Fun fact it isn't just us gays who go on about romance.
Cassandra Pentaghast and the amount of bitching about "Romance options suck for straight men" prove that.
Just as long as they don't give us another G rated Josie romance I'll be OK with anything else
Just as long as they don't give us another G rated Josie romance I'll be OK with anything else
politics and nobility is not a turn on.
I never romanced her. Not because of lack of boobs, but her personality
I went in blind thinking an Antivan woman would be a lady on the streets but a freak in the sheets. In retrospect it was a heartwarming romance option but that wasn't what I was looking for, oh well maybe I'll be able to accept that type of sappy, mushy, fluff again in ME:A, maybe.
Just as long as they don't give us another G rated Josie romance I'll be OK with anything else
Meanwhile I hope there are a lot more romances like Josephine's. Easily my favorite Bioware romance.
I still don't follow this. Cut the war table and those missions.... still wouldn't be in the game.
Unless you're saying that the war table made you feel worse about the rest of the game than you would have if it hadn't been in the game? That's a silly feeling, but feelings are often silly.
Or are we not really talking about the war table at all? If that's the case, then why are we talking about the war table?
I still don't follow this. Cut the war table and those missions.... still wouldn't be in the game.
Unless you're saying that the war table made you feel worse about the rest of the game than you would have if it hadn't been in the game? That's a silly feeling, but feelings are often silly.
Or are we not really talking about the war table at all? If that's the case, then why are we talking about the war table?
I find that "open-space" is often confused for "open-world".
Just because something is a wide-open space, doesn't mean it's a populated world.
A true open-world game has other characters besides you, doing things that you don't necessarily have any control over.
That's one thing that DA:I had spot-on regarding your companions; outside of direct combat, you did not have any absolute control over who they were, what they liked, and what they do.
Your interactions with them could exert an influence, and it was gradual.
First they think you're not so bad, then they like you, and eventually they will stand with you 'till the bitter end.
Or they think you're a bit of a jerk, then a real creep, and eventually abandoning you to your fate.
With Mass Effect, it's relatively simple to get everyone to like you (more-or-less) and be a HERO; or get everyone to fear you and be an ANTI-HERO.
I enjoyed it, and it works well for the series.
WIth Dragon Age, not everyone is going to like you because several character interactions are "exclusive", i.e. you say one thing and Companion A "Greatly Approves" whereas Companion B "Disapproves".
The complication is interesting and thought-provoking, leading to role-playing mind-games like "Why would my character say this?" or "Why would he feel this way about this circumstance?"
Whether it's the binary simplicity of Mass Effect or the branching spiral of Dragon Age, the dialogue needs to take on different flavors based on what option you pick, but isn't completely at your beck and call. Influence, not necessary absolute control.
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One thing I like about Skyrim was that things happen that you have no control over:
You leave Breezehome and suddenly a vampire and his thralls start attacking the townspeople. Here you are ready to go the College of Winterhold to learn a new Restoration spell but now you have to break out your weapons and combat magic to quell the threat. All the while hoping you don't incur an assault charge by accidentally hitting the guards.
And then the vampire kills one of the citizens, who had given you a quest previously, except now that they're dead, you failed the quest.
Something like the above, where you have no idea it's happening, no way to prepare, you just have to grit your teeth and get through it.
It doesn't have to be earth-shattering, or "epic", or anything like that, but it gives the world LIFE, it shows REAL, LIVING people and events that are happening whether you do anything about it or not.
It shows that there are other powers in the world other than yourself that have wills of their own.
A good open-world scenario does that. It gives the player just enough power to get started, but also gives other entities in the world power as well.
To be clear, I'm not suggesting ME:A needs to be a "SKYRIM IN SPACE", but I feel BioWare could take a page out of Bethesda's book regarding how to take an open space and make it an open world.
Put simply, have NPC's act on their own without needing the protagonist to "activate" them (scripted sequences are obviously exempt, for story reasons), and have some events that are "semi-scripted", i.e. it makes sense in context, but it doesn't announce itself with flashing lights and sirens, and it puts you on the spot.
It's not a massive endeavor, but it goes a long way to making your open space an open world.
Not really true. They could've cut 100 hours of 4-member-party fetch & collection quests in empty lands and instead taken a few of the biggest war table missions and animated them, showing armies and other characters involved. They could've kept the war table but better integrated it with everything else.
Remember the scale of the original DAI keeps. 3 keeps and 4 party members taking each one? Really?
That had nothing to do with how the War table was used
I find that "open-space" is often confused for "open-world".
Just because something is a wide-open space, doesn't mean it's a populated world.
A true open-world game has other characters besides you, doing things that you don't necessarily have any control over.
That's one thing that DA:I had spot-on regarding your companions; outside of direct combat, you did not have any absolute control over who they were, what they liked, and what they do.
Your interactions with them could exert an influence, and it was gradual.
First they think you're not so bad, then they like you, and eventually they will stand with you 'till the bitter end.
Or they think you're a bit of a jerk, then a real creep, and eventually abandoning you to your fate.
With Mass Effect, it's relatively simple to get everyone to like you (more-or-less) and be a HERO; or get everyone to fear you and be an ANTI-HERO.
I enjoyed it, and it works well for the series.
WIth Dragon Age, not everyone is going to like you because several character interactions are "exclusive", i.e. you say one thing and Companion A "Greatly Approves" whereas Companion B "Disapproves".
The complication is interesting and thought-provoking, leading to role-playing mind-games like "Why would my character say this?" or "Why would he feel this way about this circumstance?"
Whether it's the binary simplicity of Mass Effect or the branching spiral of Dragon Age, the dialogue needs to take on different flavors based on what option you pick, but isn't completely at your beck and call. Influence, not necessary absolute control.
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One thing I like about Skyrim was that things happen that you have no control over:
You leave Breezehome and suddenly a vampire and his thralls start attacking the townspeople. Here you are ready to go the College of Winterhold to learn a new Restoration spell but now you have to break out your weapons and combat magic to quell the threat. All the while hoping you don't incur an assault charge by accidentally hitting the guards.
And then the vampire kills one of the citizens, who had given you a quest previously, except now that they're dead, you failed the quest.
Something like the above, where you have no idea it's happening, no way to prepare, you just have to grit your teeth and get through it.
It doesn't have to be earth-shattering, or "epic", or anything like that, but it gives the world LIFE, it shows REAL, LIVING people and events that are happening whether you do anything about it or not.
It shows that there are other powers in the world other than yourself that have wills of their own.
A good open-world scenario does that. It gives the player just enough power to get started, but also gives other entities in the world power as well.
To be clear, I'm not suggesting ME:A needs to be a "SKYRIM IN SPACE", but I feel BioWare could take a page out of Bethesda's book regarding how to take an open space and make it an open world.
Put simply, have NPC's act on their own without needing the protagonist to "activate" them (scripted sequences are obviously exempt, for story reasons), and have some events that are "semi-scripted", i.e. it makes sense in context, but it doesn't announce itself with flashing lights and sirens, and it puts you on the spot.
It's not a massive endeavor, but it goes a long way to making your open space an open world.
Yes it does. Because if they had designed more game time and resources on SHOWIG and not telling - ie a more legit method of capturing keeps, with armies instead of 4 buddies, and better story surrounding each keep and how it affects the region - then they would thematically bridge the war table to the actual story.That had nothing to do with how the War table was used
Yes it does. Because if they had designed more game time and resources on SHOWIG and not telling - ie a more legit method of capturing keeps, with armies instead of 4 buddies, and better story surrounding each keep and how it affects the region - then they would thematically bridge the war table to the actual story.
Design. The scale is huge. Vascillating between extreme closeups on 4 people and then a bunch of dialogue boxes on a war table interface does not present the scale smoothly
Except those features (showing larger battles, the keeps) were cut because of limitations from last gen consoles not because Bioware did the War Table
Then how did they do Adamant? Adamant was great. They needed 5 more Adamants and 100 less Hinterlands hours.Except those features (showing larger battles, the keeps) were cut because of limitations from last gen consoles not because Bioware did the War Table
Then how did they do Adamant? Adamant was great. They needed 5 more Adamants and 100 less Hinterlands hours.
Adamant wasn't that big outside of the cutscene, it was the same size (maybe less) than the Arbor Wilds when the actual gameplay starts
And they could keep the war table but certainly not Relied so much on it. They should've allocated a share of the time and...idk...stuff in the war table to other storyteling structures.
I agree that they could've did that and I'm still of the opinion that some of the War table missions were meant to be actual mission but had to cut due to similar issues with the other features
Adamant wasn't that big outside of the cutscene, it was the same size (maybe less) than the Arbor Wilds when the actual gameplay starts
I agree that they could've did that and I'm still of the opinion that some of the War table missions were meant to be actual mission but had to cut due to similar issues with the other features
Well see, Adamant had some critical design choices about it that made me feel like it was a great quest. It doesn't seem like much but it stood out. I feel like every keep or region should've been like Adamant, then I could transition from the Adamants, or the keeps obtained therefrom, to the branching out war table things in each region. Idk, I'm not a writer, but creative people could do a lot with this.
Of course creative people could do this, but it's always a guarantee that it'll always translate well into the game itself
Like the Keeps themselves got reduced from what they originally was in the alpha because of technical issues
irrelevant reference:
Ares? Ares...AAAAARRREESSSSS!!!
But it mattered so hard. What should I do, pity Bioware? Their track record with investors is amazeballs, they should've just done it.Of course creative people could do this, but it's always a guarantee that it'll always translate well into the game itself
Like the Keeps themselves got reduced from what they originally was in the alpha because of technical issues
I went in blind thinking an Antivan woman would be a lady on the streets but a freak in the sheets.
Just because we didn't see her getting busy, doesn't mean she doesn't have any kinks when it comes to what she does in the bedroom... as she tells us, she can get "quite exuberant, when the occasion demands it".
That's my headcanon and I'm sticking to it!
But it mattered so hard. What should I do, pity Bioware? Their track record with investors is amazeballs, they should've just done it.
It isn't that they should've just done it, it's whether the game would've handled it or not and the answer is that it wouldn't have
Look at Griffon Keep. The friggin Venatori of the Tevinter Imperium are there, and I just see like...10 Venatori guys chilling, and I take 3 buddies and Blackwall solo bashes in the main doors of a FORTRESS and we kill em and that's it?
Outside of there not being a story arc with it, that sounds like basic video game stuff....
Ditto.Just as long as they don't give us another G rated Josie romance I'll be OK with anything else
Andromeda is a great game, it's a huge game! Everyone I talk to agree that it's a huge game, a massive game. Let me tell you, it's a tremendous game. Really just tremendous.
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