Title says it all. I want nothing more than the story. No need for any characters whatsoever. No fenris, no isabela, no merril, no anders, no nothing.
Ok, in all seriousness Bioware, if you could create characers as imaginative as you have for the last two games, we'll be good. Who's with me?
Please, no characters.
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#2
Posté 08 octobre 2012 - 09:04
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I demand abstract shapes that sound like the adults from the Peanuts cartoons.
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Posté 08 octobre 2012 - 09:05
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No,we don't need charathers we need talking fruits and walls.
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Posté 08 octobre 2012 - 09:06
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Taboo-XX wrote...
I demand abstract shapes that sound like the adults from the Peanuts cartoons.
Wow! this is exactly what I want.
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Posté 08 octobre 2012 - 09:12
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I want the protagonist to cry an ocean of tears - tears of loneliness that drown all the creatures and people in Thedas. Except the protagonist. And then for 40 hours all we do is wade around in it while we hear an increasingly deranged voice screaming "Marco! Polo!"
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Posté 08 octobre 2012 - 09:14
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I want everyone to be represented by one pixel, and they all have to fight different pixels while firing one pixel at each other in a 2D maze.
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Posté 08 octobre 2012 - 09:26
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Hi, CastonFolarus - this thread forces me to come out of BSN lurkerdom and declare eternal gratitude to you for the sheer serendipity of looking down the thread list on this forum, reading title after title like 'Please, no more characters like Fenris/Anders/Merrill' and then seeing this gem halfway down.
I may have laughed quite loudly. Placement/timing couldn't have been more perfect.
Personally, I don't think we'll get characters like Fenris, Anders or Merrill. It's a new game, which surely means we can anticipate a mixture of returning characters/cameos and ENTIRELY NEW ONES with different backgrounds, motives, angles and whatever other character-defining apparatus the writers can come up with.
Me, I'm okay with that.
I may have laughed quite loudly. Placement/timing couldn't have been more perfect.
Personally, I don't think we'll get characters like Fenris, Anders or Merrill. It's a new game, which surely means we can anticipate a mixture of returning characters/cameos and ENTIRELY NEW ONES with different backgrounds, motives, angles and whatever other character-defining apparatus the writers can come up with.
Me, I'm okay with that.
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Posté 08 octobre 2012 - 09:26
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Can every playable character be replaced by angry birds and the darkspawns by a bunch of pigs?
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Posté 08 octobre 2012 - 09:27
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All I need are a few nugs following me around and I'll be happy
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Posté 08 octobre 2012 - 09:36
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Angelo2027 wrote...
Taboo-XX wrote...
I demand abstract shapes that sound like the adults from the Peanuts cartoons.
Wow! this is exactly what I want.
Thirded. This is wonderful game design
#11
Posté 08 octobre 2012 - 09:37
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This parody thread is better than mine was. Good show. A+ would read again.
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Posté 08 octobre 2012 - 09:44
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Oh wait, I want nugs to follow me around as companions but we can't have that either as they have no clothes and are too revealing. People will complain about them too.
I guess I'll have to wander around Thedas all alone and enjoy the scenery.
I guess I'll have to wander around Thedas all alone and enjoy the scenery.
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Posté 08 octobre 2012 - 10:05
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But if there's no characters. How will I fuel my necrophillia phantasies? (I have a bad imagination.)
#14
Posté 08 octobre 2012 - 10:07
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I want silent mercenaries I can hire. So I am not with you.
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Posté 08 octobre 2012 - 10:14
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mayrabgood wrote...
I guess I'll have to wander around Thedas all alone and enjoy the scenery.
That's what I did in Skyrim. I really enjoyed that game, but I missed having a party I could talk in a meaningful manner. Preferably about more than just "Will you please carry all this Falmer crap I'm carting around."
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Posté 08 octobre 2012 - 10:17
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You just CAN'T possibly imagine howe AWESOME your statement looks!.......All I need are a few nugs following me around and I'll be happy
.................with a Cullen in a sig...... I know how to call him now, oh yes, I do........
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Posté 08 octobre 2012 - 10:21
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relhart wrote...
I want silent mercenaries I can hire. So I am not with you.
Oh, oh! And then we get the ability to tie little ribbons in their hair and give them adorable pet names and in battle we'll hear the player character cry things like "Crush his skull, Trixiebell!" "I need healing, Snugglemuffin!"
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Posté 08 octobre 2012 - 10:28
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Fox In The Box wrote...
relhart wrote...
I want silent mercenaries I can hire. So I am not with you.
Oh, oh! And then we get the ability to tie little ribbons in their hair and give them adorable pet names and in battle we'll hear the player character cry things like "Crush his skull, Trixiebell!" "I need healing, Snugglemuffin!"
Whatever gets you off, sir. I typically don't name my tools. If the ribbons grant them combat buffs though, then sure.
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Posté 08 octobre 2012 - 10:30
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I want turtle mercenaries with no back story to speak of that fight teh dragons.
10/10 game, GOTY across the board amirite?
10/10 game, GOTY across the board amirite?
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Posté 08 octobre 2012 - 10:36
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No need for a story either the entire thing should be utterly abstract - not only does that uphold artistic value to the maximum- it is superior fun compared to wish fulfilling gaming/story tropes.
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Posté 08 octobre 2012 - 11:14
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CastonFolarus wrote...
Title says it all. I want nothing more than the story. No need for any characters whatsoever. No fenris, no isabela, no merril, no anders, no nothing.
Ok, in all seriousness Bioware, if you could create characers as imaginative as you have for the last two games, we'll be good. Who's with me?
I was with you right up until your second sentence. Stories with characters are so cliché, it's not even funny. What we need is a collection of amorphous blobs of differing sizes and colours. that each symbolize the central themes of the story. I'm confident that players will be able to figure out whats going on.
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Posté 08 octobre 2012 - 11:53
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I agree. Focusing on characters takes valuable resources away from game mechanics, world building, and story. Do we really want to sacrifice solid gameplay for talky pish-posh and blobbing? No, players are smart enough to understand complex themes without other beings gabbing in our ears all the time.
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Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 02:35
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HiddenInWar wrote...
I want turtle mercenaries with no back story to speak of that fight teh dragons.
10/10 game, GOTY across the board amirite?
Take a Total War Game, (several of which did win GOTY, yes). I don't need my light calvary troops whining about their daddy issues and trying to hump me as I direct them. They could I guess, but I would probably find it as annoying as I do when it happens in Bioware games, and it has nothing to do with why I play any game, in general. Bioware writes "good" characters by video game standards, yes. Those are some pretty low standards though. With a select few exceptions none of them have enough depth for me personally to have any interest in them, or to view them as anything other than artificial constructs with tired and overplayed faux personalities, that I mostly want to ignore.
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Posté 09 octobre 2012 - 02:41
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Sable Rhapsody wrote...
mayrabgood wrote...
I guess I'll have to wander around Thedas all alone and enjoy the scenery.
That's what I did in Skyrim. I really enjoyed that game, but I missed having a party I could talk in a meaningful manner. Preferably about more than just "Will you please carry all this Falmer crap I'm carting around."
As pretty as Skyrim is, I got pretty bored without companions or at least something to make me actually care about the main plot. Thus started my quest to steal EVERYTHING from EVERYONE.
