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[varcety]

Asdara wrote...


Which is valid, but still doesn't make him idle or give him any diet proclivities that would lead to obesity.  

Ok, lets agree on that.
But still, the almost-absolute lack of fat people is strange to me.

[Asdara]

Honestly, I don't notice it, but I also doubt I'd notice if there were a higher than normal proportion of fat people either. It just doesn't really matter to me what someone looks like, particularly in a video game. Still, it was an interesting observation on your part and it's something to think about.

[SicoWolf-]

This isn't the modern era of fast food and processed diets.

[Siansonea]

All I know is, if BioWare is seriously going incorporate fat people into the game, there ought to be a setting where the player can turn it off if they don't want to be exposed to fat people. I mean, I don't mind if fat people want to stay in their diners or whatever, but I shouldn't have to look at them in my game just because a few players want to see fat people. What if a fat person hits on my character? People will think I'm a chubby chaser! I should be able to have a game world consisting solely of slender, attractive people, otherwise it would totally break my immersion.

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[varcety]

Siansonea II wrote...

All I know is, if BioWare is seriously going incorporate fat people into the game, there ought to be a setting where the player can turn it off if they don't want to be exposed to fat people. I mean, I don't mind if fat people want to stay in their diners or whatever, but I shouldn't have to look at them in my game just because a few players want to see fat people. What if a fat person hits on my character? People will think I'm a chubby chaser! I should be able to have a game world consisting solely of slender, attractive people, otherwise it would totally break my immersion.

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Good one, you made me lol.

[ruleonecardio]

varcety wrote...

Asdara wrote...

Lloyd in Redcliff was fat, he certainly had a belly. Several dwarves seemed on the chunky side to me, probably because they are short but still.

Lloyd isn't REALLY fat, cmon. Belly=/=fat.

It does equal fat. 

[varcety]

ruleonecardio wrote...

It does equal fat. 

By who's standards?

[The Angry One]

varcety wrote...

ruleonecardio wrote...

It does equal fat. 

By who's standards?

By the standards of 90% of the other men having a six-pack.

[NICKjnp]

varcety wrote...

ruleonecardio wrote...

It does equal fat. 

By who's standards?

Anatomy.  The belly fat on him is due to his greater omentum.  It is part of the connective tissue of the peritoneum AND it is one of the places in the human body where people store fat.  It is the primary place where men store fat.  A large greater omentum on most men means they have a fat tummy.  Lloyd was obese.

[varcety]

NICKjnp wrote...

Lloyd was obese.

No, Gabe Newell is obese.

Lloyd just has a belly, the rest of his is just bulky.

[The Angry One]

varcety wrote...

NICKjnp wrote...

Lloyd was obese.

No, Gabe Newell is obese.

Lloyd just has a belly, the rest of his is just bulky.

Bulky because he's fat. His face his chubby, he has a large belly, his arms are flabby. He is fat.

[Hoogies123]

You all know the rules of gaming... no one likes to play as a fat guy.

[NICKjnp]

varcety wrote...

NICKjnp wrote...

Lloyd was obese.

No, Gabe Newell is obese.

Lloyd just has a belly, the rest of his is just bulky.

Lloyd was 100 lbs over his average weight.  That means he was obese.  He may have not been morbidly obese but he was still obese.

Modifié par NICKjnp, 06 avril 2011 - 05:53 .

[varcety]

The Angry One wrote...


Bulky because he's fat. His face his chubby, he has a large belly, his arms are flabby. He is fat.

Lets just settle on a "healthy body shape", ok?

[Paeyne]

This is a funny, if somewhat silly thread.

There are no fat people in DA2 because they didn't have time to make a body model that would only be used occasionally.

That is the same reason they didn't make a shirtless body for Fenris.

Anyway, carry on, pretend I am not here

[Laurelinde]

Given that all adults and children have been about the same height as well (for their race), I think it's probably down to reusing models and just reskinning the textures, rather than making a bunch of different models for background NPCs that, frankly, nobody pays all that much attention to. I expect Bioware feels the time/money/energy is better spent on beefing up questlines, important PC dialogue and animations than the waistlines of Generic Peasant #5 and Forgettable Noblewoman #34.

Edit: D'oh, ninja'ed!

Modifié par Laurelinde, 06 avril 2011 - 06:06 .

[ThomasBlaine]

varcety wrote...

Why is that? Because it doesn't fit into a certain beauty ideal?

"Fat" people would be extremely hard to come by, aside from the odd sleazy noble, in a realistic medieval setting.
'specially a fantasized one. Getting too heavy to sprint with all those monsters around is suicude.

Modifié par ThomasBlaine, 06 avril 2011 - 06:09 .

[rak72]

Nan was a chubber in the noble origin.

Kirkwall banned toys in Happy Meals

Modifié par rak72, 06 avril 2011 - 06:21 .

[Rifneno]

Asdara wrote...

Honestly, I don't notice it, but I also doubt I'd notice if there were a higher than normal proportion of fat people either. It just doesn't really matter to me what someone looks like, particularly in a video game. Still, it was an interesting observation on your part and it's something to think about.

This.  I played through Final Fantasy Tactics 3 times before I realized no one had a nose.

[EV 777777777]

maybe because of the huge events that take place in the game bnkrupt everyone putting the world in a reseciopn were they cant afford cake and all the rich people want to luck good and make the peasents jealous thats what i would do

[Sylriel]

Here is a picture of the Axemeter (Axe in the Stump) encounter DA:O.

3rd woman from the left is fat.
The man at the end on the right is fat.



I don't recall seeing anybody fat yet on DA2 ... besides the stunties. 

[Sammyjb]

silver-crescent wrote...

It's not meant to be "realistic". Henry VIII didn't have to fight darkspawn/quanri for starters.

QFT. He wasn't a Warden. He was a broodmother in disguise. He expelled darkspawn from his...caverns.

[Danjaru]

there were a few fat men scattered in DA:O. Lloyd in Redcliffe, Skinny Frank from the quest "False Witness". The father and mother of the superman baby in Wardens Keep DLC (random encounter). And 1-2 more I think.

The reason is probably just time saving and because it was no real reason to add alot of fat people they simply didn't.

If you look at gear in Dragon Age, it's not like in MMOs where the gear gets put ontop of your character mesh, instead your body IS the gear and armor, meaning depending on what gear you wear, your character will look different cause your characters whole body gets switched out except the head. So as you see all the fat people are using the same "clothes" cause that set of clothes happens to be a fat man mesh. To make more fat people, they'd have to create alot more unique fat man armor and clothes to add on NPCs and that's time consuming for something that isn't all that important.

[ReallyRue]

I saw fat people in DAO.
And in DA2, I specifically remember that when you clear out the Bone Pit and tell the miners to go back to work, one of them is rather chubby.