Dragon Age: Inquisition Pre-Release Thread

[Storyfag]

Remind us what game you worked on, Storyfag?

Not quite, but I do appreciate the consummate troll

 

[Rake]

It'll be a Bioware game, and if you hate those, you can already call it a wash.

DA:O wasn't so bad. DA2 and MEs(all 3) i don't care about. Tell me, oh prophet, will the game be closer to my taste or not?

 

[Caim]

I recall that Saints Row IV had body sliders, yet there was plenty of romance to go around there and it worked just fine. Bioware better step its game up: the actual romances in SR IV were better than any of their ME or DA ones.

 

[Outlander]

Bioware take themselves too serious, that's one of their biggest problems.

 

[Excidium]

Body sliders are important to you Excidium?

In the type of game, yes. Half the fun in Skyrim is playing pimp my waifu.

 

[Excidium]

I think it's time for Excidium to get a new tag.

I just prefer the more B-movie nature of zombie cyborg shepard back with a grudge going around the galaxy reuniting his friends for the ultimate pool party while also investigating some shit or another, headbutting krogans and bedding aliens. It doesn't take itself too seriously which was a breath of fresh air from ME1/DAO and their boring drivel. If you sincerely liked that then it is you who needs a new tag.

 

[eremita]

It'll be a Bioware game, and if you hate those, you can already call it a wash.

DA:O wasn't so bad. DA2 and MEs(all 3) i don't care about. Tell me, oh prophet, will the game be closer to my taste or not?

Nobody knows. In DA2, they took a dump on their usual design and writing formula. They now masturbate over Dark Souls, have a new engine, want game to be more open (they have zero experience with that) and probably got the biggest budget + the longest time for development in their history. Who the fuck knows what's gonna come out of it? there will be romances and their typical infantile humor, sure. But other than that...

 

[Delterius]

Alonebadman

Man, the post directly above that.

Have they shown char gen? Does it have body morph?

YES, CONFIRMED

see https://twitter.com/Mike_Laidlaw/status/410291844199612416

@Mike_Laidlaw Hello Mr. Laidlaw, a brief question: will we be able to alter our characters physique in Dragon Age Inquisition?

@LeonA01371176 [Yes.] We're investing in supporting 4 race body types... 2 bodies per race, 1 male, 1 female.

@Mike_Laidlaw Thank you my friend.

 

[Alonebadman]

Alonebadman

Man, the post directly above that.

Have they shown char gen? Does it have body morph?

YES, CONFIRMED

see https://twitter.com/Mike_Laidlaw/status/410291844199612416

@Mike_Laidlaw Hello Mr. Laidlaw, a brief question: will we be able to alter our characters physique in Dragon Age Inquisition?

@LeonA01371176 [Yes.] We're investing in supporting 4 race body types... 2 bodies per race, 1 male, 1 female.

@Mike_Laidlaw Thank you my friend.

redundant post, got it.

 

[DraQ]

I just prefer the more B-movie nature of zombie cyborg shepard back with a grudge going around the galaxy reuniting his friends for the ultimate pool party while also investigating some shit or another, headbutting krogans and bedding aliens.

That's still not "better plot", at most it's "entertainingly retarded".

Half MY fun in Skyrim is playing pimp my waifu.

Fixed and that's only because you can't git gud.

 

[Commissar Draco]

You pimp your waifu to get muchio septims, pay the trainers and git gut without reloading 500 times. All those poor convicts/farmers/travelers turned into heroes is Librul BS anyway; Real Heroes which means Knights, Priests and Nobles were trained from childhood and often bred for generations; the idea some nobody from the gutter would become Dragonborne or N7 is ridiculous; So Excidium has right fiction should not take itself too seriously. ME2 best B class SF movie ever.

 

[Roguey]

want game to be more open (they have zero experience with that)

Baldur's Gate.

 

[Zeriel]

Considering how many people still played DA2 after supposedly playing through the entirety of DA:O and bearing witness of the DA2 marketing campaign, you're probably right. The Codex has battered housewife syndrome when it comes to Bioware games.

Or the Codex is just bored. I don't know where this idea of "you must enjoy a game and think it a verifiable work of art if you play it" came from, especially in this Golden Age of Piracy (thanks Assassin Creed 4, tagline of the century). People get enjoyment out of legit broken garbage like Realms of Arkania HD just because it's hilarious, so "wow people play dragon age they must really love Bioware secretly" strikes me as absurd.

 

[Roguey]

What a bunch of losers, spending dozens of hours playing games they hate.

Remember you can't throw this back at me because I mildly enjoy almost everything well enough.

 

[tuluse]

What a bunch of losers, spending dozens of hours playing games they hate.

Remember you can't throw this back at me because I mildly enjoy almost everything well enough.

Didn't you say you liked MST3k?

 

[Roguey]

Didn't you say you liked MST3k?

One can passively watch (or read) a LP. Playing is an activity.

I also don't think Best Brains or the fans of the show obsessed over the people making bad movies or the people who like them for whatever reason.

 

[Bubbles]

One can passively watch (or read) a LP. Playing is an activity.

Telltale is working hard on changing that.

 

[Caim]

One can passively watch (or read) a LP. Playing is an activity.

Telltale is working hard on changing that.

And David Cage tells those scrubs to get on his level.

 

[Telengard]

One can also certainly gain entertainment out of BIsexuaWARE purely for the sake of looking for scenes of Flaying Space Monster Penises shooting streams of hot liquid at soft, wet, yielding holes in the earth; or for Shepard inserting his "essence" into a large phallic symbol, thus disintegrating himself, which causes a massive ejaculation explosion, which shoots off a line of steaming, liquidy lights that bond with every being in the universe, giving birth to a new race. That stuff is hilarious.

I sometimes think of completing the two series just to see all such scenes. But I've never bothered, because all the stuff in between drags too much.

 

[Caim]

I sometimes think of completing the two series just to see all such scenes. But I've never bothered, because all the stuff in between drags too much.

Youtube.

ME3 has a number of such scenes, like the resolution of Tuchanka, Rannoch, Thessia... huh, quite a bit of the locations of ME3 incur shooting big streams of stuff at other things.

 

[tuluse]

One can passively watch (or read) a LP. Playing is an activity.

I also don't think Best Brains or the fans of the show obsessed over the people making bad movies or the people who like them for whatever reason.

The obsession with the fans is odd, I agree.

The Best Brains people made all sorts of jokes about the people involved with making bad movies though, so they must have some research into it. They had entire skits devoted to Coleman Francis.

 

[Roguey]

Gaider-blog http://dgaider.tumblr.com/post/71780734295/on-2013

But mostly this was the year that I just kept working and working and working on Inquisition. I heard “this is the last time we’re blowing plots up, I swear” approximately three times, did a complete top-to-bottom re-write of two full plots and one follower, got to write one follower who I’ve been itching to write since I started writing for BioWare 15 years ago, and otherwise vacillated between feeling like a useless tit with writer’s block and an utter rock star who made everything I touched in the game better.

I'm glad they have time to rewrite things now, considering DA2 suffered heavily from lack of this. The difference between a bad story and a bad story that's palatable to the majority of the fanbase.

Also comments on games

X-Com Enemy Unknown: This game should set the standard for how games should be updated. It preserved almost everything I loved most about the original, and did some things better. I played the hell out of this—about six or seven complete games, followed by two more when the expansion came out. Now update Alpha Centauri and I’ll be in bliss.

Shadowrun Returns: The first game I backed on Kickstarter, giving them more money than is probably reasonable. Why? Because I love Shadorun, full stop. Everyone at work knows that bringing up Shadowrun during an interview is a fast way to get in my good graces. That said, the final product was great…if short. I’ve never wanted to mod anything so badly, and if I wasn’t so engrossed in Inquisition work that’s exactly what I’d do.

Ah, Gaider, SR was long enough given what it was. "At least it's not a tiresome slog like the NWN campaigns" is one of the better things you can say about it.

 

[DraQ]

One can passively watch (or read) a LP.

And that's pretty much all you need for informed discussion about bi-aware games.

Problem?

 

[Delterius]

Say what you will about Gaider. But the fact that he likes the Clausewitz games means he has a better taste than half of this forum.

 

[Frozen]

It will probably be better shit than DA2 unless they completely fuck up the story again.Bioware started to smell when their writers started believing they are talented people.Bio games were always targeted for 12-year olds and 40-year old virgins but at least they didn't try to be creative.When they did it showed mediocrity and incompetence of people working in gaming industry.And its no better in other companies.RPGs are no high art, most of them are boring shit.The thing that separates semi-entertaining shit from utter crap is that people making semi entertaining shit knows their limitations.Its strange how fast they fall from their best game ME2 ( to me better than anything they made including BG2 ) to utter bore DA2.Play it safe Biowhores: 4 magical cupcakes done in random order that triggers the big bad nasty end game.