Dragon Age: Inquisition Pre-Release Thread

[Cyberarmy]

We haven't even start the "Real Hating" yet, watch this topic after the release and see the true might of our hatred.

After everyone finished the game 7 times

 

[IncendiaryDevice]

Lol, indeed...

 

[Jools]

The funny thing is, I'm pretty sure the game will generate lots of lulz outside the codex in any case. Our hatred is mostly self-confined and for our own sakes.

 

[Cyberarmy]

The funny thing is, I'm pretty sure the game will generate lots of lulz outside the codex in any case. Our hatred is mostly self-confined and for our own sakes.

Yup, we probably don't need to show much effort.

 

[IncendiaryDevice]

I'm mostly looking forward to the screeny memes/gifs, I love all that, that's like a game in itself and probably worth the price of admission in itself, like a comedy meme generation sim piece of software, I just don't get the over-shitting pre-release of mechanics and what-not.

 

[Jools]

Dragon Age: Memes. "Better written than the game itself, and way more entertaining." Freeware.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Dragon Age: Memes. "Better written than the game itself, and way more entertaining." Freeware.

I always have some in stock, never forget!

 

[Delterius]

Dragon Age: Memes. "Better written than the game itself, and way more entertaining." Freeware.

Could this be a new form of scum and villainy, the dreaded Piracy????

 

[IncendiaryDevice]

 

[Martius]

Didn't Bioware "take inspiration" for elves being oppressed from The Witcher?

I guess they just got that idea at same time.

 

[pippin]

You just made DA2 look interesting... hmmmm...

 

[nikolokolus]

It just dawned on me. Bioware has gone full retard, Square Enix, Final Fantasy style, except in real-time. Hopefully Spoony will do a proper series on it, so I can really get a good laugh.

 

[Storyfag]

Didn't Bioware "take inspiration" for elves being oppressed from The Witcher?

I guess they just got that idea at same time.

Seeing as how The Witcher was published in 2007, while DAO in 2009... not likely. Especially since the Witcher novels, which already contain the concept of humans presecuting elves, predate the game by at least 15 years.

 

[Martius]

Seeing as how The Witcher was published in 2007, while DAO in 2009... not likely. Especially since the Witcher novels, which already contain the concept of humans presecuting elves, predate the game by at least 15 years.

Oh, I know! I was just joking. Expect that grey wardens and witchers work kinda similar but both "jobs" are pretty generic.

 

[hell bovine]

From what I seen she is a really bad writer of the fan-fiction level, but these people are not completly incorrect. A lot of the things and hate direct at her is vile and childish. The people doing threats and spiolling out all the bile are lowlifes that should be purged from the genepool, possibly including people from this forum. But that people on this forum spilled bile over women is hardly something new

While they certainly sound childish, quite often they tend to be middle-aged, "who-would-have-thought so" type of people. Bitch, moan, rage over shitty writing, but in my old-fashioned opinion anyone making death threats against kids should have their teeth removed with a fist. And I doubt that as a game writer you earn enough to make it worthwile enduring threats to your family.

But seeing how many romances they're going to have, I wonder if they don't actually hit the market with this game. I played BG2 when it came out (insert bad pun here); there was a dissapointing number of combat mods (Tactics and Ascension are the only ones I remember), but a lot of sexable (I mean romanceable) NPC mods.

 

[Ascensa]

Oh, I know! I was just joking. Expect that grey wardens and witchers work kinda similar but both "jobs" are pretty generic.

Grey Wardens are every ancient fantasy demon/orc fighting order ever.

But are probably based on the Nights Watch from ASoIaF.

Oppressed elves who may or may not be Native Americans are a kinda old trope in fantasy, but The Witcher is one of the more prominent examples of them; though I don't know how popular TW was in Canada before the games came out.
I don't know if the elves in DA are supposed to be like Native Americans or not, or just any other random oppressed minority.

 

[Zeriel]

I get more of a Steppes-people vibe from the elves in Dragon Age, but it's hard to say if they were "always" that way or it was a result of them getting wrecked.

 

[Infinitron]

The Dalish elves are gypsies, the city elves are kinda like medieval Jews. Although the Dwarves are also like another stereotype of Jews - ultra-conservative in their homelands, successful businessmen in the diaspora. One of DA2's good additions to the lore was providing more details about "Diaspora Dwarf" culture, although it didn't really do much with them.

 

[Zeriel]

Did you play a city elf, Infinitron ?

 

[Infinitron]

Did you play a city elf, Infinitron ?

Nah, Human Noble Rogue.

The analogy doesn't work that well TBH. For example, the City Elves are portrayed as being forced to assimilate outwardly to human norms and worship Andraste (though they seem ambivalent about it), and their ghettos seem a bit on the seedy side. They might actually simply be a representation of gypsies who were forced to settle in European cities and convert to Christianity.

 

[meanwhileInPoland]

http://www.twitch.tv/BioWare

co-op stream

 

[Zeriel]

http://www.twitch.tv/BioWare

co-op stream

Ah, the vomitorium.

#myinquisition

 

[IncendiaryDevice]

If you think dwarves are a Jewish thing that's really weird. As far as I can tell they're based on Yorkshiremen - ale, mining, gold-loving, bawdy language and strong women.

 

[Zeriel]

Wow, is that the same UI as the singleplayer? It really looks more like a mobile game than a console one. Dat healthbar taking up 30% of the screen.

 

[pippin]

You could make a connection bewteen Dalish elves and the Scoi'atel, but without the constant references to communism and communist guerrilla groups, the Dalish elves feel a little bit void of purpose. And although dwarven culture will always be you average jew stereotype, I believe they tried to make them a little bit more like hindu society, with the caste system and etc.