Dragon Age: Inquisition Pre-Release Thread

[Delterius]

It was not bad for encounters, but for exploration is was near useless, at least i felt that the game was designed to be played mostly from the third person behind the PC camera. Down to the fixed camera perspective with no tilt option while zoomed out.

Its essentially the NwN2 camera done better. It may not be called 'exploration mode' but the third person perspective is meant for that. It is a 3D game after all.

 

[Smejki]

What a schizophrenic series.

I wouldn't think that taking steps back and re avaluating game design after releasing DA2 would be a bad thing.

It isn't a bad thing, but the fact that this game went from being a "Baldur's Gate spiritual successor" to what we see today is pretty depressing, and it's all thanks to consoles.

Consoles cannot make decisions

No, but they can influence them. And they certainly did with the Dragon Age franchise.

Awesome button; button, awesome.

Bioware wanted to dumb down the franchise, not consoles. (As well as Bioware wanted to transform good but lightweight RPG of Mass Effect 1 into broshooter with dialogs in ME2 and 3)

XCOM, Dark Souls, Witcher 2 (and for sure some others) are succesful console games which don't suffer from awesome buton, handholding and instant-hero philosophies (or not too much)

Also if consoles and colsolists wanted dumbed down and cocky DA, DA2 would have been HUUUUGE success.

 

[Space Satan]

From what i saw in the video demo, the tactical view is not very zoomed out, and actually has a somewhat counterintuitive perspective, much like DA:O

It's a pity bioware doesn't see the need to include an option to pull back the camera as far as the player would wish (within a limit), ridiculous when you take into account that TOR or WoW allow more camera zoom out than a single player rpg.

The main difference is that in DA:O camera did not follow the marker.

 

[Ninjerk]

What a schizophrenic series.

I wouldn't think that taking steps back and re avaluating game design after releasing DA2 would be a bad thing.

It isn't a bad thing, but the fact that this game went from being a "Baldur's Gate spiritual successor" to what we see today is pretty depressing, and it's all thanks to consoles.

Consoles cannot make decisions

No, but they can influence them. And they certainly did with the Dragon Age franchise.

Awesome button; button, awesome.

Bioware wanted to dumb down the franchise, not consoles. (As well as Bioware wanted to transform good but lightweight RPG of Mass Effect 1 into broshooter with dialogs in ME2 and 3)

XCOM, Dark Souls, Witcher 2 (and for sure some others) are succesful console games which don't suffer from awesome buton, handholding and instant-hero philosophies (or not too much)

Also if consoles and colsolists wanted dumbed down and cocky DA, DA2 would have been HUUUUGE success.

No but Witcher 2 took a step backwards for every step forwards, in terms of gameplay.

 

[Rake]

I played the whole DA:O in top down view with no problem. If DA:I camera is the same i'm ok.

 

[Stabwound]

DA:O was fine in top-down, but the way monster spawns worked made it so that you could see monsters on the sides of walls, or nail them with AOE attacks because you could see some farther away than their aggro distance was. That was pretty cheesy and stupid.

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

I can understand newfags being retarded bioware apologists... but what is Volorun's story? is he someone like Roguey or Skyway I should know about? or is his girlfriend a writer at Bioware?

 

[Rivmusique]

I think the camera was too close in Origins, shouldn't be able to shoot (or get shot from) further than you can see. Even when scrolling the camera the max distance it allowed, things would still be firing from out of sight. The best thing to do in those situations was to switch to third person so you could get them in sight and shut them down with your own ranged units. I don't really like that. Wish they would just go fog of war style rather than an anchored camera.

Edit: Volourn is great, ask him about NWN.

 

[Sceptic]

Yes, Daggerfall and Skyrim share many similarities. For example, they are both games you can play on a personal computer.

Really? I thought everyone played Skyrim on the Xbawks

 

[Stabwound]

I can understand newfags being retarded bioware apologists... but what is Volorun's story? is he someone like Roguey or Skyway I should know about? or is his girlfriend a writer at Bioware?

Equal parts troll, fanboi and Biowhore, with an emphasis on the first part.

 

[meanwhileInPoland]

I can understand newfags being retarded bioware apologists... but what is Volorun's story? is he someone like Roguey or Skyway I should know about? or is his girlfriend a writer at Bioware?

Joined: May 1, 2013


meanwhile other newfags try to gain some kodex kool kredits and shit on and bash everything that is not "old school" enough. there must be always balance in galaxy

ask volourn about nwn or ff8

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

I can understand newfags being retarded bioware apologists... but what is Volorun's story? is he someone like Roguey or Skyway I should know about? or is his girlfriend a writer at Bioware?

Equal parts troll, fanboi and Biowhore, with an emphasis on the first part.

Thanks.. its good to know which oldfag is retarded.

I can understand newfags being retarded bioware apologists... but what is Volorun's story? is he someone like Roguey or Skyway I should know about? or is his girlfriend a writer at Bioware?

Joined: May 1, 2013


meanwhile other newfags try to gain some kodex kool kredits and shit on and bash everything that is not "old school" enough. there must be always balance in galaxy

ask volourn about nwn or ff8

I emant eremtia who is probably Volrun's alt.
About the oldskool thingh, I am irrelevant by codex standards i guess. (no gold box, no wasteland, no realms of arkania, no JA2, no might and magic, no wiz except 8 and so on)

 

[Delterius]

(no gold box, no wasteland, no realms of arkania, no JA2, no might and magic, no wiz except 8 and so on)

Sounds like the codex average.

 

[eremita]

I can understand newfags being retarded bioware apologists... but what is Volorun's story? is he someone like Roguey or Skyway I should know about? or is his girlfriend a writer at Bioware?

Equal parts troll, fanboi and Biowhore, with an emphasis on the first part.

Thanks.. its good to know which oldfag is retarded.

I can understand newfags being retarded bioware apologists... but what is Volorun's story? is he someone like Roguey or Skyway I should know about? or is his girlfriend a writer at Bioware?

Joined: May 1, 2013


meanwhile other newfags try to gain some kodex kool kredits and shit on and bash everything that is not "old school" enough. there must be always balance in galaxy

ask volourn about nwn or ff8

I emant eremtia who is probably Volrun's alt.
About the oldskool thingh, I am irrelevant by codex standards i guess. (no gold box, no wasteland, no realms of arkania, no JA2, no might and magic, no wiz except 8 and so on)

Nope.

 

[Storyfag]

I emant eremtia who is probably Volrun's alt.

Nah, not very likely. Our Pretty Princess isn't fond of alts.

 

[Rake]

Our Pretty Princess isn't fond of alts.

It's not that he could hide who he is anyway. Can't be many people who live in that alternate reality Volourn exists.

 

[eremita]

Oh shit, I'm new around here and I already embarrassed myself... Sorry Guys, please have patience, I will learn!

So, hate everything Bioware. Check!

 

[tuluse]

Oh shit, I'm new around here and I already embarrassed myself... Sorry Guys, please have patience, I will learn!

So, hate everything. Check!

ftfy

 

[Volourn]

"I emant eremtia who is probably Volrun's alt."

Fuck off, you piece of shit.

 

[evdk]

"I emant eremtia who is probably Volrun's alt."

Fuck off, you piece of shit.

Given Chaotic_Heretic's dyslexic spelling he's more likely to be your alt than eremita.

 

[Volourn]

Fuck you with the alt shit and l0l about the spelling shit.

 

[~RAGING BONER~]

are there any good mods that you would recommend for NWN Volourn?

I haven't played in some years but I'm currently waiting on "Fate of the Auren" to be concluded...

 

[yes plz]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/08/31/one-of-dragon-ages-big-influences-planescape-torment/

Was it Gaider that wrote the Sleeping Man (or whatever the fuck he was called) in Hordes of the Underdark? 'Cos that seemed to be heavily influenced by PST and it was horrible.

 

[Roguey]

It's a pity bioware doesn't see the need to include an option to pull back the camera as far as the player would wish (within a limit), ridiculous when you take into account that TOR or WoW allow more camera zoom out than a single player rpg.

Hardware limitations given graphics/engine.

 

[Volourn]

"Was it Gaider that wrote the Sleeping Man (or whatever the fuck he was called) in Hordes of the Underdark? 'Cos that seemed to be heavily influenced by PST and it was horrible."

You are an idiot