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Topic: Sooooo....Dragon Age (Read 25026 times)
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Strazos
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As you run away, please keep the SCA nonsense out please, thanks. Make sure you take the pipe insulation with you, too.
Not to shit all over your hobby, but...SCA is not a terribly good representation of period combat. Training? Really? Maybe the guys who use Live Steel have SOME training, but for the most part, people are just sallying forth onto the field to whack each other with foam-covered bits.
While I can appreciate their enthusiasm for period combat, the vast majority of them could certainly stand to open a few books and actually learn something. For Reals.
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WindupAtheist
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I dunno, weren't most combatants on the field back in the day likely to be untrained peasants anyway?  |
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Sheepherder
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I dunno, weren't most combatants on the field back in the day likely to be untrained peasants anyway? Yeah, and armed with pikes or longbows. As was said, it's tackle LARP. |
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rattran
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Enough of the SCA talk. I don't feel like nuking this thread, but I'm too lazy to split off the SCA crap to the den.
So stop it. Go back to rampant speculation on Cold Tent Syndrome.
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Ingmar
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The ME screenshot is funny, but remember that those aren't the *actual* lines Shepherd delivers, they give you the TLDR version on the dialogue wheel for space reasons (compare to Torment or Baldur's Gate where you have PARAGRAPHS of dialogue options to pick through). The actual spoken lines are usually at least a little less corny, and have the benefit of being delivered by an actual actor. Maybe this game will be similar.
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rk47
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Actually, no. If you look at the DA Video. I'm actually predicting DA will not feature the protagonist voice acting. I could be wrong though.
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Sheepherder
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Man, this feels like it's going to have all the modern fantasy game tropes, I'm sure it will be awesome.  |
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I couldn't agree more. This looks *so* promising as a classic RPG. Bioware has yet to disappoint me with their RPGs......so "Please Don't Suck."
With Ohlen off doing SWTOR and most of Bioware's other top guys working on Mass Effect 2, they seem to have a fairly inexperienced team working on Dragon Age. Lead Designer Mike Laidlaw's past experience for instance seems to be that he was one of the lead writers on Jade Empire, and did some Additional Design work on ME 1. Oh, and he's got some "special thanks" credits on NWN: HOTU and Sonic Chronicles. |
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Sky
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The ME screenshot is funny, but remember that those aren't the *actual* lines Shepherd delivers, they give you the TLDR version on the dialogue wheel for space reasons (compare to Torment or Baldur's Gate where you have PARAGRAPHS of dialogue options to pick through).
Maybe in DA we can just devolve it to grunts and guttural wheezing. I liked paragraphs. |
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Ingmar
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I couldn't agree more. This looks *so* promising as a classic RPG. Bioware has yet to disappoint me with their RPGs......so "Please Don't Suck."
With Ohlen off doing SWTOR and most of Bioware's other top guys working on Mass Effect 2, they seem to have a fairly inexperienced team working on Dragon Age. Lead Designer Mike Laidlaw's past experience for instance seems to be that he was one of the lead writers on Jade Empire, and did some Additional Design work on ME 1. Oh, and he's got some "special thanks" credits on NWN: HOTU and Sonic Chronicles. Dave Gaider (he of BG2) is the lead writer so that's promising. |
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HaemishM
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Having played KOTOR1 and Jade Empire, I am in no way looking forward to the ham-fisted "romance" angles in Dragon Age. The more I see of the game, the less I want to play. If you can't write a convincing romance, WHY BOTHER WRITING IN A ROMANCE? Oh right, so sweaty palmed geeks can FAP to it.
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Ingmar
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Having played KOTOR1 and Jade Empire, I am in no way looking forward to the ham-fisted "romance" angles in Dragon Age. The more I see of the game, the less I want to play. If you can't write a convincing romance, WHY BOTHER WRITING IN A ROMANCE? Oh right, so sweaty palmed geeks can FAP to it.
Did you like the BG2 romances? I think Gaider wrote those, so if you found those passable these may be as well. They're not really important to me either way, more often than not I don't do one at all on a particular playthrough, but given the amount of attention threads about romance options tend to get on their forums there's clearly a segment of the audience who wants them. |
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