The Lighthouse - No Spoiler Zone

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Hello new home.

How did we go so quickly from wondering if the game would perhaps come next year to hiding in here. I am getting whiplash

I could venture out and try to scout for info but I don't want to accidentally learning something major so under a rock I go.

What are you guys doing while waiting? My brandnew Inky just got to Haven. Currently I'm stumbling around sort of remembering things and mapping out what I want to get done before getting smacked by old-dude-with-a-god-complex. Remember that I used to do things in a very specific way so I would get certain npc later on in the Castle. Thought about reading up on it and then decided against it. If I'm going to have even a glimmer of hope of getting anywhere in DAI before Veilguard comes I better just move on instead of reading tactics.

Yeah that' spretty muc hwha tI'm doing a sI'm kind of bouncin gbetween my sports games and finishing m yactive Inquisito rthen after I've finished DAI I'm planning on going through Forspoken again so I can pla ythe DLC s oI can remove i tto make space fo rVeilguard. Afte rtha tI'm no tsuer yet but it'll likel yb eone of 3 things pla yth e Lego Skywalke rgame that I keep meanin gt oplay. Anothe rMas Effec trun or my firs trun of the first 3 DA games seeing a sI haven' ttouched DAO o r2 in a tleas t2 years so wantt orefers hmy memor yon everythin gthat's happened s ofar.

me too. lol. 

Pretty sure all I;m gonna get to do would be DAI. 

I don't know. Whilst initially they were more vague and we gave our own names to concept art of them, so Dorian was known as Dramatic Hands Moustache Guy, during the last few months before release they really started promoting them. They were really pushing Iron Bull with Freddie Prinz as his VA, Dorian because of the gay angle, and Solas but we saw a fair bit of Sera too and knew that Cole was being brought over from the novel Asunder. Much of what we know about these latest characters does come from stories and comics but that is no different to Cassandra, who had been part of a major video series as well as in DA2. I think it seems more of an info dump this time round because there has been nothing for so long and then suddenly they revealed all 7 at the same time, rather than gradually one or two at a time.

I think there is not much of a chance that we will get more story reveals here and there. Again referencing schmooples I do find it odd that they are being this heavy into the spoilers when the game does not have an official release date so is likely still a few months away. Like I would expect these reveals a couple weeks before launch and not a couple of months so given that...well we're more then likely going to see more story stuff somewhere along the line.  

On the other hand as I also mentioned/ believe this has been such a front loaded marketing blitz so it sounds like they are getting a lot of the big curiosities of the fandom/ the most obvious stuff out of the way first. This could also suggest that we won't get a lot more from here, but then when is the game coming out? 

As for spoilers in these games/ trailers in general, for me anyways, I do tend to disagree. The thing about spoilers and trailer spoilers is they are presented largely without context a lot of the time. So there isn't a lot of we can point to to get a specific picture painted. The Dragon Fight is a good example of that because all we saw was a dragon fighting another dragon, the trailer itself did not spoil when that would happen in the game or the events around it. SImilarly we might've already seen the end game in some of the marketing we've got already, but we don't fully know that either, because there is no context, just random images.

Well not until we were into the last part of the game and it still hadn't occurred. Then Flemeth said to Morrigan, you know what to do and I instantly thought, yep she's going to be the dragon. So, when Cory's dragon was advancing on us, I kept thinking "any moment now". It did sort of spoil the suspense, although it would have been less of a surprise anyway if you had already tamed a dragon but without the trailer you wouldn't necessarily know when it was going to attack.

Ugh... this is starting to feel like a test of my ability to delay gratification.

In the voice a your average nature documentary:

"We now see the woman hovering with pointer at the forum, will she stay away from the general forum with it's juicy information or remain in the safer spoiler-free confines of the forum. The ability to delay instant gratification has been connected to better grader or higher salaries..."

Back to DA:I. Don't think I can trust myself out in the internet at the moment.

I shall remain strong!!

(dear gods, for how many months are we supposed to do this?)

I just want to see and hear more of the companions. So far we've met Harding, Neve and Bellara. That leaves Taash, Davrin, Emmrich and Lucanis.

Yeah I don't reall ymind too muc hI wan ta look a tthe CC bu tother than tha tI'm sold. Othe rthan the CC and ho wtha tworks I don' tneed muc hmore.

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