Control All Party Members thread

I think its not going to matter to much considering I think people usually play as their characters, I know I do.  But over in ME ME has always beena bout 'the character' IE Shepard/ Ryder and that is the whole identity of the series, whereas ME DA has been about a character, but they are less defined...usually.

I have to disagree about the AI in Inquisition. It was pretty crappy. Archers and mages (I'm looking at you, Dorian) had a ridiculous tendency to run into melee range. Plus BW dumbed down the AI presets so you were limited to 'follow x' or 'defend x'. A huge step backwards from DAO and DA2.

I never minded so much in ME because (a) they had better survivability and ( I was constantly instructing them to use their abilities via the power wheel.

Of course, there is apparently no power wheel now so the AI had better be decent!

I'm sure there are other threads where you can discuss The Witcher III, extremegamer, we're having a reasonable discussion about secondary character control mechanics, which if I recall TW3 is devoid of... 

It could be fun. I played whole DAI as Dorian For RP perspective I wanted a warrior PC, but I liked to play as a mage.

Really?!?

I'm genuinely curious as to why.  It's never been forced on anyone - you could always ignore it if you wanted to and play entirely in real time, a la MP.  All removing it does is force the 'other half' into a different playstyle.

Honestly, the apparent lack of tactical pause is the gameplay issue I am most concerned about.  To my knowledge this is the first ever Bioware RPG without it.

Switching characters is something that I'd like to see in ME:A personally, would give me the chance to try out other builds/powers without having to constantly switch, just select the right character for the right job at that moment in time. Oh, there's a sniper over there, switch to sniper squaddie, pop, on with game.

Just my opinion.

Oh please, just use magic button already. The guy isn't even trying.

Only wielded with loving care, Ahriman , (but I understand your point)

Disagreed. Let DA be DA and ME be ME!

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is it?

There is also the idea to try out other classes. In any Dragon Age game I tend to play as a duel wielding rouge, and rarely change because I'm very familiar with that class and know how to work it very well. By allowing me to change to a warrior for a while (it doesn't matter if weapon & shield or two handed weapon) I can at least try out if it's a class that I might want to play in another playthrough and I can learn the basics from controlling characters like Alistair, Aveline, Iron Bull  and the other warriors in the games and figure out what works for me, and what doesn't work for me (weapon and shield or two handed weapons, which weapons, skills, abilities, etc) likewise with rouge archers characters like Leliana, Varric, and Sera and the various mages. This saves me a lot time for instance I found that for me the two handed weapon warrior and rouge archers classes didn't work for me for my style of gameplay. I can play Leliana, Varric, Sera, Sten, Fenris, and Iron Bull for short periods of time but if I play my Grey Warden, Hawke, and Inquisitor in that class it wouldn't be much fun for me. The same with mages, especially in DA2 and DA:I. 

This save me a lot of time because I'm stuck playing classes that aren't fun for me, so I don't have waste time in character creator making my PC look the way that I want them to look, play through all the prologues and endless dialogue wheels and boxes, only to realize that the class I selected isn't any fun for me to play.

Or the glitch where your party members freeze and you have to jump into them and have them jump so they start moving again and actually fighting and doing stuff.  Had a party wipe happen because of it.  

On the flip side the one advantage that having you be able to control multiple party members is one of difficulty.  If the fight was going poorly and your character was down you could easily pick up sticks and run the other way to get out of harms way.  With Andromeda this tactic will be impossible.