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New Dragon Age: Inquisition details from PAX Australia [Full Panel Video]
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EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Yes. He was the one who explained that Walters + Hudson completed the ending without other writer input, though he didn't seem all that fussed with the ending himself. He disliked
EDI's plot arc becoming another pinocchio story
Given Dragon Age 2, it is noteworthy, and I fully understand why they'd want to really push that fact. They know that they have a large amount of disillusioned fans after DA2.
Hasphat'sAnts
Member
I did enjoy how much more responsive the combat felt in DA2.
After almost two years of playing mobas I just feel like all RPGs should take notes on how to make action game play work. Just because you've got Press R for Awesome doesn't mean it allows for less complexity.
After almost two years of playing mobas I just feel like all RPGs should take notes on how to make action game play work. Just because you've got Press R for Awesome doesn't mean it allows for less complexity.
I could see that, but then they had the part about "things you did/didn't do caused the village to implode", which I suspect probably isn't like you just pulling a lever, but something you did earlier.
Relative to DA2 this one seems to actually have 2-2.5 extra years of development time, unless by extra year you mean the 1 year delay.
Oh, you're right. Now I don't know what to think.
Indeed thus game is showing a lot of promise, its seems to be getting the time it needs to be perfected, and bioware seem to have finally realised that black and white choices aren't always the best to have in these games. I still think Witcher has set the standard for RPGs.
shinobi602
Member
Yea I meant the 2013-14 delay. But yes, they started on this, when, right after DA2 right? 03/2011 to Q4 2014 sounds like a copious amount of time to deliver something worthwhile. Like I said, I have high hopes
anexanhume
Member
I thought all that was proved false?
Yea I meant the 2013-14 delay. But yes, they started on this, when, right after DA2 right? 03/2011 to Q4 2014 sounds like a copious amount of time to deliver something worthwhile. Like I said, I have high hopes
I don't believe right after. They did Legacy and Mark of the Assassin, and we know that they had the aborted expansion pack "The Exalted March" in preproduction to the point that they had produced t-shirts with the logo, so I think this probably didn't really get started until a while after DA2 shipped.
I don't believe it was ever proven false. I know that one of the Bioware board moderators did some damage control, and Weekes avoided really talking about it, but all indications is that it was actually him who posted all that stuff.
Last Hearth
Member
It was declared "false", and nobody challenged it because they didn't want him to lose his job.
TW1 style, not 2. Paths changed in one depending on who you talked to first and everything, TW2 was nowhere near as organic feeling--still leagues better than Bioware's, but not as good as TW1.
My biggest problem with DA2 was the paraphrasing of the dialogue options. I've always roleplayed in RPGs by choosing the dialogue option that is the least character breaking option of the choices since you can never get the "perfect" response in a non-tabletop roleplaying environment. By paraphrasing the dialogue options i cannot make an informed decision regarding what option to choose and therefore i ended up reloading the game after a conversation a lot. Either due to the choice i picked was not something the character i was roleplaying would say or paranoia that one of the other choices would actually have been a more optimal response.
Only played up until the Deep roads excavation before i gave up and watched the rest of the game on youtube like a movie. I still read the novels and play DA:O, since i am a sucker for the lore of Dragon age, but i am probably going to watch DA:I on youtube from the get-go.
Only played up until the Deep roads excavation before i gave up and watched the rest of the game on youtube like a movie. I still read the novels and play DA:O, since i am a sucker for the lore of Dragon age, but i am probably going to watch DA:I on youtube from the get-go.
Usually with DLC you don't have the entire team working on that, but part of the team works on that when you have less work for them to do during the early stages of the next project.
We do know they had to rebuild a fair amount though when they switched engines during the game's development. However, actual content creation usually isn't the problem games have with time, it's the time to design solid mechanics and then polish the content at the end.
The gigantic pre-production cycle should help with the first, and the delay would mainly impact the latter.
Which one was good? I mean
Tali dying was sad if you picked the Geth but the rest of the quarians were just too dumb to live so I wasn't exactly crying when their ashes came down the sky.
thechristoph
Sir!
What did they mean by "ME3 autodialog"?
I'm an insane person who loved ME3 just as much as the rest of the saga and I didn't pick up on much difference in the dialog... other than the ambivalent choices being missing.
I really liked how DA2 evolved the ME style dialog wheel. I hope that's not lost in the rubble of DA2's other failings.
I'm an insane person who loved ME3 just as much as the rest of the saga and I didn't pick up on much difference in the dialog... other than the ambivalent choices being missing.
I really liked how DA2 evolved the ME style dialog wheel. I hope that's not lost in the rubble of DA2's other failings.
Judging by his twitter avatar, he's presumably writing the Qunari guy from the trailer, which would likely fit that mold given how the Qunari are: https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/344513261569578257/051de8d9411ad7fa49c32d9cf5177927.jpeg
In Mass Effect 3 it wasn't unusual for Shepard to speak more lines before giving the player a dialog choice again compared to the previous games.
It wasn't hugely different, but there was still a fair amount more talking Shepard would do on his own.
Gillian Seed
Banned
Will this be PS4 and Xbone?
shinobi602
Member
PS4/Xbone/360/PS3/PC
VGChampion
Member
Don't know the last time you used Origin but I haven't ran into any problems with it in months.
Gillian Seed
Banned
Nice! Thanks Shinobi. I may have to get the 360 version if my decisions from the first two games carry over.
agreed. every time i interacted with them id be like oh my god no wonder you are all almost dead youre the worrrrst
They've said it will be open world. What exactly that means, and whether it'll be like The Witcher 3 or Skyrim is unknown.
Awesome. The Qunari are ripe with moral and cultural issues for dissecting. I'd love to see his take on it.
For their sake I hope it's not like Skyrim.
It's a series of disparate open areas to my knowledge.
Like you go to various areas/countries across sourthern Thefas, but while the areas themselves are open, it's not all contiguous.
I can dig up the map when I'm home in about 5-10 minutes.
NavyPharaoh
Member
Did they say 5-6 months to create a trailer that shows u nothing about the game? What the hell? The only thing I remember getting from the trailer was the veil was ripped open and Age hasn't been kind to my
Morrigan
Never noticed this but after I found out
I never wanted to replay the game again
Uhhhhh yeah!
baby momma
Never noticed this but after I found out
whatever side u choose didn't matter cause u have to fight both bosses
Uhhhhh yeah!
I agree
that the leaders were quite the bastards but there were tons of innocents on those ships, even children. I think neither choice is really good or bad.
GravityMan
Member
Yawn, whatever. All of this is just words, and due to Bioware and EA's recent history...such talk means next to nothing. I'll wait until they show a gameplay video.
AnathemicOne
Banned
Yeah no hype for this game whatsoever, I'm going to need to see in-game demonstration of combat and whatnot.
Remember the DA2 thread? Yeah I can't wait for the DA:I thread.
DA:I - Return to Shit Mountain
Remember the DA2 thread? Yeah I can't wait for the DA:I thread.
DA:I - Return to Shit Mountain
Some of the media from the event is starting to come out.
The game looks decidedly like an 80's metal album.
The game looks decidedly like an 80's metal album.
GillianSeed79
Member
Wasn't there an option in ME3 to have the game automatically pick your dialogue choices? I thought that was what they meant by autodialogue?
In any extent, I'm actually excited about DAIII. DA:Origins was one of my favorite RPG's this gen. Didn't enjoy DAII, but it looks like they are giving them the proper development time for DAIII.
anexanhume
Member
I'd kill for a WRPG with a metal soundtrack instead of just trailers.
Since people seem kind of confused about this, generally when a developer talks about this, what they mean is they had people polish up the art assets/animations/voice acting to something they would actually want to show for all the content present in the trailer.
They didn't have 30 people sitting around a video editor debating with each other for all that time.
shinobi602
Member
Np
They did say some decisions from the previous games will carry over, but obviously since you're playing as a different character, it'll be the more general choices you made that do.
shinobi602
Member
Ugh, why? The first two already barely worked on those platforms. Just skip them.
Cpt.Underpants
Member
Not hype since announcements from BioWare are somewhat bloated
NavyPharaoh
Member
That makes more sense and my reading skills get worse the older I get
Went back and watched the trailer again. Looks like I missed a lot, didnt remember Cassandra being in it... Might have to play Dragon Age 2 again