Dragon Age: Inquisition Pre-Release Thread

[Space Satan]

Even if DA:I flops and PoE becomes the biggest selling game of all time, Bioware will just conclude that pillars must be really popular with gamers these days, and that they should make DA2 but with all the buildings having lots of pillars in them...ramping up the sex content, of course, just in case they're wrong about the pillars.

Coming Fall 2016

 

[Azrael the cat]

[/quote]
And the newly cured dragon promptly flies off, burns down the nearest village, roasting alive dozens of infants and children, eats all the livestock, and sets alight the wheat fields ensuring slow death by starvation and exposure for the survivors. Choice and consequences PETA boy. Choices and consequences.[/QUOTE]

In fairness, PETA would say it's their own damn fault for relying on enslaved livestock. I'd play the fuck out of a PETA-inspired terrorist game

 

[Joni Odin von Hassenstein]

Not sure if this is new or not, here it is anyway:

That pop in his hilarious.

Also, so Skyrim it hurts.

Retarded animations from DA2 still here.

Unless those enemies are lower level, those battles looked too easy and too quick to dispatch to be at all threatening.

No loading areas was a plus, but a lot of the landscapes didn't offer much room to maneuver and the presence of "burning shit" randomly strewn about just means when you walk past that same burning bush ten or twelve times... it's going to take you out of the game.

Guys I'm very sorry, but this doesn't really look bad!
Yeah, the fightin animations are too DA2, but all in all, my first impression is that it's a pretty nice video.

 

[Jools]

And the newly cured dragon promptly flies off, burns down the nearest village, roasting alive dozens of infants and children, eats all the livestock, and sets alight the wheat fields ensuring slow death by starvation and exposure for the survivors. Choice and consequences PETA boy. Choices and consequences.

In fairness, PETA would say it's their own damn fault for relying on enslaved livestock. I'd play the fuck out of a PETA-inspired terrorist game

Only if them PETA-sluts were romanceable, huggable and fuckable.

 

[WalkinDude]

Well, I still hate the voice acting. I prefer the banal voices that make up bethesda games, at least they're easier to ignore. Everything about DA voices - what they say, how they say it - annoys me to no end.

 

[Cadmus]

Not sure if this is new or not, here it is anyway:

That pop in his hilarious.

Also, so Skyrim it hurts.

Retarded animations from DA2 still here.

Unless those enemies are lower level, those battles looked too easy and too quick to dispatch to be at all threatening.

No loading areas was a plus, but a lot of the landscapes didn't offer much room to maneuver and the presence of "burning shit" randomly strewn about just means when you walk past that same burning bush ten or twelve times... it's going to take you out of the game.

Guys I'm very sorry, but this doesn't really look bad!
Yeah, the fightin animations are too DA2, but all in all, my first impression is that it's a pretty nice video.

I skimmed through it a little bit, I like the colour palette. I don't like how faggy xboxy the controls and movements feel and everything looks kinda faux-cool, if you catch my drift. It looks like Skyrim with quite pretty graphcis if I can tell from the small window playing on 360p. I'll check out the whole video later but I could see wanting to pop some moles in it to at least try it. Maybe the shitty romances, dialogues and shit will be unintrusive?

The dragon fight looks boring as fuck but still better than skyrim. The spell effects are good. The combat itself doesn't look too interesting but not horrible, it really depends on how it plays.

The world design reminds me of Gothic 3's beautiful scenery until you walk it and see it's kinda boring.
Everything looks like a corridor.

All in all, if I had known nothing prior watching the video I'd think it's a decent hack and slash RPG!

 

[Jools]

[snip] I'll check out the whole video later but I could see wanting to pop some moles in it to at least try it. Maybe the shitty romances, dialogues and shit will be unintrusive?

I dunno, there's already some quite decent choices for that. Diablo 3, maybe the new, upcoming Sacred, Torchlight 2 (still fun!), and surely a few more I can't recall atm. Or, any MMORPG. No, I can't see why I'd want to play DA3 for its alleged-popamole value (also, there are quite high chances of it being a 1-button-masher, whatever the class).

 

[Cadmus]

[snip] I'll check out the whole video later but I could see wanting to pop some moles in it to at least try it. Maybe the shitty romances, dialogues and shit will be unintrusive?

I dunno, there's already some quite decent choices for that. Diablo 3, maybe the new, upcoming Sacred, Torchlight 2 (still fun!), and surely a few more I can't recall atm. Or, any MMORPG. No, I can't see why I'd want to play DA3 for its alleged-popamole value (also, there are quite high chances of it being a 1-button-masher, whatever the class).

I hate Diablo 3 just from looking at it. I played Torchlight 1 and it was such shit repetetive chore and I hated the art direction, it looked incredibly cheap and gimmicky, like they couldn't afford "real" graphics so they went with that shit and pretended it's a stylistic choice. After Sacred 2 being inexplicably boring, I don't wanna see the new one. MMORPGs suck dicks traditionally.

Sure, I actually believe that once you play DA3, you will find out it's a button mashing shit but I can't tell from watching a few mins of video.
The graphics also look about 300 times better than Skyrim but I'm sure that if I actually launch the game I'll be treated to some amazing pixelated textures, view distance of 3 meters and horrible character models because that's what always happens with these shitty games designed for consoles. Dunno why I always let the promo videos get the better of me and actually almost convince me the game might look good.

Damn I just realized from watching the video - I really miss the times when sorcerers were not cool ninjas with tight cloaks but real old nerds who looked like powerful old professors.

 

[Jools]

[snip] I'll check out the whole video later but I could see wanting to pop some moles in it to at least try it. Maybe the shitty romances, dialogues and shit will be unintrusive?

I dunno, there's already some quite decent choices for that. Diablo 3, maybe the new, upcoming Sacred, Torchlight 2 (still fun!), and surely a few more I can't recall atm. Or, any MMORPG. No, I can't see why I'd want to play DA3 for its alleged-popamole value (also, there are quite high chances of it being a 1-button-masher, whatever the class).

I hate Diablo 3 just from looking at it. I played Torchlight 1 and it was such shit repetetive chore and I hated the art direction, it looked incredibly cheap and gimmicky, like they couldn't afford "real" graphics so they went with that shit and pretended it's a stylistic choice. After Sacred 2 being inexplicably boring, I don't wanna see the new one. MMORPGs suck dicks traditionally.

Sure, I actually believe that once you play DA3, you will find out it's a button mashing shit but I can't tell from watching a few mins of video.
The graphics also look about 300 times better than Skyrim but I'm sure that if I actually launch the game I'll be treated to some amazing pixelated textures, view distance of 3 meters and horrible character models because that's what always happens with these shitty games designed for consoles. Dunno why I always let the promo videos get the better of me and actually almost convince me the game might look good.

I don't really get the comparison with Skyrim (not that I want to defend Skyrim, but they're different genres, different playstyles, and 3 years worth of "technology" apart, so not really comparable IMHO. Also, one of them is whiteknighting for faggotry), but that's beside the point. Yet I'm glad to see you finally see reason, I daresay. XD

Edit - Watched that vidyo in 1080HD. Doesn't really look like it's so much better than Skyrim. On par at best if you ask me (but again, even at 1080 the vidyo suffered from horrible compression artefacts). And I agree that being a consoleport we'll be stuck with shit-res textures, once on PC. Also, the UI is simply atrocious.

 

[WalkinDude]

From what I recall, the few hours of DA2 I played I went through the whole thing mashing the A button in all combat encounters and I did a-ok. So I expect more of this.

 

[HanoverF]

Not sure if this is new or not, here it is anyway:



Edit: Okay it looks shit. Move on citizens of the Codex.

The Dragon Age they always wanted to make was Skyrim.

 

[Cadmus]

[snip] I'll check out the whole video later but I could see wanting to pop some moles in it to at least try it. Maybe the shitty romances, dialogues and shit will be unintrusive?

I dunno, there's already some quite decent choices for that. Diablo 3, maybe the new, upcoming Sacred, Torchlight 2 (still fun!), and surely a few more I can't recall atm. Or, any MMORPG. No, I can't see why I'd want to play DA3 for its alleged-popamole value (also, there are quite high chances of it being a 1-button-masher, whatever the class).

I hate Diablo 3 just from looking at it. I played Torchlight 1 and it was such shit repetetive chore and I hated the art direction, it looked incredibly cheap and gimmicky, like they couldn't afford "real" graphics so they went with that shit and pretended it's a stylistic choice. After Sacred 2 being inexplicably boring, I don't wanna see the new one. MMORPGs suck dicks traditionally.

Sure, I actually believe that once you play DA3, you will find out it's a button mashing shit but I can't tell from watching a few mins of video.
The graphics also look about 300 times better than Skyrim but I'm sure that if I actually launch the game I'll be treated to some amazing pixelated textures, view distance of 3 meters and horrible character models because that's what always happens with these shitty games designed for consoles. Dunno why I always let the promo videos get the better of me and actually almost convince me the game might look good.

I don't really get the comparison with Skyrim (not that I want to defend Skyrim, but they're different genres, different playstyles, and 3 years worth of "technology" apart, so not really comparable IMHO. Also, one of them is whiteknighting for faggotry), but that's beside the point. Yet I'm glad to see you finally see reason, I daresay. XD

The reason I'm comparing them is that DA3 is trying to be skyrim so hard its not funny and they are both designed for the same shitty hardware (or is DA3 PS4/xbone exclusive without the old gen stuff?) And from the looks of it, they are totally not a different genre or playstyle. And they both have totally shitty dragons. I think the comparison is fair.
Edit: I checked and this shit is for PS3 as well as for PS4 so the comparison is fair. It's made to be played on 40 years or something old hardware so I can only guess that the reason it looks better is corridors, video playback quality and probably some dirty stuff they did to it for the promo.

I also just realized, hey, the fucking developers probably have no idea how to play games properly and suck at them that might be the reason they showcase these games with the idiotic gamepads instead of mouse and keyboard. I just can't take them seriously is what I'm trying to say.

 

[Jools]

[snip] I'll check out the whole video later but I could see wanting to pop some moles in it to at least try it. Maybe the shitty romances, dialogues and shit will be unintrusive?

I dunno, there's already some quite decent choices for that. Diablo 3, maybe the new, upcoming Sacred, Torchlight 2 (still fun!), and surely a few more I can't recall atm. Or, any MMORPG. No, I can't see why I'd want to play DA3 for its alleged-popamole value (also, there are quite high chances of it being a 1-button-masher, whatever the class).

I hate Diablo 3 just from looking at it. I played Torchlight 1 and it was such shit repetetive chore and I hated the art direction, it looked incredibly cheap and gimmicky, like they couldn't afford "real" graphics so they went with that shit and pretended it's a stylistic choice. After Sacred 2 being inexplicably boring, I don't wanna see the new one. MMORPGs suck dicks traditionally.

Sure, I actually believe that once you play DA3, you will find out it's a button mashing shit but I can't tell from watching a few mins of video.
The graphics also look about 300 times better than Skyrim but I'm sure that if I actually launch the game I'll be treated to some amazing pixelated textures, view distance of 3 meters and horrible character models because that's what always happens with these shitty games designed for consoles. Dunno why I always let the promo videos get the better of me and actually almost convince me the game might look good.

I don't really get the comparison with Skyrim (not that I want to defend Skyrim, but they're different genres, different playstyles, and 3 years worth of "technology" apart, so not really comparable IMHO. Also, one of them is whiteknighting for faggotry), but that's beside the point. Yet I'm glad to see you finally see reason, I daresay. XD

The reason I'm comparing them is that DA3 is trying to be skyrim so hard its not funny and they are both designed for the same shitty hardware (or is DA3 PS4/xbone exclusive without the old gen stuff?) And from the looks of it, they are totally not a different genre or playstyle. And they both have totally shitty dragons. I think the comparison is fair.

I beg to disagree on the playstyle. Can't be 100% sure about DA3, but whereas Skyrim feels more sandbox-ey, DA3 seems to be bound to be railroaded by quests and/or area design: I seriously doubt it's going to be a big open world, and I am more inclined to think it's gonna feature slightly larger areas than DA2, just to give players the illusion of "free-roaming", filled with totally useless sidequests (a la DA2, again), and a very streamlined main quest that will rush the player through everything. I'd be happy to be proved wrong. No actually, I wouldn't give a rat's ass, am not gonna play the game anyway. Also, no real party nor "tactical" camera in Skyrim, which is a hell of a difference if you ask me. No, Lydia doesn't count as a "party". She is just a backpack extension.

 

[meanwhileInPoland]

[snip] I'll check out the whole video later but I could see wanting to pop some moles in it to at least try it. Maybe the shitty romances, dialogues and shit will be unintrusive?

I dunno, there's already some quite decent choices for that. Diablo 3, maybe the new, upcoming Sacred, Torchlight 2 (still fun!), and surely a few more I can't recall atm. Or, any MMORPG. No, I can't see why I'd want to play DA3 for its alleged-popamole value (also, there are quite high chances of it being a 1-button-masher, whatever the class).

I hate Diablo 3 just from looking at it. I played Torchlight 1 and it was such shit repetetive chore and I hated the art direction, it looked incredibly cheap and gimmicky, like they couldn't afford "real" graphics so they went with that shit and pretended it's a stylistic choice. After Sacred 2 being inexplicably boring, I don't wanna see the new one. MMORPGs suck dicks traditionally.

Sure, I actually believe that once you play DA3, you will find out it's a button mashing shit but I can't tell from watching a few mins of video.
The graphics also look about 300 times better than Skyrim but I'm sure that if I actually launch the game I'll be treated to some amazing pixelated textures, view distance of 3 meters and horrible character models because that's what always happens with these shitty games designed for consoles. Dunno why I always let the promo videos get the better of me and actually almost convince me the game might look good.

Damn I just realized from watching the video - I really miss the times when sorcerers were not cool ninjas with tight cloaks but real old nerds who looked like powerful old professors.

I gues if you play it on PC it will look like in those videos or slightly better( with modern rig) its fucking Frostbite engine afterall. Problem is most faggots will play it on Xbox360 (cause thats where is the actuall Bioware fanbase) and they will have game with less npc in towns, worse framerate, worse textures, shittier view distance etc. Cant wait for the great butthurt on BSN

Spoiler

or maybe this game will be system seller for Xbone......

 

[Renegen]

That trailer really wanted to let us know this is a genuine hiking simulator, yawn. Of all the things they could do to fix the franchise, I didn't think it was turning it into another open world game, but you can't expect AAAAA developers to be original. Bioware failed their storytelling focused RPG so the big boys came in and told them to play it safe and turn everything into open world gameplay with shallow mechanics but plenty to do. Why would they do a better job than everyone else trying to get a piece of that pie?

There's enough decline warnings to be just sad, your companions seem to have regenerating health, 4 abilities on the actionbar to use, the same dumb quests. Very little that makes me excited.

Also english voices = cultured and interesting.

 

[Cadmus]

[snip] I'll check out the whole video later but I could see wanting to pop some moles in it to at least try it. Maybe the shitty romances, dialogues and shit will be unintrusive?

I dunno, there's already some quite decent choices for that. Diablo 3, maybe the new, upcoming Sacred, Torchlight 2 (still fun!), and surely a few more I can't recall atm. Or, any MMORPG. No, I can't see why I'd want to play DA3 for its alleged-popamole value (also, there are quite high chances of it being a 1-button-masher, whatever the class).

I hate Diablo 3 just from looking at it. I played Torchlight 1 and it was such shit repetetive chore and I hated the art direction, it looked incredibly cheap and gimmicky, like they couldn't afford "real" graphics so they went with that shit and pretended it's a stylistic choice. After Sacred 2 being inexplicably boring, I don't wanna see the new one. MMORPGs suck dicks traditionally.

Sure, I actually believe that once you play DA3, you will find out it's a button mashing shit but I can't tell from watching a few mins of video.
The graphics also look about 300 times better than Skyrim but I'm sure that if I actually launch the game I'll be treated to some amazing pixelated textures, view distance of 3 meters and horrible character models because that's what always happens with these shitty games designed for consoles. Dunno why I always let the promo videos get the better of me and actually almost convince me the game might look good.

I don't really get the comparison with Skyrim (not that I want to defend Skyrim, but they're different genres, different playstyles, and 3 years worth of "technology" apart, so not really comparable IMHO. Also, one of them is whiteknighting for faggotry), but that's beside the point. Yet I'm glad to see you finally see reason, I daresay. XD

The reason I'm comparing them is that DA3 is trying to be skyrim so hard its not funny and they are both designed for the same shitty hardware (or is DA3 PS4/xbone exclusive without the old gen stuff?) And from the looks of it, they are totally not a different genre or playstyle. And they both have totally shitty dragons. I think the comparison is fair.

I beg to disagree on the playstyle. Can't be 100% sure about DA3, but whereas Skyrim feels more sandbox-ey, DA3 seems to be bound to be railroaded by quests and/or area design: I seriously doubt it's going to be a big open world, and I am more inclined to think it's gonna feature slightly larger areas than DA2, just to give players the illusion of "free-roaming", filled with totally useless sidequests (a la DA2, again), and a very streamlined main quest that will rush the player through everything. I'd be happy to be proved wrong. No actually, I wouldn't give a rat's ass, am not gonna play the game anyway. Also, no real party nor "tactical" camera in Skyrim, which is a hell of a difference if you ask me. No, Lydia doesn't count as a "party". She is just a backpack extension.

I don't know..from the little I've seen, the combat and running looked awful lot like skyrim than some sort of tactical rpg. I can be wrong of course as I havent bothered with it too much.

[snip] I'll check out the whole video later but I could see wanting to pop some moles in it to at least try it. Maybe the shitty romances, dialogues and shit will be unintrusive?

I dunno, there's already some quite decent choices for that. Diablo 3, maybe the new, upcoming Sacred, Torchlight 2 (still fun!), and surely a few more I can't recall atm. Or, any MMORPG. No, I can't see why I'd want to play DA3 for its alleged-popamole value (also, there are quite high chances of it being a 1-button-masher, whatever the class).

I hate Diablo 3 just from looking at it. I played Torchlight 1 and it was such shit repetetive chore and I hated the art direction, it looked incredibly cheap and gimmicky, like they couldn't afford "real" graphics so they went with that shit and pretended it's a stylistic choice. After Sacred 2 being inexplicably boring, I don't wanna see the new one. MMORPGs suck dicks traditionally.

Sure, I actually believe that once you play DA3, you will find out it's a button mashing shit but I can't tell from watching a few mins of video.
The graphics also look about 300 times better than Skyrim but I'm sure that if I actually launch the game I'll be treated to some amazing pixelated textures, view distance of 3 meters and horrible character models because that's what always happens with these shitty games designed for consoles. Dunno why I always let the promo videos get the better of me and actually almost convince me the game might look good.

Damn I just realized from watching the video - I really miss the times when sorcerers were not cool ninjas with tight cloaks but real old nerds who looked like powerful old professors.

I gues if you play it on PC it will look like in those videos or slightly better( with modern rig) its fucking Frostbite engine afterall. Problem is most faggots will play it on Xbox360 (cause thats where is the actuall Bioware fanbase) and they will have game with less npc in towns, worse framerate, worse textures, shittier view distance etc. Cant wait for the great butthurt on BSN

Spoiler

or maybe this game will be system seller for Xbone......

I literally have no idea whats the deal with Frostbite. I checked and it was used in some Battlefield 3 or somesuch...so are those games good looking? I really don't know what the engine is famous for.

 

[kris]

[snip] I'll check out the whole video later but I could see wanting to pop some moles in it to at least try it. Maybe the shitty romances, dialogues and shit will be unintrusive?

I dunno, there's already some quite decent choices for that. Diablo 3, maybe the new, upcoming Sacred, Torchlight 2 (still fun!), and surely a few more I can't recall atm. Or, any MMORPG. No, I can't see why I'd want to play DA3 for its alleged-popamole value (also, there are quite high chances of it being a 1-button-masher, whatever the class).

I hate Diablo 3 just from looking at it. I played Torchlight 1 and it was such shit repetetive chore and I hated the art direction, it looked incredibly cheap and gimmicky, like they couldn't afford "real" graphics so they went with that shit and pretended it's a stylistic choice. After Sacred 2 being inexplicably boring, I don't wanna see the new one. MMORPGs suck dicks traditionally.

Sure, I actually believe that once you play DA3, you will find out it's a button mashing shit but I can't tell from watching a few mins of video.
The graphics also look about 300 times better than Skyrim but I'm sure that if I actually launch the game I'll be treated to some amazing pixelated textures, view distance of 3 meters and horrible character models because that's what always happens with these shitty games designed for consoles. Dunno why I always let the promo videos get the better of me and actually almost convince me the game might look good.

I don't really get the comparison with Skyrim (not that I want to defend Skyrim, but they're different genres, different playstyles, and 3 years worth of "technology" apart, so not really comparable IMHO. Also, one of them is whiteknighting for faggotry), but that's beside the point. Yet I'm glad to see you finally see reason, I daresay. XD

The reason I'm comparing them is that DA3 is trying to be skyrim so hard its not funny and they are both designed for the same shitty hardware (or is DA3 PS4/xbone exclusive without the old gen stuff?) And from the looks of it, they are totally not a different genre or playstyle. And they both have totally shitty dragons. I think the comparison is fair.

I beg to disagree on the playstyle. Can't be 100% sure about DA3, but whereas Skyrim feels more sandbox-ey, DA3 seems to be bound to be railroaded by quests and/or area design: I seriously doubt it's going to be a big open world, and I am more inclined to think it's gonna feature slightly larger areas than DA2, just to give players the illusion of "free-roaming", filled with totally useless sidequests (a la DA2, again), and a very streamlined main quest that will rush the player through everything. I'd be happy to be proved wrong. No actually, I wouldn't give a rat's ass, am not gonna play the game anyway. Also, no real party nor "tactical" camera in Skyrim, which is a hell of a difference if you ask me. No, Lydia doesn't count as a "party". She is just a backpack extension.

I got to agree. Just watch this video how the player followed a way down to redcliff village that just screams typical Bioware tunnel design. From all I seen I agree with your sentiment that they will just have bigger areas with slightly more freedom. The freedom will not really be a freedom to take alternative paths or shortcuts, mostly just find a bit more content in part-areas of the map or go on the left or right side of a cliff.

I even suspect they will do something similar with the desert-like map.

 

[Borelli]

Apparently the new adviser named Josephine has the hots for everything.

Wow, it's like they wanted to say "the pen is mightier than the sword" but at the same time appear original. The final result is so double entendre it hurts. Do they even realize what are they writing?

 

[Excidium]

Do they even realize what are they writing?

P. sure they do and redoing that famous quote with some innuendo was exactly the intention, everyone in this game is so liberated~

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Apparently the new adviser named Josephine has the hots for everything.

Wow, it's like they wanted to say "the pen is mightier than the sword" but at the same time appear original. The final result is so double entendre it hurts. Do they even realize what are they writing?

I think that's a fake quote. I found the image on neogaf.

 

[Athelas]

That blurb is just begging for the response "I'd sure like to penetrate your dark place with my quill".

 

[Sòren]

she looks hideous. pretty much all the characters do except blackwall and half his face is covered with beard.

There's enough decline warnings to be just sad, your companions seem to have regenerating health, 4 abilities on the actionbar to use, the same dumb quests. Very little that makes me excited.

wtf regenerating companions

edit: oh i forgot, this game is more like mass effect now right?

 

[Space Satan]

Welp, bioware aid YOUR health would not regenerate, they never said anything about companions.

 

[dryan]

So i straight up asked on the reddit dragon age page about the communities obsession with sex and romance instead of discussing actual gameplay mechanics... Some of the responses i got were... enlightening.

It seems unproductive to you. I love all RPGs, but Dragon Age are by far my favorite because of the level of depth in relationships you can have with your companions. I loved Mass Effect, but Dragon Age was even better and I replayed it more because of that. Part of those relationships include romancing them. The sex is really not that great, it's a quick scene where you see nothing and the fanart is always much better if you're looking for straight up porn fantasies. The romances are what make it so unique, because each character falls in love differently and that is interesting and fun to explore.

Gender and sexual orientation representation is a big deal because it's so lacking in other games. It means a lot to me to get to know so many strong, diverse women in one game. Being able to play as my own gender and romance my own gender is a rare experience in games, too.

Gameplay is important to me, but it is the characters who keep me coming back for more.

I would think that story and relationships are mostly done by now, making them easier to discuss.

Gameplay elements may still be subject to change at this point, and devs like to avoid talking about things that aren't finished. I could be wrong, just my guess.

Honestly, combat is my least favorite part of a game. I'm much more interested in stories, characters, relationships, and plot. So while I'm excited that Inquisition is looking to be the right sort of combat for me (yay tactical camera), I'm ultimately going to want to talk about what interests me. I think this may be the case for many other players as well.

However, there has been plenty of discussion about combat--check out the Q&A (links here on this sub) and search for the Crestwood and E3 demos on YouTube. But without knowing more, it's hard to have real discussions or debate about it, and the devs can't release too much yet because the game is still in alpha and a lot could change.

I think it's easier to become emotionally invested in a romance than it is with game mechanics. Though I did neary fall off my chair when they announced you get horses, but still. It's just not as exciting, or as much to speculate about, or make up stories and concepts around.

I can understand where it's coming from. I guessmost people want to be reassured that they're not walking towards a dead end when trying to romance someone. Like Aveline or Sebastian in DA2. Gameplay is really important, but it is something you can figure out as you go. I mean I can get excited about the crafting system right now, or I can get excited about it once I get my hands on the game.

So you went on Reddit and figured out that Reddit is :incloosive:

I could've told you that and saved you time.

 

[Avellion]

So hugging is in, but when you mount up your party members vanish because BioWare were too lazy to animate their mounted animations or something... man I wish I could set my priorities as straight as BioWare.