Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

Well, I mean... SO FAR the story material we got past DAI (Trespasser, recent comic books, Tevinter Nights) suggest they are going to more-or-less continue with the storyline, including one that directly involves Inquisitor... so why push Inquisitor out of the picture, when they are (so far) established as still relevant to the future plot? If they bring back Solas they will likely bring back Inky in some capacity - or, at least, that's what I think makes sense at this point in time, with hints we got.

I am, however, still firmly rooting for dual-protag. I think it would bring all kinds of interesting storytelling and role-playing options to the table, if they can pull this off.

The MET all released in a short time span so I didn't mind it too much, plus DA was doing the opposite so it was a nice balance. The one thing that got a bit annoying were romances because you had characters that could be romanced but only appeared in certain games.

With DA4, would they have all the romance options back if Inquisitor is protagonist? If so, are we basically getting the same set of companions again, because that's pretty boring. For me, a new protagonist lets you get brand new everything so that is ideal. Dual also works. I'd be ok with that.

If the new PC will be seen as, say, essential to allow Inquisitor to accomplish their goal then I don't think there'd be much problem with overshadowing. 

I also don't think that, if they are going to give us a duel-protag, then they are going to do it 'just because'. Theoretically dual-protag could allow us to supplant, sacrifice or maybe even betray our other protag and I can totally see many interesting storytelling opportunities here that would be best realized if we got two PCs.

But I'm afraid we can only wait and see what BW is actually going to give is, because just one idea can be executed in multiple different ways and there's no telling how BW is going to do it, regardless of what they are cooking there.

Not really. They could be like ME3, where the old romances are attached to side quests. Then if a romance, just have a couple extra scenes.

While it's possible for plans to change, remember that Trespasser was supposed to "Conclusively tie off this protagonist". And every time it's been brought up, BW has has said they wanted to go with a new protag with each new game. I've never seen them insinuate otherwise.

As mentioned above - if they are going to bring storyline from Inquisition (and so far it seems that things are heading in that direction) they may as well bring the protag back, regardless how long ago DAI was. Either way things will have to be re-established, because it's quite likely we're not getting a brand new story, but a pretty direct continuation of one - and thus either our new protag or old protag will have to spend time re-acquainting with their surroundings, plot points and characters we already know.

Depending on how story is told, it may even take a while longer to re-establish everything with new protagonist (since they need SOME backstory too and way to establish how they got themselves into that mess), thus affecting the volume of what we could get of fresh story on critical path for DA4.

Indeed. It sounds like the worst of both worlds. I don't want to be the Inquisitor's mini me like -

I won’t. They had the Inquisitor and their story conclusively tied off. In the base game’s ending. Then Trespasser unravels all of that for nothing we the players didn’t already know. So if there is a new protagonist, they ruined the Inquisitor’s story for nothing.
And why would I want to spend money on a company that can’t/won’t provide complete stories?

The game also has the Inquisitor say “I’m off to save the world, again.” Not we as in the Inquisition, but I as in the Inquisitor. That whole DLC is such a mess, including all these mixed messages.

When did they try to say that Inquisitor's story is done? I mean, definitely not with Trespasser has ended, with all its implications and where Inquisitor literally can tell us that they have to save the world... again.

Also - I don't see why people wouldn't want to play 'a grunt'? It won't be the first RPG where we'd start as either one or someone who seems pretty insignificant, but it's not necessarily where they'd end. Also, HoF could be argued was the pawn in Flemeth's hands and the story being really about characters like Alistair or Morrigan, while Inky's fate is directly tied with Solas... DA is simply not the sort of franchise where there's One Important Character and even those that ARE important for either the chapter, or story overall, can be seen as elements in someone else's arc - in this regard, being a 'pawn in someone else's story' (if someone wishes to see it that way) wouldn't be anything new.