Dragon Age News Thread

In my defence, what about when we go to fight a dragon and we have to fight not just one big dragon but lots of little ones as well? Or when we fight a whole variety of demons using different forms of magic against us? Some of those were really tricky, particularly if you took them on too early in the game. So if it is okay in those circumstances, then it ought to be possible to balance the gameplay if the people we face are all mages. As was pointed out, mages can have different levels of ability and the trick would be picking out the most dangerous ones that you need to take out quickly over those that you don't.

The Temple of Mythal comes towards the end of the game when you have built up considerable ability (and hit points) and the fact is that the sentinels out in the wilds seem more like very quick rogues. I've not fought the ones inside the temple but they seem pretty much the same. To be honest, it never occurred to me they were all meant to have magical ability because whilst they are an enclave of ancient elves they are still present in a post Veil world, where the majority of people (including elves) do not have magic and yet Solas implies that without the Veil they would. The question and PW's reply would suggest that all the sentinels post-Veil do have magic, but of varying ability to use it in battle and since, as everyone seems to agree, that would have equally been the case pre-Veil, then that would suggest that they were unaffected by the Veil's dampening effect.

I also tried to take out the saarebas as quickly as possible in DA2 and they were lethal considering they were just regular saarebas, not powered up with lyrium ones. We are never likely to encounter a group of them because the Qunari are understandably wary of having too many in one place. However, since we are going to Tevinter, where there is the possibility of several mages (not necessarily all of the same ability) working together against us owing to the culture there, I would welcome the challenge presented. To be honest I found the enemy mages in the main game of DAI pretty easy to defeat and Corypheus was only challenging whilst he had his dragon, which was a bit disappointing considering the Venatori were meant to herald from Tevinter. To my mind the battles all round, but particularly some of the mages, in DAO, DAA and DA2 were far more frightening and challenging than in DAI. In those games I definitely wanted to take out the mages as quickly as possible but the Venatori mages (with the odd exception) were really easy even in the later stages of the game.

Bio-ductress‏ @bioductress
5 sad men you can help with your effervescent naïveté

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Mike Laidlaw‏ @mike_Laidlaw
Our brand.

Danielle‏ @saye_elandreth
Loved all of these characters/romances, but a different style of romance is also welcome next time.

Mike Laidlaw‏ @mike_Laidlaw
*cough* ironbull*cough*

*looks at wall mural... shivers with want*

Thinkpiece Bot 🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot
Millennials Are Using Dragon Age: Inquisition To Get Sex

Mark Darrah @biomarkdarrah
How exactly?

Patrick Weekes‏ @patrickweekes
No kidding. This could be our USP!

J Corwin 🏴‏ @outlawpoet
Mark, you post sexy dragon age cosplay, like, twice a day.

Mark Darrah‏ @biomarkdarrah
Wait...

Sicariothrax‏ @sicariothrax
Do you really think you want the answer? @alexiskennedy tell me he's not serious

Mark Darrah @biomarkdarrah
As has been pointed out; consider the marketing possibilities!

Mark Darrah @biomarkdarrah
Getting a surprisingly diverse set of answers...
Carry on @thinkpiecebot

Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes
Looking forward to seeing folks at @wwc_Calgary next weekend! I'm doing some panels and looking forward to blabbing about words and stuff!
(And also listening to @fondajlee talk about fight scenes, because I love fight scenes, and she writes good'uns.)

Patrick Weekes
Humour: Anything Goes, Social Media Q&A, Challenges in Presenting Video Game Narratives, Autograph Session, Inter-Relationships Between Narrative and Game Play, Ethics in Speculative Fiction


- These sound really good... Someone get over there and record them!

I don't envy that part of Mike's job.

On the plus side, development's at the stage where Sophie's choice style choices have to be made so there's that.

RedRage‏ @92kaloka
@patrickweekes Can we have normal hairstyles in the next Dragon Age pretty please

Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes
As a writer, I am uniquely unqualified to answer this question.





- You know what's going to happen, right? The pendulum is now going swing all the way to the other side and we're gonna wind up having the most elaborately designed, performance-crippling hair ever seen in a game.

Every DA4 armor model:

 
::slams her mug on the table::

::drinks::

Has anyone else been asked to prove they are human when they logged in? Just had that happen to me.    Went to the log in screen as usual and after entering my information another screen popped up asking me to prove I was human.  Ostensibly proved I was human but then was only allowed to proceed if I clicked on a link the adverts that I was not interested in. Said I wasn't interested and then got put in an annoying loop system that continually returned me to where I started, minus the option to prove I'm human. So closed down everything to desktop, came back and was able to log in as usual. Is this something I should report to the site moderators  as someone messing with their log in system or was it legit?