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Post by Noxluxe on Apr 2, 2019 19:16:25 GMT
Yeah, I'm with Hanako on this, while being on the opposite side of the issue. If I can make the blanket declaration that from my perspective there's absolutely no way that Bioware can make an Inquisitor-lead DA4 interesting or engaging to me, and that I'll outright refuse to buy or play the game if it doesn't have a new protagonist, then they can say the same for the opposite scenario. One person's trash is another's treasure, after all. You're right. I'd say both statements are more or less equally presumptuous and hard to take seriously. I'm sure you've noticed that the world isn't full of just trash and treasures.
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Post by Lazarillo on Apr 2, 2019 19:24:06 GMT
the question is... Did you like DAI? Given your post probably not but it is worth it for the conversation we are having. I don't speak for everyone, but I can confirm I did, for the most part, enjoy DAI (although its shine has worn over time more than its predecessors in some ways), but I'm also very much in the camp of "no DA4 for me if it's nothing but Inquisition Part 2).
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Post by Catilina on Apr 2, 2019 19:28:42 GMT
I would’ve been fine playing as a new protagonist in DA4 if they left things the way they were in the vanilla game. But then Trespasser happened and connected the Inquisitor to this new plot. If we don’t play as them, there is nothing they can do that won’t ruin the character and DAI, which sucks since they were my favorite BioWare profane game, as well as the new game itself. I really don´t care about the Inquisitor. I found him/her boring and i wish we have a fresh start with a new hero. For me it isn´t really that important who stop Solas. Someone will stop him. So who cares who done this? I am really tired of the destroy the world story. We all know that Solas can´t win like the Archdemon and Corypheus.
So whats the point of telling this story over and over again?
Last but not least it would be awful if Dorian and Solas gets tons of romance content with the Inquisitor but someone like Iron Bull, who can be died and therefore is almost impossible to be a major character or even a companion again, gets very little romance scenes with the Inquisitor. I want my closure with Dorian, and I can understand the Solasmancers wish for their closure, and I suppose, we will see the Inquisitor. I don't agree s/he's absolutely boring, just compared to Hawke and the Warden the Inquisitor is lukewarm... If we survived, that Hawke only can deal with a giant mucous spider instead of that "magical bogeyman", I'll be absolutely satisfied, if the Inquisitor just appears as Hawke did: I don't care. Hawke was a disappointment in many views, but still my fav patr of the whole DAI... And I don't want the Inquisitor as my protagonist again. I need a new story, more personal – and I don't want another Chosen One, who will save the world, whatever s/he do, and the people worship them just for their mere existence or for some random thing (I: Solas' ball blessed hand). And I want an interesting antagonist. the Archdemon was just a monster with brainless zombie-army, Corypheus was promising in DA2 – and boring in DAI. I admit, I still see, that Solas has potential. Still, I want rather a Hawke-story style game. Tevinter is suitable for that kind of story.
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Post by AlleluiaElizabeth on Apr 2, 2019 19:47:35 GMT
Here's the thing. If they did decide to bring back the Inquisitor to resolve things with Solas than I'd want them to bring back most if not all of the rest of Inquisition's cast as well. The Inquisitor to me is only as interesting as the characters they've interested with, a thought that I'm apparently not alone in believing since many people want the Inquisitor back solely because they want to resolve things with Solas instead of because of the Inquisitor just being an interesting character in of themselves. Furthermore, if we're ignoring the whole "We need new people to handle this crisis" thing why wouldn't the Inquisitor bring back their old crew? The Inquisitor isn't Shepard in ME2, whose essentially forced by the Illusive Man to recruit a bunch of new weirdos to deal with the Collectors. They're in control of their organization and would probably want people who they can trust and who have already dealt with their trademark Bioware familial issues and whatnot. Hell, Dorian, Iron Bull and Sera have all been to Tevinter and have a vested interest in stopping Solas. Why not bring them along if were stick with the Inquisitor? All of this is to say that I don't find the Inquisitor particularly engaging as an protag and would rather take a chance at Bioware coming up with a new one. Well, we already have the Inquisition members returning with Dorian, at the least. There's no way he won't be involved in the next game in some capacity. I fully expect everyone around that table at the end to have some role in the next game; with only maybe, possibly barring the love interest. And the Inquisitor being either the main or dual protagonist does not actually preclude "new people" being found and recruited in the slightest.
Not saying I am certain the Inquisitor is going to be the protag or that the game will suck if they are not. Just saying there is a strong case to bring them back. As for making them more interesting, I didn't have that problem. But, if they bring them back for some/all of the next game, hopefully those that did can figure out how to care more about their player character in DA4.
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Post by gangrelbeckett on Apr 2, 2019 19:48:04 GMT
I want my closure with Dorian, and I can understand the Solasmancers wish for their closure, and I suppose, we will see the Inquisitor. Bioware can use the Inquisitor just for the Solas / endgame storypart. I really don´t know why some find that it would a good idea if the Inquisitior is also involved in the Tevinter vs Qunari or the Weisshaupt storyline.
Also DA 4 must work for new players. Especially after this long gap it wouldn´t be good if DA 4 had to deal with a lot of exposition. And it would take some time to explain why the Inquisitor has lost his/her arm. Bioware cannot assume that everybody who play DA 4 had knowledge about the previous games.
By the way what happen to the official Bioware statement that Dragon Age isn´t a series like Mass Effect (Trilogy) there is about one hero rather been several tales in one specific time period ? Isn´t this still up-to-date?
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Post by AlleluiaElizabeth on Apr 2, 2019 20:00:00 GMT
I would’ve been fine playing as a new protagonist in DA4 if they left things the way they were in the vanilla game. But then Trespasser happened and connected the Inquisitor to this new plot. If we don’t play as them, there is nothing they can do that won’t ruin the character and DAI, which sucks since they were my favorite BioWare profane game, as well as the new game itself. Bah, that's an overstatement. It's not going to be that bad on either of those counts, almost no matter how they handle it. I agree with Hanako to an extent on this. If they'd kept the Inquisitor on that balcony at the end of the game and let Solas ride off into the sunset with the Inquisitor none the wiser, he could have been someone else's problem. But they did the opposite. They had Solas make contact, had him explain himself, had him reveal that the one responsible for the Breach was beside you all along, and most importantly had him reveal his goal. Whether you see it as a villain monologue or a friend trying to explain himself, the Inquisitor knows now, and is working to intervene.
None of that means we can't play a new protagonist for the entirety of DA4. It just means that if Solas is involved, TLCA needs to be involved. Bioware has now made his story into their story. IMO, it will be bad writing if the Inquisitor isn't the one who finishes it with him. And if the Inquisitor has to be there, I want to be the one picking the dialogue.
If this isn't what happens, I will think that that bit of the story drops the ball and will be annoyed with it. I won't necessarily hate the entire game. (I love ME3, but still hate the endings, for example.) But I'll consider it a failing if the Inquisitor is not at least there.
And I don't want the Inquisitor as my protagonist again. I need a new story, more personal – and I don't want another Chosen One, who will save the world, whatever s/he do, and the people worship them just for their mere existence or for some random thing (I: Solas' ball blessed hand). To be fair, the Inquisitor in Tevinter wouldn't fulfill any of that. First, they probably wouldn't be able to reveal their identity to the public at large and still accomplish their goals. Second, even if their identity comes to light, they wouldn't be respected and revered as they were in the south, anyway. They no longer have the "ball blessed hand" and, even if they did, Tevinter mostly either won't have heard about them(i.e. the slaves and most common people) or will not look favorably upon their Herald/Inquisitor status (i.e. most magisters, probably). Working underground in Tevinter would essentially be starting back at square one for the (former)Inquisitor.
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Post by Noxluxe on Apr 2, 2019 20:17:00 GMT
Bah, that's an overstatement. It's not going to be that bad on either of those counts, almost no matter how they handle it. I agree with Hanako to an extent on this. If they'd kept the Inquisitor on that balcony at the end of the game and let Solas ride off into the sunset with the Inquisitor none the wiser, he could have been someone else's problem. But they did the opposite. They had Solas make contact, had him explain himself, had him reveal that the one responsible for the Breach was beside you all along, and most importantly had him reveal his goal. Whether you see it as a villain monologue or a friend trying to explain himself, the Inquisitor knows now, and is working to intervene.
None of that means we can't play a new protagonist for the entirety of DA4. It just means that if Solas is involved, TLCA needs to be involved. Bioware has now made his story into their story. IMO, it will be bad writing if the Inquisitor isn't the one who finishes it with him. And if the Inquisitor has to be there, I want to be the one picking the dialogue.
If this isn't what happens, I will think that that bit of the story drops the ball and will be annoyed with it. I won't necessarily hate the entire game. (I love ME3, but still hate the endings, for example.) But I'll consider it a failing if the Inquisitor is not at least there.
I don't, and haven't, disagreed with any of this. We all appear to be entirely on the same page, except for the notion that the game must necessarily be ruined if either the Inquisitor isn't handled expertly or turns out to be the main character after all, or that any such declaration has any weight or believability whatsoever before the game is out, let alone before we've seen so much as a second of gameplay or even cinematic trailers.
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Post by AlleluiaElizabeth on Apr 2, 2019 20:21:33 GMT
]By the way what happen to the official Bioware statement that Dragon Age isn´t a series like Mass Effect (Trilogy) there is about one hero rather been several tales in one specific time period ? Isn´t this still up-to-date? Are the people who made that statement actually still at Bioware anymore? Plus, I don't believe it was an official statement so much as something someone said in an interview or on a forum? I could be wrong about that, though. I *do* know it was before DA2 had actually come out, much less DAI. And before Gaider revealed that DAI was basically just the first half of a story arc, not the whole thing. Of course he's not writing the game either, anymore, and didn't write Trespasser. So we'll see where that goes. I don't, and haven't, disagreed with any of this. We all appear to be entirely on the same page, except for the notion that the game must necessarily be ruined if either the Inquisitor isn't handled expertly or turns out to be the main character after all, or that any such declaration has any weight or believability whatsoever before the game is out, let alone before we've seen so much as a second of gameplay or even cinematic trailers. The ending of a story does often taint the perception of the entire thing, though. So, if Solas is the ending, and that ending is handled in a manner you hate, I can see how it could leave you feeling like that plot was bad. And if that plot is the plot you care about most, it could ruin the whole experience. At least in the short term. Again, ME3 as an example for many people. I think that's what Hanako is talking about with that blanket statement. Granted she is putting it more definitively than I would, but I don't doubt that she will actually consider the game to be BS if she can't play her Inquisitor(and stab Solas, probably? I think her Inquisitor wants to do that from other posts she's made???) and I get why.
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Post by colfoley on Apr 2, 2019 20:31:28 GMT
the question is... Did you like DAI? Given your post probably not but it is worth it for the conversation we are having. I don't speak for everyone, but I can confirm I did, for the most part, enjoy DAI (although its shine has worn over time more than its predecessors in some ways), but I'm also very much in the camp of "no DA4 for me if it's nothing but Inquisition Part 2). interesting but i was specifically asking about the return of the Inquisitor and not whether it will be Inquisition 2. Especially considering the inquisitor being in it is not neccessarily going to make it 'DAI 2', quite the opposite i think.
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Post by Lazarillo on Apr 2, 2019 21:02:21 GMT
interesting but i was specifically asking about the return of the Inquisitor and not whether it will be Inquisition 2. Especially considering the inquisitor being in it is not neccessarily going to make it 'DAI 2', quite the opposite i think. Hmm, see, if anything, I think it's the opposite. It may also be "Inquisition 2" (and thus, not worth supporting) without bringing Quizzie back, but doing so will make it absolutely inevitable.
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Post by Noxluxe on Apr 2, 2019 21:13:16 GMT
The ending of a story does often taint the perception of the entire thing, though. So, if Solas is the ending, and that ending is handled in a manner you hate, I can see how it could leave you feeling like that plot was bad. And if that plot is the plot you care about most, it could ruin the whole experience. At least in the short term. Again, ME3 as an example for many people. I think that's what Hanako is talking about with that blanket statement. Granted she is putting it more definitively than I would, but I don't doubt that she will actually consider the game to be BS if she can't play her Inquisitor(and stab Solas, probably? I think her Inquisitor wants to do that from other posts she's made???) and I get why. Then I'd say you and she both are not giving her enough credit. I'm fairly confident Hanako will be able to get over it in time and enjoy the game for its other merits if it has any, and if the game is otherwise to her taste. Formerfiend too. Likewise with ME3. The children who were born when people started talking shit about those endings as if it meant anything are in grade school now, but I've yet to hear anyone claim that when they dedicate a hundred hours of their lives to play through the series they stop at 2. I enjoy all 4 Mass Effect games to varying degrees, and between 1 and 3 and Andromeda I enjoy 3's ending more. The acting and music and tone and graphics are all great, the characters have brilliant character moments and Shepard comes off as a real tragic martyr who actually drags him/herself through hell in order to try to make a difference for all life and all potential everywhere. I've never not been touched playing through any of the endings, and in no sense whatsoever does it "ruin the whole experience" of the preceding several weeks' worth of top-quality gaming and roleplaying. As I said, by the time I get that far in a game I'm usually excited just to finish it and get started on the next thing, but I can sure as hell still appreciate people's hard work when it only more or less pays off, or only parts of it shine. An otherwise great game isn't and has never been unmade, much less made unplayable, by a somewhat mediocre or compromised ending or plotline just because people like to complain.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Apr 2, 2019 21:33:56 GMT
The ending of a story does often taint the perception of the entire thing, though. So, if Solas is the ending, and that ending is handled in a manner you hate, I can see how it could leave you feeling like that plot was bad. And if that plot is the plot you care about most, it could ruin the whole experience. At least in the short term. Again, ME3 as an example for many people. I think that's what Hanako is talking about with that blanket statement. Granted she is putting it more definitively than I would, but I don't doubt that she will actually consider the game to be BS if she can't play her Inquisitor(and stab Solas, probably? I think her Inquisitor wants to do that from other posts she's made???) and I get why. Then I'd say you and she both are not giving her enough credit. I'm fairly confident Hanako will be able to get over it in time and enjoy the game for its other merits if it has any, and if the game is otherwise to her taste. I won’t have to get over the game since I won’t buy it if this happens. The only thing I’d have to get over is being a Dragon Age fan.
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Post by Noxluxe on Apr 2, 2019 21:37:07 GMT
Then I'd say you and she both are not giving her enough credit. I'm fairly confident Hanako will be able to get over it in time and enjoy the game for its other merits if it has any, and if the game is otherwise to her taste. I won’t have to get over the game since I won’t buy it if this happens. The only thing I’d have to get over is being a Dragon Age fan. As you say.
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Post by AlleluiaElizabeth on Apr 2, 2019 23:05:47 GMT
The ending of a story does often taint the perception of the entire thing, though. So, if Solas is the ending, and that ending is handled in a manner you hate, I can see how it could leave you feeling like that plot was bad. And if that plot is the plot you care about most, it could ruin the whole experience. At least in the short term. Again, ME3 as an example for many people. I think that's what Hanako is talking about with that blanket statement. Granted she is putting it more definitively than I would, but I don't doubt that she will actually consider the game to be BS if she can't play her Inquisitor(and stab Solas, probably? I think her Inquisitor wants to do that from other posts she's made???) and I get why. Then I'd say you and she both are not giving her enough credit. I'm fairly confident Hanako will be able to get over it in time and enjoy the game for its other merits if it has any, and if the game is otherwise to her taste. Formerfiend too. Likewise with ME3. The children who were born when people started talking shit about those endings as if it meant anything are in grade school now, but I've yet to hear anyone claim that when they dedicate a hundred hours of their lives to play through the series they stop at 2. I enjoy all 4 Mass Effect games to varying degrees, and between 1 and 3 and Andromeda I enjoy 3's ending more. The acting and music and tone and graphics are all great, the characters have brilliant character moments and Shepard comes off as a real tragic martyr who actually drags him/herself through hell in order to try to make a difference for all life and all potential everywhere. I've never not been touched playing through any of the endings, and in no sense whatsoever does it "ruin the whole experience" of the preceding several weeks' worth of top-quality gaming and roleplaying. As I said, by the time I get that far in a game I'm usually excited just to finish it and get started on the next thing, but I can sure as hell still appreciate people's hard work when it only more or less pays off, or only parts of it shine. An otherwise great game isn't and has never been unmade, much less made unplayable, by a somewhat mediocre or compromised ending or plotline just because people like to complain. Well, ME3's ending (first vanilla, then EC) left a sour enough taste in my mouth that I couldn't replay it, so the bolded bit actually isn't true. It wasn't until a mod came out that allowed me to keep my suspension of disbelief and still fix things I felt needed fixing that I could actually contemplate replaying the ME series again. Other players rescued the experience for me.
And I didn't feel that way about it cus of other people complaining. I played the entire trilogy for the first time in one long string (started ME1 and 2 shortly before 3 came out) and didn't even join in the fandom aspect of the games till after I was done ME3, due to both lack of time and fear of spoilers. My sour outlook towards the ending was entirely my own. I've had similar, though thankfully rare, experiences with some television shows, movies, and book series. Endings you hate can, and do, sour people on stories they have loved up until that point.
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Post by Noxluxe on Apr 2, 2019 23:25:20 GMT
Well, ME3's ending left a sour enough taste in my mouth that I couldn't replay it, so the bold actually isn't true. Not until a mod came out that allowed me to keep my suspension of disbelief and still fix things I felt needed fixing. Other players are basically the reason I can actually contemplate replaying the ME series again, not Bioware. I've had similar, though thankfully rare, experiences with some television shows, movies, and book series. Endings you hate can, and do, sour people on stories they loved up until that point. O-kay. Thank you for the chat.
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Post by AlleluiaElizabeth on Apr 2, 2019 23:36:17 GMT
Well, ME3's ending left a sour enough taste in my mouth that I couldn't replay it, so the bold actually isn't true. Not until a mod came out that allowed me to keep my suspension of disbelief and still fix things I felt needed fixing. Other players are basically the reason I can actually contemplate replaying the ME series again, not Bioware. I've had similar, though thankfully rare, experiences with some television shows, movies, and book series. Endings you hate can, and do, sour people on stories they loved up until that point. O-kay. Thank you for the chat. :insert shrugging emote here: No problem!
Seriously, though, Ciri for DA4 or bust.
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Post by colfoley on Apr 3, 2019 0:50:03 GMT
interesting but i was specifically asking about the return of the Inquisitor and not whether it will be Inquisition 2. Especially considering the inquisitor being in it is not neccessarily going to make it 'DAI 2', quite the opposite i think. Hmm, see, if anything, I think it's the opposite. It may also be "Inquisition 2" (and thus, not worth supporting) without bringing Quizzie back, but doing so will make it absolutely inevitable. maybe. But really based on some of the things i have heard about what they are doing in the comics i have concerns that if they go with a new protagonist it will be someone who has to gather some force in order to stop other forces from fighting so they can gather to stop some larger force. Yes such a basic plot line could have very different executions afterall DAO and DAI are very different games. And yes if the new PC is from the imperium that could add a level of personal steaks the Inquisitor just didn't have but they could easily tread the same grounds that they have. However if it's the inquisitor then that implies an entirely different game. Afterall since the Inquisitor and the Inquisition are...at the best treated with suspicion by the imperium, at the worst out and outv enemies that means they have to move quietly in the shadows behind the scenes rather then openly.
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Post by Frost on Apr 3, 2019 1:35:23 GMT
None of that means we can't play a new protagonist for the entirety of DA4. It just means that if Solas is involved, TLCA needs to be involved. Bioware has now made his story into their story. IMO, it will be bad writing if the Inquisitor isn't the one who finishes it with him. And if the Inquisitor has to be there, I want to be the one picking the dialogue. I agree that the Inquisitor should be involved in DA4, especially at the end, although hopefully earlier as well. I would like a conclusion to the Inquisitor's story that they started in DAI/Trespasser.
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Post by formerfiend on Apr 3, 2019 4:27:56 GMT
Yeah, I'm with Hanako on this, while being on the opposite side of the issue. If I can make the blanket declaration that from my perspective there's absolutely no way that Bioware can make an Inquisitor-lead DA4 interesting or engaging to me, and that I'll outright refuse to buy or play the game if it doesn't have a new protagonist, then they can say the same for the opposite scenario. One person's trash is another's treasure, after all. the question is... Did you like DAI? Given your post probably not but it is worth it for the conversation we are having. I enjoyed it when I first played it. I liked it less and less with each subsequent playthrough. Then I hated the direction they went with Trespasser. What I want to see out of Dragon Age 4 is so drastically different in tone & theme from Inquisition that I don't think it can be achieved with the same protagonist again. I don't want to play as a character who would be allowed in the Winter Palace let alone decided the fate of the Orlesian Empire there. I don't want to play as someone who would be able to pick the Divine out of a crowd let alone is on a first name basis with them, and is potentially sleeping with them. And I don't want to give Solas the satisfaction of being killed by the one person in Thedas the smug prick thinks is worth his attention. Other people have different opinions to me on that front and that's fine, they're entitled to them. And if Bioware decides to cater to them instead of me, that's also fine, that's their prerogative as developers to pursue their artistic vision. When I say I'm not going to buy the game if the Inquisitor is the protagonist again, it's not really a form of protest. I'm not trying to rally any kind of boycott. It's simply me saying that there is nothing about that scenario that appeals to me and that I'm not going to spend my $60+ dollars and who knows how many hours of my life on it on the off chance they'd prove me wrong, which quite frankly Bioware hasn't earned my benefit of the doubt that they can do. And I'm not even saying that the story of an Inquisitor lead game would be inherently bad. I'm saying that it holds no appeal for me personally on a basic, fundamental level of which there is no twist or turn or direction Bioware can take it in that remove the part I find unappealing.
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Post by Nyx on Apr 11, 2019 16:38:46 GMT
Continue the DA tradition and have a new protagonist. I'm not especially attached to the Inquisitor. They can come back as an NPC like Hawke did. Speaking of Hawke, I want to see them again too.
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Post by LoyalTevinter on Apr 11, 2019 17:06:06 GMT
I also enjoy playing a new character with each installment of DA. Especially if we can get the chance to play as someone from Tevinter this time. *fingers crossed*
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Post by formerfiend on Apr 11, 2019 21:13:54 GMT
I will say, one criticism I've always had of the pro-Inquisitor return crowd is that it's always seemed to me that they don't want a game, they want a cutscene. Specifically, they want the second half of the conversation we had with Solas at the end of Trespasser. And everything that comes before that point is irrelevant.
Maybe that's an unfair characterization. If any pro-Inquisitor people here feel it is, feel free to tell me what your vision/hope for the actual game would be.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Apr 11, 2019 21:17:51 GMT
I will say, one criticism I've always had of the pro-Inquisitor return crowd is that it's always seemed to me that they don't want a game, they want a cutscene. Specifically, they want the second half of the conversation we had with Solas at the end of Trespasser. And everything that comes before that point is irrelevant. Maybe that's an unfair characterization. If any pro-Inquisitor people here feel it is, feel free to tell me what your vision/hope for the actual game would be. It is unfair. I at least definitely want more than just a cutscene. I want a whole game where two commanders go against each other in a game of strategy and tactics, trying to achieve their goal while stopping the other from achieving theirs. It's a kind of relationship we've never really explored between hero and villain before in a Bioware game. Meanwhile in the forefront there are other threats to deal with, like the Qun-Tevinter War.
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Post by colfoley on Apr 11, 2019 22:03:14 GMT
So recently my opinion on this subject has gone through a bit of a sea change. And because of this i wanted to 'update' things in the proper thread and explain my new reasoning.
A. Based on stuff that has happened in the comics has caused me to sour a bit on a new protag. While it's my own damn fault for starting to project scenarios on a game we know little about... Well all we have at this point is speculation so its hard not to do. And while i could be wrong this new information makes it sound like we won't get the kind of human story i wanted... This is my fear anyways.
B. A while back i postulated that the only way the Inquisitor could even be in Tevinter, let alone the protagonist, would be clandestinely. After all they are, and especially mine, an enemy of the state. So she can't move openly. So would be the leader of a spy ring or a covert resistance. Didn't give it much thought until the recent Kotaku article revealed that lo and behold they were considering doing exactly this. The only way the Inq could be in DA 4 that would fit Tresspasser, imo.
C. Despite this i still SLIGHTLY prefer a new PC. However since i worked out a logical reason for the Inq to be in Tevinter i would be just as excited whatever they do.
D. All this being said i expect bioware to do a new pc for all the narrative and technical reasons i (and others) have already outlined.
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Post by formerfiend on Apr 11, 2019 22:12:11 GMT
I will say, one criticism I've always had of the pro-Inquisitor return crowd is that it's always seemed to me that they don't want a game, they want a cutscene. Specifically, they want the second half of the conversation we had with Solas at the end of Trespasser. And everything that comes before that point is irrelevant. Maybe that's an unfair characterization. If any pro-Inquisitor people here feel it is, feel free to tell me what your vision/hope for the actual game would be. It is unfair. I at least definitely want more than just a cutscene. I want a whole game where two commanders go against each other in a game of strategy and tactics, trying to achieve their goal while stopping the other from achieving theirs. It's a kind of relationship we've never really explored between hero and villain before in a Bioware game. Meanwhile in the forefront there are other threats to deal with, like the Qun-Tevinter War. Fair enough. It's nothing I have any interest in because I don't buy into, am not invested in, and do not want to explore the relationship between the Inquisitor and Solas. I actively want to deny Solas a death at the hands of someone he respects - and any version of the game where Solas doesn't meat a bloody end isn't something I have interest in. But it is a vision.
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