Dragon Age News Thread

I get your point. But they weren't heros. Heros get splashed with chemicals as a kid ad can fight crime completely blind. Heros get so much radiation their skin should melt off like what actually happened in Hiroshima.... Not turn green and muscular.

shiniebezial sejic ‏@stjepansejic
for the longest time i wondered why i never could move on with playing dragon age inquisition beyond the first part of literally shutting

shiniebezial sejic ‏@stjepansejic
the first rift. today i realized why while talking about it with @lindasejic in dragon age 1 and 12 you are given a character. you are

shiniebezial sejic ‏@stjepansejic
given time with your character, a story behind your character that naturally flows into the larger narrative. in dragon age 3 however you

shiniebezial sejic ‏@stjepansejic
are given a skyrim character with no personal story and just thrown into being the chosen one. you followers are all a million times more

shiniebezial sejic ‏@stjepansejic
interesting. so yeah... i never got around playing dragon age 3 for longer than an hour because i didn't give a crap about my own character.

shiniebezial sejic ‏@stjepansejic
took me a while to figure this out XD

shiniebezial sejic ‏@stjepansejic
also if you liked the game, or even loved it, you aren't wrong. this is merely the reasoning of why i never got hooked on it.

Mike Laidlaw @mike_Laidlaw
We see similar but opposite complaints when the opening is “too slow and has too much talking.”

Mike Laidlaw @mike_Laidlaw
FWIW, I think both complaints are valid, and speak in a lot of ways to a “taste” issue.

shiniebezial sejic ‏@stjepansejic
there is no right answer to this. only tastes. personally i loved the distinct almost hobbit like approach to previous games

shiniebezial sejic ‏@stjepansejic
by that i mean,you start off with your character, you are given a bit of time to care about them before seeing the big picture

Mike Laidlaw @mike_Laidlaw
Origins in particular, yep.

Mike Laidlaw ‏@mike_Laidlaw
Yep. A party is planned, normal is established and then disrupted! Egads! Adventure!

shiniebezial sejic ‏@stjepansejic
dragon age 2 had it as well. it starts off as a smaller story of a family rising from nothing.before the bigger story unfolds

shiniebezial sejic ‏@stjepansejic
did wonders for making me care about hawke... gave me a reason to cry at some point as well.

Mike Laidlaw ‏@mike_Laidlaw
Heh, yeah. A few moments there were pretty harsh.

shiniebezial sejic ‏@stjepansejic
i wasn't using that heart anyways XD

Mike Laidlaw ‏@mike_Laidlaw
Payback for anytime I feel a lurch when reading Sunstone?

shiniebezial sejic ‏@stjepansejic
why must we hurt each other so? XD

Mike Laidlaw ‏@mike_Laidlaw
The artist’s burden, I suppose!

Thing is, nobody would even notice it, as it'd disappear in a thread, as most forum posts do. Add to that the fact that Stjepan is a rather known comic creator...

Yeah, that kind of hurt just looking at the text   but the conversation was cute

I don't think Marvel is an example I want Bioware to emulate/take inspiration from for Dragon Age. Then again, I also don't really enjoy "heroes are special cause they're special for the plot and therefore they're special snow flakes" narratives. To be clear -- I don't mind protagonists with special powers like the mark or being a Grey Warden. I just mind when they're presented as special IMBA unstoppable snow flakes simply because they're the protagonists. 

I agree that allowing the Inquisitor to fight again would be silly given the various other examples evil dude listed. (IE: Gorim, Gaspard). I think getting rid of the inquisitor's arm as Biowar'es way of unequivocally taking them out of a combat role in future titles. (The exception being an inquisitor who romanced Sera of course.)

That said, I'd love to play the inquisitor as a dual protagonist in the next DA, especially given her relationship to Solas. So the main protagonist would have a combat-intensive role but the narrative would also require you to RP as your inquisitor at certain points to make some plot-crucial decisions. (Hell, maybe this could even result in varying degrees of conflict or at least disagreement with your main protagonist -- like there should have been with my inquisitor and my Hawke.) If Bioware is going to bring back a former protagonist (something I would welcome), I prefer they give us control given the way they dictated several of Hawke's beliefs/values in Inquisition. 

Mike Laidlaw ‏@mike_Laidlaw
I have always enjoyed this guy's channel, but now that he's gone full Varric, enjoy his manic laugh.

Mike Laidlaw ‏@mike_Laidlaw
"Imagine what you could do with a John Deere engine! HA HA HA HA!" God I love him.

Eh, not sure I agree with that. Before they moved to twitter, generally, dev posts were bookmarked, saved and immortalized. Was a frequent occurrence that people would dig them up to make a point. The only difference I see is devs slightly more often saying things we need to know outside an interview or article. But, most of what they say on twitter is drivel. They are, of course, entitled to their drivel and to do whatever they want on their twitter, but most of it isn't news. 

Of course, I don't think that forums are the end-all-be-all of technology. Twitter could fix this problem by simply dramatically upping the character count limit for a person's posts. 

Yes, but you're talking about dev points being unburied and immortalized - I'm talking devs noticing someone's post in the first place. And considering how fast some threads can move and how offtopic they can get, finding an actual point or opinion that for whatever reason someone finds valuable can be a challenge.

CHIE!