Dragon Age Inquisition: Let's Begin

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Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

Internet Kraken posted:

Augh Morrigan what the gently caress happened to your face

Well, it's been between 10-12 years since we last saw her. I guess she's simply one of those ladies who simply don't age very well.

# ¿ Sep 10, 2013 19:30

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# ¿ May 18, 2024 01:10

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

I was actually thinking of trying to finish Dragon Age 2 with my Mage Hawk one of these days. If I were to play as an offensive focused Mage, which trees should I go for?

# ¿ Oct 4, 2013 18:53

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

Dolash posted:

They could experiment with not having them at all, I think that might count as a win.

Everyone might as well just tstop hoping for this since Bioware pretty much considers this their "thing" that makes them stand out from other game developers. They have a rabid fanbase that just eats up stuff like this and they'd be loving crazy not to feed them what they want.

# ¿ Oct 22, 2013 21:28

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

Bored posted:

Edit2: This things pretty cool.

Gotta say that I'm approving of the direction that Bioware is taking with the demons in DA:I. Hell, that thing is basically a Cenobite and that jumps it up a few notches in my eyes, at least.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2013 22:35

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

Geostomp posted:

I liked doing what with my human mage especially. Given what we know about the Circle and Wynne, the substitute-parental/child relationship the two had just made sense.

Really, my Mage character just went out of my way to piss her off as much as possible. Yeah, enjoy your cage, you old senile biddy.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2014 11:03

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

So why are people against the keep again? This simply means that I can choose what happened in my earlier games without having to hold on to my save games like they are my firstborn. Does it hurt someones feeling regarding how save game transfers should work, or what?

# ¿ Mar 23, 2014 17:11

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

KittyEmpress posted:

I'm really tired of Jennifer Hale, after playing SWTOR. I'm not sure if she just doesn't try to have a range or if she legitimately lacks one, but every Jennifer Hale voice in that game is the same one. Even her Bastilla Shan cameo voice that shows up for 3 lines sounds more like Commander shepard than Bastilla.

Hell, David Hayter sounded more distinct and different compared to his other roles, and people claim he's a bad VA.

Yeah, I've never really understood the love that the majority of posters in this board has for her.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2014 21:16

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

Sleep of Bronze posted:

Speaking of Arcane Warriors and information hanging around way before DA's release.

Well, they hosed that one up right and proper.

Yeah, I'd love to see a Mage/Fighter hybrid that doesn't rely on tanking for once.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2014 23:03

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

MonsterEnvy posted:

She was also genetically engineered to have that rear end.

Using only her fathers DNA, unless we forget.

# ¿ May 16, 2014 07:38

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

Drifter posted:

How else are you supposed to clone/engineer someone? You need to have a point of genetic reference.

It's called somatic cell nuclear transfer.

I was actually just having some fun with the thought of a rich powerful buisnessman ordering a bunch of scientists to equip his gene engineered daughter with lots of "junk in the trunk".

# ¿ May 16, 2014 07:57

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

marktheando posted:

Not really. The thing with arcane warriors was using your magic stat instead of your strength stat so you could put your mage in plate armour and sword. And switching weapons sets between sword and staff.

Sounds like Inquisition will have a similar specialisation, which is good.

I'm just happy as long as Mages can use other armour types than old bathrobes and dresses. Hell, the moment I get DA III I'm beelining for that sweet cowboy/swashbuckler hat I've seen in some screenshots.

# ¿ Jun 2, 2014 17:29

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

So, what exactly changes with Alistair being hardened, besides his reactions during the Landsmeet?

# ¿ Jun 4, 2014 20:13

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

Mordiceius posted:

The problem is, they seem to want to have their cake and eat it too. It's the problem with all the Bioware expanded universe comics and tie in novels and bullshit like that. That's how you get poo poo like Kai Leng.

Bioware wants to constantly introduce new players but they also want to fit in all this extra stuff that you'll only understand if you play all the games/read all the stories.

Basically what Bungie did with the Halo series then? Yeah, I'll pass on that, thank you very much.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2014 17:20

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

Captain Oblivious posted:

Mages will count themselves lucky to still be alive when I am Inquisitor

Or, well, they would if I didn't plan on killing them all anyway.

It's cool. I'll be busy stepping on Templar necks all the way through the game. I'd better be given the chance to mess upp Cullen as well.

# ¿ Jun 22, 2014 14:21

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

RentACop posted:

This Qunari love is weirding me out. Kill all horn-heads

Yeah, I never understood why pretty much every goon in the DA threads wanted to slurp on the Arishok's shaft. I just saw him as a passive aggresive rear end in a top hat who was to dumb to find his first edition not-Quran. Yeah, Kirkwall is a shithole and pretty much everyone in power turns out to be a raving lunatic but the Arishok is just as bad. Fucker never left Kirkwall alive on my watch :colbert:

# ¿ Jun 22, 2014 20:57

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

Alexander Hamilton posted:

It sounds like a souped up version of the "missions" you can do in the Shadow Broker's lair in ME2.

A lot of the stuff seems to be pretty much lifted from the Stronghold questlines from Baldurs Gate 2 and Neverwinter Nights 2.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 23:05

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

GhostBoy posted:

With the twist that the fifth player controls the monsters and can influence the dungeon somehow (probably setting traps and whatnot). Think "The Secert World (non-mmo version)" meets "Evolve".

So they are also ripping off the next Fable game in development?

# ¿ Aug 13, 2014 21:04

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

Yeah, since mods are pretty much out I'm actually going to purchase Inquisition for my new PS4, it's quite a step for me since I've always been PC centric for pretty much all of Biowares titles.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2014 20:02

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

Grand Theft Autobot posted:

Origins was awesome. DA2 was loving garbage. The art style was basically the MLG Mario video.

While DA2 was a massive disappointment I'll at least concede that I do appreciate the fact that Bioware made combat "flashier" and quicker. Unfortunatly they also thought that waves of enemies that can appear everywhere, making any tactical plan beyond "scorched earth" useless, was a good idea.

# ¿ Sep 1, 2014 22:33

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

That's o.k, who wants to play as a disgusting, hairy midget anyaways so who cares if they aren't part of the Mage Supremacy?

# ¿ Sep 6, 2014 01:34

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

Crabtree posted:

Any time you roll a dwarf the game gives you an extra scene where the dev team types up a scathing rant about how stupid you are for even thinking about playing as them.

As it should be, then.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2014 08:42

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

Krowley posted:

And LOTR is clearly not one of them.

Because Shadows of Mordors hella rad and they could've put in a cutscene where you're literally making GBS threads into the open mouth of Tom Bombadil and it would still be the best thing to come out of the franchise since the movies.

making GBS threads in the mouth of Tom Bombadill is never a bad decision.

Also, the collective aneurysm that the Tolkien lore spergs had in some other forums were just fantastic to behold. That alone made me preorder the game.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2014 22:59

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

I just watched the stream that was mentioned earlier and holy poo poo, the Knight Enchanter looks like the Mage/Melee hybrid I've been hoping for a long time.

# ¿ Oct 14, 2014 23:31

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

Lotish posted:

Agreed. Dragon's Dogma does it right.

Dragon's Dogma did a lot of things right, unfortunatly the chance of seeing a proper sequel is less than a snowballs chance in hell.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2014 18:45

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

Lotish posted:

I'd be game for that. Alternatively, I'd like them to stay as far away from Galactic Threats as possible and just give us an ME2 style "fart about in space with your homies" simulator. Follow a crew that's just doing jobs and exploring deep space for fun and profit.

I'd be so goddamn happy if you could just play as a Corsair, instead of a Spectre, since that would actually give you a decent reason for farting around in the entire galaxy, doing sidequests.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2014 00:06

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

Mordiceius posted:

A book about Anderson's attempt to become a spectre is fine because it has no bearing on the story of the games. A book that introduce a cereal eating cyborg ninja and then the game expecting you to be intimidated by him at without any context for who he is... is loving pants on wall loving retarded.

Bioware and Blizzard have been the loving worst about this stuff.

Didn't Bungie also have a raging hardon for this kind of practice with the Halo series?

# ¿ Nov 2, 2014 08:52

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

Shugojin posted:

It is expected to be not at all moddable. It is probable that people will go to a lot of effort and make some small tweaks in the future but it will take a while. Also those people will be very weird and so whatever they make will be 100% awful in every way.

This is probably the reason that for the first time ever I'll be getting a Bioware RPG on console instead of PC, since my old rig is starting to get a bit long in the tooth and with the (probable) lack of mods.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2014 19:04

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

CVagts posted:

I think I brought this up before but is there word about how much worse the PS3/360 versions are? I wonder if the graphics are downscaled, or if it's like Shadow of Mordor where they omit key gameplay aspects.

What I've seen it's only a difference in the graphical bling department and the loading times.

Although I'm still conflicted on whether I should go for the PC or the PS4 version, since my current rig is only slightly above the minimum requirements.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2014 18:56

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

Man, the Knight Enchanter looks like it's the Mass Effect Vanguard on steroids.

# ¿ Nov 13, 2014 22:12

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

Yeah, I'll probably try to build my Knight Enchanter for damage, as much as possible. The Arcane Warrior spec may have been pretty much invulvernable in Origins but it was boring as hell to play as. It seems that Bioware might be onto what makes a fun melee/magic hybrid with this game.

# ¿ Nov 13, 2014 23:13

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

Oh well, I pulled the trigger and went for the PS4 version of DA:I. If it turns out to be a bad port at least I can comfort myself with the fact that the price for the PC physical disc version will drop like 75%-80% in two or three months.

# ¿ Nov 14, 2014 20:21

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# ¿ May 18, 2024 01:10

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

paragon1 posted:

Just finished up The Last Court.

Got the Divine's favor up to twenty, ended with 100 in Health, 100 in Dignity, Freedom, and Prosperity, and Peril, Rumors of Revolution, and Twilight at less than 20.

Do you unlock something for Inquisition when you complete it or is it just a simple diversion before the real game is released?

# ¿ Nov 15, 2014 00:24

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