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Dragon Age: Inquisition Pre-Release Thread

Discussion in 'BioWare' started by Morgoth, Aug 20, 2012.

  1. meanwhileInPoland Arcane

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    i wonder how this cave will look like on xbox360/ps3 :lol::lol::lol:





    also some nice concept arts
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  2. Echo Mirage Arcane

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    The more interesting concept art images are the ones at the bottom. From the looks of it they are for certain characters. Varric,Cassandra, Vivienne. And I think the one that looks like a witch is that brat Cole. One of them is also a Grey Warden flying on the back of a griffon.
     
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  3. Morgoth Arcane Patron

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    If they were only keeping the colors more earthly in-game.
     
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    I like the second one, I guess it's the court of Orlais. But I wouldn't be too sure if it will look like that in the game.
     
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  5. muds_animal_friend Arcane Patron

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    The bottom pictures are excellent. Reminiscent of early 20th century children's book illustration. The other more "concept art" focused stuff's decent too, and yet somehow it will all conspire to look incredibly bland when translated into in-game assets.
     
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  6. Knut Educated

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    that was interesting video... the tarot cards and art design in general is very, very good (i thought it was way more reminiscent of vienna secession and klimt in particular, not so much northern renaissance), showing no 3d can really beat the 2d illustrations. good to see someone at bioware came to his senses (it took just a bit more than a decade). that said, it still dangerously flirts with kitschy and next to it UI looks horrible with it's clean vector design ( actiony and out of place in high fantasy setting). this could have been a joy for the eyes if things would have been consistent

    the actual world looks WAY oversaturated and use of color palette in almost every fucking scene ranges from barely forgivable to atrocious. who the hell think stuffing the whole specter of possible colors and turning saturation to 300+ will not induce epileptic seizures? it a shame to see an actually good looking world drowning in kitch and exaggerations.
     
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    Such lovingly stylized chest hair.
     
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    I used to watch Power Rangers as a kid. I usually watched it because the female rangers were hot.
     
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  10. Malpercio Arcane

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    Oh, please. No need to justify yourself.

    We all used to watch Power Rangers because they were fucking awesome.
     
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  11. GarfunkeL Racism Expert

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    Well that looked awful. I thought they switched to Cryengine to finally make a good looking game?
     
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  12. eremita Savant

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    It's Frostbite...
     
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  13. GarfunkeL Racism Expert

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    I stand corrected! Still, doesn't look much better than DAO or DA2. Bioware 3D artists re-confirmed to be shit.
     
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  14. meanwhileInPoland Arcane

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    sure...

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    Is any of this footage from the PC version? or can we expect over saturation city and the contrast of a thousand exploding suns?
     
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    The combat seems utterly boring. Im guessing the UI on the pc will also stink of consoleportitis.
     
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  17. GarfunkeL Racism Expert

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    Cherry picking much?

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    In comparison to what Dragon Age actually looked like, the trailer didn't look much better.
     
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  18. Seaking4 Learned

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    The Power Ranger music made me realise that Dragon Age could be awesome if they had gone even more OTT than they already have. Make it the cheesiest and dumbest game you possibly can so that you can make fun of other fantasy games. I would enjoy that.
     
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    Dragon Age, the state of things
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    Yeah, I'd most likely enjoy it if David Gaider and company was exchanged for the Saint's Row writers. I mean the writing is almost best of the worst tier already so why not just embrace the schlock and abandon of all pretence of making a serious game?
     
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  21. Martius Liturgist

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    Damn, thats just missed opportunity! They should hire someone like Johnny Yong Bosch and Daniel Southworth for voice acting and motion capture (well, if they are doing any motion capture for cutscenes).

     
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  23. Elfberserker Liturgist

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    Oh wow.
    Bioware does have the right writers, but wrong genre:lol:. I honestly think that their games would get better, if they weren't serious about their writings.
     
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