Not sure why shorter gaps make more sense, no doubt the same people would be asking "what could have made the Arishok so mad in so little time".
People assume, and I really don't understand how they don't grasp this, that X isn't doing anything during that time but of course either Varric doesn't know what is going on or it isn't really relevant to what he's talking about.
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Posté 31 mai 2011 - 02:26
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Of all the things I dislike in DA2 ( recycled areas, exploding bodies, recycled areas,enemies falling from the sky etc) the accuracy of the time span is the lowest on the priority list.
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Posté 01 juin 2011 - 03:12
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*Accidental double post, ignore*
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Posté 01 juin 2011 - 03:12
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Sidney wrote...
Not sure why shorter gaps make more sense, no doubt the same people would be asking "what could have made the Arishok so mad in so little time".
People assume, and I really don't understand how they don't grasp this, that X isn't doing anything during that time but of course either Varric doesn't know what is going on or it isn't really relevant to what he's talking about.
That is true. I may have failed to say so in my post, but shorter gaps just make more sense, they don't completely solve everything. Of course, the best solution is to have more active periods, showing more of the storyline, but that didn't happen. Making the periods shorter would be more realistic to me, since it mitigates certain unbelievable elements that some people nitpick about (e.g. why don't characters age? why have they been inactive for so long? what took so long for so and so to happen?)
Anyway, regarding Varric's lack of omniscience as the narrator, I don't really think that's a good rationalisation for the time skip. Firstly, Varric must have known and witnessed some of the happenings during the two time skips. And secondly, we are shown story elements that Varric has almost no way of knowing; unless of course, he was ALWAYS in your party, it'd also require him to spy on me while I was "with" Isabela, Fenris and Anders, which is frankly creepy (and a little interesting
).The time skip can be rationalised if we say something like Varric simply did not think anything interesting happened during said periods. But how likely is it that nothing interesting at all happened in two periods of three years?
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Posté 01 juin 2011 - 04:07
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The 3 year gaps make Hawke feel completely incompetent and allow the player to invent activities that NPCs don't respond to. I mean, really, my Hawke was furious with Elthina for doing nothing about the abuses in the circle. I can role play that Hawke is gathering testimonies and evidence against the Templars and bringing it to Elthina every week and still, after 3 years she's standing there smiling like nothing is going on.
So the only role playing that doesn't break immersion is that Hawke is playing cards every night and then going home to sleep off the booze. We don't have any extra money from the Bone Pit, no grief from the Templars over harboring apostates... it's just lousy.
Varric gives plenty of other useless details (like all the fetch and return quests) so even that doesn't work for an excuse.
So the only role playing that doesn't break immersion is that Hawke is playing cards every night and then going home to sleep off the booze. We don't have any extra money from the Bone Pit, no grief from the Templars over harboring apostates... it's just lousy.
Varric gives plenty of other useless details (like all the fetch and return quests) so even that doesn't work for an excuse.
