Dragon Age The Joyguard (formerly Hype Train) [Spoilers]

She's probably just a generic background character for concept art purposes 

I know, I'm heartbroken as well.

I titled it: David vs Qunliath.

The huge dude's armor has Qunari motif (aka red ropes), so most probably a Qunari.

Also, the "one second please" person totally destroy an army before Qunliath showed up... 

It seems they are doing a bunch of new mocap, so maybe...just maybe...we can have a female character that doesn't walk around like she has a bowling ball between her legs in cutscenes.

Also note that the Qunari has comically small head, but the v-shaped helm and horns are another sign.

Now, did the guy with the sword kill these others, or is he just the last man standing...? The latter was my first impression.  

I'm so excited. Even if it is mostly just concept art we've seen and so much could change, this feels like way more to chew on than past 'teasers' for da4. I know the final product could drastically change but I'm sooo happy with what I've seen so far. Tevinter looks gorgeous and I'm so happy most of the concept art seems to focus on cities. Maybe I'm just biased since I adored DA2 but I'm so much more excited by the thought of exploring cities than the wilderness.

Everything is just a pretty background unless something is happening.

So. The announcement sent me on a bit of a nostalgia spiral.

I have not played DA:O or DA2 since at least 2013.

I have not played DA:I since, I believe, early 2015.

I'm thinking I might do a trilogy marathon sometime soon. Go through the content I never played before, like Witch Hunt, the sequels' DLC, and The Last Court. My relationship with the series is complicated, since while I loved DA:O (easily in the top three most influential games I ever played), I thought DA2 was just okay and found DA:I thoroughly disappointing.

But who knows how I'll feel over half a decade later, and I hear the expansions are better than vanilla. Might be worth a try when it goes on sale. Wasn't planning on getting any RPGs until BG3's full release anyway.

Also, the "one second please" person totally destroy an army before Qunliath showed up... 

Now, did the guy with the sword kill these others, or is he just the last man standing...?   

I got to be honest...I didn't realize that the female characters didn't have female walking animations.

Oooo see I thought he was just being especially graceful and dramatic for effect.

(...) I don't think many people noticed that they occasionally give female gait to Solas in some cinematics I'm not joking - did anyone else here notice this too?

This, for example:

Is the same as this, save the hand gesture:

Or in Trespasser.

Yyyyup. This isn't mocapped, it's in-game female gait, just with arms crossed behind.

Just a funny observation, if we're getting this far into detail. They intentionally give it to him when they want to give us a peek at his ancient ellfiness/Fen'Harelness. His walk is straighter and more graceful, but he simply doesn't have hips and thighs to visually underline the gait or feet making close steps with.

It's a thing that should probably be mentioned a little more often given the context of discussion: that the body models they give us will also have an effect on the gait it was paired with, which is one of reasons why male gait on female looks so funny when put on models they haven't been designed for (I think the biggest issue here is that the male-model based animations is just incompatible proportion-wise with smaller frames of some models, hence diaper walk in women or poor broken arms of shorter and lankier elf males), or why the sway may seem too pronounced on females for some others, given the standard pretty hourglass shape, especially of human model. Different proportions will simply have a different visual effect, entirely aside from internal anatomy or something. It's also true that DAI fashion tends to skew towards skin-tight, and this has a visual effect too.

Soo... hype thread! Anyone got any loose ideas for what kind of character(s) they'd like to play going into DA4?

Soo... hype thread! Anyone got any loose ideas for what kind of character(s) they'd like to play going into DA4? Assuming we have all races and a variety of specializations, what are you thinking/hoping for? Got any thoughts about how they look, what kind of VA you'd like to have? Wanna break out the ol' Alignment Chart?