Dragon Age: Inquisition Pre-Release Thread

[RPGMaster]

Ooh. I hope David Gayder reads this one.

 

[nikolokolus]

If DA:O made him feel embarrassed of his own work, then playing Planescape Torment would probably make him commit seppuku.

When all seems lost, hope remains.

 

[Bleed the Man]

Jesus fucking christ, these people really are messed up.
I could understand kids of 5-8 years old saying such things, but I really doubt this is the case. This kind of people disturb me even more than the romance fags, altough they would probably be also romance fags, so... yeah, really creepy stuff.

 

[Stainless Veteran]

For a brief moment I thought that sgc_meltdown has returned.

 

[toro]

Jesus fucking christ, these people really are messed up.
I could understand kids of 5-8 years old saying such things, but I really doubt this is the case. This kind of people disturb me even more than the romance fags, altough they would probably be also romance fags, so... yeah, really creepy stuff.

Parenting failure?

 

[Stainless Veteran]

Jesus fucking christ, these people really are messed up.
I could understand kids of 5-8 years old saying such things, but I really doubt this is the case. This kind of people disturb me even more than the romance fags, altough they would probably be also romance fags, so... yeah, really creepy stuff.

Parenting failure?

The whole Bioware Forum is just one gigantic parenting failure, on all sides.

 

[pippin]

Well if you like that Cole kid then yes, you are a pedophile. I teached an 8th grade and some of the kids looked like him.

 

[Night Goat]

What the fuck is that? It's like some horrible alien thing, doing an impression of a sexy woman without really knowing what one looks like.

 

[Stainless Veteran]

What the fuck is that? It's like some horrible alien thing, doing an impression of a sexy woman without really knowing what one looks like.

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[Angthoron]

What the fuck is that? It's like some horrible alien thing, doing an impression of a sexy woman without really knowing what one looks like.

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So this is spreading westwardly?

 

[Stainless Veteran]

So this is spreading westwardly?

Ukraine, man, whatchugonnado.

 

[Taxnomore]

What I keep wondering about is this. Bioware makes more and more awful games with more and more awful writing and more and more catering to people who have serious life issues and who failed to grow up correctly in terms of social relationships.

BUT, call this a broad assumption, I am pretty sure most of the Bioware staff (MOST) is fairly normal, and possibly on the intelligent side. As a matter of fact, making awful shit that sells is often a sign of intelligence. It is definitely a sign of lucidity on some part (the marketing guys ?). So what happened ? How did it transition from Baldur's Gate to this ?

I do not mean WHY. I mean HOW. They have to know what kind of community they have created. They have to understand they have some kind of social responsability with how BSN turned out. Surely they have not created this kind of people, but this kind of people is now looking toward them. It's like owning a school and it suddenly becomes a school for retarded children. They have to talk among this between them, from designer to designer, from executive to creative to executive. They KNOW. It must be absolutely awkward.

When a Bioware developper meets a Bioware developper, what do they talk about ?

 

[dryan]

When a Bioware developper meets a Bioware developper, what do they talk about ?

Their therapy bills.

 

[Nihiliste]

BUT, call this a broad assumption, I am pretty sure most of the Bioware staff (MOST) is fairly normal, and possibly on the intelligent side. As a matter of fact, making awful shit that sells is often a sign of intelligence. It is definitely a sign of lucidity on some part (the marketing guys ?). So what happened ? How did it transition from Baldur's Gate to this ?

I can vouch for the fact that some of them at least are normal and perturbed by what they see. But when you're a game enthusiast and designer in Edmonton, where are you going to go? Unless you're one of the big names, good luck getting sponsored for a visa in the US when American companies have their own talent to choose from. Moving out east to Montreal is a pretty far way from home too. I think it's pretty telling that some of their biggest names chose to leave the company over the past few years.

 

[Echo Mirage]

I always wondered if Bioware jumped on what they thought was an emerging crowd in gaming. One they thought they could corner and champion the rights of. But that they didn't realize until it was far to late was that this group of people they were seeking were such god awful, morally and socially reprehensible hypocrites that it would become all but impossible to divorce themselves of it's own fan base. No matter how hard they could try. And now are forced to cater to them and all their growing list of peculiarities.

In a way, deep down in my black cold heart I kind of feel sorry for some of the people in bioware. The ones that are forced to create characters who's primary trait is whether they are or not they are gay. And then base everything around that out of fear of backlash. Instead of that being but one part of an overall character.

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

Ok guys, I just read finally thread with a dozens of pages to catch on, how is the ga....

Don't worry Cole, I will remember you, an emo-scarecrow with gigantic something on head.
And what's with the women looking like a crack addicted skanks?

 

[Stainless Veteran]

What I keep wondering about is this. Bioware makes more and more awful games with more and more awful writing and more and more catering to people who have serious life issues and who failed to grow up correctly in terms of social relationships.

BUT, call this a broad assumption, I am pretty sure most of the Bioware staff (MOST) is fairly normal, and possibly on the intelligent side. As a matter of fact, making awful shit that sells is often a sign of intelligence. It is definitely a sign of lucidity on some part (the marketing guys ?). So what happened ? How did it transition from Baldur's Gate to this ?

I do not mean WHY. I mean HOW. They have to know what kind of community they have created. They have to understand they have some kind of social responsability with how BSN turned out. Surely they have not created this kind of people, but this kind of people is now looking toward them. It's like owning a school and it suddenly becomes a school for retarded children. They have to talk among this between them, from designer to designer, from executive to creative to executive. They KNOW. It must be absolutely awkward.

When a Bioware developper meets a Bioware developper, what do they talk about ?

I imagine it would either be something like

this:

Or, alternately,

this:

Also, while we at it, a great graphical representation of Bioware Forums.

 

[Taxnomore]

I do not think they "jumped" on it. All they had to do was check the feedback on the games they have created. The romances in Baldur's Gate 2 were probably an afterthoght and they certainly feel like one ingame. Yet, this is probably what all the people on the Internet were talking about.

The next step was pretty easy on a marketing point of view.

 

[pippin]

All they had to do was check the feedback on the games they have created. The romances in Baldur's Gate 2 were probably an afterthoght and they certainly feel like one ingame.

They added romances because people were adding them via mods in BG1. At least that's what I heard.

 

[Delterius]

Hey, this bioware confessions thing is pretty great.

Why the hell do you post confessions like that? Don't understand that it's just an ugly provocation?? I used to like your blog but after this... Wow. I didn't expect it from you.

I am very sorry you feel that way. I post most confessions unless I find them completely rude, or inappropriate in some way, shape, or form. If someone offers an unpopular opinion, I will post it, even if I know it will probably get some backlash. That is the point of the blog, that you are completely free to tell your opinions anonymously. Are there trolls? Of course. I apologize if I do not always recognize them, or if you believe one of the recent posts were inflammatory, but I just post confessions. I hope you will continue to follow us here at bioware-confessions, but I understand if you choose to leave.

I wonder what brought that up...

Spoiler

Maybe he also Self diagnoses as PTSD.

Dragon Age II: probably healed HHR's gayness.

Well, Obsidian sure succeeded at their BioWare light game.

 

[WhiteGuts]

Ok guys, I just read finally thread with a dozens of pages to catch on, how is the ga....

Don't worry Cole, I will remember you, an emo-scarecrow with gigantic something on head.
And what's with the women looking like a crack addicted skanks?

Why do all their characters speak like some mentally challenged people ?

 

[dryan]

Because they're written by mentally anguished people for mentally challenged people.

 

[Jools]

What the fuck is that? It's like some horrible alien thing, doing an impression of a sexy woman without really knowing what one looks like.

 

[Zewp]

Eyes rolling into her head. Instruments playing out of nowhere. Horrible lip-synching.

Somber and moving indeed.

Also, can we change the thread title to Bioware's Speed-dating Simulator? Because it's going to be a game about 'meaningful' relationships developed over the course of a few lines of conversation.

 

[PhantasmaNL]

I do not think they "jumped" on it. All they had to do was check the feedback on the games they have created. The romances in Baldur's Gate 2 were probably an afterthoght and they certainly feel like one ingame. Yet, this is probably what all the people on the Internet were talking about.

The next step was pretty easy on a marketing point of view.

Minor flaw in this would be relating the number of posts on fringe forums with customerbase potential and (relative) size of that group.

You would hope that a overwhelming majority of your customers just play the game, be entertained (or not) and thats it.

Focussing on adressing the needs of a (hopefully) small but extremely vocal group of slightly unbalanced people for whom your game is not just a cheap piece of entertainment, but a life's mission / policor crusade just doesnt seem very smart, marketing wise.