People News David Gaider Complains about "Increasingly Toxic" Fan Feedback

[gromit]

“I dislike the idea of every character being sexually available to the player,” Gaider admitted. “Not that it cheapens them, necessarily, but it would lend itself towards their objectification. Take the first Witcher game, for instance—I enjoyed many things about that game, but the collectible sex card mechanic? Ultimately it rendered every female character in the game into a puzzle to be solved … As soon as the player is aware it’s possible, you are in fact encouraging them towards a certain type of behavior.”

Cads! Fiends! How dare they actively encourage womanizing in a picaresque.

 

[Zeriel]

It's kind of funny, considering Witcher is closer to how stuff works in the real world than Bioware games. People having sex with random strangers? Uh, that happens all the time in real life. Spending a month talking about your feelings with someone in the middle of a war in the hope of sleeping with them once? I mean, I'm sure this is the story of someone's life, but goddamn. Glass houses.

 

[Jaesun]

Or not add any of that shit at all and spend all that time on the fucking game.

 

[Zeriel]

Considering Witcher uses an established character who is supposed to be a womanizer, it doesn't seem that out of line. Maybe I'm wrong and in the books he's frigidly asexual? Don't know, never read them.

 

[Murk]

Last Wish (which I believe is the first book) starts off with him having sex with some mute psychic chick.

Yeah.

 

[Volourn]

"Spending a month talking about your feelings with someone in the middle of a war in the hope of sleeping with them once"

Likely happened in Vietnam. The Young & The Restless had a story about it.

 

[Irenaeus]

"Spending a month talking about your feelings with someone in the middle of a war in the hope of sleeping with them once"

Likely happened in Vietnam. The Young & The Restless had a story about it.

Me love you long time

 

[random_encounter]

I'd love to get my hands on them someday (the guidelines, not the writers )

Well there is that one image floating around showing BW writing guidelines, with reasoning for the same character archetypes and so on.

You don't mean this one, do you? It was a post on what used to be Hellforge, and IIRC, Weekes had a fit yelling about "Campbellian archetypes" before issuing an apology a day or so later.

 

[Whisky]

It's funny how NWN, the worst game on that list, has the least amount of Bioware cliches.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Meh, as far as I'm concerned they all equally suck.

 

[Volourn]

"It's funny how NWN, the worst game on that list,"

No. No, it isn't.

 

[circ]

No, no that one. This was pretty much an edict from the ceo's about design guidelines at BioWare to keep production time and costs down, explaining some of the recurring elements.

 

[waywardOne]

Or not add any of that shit at all and spend all that time on the fucking game.

That's exactly what they've been doing, a game of fucking.

 

[Whisky]

"It's funny how NWN, the worst game on that list,"

No. No, it isn't.

You're right, I just said that to summon you Volourn. Never fails.

 

[Azrael the cat]

Considering Witcher uses an established character who is supposed to be a womanizer, it doesn't seem that out of line. Maybe I'm wrong and in the books he's frigidly asexual? Don't know, never read them.

I liked the game, but the problem wasn't the character as a womaniser, but the juvenile way in which they presented it.

 

[Volourn]

"You're right, I just said that to summon you Volourn. Never fails."

NWN is the best!

 

[mediocrepoet]

NWN is the RPG equivalent of eating cardboard.

 

[GarfunkeL]

I admit that I finally finished DA:O over the holidays. Though only thanks to extensive modding. You can see that it had some potential, that was then wasted thanks to the shitty engine - does it use tweaked Aurora?, shitty-to-mediocre writing that never made me chuckle or really impress me, awful animation and texturing - though modders have somewhat fixed that, and - above all - crap mechanics that were initially hidden from the player (seriously, I had to get a mod that would show me the damage-formulas for the different spells and abilities) coupled with ridiculously slim gallery of monsters employed in mostly utterly retarded encounters. I mostly just slugged it through, just to say that I've finally done it. Neither the story, nor the loot (which was a clusterfuck as well), nor the combat worked as a carrot to keep me playing.

I cannot imagine what sort of people could play it through several times.

Anyway, Gaider can eat cocks. He dugs his grave, he gets to lie in it. No point in complaining.

 

[Infinitron]

I admit that I finally finished DA:O over the holidays. Though only thanks to extensive modding. You can see that it had some potential, that was then wasted thanks to the shitty engine - does it use tweaked Aurora?, shitty-to-mediocre writing that never made me chuckle or really impress me, awful animation and texturing - though modders have somewhat fixed that, and - above all - crap mechanics that were initially hidden from the player (seriously, I had to get a mod that would show me the damage-formulas for the different spells and abilities) coupled with ridiculously slim gallery of monsters employed in mostly utterly retarded encounters. I mostly just slugged it through, just to say that I've finally done it. Neither the story, nor the loot (which was a clusterfuck as well), nor the combat worked as a carrot to keep me playing.

I cannot imagine what sort of people could play it through several times.

Anyway, Gaider can eat cocks. He dugs his grave, he gets to lie in it. No point in complaining.

It's called "the Eclipse Engine". According to Anthony Davis, both the Eclipse engine and the Aurora engine are in fact modified versions of the Infinity Engine. Yes, the Infinity Engine.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Bullshit. Yeah?

 

[Konjad]

Why? It sounds plausible.

 

[Infinitron]

NWN is still mostly Infinity Engine. Like it was stated above, they took to calling it Aurora Engine at that point. That became their new base and from there they made KOTOR and DA, and I believe the CDProjekt guys used it for at least Witcher 1.

 

[GarfunkeL]

I would have believed it to be straight-up Aurora engine with slightly tweaked rendering parts or something. It looks so awful. Especially since I was playing Skyrim before DA:O. Adventuring with busty babes in chainmail bikini actually looks pretty good in Skyrim. In DA:O it looks plain bad. There's pretty much just one good outfit in Nexus and even that's improved by the Arcane Warrior's constant green-white glow. Plus the faces, the fucking faces. I can understand that the same six voice-actors keep popping up in the game but did two of the three male voices have to sound like a whiny emo faggot? Lot of people were needlessly killed because their voices made me angry. But I can't understand why there are identical looking faces in a game where there's practically endless permutations! Write a script that randomly creates the faces for NPCs when the PC trips the level-trigger for their blueprint to spawn. Sure, you'd get some funky faces but then Denerim wouldn't look like SisterFuckers, West Virginia, population: 6.

Oh yeah and the majestic capital is tiny.

 

[Commissar Draco]

I admit that I finally finished DA:O over the holidays. Though only thanks to extensive modding. You can see that it had some potential, that was then wasted thanks to the shitty engine - does it use tweaked Aurora?, shitty-to-mediocre writing that never made me chuckle or really impress me, awful animation and texturing - though modders have somewhat fixed that, and - above all - crap mechanics that were initially hidden from the player (seriously, I had to get a mod that would show me the damage-formulas for the different spells and abilities) coupled with ridiculously slim gallery of monsters employed in mostly utterly retarded encounters. I mostly just slugged it through, just to say that I've finally done it. Neither the story, nor the loot (which was a clusterfuck as well), nor the combat worked as a carrot to keep me playing.

Got it DA was banal shit and boring, all are entitled to their own tastes and opinions Here on Codex, but why then finish it? Unless you're some kind of game journalist games are entertainment not hore; didn't like it? Flush it from HD and watch the porn go meet people outside instead of going (God forbid) full Crispy and asking people for reasons to play the game you don't enjoy.

I cannot imagine what sort of people could play it through several times.

People who agreed with VD review (Codex RPG game of the year after all) and Skyway.

Anyway, Gaider can eat cocks. He dugs his grave, he gets to lie in it. No point in complaining.

will this, Gaider is only buthurt his cimematic sims are not selling as good as Skyrim and Diablo III did, fuck that looser.

 

[GarfunkeL]

I must have low-scale OCD or something. Plus, a buddy bought me the ultimate edition as a birthday gift, so I figured I should at least play the main game through.

 

[Commissar Draco]

I must have low-scale OCD or something. Plus, a buddy bought me the ultimate edition as a birthday gift, so I figured I should at least play the main game through.

Fair enough, plus I should not insult Sims by comparing them to Biowhore games past DA, In (modded) sims you're allowed to actually play. ME3 was half hour of cinematics 5 minutes of popamole shooter then 1 minute of free play before another cinematic sequence. Played it after my friends recommendation.