Dragon Age Central

Quote: Posted 07/13/04 21:21:50 (GMT) by SlipShadow
Regardless it fits well into a fantasy game and you Bioware guys should consider coming over for a vacation...er...um...field research.

No need. I grew up in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Biggest Newfie city west of the Rock. I can summon the dialect at will, but the resulting mental trauma is rarely worth it.

Quote: Posted 07/13/04 18:43:09 (GMT) by Sylvius the Mad
I see no reason why poutine can't make an appearance (possibly a comic appearance) in DA.

Now THAT is a good idea.

*runs off*

Quote: Posted 07/13/04 19:31:47 (GMT) by Syrsuro

I heard EQ2 was being planned for a two DVD release.

Carl

*Shudder*, don't want to think how many CDs that would be

Quote: Posted 07/13/04 05:43:06 (GMT) by Rae of Death
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That pretty much sums it up.

In addition, take this:
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Quick reality check:

Do you have to pay to play Unreal Tournament, Battlefield, FarCry, etc - no.

Do people that create maps/mods for those games get money from it - no.

Do people that run those servers pay for the hardware and bandwith - yes. In fact, in Battlefield you can rent servers in game - but you can't charge people for using them.

Do internet caffee's have to pay licensing fees because they make money off a product they let their users use - yes.

If you want to commercially exploit a product, you need a special license, and yes, these licenses come a bit more expensive than 40-50$.

If you think that's not justified and that you should be allowed to make money off your work, you need to redefine your definition of work, because either the game is entertainment and hobby for you, or you need to make a business out of it with all the legal and financial responsibilities attached to it.

And yes, Atari's legal department had some serious talk with some PW owners that wanted to make money off NWN - so don't think this part of the EULA is not enforced.

More and more games get at least a special DVD edition.
I think The Sim 2 is going to have one as well, which might be a sign that the bigger publishers are slowly pushing for DVD distribution. But again, for DA this topic is not current for a long time to come.

That would be a publisher decision, and since we don't have one yet, this not only can't be answered, but is something that needs to be looked at closer to ship.

Um yeah. Down we go.

Actually the characters will be speaking with an elven accent. Well at least the elves.

Quote: Posted 07/12/04 20:37:34 (GMT) by Hades_One
Last I heard they were going to really get into the details of each playable race by doing the Tolkien thing and giving them unique languages Possibly spoken) and very detailed cultures.

Then again I could have heard wrong and getting my hopes up.

No, you heard correctly.

I'm going to give bumf the benefit of the doubt here and agree with him. The sniggering that accompanies these posts is in and of itself the actually trolling going on here. If you don't have something sincere to contribute, then move on. Period.

If, however, this turns into another forum for bumf to declare his opinions on our other games rather than an actual discussion of DA, it will be closed down quickly.

Quote: Posted 07/12/04 20:33:08 (GMT) by Hades_One
I didn't use anything asterisky.

But you were plenty insulty. Let's not go there again, okay? Else I might be tempted to get banny and save myself the trouble of future tussles.

Quote: Just utterly surprised how the sheer amount of lameness he exhibited.

The irony of your statement kills me. Be that as it may, be utterly surprised and incredulous without getting insulting. It's not that hard, believe me.

Let's keep things civil, shall we? Debate is fun.

Read. Understand. Enjoy.

This will just lead to a discussion of whether or not NWN itself was "epic", as we've already said DA will contain an epic adventure. Please don't repeat this topic unless you have something more specific about DA to discuss.

Quote: Posted 07/12/04 19:45:11 (GMT) by Sylvius the Mad
The nature of the fourth race could still be indeterminate. Perhaps there are unforeseen modelling issues which are leaving BioWare largely uncertain as to what the fourth race is going to be. We may never see the race the reviewer did.

The details on that race may change, certainly, but for the most part we know exactly what that race is. The reviewer was commenting solely on some of the concept art that was done for it, that's all.