Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

Really? Keen to see it at some point and I'd be surprised if it has more reactivity than Warden
Warden Rook has sooo many mentions, it was cool to see. Often when Blight stuff is happening there's unique lines to Warden, also during banter, Wardens get some unique dialogue from time to time. Someone should start doing lists
Maybe I'll open a thread about it once I'm home with a few examples.

If Mourn Watch has more, that will be interesting.

So torn on a few things but Warden Rook will likely be the last one I'll run but so excited by some of this to push on, even if I am kind of torn on even creating the guy.

The game got mix reviews from the most people.
Not really bad not really good.
So the loudest positive and negative are bias.

It's not a huge sample size, but 4k people on ps5 gave it 4 out 5, and on Xbox store 1k people gave it a similar rating.

Funny how EA's marketing department forgot to pay for good reviews at all for both Andromeda and Anthem's launches. 

Seriously though; People can like or dislike games, that's all fine, but when YouTubers resort to brainless conspiracy theories (repeatedly debunked) it reaches comedy levels.

As for The Game Awards, perhaps Veilguard was just too polarising to get a nom, which after all is reached by consensus. I could see Veilguard getting some love from some other media outlets (around 300 outlets hand out GOTY, TGA is just the biggest). I could see it picking up a few over the season. Right now, I don't see an obvious overall GOTY 2024.

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Warden Rook had pretty substantial reactivity. Any time Darkspawn, Wardens, or the Deep Roads were involved there was at least some line delivery referencing Rook's past. Davrin's entire dialogue tree is different if you're a Warden though that applies to other companions and their factions too I imagine.

The Warden sections are also some of the best in the game (Weisshaupt, Davrin's missions, Hossberg, First Warden interactions, a lot of the main story) so it double dips in feeling of belonging to something grand.

Saying there's not enough reactivity is frankly absurd. The game might as well be a love letter to Warden fans. It couldn't get any better than this.

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I completed a Mourn Watch playthrough. The unique relationships with Emmrich, the Grand Necropolis, and the Watcher NPCs was a lot of fun. Rook gets a lot of opportunities to share a Watcher's perspective during conversations, too. Between playing a Watcher and a Mage, I felt like I generally had some additional dialogue options.

I'm playing a Qunari Grey Warden Warrior, now. I don't really expect a lot from species or class, but the Warden will probably have a lot of ambient dialogue and additional conversational options. Plus, the relationship with Davrin and the Warden NPCs will be different. Antoine and Evka are part of Warden Rook's background, for instance, and I expect the cuddly First Warden will have opinions.

If I can get a few, "You're a Qunari?" reactions and some unique interactions with Taash, I'll be content with the species reactivity.

Warrior should have lots of dialogue options to assess enemies, tactics, etc... but probably won't. I'm sure I got the best of that with the Mage.