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EA Access got revealed as a Netflix-like service and blah blah blah the relevant thing here is "you can download upcoming EA games five days before the release date to play for a limited time". I'm assuming that essentially equates to a demo, for all intents and purposes, only it's EA Access only.
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Sentinel Red posted:Question about the Warden: was it ever mentioned/suggested that they could be out of the Joining death sentence thing if they drank the blood Avernus created? Given Avernus didn't seem to be too bothered by it all after 100 years plus, etc. You can imagine the other Wardens thinking "what the gently caress is it with them?" if they survived killing the Archdemon and later made it to their 40th anniversary or some poo poo... I dunno, but if it's this mean bugger who put down an Archdemon and got them to stay down, I don't care if they're a mutant Warden or not a Warden at all, I keep my mouth bloody shut.
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Jul 30, 2014 18:08
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Strenuous Manflurry posted:EA Access got revealed as a Netflix-like service and blah blah blah the relevant thing here is "you can download upcoming EA games five days before the release date to play for a limited time". I'm assuming that essentially equates to a demo, for all intents and purposes, only it's EA Access only. As dumb as nearly every part of that sounds (5 day early access! ...for 2 hours) that sounds I suppose any progress toward consumers not being beholden to another company being beholden to a retailer in a world where physical software is increasingly uncommon is somewhat of an okay thing. I think that qualifies as forward progress anyways, maybe half a baby step 
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Jul 30, 2014 18:11
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Sagnid posted:I was concerned with controls and the ui being more controller friendly then keyboard. Theyve been showing off the console versions because its easier to play at shows with a controller, but I think at E3 they said theres a custom PC UI with the skillbar and all that like 1 & 2.
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Jul 30, 2014 18:17
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The combat looks really choppy to me but maybe that's normal for gameplay videos on YouTube.
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Jul 30, 2014 19:01
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steakmancer posted:I just want to play as a dwarven Danny DeVito you guys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC7hZY3sVxE
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Jul 30, 2014 23:01
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Sentinel Red posted:Christ, I'm actually starting to feel sorry for Alistair now, life seems to lie and poo poo on his chips every chance it gets. What's stopping the Warden from going, "Ah poo poo, guess it's time for me head off for the deep roads before I get all crazy and poo poo," and then just gently caress off somewhere no one will find them and retire from all this grey warden bullshit? Hell they could probably even fight the darkspawn for a while until they get bored of it, just for shits and giggles.
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Jul 30, 2014 23:06
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No one would even recognize him/her without a stupid hat and the blood of his enemies all over him/her!
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Jul 31, 2014 05:09
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Dash Magnum posted:What's stopping the Warden from going, "Ah poo poo, guess it's time for me head off for the deep roads before I get all crazy and poo poo," and then just gently caress off somewhere no one will find them and retire from all this grey warden bullshit? Hell they could probably even fight the darkspawn for a while until they get bored of it, just for shits and giggles. Also the way protagonists in these games are super powerful at the end it would make for a hilarious story: "Yeah the PC Grey Warden did the Deep Roads thing and now there aren't enough Dark Spawn for the other Grey Wardens for the next 50 years!"
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Jul 31, 2014 13:46
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Are the darkspawn even going to be around in DA3 because it seems like they lost interest
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Jul 31, 2014 20:40
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Uncle Wemus posted:Are the darkspawn even going to be around in DA3 because it seems like they lost interest If there's deep roads content there will definitely be darkspawn, and there's some weird stuff with them from previous games that'll probably come up. I'd also imagine there might be some holdout groups in Ferelden still. They'll probably be about as common as they were in DA2, since by design they're only a big deal during a Blight.
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Jul 31, 2014 20:55
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They've shown a new type too. Giants or some such.
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Jul 31, 2014 20:58
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Uncle Wemus posted:Are the darkspawn even going to be around in DA3 because it seems like they lost interest Well, the plan for the franchise was that you'd have all these different stories. It wasn't always going to be the story of Grey Wardens versus Darkspawn stuff, that was just the setting for the first game.
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Jul 31, 2014 21:02
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And the Darkspawn were a relatively small part of Dragon Age 2, so we'll just have to see if they're tied to all the crazy rifts in the sky. Maybe that super smart one is up to no good.
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Jul 31, 2014 21:15
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From PC Gamer UK this month: About Skyhold: "It’s detailed, cavernous, but more importantly, there’s more stuff you can do in Skyhold than on Commander Shepard’s ship. Past the tavern, stables, courtyard, kitchen, and dungeon (for imprisoning people, not slaying rats, I learn), I step to the War Table. Here, a dozen or so operation markers populate a world map: scouting missions, a task to gain the friendship of the dwarven kingdom of Orzammar or to recruit an arcanist. You complete these micro-quests entirely through the menu, and they grant modest benefits: gold, loot, resources, or adding more ‘agents’ who join the Inquisition." "… part of playing Inquisitor means decorating Skyhold manually: everything from the windows, throne, banner, and heraldry to the drapes can be swapped in a menu." There’s also a long section on how the Inquisition can “pass judgement” on certain people as a result of quests - the example they gave was dealing with a barbarian tribe [Knight-Enchanter’s note: I would guess these are Avvar!] after defeating their leader in battle. The judgement sequences come after some story events and offer the player a way to reflect on what just happened. "Laidlaw underlines the value on getting players to look backward rather than simply anticipating the next quest. “Inquisition, moreso than many of our other games, takes a moment to just ask ‘how you feeling?’ and have characters dig into why you did what you did. And to try to understand the Inquisitor’s mind. And they’re some of my favourite moments in the game,” he says." "Some operations, like this one, are instantly resolved, but others ask you to pick which of your three advisors – Josephine (political), Cullen (military), or Leliana (spying) – is the right fit for the job, making them temporarily unavailable. You can visit with all three of these support characters inside Skyhold. Also nestled into the War Table (but separated from operations) are Inquisition perks, which draw on influence that you gain from exploring Thedas and completing quests. (If power is “Inquisition gold,” as Darrah puts it, influence is Inquisition XP, effectively.) There are four perk types: Forces, Secrets, Connections, and simply ‘Inquisition’, the first three of which are tied to the aforementioned advisors. A Forces perk might increase your potion capacity by four; a Secrets perk might increase the XP you earn from picking up codex entries; one Connections perk grants better merchant offers on rare items. Skyhold changes as a reflection of which perks you favour, although I wasn’t told how.
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Jul 31, 2014 22:26
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Wait, please tell me there aren't any 'war assets' like in ME3. That's not a thing, right?
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Jul 31, 2014 22:39
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Drifter posted:Wait, please tell me there aren't any 'war assets' like in ME3. As far as I see, it's more of a crafting/homesteading thing where you send goons out to do your bidding and they come back with goodies and/or xp and cash?
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Jul 31, 2014 22:55
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It sounds like a souped up version of the "missions" you can do in the Shadow Broker's lair in ME2.
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Jul 31, 2014 22:59
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Alexander Hamilton posted:It sounds like a souped up version of the "missions" you can do in the Shadow Broker's lair in ME2.
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Jul 31, 2014 23:05
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I like what I hear about things so far. It sounds kind of like what they tried in Awakening, but more robust and less buggy. After playing a entire game as Kirkwall's errand boy/girl, it's nice to get a sense of authority and agency.
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Jul 31, 2014 23:13
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I wouldn't even mind much if it was like ME3's war assets, so long as it actually affects the gameplay and/or story. Like, if you have X number of dwarf friends then you can do Y sorts of things. It's video-gamey, but hey it's a video game. The only thing the war assets did wrong was to affect absolutely nothing other than the ending colors.
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BrianWilly posted:I wouldn't even mind much if it was like ME3's war assets, so long as it actually affects the gameplay and/or story. Like, if you have X number of dwarf friends then you can do Y sorts of things. It's video-gamey, but hey it's a video game. The only thing the war assets did wrong was to affect absolutely nothing other than the ending colors. You're talking about 2 different things here. One is a nice gameplay system, the other was a lovely pseudo-system in Me3.
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Jul 31, 2014 23:25
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So is there a thread for Bioware's new urban fantasy game teaser bullshit? 'Cause they just posted a second one.
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Jul 31, 2014 23:27
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No, because it would have to include things, like, say, oh I don't know, maybe a link to the second teaser-trailer?
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Jul 31, 2014 23:30
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Linking to things? That's just crazy!
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Megazver posted:So is there a thread for Bioware's new urban fantasy game teaser bullshit? 'Cause they just posted a second one. It's too early to put a thread. We know basically nothing about it beyond the fact that it's urban fantasy and they have some teasers out.
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Jul 31, 2014 23:54
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They shouldn't have named it "Skyhold"
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^^^ - Why not? Those teasers really remind me of that mmorpg thing, Secret World. WHich was a pretty fuckin' big disappointment because it was an mmo, so if this is like that, but singleplayer, Fair dues. I hope they copy some of the quests and poo poo, because Secret World had some really great investigative quests when it wasn't throwing fetch quests and kill this many monsters quests.
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Leelee posted:
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CottonWolf posted:I should certainly hope so. The civil war happening at the start of Inquisition was in no small part caused by someone producing a play implying the Empress had lesbian elf sex. Does our Orlesian Voltaire have a name? steakmancer posted:fffffffffffffffffffffffffuck this dialog text I really hope the accents are understandable, because that text could be incredibly painful to read if there's too much white or bloom.
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Crabtree posted:Does our Orlesian Voltaire have a name? If there isn't an arrogant Orlesian noble twiddling his moustache with a throaty "au-hauhauhau" laugh I shall be deeply disappointed.
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Seeing as I deleted my DA1 saves in disgust with DA2 / my reported (bugged I hope) 270 hours with DA1, never finished ME3, was too burnt out to start Awakening and have Witcher 3 on the horizon (and need to replay Witcher 2 or at least finish my Iorveth playthrough), this game has the deck stacked against it. I'm sort of tempted to replay DA1 and try Awakening all the same, especially since I can do it on Origin where my friends won't see. Shumagorath fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Aug 1, 2014 |
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Shumagorath posted:I'm sort of tempted to replay DA1 and try DA:O all the same, especially since I can do it on Origin where my friends won't see. That is the same game.
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Whoops, meant Awakening What was the justification for turning the Qunari into minotaurs? Was Sten retconned at all? Shumagorath fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Aug 1, 2014 |
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Shumagorath posted:Whoops, meant Awakening Not sure if Sten's been retconned, but I'm pretty sure the Qunari were redesigned because BioWare wanted them to look more interesting than "big, gray humans."
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Shumagorath posted:Whoops, meant Awakening I vaguely remember reading after the retcon that Sten was a semi-rare hornless mutant or something. Not sure if that was from an official source though.
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Harrow posted:Not sure if Sten's been retconned, but I'm pretty sure the Qunari were redesigned because BioWare wanted them to look more interesting than "big, gray humans." They were, originally, intended to be horned and more unique than Big Human. The Origins engine was apparently really bad for that. This is why Origins has so much 'holy poo poo you aren't human!' dialogue for Sten, who for all intents and purposes seems to just be a non-white guy who happens to be about half a foot to a foot taller than a human. This was explained away by saying Sten is a mutant Qunari (a kind of mutant that is rather common, to be fair) who are mostly used as diplomats. Because not having huge horns apparently makes you less intimidating. Edit: Having no horns is described as being like a human having red hair in terms of rareness. They just, usually, serve in manners other than traditional military service, as envoys, vanguards, or other fancy roles that mean 'will interact with non-Qun followers'
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Harrow posted:Not sure if Sten's been retconned, but I'm pretty sure the Qunari were redesigned because BioWare wanted them to look more interesting than "big, gray humans." Sten was sorta-retconned to be a special hornless Kossith, which is an occasional thing that can happen. They usually get selected for special tasks like Sten's "hey, there's something called the Blight, figure out what it is and report back" mission. Sten himself canonically became Arishok for doing an exceptionally good job as a sten of the Beresaad, I think.
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Shugojin posted:Sten was sorta-retconned to be a special hornless Kossith, which is an occasional thing that can happen. They usually get selected for special tasks like Sten's "hey, there's something called the Blight, figure out what it is and report back" mission. *Qunari Not having horns is also supposedly intimidating in their culture, which is why most Vashoth cut theirs off.
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