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[CapricornSun]

Solas has another shirt in the BioWare store! This time it's the "Hermit" card. (Also, there's a Leliana shirt and you can get Cassandra's "Strength" tarot and the lady elf tarot as giclees, now.)

 

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Oh no!! Just when I thought I'd be saving money after purchasing the Tower card shirt! 

[Addai]

Trust me on this when I say just because they're 3d model doesn't mean they're any less fanart.  Texture or mesh changes. It's just a different medium. The only people I know that gets uppity about their stuff getting changed are japanese game developers. I've been around game developers and and let me tell you that they don't give two sh*ts because they made a product to entertain and they know that if they made a game good enough that someone bothered to alter the game rather than complain, they're flattered.

The Bioware devs did grumble about people wanting to change the "iconic looks" of characters, which is one reason they took away character customization in DA2. Well, that was the excuse given, anyway. DAI gives us the compromise of changing armors. Apparently dressing Solas in plaideweave doesn't alter his being fundamentally.

I do dislike the Solas hair stuff I see, but as with all things, the scroll button works wonders.

[Moondreamer01]

Solas has another shirt in the BioWare store! This time it's the "Hermit" card. (Also, there's a Leliana shirt and you can get Cassandra's "Strength" tarot and the lady elf tarot as giclees, now.)

 

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I ordered that shirt so fast, you have no idea. Now, all we're missing is the hierophant!

[Maria13]

Merely a drabble. No sex, as such, just snark and fluff...

 

https://www.fanficti...t/s/11059478/1/

 

Solas obviously likes to keep me busy.

[Delphine]

There's a Solas eyebrow mod? Oh my. I was referring the eyebrow mod that altered the CC. Though, even that I don't know if I'll get. First things first, I'll need to see the options in CC, then I shall make my decision. But a Solas eyebrow mod... Is it scary? I should go find a picture and see for myself.

 

 

There you go. Work on itself is great, but it doesn't feel like Solas anymore to me.

But hey, whatever floats anyone's boat, I guess.

 

 

Solas has another shirt in the BioWare store! This time it's the "Hermit" card. (Also, there's a Leliana shirt and you can get Cassandra's "Strength" tarot and the lady elf tarot as giclees, now.)

 

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Ahah DANG! My boyfriend wanted to buy me the Tower shirt for Valentine's day, and I was like "Mmmmmh, let's wait a bit!". Now I just forwarded him the link to the Hermit shirt SO FAST, because now that one I definitely wanna wear, and he'll have to offer it to me ;D (Yeah, I offered him some stuff while he had basically nothing for me, so he was trying to find ways to fix that)

[Rabbitonfire]

Funny, most of my friends work in game dev, and they say the exact opposite :/ Well to be fair, that kind of opinion can totally change depending on what kind of video game company your work in. Still, I think video games as an art medium, and as such, I believe in artistic direction, and I try to respect it.

Just like I wouldn't be recoloring the color of batman's car on pages of every Batman comics I own, or just like I wouldn't be recoloring Elsa's eyes to pink on every frame of a Frozen movie, I won't be using mods to alter character's appearances in games (characters that aren't my own, that is).

What kind of hard-as$ friends are you hanging out with? The only people who bother making mods are dedicated fans who actually stick around. Modding can be really nice like people modify barbie dolls to improve the quality of a mass-produced product or reviving an aged game made 20 years ago. 

[Elira]

Solas has another shirt in the BioWare store! This time it's the "Hermit" card. (Also, there's a Leliana shirt and you can get Cassandra's "Strength" tarot and the lady elf tarot as giclees, now.)

 

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Welp, there goes twenty-some dollars of my savings. Damn you, Bioware store, and your amazing merchandise! 

 

 

 

There you go. Work on itself is great, but it doesn't feel like Solas anymore to me.

But hey, whatever floats anyone's boat, I guess.

 

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To each their own, but...

 

Holy shiitake mushrooms. That's too much for me. I see those and I think mustache twirling villain, except he's twirling his eyebrows instead of a mustache... 

 

 

Edit: I still need to experiment and figure out how to do spoiler tags, but here, ToP Solas:

 

http://justanor.devi...ellan-508268618

[Maria13]

What kind of hard-as$ friends are you hanging out with? The only people who bother making mods are dedicated fans who actually stick around. Modding can be really nice like people modify barbie dolls to improve the quality of a mass-produced product or reviving an aged game made 20 years ago. 

 

Talking about improved Barbie dolls, here's Rosita...

 

https://www.flickr.c...N06/7817619240/

[Sable Rhapsody]

^ Tbh it just sounds like you're saying "I like mods that I like, and don't like the ones that I don't." Which is pretty much what everyone says.

 
Personally, I feel like I don't have a leg to stand on when it comes to mods.  I don't use appearance mods and I find a lot of mods kind of weird and tasteless, but I also installed a very early, NOT user-friendly version of the ME3 happy ending mod because I was so desperate to excise that f***ing starkid from my game    Large-scale mods like MEHEM, appearance mods, and even texture swaps essentially boil down to the same thing, taking the game and adjusting it to suit personal taste.  IMO there's nothing inherently wrong with that.
 

Solas has another shirt in the BioWare store! This time it's the "Hermit" card. (Also, there's a Leliana shirt and you can get Cassandra's "Strength" tarot and the lady elf tarot as giclees, now.)
 
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Crap, now I have to decide if I'm gonna order this or hold out for the Hierophant.

[Delphine]

What kind of hard-as$ friends are you hanging out with? The only people who bother making mods are dedicated fans who actually stick around. Modding can be really nice like people modify barbie dolls to improve the quality of a mass-produced product or reviving an aged game made 20 years ago. 

 

Oh, don't mistake my words. I never said modding can't be super cool, nor a medium for fanart as well. I mean hell, just the Sims and TF2 modding communities, I have crazy mad respect for. But in a game like DA:I where a lot has been put into creating well-rounded characters, in which every little detail counts and is an affirmation of said artistic direction, it just feels wrong for me to abuse them then.

[Siha]

For you Siha and only you

Spoiler

 

You might start to rank among my most favorite people in this thread. Though, maybe even more for agreeing with me and my disgust for DA2 Anders.

[CapricornSun]

I'm weak... I purchased that shirt... So much for trying to save. That shipping fee.... TT____TT

[Mims]

Fuuuuuuuu. I can't afford all of thisssss. /throws paper everywhere

[Delphine]

Yeah, kinda dreading the shipping fee to Europe here, hmmm. But I think out of the Tower, Hierophant and Hermit, it's definitely the Hermit I love the most. So it'll have to happen, sooner or later.

I wonder If I like the Hierophant enough to buy it as well. And the Tower wasn't doing it for me. Love the card, but not my favorite, way too dark.

[Rabbitonfire]

Oh, don't mistake my words. I never said modding can't be super cool, nor a medium for fanart as well. I mean hell, just the Sims and TF2 modding communities, I have crazy mad respect for. But in a game like DA:I where a lot has been put into creating well-rounded characters, in which every little detail counts and is an affirmation of said artistic direction, it just feels wrong for me to abuse them then.

So it's ok for every other game but something that a person can emotionally invest in via relationships, it's not ok because it feels like it's altering a person?

[Taelaa]

I read a lot of fan fic after that first play through!  And I had never read any of it in my life before now.

Omg, same here. haha

[Mims]

This is like a worst case situation for me. Cassandra's lithograph is on my 'buy' list, but I never thought they'd release Lavellan's. If I buy both of them, its almost 100 dollars. They aren't signed either, like the mass effect prints. And that's not even factoring in maybe getting the shirt. 

 

I...I am not prepared to make this decision. 

 

I also never noticed Lavellan is like...shooting lazers out of her eyes at the leaves. 

[Siha]

So it's ok for every other game but something that a person can emotionally invest in via relationships, it's not ok because it feels like it's altering a person?

 

Yup. It's okay to alter people you don't like though.

[AryBoBary]

Fuuuuuuuu. I can't afford all of thisssss. /throws paper everywhere

 

Like this, right?

 

 

Cause... that's what I did with the contents in my hands, which included a couple of pencils, a rubber band, and a legal pad... Oh and I rolled my face around my keyboard for a moment.

 

 

[BoscoBread]

So it's ok for every other game but something that a person can emotionally invest in via relationships, it's not ok because it feels like it's altering a person?

Related and Important:

 

Do you know who I complain to about Solas modding the vallaslin off my face?

[Mims]

Yes, exactly that. Uugh. I must ask myself some hard questions now. I suppose I could buy just one lithograph and the shirt. Or just the shirt. But artwork...

[BoscoBread]

This is like a worst case situation for me. Cassandra's lithograph is on my 'buy' list, but I never thought they'd release Lavellan's. If I buy both of them, its almost 100 dollars. They aren't signed either, like the mass effect prints. And that's not even factoring in maybe getting the shirt. 

 

I...I am not prepared to make this decision. 

 

I also never noticed Lavellan is like...shooting lazers out of her eyes at the leaves. 

BUY THEM BOTH.  I had the same agony for Venture Bros. t-shirt of the month club last full season. WORTH THE 150.00 i spent. Those things are glorious pieces of nerd.  I think I may go for Cass lithograph and build a shrine to her in my apartment.

[Delphine]

So it's ok for every other game but something that a person can emotionally invest in via relationships, it's not ok because it feels like it's altering a person?

 

Had it not been possible to romance characters in DA, I think I would still stand by my arguments. It's not so much about "being emotionally invested", than the essence of the game itself. DA:I tells us a huge story, one that could be compared to a movie, in which you can sense a clear authorship to deliver messages, having key characters that are defined by personality traits, along physical ones that makes them who they are. It is not a sandbox game in which you create stories and characters, like in The Sims, because the authors behind it have already done it and want it that way.

i guess I just put it in the "storytelling" game category, and yes, that's when it feels wrong to me, then, to alter characters, story arc, or general design via mods.

Again, a matter of personal taste.
 

[Sylvanfeather]

This is like a worst case situation for me. Cassandra's lithograph is on my 'buy' list, but I never thought they'd release Lavellan's. If I buy both of them, its almost 100 dollars. They aren't signed either, like the mass effect prints. And that's not even factoring in maybe getting the shirt. 

 

I...I am not prepared to make this decision. 

 

I also never noticed Lavellan is like...shooting lazers out of her eyes at the leaves. 

 

I'm with you...

 

I was just patiently waiting for them to release Solas (litho and/or giclee) to go along with my Dorian litho. But the Lavellan giclee was something I didn't anticipate.

 

And, the Solas t-shirt being was something I didn't knew I wanted until seeing it.

 

My wallet is hurting so much this month.

[Avejajed]

Funny, most of my friends work in game dev, and they say the exact opposite :/ Well to be fair, that kind of opinion can totally change depending on what kind of video game company your work in. Still, I think video games as an art medium, and as such, I believe in artistic direction, and I try to respect it.

Just like I wouldn't be recoloring the color of batman's car on every pages of every Batman comics I own, or just like I wouldn't be recoloring Elsa's eyes to pink on every frame of a Frozen movie, I won't be using mods to alter character's appearances in games (characters that aren't my own, that is).

It's just the way I see things. I will never try to stop anyone doing so, though, but I think a part of me won't help judging them ever so slightly about it, sadly

 

Hahhaa wooooow.

 

I'd never openly admit to judging any of you. Secretly, maybe.