Dragon Age News Thread

Well...

Mike hinted that we wouldn't get an announcement until 6 mo. before release, so... time to settle into the comfy chair.

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This is THE BSN... oh, we'll find a way.

Sanshee ‏@teamsanshee
"You're too bright. Like counting birds against the sun." Happy #NationalComplimentDay!

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Mike Laidlaw ‏@mike_Laidlaw
I see Overwatch blow up? I want to learn from it. I see folks love the Witcher, I study it. In both cases I love the games AND am intrigued.

Gerudon @gerudon
As long as we don't get anymore "Hinterlands"... 😉

Mike Laidlaw ‏@mike_Laidlaw
Unending opening levels with insufficient push to send you back to the core story resulting in bogged down pacing? Yes, it’s a known issue.

Mike Laidlaw ‏@mike_Laidlaw
The quests lacking substantive ties to core conflicts has been mentioned once or twice, as well.

Mike Laidlaw ‏@mike_Laidlaw
And I’ll start a timer to someone ignoring my post mortem’s subject and just yelling about something else. And I will smile, because…

Mike Laidlaw ‏@mike_Laidlaw
…as @hanlsp notes to me regularly, complaints come from un-met needs. Just have to keep those in mind for whatever the future holds.

Name cannot be blank @pstidrdn
I just want more hair options

Mike Laidlaw ‏@mike_Laidlaw
Oh yes. I also want that. Did you know until us only one game on frostbite had rendered hair at all? Soldier models wear helmets

Bryan Herren @bryan_Herren
What's weird, after playing through like 5x times, I LOVE the Hinterlands. Lots of care was put into that zone.

Mike Laidlaw ‏@mike_Laidlaw
@patrickweekes SEE!

Bryan Herren ‏@Bryan_Herren
I DO agree it buggered the pacing a bit, but it seemed like you guys expected players to be more free-roaming was all.

Bryan Herren ‏@bryan_Herren
where too many players thought they have to "finish" a zone before coming back.

Mike Laidlaw @mike_Laidlaw
That’s the pacing issue and lack of “push” back to story right there, yup.

The 4th Julia ⚔️@fleurdeliser
I really, really loved how even the fetch quests in Hakkon taught us something about Avvar culture or were plot-related.

Mike Laidlaw ‏@mike_Laidlaw
Yay! Hakkon was definitely the product of experience and responding to critique.

Bryan Herren @bryan_Herren
I think you guys had a successful version of this before DLC even, in Emprise du Lion. Def my favorite zone

Mike Laidlaw ‏@mike_Laidlaw
EdL was a very successful late experiment. Was happier with it than others, yes.

Kyle S. ‏@dragonandlaser
I mean, I found it easy enough to just follow the main story and leave side quests for later. Inquisition is an awesome game.

Mike Laidlaw @mike_Laidlaw
I think it’s at it’s best when your side questing is done to play the story, rather than done for completion, yes. Thanks!

Mike Laidlaw ‏@mike_Laidlaw
While I’m gushing, I must note that Trespasser was when daniel _Kading and @patrickweekes, IMO first -truly- combined their terrible powers.

Mike Laidlaw ‏@mike_Laidlaw
They’ll both tell you it was the team, and they’re right of course, but those two are a joyous terror.

Mike Laidlaw ‏@mike_Laidlaw
If we ever do another DA (reminder! Not confirmed! Ahem!) fear their collaboration, is all I’m saying.

Ali Rockwood @ali_Rockwood
but the odds of it being confirmed are good yeah?

Mike Laidlaw ‏@mike_Laidlaw
You’d have to ask the magic 8 ball.

This scares me.

Ghast Whisperer ‏thats1evildude
1) There were a bit too many "last request" quests in DAI. "I'm dead, please take my ashes/this final letter/my mummified foreskin to X."

Mike Laidlaw @mike_Laidlaw
I would tend to agree.

Patrick Weekes ‏@patrickweekes
It WAS a team effort, especially w/John "Wait I can make Solas look sadder if you romanced him" Epler. @eplerjc

Patrick Weekes ‏@patrickweekes
I enjoyed learning about how terrifyingly good our folks are both individually as a team.

Courtney Woods ‏@courtneywoods
My crowning achievement!

Rachel ‏@rachelnotwit
....I see what you did there

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