Dragon Age: Inquisition Pre-Release Thread

Because Bioware does not care (kekekekeke). Also because they adopted the we will retcon anything we want mentality after Mass Effect 2, so at the time of Origins they had absolutely no intention of using any of those characters ever again. Then they realized having a game series with spiderweb thin continuity captures retards attention and makes them buy sequels for the feels.

 

She seemed to be dead/dying, so you left.

They didn't know they'd be wanting to bring her back later on. I don't know if it would have been easy; they have budgets to consider.

 

First of all, you're wrong, as that elf at 0:30 is walking like a complete faggot. Even if it's female, that's some faggoty nonsense.

Also, there's plenty of awesome button awesomeness. So that's 2 out of 3, and there are plenty of trailers to come.

 

Comrade

Thanks Stalins for giving us with CD Project for a dose of straight fun.

 

Qunary retardo duckface. Stay classy biowhore.

 

So you have a nigger, a subhuman untermensch, horned faggot and a relatively normal human as companions. I wonder, who our most beloved balding faggot writer made romancable? I suppose it will be your horse.

 

NoEverybody Expected Inquisition.

 

Weapons and shields are still magnetized for easy carrying on the back I see. Comical animations, shapes and weird color palettes are starting to show themselves. Strange architecture (what's with the giant spikes on fortresses? Did they migrate there from people's armor?).
This thing screams DA2.

But targetable body parts for giant creatures is an improvement, can't deny that.

With all that hype, was there anything about roleplaying system itself? Is it still class-based? What are the classes, what are the skills? Are they going to add dialogue skills back?

 

This is the next-gen. Having some companions unfuckable was due to technical limitations, you shall bed them all.

 

This... is some of the shittiest writing I've seen. That sentence wouldn't even work in a C-movie. It's fanfiction level of bad. Bad fanfiction level of bad. I wouldn't even dare to send a work with a sentence as bad as this to a tiny pulp publisher with a low level of writing quality in its publications. It's that fucking bad.

 

ololol are those character posters real? they can't be real. it's some troll.

This game looks like dick. And shit. And dingleberries. I've recently learned what dingleberries are and this is dingleberries.

 

If you stop and think for a moment about who their main target audience is these days you might reconsider.

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At some point they will hopefully give up this charade and start labelling their games as dating sims.

 

Let's sperg about stabbing through plate.

 

I'd rather sperg about the shitty graphics and art direction and maybe, just maybe that bent plate armor on his back. No wonder they get stabbed through it, it's made of plastic!

 

What the fuck is that thing soldier has in his hand. Is that a dagger? Was it inspired by Imperial Destroyer from Star Wars?

 

Sword of Impracticality +1.

 

That's not sperging, just plain old graphicswhoring.

Still, indeed, why does the unfortunate dude on the right looks like he's wearing a really cheap, plastic costume with badly butchered Groucho Marx glasses attached to a piece of rope and glued around the helmet?

And what the fuck is he wielding?

Edit:
Scratch the "unfortunate", he probably asked the other guy to stab him because he couldn't endure the shame.

 

Some sort of medivial fork methinks.
His helmet is the real deal btw, it looks like 2 battleship bottms glued together...

 

They sell more as rpgs.

 

These complaints are getting increasingly trivial. It's a fantasy, on par with Jedi's blocking laser blasts with light swords, where somehow very short people have the ability to use double axes and fight toe to toe with giant half-oxen men. Where blades can be enchanted to be supernaturally sharp or imbued with latent elemental power (fire, ice, etc) that ignites during battle; somehow not charring or splintering the steel. Are we exclusively into grounded historical RPGs now?

Besides, 'stabbing' is the only way to penetrate plate; ideally you would aim for weak points like the joints or the slit in the helmet, but it isn't impossible to penetrate stronger material if you take advantage of your opponent's forward momentum and pivot around your own center of mass to generate a strong thrust, which looks looks to be what Blackwall's doing; his opponent isn't animated very naturalisticlly (either for a guy who was running or exchanging blows in a fight), but that's partly for the sake of perspective; our eye is meant to be drawn to Blackwall's technique. Having his opponent just sort of stand there adds greater definition to the guy with the greatsword.

 

Yeah it might be fantasy plate, with only chestpiece and codpiece and chain/leather to protect the belly.

 

Yes, the same three they've always had. You only get one specialization per class this time around instead of two because they've attached narrative content to it.

No, those are thankfully dead for good (at least as far as Bioware and Obsidian are concerned).

 

... doesn't contradict a single thing I said. You can still penetrate (although realistically the guy you're fighting wouldn't be holding his sword far off to the side; he would be keeping it closer to his own center of mass). I suppose Blackwall moved too quickly and somehow closed the distance and lurched into a thrust before his opponent could react.

Besides that, Thedas has special minerals that make swords stronger than their real world counterparts and runes enchanting blades with supernatural pointedness by drawing on the primordial psychic energies of the Fade to alter the nature the reality within and around the blades so that the ordinary rules of physics don't apply. Compare Warp travel in Warhammer 40k.

This basic line of this logic is that Templars, Champions, Berserkers, etc should not exist; the entire premise of this setting and its fighting techniques are based on the premise that various aspects of the world of Thedas make martial disciplines that would be impossible in the real world commonplace in this one.