Dragon Age News Thread

Periodically useful meme is useful

You are really not giving up on that Dragon Age Tactics game, huh? 

I come here every once in a while to see if anything new dropped.

I'm ready for the next Dragon Age

Me tooooo...I check back every few weeks or once a month to see if there's any news at all. No luck so far obviously

Getting the urge to boot up Inquisition again. It's been two whole years since I've touched it (or any Dragon Age game for that matter)

And sorry for being off topic. I just needed to vent my frustrations and this seemed like as good a place as any I'll curl back into the shadows now...

I don't really know what it means, and I'm slightly scared to be dissapointed and going into the "mulitplayer/live service" sweat, so I'll take it as good news for now.

I really prefer several interesting hubs of variance over a single (maybe, maybe not) more interesting hub that almost no matter what, won't have the same level of variance.

Bioware can try to prove me wrong.

I'm not immediately against that, if there's still towns/cities being visited otherwise (that is, a traveling-RPG maintains to an extent). Maybe even shift to 1+ others in expansions, partially to not complicate the programming of the Minrathous hub.

As long as they DO NOT take the first-person atrocity and run with it, I'll try to stay positive.

I don't really think the size of Hinterlands was a problem - the general problem seems to have been lack of clear directions. The prompt to get out of Hinterlands and follow the main quest was quite weak (hence the meme... and hence they added banter lines urging us to go to Val Royeaux after accumulating enough power) and people were running around the place a bit clueless.

With that said, I can see DA4 not starting in Minrathous and instead somewhere else. Never claimed we're going to be stuck in the city from the start. In fact, I think that even if we'd spend most of the game prowling Minrathous there will quite likely be stuff we can/have to do outside of the city too.

If we could have had ongoing bits of content for the companions in DAI that would have been pretty amazing tbh. Imagine going on a little side quest/date with Dorian for example. It'd be relatively fluffy since I imagine they wouldn't want to radically reinform the character and have that not be reflected down the line as he was released in the base game (unless that is also something they can now change/influence on the fly) but that's fine, it's Bioware playing to their strengths rather than trying to emulate what's been successful for other people. It would add huge replayability.

OTOH it's pretty easy to imagine how this would slot in with the idea Schreier floated about having mass opinion establish canon and developing content from there. Which would be the darkest timeline. 

"Darkest timeline" is a pretty fancy way to say "Killing the game and bragging about it"