Dragon Age News Thread

Watch out, it seems that Bioware is determined to turn the world upside down...

Wasn't there a tweet a while ago where one of the devs stated they could do most of the work, even with a small team? If they really have been working on DA4 since around the release of Trespasser (which I'm inclined to believe they have, I doubt Weekes and crew were just twiddling their thumbs for several years), then it could be nearly finished. Or at least much further along than we might expect...

Or I'm just dreaming. It could be that.

Just have the Inquisitor be the protagonist again. We know Bioware can do it and it solves the issues that would exist otherwise.

There were a few more things that they admitted that they didn't get 'quite right'. That doesn't mean that they're ruling out the thing they didn't get 'quite right' from next title. Many things have decided that some elements in DAI were how they were - not all of them because a thing simply 'didn't work', but because there was not enough time or plans had to be scrapped or changed.

Besides - you keep saying how Hawke didn't work out and people have already pointed out a potential route to implement past protagonist better: make them a PC/secondary PC instead of an NPC.

After all, Bioware already has a considerable experience in transferring a working PC into the next chapter of their RPGs (Mass Effect).
There are many disabled heroes and the lead writer has already stated that if they wanted to prevent the character from showing up again, it would be not through crippling them. Plus, Inquisitor is one of the most influential/richest people in Thedas with access to brightest minds of their time (Dorian, Dagna, Bianca, etc). If they show up again and are still actively participating in combat the chances of them not wielding a badass prosthetic arm are likely close to 0.

Besides - weren't you the one who pointed out the issue of transferring their specialization into the next game? Losing a hand takes care of that because it means that Inquisitor would have to find a new way to fight. It also takes care of their OP button (Anchor), nevermind that it opens up interesting storytelling opportunities.
Nightscrawl has already addressed the matter - I will simply add that even epilogue in Trespasser states that Inquisitor has been spotted in Minrathous, sneaking in to visit/aid Dorian.

Which is why, IMO, dual-protag route with most time spent with new PC would probably be more optimal than either making Inky PC or ignoring them altogether and just focusing on new PC.

Why not? Bioware already did that in Mass Effect 3 where those characters help participate in a mission. Just take the lessons learned from that to make it even better. 
As for the new romances, I don't see why it should lock players out of the new ones if you romanced someone else in DAI. Bioware didn't do that with Shepard's LIs in ME2 or ME3. Just have the game react to those choices. 
As for the LIs who could die, well that sucks but I doubt many who romanced those characters will be using that decision to import. 

As for your other reasons: 
I'd rather have a character more connected to the story than having one more connected to the location. The Inquisitor is more connected than any new person could be. Besides, Bioware pretty much always has our character be an outsider of the location anyway so even if we are a new person I doubt we will be from Tevinter or have very little connection to it. 
I like having a story finished than leaving one unfinished like what Trespasser did. I'm not saing make a trilogy with them like Shepard, but with Trespasser leaving the story unresolved I want it concluded before moving on to a new protagonist.
The Inquisitor can be a mage so why is that a point against them returning?
I doubt they would treat an alive Rainier like that. He is either dead already or nothing is threatening to kill him. 

I'm fine with a dual-protagonist system, it being my second choice under the Inquisitor being the PC. Anything else and I don't think I'm buying since I can't trust Bioware to tell a complete story anymore between what they did with MEA and DAI if the Inquisitor doesn't continue. 

I'm tired of playing an outsider in these games. As much as I disdain origins for pigeonholing my character and forcing families on them, some of the best storytelling is when the Warden of whatever origin goes back to their roots. It makes the emotional stakes higher.

I adore my Inquisitor and would love to control him for a little bit in DA4; I don't want the devs putting words in his mouth or making him act out of character. But I also want a new protagonist that I can craft new stories with.


This is assuming a great deal about the story we're going to experience. Some people say that being an elven Inquisitor is the "best" because of that story content, even before Trespasser was released, but that's only a small portion of the game. The same could very well be true for DA4. 75% of the game could be spent dealing with Tevinter or other issues, with Solas and his people only being a background presence before the dramatic grand finale in which we finally confront him... y'know, kind of like Trespasser was mostly dealing with the Qunari until Solas popped up.

If 3/4 of the game involves Tevinter stuff, I definitely want to be of Tevinter origin. I want to fight for my homeland with that emotional stake, whether that's being a slave or a noble. If I'm a slave, I want to be free in Tevinter and may make choices based around that desire, or even with the Sera-mentality of helping the "little people," since I am one. If I'm an altus, I may have views similar to Dorian, or may prefer the status quo, and may makes choices based around that. It does not have the same impact if you're some random person from outside that the Inquisition recruits to sneak into Tevinter and do whatever. You can make choices based around your morality, but the personal stake won't be there.

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I disagree completely. The Inquisitor did not finish the assigned task. The task was to close the Breach and stop those responsible. The man responsible for it all is still running around and threatening to do it again but even bigger and the Inquisitor swears one way or another to stop him.

Yeah. If Bioware wanted to leave the Inquisitor’s task finished, they should have left DAI off with the vanilla ending and never made Trespasser.

I don't see where Trespasser makes that clear. If anything it did the opposite. I also disagree that Solas can anticipate everything he can do. If he is that omnipotent then a new character will do no better. As for the arm, as has been discussed many times by many people there are reasonable alternatives like a prosthetic. Even explains why we are back at Level 1.

If Solas could anticipate everything the Inquisitor could throw at him, I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t be declaring that he’d be happy for Inky to prove him wrong about his plan. Never mind that the post-credit scene addresses the issue head-on: it’s Inquisitor who initiates the move to Tevinter and search for a new hero. The suggestion so far is that whoever the hero would be, they’d still be directed by the one who had been marked by the story (and Dread Wolf himself) to be Solas’s direct counterpart.