Dragon Age News Thread

Just as long as they don't call my Greater Nuggalope a cob. She clearly is a destrier.

Since mounts don't work in tac cam mode, I rarely used them. The only time I used my horse was in the Hissing Wastes since that area was so massive I liked having the extra speed to get around (and the unending desert landscape didn't trigger my motion sickness). I thought they were pretty well done and definitely better than the Skyrim horses, but if they don't return for "Hypothetical" DA4 I won't be too upset.

What I'd like to know is if they originally intended that you could battle from the back of the horse and then didn't have time to implement it. Otherwise I really couldn't see the point of those riding perks you could get through Cullen since the horse immediately threw you off if you came under attack and you couldn't fight from the saddle. I never took them as they looked to me to be a waste of time.

Now if they allowed the option to fight from horseback in DA4, that would be interesting. The Tevinter armies apparently use dracolisk mounts and the current Archon's family have their own special breed of the creature. With us likely to be involved in an outright war between the Tevinter and the Qun, we have got to at least see some cinematic cut scenes with these in.

I've been replaying DAO and one of the things that struck me is that the DAI battle scenes are nothing like as impressive as the Battle of Ostagar. That still had the capacity to move me even after all this time and it set the tone for the rest of the game. Mind you, there are a lot of places in DAO that can still touch my emotions in a way that few scenes in DAI do, whether it is the sheer creepy horror of meeting Hespith or the heroic speeches and encounters of the Battle of Denerim. For me, most of the really moving bits of DAI were connected to my personal life, not the events in the wider world and the final showdown with Corypheus was something of an anti-climax. Mind you that makes sense when you consider that the real antagonist was standing there staring sadly at his broken orb, so Corypheus was a gigantic red herring - hah hah, you think you've saved the world but not really.

That sounds promising. At least they were doing it with a view to possibly using mounted combat in the future. I understand that when you have never done something like that, you'd want to start with just riding around to see how that worked and any problems associated with it and then use the knowledge you gain to see if mounted combat could be made to work in a future game. Obviously a lot depends on resources and if mounted combat wasn't vital to the game or the plot, then it would likely be the first thing to be dropped but at least they were thinking about the possibility, so that's good enough for me.

I definitely feel that if there are going to any more of those large desert expanses like we had in the Hissing Wastes, then you really do need a quicker means of crossing them than simply on foot.

BioWare ‏@bioware
Incredible level of detail on this Cullen sculpture by Caroline L.:
bit.ly/2hCA1Ax

The first time I read that, I thought he said "undertones of pure ass", as in, smells like. LOL.

Ambergris, then.

David Gaider ‏@davidgaider
The idea that Dorian's story might have inspired some fundraising to combat "conversion therapy" makes me feel pretty good, not gonna lie. 😀

Mike Laidlaw ‏@mike_Laidlaw
Oh good!

Still astonishes me that they use Twitter for business messages. Although they may have Slack internally and we just don't know about it, and they integrated it with Twitter.

Steven Crowe @crowecomics
@mike_Laidlaw didn't get them all in there but only have about 18 characters left on my list. Happy New Years.



Mike Laidlaw ‏@mike_Laidlaw
This is madness. The best kind of madness.