No matter how you use your skills, you won't likely end up with more than 10, and the idea of limiting players to 8 skills is a common decision, even in PC games. It is new to DA, and I wouldn't mind if they gave us 10 slots instead of 8. 10 would have been enough for most any character build. I do prefer the new method over DA: Origins, where my mage had about 30 spells. I had to create a script for my G13 to move my mouse over spells and click, to accommodate up to 30 spell slots.
I felt limited on all my characters with only 8 skill slots.
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Even more annoying because you can program your AI to use more than 8 skills but somehow the UI limits to 8? Doesn't make sense. I can see myself using 10-12 skills on some builds. Some of us like to do more than just spam a broken combo a million times.
well, if that one combo is broken, then better to replace it entirely with something else, no? Frees up some space when choices are limited.
Still, I do agree with you as far as DA:I is concerned. The skills that are available for each class, tend to be very redundant to a certain degree. So, it either makes sense to just toss in bunch of slots to cram in all of those skills--which is fine--or encourage the player to ignore redundancy? Eh, not sure if the latter is the best design, but it seems to be what is going on here. For two warrior trees, you basically have 2-4 of nearly identical guard generation/sundering skills. Depending on what you want, you pretty much need them to unlock the nice passives or other skills. Clearly, though, it's a waste to eat up 2 skill slots with skills that are so redundant.
The elemental trees for mages are also very underwhelming, I think. 3 actual skills of each type, and most are very redundant: 2 types of walls, 2 types of mines.
Also, all skills, as far as I know (most, anyway), can be reproduced in master crafting, as % activation on hit--which is a very powerful thing, imo--so that can free up another slot.
Game of the Year would be great, because I'm a Dragon Age fan. But what about sales? Anyone seen sales stats, has it sold well enough to justify DLC and Dragon Age 4?
3 biggest changes I want to see for DA4:
1. Party chat in the field, not just home base
2. unconsolize the gear equipping screens...if I didn't play it on casual so I could spend more time taking in the story, I'd find that very very annoying.
3. I think they went just a tad far in making it open world. Maybe tone that down from 9 on a scale of 10 to 8. Just a tad, and have a little more main storyline content to disperse throughout the game.
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Even more annoying because you can program your AI to use more than 8 skills but somehow the UI limits to 8? Doesn't make sense. I can see myself using 10-12 skills on some builds. Some of us like to do more than just spam a broken combo a million times.
They have to be generic for mass appeal and not to offend anyone. Even the japanese stories are pretty generic these days. That's what happens when you mainstream gaming to maximize profits.
I felt limited on all my characters with only 8 skill slots.
Single most annoying thing to me (except the horrible kb/m controls) is the mount. It is TERRIBLE! I find it slower to use anywhere except the Hissing Wastes, where it is completely flat. Any small rocks will cause it to stop and the gallop 'feature' is horrible too. Plus, any time you go to a menu and back, it goes back to super-slow speed. Crap.
120 hours so far. Just main-quest stuff left. 10/10 dragons dead and about 95% of side quests all done in all main zones.
Single most annoying thing to me (except the horrible kb/m controls) is the mount. It is TERRIBLE! I find it slower to use anywhere except the Hissing Wastes, where it is completely flat. Any small rocks will cause it to stop and the gallop 'feature' is horrible too. Plus, any time you go to a menu and back, it goes back to super-slow speed. Crap.
It's a pretty weak complaint for a gam I am enjoying a lot, but it's a 'feature' I wish wasn't there and was added later 'right' instead of just throwing it in...
120 hours so far. Just main-quest stuff left. 10/10 dragons dead and about 95% of side quests all done in all main zones.
Yep, mounts are worthless. I never use them, my Warrior's Charging Bull skill allows me to run really fast and can last for 10+ seconds with a short cooldown... so I just use that instead.
Just beat the game. 51 hours in. Killed 2 dragons. 1 before finishing the main quest, and 1 after. Right after I killed the 1 after the main quest I realized I didn't really want to play anymore so I just uninstalled. But it was a fun run. Give the game a solid B+.
I never argued you didn't. Just that you won't likely need more than 10. I've been finding that some are extremely situational, and you can easily do with out. What I did say was you likely will only have to do without 2 skills with any build and that consoles are the reason for this change. I also said I'd rather be limited to 8, than have a character with 30 situational spells as in Dagon Age Origins. I think 10-12 would have been best.
Single most annoying thing to me (except the horrible kb/m controls) is the mount. It is TERRIBLE! I find it slower to use anywhere except the Hissing Wastes, where it is completely flat. Any small rocks will cause it to stop and the gallop 'feature' is horrible too. Plus, any time you go to a menu and back, it goes back to super-slow speed. Crap.
It's a pretty weak complaint for a gam I am enjoying a lot, but it's a 'feature' I wish wasn't there and was added later 'right' instead of just throwing it in...
120 hours so far. Just main-quest stuff left. 10/10 dragons dead and about 95% of side quests all done in all main zones.
Never use Charging Bull in combat though. You'll end up dozens of meters away from the fighting; and the AI party members will conveniently follow you while they take shots in the back. :/
So you've probably missed . . . 70% of the game then? Most of the side quests are simply collection filler, but its not possible to get the different angles with all party members on a single playthrough.
I'm starting to see some deficiencies in the Dragon Age Keep Tapestry. At least, from the website, you can add a custom name and a brief description for each world state. However, you can only export 1 to DAI, and when you import that world state into your game, you get nothing more than a date stamp for it. Kind of annoying. Is there a technical limitation where they can't let me see all my created world states and select which one I want at character creation?
I want each character I create for DAI to have a different starting world state, which requires a good 45min in the Tapestry to set up and save.
It looks like you can basically only have one "world state" synced to your Dragon Age Inquisition game from the Dragon Age Keep at a time. The Keep saves all the world states you create, you just have to be sure to sync the right one to DAI from the Keep when you're starting a new playthrough.
Never use Charging Bull in combat though. You'll end up dozens of meters away from the fighting; and the AI party members will conveniently follow you while they take shots in the back. :/
My main character is actually a sword/shield Warrior and I control him 100% of the time (switching off to other characters only to pop regen potions), so I use Charging Bull constantly because I can just let go of the button and stop instantly. Great interrupt skill, I actually equip the +30% damage ring for it!
But you're right, I gave this skill to Iron Bull and the ai will run a laughably far distance. Avoid.
So mass appeal equals every fantasy cliche in the book (minus the farmboy becoming a god)? Dragons, dwarves, elves, good vs evil, climatic battle, someone gets it, fetch this magic potion, OH the potions, evil nobody can conquer except you, save the day again, blah blah blah ***yawn*** . . . . .