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[Marzillius]

Seriously, why?

They changed the darkspawn to look like undead.
Qunari now has horns and no bronze skin colour.

These are the two first continuity fails I've encountered so far. Why do you do it? If you created darkspawn once, then don't go change it! I hate when continuity changes.

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Modifié par Marzillius, 31 juillet 2010 - 06:08 .

[David Gaider]

I find this kind of argument a little strange. Speaking personally, I feel more ownership over Dragon Age than most... and changes don't bother me so long as they preserve what is important about the world.

To me, what's important about Dragon Age doesn't lie in one artistic style or even one type of gameplay. There are certain central conflicts and themes which are important, rules which are sacrosanct which will make the world recognizeable to anyone playing the game. If those start being screwed with, that's where you'll find me tearing around the halls at BioWare flipping tables and making a nuisance of myself with all the yelling (not that this always gets me anywhere, as us writers are sometimes considered to have bizarre priorities by other disciplines). But not otherwise.

Maybe it's easier to dwell on this stuff because that's all you're seeing, I don't know. Or maybe some people just like to dwell and would prefer everything look exactly as it once did, complete with artistic and technical limitations, and never change. Lord knows I don't get the people who go on about inventory systems or other minutiae as if that was the essence of an RPG worth preserving for its own sake, either, but I suppose different things are important to different people.

In short, I feel confident that people will recognize Dragon Age just fine. The continuity that's important-- that of the world itself-- is indeed important to us and we're not "taking a dump" on anything, thank you very much.

Modifié par David Gaider, 31 juillet 2010 - 03:13 .

[David Gaider]

Kordaris wrote...
its when you change the look of the world they played in-imagine their blond dwarf suddenly getting purple hair, or learning that humans have cat's eyes.

Sorry, but I consider that a specious argument. No-one's talking about giving dwarves purple hair or humans cat eyes or elves butterfly wings. Those are races with an established expectation for how they look, and one of the reasons we used elves and dwarves, for instance, is drawing on the pool of collected lore regarding them.

The qunari and the darkspawn, however, are our creation-- one you have had limited exposure to, at best. Making superficial changes to how we present them is not the same as presenting elves with monkey heads, and suggesting such is not going to fool anyone-- least of all us.

Modifié par David Gaider, 31 juillet 2010 - 04:53 .

[Stanley Woo]

Let's keep the name-calling and insults out of he discussion, please. we can disagree with each other without resorting to personal attacks and childishness. thank you.