Dragon Age News Thread

Easily.

Same can be said for ME3

What DA2 had was the best dialogue system. I like that I could play as a diplomatic, sarcastic or aggressive Hawke. It would be nice to have that in the next da game.

But it is in the next DA game (i.e. DAI). The tone and reaction wheels are the personality wheel, re-purposed to an extent.
What's missing is the dominant personality from the auto dialogue (and, personally, I'm thankful for that exclusion).

To each their own, I guess, but I don't miss having the game decide my Hawke is a one personality dude/lady when I'm trying to add depth through dialogue by having them talk to differently to certain people in certain situations.
All because I chose +1 more options of Blue/Purple/Red than the other two. I'm perfectly fine with the DAI neutral convo starters.

I don't agree it was a letdown. In fact, I think it has the best ending of the series so far, plus some of the best characters.

I didn't mind the fight against Corypheus. He was in desperate mode. Everything he had was pushed back by the Inquisition. He also realized had he not flapped his gums at Haven, instead of just killing the herald, he most likely would have won. Like Tuco says, in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, if you're going to shoot, shoot, don't talk. The ending was fitting. He wanted in the fade, so the Inquisitor sends him there.

Honestly, when I was typing this out I immediately thought of you which is why I added the "pretty much" qualifier there...

The worst bit about the ending sequence is that what could have been one of the big surprises with the confrontation and then the other dragon swooping in had already been revealed in the trailer. I hate it when they reveal too much major plot action in movie trailers and I felt this was the same.

I also disliked the Flemeth/Solas meeting because it ruined what could have been a mystery that you gradually discovered as a player during Trespasser. As it was, the entire punch line of Trespasser was already known to me and it was just a case of my character catching up. I disliked it when they did that in DAO with Zevran

I believe PW hinted that they wanted to do more of these sort of cut scenes in the future but I really hope they don't. I want to be able to role play my character and find out things at the same time as they do, not simply be an actor in a movie where I already know things in advance of the action.

I was super disappointed with the final fight with Cory, as I remember the DA2:Legacy experience as one of the hardest boss fights ever. Now, he has pulled a dragon out of his ass, is granted the Orb, mind controls hundreds of Wardens and is allied with powerful demons...only to last for a couple of minutes at best?

I like the idea of Cory succeeding in recruiting whoever we "abandon" in IYHSB. But this army gets wiped out substantially during the avalanche. Cory, being the pathetic fool he is, doesn't even manage to kill a helpless Inquisitor in Haven. I would have expected more drama in the story. Cory honestly looks like a loser, and he would have had the potential for a superb villain both story- and gameplaywise.

The final battle with Corypheus being disappointing is a direct result of creating a villain that you slowly break down over the course of the game. I actually found it somewhat satisfying that the scene directly before the final battle, Corypheus is raving like a lunatic in front of a crowd of probably twelve people. He's already been defeated at that point, and you are merely mopping up the last of his failure.


The idea, at least as I perceived it, was always that "A real god need not proclaim his godhood."

I dont know if I would say this validates the ending, but it makes the ending make more seance. Corypheus is, was, and forever will be, pathetic.

Trespasser IS a good ending, but I'm not sure its fair to call DLC "the real ending".

I tend to agree on this point. I will settle (maybe even prefer, depending) for a dual protag situation, but yeah. If the Inquisitor isn't significantly involved in DA4, Trespasser actually kinda makes DAI's ending worse than it was pre-Tresspasser. To be clear, I didn't entirely mind the vanilla ending, minus not getting a note or something from Solas saying "Sorry but you'll never see me again. Have a good life." or something. But Trespasser has raised hopes.