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[Mockingword]

It always amuses me when people offer up children.

 

Like "Hey, have this 18-year, money-draining responsibility!"

 

If you want to get in good with me, offer to take children away. 

[Stelae]

It always amuses me when people offer up children.

 

Well, sure, it seems a bit odd, but they're tasty if you marinate them right ...

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Do adoptions agencies and orphans amuse you too?

 

But yea I'd rather have my own, I want to procreate, shite genes be damned.

[Mockingword]

Do adoptions agencies and orphans amuse you too?

Not as much as people who get angry at other people for not wanting children.

[Tayah]

You know, I'm not greedy. I'd be happy with a reskinning.

 

If they featured a female qunari -  I'd offer my second born¹ child!

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 - I have no second born nor will there be one in the future.

I am greedy (sometimes and it may be linked to chocolate) and I'd be happy with a reskinning too. 

 

I'd like them to emphasise the variety and choice; I think it's a really strong marketing point.  There's a trailer I now can't find which pans through a bunch of Male Inquisitors, finally coming to rest on one wearing the Fabulously Jaunty Hat.  No idea why there were not women in that one, but something like it, or something based around the character creator, would be lovely.

 

Also, you're absolutely right; I too would give them your second born child¹ if they'd give us a glimpse of the Qunari.

 

^{1 Well, we don't want to overwhelm them, now, do we?} 

This, I'm with Vian all the way, something that shows off different female inquisitors and or the character creator would be wonderful. 

[Hanako Ikezawa]

Do adoptions agencies and orphans amuse you too?

Those are great people. The adoption agencies and orphanage workers I mean.

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Not as much as people who get angry at other people for not wanting children.

actually. I'm grateful for people who don't want children since the world is grossly over populated.

 

But perplexed

[Ryzaki]

actually. I'm grateful for people who don't want children since the world is grossly over populated.

 

But perplexed

 

Populations are going down (well birthings are going down) in many areas so hopefully that won't be an issue. Also I thought the main issue wasn't overpopulation but really unequal distribution of wealth/space?

[Mes]

If they do go that route in a trailer, I'd like to the Qunari female Inquisitor take the stage. It would be a good opportunity to show off the Qunari race models as well as represent female inquisitors.

 

Hmm I dunno. I mean I REALLY want to see a female Qunari, but...

 

I've said this before, but I still hold the opinion that if they were to show a human male and a female Qunari, and then dig up stats later on that showed that the human male was a more popular protagonist than the female Qunari, they would randomly skew that as evidence that most players prefer males over females period.

 

We know from DAO that the most popular race to play was human, at least that's what I've heard. I feel like showing a Qunari female Inquisitor might unfairly put her at a disadvantage.

 

If any of this made sense...

[Ryzaki]

Hmm I dunno. I mean I REALLY want to see a female Qunari, but...

 

I've said this before, but I still hold the opinion that if they were to show a human male and a female Qunari, and then dig up stats later on that showed that the human male was a more popular protagonist than the female Qunari, they would randomly skew that as evidence that most players prefer males over females period.

 

We know from DAO that the most popular race to play was human, at least that's what I've heard. I feel like showing a Qunari female Inquisitor might unfairly put her at a disadvantage.

 

If any of this made sense...

 

It was. Humans were played more than the other races combined I believe. ~70%

 

Elves were ~20% and dwarves were ~10% (yeah poor dwarves D: )

 

But I really want Qunari female cause she probably looks awesome but if we're appealing to the majority she should be human. Maybe the same Inquisitor with that hat in the chaos pic

 

And yeah it makes sense. FemQunari does look humanoid enough though that I think they could get away with it _{but that's totally my femqunari fangirlism talking.}

[Mockingword]

BioWare already has lots of data to indicate that male protagonists are used vastly more often than female ones, but they haven't gotten rid of the option to play as a woman in any of their games, so I can't see it happening now.

 

I mean, it would be kind of ridiculous.

 

"They don't like women even when they are giant and have horns? That's it, time to give up. Obviously there is just no way to make playing as a woman appealing to anyone."

[Mes]

BioWare already has lots of data to indicate that male protagonists are used vastly more often than female ones, but they haven't gotten rid of the option to play as a woman in any of their games, so I can't see it happening now.

 

 

Are you referring to that Shepard thing, or is there a stat relating to DA?

[Mockingword]

Are you referring to that Shepard thing, or is there a stat relating to DA?

Well, BioWare collects telemetry on all their games, but I don't know what the information on DA actually says. I don't think they've released it.

 

I'm just saying, if they were at all inclined to take the female options away, they could've done it before.

[Bugsie]

My non-exisitent second born aside, a trailer showing off the character creator would make a lot of people very happy, not just those of us wanting to see the female inquisitor.

 

WIN-WIN!!

[Mes]

My non-exisitent second born aside, a trailer showing off the character creator would make a lot of people very happy, not just those of us wanting to see the female inquisitor.

 

WIN-WIN!!

 

Makes me wonder why they didn't just do that from the beginning. Maybe because they don't finalize the CC until much later?

[Ryzaki]

My non-exisitent second born aside, a trailer showing off the character creator would make a lot of people very happy, not just those of us wanting to see the female inquisitor.

 

WIN-WIN!!

 

I rather we got an actual character creator and not just a trailer.

 

Least then we might get some spoilers out of it

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Hmm I dunno. I mean I REALLY want to see a female Qunari, but...

 

I've said this before, but I still hold the opinion that if they were to show a human male and a female Qunari, and then dig up stats later on that showed that the human male was a more popular protagonist than the female Qunari, they would randomly skew that as evidence that most players prefer males over females period.

 

We know from DAO that the most popular race to play was human, at least that's what I've heard. I feel like showing a Qunari female Inquisitor might unfairly put her at a disadvantage.

 

If any of this made sense...

She's just hornier and taller though.

 

Trailer suicide would be using a black female dwarf. with a beard.

[Stelae]

Makes me wonder why they didn't just do that from the beginning. Maybe because they don't finalize the CC until much later?

I suspect so; they also don't record the voices (and you'd need one for a sample in the CC) and I suspect there's a lot of jinking about with abilities and balance and whatnot that you could fudge and hand-wave in a game trailer, but that you'd need to lock down in a CC based thing.  If an ability changed between the CC demo and the actual game; no matter what it was, there'd be a vocal backlash. 

[Ryzaki]

She's just hornier and taller though.

 

Trailer suicide would be using a black female dwarf. with a beard.

 

Female dwarves don't have beards though so it'd be false advertising

[oceanicsurvivor]

Makes me wonder why they didn't just do that from the beginning. Maybe because they don't finalize the CC until much later?

 

As usual, I have no link, but I was under the impression they were still working on it?

[Allan Schumacher]

The character creator is now in.

It's not perfect, but we're super close to alpha which internally means "All intended game features are in and testable."  By testable that might mean "I tested it and it still has issues and needs refinement."

 

 

It is a lot easier and faster to make a single model independent of the character creator (and is necessary in some ways since refining things like the locomotion system are going to need assets quickly in order to be made in parallel).  Mostly because you can use some third party tool to create the mesh and import it into the game.  I don't know how well it would work if we required users to own Maya or 3ds max in order to create custom faces

[Andraste_Reborn]

The character creator is now in.

It's not perfect, but we're super close to alpha which internally means "All intended game features are in and testable."  By testable that might mean "I tested it and it still has issues and needs refinement."

 

 

Yay! Do you think there's a chance BioWare might show us a little of how it works at E3? (I mean, obviously it is not up to you what they show, but if it's getting towards alpha maybe they'll at least open it up during a panel and go over some options?)

[Allan Schumacher]

Yay! Do you think there's a chance BioWare might show us a little of how it works at E3? (I mean, obviously it is not up to you what they show, but if it's getting towards alpha maybe they'll at least open it up during a panel and go over some options?)

 

Fundamentally it's not impossible.  Whether or not it looks good enough to show is not something I am probably that qualified to say.  It could happen, but as expected I couldn't really confirm or deny.  Dozens and dozens of ideas going around for E3 related stuff.  Most of my work, however, has been on doing alpha checks rather than working on or with anyone that is a part of our E3 plans.

 

Sorry!

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The character creator is now in.

It's not perfect, but we're super close to alpha which internally means "All intended game features are in and testable."  By testable that might mean "I tested it and it still has issues and needs refinement."

 

 

It is a lot easier and faster to make a single model independent of the character creator (and is necessary in some ways since refining things like the locomotion system are going to need assets quickly in order to be made in parallel).  Mostly because you can use some third party tool to create the mesh and import it into the game.  I don't know how well it would work if we required users to own Maya or 3ds max in order to create custom faces

iirc 3dsmax is free for non-commercial or student usage. Blender's the bomb though

[Allan Schumacher]

And based on my capabilities with 3dsmax, I'd expect a lot of default face Inquisitors

 

Or soon to be 3dsmax experts....