What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

Yeah Wicked Eyes is probably my least favouriet DAI quest as well. All tha tsneakin garound trying t ogathr evidence isn't really good fun. I prefer the moer action focused quests such as sealing rifts and what have you. I'm often quite glad once I've got it done and out of the way. I know you hav t odoi tin order  to move the story on given it's a main story quest but it's not my favourite.

Anywhere you normally find bears (Hafter's Woods in Hinterlands, the Emerald Graves, and Emprise) can generate the randomly promoted ones.

I replayed DA2. Then I realized something. Sandal is connected to a Titan (hence why he can use magic and has visions), which means there's a Titan watching the main events of Thedas through his eyes.

Said Titan watched the HoF's and Hawke's journeys, but not the Inquisitor's. How many dwarves are there like Sandal, silently watching the world for the Titans and intervening when necessary at key historical moments?

And if they're watching...don't they know what Solas is doing? Will they intervene if he tries to reshape reality? And given how powerful Sandal is...won't they go into an epic magical fight with Solas and his army to stop him?

Been playing few days now. I think this is playthrough .. #8 ? Mage Human Male Knight-Enchanter. A funny thing happened on Solas's mission

I am still working my way through Jaws of Hakkon, I think I have the majority of quests done there. Currently I am just about to enter the valley and do some of the questing there. While Jaws of Hakkon feel like an improvement to the base game, I am still having a hard time staying motivated to play. I am still trying to find exactly what about the game really breaks my interest in the game. As far as I can tell its the traversal and how monotonous it is for me combined with a lot "why didn't that work" in combat.

Of the DLC yeah, I did one run at release and then a quick rush for the difficulty achievement after that.  After that I didn't could get past The Hinterlands (according to my character select screen I had 16 playthroughs that only had a couple of hours).

I just finished Trespasser today.

Perhaps an MTX griffin would help alleviate the monotonous traversal grind ... LOL

When I played Star Wars TOR for free years ago, I did not mind paying for an MTX "speedster" to reduce long traversal times.

However, I would not be happy with DA4 having an MTX griffin or horse, after paying full price for the game.

I recall that you mentioned previously that Anthem did not have significant MTX "rip-offs", and that the fear of excessive MTX in DA4 may be irrational and overblown.

I hope you are right. 

However, I still "fear" that EA will not give up on the easy MTX nickel and dime money (while ignoring the potential customer backlash).  Based on extensive EA history, I suspect that the EA tiger cannot change its "quick money" stripes, and there by potentially disappoint shareholders that value short term profit over long term gain.

I recall that the DAI mount speed was limited by the old consoles. EA will no longer be limited by the old consoles (this time Psss-4 and X-Bone), and "could" do an MTX mount that would reduce travel grind ... for a price.

I am under the impression that EA did not have enough time to shove MTX into Jedi: Fallen Order. EA completed the acquisition of Respawn Entertainment in Dec 2017, and Jedi: Fallen Order released in Apr 2019. Would 16 months have been enough time to shoehorn MTX into Fallen Order? I think that would have been tough, and even EA would have realized that would likely be a disaster.

Of course EA had Need for Speed for 15 years when Heat was released in 2019 (without predatory MTX??). Also, Anthem was released in 2019 (also without predatory MTX??). Perhaps EA has learned something since 2019, and conceded that DA4 can be sufficiently profitable without predatory MTX.

However since 2011 (DA2), EA has put thir faith in short term profit. Could EA realy have changed?

Yeah I kind of started a new run o fDAI as seeing the trailers for Forspoken kind of put me in the mood for DAI I'm kind of only playing a little bit her eand a little bit there in he background. As I'm primaril ybus ywith other games and I'm nort suer whether I'll press on wit hthis playthrough all the way yet given how many times I'v played it. I'm not far into the game yet though as I'm still recruitin geveryone. Personally looking forward to Forbidden West when it comes to PC but until Forspoken there's nothing really catching my eye atm.  Well there is but none with confirmed release dates. Forspoken is the first one I have my eye on that has one. I'm hoping they reveal a release date soon for Star Trek Resurgence though. Especially given IGN are covering it atm it would be the perfec time to reveal it given we only have a release window of Spring 2022 atm.

I finally made a male dwarven Inquisitor with a look I was satisfied with. Really unique and characterful, and very fitting for a reformed rough-and-tough Cadash thug. Decided to go Sword-and-Shield and focus on maces (recently realized that blunt weapons are way more satisfying in most games since attack animations invariably only have you bashing the enemies and sending them staggering anyway) with an eye on adopting the Reaver specialization when the time comes.

And the very start of the game went well. It's the first Inquisitor I've ever made that needed to be actively convinced to help trying to save the world, since the Carta method is to duck your head and lay low when things get too hot, not stand out in front and claim that you're gonna fix everything. And the beginning of the game lends itself very well to presenting a reluctant savior with an environment that might convince them to go all-in.

I feel like every playthrough I like Cassandra even better, and this time she struck me as particularly inspiring with her strength and determination and initiative while still trying to remain grounded and aware of her limits. It's not hard to imagine my Cadash ending up falling in love with her down the line in spite of my vague disinclination toward mixed-race/species/whatever romances, both for being who she is and for raising him from the gutter to become a hero alongside her. Cullen, Leliana, Scribbles, Solas and Varric are all impressively resolute in seeing this as an existential challenge that they have no choice but to rise to, and it's easy to see a confounded dwarf of action yanked way out of his element being swept up in their enthusiasm and the glory of fighting for something besides a bigger cut for himself. Making the rounds at Haven and talking to them was very refreshing for once, with this mindset.

...Of course, then the game set in. Five minutes into the Hinterlands I was already tempted to switch off the PS4 and go do something else instead. As Sanunes rightly points out, this game is and has always been a slog. The charms of the open world aspect are completely lost on me three playthroughs in with a much more crowded schedule than I used to have, and the combat is as weird and wonky and uninspired as always even with my handy mace. And on top of that even the deeper male voice sounds absolutely nothing like a former street thug, so I'm constantly preparing to cringe every time the PC opens his mouth no matter which dialogue options I opt for.

If I keep going, I'll definitely be bee-lining for the story and important character moments and not paying too much attention to side quests and whatnot. Otherwise I'm seriously considering just striking Inquisition off from my personal DA canon and sticking to Origins and II for future playthroughs, as I've been tempted to restart from Origins three or four times while gathering steam to just give Inquisition another go. And at this point I couldn't care less about DA4. It's most likely going to be garbage anyway. After playing through Kotor 1 again, part of me would much rather give up on modern Bioware and just try to remember it as it used to be.

...Yeah, the first session of Branson Cadash's adventure was a bit of a rollercoaster.

Is anyone else planning to play their canon Inquisitor again when we get a release date for DA4?