I hope DA:I has an option for Flemeth to show up as a rotting corpse, she opens her mouth to give a non-answer again and you behead her. Then set her on fire. Then Morgan sets her on fire again. So, really, the game is going to disappoint in one regard.
The lack of Fire Emblem Awakening cameos? Yeah, the godbaby is going to be a disappointment compared to the last hellspawn.
Although, I suppose if Flemeth raises the kid, they might be nearly as good at trolling.
Inquisition thoughts, with The Masked Empire spoilers:
The Empress's handmaiden/girlfriend, the elf Briala (BTW: nobody cares that the Empress is sleeping with a girl; they freak because she's an elf... Orlesians: fantastic racists but not homophobes) has a mentor, Felassan, who is described as a Dalish wizard who always talks about Fen'Harel, the Dread Wolf from elvish mythology. But when they actually meet a tribe of Dalish, he's pretty dismissive of them and gives no shits as to whether they survive. Briala asks him about who his tribe actually is and if he's actually Dalish, and he's all, "I don't think you want me to answer that question." His nickname, "The Slow Arrow," refers to a Fen'Harel story where he fired an arrow into the air and it took out the survivor of a duel, leaving both sides without a champion and restoring balance of a sort.
At the end he's confronted by what appears to be his mysterious employers, who take him to task for letting Briala choose her own fate when granted access to artifacts of the old elvish empire.
So going "ancient elvish" might be a solid guess as to the Inquisition big bad.
You should be able to keep doing stuff in most areas except for Redcliffe.
Great. It was feeling like I was hitting a wall. There is nowhere to grind in that game.
It's called the party camp.
If you got the Dalish elves on your side, buy a whole shit-ton of elfroots (and you can buy an infinite amount from some vendors) and put 'em in the supply box. Infinite experience as long as your gold holds out.
The ability to target individual body parts on bigger enemies should make for some interesting tactics. I'm curious to see how tough the High Dragons will be. Those ladies were tough as hell in the last two games.
I'm hoping the combat is more like Dragon's Dogma this time.
That is the key thing that needs to be thrown into all modern AAA RPGs.
The problem was they wanted to go more ARPG, but didn't commit to it fully, so they had a halfassed compromised that satisfied no one. (Still not sure how dodge roll will be used effectively in tactical mode (yes we've already covered mechanically))
The ability to target individual body parts on bigger enemies should make for some interesting tactics. I'm curious to see how tough the High Dragons will be. Those ladies were tough as hell in the last two games.
There was one in the one two-part video posted, I think the first part. Looks like there may actually be more than one high dragon this time.
I am getting back into spell casting properly with the Arcane Warrior on DA:O. I think I need to adjust the A.I. routines. Wynne needs to use her mana and heal people better. I usually switch between her and I during fights.
Wasn't there a "side with the werewolves" solution where you could free them from the curse as well as a more "evil" one where you just helped them slaughter the elves and then got werewolves for the final battle?
I never did that one, it was too evil.
I got those werewolves, but if I remember correctly the elves are real assholes if you're a city elf.
It was a thing and certainly something worth seeing 'what happens if', but from a practical standpoint, it kills an entire potential marketplace. They're slightly better to have at the endgame, but not so much a difference that you regret not having them.
Anyway, I'm reading through tvtropes (trying to distract myself from my ennui) and I read this about Awakening:
If you import to Dragon Age II, ALL party members not present with you to the broodmother will be flagged as dead no matter if you choose to save Vigil's Keep or not.
This is a thing, right? Like, not a shitty, left in bug but actually implemented and never corrected?
Wasn't there a "side with the werewolves" solution where you could free them from the curse as well as a more "evil" one where you just helped them slaughter the elves and then got werewolves for the final battle?
I never did that one, it was too evil.
I got those werewolves, but if I remember correctly the elves are real assholes if you're a city elf.
It was a thing and certainly something worth seeing 'what happens if', but from a practical standpoint, it kills an entire potential marketplace. They're slightly better to have at the endgame, but not so much a difference that you regret not having them.
Anyway, I'm reading through tvtropes (trying to distract myself from my ennui) and I read this about Awakening:
If you import to Dragon Age II, ALL party members not present with you to the broodmother will be flagged as dead no matter if you choose to save Vigil's Keep or not.
This is a thing, right? Like, not a shitty, left in bug but actually implemented and never corrected?
Anders shoehorning aside, I imagine that could be the case, but since the other characters are never mentioned in DA2 it isn't that big of a deal. Particularly since DAKeep is going to be a thing, it could just be chalked up to one of those many undesirable bugs that Bioware was aware of and didn't want moving over to Inquisition.
Wasn't there a "side with the werewolves" solution where you could free them from the curse as well as a more "evil" one where you just helped them slaughter the elves and then got werewolves for the final battle?
I never did that one, it was too evil.
I got those werewolves, but if I remember correctly the elves are real assholes if you're a city elf.
It was a thing and certainly something worth seeing 'what happens if', but from a practical standpoint, it kills an entire potential marketplace. They're slightly better to have at the endgame, but not so much a difference that you regret not having them.
Anyway, I'm reading through tvtropes (trying to distract myself from my ennui) and I read this about Awakening:
If you import to Dragon Age II, ALL party members not present with you to the broodmother will be flagged as dead no matter if you choose to save Vigil's Keep or not.
This is a thing, right? Like, not a shitty, left in bug but actually implemented and never corrected?
Anders shoehorning aside, I imagine that could be the case, but since the other characters are never mentioned in DA2 it isn't that big of a deal. Particularly since DAKeep is going to be a thing, it could just be chalked up to one of those many undesirable bugs that Bioware was aware of and didn't want moving over to Inquisition.
Wasn't there a "side with the werewolves" solution where you could free them from the curse as well as a more "evil" one where you just helped them slaughter the elves and then got werewolves for the final battle?
I never did that one, it was too evil.
I got those werewolves, but if I remember correctly the elves are real assholes if you're a city elf.
It was a thing and certainly something worth seeing 'what happens if', but from a practical standpoint, it kills an entire potential marketplace. They're slightly better to have at the endgame, but not so much a difference that you regret not having them.
Anyway, I'm reading through tvtropes (trying to distract myself from my ennui) and I read this about Awakening:
If you import to Dragon Age II, ALL party members not present with you to the broodmother will be flagged as dead no matter if you choose to save Vigil's Keep or not.
This is a thing, right? Like, not a shitty, left in bug but actually implemented and never corrected?
Anders shoehorning aside, I imagine that could be the case, but since the other characters are never mentioned in DA2 it isn't that big of a deal. Particularly since DAKeep is going to be a thing, it could just be chalked up to one of those many undesirable bugs that Bioware was aware of and didn't want moving over to Inquisition.
Nathaniel is a sidequest in DA2.
He must have been one of the ones I left to defend the keep then, because he's not one of the ones that bizarrely is automatically killed regardless of keep upgrade status if left to defend(I took all the ones that always die/disappear if they defend with me), but didn't see him show up in DA2 at all.
I got my boy friend into DA recently so now he is absorbed. DA:I was part of our push to start saving for a PS4. He has been super into the game and is almost done with Origins. I can't wait for him to see how 2 ends, I am going to need pop corn for that. I plan on playing as a Male Qun Mage and romancing Dorian, unless Cole is romancable. So stoked.
The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice-versa, the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant.
I got my boy friend into DA recently so now he is absorbed. DA:I was part of our push to start saving for a PS4. He has been super into the game and is almost done with Origins. I can't wait for him to see how 2 ends, I am going to need pop corn for that. I plan on playing as a Male Qun Mage and romancing Dorian, unless Cole is romancable. So stoked.
Per previous Dragon Age thread: "No, he's not."
Per Bioware: "God no, he's not. What is wrong with you?"
I got my boy friend into DA recently so now he is absorbed. DA:I was part of our push to start saving for a PS4. He has been super into the game and is almost done with Origins. I can't wait for him to see how 2 ends, I am going to need pop corn for that. I plan on playing as a Male Qun Mage and romancing Dorian, unless Cole is romancable. So stoked.
Per previous Dragon Age thread: "No, he's not."
Per Bioware: "God no, he's not. What is wrong with you?"
To elaborate, Cole is apparently basically a child, in terms of his mentality.
I got my boy friend into DA recently so now he is absorbed. DA:I was part of our push to start saving for a PS4. He has been super into the game and is almost done with Origins. I can't wait for him to see how 2 ends, I am going to need pop corn for that. I plan on playing as a Male Qun Mage and romancing Dorian, unless Cole is romancable. So stoked.
Per previous Dragon Age thread: "No, he's not."
Per Bioware: "God no, he's not. What is wrong with you?"
To elaborate, Cole is apparently basically a child, in terms of his mentality.
There's also a subsection of borderline-predators on the Bioware forums who don't care.
I got my boy friend into DA recently so now he is absorbed. DA:I was part of our push to start saving for a PS4. He has been super into the game and is almost done with Origins. I can't wait for him to see how 2 ends, I am going to need pop corn for that. I plan on playing as a Male Qun Mage and romancing Dorian, unless Cole is romancable. So stoked.
Per previous Dragon Age thread: "No, he's not."
Per Bioware: "God no, he's not. What is wrong with you?"
To elaborate, Cole is apparently basically a child, in terms of his mentality.
There's also a subsection of borderline-predators on the Bioware forums who don't care.
There was also a group that wanted to romance Carver and/or Bethany, incest be damned.
Basically, Bioware forums are where humanity goes to die.
I got my boy friend into DA recently so now he is absorbed. DA:I was part of our push to start saving for a PS4. He has been super into the game and is almost done with Origins. I can't wait for him to see how 2 ends, I am going to need pop corn for that. I plan on playing as a Male Qun Mage and romancing Dorian, unless Cole is romancable. So stoked.
Per previous Dragon Age thread: "No, he's not."
Per Bioware: "God no, he's not. What is wrong with you?"
WOAH, well then...I guess Dorian it is then... *quietly backs into the crowd to avoid feeling awkward*.
The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice-versa, the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant.
They mentioned that large enemies will have weak-points, and demonstrated as such in the alpha-demo with the dragon fight... but no, no awkward climbing.
I got my boy friend into DA recently so now he is absorbed. DA:I was part of our push to start saving for a PS4. He has been super into the game and is almost done with Origins. I can't wait for him to see how 2 ends, I am going to need pop corn for that. I plan on playing as a Male Qun Mage and romancing Dorian, unless Cole is romancable. So stoked.
Per previous Dragon Age thread: "No, he's not."
Per Bioware: "God no, he's not. What is wrong with you?"
To elaborate, Cole is apparently basically a child, in terms of his mentality.
There's also a subsection of borderline-predators on the Bioware forums who don't care.
There was also a group that wanted to romance Carver and/or Bethany, incest be damned.
Basically, Bioware forums are where humanity goes to die.
I mean, how old is that imoen romance mod, They've had creepers long before the BSN (I blame the inclusion of romances)
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Have they even mentioned that there will be actual Qunari in the game? Because I had a dream a little while ago where you get between them, Templars, mages, and the battlefield is chaos.
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Have they even mentioned that there will be actual Qunari in the game? Because I had a dream a little while ago where you get between them, Templars, mages, and the battlefield is chaos.
And then the mages and templars turn around, shake hands and beat the shit out of the qunari together while shouting "man, fuck these guys!".
Have they even mentioned that there will be actual Qunari in the game? Because I had a dream a little while ago where you get between them, Templars, mages, and the battlefield is chaos.
And then the mages and templars turn around, shake hands and beat the shit out of the qunari together while shouting "man, fuck these guys!".
Actually, you were basically setting up a triple ambush or something. And then the dragons came.
Have they even mentioned that there will be actual Qunari in the game? Because I had a dream a little while ago where you get between them, Templars, mages, and the battlefield is chaos.
And then the mages and templars turn around, shake hands and beat the shit out of the qunari together while shouting "man, fuck these guys!".
Actually, you were basically setting up a triple ambush or something. And then the dragons came.
And it turned out the whole chain of events was set up just so Alistair could make another swooping joke.
The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice-versa, the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant.
In Awakening Anders just wished for freedom, but he lacked the care to fight for the cause; basically he complains about the templars like always, but his own wants/needs came first. Justice argues with him regarding this in several situations, at one point saying that Anders and other mages should rally against the templars for their imprisonment of his kin, and Anders shakes it off as insanity.
Obviously Justice's words do get to Anders eventually since he agreed to host Justice in him for the sake of this goal, but his time amongst the Wardens and in Kirkwall made Anders bitter towards templars, and the bitterness turned to anger, which tainted Justice and turned him into Vengeance.
In his Rivalry path, Hawke is actually able to persuade Anders into having second thoughts about "his big plan" and Anders even realizes what he's doing is VERY WRONG. However when he starts thinking on it more, Justice/Vengeance comes out in a fit of rage and screams at Hawke to not interfere, before Anders realizes it's too late for him now.
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The lack of Fire Emblem Awakening cameos? Yeah, the godbaby is going to be a disappointment compared to the last hellspawn.
Although, I suppose if Flemeth raises the kid, they might be nearly as good at trolling.
Why I fear the ocean.
At the end he's confronted by what appears to be his mysterious employers, who take him to task for letting Briala choose her own fate when granted access to artifacts of the old elvish empire.
So going "ancient elvish" might be a solid guess as to the Inquisition big bad.
Great. It was feeling like I was hitting a wall. There is nowhere to grind in that game.
It's called the party camp.
If you got the Dalish elves on your side, buy a whole shit-ton of elfroots (and you can buy an infinite amount from some vendors) and put 'em in the supply box. Infinite experience as long as your gold holds out.
That is the key thing that needs to be thrown into all modern AAA RPGs.
That said there seems to be quite a few little combat tweaks that will hopefully improve things.
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The problem was they wanted to go more ARPG, but didn't commit to it fully, so they had a halfassed compromised that satisfied no one. (Still not sure how dodge roll will be used effectively in tactical mode (yes we've already covered mechanically))
There was one in the one two-part video posted, I think the first part. Looks like there may actually be more than one high dragon this time.
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It was a thing and certainly something worth seeing 'what happens if', but from a practical standpoint, it kills an entire potential marketplace. They're slightly better to have at the endgame, but not so much a difference that you regret not having them.
Anyway, I'm reading through tvtropes (trying to distract myself from my ennui) and I read this about Awakening:
This is a thing, right? Like, not a shitty, left in bug but actually implemented and never corrected?
Anders shoehorning aside, I imagine that could be the case, but since the other characters are never mentioned in DA2 it isn't that big of a deal. Particularly since DAKeep is going to be a thing, it could just be chalked up to one of those many undesirable bugs that Bioware was aware of and didn't want moving over to Inquisition.
He must have been one of the ones I left to defend the keep then, because he's not one of the ones that bizarrely is automatically killed regardless of keep upgrade status if left to defend(I took all the ones that always die/disappear if they defend with me), but didn't see him show up in DA2 at all.
Per previous Dragon Age thread: "No, he's not."
Per Bioware: "God no, he's not. What is wrong with you?"
To elaborate, Cole is apparently basically a child, in terms of his mentality.
3DS: 1607-3034-6970
There's also a subsection of borderline-predators on the Bioware forums who don't care.
O_o
Basically, Bioware forums are where humanity goes to die.
3DS: 1607-3034-6970
WOAH, well then...I guess Dorian it is then... *quietly backs into the crowd to avoid feeling awkward*.
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I'm not saying I'm not amongst the guilty btw. I do it too. It is terrible though.
And it turned out the whole chain of events was set up just so Alistair could make another swooping joke.
3DS: 1607-3034-6970
Obviously Justice's words do get to Anders eventually since he agreed to host Justice in him for the sake of this goal, but his time amongst the Wardens and in Kirkwall made Anders bitter towards templars, and the bitterness turned to anger, which tainted Justice and turned him into Vengeance.
In his Rivalry path, Hawke is actually able to persuade Anders into having second thoughts about "his big plan" and Anders even realizes what he's doing is VERY WRONG. However when he starts thinking on it more, Justice/Vengeance comes out in a fit of rage and screams at Hawke to not interfere, before Anders realizes it's too late for him now.
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