Sadly, my batshit theories often sound more plausible than the real chain of events.8bitOwl said:I'm suddenly imagining that. And it sounds more and more plausible.
Erin Age: Keybearer
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cept the part that this ISN'T new. It's how Bioware always justifies the player characters existence in their gamesSaviordd1 said:
Sorry I should clarify. I bring up DAO because a lot of people are saying things like "Gosh, DAO had a much better plot than DAI" despite the fact they both use basically the same idea.Zachary Amaranth said:
See my other response in this post.Lunar Templar said:
Plus who said it was new? I sure as hell didn't. Last time Bioware tried new they made DA2 and messed that up.
Sorry I should've clarified. I'm talking about the people who say "DAO had such better writing" when DAI and DAO basically have the same hook.Zachary Amaranth said:
See my other response in this post.Lunar Templar said:
Plus who said it was new? I sure as hell didn't.
Course it failed. Bioware doesn't have good enough writers to pull it off. DA:O wasn't that great ether, game-play, plot wise, it was all just ... meh ... and don't get me started on how they continue to get away with lying to gamers about choice mattering, cause that's always been bullshit.Saviordd1 said:
Honestly, Skyrim handled the 'chosen one' thing better, and Bethesda is horrible at story telling.
Fair enough. But to the other point....Saviordd1 said:
You kinda did. Or rather, you broadened this to be about Bioware or anything new.
Emphasis mine.Saviordd1 said:
I won't go so far as to say you said it was new, but I was addressing this line of thought that people are going to hate anything new. At least, operating under the assumption that it relates to this game, because otherwise, I don't know why you'd say it. I mean, if you intended something else, my bad. I just dont'see it.
I can see there's just a difference of opinion here so this conversation is now pointless.Lunar Templar said:
Oh whoops that's bad wording on my part.Zachary Amaranth said:
When I said anything new I meant any new games or anything not made before 2005.
And when I said "Who said it was new?" I was referring to the "Chosen One" characterization. Sorry bout that.
Just think how many less pointless arguments there'd be on the internet if more people had that kind of awareness....Saviordd1 said:
anyway, enjoy your debate.
I'd actually like to see one where God or a God throws his hands up in exasperation and goes "Ugh! Fine! You want a savior?" He then places a helmet atop a random person in the crowd. "There! That's your new savior! Now, leave me be! I'm a busy man!" As the god vanishes, everyone instantly starts worshiping their new and very bewildered "savior".Zachary Amaranth said:
Made even worse by their sole response of setting up TSA style anti-geth checkpoints, which allow Geth to walk through uninterrupted. Which makes one wonder why Saren even bothered with the whole conduit plan? "Yes, I'm just taking my 400 personal robots with me on a stroll. No reason to worry, C-Sec".DataSnake said:
Not to mention there's that bit in the Citadel DLC where it's revealed that the Council knew damn well that Sovereign was a reaper. They apparently just didn't care.
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!sageoftruth said:
That actually sounds like it'd be a hilarious premise, at the very least.
Yeah. I'd like to imagine a God and his/her worshipers who have a cool older brother/clingy idolizing littler brother relationship. God will be saying "Dude! Leave me alone!" while his worshipers will act like everything he does is so awesome and completely exaggerate the awesomeness of everything he does when telling others about it, and then everyone outside of the group will be thinking, "What's wrong with those people?" It at least sounds like a funny gag for part of an RPG.Zachary Amaranth said:
I'm going to take this as a criticism of all organized religions, that their great leaders where all just random people who stumbled into strange situations and ended up being warped into prophets and demi-gods by pure storytelling.
I don't really think that, but it may distract the people freaking out from the "Ah, gay relationships!"
I don't really think that, but it may distract the people freaking out from the "Ah, gay relationships!"
Fixed.BlueJoneleth said:
Still the same though. The Chosen One would have been whomever they'd sent after Saren. Bioware seems kind of fond of the "conveniently awesome superhero bumps into shit and becomes the messiah".
Actually, spoilers...Pinky said:
...who you support as the new Divine determines the ending situation for this. It is entirely possible to completely eliminated the Circles through your actions, or completely reform them depending on your actions.
Based on it being a Dragon Age world tho... there's no true 'saves everything forever ending' but that's the genre for you.
It's really hard to make the claim that there's a maintenance of the status quo when all three games end in completely different ways... and the last game has multiple ways to end regarding the world state for mages and templars.