Biotic Budah wrote...
As Nancy Grace would say "BS". I realize as a writer you feel ownership of the game, but in your rebuttal there on the first page of this thread it's almost like you're saying "It's my game and I'll do what I want with it, NYAH!" Go eat a snickers bar, you're starting to sound like a diva.
Being unapologetic does not make you a diva.
Being talented makes you a diva.
If someone wants to call me a diva, I'm okay with that.
I understand wanting to be creative, but for example, we meet Mr. Spock from planet Vulcan. He has pointy ears. On another episode we meet another Vulcan, but this guy wears pimp clothes and calls himself A pimp named Slickback. Some Vulcans are scientists, others are pimps. Sounds crazy huh? Given what most geeks know about vulcans.
You know plenty about vulcans. It would indeed seem strange to have that happen now, or to suddenly discover that klingons have an armored carapace on their forehead even when the viewer had no earlier indication this was so (wacky!). The fact that you don't like the change doesn't change the fact that your exposure to the race was limited. That's all I've said.
Putting horns on a race that had no indication of having them is just plain wacky. Sten was not the only Qunari we met in the game. What about Jarvy and Tenanga at the Pearl? Or the other assorted Qunari mercenaries through out? Not a doggone one had horns! What's next? Deadpool gonna have optic bla........oh. I mean Indiana Jones gonna be battling alien......no, wait, wait...I know, 10 foot dwarves!
As I've said elsewhere, nobody's talking about making dwarves 10 feet tall or putting unicorn horns on elves. That's reductio ad absurdum, plain and simple.
The point is you are already making a big creative change by dictating the race of our character for one example. I think the Qunari are hardcore enough given the dialogue and backstory for the Qunari, but to explain that some Qunari have horns, some do not, that dog just don't hunt son. All I gotta say is, you better have a pretty dang good story and even better game play or you risk alienating your core fan base.
The artistic style of the game is changing, which will change how everything looks to a point. The change to the qunari (and, for example, the darkspawn) is more significant. Considering the host of other changes also applying to the game's overall style, if horns on a qunari are the worst complaint that the "core fan base" can lodge I think they'll survive.
If you wish to take that as a "diva-like" comment, then by all means do so. I adore our fans (if I didn't, I wouldn't be here at all) and it doesn't upset me at all if some of them choose to take umbrage with any changes we make. We are changing things around. Plenty of things, for a lot of reasons-- at least one of which is because we thought some things needed changing. The important stuff, to us, will remain the same. And that's simply the way it is.
Modifié par David Gaider, 04 août 2010 - 03:09 .
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They care about the IP and invest emotion and life into it. Simply writing that off doesn't seem fair either.
