Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

In my imagination, you said that in an Orlesian accent while standing by a windmill.

You say that like it's a bad thing...

Interesting, thank you.  Not about the amount of work it took - I figured that myself, but about the driver for horses.  They were useful for when you had a destination you'd already covered off that wasn't really conveniently located for fast travel (not many) or for when you simply didn't want to use fast travel (for whatever reason), but killing the banter made it almost a no-go for me in play-throughs beyond the second one.

From a RPing perspective, having a horse(s) makes perfect sense, and I guess pathfinding for 3 companions on horses (assuming you could find a horse for The Iron Bull) would've been an even bigger nightmare, but it would certainly have been interesting to see what we "might" have had in place of horses for the same development cost.


Peter Parker ruins everything.

Fun little, nitpicky thing DragonKingReborn and LukeBarrett - from a perspective of someone who rode horses for quite some time... virtually all mounts in Inquisition are like they're designed for Iron Bull They're massive, all of them. I'm a tall, heavy person that had to pick tall, sturdy mounts and Inqusition horses dwarf biggest ones I sat on by a large margin.

Horse's height is measured from ground to the top of their withers (a ridge between their shoulder blades, in case someone's curious) and the DAI mounts withers height go past even IB's head. That's... tallllllllll. Most characters smaller than Qunari may have some trouble with hopping on a saddle (either the stirrup's too high to hook a foot and make a proper bounce, or the distance between stirrup and saddle seat may be too big to throw the other leg above the cantle in a graceful fashion).

So I actually have no issue with IB on a DAI horse. Looks proportionate, especially given most mounts' hefty build. No, what's hilarious to me is seeing Varric and dwarf Quizzy hopping on and then riding them, with elves being close 2nd, because that's some powerful magic keeping them there

Ofc, I love 'em. And I think they've improved quite a bit in recent years - Assassin's Creed: Origins & Odyssey, Shadows of Mordor/War, Doom, Tomb Raider reboot, God of War...

They all flow quite well, though you'll notice they all have a fixed protag body type, limited weapon variety, and limited opponent body types to deal with. It would obviously be a much greater challenge to implement for a game like Dragon Age, with short to tall races, lots of weapon types, magic, and a large variety of enemy body types.

You'll notice in these games you're typically either invulnerable for the duration of the glory-kill animation, or enemies just won't attack you, or both.

That is basically what we had in DAO right?

I love kill scenes, I'm tending to turn into a Japanese tourist whenever they kick in in my latest Skyrim pt, most make me go "meh, that could have been SO good!" but thanks to wonky camera angles don't turn out as such, I do love this one however, if only more could turn out like it...

Dai has kill scenes but they are mostly during companion introductions

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So, originally DAI was going to have a human only protagonist. Does anyone know if at that point if Solas would have not been a romance option at all or would he have been a romance option for the human Inquisitor?

Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes
Not a romance at all.

Mike Laidlaw
I have no recollection of DAI's protag being human only. We'd always wanted to do at least Human Elf Dwarf, and Qunari / Kossith was added after we delayed.

Weird that Mike says he has no recollection as I remember that being a major source of complaint on the BSN forums for quite a while. I don't recall who said it was human only, but it was one of the first details we learned. I believe we didn't find out there would be any other races until after the delay, and then even later we found out about the Qunari.  

Wasn’t it originally going to be hawke?