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[RepHope]

I met someone who was working at Bioware; they've been there for around 4 years. They can answer any questions, I'll pretend that it's just me asking.

How “woke” is it there for real? BioWare seems to be a company of full blown SJWs, is that accurate or just virtue signaling?

 

[Bah]

I met someone who was working at Bioware; they've been there for around 4 years. They can answer any questions, I'll pretend that it's just me asking.

How “woke” is it there for real? BioWare seems to be a company of full blown SJWs, is that accurate or just virtue signaling?

Went to their blog, and it looks like the most recent Edmonton team photo is from 2017. See a few fat women with dyed hair, but still mostly a sausage fest.

 

[Nano]

Explaining the lack of evil choices in the Nu-DA games:

Cole's Original Arc

In the earlier version of Cole and his personal quest, the Inquisitor had three decisions

1. Side with Solas and make Cole more of a Spirit
2. Side with Varric and make Cole more of a Human
   and the decision that never came to be...
3. Let Cole kill the Templar

As Cole is a spirit of Compassion, the path would be an emotional interference. Patrick Weekes personally hated the option, thinking "well, there's gonna be that one player". Apparently, the scene had way more knife cuts than necessary for the kill. But, an issue came up with the third option: the budget. "We have the budget to do two really well, or three kind of. And it was changed."

Weekes was admittedly happy for the change, as he described himself a "light side hippy", but the bigger question was whether he cut it because it genuinely fit or if it is something he personally doesn't want. As a writer, that's the difficult thing to discern. But the choice for Cole was cut for the better of the story.

https://www.ladyinsanity.com/blog/paxeast15-creatingchar

 

[Kleptocratic debt serf]

https://kotaku.com/bioware-qa-union-mass-effect-dragon-age-star-wars-keywo-1848839482

Keywords Studios developers working in support of Dragon Age 4 maker BioWare are seeking to unionize. That’s according to an April 20 application filed with the Alberta Labor Relations Board. The staff is preparing for a union vote following recent labor organizing efforts at other game studios.

Not sure how this will impact Bioware, if at all.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Explaining the lack of evil choices in the Nu-DA games:

Cole's Original Arc

In the earlier version of Cole and his personal quest, the Inquisitor had three decisions

1. Side with Solas and make Cole more of a Spirit
2. Side with Varric and make Cole more of a Human
   and the decision that never came to be...
3. Let Cole kill the Templar

As Cole is a spirit of Compassion, the path would be an emotional interference. Patrick Weekes personally hated the option, thinking "well, there's gonna be that one player". Apparently, the scene had way more knife cuts than necessary for the kill. But, an issue came up with the third option: the budget. "We have the budget to do two really well, or three kind of. And it was changed."

Weekes was admittedly happy for the change, as he described himself a "light side hippy", but the bigger question was whether he cut it because it genuinely fit or if it is something he personally doesn't want. As a writer, that's the difficult thing to discern. But the choice for Cole was cut for the better of the story.

https://www.ladyinsanity.com/blog/paxeast15-creatingchar

Players should be able to play an RPG the way they want, and they don’t need my moral judgments getting in the way of how they have fun. I also am not a fan of pre-determined attitudes and alignments for players-my hope is that at the end of the game, they’ve answered the question, “What kind of character am I really, and how did that depart from what I thought I would be?” I always considered Torment a sort of role-player’s experiment, where each incarnation of the Nameless One had the potential to be a different personality and a different type of gamer, depending on the choices he made in the game world. It’s echoed a bit in Alpha Protocol at the end of game with Leland, where he asks if you became the person you set out to be when you joined the agency, and it’s something I like to keep asking players when possible because moments of self-reflection never hurt.

— Chris Avellone, Obsidian Entertainment, 2010

 

[Carpincho Pampeano]

Explaining the lack of evil choices in the Nu-DA games:

Cole's Original Arc

In the earlier version of Cole and his personal quest, the Inquisitor had three decisions

1. Side with Solas and make Cole more of a Spirit
2. Side with Varric and make Cole more of a Human
   and the decision that never came to be...
3. Let Cole kill the Templar

As Cole is a spirit of Compassion, the path would be an emotional interference. Patrick Weekes personally hated the option, thinking "well, there's gonna be that one player". Apparently, the scene had way more knife cuts than necessary for the kill. But, an issue came up with the third option: the budget. "We have the budget to do two really well, or three kind of. And it was changed."

Weekes was admittedly happy for the change, as he described himself a "light side hippy", but the bigger question was whether he cut it because it genuinely fit or if it is something he personally doesn't want. As a writer, that's the difficult thing to discern. But the choice for Cole was cut for the better of the story.

https://www.ladyinsanity.com/blog/paxeast15-creatingchar

Players should be able to play an RPG the way they want, and they don’t need my moral judgments getting in the way of how they have fun. I also am not a fan of pre-determined attitudes and alignments for players-my hope is that at the end of the game, they’ve answered the question, “What kind of character am I really, and how did that depart from what I thought I would be?” I always considered Torment a sort of role-player’s experiment, where each incarnation of the Nameless One had the potential to be a different personality and a different type of gamer, depending on the choices he made in the game world. It’s echoed a bit in Alpha Protocol at the end of game with Leland, where he asks if you became the person you set out to be when you joined the agency, and it’s something I like to keep asking players when possible because moments of self-reflection never hurt.

— Chris Avellone, Obsidian Entertainment, 2010

Has anyone played Alpha Protocol? I've only watched compilations of the protag killing women and found it quite funny.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Has anyone played Alpha Protocol? I've only watched compilations of the protag killing women and found it quite funny.

It's a bit of a cult hit, it has a lot of fans on the codex.
I think it depends on how much weight you put on the narrative element vs actual gameplay elements.

 

[Carpincho Pampeano]

Has anyone played Alpha Protocol? I've only watched compilations of the protag killing women and found it quite funny.

It's a bit of a cult hit, it has a lot of fans on the codex.
I think it depends on how much weight you put on the narrative element vs actual gameplay elements.

Will take a look, i know it's from a time where everything needed to be a shooter and heard the shooting part was bad but i'm willing to overlook that stuff.

 

[Poseidon00]

Why do big name single player RPGs always take a million fucking years to come out?

 

[whydoibother]

Has anyone played Alpha Protocol? I've only watched compilations of the protag killing women and found it quite funny.

Much soul, much bugs, and a hint of CiNeMaTiC ExPeRiEnCe, as was trendy at the time.

 

[Infinitron]

Why do big name single player RPGs always take a million fucking years to come out?

but this one takes forever to be made, what's up with that?

That's because this thread has been about what might effectively be three different Dragon Age 4 games. A single player DA4 that got cancelled, followed by a a live service game that was then retooled back into single player. EA!

 

[Poseidon00]

A live service game retooled back into single player feels like exactly what Inquisition was.

 

[Zariusz]

When this will finally die?

 

[Delterius]

A live service game retooled back into single player feels like exactly what Inquisition was.

on the contrary. inquisition was the prototype for the live service game. we've gone deeper 3 times already, the live service has risen, crashed and burned and re-designed fifteen times.

 

[Dodo1610]

Why do big name single player RPGs always take a million fucking years to come out?

The current version of DA4 has "only" started development in 2019.
DAO also had multiplayer during development but became a SP game during its 6 year development cycle.

 

[Poseidon00]

The current version of DA4 has "only" started development in 2019.
DAO also had multiplayer during development but became a SP game during its 6 year development cycle.

Horrified by what it has become

 

[Anonymous Wife Scholar]

The current version of DA4 has "only" started development in 2019.
DAO also had multiplayer during development but became a SP game during its 6 year development cycle.

Horrified by what it has become

It is lamentable Canadian California brain disease monstrosity anon! It is!

Spoiler

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Has anyone played Alpha Protocol? I've only watched compilations of the protag killing women and found it quite funny.

It's a bit of a cult hit, it has a lot of fans on the codex.
I think it depends on how much weight you put on the narrative element vs actual gameplay elements.

Will take a look, i know it's from a time where everything needed to be a shooter and heard the shooting part was bad but i'm willing to overlook that stuff.

Bad is probably being a little kind, the shooting is aggravatingly terrible, (at least at the start) they're going for a thing with it but they fucked up. But the good is good enough, and interesting enough, to overlook this very big flaw.

 

[Cael]

When this will finally die?

Needs more fire.

 

[Ismaul]

Has anyone played Alpha Protocol? I've only watched compilations of the protag killing women and found it quite funny.

It's a bit of a cult hit, it has a lot of fans on the codex.
I think it depends on how much weight you put on the narrative element vs actual gameplay elements.

People talk about eurojank in games like the Spiders games or recently ELEX, but man AP is on another level of jank. It's like driving a car you think is going to fall apart any second.

 

[Galdred]

Has anyone played Alpha Protocol? I've only watched compilations of the protag killing women and found it quite funny.

It's a bit of a cult hit, it has a lot of fans on the codex.
I think it depends on how much weight you put on the narrative element vs actual gameplay elements.

Will take a look, i know it's from a time where everything needed to be a shooter and heard the shooting part was bad but i'm willing to overlook that stuff.

Bad is probably being a little kind, the shooting is aggravatingly terrible, (at least at the start) they're going for a thing with it but they fucked up. But the good is good enough, and interesting enough, to overlook this very big flaw.

The worst part remains the boss battles, that made a jokery of stealth builds, among other things. They had been outsourced to another studio iirc.

 

[Dwarvophile]

I met someone who was working at Bioware; they've been there for around 4 years. They can answer any questions, I'll pretend that it's just me asking.

How “woke” is it there for real? BioWare seems to be a company of full blown SJWs, is that accurate or just virtue signaling?

Went to their blog, and it looks like the most recent Edmonton team photo is from 2017. See a few fat women with dyed hair, but still mostly a sausage fest.

What a heap of white privileges!

 

[Cael]

Has anyone played Alpha Protocol? I've only watched compilations of the protag killing women and found it quite funny.

It's a bit of a cult hit, it has a lot of fans on the codex.
I think it depends on how much weight you put on the narrative element vs actual gameplay elements.

Will take a look, i know it's from a time where everything needed to be a shooter and heard the shooting part was bad but i'm willing to overlook that stuff.

Bad is probably being a little kind, the shooting is aggravatingly terrible, (at least at the start) they're going for a thing with it but they fucked up. But the good is good enough, and interesting enough, to overlook this very big flaw.

The worst part remains the boss battles, that made a jokery of stealth builds, among other things. They had been outsourced to another studio iirc.

Stealth builds can still be viable if the boss are not equipped with ridiculous regen, which seem to be the default with ARPGs.

 

[Roguey]

The worst part remains the boss battles, that made a jokery of stealth builds, among other things. They had been outsourced to another studio iirc.

That was Deus Ex Human Revolution. AP's boss battles were 100% Obsidian and stealth was a tacked-on featured forced on them by Sega and not part of the original design.

 

[commie]

Has anyone played Alpha Protocol? I've only watched compilations of the protag killing women and found it quite funny.

It's a bit of a cult hit, it has a lot of fans on the codex.
I think it depends on how much weight you put on the narrative element vs actual gameplay elements.

Will take a look, i know it's from a time where everything needed to be a shooter and heard the shooting part was bad but i'm willing to overlook that stuff.

Bad is probably being a little kind, the shooting is aggravatingly terrible, (at least at the start) they're going for a thing with it but they fucked up. But the good is good enough, and interesting enough, to overlook this very big flaw.

The worst part remains the boss battles, that made a jokery of stealth builds, among other things. They had been outsourced to another studio iirc.

Stealth builds can still be viable if the boss are not equipped with ridiculous regen, which seem to be the default with ARPGs.

Brayko was bro but a cunt to fight. Only when I equipped SMG's, could I take the fucker down and then of course let him live.