Isn't the game made on the same engine as Battlefield? Wouldn't hold my breath for a smooth experience at launch if that is the case.
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Dragon Age: Inquisition | E3 2014 Coverage
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Isn't the game made on the same engine as Battlefield? Wouldn't hold my breath for a smooth experience at launch if that is the case.
Aside from some crash issues with a certain skyscraper being knocked down in Battlefield 4 that got fixed the Frostbite engine is pretty amazing. This isn't a 64 player first person shooter juggling netcode issues, it is a singleplayer RPG so I don't expect nearly as many problems.
A Serious Man
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You really worried about Dragon Age's netcode and servers aye?
Lord of Castamere
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Well the other muti storied building still drops the games framerate into the single digits when it collapses.
I don't think you know what an engine is.
It doesn't matter what happens in BF. It's an apples/oranges comparison.
I still like Frostbite 3, even though I suffered the first 2 months of BF4. That engine scales really well from outdated gaming laptops all the way to Titan Black rigs. It's the risk of using a new engine for a big AAA across 5 platforms cross-gen (see Watchdogs), not really the underlying tech itself is bad. People just conflate them together and say "Frostbite sucks".
Also anything is better than that Bioware inhouse engine that gives people hair carved from wood.
Also anything is better than that Bioware inhouse engine that gives people hair carved from wood.
Dr. Kitty Muffins
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It has certainly gotten more attention than others such as Lords of the Fallen which looks spectacular in its own right.
JeffG
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Did not expect this new character reveal: Cole
Pretty creepy looking. Kind of reminds me of Mackenzie Crook from Pirate of the Caribbean.
He was introduced in the Dragon Age: Asunder novel. He had a "talent" to be forgettable (and instantaneously forgettable is kinda like being invisible.)
He is very similar in concept to "Justice" (In dragon age awakenings)
Full companion.
I know who he is, just didn't expect them to reveal him before others like Dorian or Scribe Girl.
JeffG
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Other people wouldn't know that, so you don't have to have your knickers in a knot.
Part of the original count. 9 companions and 3 advisers.
Just clarifying my statement so people don't think this is some previously unknown person since my original statement could be interpreted that way.
Cole's part of the original 9: Cole, Sera, Varric, Cassandra, Iron Bull, Blackwall, Vivienne, Dorian and Solas. With Cullen, Leliana and another woman whose name we don't know yet as non-companion advisors.
Good lord, was somebody paid to write that?Did not expect this new character reveal: Cole
Pretty creepy looking. Kind of reminds me of Mackenzie Crook from Pirate of the Caribbean.
Doctoglethorpe
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Having read the book, I kinda wanna just kill him on sight. There better be a good reason for this shit...
...to be part of my company.
...to be part of my company.
JeffG
Member
I wonder who she will be. Cullen = Military Leliana = Intelligence/Espionage . ???? = Economic
and a character that must of been introduced in another game. So a female Merchant?????
From the picture of them all around the table, she's a dark-skinned, nicely dressed human (I think) lady with a topknot hairdo - doesn't look at all familiar from previous titles, could be someone entirely new. Merchant is a good call I think.
GotchaForce
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What's the creepy gif from?
Ah yes. I think I convinced her to marry Alistair. Truly a horrible fate.
Yeah, he looks pretty weird. The kind of emo backstory made me think there might be a bit of pandering going on but I'm not sure how many will find that face attractive.Did not expect this new character reveal: Cole
Pretty creepy looking. Kind of reminds me of Mackenzie Crook from Pirate of the Caribbean.
He has the mind of a child, so he won't be involved in any kind of romance.
JeffG
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But that could open up some interesting/funny in party dialog. If Cassandra was your love interest and Cole asked some childlike embarrassing questions about relationships. The kind of thing Bioware does.
As someone that really enjoyed Dragon Age Asunder I'm really pleased to find out hes going to be a party member.
Not digging this new character Cole, seems to be kind-of a shoe in just for the sake of doing so. Not digging the whole emo vibe either, hoping he has a bit more depth at least.
Just give me Alister....
Alistair would be more shoe-horned in I think, since he's either king, dead or drunk somewhere. Plus getting on a bit by this point. We've had a spirit-type companion in all the other games (Wynne in Origins, Justice in Awakening, Anders in DA2) so Cole continues that tradition at least. It also makes a certain kind of sense that he'd be drawn to the Inquisitor since the PC can actually see Cole (presumably because of the green fade thing in their hand), unlike most people.
That could be somewhat amusing, having a party of four, but only the player realises that Cole is with them, so the other two think she or he is going a bit doolally.
NoSkillz187
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Seriously, who the hell wrote that character description for Cole? It seems like someone straight out of high school writing a fan fiction did. Actually I felt this way about some of the other writing I have seen so far. I'm really looking forward to this game but some of the writing has been cringe worthy.
MMBosstones86
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my nightmares
I don't think there's been a pre-release character description from Bioware that hasn't sounded like that. Nowadays I ignore what's written and focus on the key points amongst the paragraph of marketing spiel.
anexanhume
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Cole reminds me of Grove from Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust
He seems out of place somehow. Can't say I like my first impression of him.
JeffG
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Maybe Isabella retired from being a pirate and became a merchant.
Did not expect this new character reveal: Cole
Pretty creepy looking. Kind of reminds me of Mackenzie Crook from Pirate of the Caribbean.
Long gone are the days of Viconia, Edwin and Minsc..
He kinda looks like Aerie though!
He was one of the best parts of Asunder, which was one of the best supplemental books I've read for a game series. So hopefully he'll translate well into the actual game. The character marketing has been pretty groan worthy, but I'm not taking it too seriously.
Objectively Bad Opinion
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These characters are caricatures.
I think I'm going to stop reading the promotional material or risk cringing so hard my face gets stuck like that.
I think I'm going to stop reading the promotional material or risk cringing so hard my face gets stuck like that.
Complistic
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Forming an opinion on a character based on some marketing material is really foolish guys.
wolfhowwl
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Pandering is to be expected.
This is the developer that brings back entire characters whose arcs were finished just for fan service after all.
Not really thrilled about Cole though. Not the most interesting character in Asunder by a long shot.
I will be enormously bummed if we don't see Alistair again in DAI. I mean he's the king of Ferelden and one would assume the Chantry-mage conflict and
whatever is happening with the Fade
While they've done some questionable things in the past the writers have specifically stated a number of times that characters won't return unless there is good reason to do so within the story and not simply to pander to fans. Gaider especially spoke against this, noting Oghren in Awakening as the last time he gave into fans request for a returning character.
It's for similar reasons Cole isn't a romance option and why the other companions have set sexual orientations this time around.