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BioWare, what's the diamond icon? (spoilers)


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DarthCaine

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Male Hawke:
Female Hawke:

In the scene where your sibling dies there's 3 choices:

1. *olive branch* He/She died bravely. (Hawke: "Carver/Bethany gave himself/herself to save us")
2. *diamond* There's no time to mourn. (usually there's a sarcastic option here)
3. *gavel* Pull yourself together! (Hawke: "If you fall apart now, you endanger us all")

Same goes for the next dialog:
1. *olive branch* That's the best we can give. (Hawke: "Our lives are more valuable to him/her than our prayers. Let's go")
2. *diamond* She won't be alone.
3. *gavel* We've wasted enough time. (Hawke: "Leave him/her, the darkspawn are gaining by the minute")

Now in the first option Hawke acts as if some random NPC died and you're comforting their family (who seem like they have no relation to you).
In the third you act like an emotionless ******.
None of those seem fitting for a scene where your sibling (who you've spend most of your life with) dies (crappy writing).
I'm interested in what the diamond icon means and what on earth can we expect.

(btw, I still frakin hate the stupid paraphrasing since I've no idea what Hawke will say)

Modifié par DarthCaine, 19 février 2011 - 01:34 .


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Lukas Kristjanson

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As camps are quickly forming to turn this into another one of those threads, let me just duck in with actual info: colour and location on the wheel link the nature of the tone icons. The diamond is charming, an alternate of the humorous tone that is not about cracking wise. That way when the context is, say, someone’s mother crying over their dead child, you still have a lighter-mood comfort option that won't necessarily cause Hawke to reach over and honk her nose.

And yes, it will all be fully documented in the manual.