Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

I hope so. It looks great, but the complaints weren't really about the powers and gameplay mechanics directly. The gripes were about stale enemies. The reviews I watched said that the gameplay feels great at first; but you gradually realize that every enemy (excepting dragons) has essentially the same gameplay loop. Rook becomes so powerful, and the enemies so boring, that it's easiest to just pick a loadout and power through everything, not bothering to use the cool but unnecessary allies and features.

I don't know if this will be my feeling, but it makes a lot of sense. I hope to enjoy it, and I'm still excited to play.

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I'll be honest, one of the things I'm most looking forward to is buildcrafting, and I know that's not typical of the Bioware fandom. I do feel that one reason they made the options for combat settings so customizable is so that people can pick and choose how they want combat to feel. If you're the kind of player who isn't feeling engaged by the combat, just pop on god mode or turn down the difficulty so you can get that sweet, sweet story. If you love action game combat, you can twiddle with settings and builds to tailor the experience to what you want. The ones who might have the worst time are those who never particularly engage with the systems in games to customize their experience. I know a couple of people who bounced hard off of DAO because they couldn't be bothered to learn how to set tactics, for example. It may be the same here, but skewed towards not wanting to bother with respeccing and tinkering with equipment between missions.

I, for one, am so happy about the free respec that I'm not even planning my Rooks around their specialization, only their lineage, faction, and class. I want to figure out both the most efficient build and the most 'fun' build, because rarely are those the same. And knowing that the 'best builds' will vary based on the major missions and enemies sounds cool to me. I can see how some might find that more annoying, though.

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Weird. It's working fine for me (tested on multiple devices). These are quite hefty gifs, Postimages is the only hosting site I found that accomodates that. Others like Imgur have a much lower size limit, which impacts the gif quality...

I live for a good ponytail, too. But with all the long, loose hair options I feel almost forced to use them. Dunno tho, we'll see... ^^

Thank you for that confirmation, looking at the review footage I thought the difficulty was going to be a touch low for anyone familiar with RPGs

What if we could have two hairstyles for Rook, one casual (in the lighthouse) and another when out in the field - like Neve and Harding, for example, have two dinstinct hairstyles. That'd be cool!

Fair point about the fandom. There are definite groups within the whole of fandom with different preferences. I should have specified more 'Dragon Age', since respeccing has been limited in previous DA games. Also to be more specific, when I say buildcrafting, I mean the ability to change them within a single playthrough, not between playthroughs, since of course there are ways to develop characters and tactics to achieve different outcomes even in DAO. For me, it's the ability to freely modify your skill tree throughout a playthrough that feels incredibly enticing.

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