David Gaider的訪問心得

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　　另外找到一篇和David Gaider有關的訪問心得。
　　8/8/11的某網誌

: P9 u  A9 Q4 l# m- W　　裡面有些關於DA2背後的一些花絮，不過我只提我有興趣的部分，其他的請參看原頁面。
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There WAS supposed to be a Sir-Pounce-Alot for Anders. But they didn’t want the cat as an inventory item (they wanted the cat to walk around the clinic) they  couldn’t want to create a whole new model. They did think about a staff with a cat’s skull on it, but David was like, “OMGAH NO! Thats so cruel!!”

" k+ _! g# \+ l2 h( H' O　　......這已經不是過分的程度了吧？簡單來說就是不想要多做不太用得到的模型與動畫成本吧？
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Orsino was originally not really supposed to be a boss battle if you sided with the mages, though there would be a point where you learned that he was bffs with Quentin. He kind of implied that you could have then chosen to fight him, but basically that the Orsino battle was not originally there. The only reason why Orsino turns is for gameplay reasons. (They wanted another boss fight.)

7 w- O/ E* P5 e2 j+ c　　原本劇情中沒有規劃站在法師側的霍克要和奧西諾（科克瓦的首席術士）對戰，但還是有戰的動機就是了。

Did you think Sebastian and Nathaniel were twins? You’re kind of right: Sebastian’s DLC was technically originally supposed to be about Nathaniel. Why didn’t they do it? They didn’t want to do much more handwaving in case you killed him off. He also admits that Anders’ “LOL I DIDN’T REALLY DIE” if he died in your Awakening playthrough was totally handwaving, but they liked the idea of using Anders too much.

1 T6 {  `- m; H( Q; h7 @" L) \　　在「The Exiled Prince」的ＤＬＣ中原本要將納撒尼爾原本會和賽巴斯坦有所關係，似乎是受限在Awakening的存檔繼承方面的「麻煩」；其實看看Anders的狀態都完全省略成這樣也很正常......
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Qunari were always supposed to have horns. It was in their original character design and it was cut for graphics reasons. So while the Qunari horn situation was retconned for 2, it was retconned into being what they wanted it to be. Also, EXPECT MORE QUNARI.

　　總之就是期待更多的昆納里！

The reason NO ONE (including hawke) reacts to you being a blood mage if you choose to be, is because the programmers decide on the specialization trees, AFTER all the writing and dialogue is done. So while the writers want to create reactions, they can’t if they don’t know if Blood Magic is an option. It would have been a huge ordeal to go back and add a bunch of references. They could have written lines “just in case,” but can you imagine how time-consuming it would be to write alternate lines everywhere “just incase?”

6 q; {. o* ^5 b7 h, H& ~& [　　不要說什麼先完成技能樹會很麻煩；簡單來說就是成本預算不足，所以沒有做血法專精觸發相關事件－－這樣才對吧？
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ABOUT THE LACK OF A VARRIC ROMANCE. Actually… they almost did slip something in there. They mentioned having the interrogation end with Varric meeting back up with Hawke and explaining that he’d told them everything. ‘Everything?’ ‘Don’t worry. I skipped the part about us…’

　　果然是這樣嗎......
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