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Dragon Age: Inquisition | E3 2014 Coverage

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Water is wet.

No other characters are even remotely attractive to me though. Whelp for the first time in a Bioware game my first playthrough will be Lesbians.
 
Thank you guys!

Honestly it sounds like I'm nitpicking but you'd be surprised how much of an immersion breaker that is for me for the first couple of hours. Never understood why I could be Black in ME but not in DA and DA came after ME

According to the devs, trying to create true black characters just led to ridiculous-looking results on the old engine. The new one is able to support the skin tones much better without it looking cartoon-ish.

Also would it kill bioware to write a character that doesn't wear their personality on their sleeve?

I'm not even sure what you mean. You mean someone who can control their emotions?
 
No other characters are even remotely attractive to me though. Whelp for the first time in a Bioware game my first playthrough will be Lesbians.

:// Yea.

Cassandra looks.... ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Then the Maleficent one....... ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. The only decent looking is Sera and she's female only ://////////////////

Why we got no Leliana or Isabela in here............... sigh.

Ah well.

Guys, will it be wise for me to just get the PS3 version? What do you guys think? I mean, I hope the PS3 version is not *that* ugly, right? Cause all the pics and videos and such just show the next gen/PC version....... is there any last-gen version screens available....?
 
:// Yea.

Cassandra looks.... ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Then the Maleficent one....... ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. The only decent looking is Sera and she's female only ://////////////////

Why we got no Leliana or Isabela in here............... sigh.

Cassandra's fine I guess, but it would nice to get a good non companion wildcard like Kelly Chambers.
 
:// Yea.

Cassandra looks.... ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Then the Maleficent one....... ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. The only decent looking is Sera and she's female only ://////////////////

Why we got no Leliana or Isabela in here............... sigh.
We do have Leliana. We just don't know whether the Inquisitor could get into a romantic relationship with her.
 
Cassandra's fine I guess, but it would nice to get a good non companion wildcard like Kelly Chambers.

Well, Scribe Girl is still out there as a possibility, I guess. She's a major NPC though not a companion, and we know that other non-companions can also have romances (Cullen).

Personally I'm a fan of waiting until I experience the character arc before choosing. I was quite surprised to end up with Leliana in Origins and Isabela in DA2.

We do have Leliana. We just don't know whether the Inquisitor could get into a romantic relationship with her.

The Inquisitor cannot.

"If you were hoping to carry on a love affair from a previous Dragon Age game however, you're clean out of luck. In an interview with PC Gamer, executive producer Mark Darrah confirmed that you wouldn't be able to romance love interests from previous DA titles, to avoid the inevitable "baggage" they'd bring with them."

http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/consoles/sex-is-better-than-fiction-in-dragon-age-inquisition-1244841
 
Leliana would be close to hitting 40 by this point right? Usually the romance characters tend to be early to mid twenties I think. I suppose they were supposed to age throughout Dragon Age 2 as well. Not that Leliana looks old. Hell a cougar relationship could be fun.

I liked Cassandra in DAII. But I'm still tempted to begin with a female playthrough on the first go which I've never done in a Bioware game. Hopefully they release the character creator early like Origins and I can play around to find a character I want to play as.
 
We do have Leliana. We just don't know whether the Inquisitor could get into a romantic relationship with her.

Any characters that could of had a "relationship" in a previous Dragon Age will not be available to be romanced in DA:I

Edit: Too late, covered by others
 
man like 40% of the discussion of this game consists of who you get to fuck. the other 60% is generally about how bad DA2 was.
 
:// Yea.

Cassandra looks.... ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Then the Maleficent one....... ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. The only decent looking is Sera and she's female only ://////////////////

Why we got no Leliana or Isabela in here............... sigh.

Ah well.

Guys, will it be wise for me to just get the PS3 version? What do you guys think? I mean, I hope the PS3 version is not *that* ugly, right? Cause all the pics and videos and such just show the next gen/PC version....... is there any last-gen version screens available....?
Dam boi, you just want the girl next door XD

I honestly don't think DA:I will need a X1/PS4/PC, unless you want higher resolution and post-processing. From the screenshots and vids, it seems they designed it for older consoles first.
 
man like 40% of the discussion of this game consists of who you get to fuck. the other 60% is generally about how bad DA2 was.

Most of the info being released is companion reveals. Once they start showing more of the dialogue system/the DA Keep/combat/Inquisition stronghold missions I'd expect that to change.
 
They said they will be American and British accents for English VA. We know of the British Female VA already, waiting on the American female and both male variants.
Thanks for the confirmation, Endy!


In other news the game is complete, according to Cameron Lee:
"Everyday we're playing the game, reviewing the game," he replied when we asked what's the game plan for the next couple of months after E3's finished. "We have this massive list of bugs we need to go through and fix. From now to October 7th, ever single day its bug-fixing. The game's done. It's just a matter of polishing and fixing bugs, and we're done."
http://www.gamereactor.eu/news/2029...is+done.+It's+just+polish+and+bug+fixes+now"/


GamingBolt have started their DA:I wiki:
http://gamingbolt.com/dragon-age-inquisition-wiki
 
The Inquisitor cannot.

"If you were hoping to carry on a love affair from a previous Dragon Age game however, you're clean out of luck. In an interview with PC Gamer, executive producer Mark Darrah confirmed that you wouldn't be able to romance love interests from previous DA titles, to avoid the inevitable "baggage" they'd bring with them."

http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/consoles/sex-is-better-than-fiction-in-dragon-age-inquisition-1244841

In other words "We can't be bothered dealing with choices from DA:O." Fucking Bioware acting as usual I see.
 
Joy to the world Dorian is officially revealed:

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Er... looking at the screenshots on the website, it looks like a skunk died on his head, or that he's wearing a really bad toupee that he's covered in shoe polish.

Well, if he does go in my party, that's what PC appearance mods are for. I mean, I wasn't a fan of Anders' jowly and weak-chinned face in DA2 (especially comparing his appearance to Awakenings) until a good mod spruced him up, so I have no problem applying some creative fan's aesthetic improvements to the companions in this game.
 
Cassandra's fine I guess, but it would nice to get a good non companion wildcard like Kelly Chambers.

We do have Leliana. We just don't know whether the Inquisitor could get into a romantic relationship with her.

Boy I sure *hope* that the list of romanceable characters are not limited to the playable group because in my eyes the selection is poor @___@ Hahaha.

I hope so.

Dam boi, you just want the girl next door XD

I honestly don't think DA:I will need a X1/PS4/PC, unless you want higher resolution and post-processing. From the screenshots and vids, it seems they designed it for older consoles first.

I'd hardly characterize Isabella as a "Girl Next Door", hahaha. But mmm yea, at least she's great looking, as is Leliana and Morrigan. In here though? Eeeeehhhh...........

Hmmm, in that case maybe I should just get it for my PS3 since I am not planning to get a PS4 anytime soon (especially with Persona 5 already confirmed for PS3) and there are still tons of games I need to play for the PS3.

The male PC will have 0 romance options to reflect the lives of the average male gamer.

Oh is that just me?

It's just you.

And me.
 
What do you mean by modern BioWare?
Current BW. Post-EA BW, something like that. The BW that wants to appeal to everyone, not just RPG fans.

Guys, will it be wise for me to just get the PS3 version? What do you guys think? I mean, I hope the PS3 version is not *that* ugly, right? Cause all the pics and videos and such just show the next gen/PC version....... is there any last-gen version screens available....?
I didn't even know there is a PS360 version.

The male PC will have 0 romance options to reflect the lives of the average male gamer.

Oh is that just me?
Why does the average get to dictate the outcome for everyone?
 
While I never romance anyone in games, I always loved how Bioware is one of the few developers that had dialogue options which could make the player lead the romanceable characters on and then troll them.
 
No other characters are even remotely attractive to me though. Whelp for the first time in a Bioware game my first playthrough will be Lesbians.

This is the boat I'm in atm. Might change my mind by release, but right now I'm probably gonna roll female just to get with Sera.


Or they could have her deny your advances if you romanced her in origins or let you romance if you didn't. This is just lazy.

Or maybe not every character in the game needs to be fuckable and older characters that many potentially romanced already are especially fitting to fall into that category.
 
Or they could have her deny your advances if you romanced her in origins or let you romance if you didn't. This is just lazy.

Dev who aren't doing something that you want them to do aren't 'lazy'. They're just doing other things instead of the thing that you want. Given that Bio have already said there are more romances in this game than in either previous Dragon Age, and given how long they've spent developing the title, laziness clearly isn't an issue. They simply can't account for all possible personal tastes on the part of the player (I didn't like any of the romanceable characters in ME1 or DA2).
 
I already signed up for the OP a while ago with some assistance from Dawg and Doffen, but we're always open for input :)

Well the OT is in capable hands then.

I hope we get another VA video today, but we'll likely get a writer interview again.

I'm also amused by how much people want to know about romancing. I like the surprise of it all, yet many people clamor for a LI chart so they can know exactly every detail of who is available to who.
 
In other words "We can't be bothered dealing with choices from DA:O." Fucking Bioware acting as usual I see.

Uh, no. We already know Alistair, Loghain, Anora, The Dark Ritual (if you chose it) will all show up in whatever combination you left the DA Origins world in, and that's just the choices we know of.

I have no idea what your "fucking BioWare" is supposed to mean, considering when it comes to importing any choices in the first place they are pretty much the only name in town.
 
Uh, no. We already know Alistair, Loghain, Anora, The Dark Ritual (if you chose it) will all show up in whatever combination you left the DA Origins world in, and that's just the choices we know of.

I have no idea what your "fucking BioWare" is supposed to mean, considering when it comes to importing any choices in the first place they are pretty much the only name in town.

this makes me sad... I really want loghain and Alistair in my game but I don't want my warden to be dead either :(

in DAO loghain killed the demon but I want to see his cameo. I loved the first two books
 
this makes me sad... I really want loghain and Alistair in my game but I don't want my warden to be dead either :(

in DAO loghain killed the demon but I want to see his cameo. I loved the first two books

Well you're not beholden to your past choices since you won't be importing saves, but generating world states with the DA Keep, so if you want you can have them still alive if opt to go through with the Dark Ritual.
 
I only played Dragon Age Origins, is the comic choice thingy they got in beta right now gonna be reasonably detailed?

I don't know if I want to spend too much time doing another good and evil run in Dragon Age (since I deleted my old saves), then continue both runs in Awakening...then doing both runs in Dragon Age 2. Nobody got time for that.
 
They've highly hinted at it.

I'm curious how this will be handled since we know more or less the Dark Ritual and Old God Baby will be featured if you went through with that, but they have stated the DA Keep will not feature any kind of character creator so I wonder how they will handle the Warden's appearance, will they just slap a helmet on them and only go by race/gender? They've also hinted at Hawke appearing so are they just gonna slap a helmet on her too?
 
I'm curious how this will be handled since we know more or less the Dark Ritual and Old God Baby will be featured if you went through with that, but they have stated the DA Keep will not feature any kind of character creator so I wonder how they will handle the Warden's appearance, will they just slap a helmet on them and only go by race/gender? They've also hinted at Hawke appearing so are they just gonna slap a helmet on her too?
Did they really? Had no idea...I'm not sure how they'll go about that then.
 
Hopefully they keep the Warden helmeted and voiceless, if they show them at all. I think I would be happiest if they just referenced them and left us with an ambiguous idea of what they're up to so everyone can headcanon the details for themselves.
 
Er... looking at the screenshots on the website, it looks like a skunk died on his head, or that he's wearing a really bad toupee that he's covered in shoe polish.

Well, if he does go in my party, that's what PC appearance mods are for. I mean, I wasn't a fan of Anders' jowly and weak-chinned face in DA2 (especially comparing his appearance to Awakenings) until a good mod spruced him up, so I have no problem applying some creative fan's aesthetic improvements to the companions in this game.

hehehehe, did no one tell you, Frostbite is almost impossible to mod
 
hehehehe, did no one tell you, Frostbite is almost impossible to mod

Where there's a will there's a way. ME on UE3 was thought to be the same, but there are plenty of mods for those games now, mostly texture mods, but nonetheless people will find a way to change things.
 
I'm curious how this will be handled since we know more or less the Dark Ritual and Old God Baby will be featured if you went through with that, but they have stated the DA Keep will not feature any kind of character creator so I wonder how they will handle the Warden's appearance, will they just slap a helmet on them and only go by race/gender? They've also hinted at Hawke appearing so are they just gonna slap a helmet on her too?

Perhaps you'll meet the warden, but they will be fully armoured. But that means DA Keep would need to allow you to at least choose a race and gender for the Warden and at that point why not just let us create the full character.

I expect the Warden to be talked about a lot, but never shown. Regardless of what BioWare have hinted at. I imagine it's meaningless teases.
 
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