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Dragon Age Thread – Bow Before Your New God

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  • Dr. ChaosDr. Chaos Post nuclear nuisance Registered User regular
    I hope the spec dialogue stuff for choosing Tempest allow you to be like an elixir chugging alchemy junkie.
    You walk up to Cullen scratching your arm and asking if he's still got any lyrium left over from his time in the Templars.

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  • Alucard6986Alucard6986 xbox: Ubeltanzer swtor: UbelRegistered User regular
    Renzo wrote: »
    You get to aggressively flirt with Cullen and watch him freak out and run off at a full sprint. So the Mage Origin has that going for it.

    Irrc, the desire demon in the tower uses your form to torment Cullen while he's imprisoned, so when you get there, he thinks it's still demons.

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  • DeaderinredDeaderinred Registered User regular
    Bassguy wrote: »
    New trailer. Don't love it.

    http://youtu.be/jJqxfkgSUog

    oh god this is the new shit flashbacks.

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  • PhonehandPhonehand Registered User regular
    that trailer is an excitement void

    i actually want the game less now

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    I thought the trailer was fine.

    But I also didn't mind the song.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    It was a decent trailer its just applying to a market that shockingly isn't the PA forums demographic, like the majority of game advertisements...

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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  • BeltaineBeltaine BOO BOO DOO DE DOORegistered User regular
    Thinking about using the Keep to make the most fucked up DA:O/DA2 save file possible.

    I wonder how much of it will really matter for more than a passing comment by some random NPC.

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  • hippofanthippofant ティンク Registered User regular
    Renzo wrote: »
    You get to aggressively flirt with Cullen and watch him freak out and run off at a full sprint. So the Mage Origin has that going for it.

    Irrc, the desire demon in the tower uses your form to torment Cullen while he's imprisoned, so when you get there, he thinks it's still demons.

    Maker, why did I have to go and be so damn sexy?!

  • Alucard6986Alucard6986 xbox: Ubeltanzer swtor: UbelRegistered User regular
    Beltaine wrote: »
    Thinking about using the Keep to make the most fucked up DA:O/DA2 save file possible.

    I wonder how much of it will really matter for more than a passing comment by some random NPC.

    yeah, that's kinda the problem with stuff carrying over anyhow. No matter what stuff you set up for the keep, it's some other protagonist that did everything. Your Inquisitor should theoretically be oblivious to most of the minor details of both the Warden's and Hawke's journeys, aside from Varric style legends.

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  • jdarksunjdarksun Struggler VARegistered User regular
    Dr. Chaos wrote: »
    City Elf origin is still my favorite.

    Love working my way out of a good shithole and that certainly was one. Also endeared me to the city elves and their struggle quite abit.
    My City Elf was a Reaver. Screw the Maker, who cares about the Ashes?

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  • Dr. ChaosDr. Chaos Post nuclear nuisance Registered User regular
    edited November 2014
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  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    edited November 2014
    Beltaine wrote: »
    Thinking about using the Keep to make the most fucked up DA:O/DA2 save file possible.

    I wonder how much of it will really matter for more than a passing comment by some random NPC.

    yeah, that's kinda the problem with stuff carrying over anyhow. No matter what stuff you set up for the keep, it's some other protagonist that did everything. Your Inquisitor should theoretically be oblivious to most of the minor details of both the Warden's and Hawke's journeys, aside from Varric style legends.

    Well, I mean, the events of the first DA are literally world history at this point (ten+ years after the Blight), and at the very least Hawke's story is well known, although the details are muddled. Plus, with Varric there we're bound to hear about it.

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  • BassguyBassguy Ghost Ride the Dragon Registered User regular
    Blackjack wrote: »
    Beltaine wrote: »
    Thinking about using the Keep to make the most fucked up DA:O/DA2 save file possible.

    I wonder how much of it will really matter for more than a passing comment by some random NPC.

    yeah, that's kinda the problem with stuff carrying over anyhow. No matter what stuff you set up for the keep, it's some other protagonist that did everything. Your Inquisitor should theoretically be oblivious to most of the minor details of both the Warden's and Hawke's journeys, aside from Varric style legends.

    Well, I mean, the events of the first DA are literally world history at this point (ten+ years after the Blight), and at the very least Hawke's story is well known, although the details are muddled. Plus, with Varric there we're bound to hear about it.
    Also
    Actually Hawke him/herself

  • hippofanthippofant ティンク Registered User regular
    Watching the first few hours of gameplay on multiple streams, re. Cassandra's portrayal:
    I feel like her characterization's a little inconsistent. Sometimes she seems to resemble the tough, no-nonsense, doesn't know how to communicate with non-soldiers badass from DA2, but sometimes she seems unusually helpful, friendly, and compassionate. Maybe that's the actual characterization they're going for, and I just haven't gotten that far in the game to put it together, but I also wonder if this is an effect of having her be the tutorial character. She's all bottom-right on the dialogue wheel, except when she has to be top-right for tutorial/plot reasons.

  • BassguyBassguy Ghost Ride the Dragon Registered User regular
    hippofant wrote: »
    Watching the first few hours of gameplay on multiple streams, re. Cassandra's portrayal:
    I feel like her characterization's a little inconsistent. Sometimes she seems to resemble the tough, no-nonsense, doesn't know how to communicate with non-soldiers badass from DA2, but sometimes she seems unusually helpful, friendly, and compassionate. Maybe that's the actual characterization they're going for, and I just haven't gotten that far in the game to put it together, but I also wonder if this is an effect of having her be the tutorial character. She's all bottom-right on the dialogue wheel, except when she has to be top-right for tutorial/plot reasons.
    I probably wouldn't read too much into it at this point. If it's nothing but dramatic swings one way or the other the whole game, then maybe there is a problem.

    From the way I perceived it, she is a softie who plays the role of a hardass because of her job/dedication to the Chantry. The way you described her actions doesn't seem out of place to me, but I guess we'll know soon enough.

  • CaptainNemoCaptainNemo Registered User regular
    hippofant wrote: »
    Watching the first few hours of gameplay on multiple streams, re. Cassandra's portrayal:
    I feel like her characterization's a little inconsistent. Sometimes she seems to resemble the tough, no-nonsense, doesn't know how to communicate with non-soldiers badass from DA2, but sometimes she seems unusually helpful, friendly, and compassionate. Maybe that's the actual characterization they're going for, and I just haven't gotten that far in the game to put it together, but I also wonder if this is an effect of having her be the tutorial character. She's all bottom-right on the dialogue wheel, except when she has to be top-right for tutorial/plot reasons.
    She's actually pretty nice beneath all that bluster. Even in the DA2 framing story she slowly warms up to Hawke.

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  • jdarksunjdarksun Struggler VARegistered User regular
    Hm. I think I've finished my Keep settings... and now I want to go revise it all. In my original play, my City Elf sided with the Mages and Hawke sided with her sister, Bethany. But now I'm wondering if it makes more sense for my bloodthirsty reavers to side with the Templars.

    Hmm.

  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    AspectVoid wrote: »
    The best option would be to have a setting where you can select Voiced PC + Dialogue Wheel or Silent PC + Full Sentences. Then we all get what we want and are happy.

    Except half the argument against voiced PCs is that it results in a downscoping on the number/reactivity of dialogue lines; Hell, I think drawing the line at PCs isn't ambitious enough. More games should go the fallout route of only selected lines of only selected NPCs having only a partial line, with most random characters not even having a proper model

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  • CaptainNemoCaptainNemo Registered User regular
    So, uh, real talk? Unless I can pull a Rannoch, my Inquisitor is siding with the Templars. Why? Which is more useful when fighting demons, an army trained to kill demons and negate magic, or a group of magic users incredibly susceptible to demons?

    Exactly.

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  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    So, uh, real talk? Unless I can pull a Rannoch, my Inquisitor is siding with the Templars. Why? Which is more useful when fighting demons, an army trained to kill demons and negate magic, or a group of magic users incredibly susceptible to demons?

    Exactly.
    Unless they significantly buffed templar trees? mages

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Aren't most templars hooked on Lyrium? So uhh your army of demon killers are junkies bro.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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  • jdarksunjdarksun Struggler VARegistered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    Aren't most templars hooked on Lyrium? So uhh your army of demon killers are junkies bro.
    Better junkies tham turncoats.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    jdarksun wrote: »
    Preacher wrote: »
    Aren't most templars hooked on Lyrium? So uhh your army of demon killers are junkies bro.
    Better junkies tham turncoats.

    Truely sofies choice.

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  • RenzoRenzo Registered User regular
    Gotta know your enemy. Who knows demons better than people possessed by demons?

  • CaptainNemoCaptainNemo Registered User regular
    Spoit wrote: »
    So, uh, real talk? Unless I can pull a Rannoch, my Inquisitor is siding with the Templars. Why? Which is more useful when fighting demons, an army trained to kill demons and negate magic, or a group of magic users incredibly susceptible to demons?

    Exactly.
    Unless they significantly buffed templar trees? mages

    I mean story wise.
    Preacher wrote: »
    Aren't most templars hooked on Lyrium? So uhh your army of demon killers are junkies bro.

    Hey, junkies have accomplished a lot. Wrote articles for the Rolling Stone, invented peanut butter Oreos, and destroyed an underwater city founded by objectivism.

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  • jdarksunjdarksun Struggler VARegistered User regular
    Renzo wrote: »
    Gotta know your enemy. Who knows demons better than people possessed by demons?
    The junkies hired to kill the demons possessed by demons.

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Mages have orgies and templars are chaste. Mages man.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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  • InkSplatInkSplat 100%ed Bad Rats. Registered User regular
    Uh.. Red Templars don't exactly make the case for Templars. :P

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  • CaptainNemoCaptainNemo Registered User regular
    Not sure if all Templars are chaste. Aveline was married to one. I think it's more of a by region and level of Templar fanaticism kinda deal.

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  • InkSplatInkSplat 100%ed Bad Rats. Registered User regular
    edited November 2014
    Not sure if all Templars are chaste. Aveline was married to one. I think it's more of a by region and level of Templar fanaticism kinda deal.

    Aveline married a city guard, not a Templar.

    Edit: But the one nice Templar guy has an apostate daughter, sooo.

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  • Dr. ChaosDr. Chaos Post nuclear nuisance Registered User regular
    Thrask was the only templar I ever really liked.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    InkSplat wrote: »
    Not sure if all Templars are chaste. Aveline was married to one. I think it's more of a by region and level of Templar fanaticism kinda deal.

    Aveline married a city guard, not a Templar.

    Edit: But the one nice Templar guy has an apostate daughter, sooo.

    Her first marriage was to a templar, the guy she shanked before he became blighted. And they had no children so chaste...

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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  • CaptainNemoCaptainNemo Registered User regular
    Cullen's stern, but fair. He seems alright, don't mind having him at my back. Hell, he helped me against Meredith.

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  • SoundsPlushSoundsPlush yup, back. Registered User regular
    Not sure that demonic possession is going to be as important an issue as it was in Kirkwall, considering demons can just walk into the physical world now.

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  • CaptainNemoCaptainNemo Registered User regular
    Still don't need my troops turning into Abominations in the middle of the fight. Ideally, both would be useful, but I'm not sure if another Rannoch solution can be squeezed out of this. Too many factions at play, too little time.

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  • jdarksunjdarksun Struggler VARegistered User regular
    Not sure that demonic possession is going to be as important an issue as it was in Kirkwall, considering demons can just walk into the physical world now.
    I think the lesson of Kirkwall was that all mages are demonic possessions waiting to happen.

    If not for the hero anders and the champion of kirkwall, who knows how many of the demons might have escaped?

  • Dr. ChaosDr. Chaos Post nuclear nuisance Registered User regular
    edited November 2014
    Cullen's stern, but fair. He seems alright, don't mind having him at my back. Hell, he helped me against Meredith.
    I still don't see it.

    He advocates the rite of annulment in anger/fear/paranoia in DAO, talks about how mages should be wiped off thedas, epilogue talks about how he runs his position with fear and approves any suggestion Hawke has that results in "kill them all" during Best Served Cold in Dragon Age 2.

    I think people give him a lil too much credit. His PTSD from the Ferelden circle has impaired his judgement.

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  • RainfallRainfall Registered User regular
    One of the previously-unseen Knight Enchanter passives is +50% mana regen when within 5m of enemies. This spec, guys. This spec right here.
    Blackjack wrote: »
    I like how the Tempest Focus Ability is just a massively superior version of a normal Assassin ability.

    It's like Isabela's All Hands on Deck...on coke.

    Also, didn't see it mentioned, but the Assassin tree is up on that same thread.

    And its focus:
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    Please note the other Assassin ability that makes all stealth attacks into crits.

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    I just want wardens, those guys are the hardest core and are basically a lit fuse knowing they are running out of time from the jump. They fight till they are burger.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    InkSplat wrote: »
    Not sure if all Templars are chaste. Aveline was married to one. I think it's more of a by region and level of Templar fanaticism kinda deal.

    Aveline married a city guard, not a Templar.

    Edit: But the one nice Templar guy has an apostate daughter, sooo.

    Her first marriage was to a templar, the guy she shanked before he became blighted. And they had no children so chaste...

    Isabella also doesn't have children.

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