Dragon Age: Inquisition Pre-Release Thread

[kris]

With Dragon Age Origins, I think most complaints at the time were directed not at the quantity of C&C, but rather at their quality. Yes, there were plenty of choices you could make, but more often than not it was a choice between two equally vapid and unappealing two-dimensional extremes which barely affected anything outside of that situation. There was one pretty big exception to this rule, however - the main plot of the game.

Here in the codex the complaint was more that there were few choices spread out over the game and boring filler combat in long stretches of the game.

I am just starting a replay of the game as a Dwarf.

 

[Grunker]

No, not the nonsense about gay wardens and Darkspawn, but the plot that starts at Ostagar and ends with the Landsmeet. This was a pretty LONG sequence of events that involved surviving Ostagar, defending Redcliff from zombies, defeating the demon-child Connor, an optional venture into the Circle Tower, finding the Urn of Sacred Ashes, fucking around in Denerim, and finally culminated in a confrontation with Loghain that decided the fate of the kingdom. There were many branching options in this sequence and if you wanted to achieve the best outcome - you usually had to work for it, instead of pressing A to save and pressing B to kill. If you wanted to save Connor, you had to do the entire Circle Tower side-quest to recruit a few mages for the ritual, if you wanted to get a specific result at the Landsmeet - you had to forge political alliances and make the right choices during the confrontation. At the end you got a pretty diverse set of possible endings - you could keep Anora on the throne, you could replace her with Alistair, you could take the throne yourself (only if Human Noble), you could kill Loghain, make him a gay warden, etc.

Yep. This is what Edward_R_Murrow glossed over in his comparison with BG2.

Not only that, he also misses a lot of VD's recounting, not to mention the Origins which are marvellous choices in themselves. A lot of what Murrow mentions are examples of small choices where the outcome is a different boss or something like that, and they are few and far between in BG2. DA:O is *littered* with those minor choices at every step - and then some major ones (at least one for every major quest-line, as well as the Landsmeet and a lot of companion-related stuff).

 

[Stainless Veteran]

Ahaha, biodrones are tinkering with preload game files right now, and have found this:

 

[Athelas]

 

[Stainless Veteran]

Also this qunari PC's face is fucking perfects for all those vids, I have to say:

 

[RPGMaster]

Ahaha, biodrones are tinkering with preload game files right now, and have found this:

 

[davur]

Why is the subtitles in caps, while the dialogue wheel is not?

 

[Echo Mirage]

Ahaha, biodrones are tinkering with preload game files right now, and have found this:

For a second there I read that as "Flemeth's nude wet box".

 

[Diablo169]

Come now, it wouldn't be fair if we couldn't fuck crazy Dragon Lady Captain Janeway.

 

[Lhynn]

I've played literally every RPG you listed, and pretty much every single one on the Codex top 70, not to mention countless european shovelware that'll never make those lists. But I guess that makes me a big fat liar.
(Not sure I understand your logic, though: RPG Codex regulars are grognard enough to argue all day about RPGs, but not grognard enough to actually play all those RPGs? Wat? It is to be expected that we losers have probably played all that stuff. Hence why all these random threads for random games exist on the Codex. The beast must be fed.)

Not talking about top 70, or even about top 100 (even ive played most of those), lots of unknown rpgs were left out of the list. Im talking about putting excuses like "there are no moar rpg left so i play DA:I" when in reality you actually want to play it for whatever reason. Its rather irritating, just be honest and say that you have a morbid interest in what they've put into the game.

 

[Malpercio]

Man, the battle system sucks so far. Don't know what I was expecting, though.

Also Cassandra' VA suuuuucks.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Tehdagah]

lol, i checked out the DA wiki to see the characters. Bioware really doesn't have any straight males working for them anymore considering the romance options. It's so awful that I can't help but think that they were intended to be a giant "fuck you" to their old fans. Contrast BG2 to this atrocity where for some reason they think a butch lesbian and Elena Ceausescu are what the average neckbeard craves.

Is there even an attractive female character in this game?

 

[Lhynn]

lol, i checked out the DA wiki to see the characters. Bioware really doesn't have any straight males working for them anymore considering the romance options. It's so awful that I can't help but think that they were intended to be a giant "fuck you" to their old fans. Contrast BG2 to this atrocity where for some reason they think a butch lesbian and Elena Ceausescu are what the average neckbeard craves.

Is there even an attractive female character in this game?

Your mother and your sister.

 

[GrimoireFTW]

Well there is no level scaling it seems! My lvl 4 party stumbled upon a rift with a bunch of lvl 8 demons and I wiped a few times before I decided Id better level up and come back later. Having a blast so far!

 

[Grunker]

How are people playing it now? I thought release date wasn't until the 18th, and the bays couldn't crack it?

 

[evdk]

How are people playing it now? I thought release date wasn't until the 18th, and the bays couldn't crack it?

EA Early Access Programme?

 

[Grunker]

How are people playing it now? I thought release date wasn't until the 18th, and the bays couldn't crack it?

EA Early Access Programme?

Had to google that to find out what it was. Some Xbox exclusive thingymagic?

 

[Diablo169]

To be fair some of those character abilities seem really fucking cool. I particularly like the tank warriors ability to set up a defensive wall to protect the rest of the party.

 

[Martius]

Had to google that to find out what it was. Some Xbox exclusive thingymagic?

Oh right, pay EA some money upfront for free game and six hours demo.

 

[Malpercio]

How are people playing it now? I thought release date wasn't until the 18th, and the bays couldn't crack it?

PS3 was leaked 2-3 days ago.

 

[Grunker]

PS3 was leaked 2-3 days ago.

PC has been leaked days ago but just can't be cracked because of that new DRM thingie.

 

[Rake]

PS3 was leaked 2-3 days ago.

PC has been leaked days ago but just can't be cracked because of that new DRM thingie.

I think only the PC version has that DRM.

 

[Stainless Veteran]

How are people playing it now? I thought release date wasn't until the 18th, and the bays couldn't crack it?

EA Early Access Programme?

Had to google that to find out what it was. Some Xbox exclusive thingymagic?

1 day ago

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[hell bovine]

And the terrible endgame involved the boring nonsense of running around the same city we've been running around since forever, killing darkspawn and summoning armies that made little to no difference. Honestly, if the whole game had been about the fate of Ferelden, with the story extended to involve possible schemes in Orlais and dwarves/elves having more to do with the main plot, DAO would have been a solid roleplaying and story-telling experience. As is, it has a lot of good elements that drown in a miasma of stupidity.

That's because you chose the elves. Choose the werewolves, and they slaughter everything in their wake. I think I've lost maybe 2 out of the entire pack, and my party was reduced to supplying ranged attacks, because Fluffy&Co made mincemeat out of everything in melee. That's how choices & consequences should be done, with evil reaping the best rewards. :D Blood magic was a big fail by comparison; no one cared.

None of the BG2 romances are particularly objectionable. They're cheesey and rather sad, but so is most fantasy. Last I checked, none of them have STD or cuck scenes, aggressively annoying personalities, or any of the other myraid awfulness of Dragon Age 2/3 party members.

If I ever met a guy, who would hit on a widow barely few days after the funeral, I'd tell her to run the other way. Adult guy hitting on a teenager is just plain creepy (I guess you could justify it if you played a teenager yourself, then it was just a case of kids not using protection). But it doesn't surprise me that it was so popular back then, I recall some porn site once posted traffic statistics showing that "teenager" is the most popular category amongs male users.
And I don't think you've played the female romance option, if you think that character wasn't annoying. Heck, I still remember his nickname on the boards was Annoyman or sth.