The Dragon Age: Inquisition Thread

Obviously you haven't seen his "my parents tried to turn to me straight" scene. Cliche-o-rama. What is this a '90s made for TV truelife drama Gaider?

 

Certain things in this game are just so fucking stupid.

So Dorian got a new spell that allows him to reanimate enemies. Unfortunately, him doing so means they don't drop loot until the spell wears off or if you're busy closing a rift and he resurrects a demon, the fade rift doesn't recognise that all the demons are dead. Then you have to wait for the spell to wear off before you can close the rift. It's not very long so maybe no a big deal, but it's fucking annoying. Especially when you're hunting for crafting materials and your spirit bear suddenly runs off after a nug and you have to follow it to ensure you see where the loot drops.

Also, due to a bug I can't recruit Vivienne. No big loss, but still lol.

 

I find it pretty weird that the exact same game is released for two different generations of consoles. Is that common practice nowadays?

What if Donkey Kong Country had been ported to the 8-bit NES? That would've been atrocious.

 

"I find it pretty weird that the exact same game is released for two different generations of consoles. Is that common practice nowadays?"

It's happened for years.

 

I think the only mandatory companions are Cassandra, Varric and Solas. The rest you can prevent to enter the Inquisition, but not kill them.

 

I guess it would be morally wrong to be able to generate your own party, since some of them might be cis scum.

 

This is kinda off topic but I'd just like to point out how awful Bioware's forums are

 

Additionally with some of them you can order them to leave the inquisition at any time (e.g. Sera) or at specific plot points (e.g. Blackwall)

 

Better than you might expect.

We've reached a point where that can be done just tuning down some settings, since games aren't making sudden jumps in graphics department anymore (NES to SNES is like WHOA WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS THE FUTURE, PS3/Xbox360 to PS4/XBone is...eh, things look nicer I suppose). But DAI didin't look THAT good to begin with, to justify such a massive downgrade.

 

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10 pc of iron ore + 8 leather piece = 1 armor.

Armor sold to store = 2 gp.
All crafted shit = 2 gp.
All raw material is worth more than final product.
Offline MMO RPG economics.

 

Having the crafted items be worth more than the raw materials would be a horrible choice. That would just encourage people to craft random crap just to sell instead of just selling the materials if they want more money, which would only add more length to the time it takes to do the activity. Not many people would find crafting random stuff to be a fun activity.

I'm surprised that you of all people are seemingly advocating for a boring activity that would only exist to pad the time after you have complained that far too much of of the gameplay in DA:I is that.

 

It's not like money serves much of a purpose, anyway. If you pick up most loot and vendor it you will have a ton of money constantly, and the only thing to spend it on is a few cases of static vendor loot, much of which isn't very good anyway.

What happened to Bioware and loot? BG 1 & 2 had fantastic examples of vendor loot that you scrounged up coin to get because they were amazing, but I can't remember the last Bioware game after that where loot didn't feel pointless and arbitrary. Maybe NWN1? It had some okay pieces of vendor loot, but as I remember it had the same problem where random drops were always equivelant or much better.

I miss "unique" or uncommon effects on items. Now every RPG loves this model where items just change basic numbers that are affected by everything else, nothing as appealing as "increase casting speed by 500%" (robe of vecna).

 

I actually don't pick up 90% of the loot in this game anymore.

 

That's a pretty narrow way of looking at it.

Say it takes five minutes total to gather 10 iron, which retail at 1 gp per piece. Then it takes another three minutes to craft an item from that 10 iron that can sell for 100 gp. In less than ten real time minutes you can earn more than what you would by merely gathering raw materials, which would need fifty minutes in comparison. Obviously, that saves time.

It's all down to how the economy is tweaked, and Bioware has full control over that. It'll be exactly as tedious as they want it to be, no more, no less.

 

I know, but Mass Effect used it. Somehow Bioware manage to screw every engine up and make human movement look like shit.

 

Or just make the raw materials worth more if you want people to get money faster. Adding an extra step is just adding an extra step. Or better yet just make loot drops worth more so you aren't encouraging people to farm crafting nodes for money, which is what DA:I does I believe. I've never tried selling crafting materials though (because like others have mentioned getting money isn't really a problem) so maybe I'm wrong and you can actually make a decent amount of money selling crafting materials.

 

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WHO PAID YOU TO IMPERSONATE STANLEY WOO??? ...His account standing doesn't look so good! Who wants to try next?

TELL ME ABOUT /V/! WHY DO THEY POST ANONYMOUSLY??? ...A lot of loyalty for an main acc!"

"Or perhaps he's wondering why someone would revoke a man's posting privileges, before perma-banning him."

 

Or maybe it doesn't make much sense for the cost of labor to have zero or even negative value on the price of the material.

 

Bio won't copy ME because Dragon Age was their "hey, we're the same guys who made BG... sor

There was also the official GBC port, which was quite good considering how limited the hardware was.