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[Pedrak]

I completely agree with Sylvius: a voiced codex is largely unnecessary. Take ME: after two lines you're already way ahead of the narrator, and his voice becomes a nuisance.

So, good choice.

Modifié par Pedrak, 18 septembre 2010 - 05:07 .

[Gerudan]

David Gaider wrote...

annihilator27 wrote...

Any chance of the codex being voiced?

No. No chance of that.

Oh com on...put in the extra DVD. 

[Sylvius the Mad]

Mike Laidlaw wrote...

Well, we had to get something right. <_<

You get a lot right.  Often your first design instincts are good.  It's when you try to change your design to suit your audience that you move in the wrong direction.

[HopHazzard]

David Gaider wrote...

annihilator27 wrote...

Any chance of the codex being voiced?

No. No chance of that.

Any chance the text will be legible to those of us without gigantic HD tv's? DA was all right, but if not for the guy reading to me in ME,  I'd have had a serious headache from all the squinting.

[Tsuga C]

Mike Laidlaw wrote...

Sylvius the Mad wrote...
Score one for BioWare.  Way to avoid a completely unnecessary waste of development resources.

Well, we had to get something right. <_<

Woot. 

[Tsuga C]

Sylvius the Mad wrote...

Mike Laidlaw wrote...

Well, we had to get something right. <_<

You get a lot right.  Often your first design instincts are good.  It's when you try to change your design to suit your audience that you move in the wrong direction.

It's when you try to change your design to suit an audience for a completely different game and series that you move in the wrong direction.

Amended. 

[Iberius]

Definitely good choice on not puting a voice with the codex.

[Mike Laidlaw]

Sylvius the Mad wrote...

Mike Laidlaw wrote...

Well, we had to get something right. <_<

You get a lot right.  Often your first design instincts are good.  It's when you try to change your design to suit your audience that you move in the wrong direction.

*Grins*

That sure looks like encouragement to continue doing what we're doing: designing to our instincts. Very well! Thanks, Sylvius. I didn't expect you to be so supportive.

[jenncgf]

Mike Laidlaw wrote...

ZaroktheImmortal wrote...

Do you really have swords lying around your office? Because that would be rather awesome.

Withing 6 steps of my desk I have:

• A terribly balanced but rather pretty curved chinese saber that hung on my wall all through writing Jade Empire, and managed to fall, rather catastrophically while I was on the phone during a voice-over session.
• A prop crossbow that so far has proven more than adequate at launching pens at Fernando.
• An inflatable sword staff; inflated
• An inflatable warden sword; sadly deflated by time
• A replica of the Warden's sword from the blur trailers
• And both of the letter openers that you can buy right now!

So, to answer your question, yes.

[*]Sooooooo.... when do we get to see crossbow-bic footage?  Because that would be way better than 95% of youtube's offering. 

[Sylvius the Mad]

Mike Laidlaw wrote...

*Grins*

That sure looks like encouragement to continue doing what we're doing: designing to our instincts. Very well! Thanks, Sylvius. I didn't expect you to be so supportive.

Then you should stop reading the player data.  It can only muddly your introspection.

[ZaroktheImmortal]

Mike Laidlaw wrote...

ZaroktheImmortal wrote...

Do you really have swords lying around your office? Because that would be rather awesome.

Withing 6 steps of my desk I have:

• A terribly balanced but rather pretty curved chinese saber that hung on my wall all through writing Jade Empire, and managed to fall, rather catastrophically while I was on the phone during a voice-over session.
  
  
  
  
• A prop crossbow that so far has proven more than adequate at launching pens at Fernando.
  
  
  
  
  
• An inflatable sword staff; inflated
  
  
  
  
  
• An inflatable warden sword; sadly deflated by time
  
  
  
  
  
• A replica of the Warden's sword from the blur trailers
  
  
  
  
  
• And both of the letter openers that you can buy right now!

So, to answer your question, yes.

I have to say that the fact that you have all those swords in your office makes you even more awesome in my book.

Modifié par ZaroktheImmortal, 19 septembre 2010 - 03:59 .

[Underoath]

Lol alright the codecies are back

[WilliamShatner]

Will BioWare ever release the ME and DA codex as books? That would be a much better way to read them all.

[ErichHartmann]

WilliamShatner wrote...

Will BioWare ever release the ME and DA codex as books? That would be a much better way to read them all.

I wish.  They should combine this with an artbook. 

[Underoath]

It would be pretty awesome if they made the codex into a book/guide. I'd definitely buy it.

[Daerog]

filaminstrel wrote...

I'd like to mention that this codex entry (Golems DLC) was one of the creepiest things in all of DA, IMO. Creepier than the plain visceral grossness of the Children, anyway.

I wonder, though-- would it have been even creepier voiced? I mean, some of the notes in Golems were voiced (Darion's notes).

Doesn't matter though, worked fine without the voice.

That codex entry just reminded me of The Thing, with the head just coming off and running away.

The codex/artbook sounds fun, and has been talked about before. Maybe for a collector's edition at least?

[Sharleth]

Merced256 wrote...

Mike Laidlaw wrote...

Merced256 wrote...

Mike Laidlaw wrote...

Sylvius the Mad wrote...
Score one for BioWare.  Way to avoid a completely unnecessary waste of development resources.

Well, we had to get something right. <_<

don't be all emo mike

*Snerk* I can't even begin to get emo. If I tried to cut myself with the swords I have lying around our office, I'd lose my whole arm.

I think i speak for the rest of us when i say we could probably forgo any gameplay footage so long as you guys post a video of you guys LARPing with those. Well.. it doesn't even have to be RP, it can totally be for real too.

I'll second that!
When you said Fernando it made me think of the lady gaga song hehehehe:P

[Face of Evil]

filaminstrel wrote...

I'd like to mention that this codex entry (Golems DLC) was one of the creepiest things in all of DA, IMO. Creepier than the plain visceral grossness of the Children, anyway.

Maker's Breath, that's horrifying. *Shudders*

Modifié par Face of Evil, 24 septembre 2010 - 02:04 .

[David Gaider]

Underoath wrote...
It would be pretty awesome if they made the codex into a book/guide. I'd definitely buy it.

We have amassed enough info that I think we could make a pretty impressive Encylcopedia of Thedas, if they ever thought there was market enough for it. Me, I think that would be tres cool.

[Lord_Valandil]

David Gaider wrote...

Underoath wrote...
It would be pretty awesome if they made the codex into a book/guide. I'd definitely buy it.

We have amassed enough info that I think we could make a pretty impressive Encylcopedia of Thedas, if they ever thought there was market enough for it. Me, I think that would be tres cool.

Well, I think it would fly off the shelves, if you combine it with an artbook.
That would be a killer tandem.

[Brockololly]

I just want a huge freakin' illustrated timeline of Thedas. That would rock my socks off.

[Morroian]

Brockololly wrote...

I just want a huge freakin' illustrated timeline of Thedas. That would rock my socks off.

+1

[Underoath]

Brockololly wrote...

I just want a huge freakin' illustrated timeline of Thedas. That would rock my socks off.

A timeline would be fantastic for DA:2. It would help put a lot of the events mentioned in a much better perspective with where your character is in Thedas' history.

Another +1 for the timeline idea