Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

Basically the Crestwood demo showed a lot of stuff the developers wanted in the game at the time but ultimately couldn’t deliver on. Then the whole thing was taken as a broken promise by many.

There was leaked footage of a BioWare dev presentation that showed you a more detailed and impactful version of "The Keep" system using the Crestwood region in DAI as opposed to the ones we got which was attributed to the challenge of trying to develop a game for prev gen and next gen at the same time.  Don't believe it was ever the intent of BioWare to have the footage viewed outside of the presentation but it got out anyway and thus established a narrative that BioWare "broke promises" somehow or gave a false sense of what was to be in the game.

Edit: it was leaked from Digiexpo 2013 by a guy recording in the audience

What we need is another questionnaire leak.

...At least it would give us something to talk about.

We had one for Inquisition...

We had one for Andromeda...

thonks

I think there'll be one for DA4.

We just need to know how to get them, and then pay close attention.

For those interested, here's the original gameplay video from DigiExpo (Crestwood & Western Approach).

Even better if they 'leak' the survey and have it be some Farscapian esque drug trip.  "How do you like your Multiplayer, well done...or medium rare?"

The timed mission at the the Templar keep (with Cole)  where you split time defending the troops while collecting necessary items in the courtyard was not so bad.  you just had to occasionally break off your search to babysit the troops.  Of course, the timer was reset after each babysitting.

And the Wicked Eyes mission also has timed portions. I loathed that aspect of WEWH, despite enjoying the political bits.

Even though both missions have ample time, I end up dropping into tac cam and meticulously plotting out all my movement. I spend most of the missions paused, worried that if I free move I’ll lose too much time running the wrong way or pathing inefficiently.

Look, I’m the kind of person who read budgeting books for fun as a child. Used to make fake budgets that involved basically zero furniture, so I could max out my hypothetical savings account. Being in a situation where simply standing still wastes a valuable resource is excruciating to me.

While I'm being mindful of the clock, I have to admit I'm usually not terribly worried about it - I mean, aside from being able to re-gain some points by talking with people, negotiating and so on, there's enough coins scattered all around to throw into the fountain and regain time that way.

www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-08-20-dragon-age-3-survey-leaks-inquisitor-hero-story-and-art

www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-04-20-probing-the-new-mass-effect-4-leak

Mark Darrah @biomarkdarrah
Should I use Twitter to tell my team to fill out a survey?

[ ] Yes
[ ] No
[ ] I think you just did

Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes
I DID IT LAST WEEK GAWD

Why do I feel they texted that because they saw people here talking about it?