Environment Ideas for a Future Game

The only game I remember which had underwater was the Harry Potter Goblet of Fire one. I'd bought the game but hadn't played it yet until after I'd seen the film. I remember watching the film scenes in the Black Lake and Harry being attacked by Gridylows and I was thinking to myself -"Oh, no. I'll have to fight them in the game." Yep

What DA:I lacks most sorely is clearly marked, easy to find roads, that lead directly from point A where you are to Point B where you desperately needed to be fifteen minutes of increasingly hopeless wandering ago. I vote for environment with a reasonable, well-maintained and functioning infrastructure. A shop that sells complete maps of Thedas will also be of an interest to me. Alternatively, a companion owning a flying carpet sitting four will be my top pick for the best companion ever.

Oh - and like others have mentioned - NO MORE DESERTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bah. Mermaids? I want enormous sea serpents!

Play Inside, that'll take care of any happy thoughts you have about mermaids...

Environment? CITIES. URBAN. As long as there is a great large huge gargantuan colossal amount of city environment the rest is whatever, put us inside a volcano or the outer space, as long as there are cities we are fine. What they should never ever do again is DAI's lack o cities, that is retarded, anythin else, really, is ok.

Yeah, different topography and more imaginative environments would be a big improvement over DA:I's open world maps, which, despite some variation in elevation (which was as often annoying as it was interesting to explore) Where kinda tame and "safe" in their design. The Images you got there are some nice ideas for the kinda direction I'd like to see the next installment go.


I think this was more of a result of the effort to create the illusion of open world gameplay in DA:I. We had environments created first that were later filled out with odds and ends. I'd very much be in favour of doing away with that approach, getting rid of the vast open environments full of not much of actual substance and having somewhat smaller locations, more fleshed out in detail, with clear paths for primary exploration and offshoots for free roaming and exploring about the place, that are not so obvious, for the more intrepid gamer. Smaller more focused maps with a wider variation in style and topography as Hrungr mentioned, would help the next games environments leave a positive impact on those that played them.


^^This, a million Times This!!^^

I want a real city to sink my teeth into, let that be the primary focus, with clusterings of interesting and prominent locations orbiting the main city (figuratively speaking, although this is Tevinter, hehe) and the narrative. It's one thing I liked in DA:2, helped the story feel grounded and kept pacing and momentum in the game optimal.

Minrathous, surely they have to do it justice, it would be verging on criminal if they got that wrong! Oh god please, don't let Bioware get that wrong....

I'm hoping we'll get a chance to see at least a couple of districts in Minrathous. Hopefully, as a city built by mages, it'll be the architectural wonder it should be. Magic propping up a city in slow decline should make for some interesting visuals...





At the same time, it'd be great to have some rural Tevinter towns/villages to contrast...




And ships/boats! Naturally, with suitably impressive vistas and navigational challenges...

Aquatic Titans.

Just saying....

The time of the ancient elves when there crystal spires in trees. Let the Fade not be some Nightmare or Hodge podge full of a sloging chore of game play. . but something shaped Into wonder by a dreamer. Let us see the past, let us see an imagined future. And it all has deniability, so they can actually do whatever they want with it, play with history in massive ways and scare entice you about the future.

They keep wasting the Fade, IMO, when it's supposed to be MADE OF DREAMS