Dragon Age: Inquisition Pre-Release Thread

[set]

DAO is decidedly mediocre. Low C&C, low options for character builds, lots of pointless gay sex, tiny linear dungeons and badly balanced classes... The upsides were the random events, decent length, a few likable characters, and a promise for the future which was just soured in the end.

 

[Excidium]

DAO is playable.

 

[Onholyservicebound]

There was no pointless gay sex in my game.

Spoiler

All the gay sex I experienced was meaningful.

But seriously that's not a valid criticism, there was one gay elf, and I don't buy any of the players who tell me that they accidentally had sex with him. I've played that game through a few times and that never happened to me. The c&c is al'right, stories were interesting for me, I played a dwarf noble and the choice between A. Supporting shithead backstabbing little turd that is your brother or B. Support the guy who had your back but may lead the dwarves to their doom because of his adherence to tradition was pretty heavy for me.

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'Course I was more than petty enough to put the little faggot to death at the cost of progress, but still.

Overall game for me.

 

[DalekFlay]

I concur with Nikaido. From my Codex experience, the consensus seems to be that Origins is actually good. Most complaints are about mages being overpowered, while DA2 gets an unanimous "It's pure shit".

Yes, I was making fun of the loud minority who put it up there Oblivious as decline trash.

 

[Jaesun]

DAO is playable.

Compared to what? HALO? (The greatest RPG of ALL TIEM!!!)

 

[GlutenBurger]

the codex was quite splitted on DAO. Initially it was mostly positive, I think the overall view turned more negative as more people who didn't like Bioware games to begin with started playing it. Which would explain the backlash to the initial positive comments. (some also vented when they came to more boring parts of the game)

Sounds like a sensible arc of opinion. The game does seem pretty appealing at first, but by the time you get it home you've already seen it without its makeup, and it has started needling you with abuse. The further you get the more you start to notice that the branches in the storyline are largely meaningless, your decisions in character building are just different pathways to maxing everything out, and the bonuses for making companions like you basically mean that you're not allowed to relate to everybody in the way you may want without gimping them. The whole experience felt like a gradual descent into increasing disappointment to me.

 

[dryan]

 

[kris]

If I ever wrote a homosexual character then I wouldn't make him an overly obvious one. Maybe even a repressed one. This one is just dragged straight from the pride parade.

Why the fuck does it even matter?
This kind of Fantasy is broadly based on the Middle Ages, right?
So wymyn fucking cook, Negroes nigg (far away from the Homeland), and gays fucking don't exist, at least not officialy!
My point: If for some reason you need to include strong wymyn and cewl gayzzz at least do it in a be fucking lieveable way!

It matters because it matters to them and you seemingly have interest as you post in this thread.

What I wrote was basically what you said. A non-obvious/repressed homosexual character is more along the one that is in a middle age setting. That said, this is a fantasy setting and there is no obvious way to do anything, as long as they thought it through.

Your "Negroes" comment is the strangest as far as a fantasy setting go. If anything a good fantasy setting don't have stereotypes completetly mirroring our world

 

[AMG]

Dorian does, indeed, enjoy playing hide the sausage.

-What do you like the most about the character?
-He's gay.

They are trying really hard to make me not pirate their game.
Also, isn't portraying a gay character as a metrosexual looking mage with an obvious curly gay mustache stereotyping? He is also a mage, implying that gay people are too feminine to duke it out in the frontline with real men and must resort to shameful magicks. Check your privilege Bioware .

 

[dryan]

Dorian does, indeed, enjoy playing hide the sausage.

-What do you like the most about the character?
-He's gay.

They are trying really hard to make me not pirate their game.
Also, isn't portraying a gay character as a metrosexual looking mage with an obvious curly gay mustache stereotyping? He is also a mage, implying that gay people are too feminine to duke it out in the frontline with real men and must resort to shameful magicks. Check your privilege Bioware .

I dunno, that mustache seems more like birthday party magician than gay.

 

[Elfberserker]

Eh.
Personally I don't care about how fruity they look or how many gays/trannies or emo they look as long as women are hot.

Sadly this game has no hot women party members

 

[dryan]

Eh.
Personally I don't care about how fruity they look or how many gays/trannies or emo they look as long as women are hot.

Sadly this game has no hot women party members

Yes, thank you, that is the most important issue. They dropped the ball this time.

 

[AW8]

Personally I don't care about how fruity they look or how many gays/trannies or emo they look as long as women are hot.

 

[Elfberserker]

It had a nice beard....

 

[Onholyservicebound]

But gais there are 26 companions, there are bound to be some good looking women!

Not really though, it's probably something like 12, since I wouldn't put it past them to ignore their earlier titles and not count their DLC characters when they claim DA:I will have the most companions.

Spoiler

There's also 12 in this image, and hey, if you look closely you can see a non ugly female, she may be a companion, I think it might be Leiliana though, and there's another black chick, but her hair is so shit she might as well be wearing crappy malificent horns.

 

[set]

12 companions just means they're gonna all be extra shallow compared to da2 and dao

 

[dryan]

But gais there are 26 companions, there are bound to be some good looking women!

Not really though, it's probably something like 12, since I wouldn't put it past them to ignore their earlier titles and not count their DLC characters when they claim DA:I will have the most companions.

Spoiler

There's also 12 in this image, and hey, if you look closely you can see a non ugly female, she may be a companion, I think it might be Leiliana though, and there's another black chick, but her hair is so shit she might as well be wearing crappy malificent horns.

This pic is like a blasphemous faggy Last Supper.

 

[Nikaido]

This is turning into a serious freakshow.

 

[Zed]

if that's the last supper then baldy-elf is Judas.

 

[Martius]

12 companions just means they're gonna all be extra shallow compared to da2 and dao

I thought there are only 9? Rest of them are not supposed to be agents of inquisition, not party members?

 

[Onholyservicebound]

It is, BioWare confirmed to me, the biggest single-player game it’s ever done in terms of landmass. It also has the most potential party members.

This implies the game will have at least 26 potential party members (BG1 had 25). To put this in the words of your biggest fan, Volourn,: 'BIOWARE, WHY DO U LIE?!'

I was going by this, and assuming they're ignoring their older games/DLC. IIRC ME2 had the most companions in a modern Bioware game, at 11, so, most potential party members would have to be more than that.

 

[kris]

12 companions just means they're gonna all be extra shallow compared to da2 and dao

That my friend is something you should be thankful about.

 

[meanwhileInPoland]

12 companions just means they're gonna all be extra shallow compared to da2 and dao

I thought there are only 9? Rest of them are not supposed to be agents of inquisition, not party members?

yes. there are 3 characters you cant take with they stay in your keep. supposedly leliana, cullen and that black chick (scribe). they are responsible for your stronghold management or something like that... one for politics/espionage, one for warfare and one for trade?

 

[Joni Odin von Hassenstein]

If I ever wrote a homosexual character then I wouldn't make him an overly obvious one. Maybe even a repressed one. This one is just dragged straight from the pride parade.

Why the fuck does it even matter?
This kind of Fantasy is broadly based on the Middle Ages, right?
So wymyn fucking cook, Negroes nigg (far away from the Homeland), and gays fucking don't exist, at least not officialy!
My point: If for some reason you need to include strong wymyn and cewl gayzzz at least do it in a be fucking lieveable way!

It matters because it matters to them and you seemingly have interest as you post in this thread.

What I wrote was basically what you said. A non-obvious/repressed homosexual character is more along the one that is in a middle age setting. That said, this is a fantasy setting and there is no obvious way to do anything, as long as they thought it through.

Your "Negroes" comment is the strangest as far as a fantasy setting go. If anything a good fantasy setting don't have stereotypes completetly mirroring our world

First of all: I didn't want to criticize your post. I wanted to criticize the fact that Bioware and many of their fans (as the public in general) talk about these issues all the time and always as if it automatically was a good thing.
I didn't make that clear enough because I was abviously in rage mode.
So I agree that your original post isn't that far away from what I said.

The Negroe comment wasn't meant as anything political or whatever. It comes from annoyance about every European Middle Ages based Fantasy game desperatly trying to give black folks a major role in their games, "'cause inclusion, you know". - Whilst in Europe during the Middle Ages there wasn't that much Negroe around.
But I don't really care about it, it's not as much an immersion breaker as strong lesbians leading the Churches and Guilds all over the place.

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Here's what puzzles me about character Cole. He has a mind of 10 year old, yet he goes around cutting peoples throats? How did he become such a psychopath? That's horrific, yet Gaider believes (for good reason) its unacceptable to romance him. The hypocrisy is crazy.