The reason why its human only is because they have chosen a voiced protagonist. Their flimsy excuse of "camera angles" is asinine, as the amount of variables for setting a camera angle is pathetically small and could be programmed by even an amateur programmer such as myself.
Really though, half of the company - including the people responsible for gameplay - quit because of the exotic and irrational choices that have been made by the dev teams in the last few years and the people that remain have lost all touch with their audience and the theories of game design.
Basically, stop making threads asking for completely reasonable and expected options in the game because it is falling on deaf ears.
Allow us to select Half-Breed backgrounds
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#77
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Posté 17 novembre 2012 - 07:58
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Brohammed wrote...
Really though, half of the company - including the people responsible for gameplay - quit because of the exotic and irrational choices that have been made by the dev teams in the last few years and the people that remain have lost all touch with their audience and the theories of game design.
You can't just put "Really though" in front of a lie and make that lie true.
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Posté 17 novembre 2012 - 08:01
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Are the resultant half-breed offspring sterile?
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Posté 17 novembre 2012 - 08:14
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ledod wrote...
Are the resultant half-breed offspring sterile?
Unknown. With elves and humans, since the offspring are functionally human, I can't imagine why they would be. Gaider implied that it has less to do with genetics than magic, so the genetic effect of two close-but-different species breeding seems not to apply there. Humans and dwarves, possibly? We've never seen a halfbreed of those two races; Morrigan's potential child by a male dwarf Warden being the only human/dwarf even mentioned. (I've seen someone say that Luthias Dwarfson, the first Ash Warrior, was a halfbreed, but the codex mentions nothing of it - despite the name, he was Alamarri, and no mention is made of his parentage, only that he married a dwarven princess. Heck, here, for those who want to read it: The Legend of Luthias Dwarfson.)
But Gaider did at one point say that the offspring of a human and a dwarf would be a mix, unlike elves and humans, so the potential is there for hybrid sterility.
EDIT: Tangentially, from a genetic standpoint, something I would love to see played with in a fantasy universe at some point is the "ring species" phenomenon. I think It would set up an interesting social context, if it were to exist among a sapient species rather than things like birds and salamanders. But that's totally not DA related and just a sidepoint of me talking about genetics. XD
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Posté 17 novembre 2012 - 08:19
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BrotherWarth wrote...
Upsettingshorts wrote...
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DA2? Overarching plot? What?
You know, the entire premise of the game?
The thing Cassandra was interrogating Varric about?
The substance of Hawke's life and motivations the narrative was supposed to reveal?
That overarching plot?
I get it. Most people really didn't buy in to, or appreciate what DA2 was doing. But it did it anyway.
That may well have been the intention, but a lot of players felt that the story was just 3 separate episodes loosely tied together by a few people. The 3 acts of the game had very little crossover aside from Hawke, and Hawke wasn't the focus of the story after act 1 so there arguably was no overarching plot, just reoccuring characters.
Well than that's the players problem for ignoring what was given to them when they blatently state in the game that this is hawkes story that connects and leads to the eventual outcome of the mage templar war.
You know, what they kept saying was the reason for the three arcs in the interrogation, those parts where they spell it out plain as day. The ones they say all lead into eachother.
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Posté 17 novembre 2012 - 09:10
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I would really like this, personally. Even if I have to play as a human, it would be nice to play as an elf-blooded human, even if the only ones who ever say anything about it are [elven] party members. It would add an interesting little something to replay and roleplay value.
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Posté 17 novembre 2012 - 10:19
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Well than that's the players problem for ignoring what was given to them when they blatently state in the game that this is hawkes story that connects and leads to the eventual outcome of the mage templar war.
You know, what they kept saying was the reason for the three arcs in the interrogation, those parts where they spell it out plain as day. The ones they say all lead into eachother.
But Hawke was essentially a bit player the grand scheme of things. The game could have focused on Aveline or Varric and lead to the place. Anders was the real key player in the story and he does what he does no matter how Hawke treats him or whether he helps him or not. And aside from paper thin strings connecting the acts, they're hardly relevant to each other at all. Hawke getting rich via the Deep Roads expedition has what to do with the war? Hawke becoming the Champion has what to do with Anders' actions? Etc. It's all just vaguely connected events that have no overarching theme or focus.
I don't fault Bioware for trying something different, but it's a really hard case to make that DA2 had an overarching story. And it's especially hard to make the claim that Hawke is the string connecting everything that happens when it's characters like Anders and Meredith that set everything in motion in the final act.
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Posté 17 novembre 2012 - 10:26
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ledod wrote...
Are the resultant half-breed offspring sterile?
Considering Alistair can do the dirty deed with Morrigan, no.
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Posté 17 novembre 2012 - 10:33
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There are many challenges assoiciated with having multiple races, but camera angles has never been one of them, nor has any one of the devs claimed it was.Brohammed wrote...
The reason why its human only is because they have chosen a voiced protagonist. Their flimsy excuse of "camera angles" is asinine, as the amount of variables for setting a camera angle is pathetically small and could be programmed by even an amateur programmer such as myself.
This is a complete fabrication.Really though, half of the company - including the people responsible for gameplay - quit because of the exotic and irrational choices that have been made by the dev teams in the last few years and the people that remain have lost all touch with their audience and the theories of game design.
You didn't even read what this threaad was about, did you?Basically, stop making threads asking for completely reasonable and expected options in the game because it is falling on deaf ears.
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Posté 17 novembre 2012 - 10:38
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I don't understand why they would make the only playable race human,
having the freedom of choice to choose your backgroud was well loved back in Da1.
I for one find it silly. I support the half blood option, and say instead of being acknowleged
by physical features why not have them noticed by theirs specs, like being seen using beserker rage so on and so forth.
having the freedom of choice to choose your backgroud was well loved back in Da1.
I for one find it silly. I support the half blood option, and say instead of being acknowleged
by physical features why not have them noticed by theirs specs, like being seen using beserker rage so on and so forth.
