I'd want, Isabela and Hawke pirate ship adventures. Would've been money! Other than Origins where I played that fancy version, the only DLC I've bought is the Shadow Broker one for ME2, for the record. Setting them generally before the ending of the game is another thing that makes them feel skippable to me.
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Bloody Pom posted:But those are just animal feet "I can't tell the aliens from the animals."
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Heavy Metal posted:They should make all the characters Isabela, also I'm still mad Bioware didn't make the one DLC I'd want, Isabela and Hawke pirate ship adventures. Would've been money! Shadow Broker can be played after the suicide mission, though. Liara even mentions your success if you do so.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Shadow Broker can be played after the suicide mission, though. Liara even mentions your success if you do so. That was interesting to me just because I wanted to know about Shadow Broker, the other thing is more just a reason why I skip some DLC in general. But that said, I'm glad DLC is mostly skippable, since 100 bucks or so for a game would seem a bit much. I'm not gonna get the FF XV DLC for example. Not a big fan of the DLC thing, and if they do it I'd like it to be one big fairly impressive expansion. Like say Ballad of Gay Tony for GTA4, or what DA Awakening was going for. Heavy Metal fucked around with this message at 09:07 on Dec 14, 2016 |
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Chomp8645 posted:I haven't played Tyranny yet but isn't that basically the premise? Pretty much. There are four main paths you can do, in one you can basically be lawful evil/lawful neutral, two paths are for chaotic evil/neutral evil, and one is for some variations of good. I like the game a lot, but it's more or less an Infinity Engine game, not comparable to Mass Effect or even the newer Dragon Age.
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Blastedhellscape posted:If we don't see any elcor, volus, hanar, or batarians and vorcha (I'm sure the Andromeda galaxy will have its own version of space orc and space goblins) it'll be no big loss. Would be a little tragic if the next game has no krogans, though.
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exquisite tea posted:The one I remember the most is Alistair glomming all over your female Warden for the entirety of the game if you were just nice to people in general. Bioware really wants you to have virtual sex with their characters. Then if you butter him up, he turns into a whiny, useless douche and shows up in DA2 as a drunken lout.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Shadow Broker can be played after the suicide mission, though. Liara even mentions your success if you do so. I always do Shadow Broker after returning to Ilium for Miranda's loyalty mission, so like about 2/3rds of the way through the game. Though it's amusing how you can just initiate it right away even without completing Liara's little sidequests, "Shepard help me track down the Shadow Broker whom I've been stalking for y-- actually nvm let's just go now."
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