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[Allan Schumacher]

People who wanted an m/f romance lose access.

 

I get tripped up on this usage of "lose access."  Just for my own understanding, would they still be losing access if Sera wasn't romanceable by anyone?

[Allan Schumacher]

I don't think so, as there's no romance to lose access to.

 

Then I'm more confused.  Because romance content is created from nothing.  It doesn't manifest itself and then we cut out access.

 

 

If someone has their heart set on m/f Sera relationship, how do they only "lose" if f/f romance exists, but not if no other options exist at all?  Because any character could be romanceable before the game is made.  We have to choose which ones are romanceable and make content for them.  There's a lot of people disappointed that Varric was not romanceable in DA2.  But in this situation, they don't lose out?

 

 

I ask because I think people let themselves feel disappointed and whatnot because they don't fully understand what it takes to make romance content.  There's the writing aspect, which I think people can understand.  That is race/gender agnostic for the most part, which is why I think people understand it.  They seem to get to this point pretty easily.

But it fails to factor in the cinematic design cost.  If we assume DA2 had one scene that required unique content for each pairing, we have 2 player models and 4 love interests, for 8 scenes that need to be created.  With DAI, factoring in player races we're now up to 8 player models and at least for love interests.... now there's 32 scenes being created.

 

We could allocate those scenes to 4 characters, making those characters all bisexual and available for any gender Inquisitor.  But this would mean that anyone hoping for Sera (assuming she wasn't one of the 4), is SOL.  So if we give 4 of those scenes to Sera (taking them from someone else), it would seem to me that we either choose to see that f/f Sera fans are either now "given" romance content, or is "no longer losing content."  At least that's the way it looks to me.

[Allan Schumacher]

Imagine that you want ice cream but you're on a diet. Then someone on twitter posts an image of them with this creamy, delicious ice cream sundae.

The situation is the same (no ice cream) but before you saw someone else eating it and talking about how wonderful it was, the lack of ice cream wasn't as acute.

 

Fair enough, but wouldn't this still apply if Varric was my delicious ice cream, but all I see are people eating up some Anders ice cream?  Or is that someone in another neighbourhood eating ice cream?

 

 

I'll admit that my bias (romance indifferent) makes me struggle with this.  I see someone getting romance content they want.  The only way to "be fair" would be to take away romance content from someone, and give it to less characters overall.  Is this ideal?  Those that have no problems playing any gender or orientation are the most obvious losers (since now they're losing out on unique romance content).  Does it really mean that the others "win" because they don't really get more content.  They just get a different arbitrary allocation that could very well be the same number regardless.

[Allan Schumacher]

You're kind of arguing against something I haven't said.

 

My post was as much "in general" as it was focused specifically to you, however.

[Allan Schumacher]

Like Tali ? yeah right

 

I'm going to need more context here.

[Allan Schumacher]

LOL, to make the most attractive character into f/f romance with the other two (Cass&Viv) being let's just say a bit unusual for normal taste... it certainly feels like they want to make you play as a female character for some reason.

 

Nah, I must just imagine things...

 

Important to remember that "most attractive" is subjective.

 

Of the 3 we know, I'd consider Sera the least attractive (though not unattractive).  I'd probably put Vivienne in at #1.

[Barrett Rodych]

 

- I'm missing something here....... ???

Something Billy came up with, as he is wont to do. I don't really get it either.

[Allan Schumacher]

Why wouldn't they have CC demo?! This is so upsetting! We want to be able to make our Inquisitors in advance and it was such a popular thing for PC players with Origins! Can we at least get a 10+ minute CC Demo soon? So we can give feedback?!

 

Taking the time to make it would be taking time away from continuing to work on the game.

 

DAO was a game that was effectively finished before they moved to make console versions, so the situations are different too.

[Allan Schumacher]

As far as I know Bioware alpha = content locked.

They're not adding anything , they're just polishing the game.

And they have some feedback because they invite some folks to play and test from time to time.

If they released anything to test on a large scale , I'm not even sure they'd have the time to go through all the feedback at this point.

 

Content is made as needed, but yes the idea is to focus on polishing the game and finishing up what's there but not quite all the way done.

[Barrett Rodych]

I don't think you can work at Bioware without at least a level 2 on sass. xD

A high (and dry) pun level is also an acceptable substitute.

[John Epler]

"I SAW GOODY WIMPLE WITH THE DEVIL!"

 

Okay everyone confess, who else googled this?  Fess up!

 

Be aware that I -will- judge you.

[Sheryl Chee]

Sometimes I have the impression the companion's banter is really just everyday discussion that happens in the Writer's Pit.

 

There is at least one banter between followers that resulted from me seeing a thing and then saying a thing about the thing I just saw.

[Allan Schumacher]

WHERE.
IS.
MY.
DORIAN.

 

Doohhh ho ho ho ho ho

[Barrett Rodych]

 

- BioPlague is eternal...

The version in my throat has lasted 2 months now; so very accurate.

[Allan Schumacher]

And a lot don´t im going to give my opinion a lot of players don´t want there guy in a dress.

Well I think it's safe to say that if you can do this in the game, there's no one forcing you do it in your game specificallyi.

[Allan Schumacher]

Dayyyymn... they should be issuing you guys hazmat suits at the door.

 

There was a norovirus outbreak in the DA floor when ME3 was entering finaling.  Litearlly told to not go onto their floor for any reason "just in case" :S

[Allan Schumacher]

It's not new, but it counts for the whole weekly Vivienne pictures torture thingie.

 

Sometimes I wonder if there's a ribbing of the fanbase XD

 

 

So you want more than just Vivienne eh?  WELL HAVE MORE VIVIENNE!  Maybe the game is to demand more Vivienne?

[Allan Schumacher]

She left to work on a book and pursue freelance work after being harassed and threatened by 'fans'.

 

This isn't true.

 

http://www.themarysu...ts-xbox-update/

No, leaving Bioware was for family reasons. I am going to be working on a text book on narrative design among other game-related freelance projects.

[Allan Schumacher]

It's ok allot of people thought that was the reason at the time and it was wrongfully reported as the reason. Internet rumours are hard to kill. 

 

Yup.

[Allan Schumacher]

WHERE IS MY DORIAN!!?!?!?!?!?

 

Tell you what, here's a sneak peek

[David Gaider]

 

Tell you what, here's a sneak peek

 

Gaider approves +10

[Allan Schumacher]

It makes me wonder who the other character is that David Gaider wrote. I thought it was Cole, but that's turned out to be Patrick. Soooo. Hmm.

 

It was another prediction I enjoyed seeing people make!

[Allan Schumacher]

Was I the only one hoping they would sprint after us with Sonic the Hedgehog speed while we were riding our mounts?

 

Yes? 

 

I was hoping for t-posed floating animation but nooOOOOOOOOOooooo

[Allan Schumacher]

Then why bother creating a mount system in the first place? 

 

Waste of resources^tm if you ask me. 

 

There's a degree of fantasy fulfillment.

 

There's also a degree of "if we don't do it now, there's a very good chance it'll never be done in any capacity" (i.e. we can address concerns that a mount may have while creating other systems that know it is A Thing™ and can take it into consideration).

[Allan Schumacher]

Always assume this is you when browsing the threads.

 

Spoiler

 

Eeexcellent!