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[Shadow of Light Dragon]

David Gaider wrote...

Deified Data wrote...
Thank you. Is it fair to say they're using magic to propel themselves at high speeds from one area to another, like a Force Mage using force magic on his/her self?

I think it's either that (moving very quickly) or they're transforming themselves into energy for a brief period and moving to the new spot (not unlike how the shapeshifter transformed into a swarm of bugs and did the same thing). I don't know, to be honest. I didn't make the spell list.

A pity that a good portion of the time the mages will superhaste or digitise themselves into exactly the same position XD

But thank you for confirming the lore.

[hoorayforicecream]

shantisands wrote...

My real interest is actually not what is cut or even why ( despite curiosity and my poor cat) but rather how do you prioritize what stays and goes?  Like, why would (just for an example) a quest be cut as opposed to cinematics or vice versa? Anyway, just thinking out loud there...

Producers and scheduling, mostly. They get time estimates from the programmers, designers, artists, sound guys, etc. and then look at the deadlines. If the time estimate is bigger than the deadline allows, something gets cut. The producers then look over the time estimates for each feature and tries to find the smallest/least impactful thing(s) they can possibly cut that will put the project back on schedule, goes over it with the leads in the other departments to make sure that it isn't crucial, and then things get cut.

Modifié par hoorayforicecream, 20 avril 2011 - 03:37 .

[Rifneno]

So... um... Gascard DuPuis's "port to my blood target across the city in a secret bunker" thing? 

[Fruit of the Doom]

I want to know why it seems to start raining bellicose bandits every now and then.

Is it a common occurrence in the Free Marches?

[Rifneno]

Fruit of the Doom wrote...

I want to know why it seems to start raining bellicose bandits every now and then.

Is it a common occurrence in the Free Marches?

That'd be the most unusual rain I'd ever seen.  Amazingly, not by much though.

[David Gaider]

Fruit of the Doom wrote...
I want to know why it seems to start raining bellicose bandits every now and then.

Is it a common occurrence in the Free Marches?

Yes. The "It's Raining Men" effect was part of our Gay Agenda. Didn't you know?

[Rifneno]

David Gaider wrote...

Fruit of the Doom wrote...
I want to know why it seems to start raining bellicose bandits every now and then.

Is it a common occurrence in the Free Marches?

Yes. The "It's Raining Men" effect was part of our Gay Agenda. Didn't you know?

Greatest answer ever.

[Fruit of the Doom]

David Gaider wrote...

Fruit of the Doom wrote...
I want to know why it seems to start raining bellicose bandits every now and then.

Is it a common occurrence in the Free Marches?

Yes. The "It's Raining Men" effect was part of our Gay Agenda. Didn't you know?

I love you.

[ipgd]

David Gaider wrote...

Fruit of the Doom wrote...
I want to know why it seems to start raining bellicose bandits every now and then.

Is it a common occurrence in the Free Marches?

Yes. The "It's Raining Men" effect was part of our Gay Agenda. Didn't you know?

I'm not sure why you waste time and money having original soundtracks composed when you could just use "It's Raining Men" in place of all the background music.

[Fruit of the Doom]

ipgd wrote...

David Gaider wrote...

Fruit of the Doom wrote...
I want to know why it seems to start raining bellicose bandits every now and then.

Is it a common occurrence in the Free Marches?

Yes. The "It's Raining Men" effect was part of our Gay Agenda. Didn't you know?

I'm not sure why you waste time and money having original soundtracks composed when you could just use "It's Raining Men" in place of all the background music.

It would be oddly appropriate with the new enemy spawning methods...

[Camenae]

Hallelujah!

[Rifneno]

Fruit of the Doom wrote...

ipgd wrote...

David Gaider wrote...

Fruit of the Doom wrote...
I want to know why it seems to start raining bellicose bandits every now and then.

Is it a common occurrence in the Free Marches?

Yes. The "It's Raining Men" effect was part of our Gay Agenda. Didn't you know?

I'm not sure why you waste time and money having original soundtracks composed when you could just use "It's Raining Men" in place of all the background music.

It would be oddly appropriate with the new enemy spawning methods...

Or they could make it Isabela's theme music.

[tonnactus]

Filament wrote...

The Arcane Horror in the Brecilian Ruins does teleport, everyone fights it.

Not really.The thing used miasma.

[Dark Necronus2]

David Gaider wrote...

Fruit of the Doom wrote...
I want to know why it seems to start raining bellicose bandits every now and then.

Is it a common occurrence in the Free Marches?

Yes. The "It's Raining Men" effect was part of our Gay Agenda. Didn't you know?

No amount of quoting will ever show just how awesome this comment is. You sir, are the pinnacle of greatness.

[tonnactus]

The Ethereal Writer Redux wrote...

Icy Magebane wrote...

It probably just means that Champion and Arcane Warrior still exist in the lore, but not in DA2. They might give mages a teleportation spell at some point, but that's a 50/50 shot as far as I can tell.

And really, the Arcane Warrior specialization being absent actually made sense considering it was a long lost type of magic where the only person who remembered an inkling of it was trapped inside an ancient phylactery that the Warden stumbled across.

Not really. There were two other arcane warriors in Dragon Age Origins and a lot of darkspawn disciples in Awakening were a sort of arcane warriors too.

[Teddie Sage]

Preach it, Gaider! Preach it! Man, you're the best. ROFL

[The Angry One]

David Gaider wrote...

Fruit of the Doom wrote...
I want to know why it seems to start raining bellicose bandits every now and then.

Is it a common occurrence in the Free Marches?

Yes. The "It's Raining Men" effect was part of our Gay Agenda. Didn't you know?

But it rains women too!
And spiders.

Think about it. You made a game where it rains spiders.

[hoorayforicecream]

The Angry One wrote...

David Gaider wrote...

Fruit of the Doom wrote...
I want to know why it seems to start raining bellicose bandits every now and then.

Is it a common occurrence in the Free Marches?

Yes. The "It's Raining Men" effect was part of our Gay Agenda. Didn't you know?

But it rains women too!
And spiders.

Think about it. You made a game where it rains spiders.

It seems to rain women a lot less often than it rains men or spiders. Unless they are women spiders.  I suppose it also rains dragons from time to time.

[The Angry One]

hoorayforicecream wrote...

The Angry One wrote...

David Gaider wrote...

Fruit of the Doom wrote...
I want to know why it seems to start raining bellicose bandits every now and then.

Is it a common occurrence in the Free Marches?

Yes. The "It's Raining Men" effect was part of our Gay Agenda. Didn't you know?

But it rains women too!
And spiders.

Think about it. You made a game where it rains spiders.

It seems to rain women a lot less often than it rains men or spiders. Unless they are women spiders.  I suppose it also rains dragons from time to time.

Ratio's about the same to me, sometimes it's just hard to tell.
Plus there's at least one all-girl bandit group in act 2 for guaranteed estrogen from the sky.

[Wulfram]

Rains of spiders happen in real life. Admittedly, rather smaller spiders

[Deified Data]

The Ethereal Writer Redux wrote...

Icy Magebane wrote...

It probably just means that Champion and Arcane Warrior still exist in the lore, but not in DA2. They might give mages a teleportation spell at some point, but that's a 50/50 shot as far as I can tell.

And really, the Arcane Warrior specialization being absent actually made sense considering it was a long lost type of magic where the only person who remembered an inkling of it was trapped inside an ancient phylactery that the Warden stumbled across.

And that enemy Arcane Warrior in the sacred ashes quest, who has the unique sword.

There's also one in the "secret" proving fights, if I recall.

[hoorayforicecream]

The Angry One wrote...

Ratio's about the same to me, sometimes it's just hard to tell.
Plus there's at least one all-girl bandit group in act 2 for guaranteed estrogen from the sky.

Affirmative Action Bandits. What will they think of next? <_<

[nightscrawl]

David Gaider wrote...

("tachyon interference in the atmosphere has rendered the transporters inoperable!").

I've typically looked at the mage "teleport" in this game (it's most annoying when performed by the saarebas for some reason) as similar to the World of Warcraft mage spell Blink which "Teleports the caster 20 yards forward, unless something is in the way." If you want to get really nit-picky about it, you can compare it to Blink in that the NPC mages only teleport to a location that they can see. So no, they can not "pop over to Minrathous to borrow a cup of sugar," unless they can see where they're going.

I do like the "moving very fast" idea, it's a shame it wasn't implemented.

Rifneno wrote...

So... um... Gascard DuPuis's "port to my blood target across the city in a secret bunker" thing?

You took this scene differently than I did. I just assumed he used the blood magic to see the location of Alessa and then we walked/ran there. The next thing we see is us entering the foundry, skipping the usually boring travel time. Similar devices are used in movies all the time.

Modifié par nightscrawl, 21 avril 2011 - 02:26 .

[NKKKK]

David Gaider wrote...

Fruit of the Doom wrote...
I want to know why it seems to start raining bellicose bandits every now and then.

Is it a common occurrence in the Free Marches?

Yes. The "It's Raining Men" effect was part of our Gay Agenda. Didn't you know?

Ha nice one!