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[mesmerizedish]

hoorayforicecream wrote...

It's fun. Also, big sweaty muscular dudes grabbing at each other can be invigorating.

[Mark B]

Demonhoopa wrote...

Mark B wrote...

Silver_Aliisza wrote...

Seriously Bioware? As if it's not enough the caverns/sewers maps are all the same just with some doors sealed shut while others are open. And now we get a few items we can easily get from game mods (I see this is aimed at console gamers who can't take advantage of mods).

I prefer the evolving weapon fanmod - its free and the weapons grow in power with Hawke. Priceless.

On Xbox there's been the evolving weapon mod almost as long as the PC guys. 
On the xbox you can change item and character models and change the properties of any item in game.  Only PS3 users with encrypted saves couldn't make these items for their games.
Obviously PC offers a greater scope than any console for mods, but this type of stuff is v. basic.

Didn't I read that these DLC weapons upgrade as you level up anyway? Or do you mean something different by "evolving"?

Yeah, sorry - in this context I mean levels up with you. 

[Maria Caliban]

Is there any news on when the high texture pack for the DLC is coming out?

hoorayforicecream wrote...

It's fun.

I prefer playing to watching.

Working up a sweat and having fun with friends is great. Sitting on a couch and watching people run around not so much.

At least you said basketball and football. Baseball and NASCAR ought to come with the same warning as prescription tranquilizers.

Also, big sweaty muscular dudes grabbing at each other can be invigorating.

And you pay for your pr0n too? That is so *wrong.*

Modifié par Maria Caliban, 05 mai 2011 - 06:12 .

[hoorayforicecream]

Maria Caliban wrote...

Is there any news on when the high texture pack for the DLC is coming out?

Soon­.

hoorayforicecream wrote...

It's fun.

I prefer playing to watching.

Working up a sweat and having fun with friends is great. Sitting on a couch and watching people run around not so much.

At least you said basketball and football. Baseball and NASCAR ought to come with the same warning as prescription tranquilizers.

The difference is the appreciation of a game played at its highest level of skill. If you can appreciate the strategy and skill involved, it's interesting. If you don't care, it's dull. That applies to pretty much every spectator sport.

I can even appreciate baseball. There's a lot of strategic elements to baseball that aren't readily apparent, and if you know what to look for it can get really interesting. I don't usually watch it that often, but when I do I can start picking out interesting things.

Also, big sweaty muscular dudes grabbing at each other can be invigorating.

And you pay for your pr0n too? That is so *wrong.*

I don't usually go unless it's with friends, and then it's about the shared group experience more than it is about the game itself. I will occasionally watch on television though. As I said, it's (mostly) appreciation for a competitive game played at the highest level of skill.

[Maugrim]

hoorayforicecream wrote...

Maria Caliban wrote...

hoorayforicecream wrote...

RUDAL wrote...

and I was hoping for some fun <yawn> with all the free modding around who needs more items especially if you have to pay for them?

People can watch others play basketball or football for free. Why would they ever pay for tickets to watch others play those games?

Insanity, I suspect.

A better question would be why they want to watch others play basketball or football in the first place.

It's fun. Also, watching big sweaty muscular dudes grabbing at each other can be invigorating.

Don't forget the muscular sweaty dudettes!

But yeah sometimes the professionally made stuff is better than what can be made by the modding community *flees*

Modifié par makenzieshepard, 05 mai 2011 - 06:47 .

[Maria Caliban]

hoorayforicecream wrote...

The difference is the appreciation of a game played at its highest level of skill. If you can appreciate the strategy and skill involved, it's interesting. If you don't care, it's dull. That applies to pretty much every spectator sport.

I can appreciate the skill and strategy, but I have no interest in appreciating it for hours on end. And even if I did appreciate it for hours on end, I wouldn't pay to do so in an unpleasant environment like a sports stadium.

...it's about the shared group experience more than it is about the game itself.

This I understand. I can enjoy almost anything if I'm with a group of friends who are enthusiastic about it.

makenzieshepard wrote...

But yeah sometimes the professionally made stuff is better than what can be made by the modding community *flees*

Are there any armor/weapon mods out with new models?

Modifié par Maria Caliban, 05 mai 2011 - 06:50 .

[Master Shiori]

Luke Barrett wrote...

Varric's Crossbow is specifically a Repeating Crossbow and is a unique, lore-based circumstance, so as far as you should be concerned there aren't any crossbows All I can tell you is that there was a deliberate reason for this

Bianca got jealous at the thought of competition? 

[mesmerizedish]

Maria Caliban wrote...

Are there any armor/weapon mods out with new models?

Yes, but the models are old, created as modders' resources for Origins modding.

[Shade of Wolf]

Hi Master Shiori! These forums are small indeed. I'm still debating whether to get these. I've finished the game and I'd hate to buy them just to have them replaced in another DLC.

[Melca36]

Luke Barrett wrote...

Redneck1st wrote...

@Ishmaeltheforesaken & Siduri Thanks for the feed back I've went ahead and d/l'ed and installed it. Have yet to play through the game with them yet as I just walked in the door from work.<LOL> Glad I'm off till Sat night.<G>

@Luke Barret Quick question for you which I know you should be able to answer this one freely without given things away. Why is there only one Crossbow in the whole game and that is the one for which Varric is using?  Didn't Bioware think that some of us players would like to have the opportunity to use a crossbow as opposed to bow and arrows? I persnally prefer a cross bow over a bow and arrow.

Varric's Crossbow is specifically a Repeating Crossbow and is a unique, lore-based circumstance, so as far as you should be concerned there aren't any crossbows All I can tell you is that there was a deliberate reason for this

As someone who owns a Crossbow in real life and had competed in competitions, I sort of wish I had my own Bianca.
 Some of those special abilities would have given me an edge.  

[Redneck1st]

Luke Barrett wrote...

Redneck1st wrote...

@Ishmaeltheforesaken & Siduri Thanks for the feed back I've went ahead and d/l'ed and installed it. Have yet to play through the game with them yet as I just walked in the door from work.<LOL> Glad I'm off till Sat night.<G>

@Luke Barret Quick question for you which I know you should be able to answer this one freely without given things away. Why is there only one Crossbow in the whole game and that is the one for which Varric is using?  Didn't Bioware think that some of us players would like to have the opportunity to use a crossbow as opposed to bow and arrows? I persnally prefer a cross bow over a bow and arrow.

Varric's Crossbow is specifically a Repeating Crossbow and is a unique, lore-based circumstance, so as far as you should be concerned there aren't any crossbows All I can tell you is that there was a deliberate reason for this

I was curious due to the fact that this is one of the few games for which I've played that didn't have crossbows in it but Varrics. If  memory serves me correctly even Baulders gate and Neverwinter Nights series of games had crossbows in them.

Luke do you know if they are going to bring back the dual weapon capability for warriors?

[sagmann20]

whats with your armor sets giving people white people hands?! i make black characters!!

[sonsonthebia07]

I don't mind these item DLCs but I think it is overpriced for a few items...

I'm awaiting story DLC.

[Redneck1st]

Well now will have to admit that after D/L'ing and installing the Items pack and looking over all of the items that you got with it I was disappointed with the Warrior pack for one. There was no long sword none of the items evolve but maybe a ring. I could have come up with better stats for them and it cost me $5 for this? If your going to make a DLC like this and charge folks for it should be better items than that for which is already in the game. I think that it will be the last DLC for which I purchase thats non story driven and then that there will be debateable till I see the feedback on the DLC.

[Otaku Hanzo]

Item packs? Seriously? :/ I'll pass Bioware. Give me some REAL content for my DLC enjoyment. Story. Not useless item packs. How disappointing.

[Darkhour]

So these are armors they purposely decided to leave out? Think about it. As unfinished as DA2 is, Bioware is openly admitting that they did not make the retail version as complete as it could have been... on purpose. I'm aware that it would take much more than some new armor to fix DA2, but it's the priniciple of the matter. For good games like ME2, non-story DLC is stupid. For a less than stellar game like DA2... it's despictable.  I don't know what's worse: The DLC or the people who reward the DA2 team's duplicity by purchasing it.

[RUDAL]

Maria Caliban wrote...


A better question would be why they want to watch others play basketball or football in the first place.

hehe I'll drink to that! 

[RUDAL]

ok, maybe I messed up a bit with that free modding but my point was (or supposed to be) that if you have so many mods already changing existing items isn't it better to make some "story" DLC which I'm sure more people would appreciate. I would pay for that even if I'm not very happy with the DA2 in general.

[Killjoy Cutter]

You know, saying over and over that modding makes item DLC unnecessary is only going to encourage EA to make modding harder in future products...

[mesmerizedish]

I make mods, and I still bought the item pack. I think it's cute that people think anyone would buy this for the stats. If the items all used models from the vanilla game, would you still buy it? Well, some people would, but they'd be idiots. I paid for the new art, not the stats.

[TheAwesomologist]

ishmaeltheforsaken wrote...

I make mods, and I still bought the item pack. I think it's cute that people think anyone would buy this for the stats. If the items all used models from the vanilla game, would you still buy it? Well, some people would, but they'd be idiots. I paid for the new art, not the stats.

I bought it for the new mage armor in Act 1. Hawke looks better when he's not wearing robes that yell "I'M AN APPOSTITUTE, I MEAN APOSTATE!"

[Maria Caliban]

Darkhour wrote...

So these are armors they purposely decided to leave out?

No.

I mean, I suppose if you were going to imagine that people are BioWare are evil and just like to mess with gamers, what you're suggesting would make sense. But in reality, if this was something they had sitting around at launch, then then would have released it at launch or soon after, not a couple months afterwards.

Oh, and the high resolution textures would already have been finished.

[Tony_Knightcrawler]

Fernando Melo wrote...

Why item packs?
Very simply, these were quite successful in both DAO and ME2 both in terms of sales and also usage data, indicating that the demand is there.  So while we get that a lot of our forum users prefer story content (which we also enjoy, hence also working on that), make no mistake that there is indeed an audience out there that loves to customize their characters as well as do their replays with premium gear, so these have a place in our DLC plan.  And while I would have loved to have us release a story dlc first, see above for why that was not possible.

Wait, let's not go saying these are equivalent. The weapons packs for ME2 have both a ltitle more content and are cheaper, making them a better value overall. Combine that with the fact that it's a lot easier to feel like we're being gouged since they're all offered seperately even though they were made at the same time, and you've got a product that turns off a large group of people. And DA:O had no paid weapons packs. If you're looking at how many downloads there were for The Edge and peeing your pants in excitement, you might have forgotten that that was a free DLC that everyone got... which makes sense, since it was just a thumbnail and some stats. Are you talking about that Feast Day junk? Did that many people buy that?

Luke Barrett wrote...

Varric's Crossbow is specifically a Repeating Crossbow and is a unique, lore-based circumstance, so as far as you should be concerned there aren't any crossbows All I can tell you is that there was a deliberate reason for this

I'm glad Varric has the same weapon throughout the game. It makes it the only weapon in the game worth putting a rune in, since it's not wasted when you move on to a new weapon. Sadly, I put the idol-forged rune in it, and after seeing that it had an effect on Sandal, I'm worried about him now. Normally I'd say, "Well, BioWare can't make Varric go crazy from the idol-forged rune because you can put in any weapon. You can give that weapon to anyone, or put that in a box, or sell it." But seeing as Leliana had a fairy in a bottle apparently (for some people), I can't really rely on that. That said, it wouldn't matter if I gave it to Varric or not if BioWare was gonna steamroll us with that. So... nothing to worry about...

Anyway, the only thing crossbows were good for in DA:O was giving them to your mitten-handed warriors for when they needed to attack at a range. Now everyone has a set weapon type, so the crossbow kinda doesn't matter.

Modifié par Tony_Knightcrawler, 06 mai 2011 - 02:38 .

[Killjoy Cutter]

http://www.gamasutra...Or_Break_EA.php

Modifié par Killjoy Cutter, 06 mai 2011 - 02:42 .