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Dragon Age: Inquisition | E3 2014 Coverage
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Alligatorjandro
Banned
This looks awesome. Easily my most anticipated game of the year.
Lumination
'enry 'ollins
Cautiously optimistic. Needs more DA:O and no DA2.
Lanrutcon
Member
This man knows what's up.
Complistic
Member
I dont think I can get over that terribly dull looking combat.
Maybe I should do what they obviously want me to do and put it on easy and plow through it for the characters and story.
Maybe I should do what they obviously want me to do and put it on easy and plow through it for the characters and story.
MMBosstones86
Member
preach it
Maybe "bigger" in terms of land. But even Bioware themselves admitted they will never make a game even close to BG2 in terms of content.
I just reread everything I posted and I have to say I'm really excited that Sera is A Friend of Red Jenny, I can't wait to learn more about them. Their quest in DAO and DA2 was one of those quests that just got you thinking and curious as to what that was all about.
And then The Iron Bull is still technically a follower of the Qun, but as a deep cover Ben-Hassrath he's a bit more free to do as he pleases and that mostly seems to be killing. It'll be interesting to see his perspective on the Qun and his past.
And then The Iron Bull is still technically a follower of the Qun, but as a deep cover Ben-Hassrath he's a bit more free to do as he pleases and that mostly seems to be killing. It'll be interesting to see his perspective on the Qun and his past.
Oh, I didn't see that. The world is freaking beautiful.
Musical piece was real nice too. I hope we can expect a great score for this game.
Will it be Inon Zur?
There's no doubt in my mind that the combat is designed around the multiplayer.
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
I will stick to turn based combat exclusively. I really hope some other developer takes note of the Dragon Age turn based crowd and builds a game with them in mind. Bioware got it right with KOTOR on the original Xbox and more companies need to follow that gameplay formula.
Ivory Samoan
Gold Member
There is full tactical mode, which I'm sure will be required for any difficulty over normal.
Looked great to me, like the way they are building each companion's backstory up, so good.
It's pretty crazy and unexpected, but it does seem interesting. My only issue is the amount of people who are going to praise the combat without even realizing that DD was (probably) doing it better. It's definitely a step up from the combat they had before, though. I never found that traditional system to be particularly interesting.
DD is more single-character action like God of War or Witcher. Your pawns are not full-blown party members who can impact the game as much as you, they are just supports.
DA:I still tries to give gamers the party tactical D&D thing that is clearly not your bag (which is fine).
the non-tactical view stuff they have shown actually looks pretty good...but i find it strange to see them seemingly kinda wanting to hide the tactical view stuff. we've seen a bit of it but certainly not as much as the action/ hit buttons while you let your party members go ham aspect of the combat. is it because they think its boring or something? from my pesrpective i dont know why anyone would wanna hide something i thought was so successful in the first game.
Yes, party armour configuration is back. Does anyone know if the two weapon stance system from DA:Origins is making a return? Absolutely loved being a ranger and going in for some quick melee strikes, then jumping back and pressing a single button to switch to my bow and do some range attacks. The lack of it in DA2, forced me to pretty much use one type of weapon for most of the game. Couldn't be bothered to open up the menu mid battle and manually change weapons. I have no idea why it was removed.
YOu should be happy, they are making a game for you!
The funny thing is that I'm fine with tactical combat, but I just have a distaste for controlling multiple characters. It just gets tedious, and the pathing can sometimes be a pain. Pawns were definitely more in the background, though, and I understand where you're coming from.
I've slogged through many, many isometric CRPGs in my day. =)
Circle Jerk
Member
Wait why is there a producer saying there's 9 companions when everything else has shown 12?
Wolves Evolve
Member
wolfhowwl
Banned
The remaining three are advisers that will not be accompanying the player into combat.
Two of them are returning characters, Leliana and Cullen.
Cpt.Underpants
Member
HAHAHA...fuck that
MMBosstones86
Member
I'm the only one thinking that the cello song at the beginning was too similar to the Pippin's song in TLOTR?.
The game looks great btw.
The game looks great btw.
Actually I just watched snippets of the EA conference and I'm VERY happy to discover that they give you two completely different modes to play... action combat and top-down tactical style ala Balder's Gate. I'm surprised that nobody screen-grabbed that moment from the conference... thanks to that, I'm fully hyped for this game again.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Any news on friendly fire? Since that seems be one of bigger indicators they're planning to go for with this game
I'm sure it will be handled the same as it was in DA:O
When playing on Normal, there won't be, when playing on Hard/Nightmare, there will be
I am. Banter aside honestly I think it would be pretty neat to be able to choose from two different play styles, each from a different end of the spectrum so please DAO fans and people who like more fast paste combat. Think currently what we see is a hybrid of the two.
silvermember
Banned
Dragon dogma 2. Take that you idiots capcom.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
What???.. there was friendly fire on normal in DA:O at the very least on pc. I know this because I'm playing the game right now.
They've explicitly said that there will be no DLC companions.
And I don't recall them ever saying 12. I do recall them saying 9 repeatedly, though.
Normal on PC = Hard on console.
We already know them:
Mage:
- Knight Enchanter
- Necromancer
- Rift Mage
Rogue:
- Artificer
- Assassin
- Tempest
Warrior:
- Champion
- Reaver
- Templar
I'm curious to see if companions will also have custom specializations like they did in DA2.
I would like to see them have a hybrid specialization unique to them and then two of the others listed above, but I remember a dev saying you can only choose on specialization so I think the odds of having both a unique one and two others is unlikely. I'm not sure which I would prefer for companions, access to the three listed or just one unique specialization.
Yeah, DAO was clearly conceptualized as a tactical
PC
I believe in the former approach. Action players don't notice the major mechanical deficiencies of what they're hacking and slashing through anyway, while they break the game for people who want a tactical challenge
Wow, I must've missed that somehow. Has this been known for a while? Thanks for the info - and for crushing my specialization dreams!
It's been known for a few months. Basically, they unveiled a single specialization for each class, but left the names of the other specializations in the web page source.
Loved his Tudors theme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atmVxEsZ04w His work on the Immortals wasn't that bad either.
Still, I'll miss Inon. The end music of Origins caused feels I won't feel again for a long time.
Yeah we'll see how the whole game goes. So far the two we have are real nice.
DAI Main Theme
Slowly Into the Light