Dragon Age: Inquisition Pre-Release Thread

[meanwhileInPoland]

what is frosbite engine and destructible environment?

they said couple month ago that some mages will have power to restore detroyed bridges/gangways/paths and open shortcuts on map or different pathways to hidden treasures/enemies.

in my book its but codex gonna codex

 

[Excidium]

what is frosbite engine and destructible environment?

they said couple month ago that some mages will have power to restore detroyed bridges/gangways/paths and open shortcuts on map or different pathways to hidden treasures/enemies.

Yeah by holding A when prompted. Impressive

 

[meanwhileInPoland]

would QTE suit you more?

 

[Cadmus]

what is frosbite engine and destructible environment?

they said couple month ago that some mages will have power to restore detroyed bridges/gangways/paths and open shortcuts on map or different pathways to hidden treasures/enemies.

in my book its but codex gonna codex

what is frosbite engine and destructible environment?

they said couple month ago that some mages will have power to restore detroyed bridges/gangways/paths and open shortcuts on map or different pathways to hidden treasures/enemies.

Yeah by holding A when prompted. Impressive

exactly, this is the problem and it's a plague on the modern games.

In the old Max Payne for example, you could explore every drawer in every room and it felt pretty good, but the moment you present the player with a prompt "press A to loot" it loses its meaning because it's not something you can figure out for yourself and in the case of magic, creatively try to apply your list of solutions to the problem at hand.

It's basically like creating Fallout 1 where it says "press A to plant big boom, press B to steal loot" when you approach a quest-related problem. It's fucked and not fun and Bioware can fuck off.

The correct way to have magic restore destroyed bridges would be for the player to apply some kind of a "heal non-living" or "heal golem" spell on his own when he just thinks "hey wouldn't it be fun if I could use my spells in a logical yet not obvious ways?"

 

[Abu Antar]

Read somewhere that there are actually not 40 major endings (no shit), there are 3 (no shit).

 

[dryan]

Read somewhere that there are actually not 40 major endings (no shit), there are 3 (no shit).

green/blue/red archdemon

 

[Delterius]

"heal non-living" or "heal golem" spell on his own when he just thinks "hey wouldn't it be fun if I could use my spells in a logical yet not obvious ways?"

That still wouldn't be very impressive, IMO. My expectation is that BioWare's bridge fixing is a banal thing you'll do on your way.

An open world game should have meant a change in the nature of BioWare's world design. The maps should have become larger and the ways to traverse them much more diverse. So far I've seen Horses (same as walking, except faster) and jumping down. Instead, I'd like to see BioWare implementing things like scalling mountains and rocks. If the way to traverse the world became more diverse, then the world could be designed with spells such as levitation and earth manipulation to cross chasms and rapids.

Basically, take a look at Dragon's Dogma and try to surpass that. One thing I took from that game is that Fast Travelling a la TES is not necessary. Instead, one should try and find the more obscure ways to traverse the mountains that serve as a shortchut between key places. Finding a bridge and casting a generic heal contraption spell on it should be fulfilling if its a somewhat hidden find and if it serves as a shortcut between places.

 

[kris]

Read somewhere that there are actually not 40 major endings (no shit), there are 3 (no shit).

Homosexual/bi/hetero endings comfirmed.

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Jeff Gerstmann doesn't seem to have high hopes for this game
30:42

 

[DalekFlay]

Jeff Gerstmann doesn't seem to have high hopes for this game

Not his type of game, doesn't really mean much.

I like when he reviews online shooters since he has said and shown that he refuses to talk or coordinate with anyone while playing online.

 

[anus_pounder]

Why so much islam?

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God of War?
God Hand?
A god game is an artificial life game that casts the player in the position of controlling the game on a large scale, as an entity with divine/supernatural powers
GODUS empowers you in the role of a god, allowing you to sculpt every inch of a

oh ohhhhhhhh, i see. so its like that...

Spoiler

god god god god god god god god god god god god

 

[Raghar]

dat press A for awesome

Why this video reminds me about ME3?
GFX, effects, style...

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

After watching more combat footage, I don't know why people think this game will have any tactical depth.

 

[Roguey]

After watching more combat footage, I don't know why people think this game will have any tactical depth.

"What we showed at the Microsoft conference was the easy way to play. We only had five minutes to show, so we had to play on easy and make the fights go really fast. You saw lots of dismemberment. It's not going to be so easy to cut somebody in half when the game comes out. We were showing off some features there.

"I was reading some feedback after the conference and people were saying, 'oh, that looks so easy,' but it ain't gonna be that easy."

The Witcher series is famous for its complex combat. Players need to prepare properly for encounters, think tactically about their foes and, when in battle, skillfully evade, dodge and defend.

That being said, it's a multi-platform big budget thing, of course it's not going to have extreme depth. But there's a gap between Knights of the Old Republic and Dragon Age: Origins.

 

[Morality Games]

The Witcher series is famous for its complex combat.

What, kiting?

 

[Roguey]

Yeah that sentence is all kinds of funny. Most people are bad at games.

 

[meanwhileInPoland]

After watching more combat footage, I don't know why people think this game will have any tactical depth.

"What we showed at the Microsoft conference was the easy way to play. We only had five minutes to show, so we had to play on easy and make the fights go really fast. You saw lots of dismemberment. It's not going to be so easy to cut somebody in half when the game comes out. We were showing off some features there.

"I was reading some feedback after the conference and people were saying, 'oh, that looks so easy,' but it ain't gonna be that easy."

The Witcher series is famous for its complex combat. Players need to prepare properly for encounters, think tactically about their foes and, when in battle, skillfully evade, dodge and defend.

That being said, it's a multi-platform big budget thing, of course it's not going to have extreme depth. But there's a gap between Knights of the Old Republic and Dragon Age: Origins.

welcome in 2014

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

After watching more combat footage, I don't know why people think this game will have any tactical depth.

"What we showed at the Microsoft conference was the easy way to play. We only had five minutes to show, so we had to play on easy and make the fights go really fast. You saw lots of dismemberment. It's not going to be so easy to cut somebody in half when the game comes out. We were showing off some features there.

"I was reading some feedback after the conference and people were saying, 'oh, that looks so easy,' but it ain't gonna be that easy."

The Witcher series is famous for its complex combat. Players need to prepare properly for encounters, think tactically about their foes and, when in battle, skillfully evade, dodge and defend.

That being said, it's a multi-platform big budget thing, of course it's not going to have extreme depth. But there's a gap between Knights of the Old Republic and Dragon Age: Origins.

Even if they buff up the enemy's HP, that doesn't mean it will force you to think in a more tactical manner. plus they still have a small number of classes and and races. This limits complexity. This game wont be good or bad, it will be boring.

 

[Morality Games]

Even if they buff up the enemy's HP, that doesn't mean it will force you to think in a more tactical manner. plus they still have a small number of classes and and races. This limits complexity. This game wont be good or bad, it will be boring.

(1) Technical limits of console interfaces and (2) big mainstream graphical intensiveness will prevent the Dragon Age franchise from becoming a true successor to the character development centric mechanics in the Baldur's Gate series, but the game isn't a lost cause.

 

[Roguey]

Even if they buff up the enemy's HP, that doesn't mean it will force you to think in a more tactical manner.

Sometimes this is the case. HP and enemy damage can be tuned too low. But who knows what the difficulty settings do at this stage?

plus they still have a small number of classes and and races. This limits complexity. This game wont be good or bad, it will be boring.

Quantity is not quality. Knights of the Chalice has a small number of classes and races, yet it's more mentally demanding than a lot of D&D games with far more.

 

[Spectacle]

exactly, this is the problem and it's a plague on the modern games.

In the old Max Payne for example, you could explore every drawer in every room and it felt pretty good, but the moment you present the player with a prompt "press A to loot" it loses its meaning because it's not something you can figure out for yourself and in the case of magic, creatively try to apply your list of solutions to the problem at hand.

It's basically like creating Fallout 1 where it says "press A to plant big boom, press B to steal loot" when you approach a quest-related problem. It's fucked and not fun and Bioware can fuck off.

The correct way to have magic restore destroyed bridges would be for the player to apply some kind of a "heal non-living" or "heal golem" spell on his own when he just thinks "hey wouldn't it be fun if I could use my spells in a logical yet not obvious ways?"

you'd have to come up with a good explanation for why something so incredibly useful isn't common knowledge among mages and part of the spell description, though.

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[Cadmus]

exactly, this is the problem and it's a plague on the modern games.

In the old Max Payne for example, you could explore every drawer in every room and it felt pretty good, but the moment you present the player with a prompt "press A to loot" it loses its meaning because it's not something you can figure out for yourself and in the case of magic, creatively try to apply your list of solutions to the problem at hand.

It's basically like creating Fallout 1 where it says "press A to plant big boom, press B to steal loot" when you approach a quest-related problem. It's fucked and not fun and Bioware can fuck off.

The correct way to have magic restore destroyed bridges would be for the player to apply some kind of a "heal non-living" or "heal golem" spell on his own when he just thinks "hey wouldn't it be fun if I could use my spells in a logical yet not obvious ways?"

you'd have to come up with a good explanation for why something so incredibly useful isn't common knowledge among mages and part of the spell description, though.

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why? Or have a utility spell of a sort of vague description, or have a repair weapon spell lvl up bonus, whatever. Just don't fucking tell the player what to do and what button to press.

Can you get rid of that tapatalk thing...

 

[Spectacle]

why? Or have a utility spell of a sort of vague description, or have a repair weapon spell lvl up bonus, whatever. Just don't fucking tell the player what to do and what button to press.

Can you get rid of that tapatalk thing...

because it's silly to assume that the player is the first mage in history to try to cast a repair spell on a bridge.

 

[Cyberarmy]

why? Or have a utility spell of a sort of vague description, or have a repair weapon spell lvl up bonus, whatever. Just don't fucking tell the player what to do and what button to press.

Can you get rid of that tapatalk thing...

because it's silly to assume that the player is the first mage in history to try to cast a repair spell on a bridge.

All previous ones had low intellect score obviously!

 

[Clockwork Knight]

A random search sent me back to page 74 of this thread. The black sorceress looked much less shiny back then.