FACTS

[Victor Simon]

FACTS After watching the dragon combat and other gameplay and cinematics.
"Just in case there is still time for Bioware to change something. And I'll leave you in peace now for good"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtCtF8Z4JU8

PROS
1 The combat looks amazing. The Dragon moves like a real Boss, with fast moves and blows. And it makes you have to try your hardest to beat it.
It's true that you can't control the characters. But I've been playing God of War where you can't fully control his son Atreus, only give him instructions. And the combat is so fast and requires so much attention that you don't miss it. So you have to play the game to see what it feels like.

2 The DarksPawn in the video looked scarier than the others we've seen. Because there were others that looked like caricatures.

3 You can remove the UI. I've heard that the UI is so ugly that they had to remove it for combat. I would say that the UI is so customizable that you can remove it to focus on the combat. It only appears when you pause the game to organize a strategy (yes, it still looks like a mobile game, but it's only when you pause it to give instructions to your allies and prepare the spells)
Without the UI and so much color saturation, the lightning and magic look amazing. All the games use bright colors, green for poison, white-blue for cold, red-yellow for fire, deep red for blood... God of War, the Witcher, Diablo... If not everything is gray, dark and boring.

4 The cinematics look like a movie. And I love the voices and dialogues (It's a shame that the voices are not in Spanish. That would be true representation and support for minorities. Including the native language of the largest minority group in the United States. And more than 600 million Spanish speakers. They have translated them into French and German with fewer people. Of course, in those countries there is greater purchasing power. EA is a company that seeks profits, I understand that)

5 The story. As is normal, they have not revealed it so as not to spoil it. But I still bet on it.
However, and now come the cons. If the story is Dark Fantasy for adults. The character design should be improved.

CONS
1 The proportion of the head and body of the characters is not normal. Not to the point of putting you off, and making you not play the game. But it gives a little impression of bobbleheads, which is suitable for games for children, like Brawl Stars or Stumble Guys. But not in games where the characters should have a heroic appearance. In Mass Effect and the other Dragon Age games they looked like heroes, not caricatures. Shepard had a proportion of body and head between 8 and 9. This has not been a mistake, they have used slightly cartoonish proportions on purpose.
But let's say that it was a mistake, that what they were looking for were normal proportions of normal people and not heroic (and they have come out a little cartoonish)
People play games to look like and live the story of heroes, not normal people. There are many incredible movies, dramas and documentaries to watch, if you want normality.

2 Women should have normal curves. Most people are not asking for anime boobs. I have seen that a lot of girls, real Dragon Age fans and not trolls, do not understand why there are such limitations. They are the ones who are, precisely, unhappy because they usually play with female characters. I'm not making this up. The sales will speak for themselves. If only the women, the LGBT community (which forms a large part of the male population) and minority groups (many of which are not minority) buy the game, The game will be a total hit.
But many are not going to buy it, and not because of the gameplay and the graphics, and the cinematics, which look incredible. It's that there is no real inclusivity, it's that girls are the first ones who want beautiful, feminine characters. Just like I want to play with a super strong character like Kratos.
Morrigan looks very pretty in the game, but between the proportions of the body and the fact that they have flattened her chest... There are people who complain. This change just doesn't make sense. Morrigan has never had much of a chest, and people didn't see her in a sexual way. She was an icon, with her tattered gothic dress, reminiscent of a crow. It didn't cover her entire chest, which gave her a carefree appearance. A free and feminine spirit.
It makes no sense that they've gone to such lengths to allow you to change your appearance that you can even made a crooked nose. Who wants to play a character who constantly reminds them that they have a crooked nose? Who? Very few people.
And it makes no sense that they put limits on a woman's curves, which leaves out 80 percent of Hispanics. That it's an 18+ game. That you can increase the bulge in your crotch and put on top scars, and see your characters naked.
That I and most people don't have any interest in seeing my characters naked. But we want female characters to look feminine, and that there isn't that kind of incomprehensible censorship in a game that preaches the opposite so much.

3 Only 3 decisions from Inquisition? Better not comment here. I don't think it was that hard for them. Most people don't care about scars and other things (only those who are involved in some kind of cultural war). But we don't understand how so much effort has been put into small details and so much talk about options, and then there are so many limitations in other things.

SUBJECTIVE OPINION
1 Taash looks better than the rest of the Qunari without a doubt. But she still has a forehead that is too big because the horns are the same color, or almost the same, as the forehead, and not a differentiated part.
A simple tattoo between the root of the horn and the forehead works miracles. And that is something easy to do. They say it was because of the Lore of the Qunari, to differentiate them from Tieflin who have Goat horns. But the Dragons also have Goat horns. In ancient literature they were portrayed as winged serpents with goat horns. So it is not an excuse. In addition, all Qunari until now have always had horns of a different color and full of crests. And the foreheads were small and proportionate (like those of dragons, which gave them the appearance of intelligent beasts). Now they look like a cow.
In conclusion. The forehead ends where the hair begins, unless you are bald like Solas. And this has been a senseless decision.

2 In Dragon Age the Darkspawn were scary and the Qunari were respectable. Not anymore. There are some Darkspawns and other enemies that are well done. Maybe Bioware can try to figure out how there is such a difference, and what makes one look like Dark Fantasy and another would be Comic Fantasy.

AND THE LAST THING:
Dragon Age on PC keeps crashing. People are using a patch to play it.
If the "tourists" are able to create a patch to be able to play the Dragon Age Saga again, to prepare for Veilguard, I think that at Bioware, non-tourists could fix it. Which is a very bad cover letter.

If they fix all the errors I have pointed out. The game will be a success. Because it has really good things. And the funny thing is that the errors are the easiest to fix. The most difficult thing in the game, they have done it, and they have done it well.

[AbyssDemon]

引用自 AdahnGorion：

引用自 AbyssDemon：

You are mostly correct, but the context here is that YouTube reactionaries think the IGN situation was for the actual GoTY awards - which it wasn't.

TGA is how we get GOTY editions of video games, with last year reaching over 118 million people watching in steamed views. Which btw, is what people like Asmongold watches.

The BAFTA and DICE awards is an entirely different audience.

This btw is the same awards that gave BG3 and Elden Ring the GoTY title.

That is excluding the people's voice award that open voting closer to the time.

Edit: Hence me freaking linking them the FAQ, so they can understand the difference between IGN's own list and the GoTY event which if you hate IGN should be discarded as valid anyway.

Well obviously.. yes many people don´t have much of a clue about the different awards and that is perfectly fine.
One thing we can note, is that BG3 is the only game to have won all the big ones + most of the minor ones... It is the most award winning game of all time.

Not that it matters, I think those awards are pointless..

It's fine to think the awards are pointless, that wasn't the context of my link. The context of my link is to the clever people who do not understand how the GoTY title is officially given in a widely recognizable manner.

And that is done through the TGA. It's video game Oscars, only meaningful when you want to brag a game you liked won.

Whether you and I put value in that doesn't matter when people can't be bothered to research further than someone telling them "IGN bad"

I don't even like IGN, so I don't care if Poppy Playtime is their GoTY.

[Diomedes]

引用自 AbyssDemon：

引用自 Diomedes：

The same site that purposefully mistranslated Wukong's head dev to slander them and the company? Sounds like they can be trusted.

No. The official game awards FAQ not IGN.

https://www.thegameawards.com/faq

If ya'll weren't so busy jester point awarding me (thanks btw) you'd have noticed earlier in the thread that I linked it.

That is how the voting works. If you want to criticize the game of the year award at least read up how it works.

Then what in tf are you talking about? I only ever mentioned IGN.

[76561199787186968]

This thread used to have animal facts in it. Now it's ruined. :(

[SK]

引用自 Jusenkyo8：

This thread used to have animal facts in it. Now it's ruined. :(

The name for a raccoon in German translates to Wash Bear because racoons tend to rinse their food in water before eating it.

Racoons are also not native to Germany. They were imported for their fur and escaped into the eco system.

[76561199787186968]

引用自 AdahnGorion：

引用自 criffyzou：

Hey in french too ! That's fun.

It is in many European countries.
The name comes from the fact it looks like the animal "wash its food"

The scientific name of the raccoon, Procyon lotor (my prior alias on here), basically translates to "before dog (or pre-canid) who washes," for that exact reason.