Dragon Age News Thread

I never knew that. Though that's not surprising since I never really have them in my party at all let alone together. Leave Josephine alone you two, you give her enough headaches as it is. 

But but... Cullen could have been our Champion on our behalf.   ---   I kid.

They didn't. It wasn't a tourney - it was friendly sparring with warriors of Stone-Bear hold in order to win their favor. It also didn't specifically require for Inquisitor to travel far, nor Inquisitor traveled to Frostback Basin specifically to participate in it.

Which is weird if you do one of the romances that doesn't involve sex.

Or , a dalish Inky asking who Mythal is .

You can just NOT ask "Who's Mythal"   It's an option for the player, as not everyone has played DAO/DA2, or read every codex entry about the elves.


And if we're already talking about such "obvious" questions. I started playing ESO and literally every single Tribunal (living gods of the Dunmer) priest can be asked "Who is Vivec/Almalexia/Sotha Sil" which is especially funny when you (like me) play a Dunmer who just had a in-person meeting with Almalexia.  :lmfao:

Yes, I'm aware it's a MMO, but it just shows that these kind of questions are made for the player, who might not know who said god is.  :smiles:

While I agree that auto-dialogue is bad because of examples like this, I'm with Gilli in that the optional question is there for players who don't know, aren't familiar with DA lore, are playing a Dalish elf for the first time, or perhaps have DAI as their first game. I've always thought that the player reaction to the Mythal dialogue was overblown and excessive. In addition, many seem to focus on the "Who is Mythal?" dialogue option in their rants, rather than the auto-dialogue, as if the very existence of an optional dialogue is offensive. As I said in my previous post, I thought it was silly that my Trevelyan Inquisitor doesn't have the option to say he's familiar with the Grand Tourney, but I don't consider it this huge, glaring error or lambast the devs for it. Not saying you do that, but I've seen it many times from other players.

In general, I prefer as little auto-dialogue as possible.

It's really a reference to both.

Morrigan: ... I believe these ruins to be the Temple of Mythal.
Inquisitor: Which is?
Morrigan: A place of worship out of elven legend.

So the question is specifically asking about the temple, BUT that is predicated on also not knowing who Mythal is.

If the dialogue played as "I believe these ruins to be the Temple of Andraste," someone who knows who Andraste is, and who also knows that temples generally are places of worship, could extrapolate that it is a place of worship dedicated to Andraste. So it is with Mythal as well.

Even if a Dalish elf didn't know about the existence of the temple itself, knowing who Mythal is would automatically allow the Dalish to understand what the Temple of Mythal is, so there would be no need to ask.

As I said in my previous post, the problem with that specific dialogue is that it is auto-dialogue, so the player has no choice but to ask. Morrigan's tone of talking to the Inquisitor like they're a moron doesn't help matters.

This recent Witcher 10th anniversary thing has reminded me that we might get DA4 for Dragon Age's 10th anniversary (2019)! I hope the devs do something special/memorable for it!

I was sad to let my 2018 release date dreams go, and am now using "2019" when I talk about it's potential release :/ 2020 is tooooooo far away. I suppose if they gave me a book every 6 months to keep it fresh.