Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

Dragon Age @dragonage
Even a broken world can be beautiful - welcome to Minrathous.

Enjoy this sneak peek at an in-game environment you'll see much more of in the #DragonAge: The Veilguard Gameplay Reveal on June 11!

Join the YouTube Premiere chat tomorrow where we'll be sharing a few special surprises ahead of the trailer!

Got to admit there has been a significant tonal shift from Origins to Inquisition, imo. Like I still hold my breath during the Deep Roads venture, traveling towards the source of the Darkspawn... all while Hespith reveals what happened to the dwarves.

Origins feels like a game where your character is secondary to the story being created.

I'd say DA2 and Inquisition don't have that same feeling. They're living the hero's tale, with all the tragedy that can bring. FitzChivalry vs Kvothe's story.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the change, but let's not pretend that just because there's cheese and quips in Origins that means the series hasn't changed drastically.

If you're too adverse to the change, though, just keep playing Origins as an insular game. Or be the most mad at DA2 (I love it, not bashing) because it brought the big change, not Inquisition and probably not Veilguard.

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If the game doesn't go all companions being bisexual, I wonder who will be what?

Harding is definitely bisexual, that is a given. I really, really don't expect Taash to be straight, no matter how stereotypical that might sound. Neve and Bellara could go either way, but since we have not had a straight female romanceable elf in the cast yet, and the last game had a lesbian elf, they might go for that.

So I'm guessing it would be either lesbian Taash, bi Neve, bi Harding and straight Bellara, or lesbian Neve, bi Taash, bi Harding and straight Bellara.

For the men however, the only thing I know is that Emmrich is not going to be gay. No way in hell, an fancy antagonistic looking necromancer with a mustache as the gay companion again? Nah, no way. I'd say straight or bi. The other two, I don't know. In the Wigmaker's Job, it is mentioned that his cousin is flattering a waiter, who is later described as handsome. Now, the story is written from a third perspective, so ultimately whether Lucanis also thinks the waiter is handsome or only his cousin, that is not clear at all. But just because of this completely dumb reason, I'm more comfortable putting him in the bi/gay category.

Davrin.. I think I'm leaning towards gay just purely out of there never being a gay male elf in the franchise yet. They have always either been bi or straight. And if that's not convincing enough, then he could potentially have that virtuous gay KISA thing people have been glamoring for. And for an elf, he is definitely more masculine and thick than most we've seen previously. And he seems to have a little tiny gryphon with him, just like Cullen got a mabari! So... KISA? Loves animals? Perhaps... perhaps.. Yet, if we are looking at patterns, KISA men are made for women. So yeah. That's a pattern.

So with men, it's either straight Emmrich, bi Lucanis and gay Davrin or straight Davrin, bi Emmrich and gay Lucanis.

Though overall I do believe they are going to go for the all bi route. This was just some a thought exercise that I hope people wont take seriously..

Shouldn' tb eanythin gw ecan' thandle w ehad to deal with ME2's suicide mission right? Right?

Derek Wilks @deremix
Enjoy this tasty in-game screenshot. Our game is absolutely BEAUTIFUL.

Yea htha tlooks moer like what I' d expect to see in a DA game no twha tw egot in the trailer

This tweet seems like Damage Control, though. I wonder if the reception today will impact what we'll witness in june 11th. 

Based on other people's speculation, I think it's likely this could have been taken from the prologue.

It is damage control, but I think it's about a misleading trailer and not shifting what was shown. Given that they stated they'd show the openings of the game a few days go, if they do that I'd say their plans didn't change.

Is Harding going to be the one to give a history lesson about what happened to the Inquisitor and Inquisition throughout the game when she talks with the main character?

Glad to hear we have race selection still.

Wonder if that means we can fully change their appearance like DAO, or whatever we equip them with morphs into their style like DAI.

David Gaider @davidgaider
Ooo a new trailer? Interesting tone choice... though the art style of DA trailers has never really matched the games, so that doesn't mean much. One thing the trailer left me wondering: can I... be a hero? Not sure "this is your power fantasy" was underlined enough. 😉

Interesting companion choices. No surprise seeing Harding - go ahead and say "it took you leaving for us to get a dwarf romance", I dare you.

And a female qunari! New companions are always a black box at first, but I'm sure fans will come to love them all (literally).

DA fans (and anti-fans) will be all over the place, I'm certain. Nothing's worse for a fan than the initial reveal of what a game actually *is*, because it's simultaneously popping all those imaginary hope balloons of what the game *could have been*. The end of so many dreams. 😄