Dragon Age Dragon Age: Origins is ten years old today

[Camel]

Where are they now?
Alexandra “Alleykatze” Stein, Leliana’s model. She’s currently a barber in Los Angeles.

 

[Aarwolf]

She was quite hot then.

Spoiler

 

[ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB]

In-game Leliana looks much different from the Leliana in the sacred ashes trailer.

I always wondered why Bioware changed her face and hair style.

 

[Late Bloomer]

I prefer Leliana to be breathing deeply upon dwarf farts than the thots being posted

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[Aarwolf]

I always wondered why Bioware changed her face and hair style.

Because North Americans like their women in games uglier and uglier. Or North American game developers, to be more precise.

 

[logrus]

DA IV will be a gross AAA disaster.

 

[Modron]

Because North Americans Canadians like their women in games uglier and uglier. Or North American Canadian game developers, to be more precise.

This isn't just limited to the Americas either look at what those Dutch have done to the Horizon series.

 

[Ryzer]

DA IV will be a gross AAA disaster.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

W*stoids, not even once.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

In-game Leliana looks much different from the Leliana in the sacred ashes trailer.

I always wondered why Bioware changed her face and hair style.

A DAO trailer without marilyn manson music?
What kind of blasphemy is this?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

DA IV will be a gross AAA disaster.

So...
can someone explain to me why someone who only previously worked on Sims 3 DLC is the lead designer on a major AAA title?
https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,215580/

Yes, it's the same person.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

can someone explain to me why someone who only previously worked on Sims 3 DLC is the lead designer on a major AAA title?

Don't be transphobic, rusty. That's a problematic question to ask.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

looks just like a woman when it doesn't use a ton of AI-powered photo filters btw

 

[Late Bloomer]

So...
can someone explain to me why someone who only previously worked on Sims 3 DLC is the lead designer on a major AAA title?
https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,215580/

Yes, it's the same person.

Well, it certainly isnt based on skill. I believe we have crossed the threshold of wondering why these people get hired and promoted though.

 

[Roguey]

Guise, this thread is about Dragon Age Origins, take discussion of whatever the hell Bioware's doing now to to its pertinent thread.

 

[Bigfass]

why these people get hired and promoted

It's like taking the slightly stupid affirmative action hire on your team to the meeting with the C-suite. "We'll look so diverse and the bosses will appreciate that, but that's really not the point. I'm such a fucking good person."

Whe the results don't matter much, or there's no way you'll get blamed for a failure, you can just do the progressive thing and it'll feel like eating a thick warm cake made of sunshine.

 

[Late Bloomer]

The fart sniffer herself. This is the best romance option in DAO besides Zevran. Werent female models so much better years ago?

 

[Modron]

Guise, this thread is about Dragon Age Origins, take discussion of whatever the hell Bioware's doing now to to its pertinent thread.

Okay Infinitron.

 

[Camel]

DA IV will be a gross AAA disaster.

So...
can someone explain to me why someone who only previously worked on Sims 3 DLC is the lead designer on a major AAA title?
https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,215580/

Yes, it's the same person.

Tranny diversity hire. His twitter was much cleaner with no political drivel before.
https://twitter.com/simguruandy

Guise, this thread is about Dragon Age Origins, take discussion of whatever the hell Bioware's doing now to to its pertinent thread.

Sorry.

 

[ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB]

I would feel ashamed to give Bioware any money at this point. They are completely lost.

EA really needs to finally shut down Edmonton and just end this nightmare.

 

[Semiurge]

Where are they now?
Alexandra “Alleykatze” Stein, Leliana’s model. She’s currently a barber in Los Angeles.

Her face looks too young, 12-15 years old. For someone who's supposedly had a colorful history as an imperial spy, that's too few winters. DAO Lel looked how she was intended to look, like a low-fantasy version of the Maid Of Orleans.

 

[Lim-Dûl]

What the hell does that even mean? Does this person even like RPGs?

 

[Stella Brando]

Only nerds like RPGs.

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

Origins is a shit game in retrospect. All of these games were bad, Origins just sucked the least. The least stinky turd.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Retrospect? I remember it sucking at the time. I was really disappointed in it when it finally came out and I got a chance to play it. Even before it came out its turn away from being more Conan the Barbarian during its long development was a hit of disappointment, but playing it, experiencing it, was just like disappointment at disappointment. The only actually interesting thing about it I thought, which was them furthering something they'd already done before, but I thought it was interesting the amount of party interactions (what they say to each other) they came up with no matter what mix of party members you had.

This game would become another example from around that time of BioWare having something interesting in a game that didn't really work, but instead of paying it off with the sequel they just took a left turn and totally fucked shit up.

The game also looks so shit that it's funny to think that it came out in 2009, game looks like it came out like five years earlier than it actually did. I'd guess if you showed it to someone for the first time and told them it came out for PC and the original Xbox they'd buy that.