People News David Gaider Complains about "Increasingly Toxic" Fan Feedback

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Links? I wasn't anywhere near active on their boards at the time, but I'm damn sure they never announced anything of the kind. BG1 was highly lauded because the minimal NPC personalities were still miles beyond what rpg gamers expected out of party NPCs, namely serving as mules and cannon fodder. To take that and claim that a significant portion wanted imagined relationships molded into terribly fleshed out dialogs is ludicrous.

RPG gamers who didn't play Fallout, Fallout 2 and Ultima VII, you mean?

 

[Xavier0889]

http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/01/15/d...ld-lend-itself-towards-their-objectification/

“I dislike the idea of every character being sexually available to the player,” Gaider admitted. “Not that it cheapens them, necessarily, but it would lend itself towards their objectification. Take the first Witcher game, for instance—I enjoyed many things about that game, but the collectible sex card mechanic? Ultimately it rendered every female character in the game into a puzzle to be solved … As soon as the player is aware it’s possible, you are in fact encouraging them towards a certain type of behavior.”

 

[Zeriel]

David Gaider: "I dislike everything I do."

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

I prefer the more reasonable position of "Everyone at Bioware is terrible and full of hubris."

Ha! Roguey wins.

Also: I'll take 7 more quotes since you're asking.

 

[Kane]

You'd be surprised how much influence a handful of people can have. :jew:

He knows what he is talking about.

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[King Crispy]

it rendered every female character in the game into a puzzle to be solved

Hell, even I know that that's the cold, hard truth about women.

In fact, they're all like this:

 

[Xavier0889]

it rendered every female character in the game into a puzzle to be solved

Hell, even I know that that's the cold, hard truth about women.

In fact, they're all like this:

also:

we'd better start getting some good Open Lock skills bros

 

[Zeriel]

Solution:

 

[King Crispy]

Yeah, try that with the Hellraiser puzzle box and you'll have to answer to this guy:

 

[Major_Blackhart]

So, do you think Gaider would attempt to open the Hellraiser puzzlebox?
What would it look like? Anyone?

 

[King Crispy]

Hopefully like this:

 

[Jaesun]

I love how every BioWare thread basically turns into shit.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

So, how many xenobytes would it take to shred gaider?
That is the question.
Not unlike the tootsie roll pop, but really I think more than three.

 

[racofer]

I love how every BioWare thread basically turns into shit.

It's the natural course of things. Like spotting tranny pictures while browsing the Codex.

 

[Moribund]

How can anything bioware related "turn to" shit.

 

[Azrael the cat]

I hate to say it, but Roguey is correct on this one. There were so many Imoen fanfics being made that people had quite the reaction when they made her into the PC's half-sister in the sequel.

 

[King Crispy]

So, how many xenobytes would it take to shred gaider?

You mean Cenobites.

 

[circ]

I'd love to get my hands on them someday (the guidelines, not the writers )

Well there is that one image floating around showing BW writing guidelines, with reasoning for the same character archetypes and so on.

 

[Larendav]

I think being caked with blood because you just recently had to slice your way through a bunch of enemies with a tiny knife is perfectly fine. Engaging in these kind of monotonous "dialogs", however, while you're still caked with blood, with everybody acting as if it's perfectly fine and nothing to take note of, looks demonstrably retarded. Here it looks especially bad, with shiny clean clothes splattered by tiny droplets of blood, as if you were recently used as a spit-bucket at the local dentistry. Why couldn't the clothes just be slightly stained with soaked up blood patches, dirt and worn from days of travel? Take a page from Quake 2 era games or something, sheesh.

The kiddos love blawd, so BioWare gives them edgy gore. But in all seriousness, if BioWare really wanted to do the blood stain gimmick, they should've taken inspiration from BioForge's damage system.

 

[Larendav]

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Didn't even realize I'd spelled it with a X. Thanks Crispy!

Edit: Also, Mike Laidlaw is a fag.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Mmmmrrrrrowwwwl? Isn't that what some girls say when they find something sexy? At least in the movies? Men are usually more like YO MAN THAT"S HOT.
Guess he's not cisgendered or something.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Mike Laidlaw is a fag.

 

[Larendav]

Mmmmrrrrrowwwwl? Isn't that what some girls say when they find something sexy? At least in the movies? Men are usually more like YO MAN THAT"S HOT.
Guess he's not cisgendered or something.

Only one answer.

Mike Laidlaw is a fag.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Yeah, but now I have a question about the post he was quoting. I don't seem to be able to understand Biowaritis. What does he mean?