Dragon Age News Thread

Hmmm... wouldn't be sort of similar, if it turned out that PC for DA4 worked for Inquisition?

But then of course some people would complain about being forced to work for someone...

Well in defense of people, there was an overwhelming liking of the Imperial Agent story in SWTOR, and he is both forced to work for various organizations, manipulated, and never advances in ranks.

On the other hand, people did not like Trooper with a simple chain of command, and him being always accountable to his General. And Bounty Hunter/Smuggler, the two independent operators/hirelings with attitudes have their fans and detractors, depending on how much you've like dthe personality.

On the other hand, peeps disliked Consular who was no end of special, but just different in how s/he did things.

The clichéd straightforward stories of rise to power for Knight and Warrior were loved, and I think so was the Inquisitor's (though s/he is kind of weird).

SWTOR really makes an interesting and unique case for the study of the protagonists/story style appeal, because it was eight stories all released at once & everyone having a chance to compare them in the same setting, against the same background. Simple power trip still sells, based on that thought experiment, but a peculiar enough story of a little guy that walks in shadows seem to be able to win hearts too. Everything else is a hit and miss.

Yepper, this is exactly what I want. They're setting it up well with the comics too, with Leliana recruiting Tessa/Marius, and now Charter with Vaea. To me, it solves a host of problems related to the continuation of the larger story that begins in Trespasser. The Inquisitor is shown to be invested, and now we have Knight Errant showing that the shadow Inquisition is still around, doing its thing. It seems natural to me that it be done this way. It also still allows them to have their new protagonist for DA4 (I am under no illusions they will bring back the Inquisitor in anything other than a short cameo), while still keeping to the story and allowing Inquisitor leadership to be off screen. Charter and Harding can serve as Inquisition liaison, with Dorian perhaps acting in an advisory role and using the crystal for direct communication. The new PC can still have relative freedom to recruit their own followers (because this always happens, and was done in NWN as well), as well as other minor decisions pertaining to questing, but the big choices would be left up to leadership, not the PC.

Of course, the end result will probably be nothing like this.


There will always be people who complain about something. I can only hope for what I want.

How can they QA if there's no actual game yet- (sorry if dumb question)  or, is there . . . ?

The prototypes have likely existed for months now. Not a full, playable game, but parts of it that can be QA'd. I'm not a dev, but I can think of at least a couple of things that could be tested - maybe new combat system or how AI behaves in given environment and so on.

Haha Oh, I wish. But at this point I'm preparing for "soon"... sometime after Anthem. And that's a year from now

I'm guessing not before Fall 2019, at the earliest.

Yeah, Issues 3 through 5 is set in Starkhaven. The main character is trying to steal a journal with notes on red lyrium from his palace. Sebastian is hosting a birthday party at the time.

Have you seen the other covers? There are all sorts of weird things. In fact, they've been doing weird things since Magekiller. The only comic series that had normal covers (with characters doing cool shit) were the comics written by David Gaider about Alistair and Friends.

His hair just look a little lighter in certain panels. It's still red, though.

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#dev.play Day 2 with Mike Laidlow from Bioware, talking about the Dragon Age franchise building #gamersconference

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#dev.play Day 2 with Mike Laidlow from Bioware, talking about the Dragon Age franchise building

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