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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2017 7:33:16 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2017 13:07:30 GMT
Scottphoto Be sure to drop your impressions of DAO here! And also ask questions. What origin did you choose? YES TO THAT! Also, Scottphoto dont fall for Alistair as gay Warden, it's painful  I still wonder about the "lick a lampost in winter" thing. Was that just a strange choice in wording? Bc that really seemed like a medieval Thedas lowdown way of asking if another dude was up for bumping uglies. |
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Post by gaycaravaggio on Jul 3, 2017 21:09:30 GMT
It's funny to think about how they canonically still believe in medieval ideas of the human body (the 4 humors and stuff like that). I wonder if there will ever be progress on that front in Thedas?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2017 0:13:26 GMT
It's funny to think about how they canonically still believe in medieval ideas of the human body (the 4 humors and stuff like that). I wonder if there will ever be progress on that front in Thedas? There is a medic in DAI that talks about surgery being the future of healing. I think having healing magic played it's part in slowing progress in this sphere. |
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Post by turianlannister on Aug 6, 2017 22:59:37 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2017 23:21:34 GMT
I'm not sure if you all know about this, so I'll just post it. Some time ago, YouTuber Shadiversity did a video about the accuracy of Skyhold, comparing how its design measures up against actual, functional historical castles. He’s done the same for other games, like Skyrim, and other castles in entertainment, like those in Game of Thrones. It’s quite interesting. He thinks Skyhold is done well overall and praises it as a good example of video game castles, with one or two nit-picky issues that he fully admits are nit-picky issues. Skyhold video: One of the more interesting points in the video is when he talks about the location, which I’ve seen criticized as being impractical. He shows a couple of real-world examples that look even “worse” for the precariousness of their position. The reason for this is defensive, to deter and repel attacks. No one is going to be able to scale the walls of Skyhold, which is the whole point. Now, you may say, “This is a fantasy video game, it doesn’t really matter,” and you’d be right. However, do DO think it’s cool when games and their devs go through the effort of having this attention to detail to add to that realism. The original site was elven, and so likely used magic elements in its construction, but that was eventually leveled and rebuilt by Fereldens who likely did not use magic. This is why Skyhold looks as it does, even before work begins on it by the Inquisition’s masons. In that case, Skyhold would have been built using the same sort of design philosophies seen in real-world historical castles; these were things done for a specific purpose, usually defensive in nature, which is why castle design evolved as it did and it’s common to see certain features across cultures. One of the reasons I decided to post this is because in a recent new video about something only tangentially related, he specifically mentions his criticism of a part of Skyhold and that he was in error as there are actual examples of the (previously thought) incorrect feature he described existing on historical castles. (11:45 for the relevant bits.) I liked that he added this sort of correction. It also serves to bolster his previous video about the historical accuracy of Skyhold, making it even better. |
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Post by Joey on Aug 12, 2017 12:50:53 GMT
Question, which Inquisitor's VO isn't "blank-slate" the most in your opinion? Played DA:I many, many months ago and was absolutely disappointed of how dull my Inquisitor's voice was.
I don't want to pick another dull voice again.
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Post by phantomrachie on Aug 12, 2017 14:30:12 GMT
Question, which Inquisitor's VO isn't "blank-slate" the most in your opinion? Played DA:I many, many months ago and was absolutely disappointed of how dull my Inquisitor's voice was. I don't want to pick another dull voice again. I like Alix Wilton Regan performance and Sumalee Montano also gives a good performance although I prefer Alix. I've never played a male Inquisitor so I cant help you there. |
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Post by Ash on Aug 12, 2017 15:08:59 GMT
Question, which Inquisitor's VO isn't "blank-slate" the most in your opinion? Played DA:I many, many months ago and was absolutely disappointed of how dull my Inquisitor's voice was. I don't want to pick another dull voice again. British voice = more emotional, less "hurr durr anger". American - the other way around. I've found male American voice to be dull in many situations, but if you want your character to get angry often (not sad-angry, as British actor voices it, but angry-angry), he's your pick. While both are pretty neutral, British works better for me as it feels bit more... natural, not forced? And as I mentioned, bit bigger emotional spectrum. Works best with elves tho. |
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Post by Joey on Aug 12, 2017 16:35:43 GMT
Question, which Inquisitor's VO isn't "blank-slate" the most in your opinion? Played DA:I many, many months ago and was absolutely disappointed of how dull my Inquisitor's voice was. I don't want to pick another dull voice again. British voice = more emotional, less "hurr durr anger". American - the other way around. I've found male American voice to be dull in many situations, but if you want your character to get angry often (not sad-angry, as British actor voices it, but angry-angry), he's your pick. While both are pretty neutral, British works better for me as it feels bit more... natural, not forced? And as I mentioned, bit bigger emotional spectrum. Works best with elves tho. LOL I had the exact opposite feeling and for me male British voice was the worst main char VO I've ever heard in my life. I still cringe when I hear one particular line from Trespasser, when he tried to be angry, but it was so sad and funny i cant this sucks for me, because I only can make pretty elf. |
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Post by Ash on Aug 12, 2017 16:55:08 GMT
British voice = more emotional, less "hurr durr anger". American - the other way around. I've found male American voice to be dull in many situations, but if you want your character to get angry often (not sad-angry, as British actor voices it, but angry-angry), he's your pick. While both are pretty neutral, British works better for me as it feels bit more... natural, not forced? And as I mentioned, bit bigger emotional spectrum. Works best with elves tho. LOL I had the exact opposite feeling and for me male British voice was the worst main char VO I've ever heard in my life. I still cringe when I hear one particular line from Trespasser, when he tried to be angry, but it was so sad and funny i cant this sucks for me, because I only can make pretty elf. Well, it kind of fit to my character. This "can't properly into angry" and being just tired and sad in the end, lol. So he was 10/10 for me while American was hurr durr one tone for everything. Overall, VA in inquisitor was... not top-tier, imo. Really different voices where you have a hard time imagining an elf with their American voice, some of VAs obviously had a hard time being able to voice different emotions. Still better than Andromeda (still imo, but I cringed non-stop bc of Sara's voice), but eh. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2017 19:45:59 GMT
Question, which Inquisitor's VO isn't "blank-slate" the most in your opinion? Played DA:I many, many months ago and was absolutely disappointed of how dull my Inquisitor's voice was. I don't want to pick another dull voice again. British voice = more emotional, less "hurr durr anger". American - the other way around. I've found male American voice to be dull in many situations, but if you want your character to get angry often (not sad-angry, as British actor voices it, but angry-angry), he's your pick. While both are pretty neutral, British works better for me as it feels bit more... natural, not forced? And as I mentioned, bit bigger emotional spectrum. Works best with elves tho. I think my absolute favorite moment for the male Brit VA is during Solas's quest. When Solas moves toward the mages, you can pick the option to stop him. With that option, Inquisitor just says, "Solas," in a sort of warning tone. I love that so much. I can't compare to the other VAs, but I also like his sappy romance tones as well. *_* I just love my Inquisitor's voice and fully admit it's one reason I'm so attached to him. |
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Post by Ark on Aug 12, 2017 19:55:45 GMT
I wasn't a fan of the American male VA at first, but I think he gives a better performance in the latter parts of the game. Also my last runthrough was with a Qunari inquisitor... and you just can't use the British VA for that!  |
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Post by Ash on Aug 12, 2017 21:07:47 GMT
British voice = more emotional, less "hurr durr anger". American - the other way around. I've found male American voice to be dull in many situations, but if you want your character to get angry often (not sad-angry, as British actor voices it, but angry-angry), he's your pick. While both are pretty neutral, British works better for me as it feels bit more... natural, not forced? And as I mentioned, bit bigger emotional spectrum. Works best with elves tho. I think my absolute favorite moment for the male Brit VA is during Solas's quest. When Solas moves toward the mages, you can pick the option to stop him. With that option, Inquisitor just says, "Solas," in a sort of warning tone. I love that so much. I can't compare to the other VAs, but I also like his sappy romance tones as well. *_* I just love my Inquisitor's voice and fully admit it's one reason I'm so attached to him. top tier moments for me were "angrily" disbanding the inquisition in trespasser (because he sounds really tired from this bullshit, on the verge of breaking) and romance with Dorian overall. British VA did an amazing job in it. |
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Post by Andrew Mancer on Aug 16, 2017 5:48:30 GMT
...I miss the Kirkwall crew so much... This was pretty hilarious. I love fan films and I remember spending a lot of time watching Resident Evil fan films back in the day. I know it is an unpopular opinion, but I loved Dragon Age Redemption with Felicia Day! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2017 6:01:12 GMT
I've used all four voices at least once. I prefer the Brits for both genders. I really, really disliked the American female the one time I used it and while the American male would be my favorite, he gets really gay out of nowhere during romance specific conversations with Dorian in a way that I find sort of offensive. So I'll probably never use him again unless I decide to romance Cassandra a second time.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2017 7:20:04 GMT
I've used all four voices at least once. I prefer the Brits for both genders. I really, really disliked the American female the one time I used it and while the American male would be my favorite, he gets really gay out of nowhere during romance specific conversations with Dorian in a way that I find sort of offensive. So I'll probably never use him again unless I decide to romance Cassandra a second time.  I'm almost afraid to know what this means. My Brit guy... there are a couple of scenes with Dorian where he has a sort of laugh. In the "let's spend time together" where Dorian suggests watching the soldiers train and that he will critique their uniforms, the Inquisitor says with a bit of laughter, "What's wrong with their uniforms?" It's just so adorable.  To me, it seems like one of those instances where a pair of people are comfortable in being around each other. Dorian isn't being overly snarky, he's just being himself. I really could gush all day.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2017 7:36:58 GMT
I've used all four voices at least once. I prefer the Brits for both genders. I really, really disliked the American female the one time I used it and while the American male would be my favorite, he gets really gay out of nowhere during romance specific conversations with Dorian in a way that I find sort of offensive. So I'll probably never use him again unless I decide to romance Cassandra a second time. I'm almost afraid to know what this means. My Brit guy... there are a couple of scenes with Dorian where he has a sort of laugh. In the "let's spend time together" where Dorian suggests watching the soldiers train and that he will critique their uniforms, the Inquisitor says with a bit of laughter, "What's wrong with their uniforms?" It's just so adorable. To me, it seems like one of those instances where a pair of people are comfortable in being around each other. Dorian isn't being overly snarky, he's just being himself. I really could gush all day. He doesn't start lisping or anything to crazy, but he gets much more expressive and has this tone of voice that I don't hear anywhere else unless it's with Dorian. If he always sounded like that I probably wouldn't have even thought of it as trying to "sound gay" or anything but the timing is too suspicious. I know one of the moments is during the spend time together dialogue option and he's like "Let's dO SoMeThInG fUn!!" |
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Post by Joey on Aug 22, 2017 20:46:20 GMT
Does anyone know if there's a mod for Inquisition when you can have male running animations on female character? Mod like this exist in DA2, but I can't find any for DA:I. I really wanna play as female this time around, but I can't stand that stupid, unrealistic female running animation. I remember one BW dev describing it as "sexy". Ugh
I want this
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2017 3:13:21 GMT
Link to DA2 mod, please!!  |
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I'm almost afraid to know what this means.
To me, it seems like one of those instances where a pair of people are comfortable in being around each other. Dorian isn't being overly snarky, he's just being himself.
