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Post by KalleDemos on Sept 30, 2024 19:30:19 GMT
Profoundly disappointed with the news about choices, assuming this is accurate. Just the latest in a string of DATV letdowns. No tactical pause, only three uncontrollable companions, three skill limit, no Blood Magic gameplay or agency...But THIS!?!?!? I think the DA Devs are greatly underestimating the impact this news will have on the fandom. A decade of replays, fan-fics, art, etc only for them to turn around and proclaim that none of it matters and we should be glad about it???? May The Dread Wolf take you all.
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Post by necrowaif on Sept 30, 2024 19:52:17 GMT
Profoundly disappointed with the news about choices, assuming this is accurate. Just the latest in a string of DATV letdowns. No tactical pause, only three uncontrollable companions, three skill limit, no Blood Magic gameplay or agency ... But THIS!?!?!? Only *two* uncontrollable companions.
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Post by flyingsquirrel on Sept 30, 2024 19:52:48 GMT
I've been steadfastly avoiding spoilers, and actually looking forward to DATV in that I've become much more of a Dragon Age fan these last two years than I was before. But I have to say that the news about only three choices importing on the grounds that all the other stuff happened in southern Thedas and therefore isn't relevant doesn't sit right with me at all. I get that there's a limit to how many variables Bioware can account for and that at some point they have to write around characters who might be dead like Hawke, Anders, or Zevran. But the identity of the Divine, or the ruler of Orlais or Ferelden? Those things have no impact at all on the north? I get that rewriting the basic plot of the game based on the differing policies that the people in those roles might adopt is probably a no-go, but I wouldn't think it would be that difficult to work in some acknowledgement that, for example, mages would be operating differently under Leliana than under Vivienne.
For that matter, how far "north" is this game? I guess I thought that the Free Marches and the smaller northern nations all tended to have Andrastian rulers with Circles as we saw them in DAO and DA2, in which case the Divine being a non-factor seems especially odd.
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Post by necrowaif on Sept 30, 2024 20:30:25 GMT
If the game was set solely in Tevinter, I could see the Divine choice making no difference. But Antiva and the Anderfels are pretty strongly Andrastian nations.
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Post by Iakus on Sept 30, 2024 21:11:31 GMT
I remember the meme Press a Button, something awesome happens. Hawke I want to be a dragon crosseyed meme. DA return to shit moutain. I liked DA2, I was frustrated by it, it was obviously rushed to death but the bunch of trainwreck companions, in a shit town with a failure of a pc just resonated deeply. He had no idea what was coming...
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Post by flyingsquirrel on Sept 30, 2024 21:38:20 GMT
If the game was set solely in Tevinter, I could see the Divine choice making no difference. But Antiva and the Anderfels are pretty strongly Andrastian nations. That's what I thought. Which makes me wonder how they're going to address, for example, the situation of the Antivan mages, unless the idea is that the Chantry was so weakened by the events of DAI that all the northern Andrastians have now formed independent local congregations. Or, I guess, they could do what they did with Anderson and Udina in Mass Effect, and tell us that Divine Victoria (whoever she may be) resigned for some reason or died in a freak accident, so that now all the mages are under some new policy set by another new Divine. But they could kind of get away with the Anderson/Udina switch since a single councilor probably couldn't drastically change the political situation in just a year or two. (I know ME2 kind of implied in a couple lines of dialogue that they might, but I thought that was kind of dumb at the time and was content to see it papered over in ME3.) It's harder to imagine that a new Divine would attempt to just hit the reset button on the sorts of reforms introduced by Leliana or Cassandra. Isn't it implied that Vivienne tries that, and that they respond by creating a new organization that she can't control? I don't know, maybe it would work if the new Divine is a scrupulous moderate who allows the mages less freedom than Leliana but more than Vivienne. I agree with whoever said that, if they really wanted a clean slate, they should have set it an entire century or two after Inquisition. I don't even think it would be especially hard to believe that Solas decided to bide his time and let the Inquisitor look like the Boy/Girl Who Cried Dreadwolf, and wait until people were no longer taking the threat so seriously.
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