MaddenNFL64
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Isn't DA:O like $5 bucks? Play it people! It's amazing stuff, and it's long as fuck. You'll get your monies worth.
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Dragon Age 3 PAX Info (Qunari, Iso View, Agents, Strongholds) [Up4: 14 & 10 Min Vids]
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Night Hunter
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Also, Varric doesn't have a beard, which would be expected from a dwarf. He doesn't tickle the ladies in all the right places if he moves his chin.
I wouldn't go that far but they definitely had some interesting characters and were able to get some interesting stories of them but the overall story was kinda "meh". It didn't really go anywhere interesting. Felt kind of like a placeholder story or story you tell in a novel that would set up the game.
Yes, but don't expect Dragon's Dogma. At all.
They're both great games and I love 'em both, but Dragon's Dogma shits all over Dragon Age when it comes to combat, if you hype up DA II and Inquisition because of real time combat you'll end up disappointed.
It certainly was woefully underdeveloped. What was there was interesting on paper, but in execution it was just missing so much so that in the end the strings connecting it all were pretty loose and the ultimate conclusion was hamfisted and made little sense.
sweetvar26
Member
I paid $60 for it when it came out and I think I got my money's worth. Great game.
I never got to play the second though.
truestatic
Member
He does he just keeps it on his chest.
Cyber Caesar
Member
Well since EA no longer green lights single player only games that would mean we will see some form of MP. I have great expectations for that too. I loved ME3 MP, don't know how MP would work with Dragon Age. Maybe they could do co-op side missions for special quests and challenges.
Yes! I was loving those running animations. It felt meaty, like the getup he was wearing actually had weight.
truestatic
Member
I'm interested to see how a human rogue moves in comparison. Still, the slow run makes me want to rethink playing a warrior.
Cyber Caesar
Member
Small things like trees blowing in the wind and the animation on the brush and grass looked great. I'll spend hours just looking at textures and rocks. I love those kinds of details. Lots of love in there.
BishopLamont
Banned
Art style is amazing, lets hope they learnt their lesson with DA2.
Xilium
Member
Well I've gone from "don't care, not playing it" (as I did with ME3) to "maybe I'll pick it up after I've seen the finished product".
I'm still skeptical but it looks as though they took the criticism of DA2 to heart (for the most part) and are actively working to not repeat that tragedy (but they make the same promises with every game they release). Personally, I probably could have done without the open world, looks completely barren to me, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for now since that was an alpha build.
I'm still skeptical but it looks as though they took the criticism of DA2 to heart (for the most part) and are actively working to not repeat that tragedy (but they make the same promises with every game they release). Personally, I probably could have done without the open world, looks completely barren to me, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for now since that was an alpha build.
shinobi602
Member
It's not open world.
MaddenNFL64
Member
Open world's.
Xilium
Member
Semantics. They're bragging about how large their world/landscapes are and based on the videos, they seem quite empty of content. My point still stands.
CouldBeWorse
Member
Looks fantastic. I believe.
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
They need to put the PS4 version up for preorder on Amazon. I want it.
I don't think giving the option to disable FF is a fix for broken skill and encounter design. I hope this time around playing with friendly fire was considered in the design process, unlike DA2.
Reanimator
Member
This looks so good. I`m waiting for you DA:I!
Sentenza
Member
Yeah, it's pretty damn obvious playing the game that it just wasn't designed and balanced with FF on.
Cramped camera, waves that spawn in the middle of the battle area making positioning almost pointless and when you leveled up enough you have these baffling issues like your melee characters one-shot-killing their own companions with melee attacks.
Anyway, it's ironic how they are going back to make the FF an optional toggle, when I remember arguing about this topic on Bioware's forums and being almost assaulted by rabid fans claiming that "making it a toggle would destroy the careful balance of the game" (?).
Let's hope the highest difficulty is a good challenge.
Not bad, not bad at all.
bleachrude
Banned
Bioware panels are probably the only time when the audience is 50% female...which is kind of sad given how many games you expect to have talked about at PAX
Eudaemonium
Member
DA (and really Bioware in general) has quite a significant female fanbase, especially in its hardcore factions.
It wasn't just the guys pleading for Garrus to be a romance option in ME, after all.
Goooood, gooooooooooooood! Waiting for direct feed footage so we can better see the awesomeness of this new engine.
Yeah I want mini narratives that run along the main arc of the game that aren't just one off quests to go here and kill that guy or collect this thing. I really loved the serial killer quest in DA2. Stuff like that is great and its nice to have other threads in the back of your mind when you're following the main story thinking "ohh I wonder if I'll find more info about X here too."
We will be exploring half of Thedas, and be the head of a huge independent military organization, so hopefully we will be able to stick our noses into various conflicts of interest and not just be an errand boy and merc for hire.
Stuff like an underground railroad for runaway Circle mages and apostates. Or Dwarves looking to take back or find a lost untouched thaig to start an alternative to Orzammar. Dalish elves looking to set up a new homeland with divisions between those wanting to bring in city elves and those that don't. Shit like that which can build up over the course of the game and be affected by events all over Thedas.
the underground railroad quest is a good idea. It would give you the option of helping them, betraying them, or simply killing them all.
It would a great linking quest between various areas, and depending on how you handled coming across apostates or aids in the railroad you experience with the next group could be harder or easier, or just not there at all.
Helping them might net you the favor of apostate mages in your fight, but then it could alienate the Chantry and other persons or organizations wary of the mages. With then betraying them or trying to stop them outright could help you win favor with those groups, but then hurt you among the mages, apostate or not.
I do expect there will some dealings with Kal-Sharok the old capital of the Dwarves that has survived in isolation for centuries.
It's just nice to have non-critical path objectives that provide you with a story of their own that isn't required in the game, but does a lot to expand the world and expand on the main story.
DC1
Member
No no! don't you dare give this the head nod of truth!
Dragon Age O was much bigger. Lets just leave it at DA II and call it the day.!? Can we?
shinobi602
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maabus1999
Member
Still confused by medium level here, being its open world. Maybe region that is artistically different? I'll have to read that link later.
Still this is the only game coming out in the next year I'm really excited for (well maybe Dark Souls II).
shinobi602
Member
It's not open world. Think of it as very large worlds stringed together, but they're not technically open world in the sense of Elder Scrolls.
shinobi602
Member
Mike Laidlaw (creative director) on multiple voice actors for different races:
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/podca...al-edition-podcast-dragon-age-inquistion.aspx
shinobi602
Member
Are you implying that a tactical view IS archaic then? It certainly leads to deeper combat potentials. If I was playing this like I play Witcher 3, why even give me a party?
Thanks! Will watch later.
shinobi602
Member
Ehh, party members still allow for varying up tactics and gameplay even if it's third person like The Witcher.
Worked well in Mass Effect.
truestatic
Member
Awesome quote, thanks! I feel like I should be surprised though that they have yet to nail down how many VA's they're going to use for the protagonist.
Didn't seem to matter much on normal difficulty at least though, and squad based shooter and party based RPG are kind of different, one of them you kind of just need them to shoot at the enemy from behind cover...
shinobi602
Member
When you have squadmates like rogues and mages which for the most part are most useful at ranged distances, it kind of turns out to be the same though as a squadbased shooter.
shinobi602
Member
Some new pictures from the panel that show off the customization of keeps around the Dragon Age world as well as the agent system:
Keep when captured:
Keep focused on espionage and spying:
Keep as a hub on commerce:
Keep as a military base:
Keep when captured:
Keep focused on espionage and spying:
Keep as a hub on commerce:
Keep as a military base:
shinobi602
Member
Also you can see new footage here from after the keep is captured and how everything reacts to that:
http://youtu.be/20s_cV_Mglg?t=35m43s
http://youtu.be/20s_cV_Mglg?t=35m43s