The Dragon Age: Inquisition Thread

[msxyz]

How's doing sales wise? I saw some random week#1 EU numbers and it was outsold by other AAA games, some of which where a few weeks older than this.

It doesn't spell good for the series. Also, since it hasn't been cracked yet, neither on PC or 'next gen' consoles, EA doesn't even have piracy to blame.

You are lateto the party, piracy thing is outdated, they started blaming homophobic lobby, 4chan hater trolls and deliberate raids on Metacritic since Dragon Age 2.

Smart; the average EA investor is probably ignorant enough to believe all this shit.

Shamus bitches some more about DA:I: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=25139

Amazing how Skyrim, out of the box with no gfx mods, still looks noticeably better than this supposedly next gen title. DA:I appears to be under-delivering on every front.

 

[Zeriel]

Art direction has always been and will remain more important than tech and hardware (though its nice to see both used in conjunction). The Witcher 2 will probably still look better than most games released in the next few years.

 

[aleph]

non-native speakers lecturing native speakers on the subtleties of their language, just a normal day on the Codex

And as everybody knows, just being a native speaker automatically makes you an expert in all conceivable nuances and even linguistics concerning your native language...

 

[Ulrox]

I'd actually like to play a BioWare WH40k rpg. Just less romance and more retard-renegade. That would be

Agree, I also really like the, WE DO IT FOR THE EMPEROR, choice in that picture!
Honestly too much of a fan of the warhammer 40k athetics and setting to not buy such a game!

Art direction has always been and will remain more important than tech and hardware (though its nice to see both used in conjunction). The Witcher 2 will probably still look better than most games released in the next few years.

I'm playing through the witcher 2 again on high/highest setting and daaamn does it look good!
Should be noted I started the witcher 2 to survive the hype I got from friends due to dragon age: inquisition - insofar its been a pretty stellar choice. I'm ingenious! :p

 

[Zeriel]

non-native speakers lecturing native speakers on the subtleties of their language, just a normal day on the Codex

And as everybody knows, just being a native speaker automatically makes you an expert in all conceivable nuances and even linguistics concerning your native language...

I agree with the sentiment, but in the case he's talking about, the non-native speaker is wrong while being arrogant about it. It's a common mistake for people who don't grow up with a language to assume technicalities trump every-day usage of language, though, idiomatic uses of language that seem "wrong" to non-native speakers are super common in pretty much every language.

 

[Rake]

Agree, I also really like the, WE DO IT FOR THE EMPEROR, choice in that picture!
Honestly too much of a fan of the warhammer 40k athetics and setting to not buy such a game!

Don't fool yourself. With Bioware writing the game it would be WE DO IT WITH THE EMPEROR

 

[aleph]

I agree with the sentiment, but in the case he's talking about, the non-native speaker is wrong while being arrogant about it. It's a common mistake for people who don't grow up with a language to assume technicalities trump every-day usage of language, though, idiomatic uses of language that seem "wrong" to non-native speakers are super common in pretty much every language.

Yeah, that certainly is true. I am just annoyed by the idea that just being a native speaker (and calling others idiots) is supposed to be the "I win" button to language arguments

 

[Zewp]

I'd actually like to play a BioWare WH40k rpg. Just less romance and more retard-renegade. That would be

You'll get a WH40k dating simulator and you'll like it, cis-het scum.

 

[Grunker]

Agree, I also really like the, WE DO IT FOR THE EMPEROR, choice in that picture!
Honestly too much of a fan of the warhammer 40k athetics and setting to not buy such a game!

Don't fool yourself. With Bioware writing the game it would be WE DO IT WITH THE EMPEROR

Gaider didn't have much to do with ME2, and that game was a beautifully retarded mix og interesting companions and collar-grabbing. I honestly think those writers would do well with WH40k.

 

[RK47]

 

[Solarnyi]

I agree with the sentiment, but in the case he's talking about, the non-native speaker is wrong while being arrogant about it. It's a common mistake for people who don't grow up with a language to assume technicalities trump every-day usage of language, though, idiomatic uses of language that seem "wrong" to non-native speakers are super common in pretty much every language.

Yeah, that certainly is true. I am just annoyed by the idea that just being a native speaker (and calling others idiots) is supposed to be the "I win" button to language arguments

True enough. In fact, the essential works concerning English language studies were written by non-native linguists.
Btw, I'm a non-native English language student and I agree that AwesomeButton is a moran. Apologies for the off-topic.

 

[Ulrox]

AwesomeButton is a moran.

He bought Dragon age: I. Isnt that enough pain for him to endure...? Does he have to endure all the linquists of the codex's wrath too...? Take pity on him, he actually fell for the hype.

 

[Fuck_The_Banks]

non-native speakers lecturing native speakers on the subtleties of their language, just a normal day on the Codex

And as everybody knows, just being a native speaker automatically makes you an expert in all conceivable nuances and even linguistics concerning your native language...

Yes it does.

 

[Caim]

Let me remind you that at some point in the past people considered a possability that Bioware would develop a Warhammer 40k RPG.
Look upon DAI and rejoice, thinking about the horrors we were spared.

Kissing him is not supported by the Codex Astartes so they will keep fighting like bros forever.

Except that they didn't. Leandros, you little shit.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

That image just makes me want a Space Marine 2 even more.

Mark Strong, now there's a fucking great actor and voice actor.

 

[DalekFlay]

I don't think you can complain about this game being unoptimized or running like crap for how it looks. I'm running it on a fairly ancient GTX 480 and Intel Q9550, 4GB of RAM, and it runs at 50-60fps on a mix of medium and high settings. That's a LOT better than I expected to run it. Other recent games like AC Unity and Far Cry 4 put me below the minimum settings. Games one or two years old now like Crysis 3 ran much worse on medium. I mean it's all relative, one engine is not another, blah blah blah, but 5 years after I built this thing I'm glad I can run this on high for the most part. I can't complain about that.

It does look really flat with HBAO off though.

 

[RK47]

Summary of video:
While this area shows marked improvements in terms of 'achievement rewards' the game continues to spam you with MMO trash encounters and the usual in-combat glitches like character warping and environmental pathing issues.
Overall, I was 'okay' with this part of the map. But I can't help but feel there's really nothing stopping from reaching that village, It was a simple matter of clearing one speedbumps after another.

 

[DalekFlay]

Just did another (long as fuuuuck) main story mission and it's really amazing how much better they are, compared to the MMO trash mobs of the normal game.

 

[bozia2012]

Art direction has always been and will remain more important than tech and hardware (though its nice to see both used in conjunction). The Witcher 2 will probably still look better than most games released in the next few years.

W2 has fucking scabbards - that alone is a bar too high for many a developer.

http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:For_DA3,_I_want_a_scabbard_to_sheath_my_sword_in. - people arguing if scabbards should be in the game... WAT

 

[Ezrite]

I don't think you can complain about this game being unoptimized or running like crap for how it looks. I'm running it on a fairly ancient GTX 480 and Intel Q9550, 4GB of RAM, and it runs at 50-60fps on a mix of medium and high settings. That's a LOT better than I expected to run it. Other recent games like AC Unity and Far Cry 4 put me below the minimum settings. Games one or two years old now like Crysis 3 ran much worse on medium. I mean it's all relative, one engine is not another, blah blah blah, but 5 years after I built this thing I'm glad I can run this on high for the most part. I can't complain about that.

It does look really flat with HBAO off though.

Well tue substandard models and floaty stones are horrible.

Also, I bet its made to work on all those tumblre computers they bought at bestbuy or where the hell now they find em.

Having EA making a engine for you is something not many companies can have the pleasure of. Unreal was a good engine, why do you need your own shitty engine which is good for FPS games and FPS games more or less only. ITS MADE for it.

 

[Great Deceiver]

They probably weren't talking about that kind of scabbard.

 

[Nryn]

Here's something useful that I stumbled upon -- on the PC, you can move your system's time and date forward to instantly finish the war table missions.

Comes in handy for not only following the story surrounding those missions, but it also serves as a giant fuck you to the designer who thought that implementing mobile F2P style time locks (some of them require you to wait for 16 hours!) was a good idea.

 

[Mangoose]

Let me remind you that at some point in the past people considered a possability that Bioware would develop a Warhammer 40k RPG.
Look upon DAI and rejoice, thinking about the horrors we were spared.

Kissing him is not supported by the Codex Astartes so they will keep fighting like bros forever.

Titus doesn't believe in being dogmatic to the Codex

Except that they didn't. Leandros, you little shit.

I seriously laffed out loud at this one. 5/5

 

[RK47]

Here's something useful that I stumbled upon -- on the PC, you can move your system's time and date forward to instantly finish the war table missions.

Comes in handy for not only following the story surrounding those missions, but it also serves as a giant fuck you to the designer who thought that implementing mobile F2P style time locks (some of them require you to wait for 16 hours!) was a good idea.

This game is amazing in many levels.
But bro, why don't you just set long duration mission before you sleep and let the normal clock take care of itself?
I don't see why you wanna cheat in this game.

 

[Nryn]

This game is amazing in many levels.
But bro, why don't you just set long duration mission before you sleep and let the normal clock take care of itself?
I don't see why you wanna cheat in this game.

I was setting up long missions to complete overnight, but the missions are getting longer and longer as I inch my way through the story. For instance, finding the (fade quest spoiler)

Spoiler

Hero of Ferelden

requires 16 hours or so, during which I cannot use Leliana for any other interesting missions -- that was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Besides, it's actually far easier to follow the story behind the war table missions now since it's not broken up anymore over different play sessions. Since I don't have to keep returning to skyhold to assign new missions, the pacing in each zone and the story missions has also improved. Sure, I can use it to cheat and get infinite gold/etc., but I don't see a reason to ever do that.