Dragon Age

[Masterfade]

My charming city elf maiden. I've heard the epic story of DA:O started when a human noble tried to take her virginity on the night of her wedding. Oh, poor girl.

 

Edited October 14, 2009 by Masterfade

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I see the hair still looks awful.

[Syraxis]

"Uh, yes."

 

No.

Try it again then. Maybe it's only disabled on the first run, but it certainly is able to be skipped here.

 

For the record, I was referring to the "chantry says darkspawn R CORRUPTED HUMANS DERP DERP, join DA WARDENZ!!1" movie.

[Purkake]

The intro movie was pretty much a glorified ad, would have liked to see the actual intro movie.

[Deraldin]

"Uh, yes."

 

No.

Try it again then. Maybe it's only disabled on the first run, but it certainly is able to be skipped here.

 

For the record, I was referring to the "chantry says darkspawn R CORRUPTED HUMANS DERP DERP, join DA WARDENZ!!1" movie.

 

I know. It's skippable. At least it is on my computer.

[Volourn]

"Yes."

 

No. Unless, like Deralden suggested, it's only skippable a second time through 'cause it surely wasn't first time through. And, there's no sense for me to load it up again when it's virtually useless anyways.

[Syraxis]

The intro movie was pretty much a glorified ad

 

Would of been nice if it allowed you to test your build in a small training/demo area.

[Oner]

After 40 minutes of installing it says video card not supported. Awesome \o/

Oh well, I'll try again on the better comp later.

[HoonDing]

I find that just like in Fallout 3, it's impossible not to make a male that doesn't look like a complete doofus.

[Purkake]

I find that just like in Fallout 3, it's impossible not to make a male that doesn't look like a complete doofus.

 

All the more reason to make a female character?

 

It's funny that all the voices have British accents.

[Maria Caliban]

Ferelden's have British accents except for Dalish Elves. Orlesians have French accents. Antivians have Spanish accents.

[Purkake]

No German accents?

[Oner]

No German accents?

+1

[Nepenthe]

After 40 minutes of installing it says video card not supported. Awesome \o/

Oh well, I'll try again on the better comp later.

 

Well, 40 minutes should have been your first clue. It took me five to come to the same conclusion.

 

Amusingly, I tried it for S***s and giggles under vmware fusion; with that, it actually worked all the way to the main menu screen (after the opening vid). Only crashed when I tried going on from there... I'll probably have to give it another shot when Fusion 3 comes out, but I can already claim that it works better when I run windows in a window than when I actually boot into that affront of an operating system.

[Oner]

After 40 minutes of installing it says video card not supported. Awesome \o/

Oh well, I'll try again on the better comp later.

Well, 40 minutes should have been your first clue. It took me five to come to the same conclusion.

There was actually a reason why it was so slow, but I have no idea how to explain it in english.

[Nepenthe]

I suck at this, also I demand pink hair and scars.

 

Don't you get it? This is Dark Fantasy! It means people get covered by ludicrous amounts of blood, not scarred!

[HoonDing]

The females could all use a 'Better Bodies' mod... the faces are alright. I like the second preset of the female human noble. Looks a lot like the noble mother from the origin video.

Edited October 14, 2009 by virumor

[Pidesco]

I thought that in general all the bodies had weird proportions. The dwarves look like bearded orangutans.

[Niten_Ryu]

I thought that in general all the bodies had weird proportions. The dwarves look like bearded orangutans.

 

Common problem in games that use unibody type of solution. In MMOGs even the most casual players seem to notice the difference, even when they can't explain why models look "wrong" somehow. Blizzard don't use unibody type of system and has to custom make animations for models that have different proportions.

 

In Dragon Age dwarf is really good example when unibody goes wrong. For example take default human female model, face it towards the camera and take screenshot. Then do the same with default dwarf female. Open up two different screenshots in your photoshop (or similar program that allow easy image manipulation). Then resize different parts of the one model to match the other. Hands are identical (nimble hands ms. dwarf), arms are same lenght, only thicker. Neck shorter and face is wider. Torso and legs about 1/3 shorter.

 

Human female model is actually very close to a ideal 8 head size like it should be. But dwarf model proportions are complitely messed up. It's too roughly 8 head sizes but not for arms. And it shouldn't be 8 head sizes as it makes models look very awkward, if they are wider (or more like flatten in case of dwarf female).

[Slowtrain]

I thought that in general all the bodies had weird proportions. The dwarves look like bearded orangutans.

 

Common problem in games that use unibody type of solution. In MMOGs even the most casual players seem to notice the difference, even when they can't explain why models look "wrong" somehow. Blizzard don't use unibody type of system and has to custom make animations for models that have different proportions.

 

In Dragon Age dwarf is really good example when unibody goes wrong. For example take default human female model, face it towards the camera and take screenshot. Then do the same with default dwarf female. Open up two different screenshots in your photoshop (or similar program that allow easy image manipulation). Then resize different parts of the one model to match the other. Hands are identical (nimble hands ms. dwarf), arms are same lenght, only thicker. Neck shorter and face is wider. Torso and legs about 1/3 shorter.

 

Human female model is actually very close to a ideal 8 head size like it should be. But dwarf model proportions are complitely messed up. It's too roughly 8 head sizes but not for arms. And it shouldn't be 8 head sizes as it makes models look very awkward, if they are wider (or more like flatten in case of dwarf female).

 

 

Can't be worse than the body distortions used by Bethesda in Morrowind.

[Magister Lajciak]

You can't skip the dumb intro movie.

 

Yes you can. Esc.

 

Not the first time it loads up... on later times you can though.

[Purkake]

Yeah, the bodies look weird, like in NWN2. It's like they made awesome heads and then threw in the bodies during the lunch break.

[Tel Aviv]

Oh no. Weird bodies, really? They're not Fallout 3 weird are they? I'll wait for the fan mod + nudity patch, thank you very much.

[Purkake]

Not Call of Cthulhu-weird, just shouldn't-they-look-better-by-now weird.

[Gromnir]

I suck at this, also I demand pink hair and scars.

 

 

when bg2 joinable npcs were first released to public there were criticism that they were too "cartoony." the pastels were not embraced, and minsc, in particular, looked like a predictably buffoonish character from woody-woodpecker episode, complete with ridiculously toothy grin. folks pointed to recently released iwd portraits as a more aesthetically pleasing alternative. maybe iwd weren't "realism," but at least it weren't cartoon neither.

 

mike saas responds by making bg2 portraits gritty and realistic: he added scars and piercings.

 

*groan*

 

'least minsc no longer looked like a bio attempt to mock victims o' down's syndrome, but we were amused that biowarian notions o' "dark and gritty" were to remove smiles and add scars and piercings. am hopeful that the bio writers ain't as lazy as the bio artists were.

 

HA! Good Fun!