Ariella wrote...
Agreed, though I think the biggest "generic or rip off" on that end was the siege of Denerim.
I also agree the original darkspawn versions looked nothing like orcs or goblins etc. I thought the shieks were one of the best creature designs I'd seen, and it made me wonder about the elves that the corruption would take them so far from a humanoid apperance whereas the genlocks and hurlocks had a basic humaniod shape.
The new hurlocks look more like mummies to me than Skeletor, and I was a big fan of both He Man and She Ra back in the day. I would have got rid of the chain coifs (I hated them in Awakening with the "evolved" Darkspawn) given them whisps of hair, used more diseased earthy colors for them, and made their armor really rotted. But that's just me.This is one of those instances I wish I could draw.
Bioware needs to be like any good politician and come up with a compromise between the two, a middle ground that will give them a chance to tell the stories they want but give the fans some of what they want to. Of course if they do the fringes of both sides will be screaming bloody murder, which is an indication of a good compromise usually
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I had nothing to do with either of those. I liked the armor and weapons as they were in ME. The only thing that annoyed me was how hard it was to manage mods in inventory outside of putting them in the weapons. That was it. I even wish they'd have gone back to the much classier love scene in ME. I praying for that for ME 3.
Quoting broken down quotes is a nightmare for a lazy person like me, I'm sorry..
I suppose we'll just have to get used to the idea that they love the new "generic" instead of the old "generic", and the new "generic" doesn't even bother with ramshackle or salvaged armour, making them more like WH 40k orks instead. There, another generic rip off. Get original, Bioware.

And I never knew politicians actually listened, the cynic in me (and I'm currently a viewer on ozpolitics.com[do not google I don't even know if it's a site, I'm just BS'ing] and like politics anywhere you get your choice of "I'm not listening but I'm pretending" or "I'm pretending to listen while listening to the other guy listening") so I don't know about middle grounds. Like I said about ME(and I'm not blaming you for it or anything like that, as your response sort of implied to me that I implied you were among those at fault) the way BW seem to deal with criticism is to do something absolutely radical with it. Which left us with enemies falling out of the sky and teleportation in DA 2.
So the vocal minority(supported of course by the silent majority whose opinion was gathered without them ever expressing it) said "Oh Bioware,
why do I have to deal with inventory?". And behold! Bioware did listen to their pleas, thus in ME 2 there shall be
no inventory, for Bioware is a benevolent deity. "Oh Bioware,
why do I have to deal with rubbish like blank vellum in my regular inventory?". Lo! And there was a junk tab for even
more junk items in DA 2, for Bioware does care for their supplicants. :innocent:
Totally straight faced, yo.