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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jun 6, 2024 16:23:33 GMT
We had the information drop of the game being only a single player game quite a few years back (3 years or so?) so it's been a while. Probably part of the reboot that has extended dev time for so long. I know that, which is why I wondered about the timeframe. If @quizzybunny's source meant something they worked on after the shift, the time would be enough, and I always thought the original game, between concepts and the teaser, gave me the vibe of a multiplayer-heavy approach. I just hope they had enough time to work on them, because if 'recently' means a year or so, it's quite concerning. yeah sorry I'm out of the loop myself so a lot of this is copium too.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jun 6, 2024 16:16:16 GMT
That's discouraging. Either the writing staff just lost their minds pumping out 7 full fleshed characters in a relatively short amount of time, or they are very light on depth. I guess it depends on what 'fairly recently' means. I do seem to recall the various blogs talk about companions, so it seems weird if it's something that they worked on, for example in a year or so. We had the information drop of the game being only a single player game quite a few years back (3 years or so?) so it's been a while. Probably part of the reboot that has extended dev time for so long.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jun 6, 2024 16:14:46 GMT
Okay, I turned to my inside source and basically asked him "WTF?!". He says we should be happy getting even this much. That for a long period there were not even any companions (as we were supposed to play with "friends" or just random NPC), and they have been created fairly recently (likely why we are "only" getting 7). Also, with only 2 companions I guess 7 will be a lot... I guess I should try to be happy we are at least getting companions and the pause system, but I can't help feeling so disappointed it won't be what I've come to associate the game with. It might pass once I see more, but right now I'm feeling low. If this is true then it definitely explains why the game has taken a century to come out. They must have completely started over at some point from a multiplayer game to the single player one we have now. We got the news about the shift to a single player game years ago iirc so tbh I wouldn't worry too much bunny. It has been quite a while.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jun 6, 2024 16:11:39 GMT
It would be naive to assume Baldur's Gate 3's success has had no impact on Dragon Age VG (what's the acronym? lol).
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jun 6, 2024 16:10:10 GMT
Are they really going back to playersexual companions? Unless it's just a turn of phrase when Gary said "And, yes, you can romance the companions you want!" Personally I'm in favour of it but I know many who aren't. Wow good catch! I wonder if that's what he actually means or was just his way of confirming romances in general. But I have said for a while that I think BioWare is going to allow non-binary PC and how do you make that work with gender-locked romances? If there's the conventionally attractive basic male human fighter that I want, then he better be playersexual cause I am NOT playing another female character just to romance Alistair, Blackwall, and Cullen thanks. I'm too old, tired, and gay for that.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jun 6, 2024 15:53:05 GMT
We've been starved of information, now they're drowning us in it. Why couldn't they make something known a bit before that? Naw I'm glad they didn't give us more time. I want the wait over with.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jun 6, 2024 15:50:48 GMT
Ok after the massive focus of the Inquisition in the last game there is no way in hell that one of the 7 isn´t an Inquisition member. Nothing new i know but i would argue that we only get one Inquisition companion and that´s it. The part "or element from Thedas" is quite a wording i wonder what this could mean? Someone like wink Calpernia wink?!? Harding maybe? She was popular and a dwarf female is overdue. oooh maybe Sera will come back as an avatar of the archer goddess that went hunting in the void (forgot her name....)...there were lots of hints about that but that was so long ago I don't remember lmao.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jun 6, 2024 15:48:10 GMT
Obviously I'd prefer more companions out in the world with me, but in practice it doesn't really add or detract much from the story from a historical comparison since banter was usually one on one in most games (with the rare one liner quip from a 3rd or a very few times with input from the avatar). In practice, we'll hopefully experience all the dialogue companions have to offer if we swap them around enough.
Actually hope the smaller group will make banter bugs less likely. That was really annoying in DAI.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jun 6, 2024 15:45:41 GMT
On the flipside it's been so long that anything less than a neutral stance is just weird. We have absolutely no idea what's to come. Idk how I feel about that. I hope it's great. I mean from the little teases we've been getting, two things have already irked me 1) being a leader once again (some will say it was to be expected, but I wished for less of a pedestal and less of a defined group operating together) 2) only two companions (banter will feel less fluid and immersive as it's just two people talking to each other) But you're right, until I've seen and played the game, one should remain neutral. But I'm not going to either way I feel there's no real functional way you are not the leader, given that the avatar is driving the game's plot forward. At worst you could receive orders from someone else, but even then you're almost always the leader of whatever task force you are a part of. Otherwise, you're just following someone else around and that's not fun outside of one or two plot threads (like a car chase for example).
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jun 6, 2024 15:29:51 GMT
Wow. Bioware can't catch a break with people being this mad.. Mad? I'm sure you jest. But genuinely, how much benefit of the doubt does Bioware deserve at this point? On the flipside it's been so long that anything less than a neutral stance is just weird. We have absolutely no idea what's to come. Idk how I feel about that. I hope it's great.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jun 6, 2024 15:28:35 GMT
Praying for a conventionally attractive basic male human fighter. And he will be Alistair/Cullen of DATv, of course All I want for Christmas.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jun 6, 2024 15:24:41 GMT
The first 15 minutes of gameplay should show at least 2 companions (assuming we are limited to two in combat like that alpha play leak from a while back). Praying for a conventionally attractive basic male human fighter.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jun 6, 2024 15:23:42 GMT
Emphasis on the companions also makes me worry as it takes away from you are the hero. Maybe I'm misremembering since I haven't played a Dragon Age game in years, but don't the Dragon Age games heavily focus on the companions? They have contributed the majority of gameplay in each series iirc. Dragon Age 2 was the most obvious example. It's standard BioWare fare really. The game that focused the "least" on companions, Dragon Age Inquisition, was arguably one of the weaker entries (Ignoring Anthem here).
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jun 6, 2024 15:18:23 GMT
Makes sense. Their time at SGF will just be for a trailer while this is like them showing off the Hinterlands. Curious how much of the beginning we’re going to see. Like will it just be gameplay or will we get the story stuff too. With seven companions, my guess is 2 of each class and then the seventh being a unique character class. The return of the shapeshifter?
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jun 6, 2024 15:16:52 GMT
Only seven what a weird number... Why not 6 or better 8? Yeah, it's an unusual number. If things are close to balanced, the breakdown of mages, rogues, and warriors (not necessarily in that order) will be 2/2/3 With only 7 companions I think it's more likely to be mages since the warriors in DA are usually split into S&B and 2H and rogues are either archers or dual wielders. Meanwhile mages have entirely different areas that they could focus on, like a blood mage, healer/support, and dps elementalist type.... or maybe a knight enchanter type. Also it's Tevinter. If mages aren't the most common class I'd be surprised.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jun 6, 2024 15:12:07 GMT
I thought Dreadwolf was weird and I think Veilguard is even weirder. But hey who cares it's just a name.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Feb 27, 2024 2:11:36 GMT
I loved the DAI crafting system, especially with how it let me design awesome looking armor for my mage.
That being said I think there were very few pieces I thought were awesome. I feel like generally Dragon Age customization has a few good choices and then the rest don't look as appealing. Applies to the character creation too.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jan 24, 2024 0:34:34 GMT
I genuinely don't remember how DAO originally played because I only ever played it with mods after my 1st playthrough. I think I used one for Nightmare+, one that added more tactic options, Dragon Age Redesigned I think, some cosmetic upgrades like the warden armor... etc. Oh and one that let me kiss Alistair or something cause 1st RPG character crush tbh.
God I was obsessed with Andrew Ryan's art...
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jan 15, 2024 13:20:11 GMT
I'm still curious why people feel compelled to compare a game released in 2024 to one released a decade ago.
Not interested in participating much myself but I will say that I replayed Dragon Age games far more than I did BG3. I'm still not over Act 3 being terrible.
Edit: Do note I still think BG3 is a 10/10 game.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jan 15, 2024 13:14:35 GMT
One advantage of having not played Dragon Age for so long is that I'm going in with almost no expectations other than having a good time which means I'll probably enjoy it no matter what. I also promised myself I'd avoid any discussions about it because I don't want my initial impression to influenced by others, like with what happened with Mass Effect Andromeda.
Though I'll probably fail at some point because goddamn I miss this series.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jan 14, 2024 23:17:55 GMT
The incessant grumbling gets grating after a while, but the sunshine and rainbows mini-brigade is not much better. To be fair, when operating on a context of almost no information, it's far healthier to hope things go well rather than despair about how they won't. It's been over a decade since Dragon Age Inquisition. At this point we don't have much to operate on. All people can do is hope. If DAD fails, that's probably the end of the series. If it succeeds, we'll be happy. Either way, we'll get closure.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jan 6, 2024 9:11:03 GMT
But yes, people who pick default Sheploo, with the soldier class, are probably not that interesting to talk to... 9 times out of 10. Soldier is a pretty fun class, especially in ME3. Don't care for default Shepard though. They looked good in ME3 but not that great in the others tbh... My custom characters always looked better.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jan 5, 2024 6:28:50 GMT
I mean... I'll be honest...even from a vain, superficial point of view I don't like how Elves look like in this game (though I can appreciate the unique style and think it's cool), don't care for Qunari aesthetics, and generally don't like playing Dwarves cause gear looks squished on them.
Human males look so good in Dragon Age, especially in armor.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jan 5, 2024 5:57:45 GMT
You can have your opinion but I dont see how it's boring. They look good, gear looks great on them, they have ties to all the plot points, and have really fun outcomes. I enjoyed manevering my way to becoming king or queen for one. Sorry but picking a human in a RPG with several non human options is just lame. And even worse if those players also using the human standard face. Atleast more people playing as a female human so that´s something And yes this is just my opinion but if too many players are ignoring those options its only legit for the devs (no just Bioware) if non human stuff is worth the extra effort. This has always been a lame take tbh. The point of playing a normal, regular human in a fantasy setting is precisely the point. You're navigating a world without any special racial powers or crazy fantasy takes and you do your best to survive.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jan 4, 2024 13:10:15 GMT
The human noble in DAO should have had even greater significance to their story if Return to Ostagar had been included in the main game rather than as a DLC and they had followed up on the odd throw away line that you could have missed, such as Howe accusing your father of being a traitor when you confront him in Denerim. Even with Return to Ostagar and Awakening mostly Nathaniel Howe it doesn´t change my opinion that human protagonists are a boring pick. If i had to choose one origins which defined DAO and it´s darker tone well nothing beats female Tabris.
You can have your opinion but I dont see how it's boring. They look good, gear looks great on them, they have ties to all the plot points, and have really fun outcomes. I enjoyed manevering my way to becoming king or queen for one.
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