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HenessyHero posted:What's on the other end of the slider? German Barry White? Brian Blessed
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Stroth posted:Brian Blessed Okay, this needs to be an option for every species and gender. The romance scenes would be amazing.
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Mar 7, 2014 10:45
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New trailer It's entirely fly-overs of various places in the game. Doesn't reveal anything that we don't already know, as far as I can tell.
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necessary voodoo posted:New trailer Thanks. We've only been talking about it since last page.
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Mar 7, 2014 11:34
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Lava Lamp Goddess posted:Am I the only one who thought the environments in the trailer didn't look all that great? I mean sure they looked okay, especially the foliage. But the general quality just didn't impress me. I guess I'm just spoiled by CD Projekt graphics... you're not the only one. looks cartoony and plastic to me. i prefer origin's art design.
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Can I still tell someone I want to be a dragon?, honestly after DA2 and ME3's plot devices I can't help but be cautious.
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Leelee posted:5. The names of the Inquisitor are Trevelyan (Human), Lavellan (Elf), Cadash (Dwarf), and Adaar (Kossith) So you can't input your own name? Dang. I suppose its not a big issue; I expected everyone to just call the PC "Inquisitor" anyway, but locking off names seems like a strange decision. They all seem androgynous enough for either gender. I wonder if this implies they're attaching histories to the names as well. So long as the character is still physically customization, I'm not too bothered.
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I'm pretty sure those are family names. You should still be able to input your first name, but I doubt either will matter.
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Lord Cyrahzax posted:I'm pretty sure those are family names. You should still be able to input your first name, but I doubt either will matter. Ahh, that makes more sense.
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Mar 7, 2014 17:19
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Spaceking posted:So you can't input your own name? Dang. Those are last names. You couldn't put in a last name in any of the Dragon Age games so far either. If you were human Noble, you were a Cousland; if you were a dwarf noble, Aeducan; a human mage was Amell, connecting them to DA2's Hawke. Don't remember the others offhand. Guarantee you can put in the first name. edit: Personally not loving any of those names, though. The human and elven names sound too frou frou fancy pants and the kossith sounds like a silly fantasy orc name. Dwarf name for best name. marshmallow creep fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Mar 7, 2014 |
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If you play as a human, the game had better end with a Fereldan secret agent dropping your character from a giant antenna.
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Huh, I didn't know anything about the name Trevelyan, so I looked it up, and it's actually a Cornish name meaning "Village of Elian," referring to the Catholic saint. That's actually kind of an appropriate name for a presumably religious character. I wonder if that was actually intentional or if Bioware is going to plead ignorance again like they did with Morrigan's name.
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Lotish posted:Huh, I didn't know anything about the name Trevelyan, so I looked it up, and it's actually a Cornish name meaning "Village of Elian," referring to the Catholic saint. That's actually kind of an appropriate name for a presumably religious character. I wonder if that was actually intentional or if Bioware is going to plead ignorance again like they did with Morrigan's name. "For Ferelden, Morrigan?" "No. For me."
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Mar 7, 2014 18:39
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Lotish posted:Personally not loving any of those names, though. The human and elven names sound too frou frou fancy pants and the kossith sounds like a silly fantasy orc name. Dwarf name for best name. Plus the dwarf Inquisitor presumably being a Cadash will come up. They have a Thaig after all, and if Shale appears, she was Cadash too. I hate myself for knowing that.
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Lotish posted:Huh, I didn't know anything about the name Trevelyan, so I looked it up, and it's actually a Cornish name meaning "Village of Elian," referring to the Catholic saint. That's actually kind of an appropriate name for a presumably religious character. I wonder if that was actually intentional or if Bioware is going to plead ignorance again like they did with Morrigan's name. I am nearly 100% certain this was intentional. This is across all media (literature, television, games etc.), but creators just love taking obscure but significant names for their characters. In Morrigans's case it was somewhat problematic for a party member to be named after a... being associated with battle, strife and discord, so that may be a reason for denying to have done it intentionally. Trevelyan on the other hand seems fine, a connection to the church should not surprise on an inquisitor.
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Torrannor posted:This is across all media (literature, television, games etc.), but creators just love taking obscure but significant names for their characters. In Morrigans's case it was somewhat problematic for a party member to be named after a... being associated with battle, strife and discord, so that may be a reason for denying to have done it intentionally. Trevelyan on the other hand seems fine, a connection to the church should not surprise on an inquisitor. Wait, I only just noticed this. Morrigan wasn't named after the Irish Morrigan? But it makes so much sense considering her character. Surely that can't be a coincidence? Whatever they might say.
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All I know is that I'm going to play Trevelyan as a straight-up renegade or its equivalent.
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Mar 7, 2014 20:09
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HenessyHero posted:All I know is that I'm going to play Trevelyan as a straight-up renegade or its equivalent. So you'll be the average City Elf PC from Origins, but with short ears? 
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CottonWolf posted:Wait, I only just noticed this. Morrigan wasn't named after the Irish Morrigan? But it makes so much sense considering her character. Surely that can't be a coincidence? Whatever they might say. Gaider tried to say he didn't know anything about the name Morrigan and he just picked it because he thought it was cool, but I've always found that hard to believe. Especially given the significance of her character.
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CottonWolf posted:Wait, I only just noticed this. Morrigan wasn't named after the Irish Morrigan? But it makes so much sense considering her character. Surely that can't be a coincidence? Whatever they might say. Like in all fantasy RPGs, characters are named after the designers' various pen & paper characters.
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Mar 7, 2014 20:12
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"tastes like... strawberries." - best romance dialogue of the future.
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CottonWolf posted:Wait, I only just noticed this. Morrigan wasn't named after the Irish Morrigan? But it makes so much sense considering her character. Surely that can't be a coincidence? Whatever they might say. Sometimes creators are a bit miffed when fans understand an important plot point that was thought to be hidden and supposed to be revealed later, so that everyone can see just how brilliant the writer really is.
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Krowley posted:Like in all fantasy RPGs, characters are named after the designers' various pen & paper characters. I like that Obsidian is creating a (whole?) language for Pillars of Eternity, so things will sound Heroic Fantasy-ish but be internally consistent. I hate BioWare writers for being lazy and making Not Westeros.
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Furism posted:I like that Obsidian is creating a (whole?) language for Pillars of Eternity, so things will sound Heroic Fantasy-ish but be internally consistent. I hate BioWare writers for being lazy and making Not Westeros. Thats not fair, since Westeros is just England just like The Dragon Age Setting is just notEngland, notFrance, and notIslam encroaching on them.
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Mar 7, 2014 20:47
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KoB posted:Thats not fair, since Westeros is just England just like The Dragon Age Setting is just notEngland, notFrance, and notIslam encroaching on them. Come on, they even use the "Ser" title. It's fine to get inspired by other works, don't get me wrong, but they could be a bit more subtle about it.
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I noticed in DA2 they started to move away from "ser" in favor of "serrah," though they may have been using that as a regional thing to distinguish the Free Marches from Ferelden.
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KoB posted:Thats not fair, since Westeros is just England just like The Dragon Age Setting is just notEngland, notFrance, and notIslam encroaching on them. Exactly. That's like accusing Hawkeye of copying The Arrow, ignoring that they are both ripping off Robin Hood.
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Furism posted:I like that Obsidian is creating a (whole?) language for Pillars of Eternity, so things will sound Heroic Fantasy-ish but be internally consistent. I hate BioWare writers for being lazy and making Not Westeros. Bioware created a language for Jade Empire. How it will end up being used is more important than a language being created.
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Lotish posted:Gaider tried to say he didn't know anything about the name Morrigan and he just picked it because he thought it was cool, but I've always found that hard to believe. Especially given the significance of her character. He's done that about a lot of characters though, so I'm apt to believe him.
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I guess that since Morrigan is such a common fantasy name, it's entirely possible it just sounded cool to him.
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Yeah, I didn't know anything about Morrigan as-a-name until today, and I'd used it for two separate character names in games going back years. It's just a neat sounding name.
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Well maybe I was expecting too much of the writers of a multi-million dollar project, but given that Bioware (and Gaider's express MO in particular) is to make a pastiche of characters and plots they like from contemporary media rather than knowing anything about the primary sources they draw from, it shouldn't be too surprising. It was 2009 that I called shenanigans, but Bioware has lived down to expectations since then. They clearly put some thought into picking Trevelyan, though; I can't imagine they picked up a copy of Goldeneye and said "Sean Bean is the Human Inquisitor."
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It's the same poo poo as naming your dude Ares and not having any idea of the greeks, dumb as gently caress, not a huge deal or anything but still dumb as gently caress
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Furism posted:Come on, they even use the "Ser" title. It's fine to get inspired by other works, don't get me wrong, but they could be a bit more subtle about it. If the Blight was spreading from the north not the south then the Grey Wardens rip off would have been obvious to the point of a legal danger for Bioware. The GRRM inspiration was much more obvious in DA:O though. DA2 didn't seem to inspired by anything really. One could almost call it uninspired.
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Gaider probably got the Morrigan name from that Capcom fighting game and not irish mythology. 
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Vitamin P posted:DA2 didn't seem to inspired by anything really. One could almost call it uninspired. I don't know if it's intentional that the prince of Starkhaven had his entire family killed off but it made me laugh. Conlang is something that's very hard to pull off well, especially in fantasy where you're going to be compared against Tolkien. Even Tolkien's languages looked aesthetically bad in their early versions before he'd had a couple decades to refine them. Cribbing off English is fine, in this case I think the family names aren't as evocative as they could be but we'll see if the background makes up for it.
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Lotish posted:They clearly put some thought into picking Trevelyan, though; I can't imagine they picked up a copy of Goldeneye and said "Sean Bean is the Human Inquisitor." No, I will be genuinely surprised if this is not exactly what happened.
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Pattonesque posted:"For Ferelden, Morrigan?" Welp. We got a next thread title. Dragon Age Inquisition: "For Ferelden, Morrigan?" "No. For me." As for me, I'm actually looking forward to this game. Is it worth playing through Dragon Age 2, though? Or just wait for Gibbed to make a save editor?
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First Bass posted:Is it worth playing through Dragon Age 2, though? Bioware is working on a site called Dragon Age Keep which will allow you to create a custom wordstate to import in DA:I.
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Play Dragon Age 2. It's a great game to make you laugh at the absurdity of everything ever. Just don't play it seriously. Go in expecting comedy, not epic adventure.
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