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Dave of Canada wrote...

Oh no! I can't play a game where my Origin becomes generic after around an hour of gameplay, prompting everybody to simply refer to me as "Warden" with the occassional (but still largely useless) reference to my race!


It's just need a little of hard work (The "warden" - Lady/Lord Hawke - etc.)

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JuGonzo wrote...

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Obviously there will be things a human can't do that elves or dwarves can (although I think your examples are trivial, OP). But I think Allan has done a good job explaining why the lack of racial choice (are they races or species?) isn't determinative of whether a game is good or not.


If the first game have these options, so DA3 will be inferior (as DA2 was)


You need to append the words "to me" to that assertion.


They too http://www.gamespot.com/


I assume there's a point to liking to gamespot's main page?

Modifié par TheJediSaint, 27 octobre 2012 - 03:38 .


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Solmanian wrote...

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Race x Origins?

Why not both, for Maker's sake?! Of course a human can be many things, have many origins, but...

A human can't be a dwaven lord.

A human can't be an elven slave

A human can't be a Arishok

A human can't be a castless

A human can't be a da'len

Of course race matters - as origins too.  


Yes, and all those people are the least likely to be involved with the inquisition...


Why not?


Cause it's a holy war between templars and mages? something that has very little impact on non-humans? If anything non-humans will support the war, not try and stop it, cause it will give them a chance for a power grab.

The inquistion supports the chantry, why would the arishok support them? Anyway the pc can't the arishok the job is taken
Why would an elf support them, a slave no less?
Dwarves? they don't even have magic! If anything they'lll support the templars who buy the majority of their lyrium!


So Fenris, Varric and Merrill were in the wrong place ond DA2.

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Am I the only one that noticed that OP profile doesn't even have any DA game?


Not everyone bothers to register their games.


Right, like people who play pirated copies.

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Solmanian wrote...

Am I the only one that noticed that OP profile doesn't even have any DA game?


I don't log, if you asking...

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Solmanian wrote...

Rawgrim wrote...

Solmanian wrote...

Am I the only one that noticed that OP profile doesn't even have any DA game?


Not everyone bothers to register their games.


Right, like people who play pirated copies.


Judge posters not by the size of their belt by by the content of their posts.

So sayeth TheJediSaint.

Modifié par TheJediSaint, 27 octobre 2012 - 03:19 .


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Dave of Canada wrote...

Oh no! I can't play a game where my Origin becomes generic after around an hour of gameplay, prompting everybody to simply refer to me as "Warden" with the occassional (but still largely useless) reference to my race!

Hey stop that! I wanna play as a horny character, who everbody says is big, and horny because imma kossith. :D

Modifié par The Hierophant, 27 octobre 2012 - 03:20 .


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We might be barking up the wrong tree here. It's pretty obvious the decision is final. DA3's story sounds like it's going to be written around a human protagonist specifically, much like DA2's was. Adding races would thus mean rewriting substantial parts of the story, possibly changing the entire premise in the process.

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Bioware has already decided that we will play as a human. You can make threads till the end of time, but it won't change their decision. Just accept it for what it is.

Besides, a Elf or Dwarf as Inquisitor wouldn't make sense at all.

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JuGonzo wrote...

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You need to append the words "to me" to that assertion.


They too http://www.gamespot.com/


Yes, Gamespot is a website. I'm not certain how counters what I said. You could mean that they agree that racial choice matters, but 1) linking to their main page doesn't support that, and 2) it wouldn't counter my point that "lack of racial choice makes an inferior product" is a personal, normative assertion.

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At this point in time, the storyline/script is most likely either done or nearly done. A fundamental change that would require a total rewrite just isn't going to happen.

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Solmanian wrote...

Rawgrim wrote...

Solmanian wrote...

Am I the only one that noticed that OP profile doesn't even have any DA game?


Not everyone bothers to register their games.


Right, like people who play pirated copies.


No, My DA are originals. If you want, I'll log them

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Long answer: On a practical note, DA3 is supposed to be released in late 2013 at the earliest. That probably means that DA3 is far enough along in the development process that major features like human only protagonist are already set in stone.

Short answers: No.


"Diablo III"... "the new 'Tomb Raider"....

You know, "Sonic 2006" was launched on time...

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Crazy Eyed One wrote...

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Why are you making this topic? Why?

No, there is no time for them to change their minds, it's far too late. I am sure they noticed that people like origins so we might get that in DA4 if it does come one day.
But it's not going to be in DA3, no matter how much noise there will be made, it's not going to be added now >.<


Because I can.



I'm starting to think that this topic has no real constructive purpose in anyway shape or form. I highly doubt they are going to change their minds in regards to racial options in DA:I perhaps maybe in future installements.

If they did decide to change their minds on racial options it would be resource inefficient and the opportunity cost would not be worth it in the long run.


I'm trying... Don't blame me

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Milan92 wrote...

Bioware has already decided that we will play as a human. You can make threads till the end of time, but it won't change their decision. Just accept it for what it is.

Besides, a Elf or Dwarf as Inquisitor wouldn't make sense at all.


So there is only ONE origin: Inquisitor...

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Spankoman wrote...

JuGonzo wrote...

Spankoman wrote...

You need to append the words "to me" to that assertion.


They too http://www.gamespot.com/


Yes, Gamespot is a website. I'm not certain how counters what I said. You could mean that they agree that racial choice matters, but 1) linking to their main page doesn't support that, and 2) it wouldn't counter my point that "lack of racial choice makes an inferior product" is a personal, normative assertion.


It's not the lack of racial choice ONLY... 

They remove other options (less specializations... less weapons... less descriptions...)

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Here is my question: So what will happen to my non human character that I played on my PS3 version or Dragon Age?

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It's going to require some serious amount of time and money to develop a unique path for each race. If they are giving up race options to provide a more engaging (with better cutscenes) I'm all for it.

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Rickets wrote...

It's going to require some serious amount of time and money to develop a unique path for each race. If they are giving up race options to provide a more engaging (with better cutscenes) I'm all for it.


This sounds laziness for me...

But I understand. An action game is easier to make. 

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JuGonzo wrote...

Rickets wrote...

It's going to require some serious amount of time and money to develop a unique path for each race. If they are giving up race options to provide a more engaging (with better cutscenes) I'm all for it.


This sounds laziness for me...

But I understand. An action game is easier to make. 


Could you tell me how one race and a better focus on cinematics automaticaly makes it an action game? 

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JuGonzo wrote...

Rickets wrote...

It's going to require some serious amount of time and money to develop a unique path for each race. If they are giving up race options to provide a more engaging (with better cutscenes) I'm all for it.


This sounds laziness for me...

But I understand. An action game is easier to make. 


Its not laziness. The dev team simply have to prioritize things. I'm sure they would love to allow you to play as multiple races. If they did choose to do so, then it would take away from some other big feature that they wanted to implement in the game. A feature that will probably be more useful to a greater number of people. 

Even though Human Noble was my fave origin. I did love the chance to choose a race/origin and would love it in the game. But its not. Something that more people can (maybe)enjoy was prioritized over it.

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JuGonzo wrote...

Spankoman wrote...

JuGonzo wrote...

Spankoman wrote...

You need to append the words "to me" to that assertion.


They too http://www.gamespot.com/


Yes, Gamespot is a website. I'm not certain how counters what I said. You could mean that they agree that racial choice matters, but 1) linking to their main page doesn't support that, and 2) it wouldn't counter my point that "lack of racial choice makes an inferior product" is a personal, normative assertion.


It's not the lack of racial choice ONLY... 

They remove other options (less specializations... less weapons... less descriptions...)


That isn't the same as having or not having racial choices, which is what your thread was supposedly about. As I'm sure you know. No one choice (nor any combination of choices) will objectively make a game inferior. We've all played RPGs that have fewer or different choices than those available in the DA series and enjoyed them. What you're saying (well, not really, you're just dribbling your objections out a little at a time to increase the drama) is that you want all the stuff you had in Origins, just with a different story to play through.

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Spankoman wrote...

JuGonzo wrote...

Spankoman wrote...

JuGonzo wrote...

Spankoman wrote...

You need to append the words "to me" to that assertion.


They too http://www.gamespot.com/


Yes, Gamespot is a website. I'm not certain how counters what I said. You could mean that they agree that racial choice matters, but 1) linking to their main page doesn't support that, and 2) it wouldn't counter my point that "lack of racial choice makes an inferior product" is a personal, normative assertion.


It's not the lack of racial choice ONLY... 

They remove other options (less specializations... less weapons... less descriptions...)


That isn't the same as having or not having racial choices, which is what your thread was supposedly about. As I'm sure you know. No one choice (nor any combination of choices) will objectively make a game inferior. We've all played RPGs that have fewer or different choices than those available in the DA series and enjoyed them. What you're saying (well, not really, you're just dribbling your objections out a little at a time to increase the drama) is that you want all the stuff you had in Origins, just with a different story to play through.


So the point is: why less when you can get more?

Assassin's creed had only 4 weapons. Assassin's creed 2 had 8... you got it?

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Welsh Inferno wrote...

JuGonzo wrote...

Rickets wrote...

It's going to require some serious amount of time and money to develop a unique path for each race. If they are giving up race options to provide a more engaging (with better cutscenes) I'm all for it.


This sounds laziness for me...

But I understand. An action game is easier to make. 


Its not laziness. The dev team simply have to prioritize things. I'm sure they would love to allow you to play as multiple races. If they did choose to do so, then it would take away from some other big feature that they wanted to implement in the game. A feature that will probably be more useful to a greater number of people. 

Even though Human Noble was my fave origin. I did love the chance to choose a race/origin and would love it in the game. But its not. Something that more people can (maybe)enjoy was prioritized over it.


If the first game had only one racial option... fine. If had only one origin... good.

But they are remove all the options bite by bite.

DA2 = no racial options, no diferent endings, only 9 specialization, no origins...

I have no hope for DA3. They are getting on this way straight...

Modifié par JuGonzo, 27 octobre 2012 - 04:29 .


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JuGonzo wrote...

Spankoman wrote...


That isn't the same as having or not having racial choices, which is what your thread was supposedly about. As I'm sure you know. No one choice (nor any combination of choices) will objectively make a game inferior. We've all played RPGs that have fewer or different choices than those available in the DA series and enjoyed them. What you're saying (well, not really, you're just dribbling your objections out a little at a time to increase the drama) is that you want all the stuff you had in Origins, just with a different story to play through.


So the point is: why less when you can get more?

Assassin's creed had only 4 weapons. Assassin's creed 2 had 8... you got it?



Yes, we said the same thing. You want more stuff. Not because racial choice matters, nor because the game is necessarily inferior without it - your first two red herring arguments - but simply because it's more, and you want more.

And as I alluded to earlier, when you were still keeping us in the dark about your argument, Allan has addressed that. Everybody wants more. They have limited resources, and feel like they can make a game with a deeper experience if they don't have the significant cost of retelling the story for different races.

So, can you addres that point? Given a finite amount of content, why should the story be shortened or lessened to make racial choices available?