Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

I think that the main problem with this issue (and I think that it comes both from future players and of course the developers) is that Dragon Age is not Mass Effect in terms of "continuity of one persons story" and I personally think that Inquisition is example of this. I mean if the DAI didn't have Epilogue through Trespasser, I would really consider that the DA4 would make exception of having the same protagonist in another game because the Inquisition had ending but it also had that one little but very critical post-credit scene which implies that the Inquisitor and mainly Solas is not done yet. But then came Trespasser and it shows us the "real" ending of Inquisitor's and Inquisiton journey.

Of course that the option of remaining Inquisiton as the protectors of Divine is broking this concept in some ways but still, the disbanding is the real ending for the Inquisition "both for the title of game and of course for the Inquisitor" in his/her role as the main leader. But we all probably knew that the ending choice of Kill/Redeem Solas wasn't likely there just so it can be there. I think this will be the starting point of the DA4 and the new protagonist (if we will have him) will firstly face this particular choice from DAI. But to return to my main point of writing this, I think that having the Inquisitor as main protagonist for DA4 isn't going to happen because (and things that comes are just my personal opinion) unlike for example Mass Effect 2 or 3 I get the feeling that as Inquisitor we experienced "everything" that we could. I mean we could get married/engagement, we have atleast few loyal friends who would have contact with us and this also ties to developing of this concept. Developers would have to include atleast few companions from DAI in DA4 because "hey I am friend with Iron Bull, Blackwall, Sera, Cassandra is my future wife and I surely knew they wouldn't left me" and so on. The ME2 resolved this smartly but for price that we "lost" one game to utterly new people, new things etc. with only "few hints" that there even was some first ME. So all the friendship/rivalry, romance and many other things would be already done from the times of DAI and for me, it would make sense to for example continue romance with Cass, because we already reach the point where we are basically married and I think that there isn't much options where to go (from the gameplay and design of course.)

Not the mention that Bioware always want new players to play their newest game withous explicity play the ones before the new in the series and having the main returning character is confusing for someone who did not know him (again ME series did that but from my view, it was always at least a little bit weird because I perceive ME something like Lotr trilogy where on part is tied to another while DA is following the Thedas history and it's events by the eyes of different individuals who always end up in "bad places at bad times" only to became on the people who can change things for better or worse.)

So my ideal DA4 plan is (and I think that there is somewhere here a poll about it) that we play a new character, who will ofcourse meet the remains of the Inquisition and decide for it's own if he/she want to follow the Inquisitor's plan for either killing/saving Solas or dissagree with them and put him/herself to it's own path of solving the problems we will face but with one twist, that in DA4 there would be atleast one passage where we will take control of our Inquisitor from DAI and make some significant choice based on what we as the Inquisitor knew from DAI, JoH, Descent and Trespasser. And I mean we can only really speculate here and it can only be for the trailer itself and it's not in the actual game, but I get the feeling that Solas's words from teaser "So you found me at last. I suspect you have question." was addressed to the Inquisitor, who after a long time a perhaps some very challenging path will finally found Solas and so he greets you like an old friend/foe, who was looking for him for a very long time. Sorry for long and maybe confused text. Sometimes I lose myself in the excitement of the new DA when I think about it