Heh, does anyone else here remember where the name Thedas came from? Felt like only yesterday when it was thought up...
Will DA3 have SLI support out of the gate?
Heh, does anyone else here remember where the name Thedas came from? Felt like only yesterday when it was thought up...
Thedas is a continent and the only one mentioned in the game, even though the Qunari apparently came from another continent.
I would be fearful they will remove my games for this abuse. I don't think its worth the savings.
Dragon Age: Inquisition requires a 64 bit Windows OS, either Windows 7 or Windows 8.1
Quick important note,this game is 64 bit OS only,so any of you guys still using Win7/8 32 bit OS you will have to upgrade to 64 bit OS and CPU if you want to play this game.
http://forum.bioware.com/topic/5156...upported-asking-developers-for-clarification/
At the risk of being attacked... I kind of liked DA2. Although it was not like DAO almost another game except for the setting.
I thought DA2 was a bit clunky with the items and while the combat was fun I spent so much time paused. I do think it would have been better with more varied environments and enemies but the gameplay itself was fun imo.
I am hoping DA3 is going to be good because I want bioware to do well. If they don't it erases one of the larger RPG makers from the games I can look forward to.
Inevitable, and long over due.
They're supposed to announce additional Deluxe-exclusive content prior to release. I'm still waiting for that myself, because the current incentives are quite uninteresting, although the price difference between the regular version and Deluxe is just $10 ($59 Vs. $69), so I'm not exactly expecting anything much better than what's currently being offered.
I'm very hyped for the game, however, and it does really look good so I might just pre-order Deluxe regardless of the incentives for the sake of saying thanks the only meaningful way I can as a consumer to BioWare (by giving them more money).
Why would you preorder DA:I with Bioware's recent rocky releases? Why would you preorder a version of the game that you don't even know what is in it yet?
After DA2, there is no way I'm touching DA:I at release. I'll at least wait a couple months for hype to die down and reviewers to be proven the liars that they are.
Well in my case I'm saying "after ME3 there is no way...", rather than "after DA2 there is no way...".
There's a few reasons for me, even though to others they might sound completely wacky at best, but I don't care what others think. The first reason is that I actually preferred Dragon Age 2 over Mass Effect 3. I only truly enjoyed one mission in ME3, namely the Tuchanka one. I really disliked, honestly, genuinely disliked pretty much everything else, from the start to the end, with the exception of the Tuchanka mission. I do really like, no, I love ME3's multi-player, however (no sarcasm, I have a good 1K+ hours put into it to this day).
Whereas for Dragon Age 2, I actually enjoyed most of the characters (I only disliked Anders overall, but not because his script was bad or because his voice actor did a bad job, I disliked him exactly because he was well-written, I disliked him as a character within the game's context, not as a "bad byproduct" of a rushed game), the dialogue and most (I.E. not all) of the story. And I also enjoyed both Legacy and Mark of the Assassin DLCs.
The only two main complaints I have about Dragon Age 2 were 1) Recycling of maps/environmental assets (but in retrospect you... well I anyway understand that they had to do it unfortunately since they were pushed by EA to release the game, after barely a year of full-fledged development, which is practically nothing nowadays), and 2) The lack of "freedom" and amount of interaction with your party members. More precisely not being able to engage a conversation with them essentially at will as it was in Origins. But then again, that's probably a direct consequence to not having enough time working on a game that's supposed to be nothing else than a sequel to the masterpiece that preceded it, quite a tall order it was especially to accomplish it within a year (yeah... no, couldn't happen).
But other than that I enjoyed the combat itself (the animations, however, were perhaps too fast, but it wasn't much of an immersion-breaker to me), the characters (most of them as I said), the graphics (at the time anyway, it was a good overall upgrade from Origins), the music, the story (most of it, but admittedly the ending was anti-climatic, although not as blatantly horrid, stupid and out-of-context as ME3's). Had they disposed of at least another year to work on it DA2 would have ended up quite better in both game content and quality, I'm convinced of it. In ME3's case, however, I think that it has much more to do with actual team incompetence than merely lack of time and resources. Yeah, maybe it sounds harsh or rude? I don't care, I'm the gamer, not the dev. I disliked the result, it was an insult of a game and a literal fuck you to both the fanbase and the franchise as a whole that got torched by it. And their 'excuse us, we'll release the Extended Cut, for free too, so you may shut the hell up' move did not bulge the faint trace of sympathy I had left toward them.
And, finally, why am I even referring to ME3 at all here? Well because Inquisition wasn't developed by ME3's team, that alone is enough in my book to look at it and contemplate the possibilities considering that they finally spent more than just one year on that one this time around. If you were to tell me that ME4 is being developed by the exact same team that made ME3 then of course I would simply ignore it, much less buy it. But as far as I know that team isn't anymore, it's been changed, some people left for other projects, some stayed, etc. What we do know (as official information) is that ME4's team is pretty much the same team that made the multi-player of ME3. In that case, at least for me, it gives hope (since I love ME3's MP so much).
So that's why I decided to pre-order Inquisition, because I have confidence in that specific team to deliver. And because I'm convinced that had they disposed of more time to work on DA2 that it would have been much better, perhaps even better than Origins. In other words, as a consumer, I trust them.
Now with this said, could I be wrong and is it possible that ultimately Inquisition ends up being about as bad as DA2? Well of course that's possible, I just don't believe in such a thing right now. I might get a figurative punch to the face as I play it and discover that even after 3 years in development x, y and z aspects of the game were obviously rushed, or ends up being annoying (game play mechanics, etc) or just sounds bad (voice acting, bad script, wacky scripted scenes, etc). And if that does happen I'll be the first to come here and say that I regret placing so much trust in a development team again.
So, yeah, go BioWare, deliver.
Bioware has also turned into a super politically correct company. Their forum police...I mean mods are basically hardcore leftists.
Not surprised. Thats why I don't post there anymore..
The Inquisitor and followers trailer.
And to underscore Bioware's radically leftist leaning, the above trailer which profiles three of the followers, Dorian, Sera and the Iron Bull. None of those characters are heterosexual ()
I can't wait for the Witcher 3. It seems like a more visceral and weighty world than Thedas, with much more realism. Dragon Age Inquisition is just to tide me over until February..
Seriously, what's with Bioware and homosexual/bi-sexual characters? I'm all for having them in a game but recently Bioware seems to be getting ridiculous. Almost every character seems gay these days.
unless they had very good data suggesting it was more beneficial to target females.
The BSN has always been it's own level of stupid - such as "the entire ending of ME3 is actually in Shepherd's head, as he is fighting being indoctrinated" to the point where they INSULT and ATTACK you if you disagree.
The BSN has always been it's own level of stupid - such as "the entire ending of ME3 is actually in Shepherd's head, as he is fighting being indoctrinated" to the point where they INSULT and ATTACK you if you disagree.