Will there be a default protagonist of color to represent one of the character backgrounds? Attaching race and references to a built in background could enchance the role-play experience for certain characters.
Background Racial Diversity in DA3
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lil yonce
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Posté 14 novembre 2012 - 06:42
David Gaider
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Youth4Ever wrote...
Will there be a default protagonist of color to represent one of the character backgrounds? Attaching race and references to a built in background could enchance the role-play experience for certain characters.
The background selections are unrelated to ethnicity or appearance.
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Posté 14 novembre 2012 - 09:11
David Gaider
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Youth4Ever wrote...
I'm not asking for racial prejudice to be introduced into DA3. Simply, I want the in-game acknowledgement that my character is of a specific ethnicity. The character can acknowledge it or someone else can as it relates to a topic. I'd simply like it to be referenced.
That is not going to happen. We don't have the scripting hooks to check what skin tone a player has chosen for their appearance, and thus cannot reference it-- white or no. Having backgrounds that force the player to be a certain ethnicity are also not going to happen, period. That's not what they're for.
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Posté 14 novembre 2012 - 10:12
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Why is how Varric referenced Isabela relevant? Isabela is always dark-skinned. She has a single, set appearance-- unlike the PC-- so we can reference that appearance. We cannot do the same for the PC and are hardly going to contrive ways to start.
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Posté 15 novembre 2012 - 03:38
David Gaider
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Fast Jimmy wrote...
That being said, I'm going to just cool my heels on the entire background discussion, since we don't know what the devs are planning and speculating about this kind of stuff will only result in more "but ifs" and "why nots" than just an actual objective evaluation of what we are going to get. If I honestly thought talking about something like this was going to change Bioware's minds about the direction they are going to take a feature such as backgrounds, I'd discuss. But I think they have their minds pretty much set on what they intend to do and that they will really only be looking for feedback and suggestions once they have gotten their model to a working stage.
Except I've already answered this:
1) We can't reference a player appearance options in dialogue, even if we wanted to, because there are no scripting hooks for that.
2) We will not create background options which say "you are of X ethnicity", which would then restrict your appearance-- any more than we would have restricted a Human Noble player in Origins to caucasian simply because they were Fereldan. We would intentionally leave it open for the player to establish for themselves. Hence why I said "backgrounds are not tied to appearance". And they won't be.
And since this is just inevitably going to get ugly, I'm closing the thread. Sorry.
Modifié par David Gaider, 15 novembre 2012 - 03:38 .
