Or the artist who drew her, lol

 

Mods will be nice...except is it even possible to mod the Frostbite Engine? I know they said they would not be releasing a toolset cause of how difficult it would be to make.

They were originally not even able to have long haired characters without dealing with some clipping issues, (Why all the females comps have no long hair.)

 

This keeps getting better and better.

Did you know they also the canned any possible dwarf/non-dwarf romance because they couldn't animate it properly? While Gayder tried to pass it off as him being too offended about that, as thought it supposedly fetishized dwarves, which is hilarious since the same could be said for the Qunari/Elves.

 

Not to mention they didn't have a problem with it in DAO.

 

I have little to no respect for Gaider. He can write (somewhat), but his responses to people on the BSN and being quite the SJW sympathizer really makes it hard to like him.

As I learn more about the situation, I really feel like personal lives and agenda's effected the choice of romance/story in DAI. Gaider's "hatred" of straight white males is kinda hypocritical I think considering they are the majority of his paycheck, but whatever.

 

I doubt he personally gives a fuck, he just decided to cater to certain people who are vocal on BSN, wretched hive of scum and villainy that it is.


Hell, look at all the whining over Solas being a female-only romance or Cullen not being down with banging Qunari.

 

His butthurt on Twitter, when he tries to defend himself, amuses me, if nothing else.

 

To be fair, he's not wrong about some of those. People absolutely love to bitch and whine and misuse terms when it comes to storytelling in games.

Especially people who aren't part of a selective forum with above average knowledge, interest, skill, and education in these matters.

 

Except he's the person saying it, which just makes it amusing given some of the decisions made about DA.

 

So while a bit old here is a vid which explains the Keep (the new save-game importer/editor). It looks interesting and I am surprised by how much effort and thought seem to go into this new function. It being a separate, online based part is useful since it finally allows for things like cross-platform gaming, how to deal with new platforms and makes searching/keeping the relevant savegames irrelevant. I hope that other developers take notes and implement something similar into their series games.


Yesterday there was a livestream which was mostly about character creation (short version) but which also had a few minutes of gameplay and other information. (like there being something similar to a locked door for every of the classes). I like the schematic idea since it finally allows me to use the armour look I like best and not having to choose an ugly one simply because it is made out of dragonbone compared to my iron one.
The creation tools seem quite powerful, allowing people to change nearly everything about the head of a character. (That is right, the body is more or less fixed).


The one thing I still dread is the PC-UI optimization but that is battle I lose with every main-console game in-existence and something I can mostly live with.

 

I chortled

 

Troll, or the morons who voted for Ebola thought it was a video game. But I'm thinking the former.

Also, they could launch the fucking Keep already.

 

It's not really a spoiler, but I'll add spoiler tags 'cause somebody always complains...

Spoiler

There was a confirmed leak for the game's ending already. It's tied into the novels too, so again, if you aren't keeping up with peripheral material you'll be a little bewildered. I sure was!

The twist is more retarded than ME3's ending. Prepare yourself for something M Night Shyamalan esque.

Also, I was really disappointed there's no stat assignment; you get fixed increases per level which appear to be class-based. Seems really dumbed down

 

What the actual fuck. The whole point of playing rogue is skipping hp and packing on crit dmg. They wants to take away our glass cannuns? And our crit mages?

Fuck everything.

I tried google, but had no luck. Do you have a link for

Spoiler

the leak?

edit: Did you mean

Spoiler

the leaked achievements?

 

Stats can be customized to an extent, just not on level up or creation. Talents and Gear play a huge role in upping your stats. I'm guessing kinda like The Old republics system only a lot more in depth with crafting.

 

I dunno, the attribute system was simple, elegant and effective. But who knows, the new system may turn out to be just as good, or even better. Combat saw big improvements (imo) in DAII compared to DAO, the trend may continue. As long as there is customization, there's still hope. On the other hand, you know what they say: if it's not broken, don't fix it.

 

Ah! Forgot to mention. At the character creation you choose kinda an archetype if you are rogue/warrior. It's bow vs dual wield and great sword vs shield. These determine your start stats. I've also heard mention of a respec potion though not sure if that includes attributes as well as talents.

 

At least play the game before getting worked up, lol.

Dumbing down the character creation process (in terms of stat allocations etc) but allowing us more in depth customization once we've gotten used to the mechanics sounds sensible.

 

I think that they mentioned in one of the gameplay walktroughs that the starting pick of dual wield/bow only determines starting talents and gear and the respeccing would be certainly be possible.

And yeah the changed stats system seem workable enough.. From my understanding they believed the current system was inefficient since so many attributes were useless for most of the classes.

Edit: And for the ending thing.. Well if Shadow of Mordor has showed my anything than it is that games can be enjoyable and still have bad endings.

 

Do go on, I'm curious how much they fucked up.