He works at Game Informer.
Three classes: Meh
Three races: yay
Does this mean your saves from Inquisiton will carry over to Dragon Age: Ultimate Reloaded Boogaloo that will follow, or that you'll be able to import your Origins saves to Inquisition?Working very hard to ensure your saves/decisions will carry over to next-gen consoles
And there's still over a year left of dev time
Ok, that sounds better. Found it a bit silly in DA 2 how they tried to make the class selection screen look bigger by always putting a Female Hawke next to a Male Hawke while gender actually didn't affect the class at all.On the class issue, at PAX East it sounded like you'd only be able to choose a single subclass, and it would be a more important choice than before.
So if you count subclasses, there will probably actually be between 6 and 9 choices.
And then you check what they define as fair use. So now you have to demonstrate how what is being done here isn't fair use.
I guess you're being sarcastic when you say "Good source...". Do you have a better source on what to consider fair use and what is plagiarism and if this constitutes copyright infringement?
He works at Game Informer.
I'm just interested in what is fair to do on a forum.Regardless, it doesn't seem like the re-cap here (the same one done every month) is intended to steal any kind of readership from the magazine. I still fully intend to read my copy. It's nice seeing a list of the finer details for a recap. Writing a summary seems harmless, especially since they wrote it themselves.
Thanks for elaborating.Let's break down fair use using their points. (And yes, this is pretty good source.)
The nature of use: There is no analysis or external input/interpretation in the GamingEverything post. They have simply taken our work and turned it into bullet points. There is no value added by this.
The amount used: The entirety of the article was ripped.
The effect on the original: By ripping the article, it competes directly with our own paid issue. It does us economic harm.
By all three of these points, GamingEverything has committed plagiarism that is not protected by fair use.
Fuck. This sounds so good.
So we get The Witcher 3 and Dragon Age 3 in the same year? Thats going to be awesome.
I'm just interested in what is fair to do on a forum.
I always strive to not quote excessively and to incentivize people to click on the original article and I've posted in the past to point out when OPs quoted too liberally and I've reported to moderators when threads were just copy-paste dumps of other people's work.
What I don't like is just drive-by hit-and-run posting without offering what to do.
More world details
- Areas will change based on what time it is
- Weather impacts exploration
- Rain can make a bog muddy, making travel slower
- Still has classic enemies including ogres, elves, qunari
Friends/foes
- Dialogue/story sequences are the best way to learn about your allies and their abilities
- This can also be done to a lesser extent in battle
- Vivienne: Inquisitor mage who was in line to hold the position of first encharter in the Circle of Orlais
- She wasn’t able to take the osition due to the Orlesian civil war
- Writers analyze the story’s main themes and conflicts, then create certain characters around them
- Not all characters are created so that you’ll like them
- Other allies and their loyalties are currently unknown
- Learn early on that there’s someone behind the demon breach and resulting chaos
- Won’t learn who you’re dealing with early on
- Cassandra and Varric from Dragon Age II are playable party members
- Morrigan won’t be a party member
- Morrigan’s role seems to be more than just a cameo
Crafting system
- Use materials from around the world and enemies you defeat to make customized armor
- “Crafting in Inquisition is about customizing yourself, your character, your looks…”
- You can, technically, eventually create any colored version of the armor your start out with on par with what you find late in the game
- Characters will keep their look, but the armor will have huge influence on how they look
Choices
- Will need to make choices as problems develop
- Not always about dark choices
- BioWare is looking for players to think about potential consequences and deal with them if they happen
- Dialogue wheel similar to that of Dragon age II lets you make choices
- Some improvements
- Optional addition being added to the wheel for more clarity
- Choices have an impact throughout the world
- “Loose ends are a constant problem… We have a responsibility to resolve at least some of them if we’re going to introduce new ones…”
- Choices involve themes, mysteries from previous Dragon Age games
- Game will offer clarity on things such as Red Lyrium, Grey Wardens’ activities, Flemeth, Morrigan’s fate
- BioWare working on the issue of bringing over previous choices in Inquisition
- “It’s very important to people, and it’s very important to us. We don’t want people to feel like they can’t buy a new console or change the platform they’re buying this game on simply because they want to make sure their saves are maintained.”
I'm just interested in what is fair to do on a forum.
I always strive to not quote excessively and to incentivize people to click on the original article and I've posted in the past to point out when OPs quoted too liberally and I've reported to moderators when threads were just copy-paste dumps of other people's work.
What I don't like is just drive-by hit-and-run posting without offering what to do.
Thanks for elaborating.
Is shinobi602's and Nirolak's summary also plagiarism or is this about Gamingeverything only?
This was always virtually the case if you were optimizing your Hero/Warden rogues and warriors.On the class issue, at PAX East it sounded like you'd only be able to choose a single subclass, and it would be a more important choice than before.
So if you count subclasses, there will probably actually be between 6 and 9 choices.
So the previous DA games I had little interest in, but this sounds awesome. How are they going to introduce newcomers to the story is what I want to know?
Article hints that both Aveline and Leliana will also return.
Of course, I loved both Varric and Aveline so I'm happy.
I appreciate you explaining it from your perspective.Look, we would prefer if you talked about details that made you excited. Have a conversation about the classes, the story, the graphics, anything like that. But when it's a bullet-point list of exactly what appears in the article, it's doing us (and yourselves) a disservice. This is certainly more about GamingEverything, but the bullet-pointing is kinda crummy.
Fully voiced means few dialog options.. Which sucks.
Why would you say that?
This was always virtually the case if you were optimizing your Hero/Warden rogues and warriors.
The real flexibility was as a mage. I guess as long as I can dish major damage with spirit/fire and electric, I'll take whatever other restrictions they hand out. Cleaning up with fire in the beginning and then being able to not worry about respeccing to deal with demons/dragons with electric was always something I appreciated. Based on what you're saying, I don't know if that will be possible.
Because voicing is extremely expensive.
Well, I know ME did that interactive comic/cutscene thing that summarized the story and let you make decisions. They might do something like that
Look at Mass Effect and DA2, plenty of dialogue options.
I hope they do.
I never had a decent enough PC for Origins and the console versions looked terrible.
I appreciate you explaining it from your perspective.
I think this conversation is worth having to set guidelines here on GAF on what is acceptable and fair.
Unfortunately I'm at the mercy of these bullet point lists. I don't have a tablet to subscribe to the digital issue (tried months ago, and just now again) and I can't complete the registration on GameInformer.com due to OS incompatibility. (I use Linux instead of Win/Mac that seems to be supported.)
You better hope to have a good PC to run this game then. And if you do, why not get the first two now?
I'll be buying the X1 version which is why I'd like a catch up option for the other two games.
I'll be buying the X1 version which is why I'd like a catch up option for the other two games.
Well I never thought I would say this, but sounds good. Really good in fact. With that said it will all come down to execution and I still have little faith that Bioware won't find someway to screw it up.
Dragon Age 1 Summary:
kill dragon your friend becomes king...you impregnate morrigan
Three possible races for the player character? This is good news, wasn't it only human before?