A DRAGON AGE THREAD

[Jiji]

Yeah, more studios should be like Larian. 

[J.T.]

Gareth David-Lloyd is my boy, but that Solus dialogue is kinda cringe.

I may pick up DA4 simply since I haven't played any of these titles since they unpinned elf ears from the side of your head, but I may do what I meant to do in Inquisition before I began to hate the entire franchise and play as a Qunari. 

With horns, naturally.

I am intrigued by the concept art from that underwater environment.

I remain cautiously optimistic.  I may have sipped the Kool-Aid again without even realizing it.

If they go 100% Dragon's Dogma and allow you to scale large enemies and attack them, I may be all in.

Edited August 28, 2020 by J.T.

[JLSigman]

13 hours ago, J.T. said:

Gareth David-Lloyd is my boy, but that Solus dialogue is kinda cringe.

 

Solas chewing scenery, news at 11.  

I was more interested in the Black man voicing a so far unnamed Warden. Would like to see more of that one.  

[Eivion]

Its nice to know they are working on a new game. It also reminds me that I totally have not finished Inquisition technically since I never played the DLC. I had started a new playthrough to do the things I wanted to do for my main game, but sort of lost interest a couple of years back as I had gotten into other games. May just go and finish it with my original character.

[J.T.]

On the odd happenstance that DA:I shows up in Games For Gold I might give I a go but pay for it?  Nah.

[RIPPA]

30 minutes ago, J.T. said:

On the odd happenstance that DA:I shows up in Games For Gold I might give I a go but pay for it?  Nah.

Considering its the best of the three - thats a weird stance.

Now that being said - they did put the original up on GFG around the time DA:I showed up so its not unheard of. More than likely it would be DA2 and I will hate myself all over again

[The Man Known as Dan]

17 minutes ago, RIPPA said:

Considering its the best of the three - thats a weird stance.

Now that being said - they did put the original up on GFG around the time DA:I showed up so its not unheard of. More than likely it would be DA2 and I will hate myself all over again

As someone who enjoys DA:I, no way does it top DA:O for me. Which is at least partially due to the the RPG elements being so much stronger in Origins. Mages specifically have just insane options and playing as a Mage in the games since has been nowhere near as compelling to me.

[RIPPA]

I admit that it has been forever since playing the Original so that does color things a little.

Though I do remember feeling like the Fade section was never going to fucking end.

[J.T.]

1 hour ago, The Man Known as Dan said:

As someone who enjoys DA:I, no way does it top DA:O for me. Which is at least partially due to the the RPG elements being so much stronger in Origins. Mages specifically have just insane options and playing as a Mage in the games since has been nowhere near as compelling to me.

I'm a dex fighter guy and I felt pretty unbeatable as a min-max Human Duelist in DA:O.  Chain stuns and auto backstabs FTW and trapfinding / trapsetting was essential.  Soooo many fights in the Circle Tower trivialized by kiting swarms of enemies into hallways littered with claw traps.

I played a Human because I could not bear playing an elf with my ears super glued to the side of my head.

Have heard good and bad about the Rogue specializations in Inquisition.  Have always heard rumors that Rogue wasn't a Qunari friendly class, so I never bothered to get Inquisition even though that's probably not entirely accurate.  Races IIRC were supposed to be mostly cosmetic so you couldn't entirely gimp yourself by playing something classically uncomplimentary like a Dwarf Mage.

1 hour ago, RIPPA said:

I admit that it has been forever since playing the Original so that does color things a little.

Though I do remember feeling like the Fade section was never going to fucking end.

And just as you got yourself out of the Sloth Demon encounter, you were in the thick of another boss fight like minutes later.  I am not sure how anyone survives that one two without Wynne as a dedicated healer / buffer unless you've got a ridiculous amount of healing potions handy.

Edited August 28, 2020 by J.T.

[Eivion]

1 hour ago, RIPPA said:

Considering its the best of the three - thats a weird stance.

Now that being said - they did put the original up on GFG around the time DA:I showed up so its not unheard of. More than likely it would be DA2 and I will hate myself all over again

 

47 minutes ago, The Man Known as Dan said:

As someone who enjoys DA:I, no way does it top DA:O for me. Which is at least partially due to the the RPG elements being so much stronger in Origins. Mages specifically have just insane options and playing as a Mage in the games since has been nowhere near as compelling to me.

I enjoyed all three games a good deal. I kind of agree that DA:I is the best, but that is more because the negatives aren't quite as strong as the ones in Origins & II for me. I think both of the former actually have stronger endings. Story wise I actually like II the most. There is something neat about a story going on over the course of years and being a bit more personal than the norm.

[RIPPA]

This is news worthy of bumping this thread

 

[Robert C]

The single player only part sounds good. The starting over twice part not so much. 

[J.T.]

Like I said in the Upcoming Games thread, I can't really buy the logic that EA is giving up on their games as a service business model just because Jedi Order did well and Anthem Next did horribly.

It does not even address the fact that loot box sales in games as service (the main way that developers generate revenue from the platform) is a tinderbox for lawsuits, the fact that the DA player base would wholesale loathe the decision and would refuse to support DA in the same manner that barely anyone supported Anthem, the decision to release ME:LE as a single-player campaign has been met with a lot of positivity, or that a DA built on a games as service concept would receive tons of backlash simply because EA is the publisher and EA already has a pretty shoddy reputation and is perceived to be a den of greedy morons.

 

Edited February 26, 2021 by J.T.

[Eivion]

23 hours ago, J.T. said:

Like I said in the Upcoming Games thread, I can't really buy the logic that EA is giving up on their games as a service business model just because Jedi Order did well and Anthem Next did horribly.

I assume its more a case of those things being the final nail in the coffin than the only or biggest reasons. 

[J.T.]

Normally I stick to dex fighters in RPGs but when DA4 comes out I may have to play this PIMP MAGE~! from the latest concept art.

Edited March 22, 2021 by J.T.

[Travis Sheldon]

2 hours ago, J.T. said:

Normally I stick to dex fighters in RPGs but when DA4 comes out I may have to play this PIMP MAGE~! from the latest concept art.

Damn, that looks like something that would not be out of place in Bloodborne. 

Looking forward to this one. 

[AxB]

We have had the Voice Actor reveals for Rook in Dragon Age Veilguard. FemRook will be played by Erika Ishii, and MaleRook will be played by Alex Jordan.

(They both appear in D&D streams; Erika was a guest in Criical Role for a few weeks, Alex is a permanent member of Natural Six)

Edit to add:

Edited July 22, 2024 by AxB

[Ace]

Erika Ishii is also a regular on Dropout (fka College Humor).

 

[RIPPA]

New trailer comes out tomorrow and will include the release date 

[AxB]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8DkDQhPx2A

Yer trailer. Release Date is 

Spoiler

October 31st, 2024

 

[The Man Known as Dan]

I once more once ask how that first trailer ever made it to the public. The game looks fun, the characters look good. I'm in.

[Kevin Wilson]

I like they didn't announce an exact release date until I assume the game is basically done. Not that the game didn't get delayed a thousand times but waiting until two months before to give a firm date was probably smart.

I'm definitely all in, Day 1 purchase.

[RIPPA]

 

[JLSigman]

FYI, a whole bunch of NDAs will expire today, so beware if you're trying to avoid spoilers for Veilguard.

[AxB]

Yeah, lots of First Look videos dropped in the last hour. The game has good hair animation now!