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BioWare Announces Dragon Age Inquisition For October 7th
An anonymous reader writes "Today BioWare announced a new game in its popular Dragon Age RPG series titled Inquisition. The game will follow the story of an Inquisitor trying to rally the world against the magic-laden forces spewing from rifts opening to another place. The game's creative director, Mike Laidlaw, says players will be able to watch the world descend into chaos, and then deal with the burdens of power as they rally forces in opposition. BioWare is also taking the opportunity to fix all of the things they broke in Dragon Age 2: 'Top-down tactical view is back. Playable races are back. The game seems to have more of an emphasis on challenge thanks to non-regenerative health.' The game will launch on October 7th for the PC, PS3/4, and Xbox 360/One."
More DRM-infested garbage from EA? Who cares.
Are the enemy spawn waves gone? That's why I stopped playing DA2: having enemies spawn into the middle of my party when I thought I was done fighting and (as such) had expended all my mana was not fun. I liked that I actually knew what was happening in DA:O and had some capacity to plan and deal with it.
I still remember this thing called Dragon Age 2...which really wasn't a dragon age game, but you never really did say you screwed up royally on it there Bioware. In fact, I seem to remember that you never apologized for the cookie cutter layouts, or gutting the game in the first place. We shall wait, but faith has not been restored, especially after ME3's ending.
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DRM infested great game created by a company that is unfortunately at the mercy of EA.
Don't get me wrong, I believe you are probably right about the DRM infested bit, and I'm personally of the opinion that EA blows ass in general.
But despite the mistakes they've made in the past, I still generally regard Bioware as a company that creates excellent video games, and as such, the announcement of Dragon Age 3 to me isn't something to snort derisively at, but something to look forward to with a bit of wariness included for good measure.
Yes yes, most of us are going to pirate the crap out of it, many of us even having bought it that same day, but let's think about what the new Dragon Age really is promising.
Important, burdensome decisions (like what color of explosion you want at the very end), Inquisitor.
The weight of (small squad) command (in a videogame with plenty of healing and recuperation options - even if your health isn't regenerating like a shield system anymore) Inquisitor.
A colorful cast (okay that one we have to give them, with the number of colors a computer can process nowadays their shades will indeed be legion) Inquisitor
Everybody calling you Inquisitor. Possibly even your own mother. And brother. And children (not that they'll have children if there's any chance any of us might find a way to accidentally catch them in an AoE). Has anyone told them yet just how critically acclaimed little children would be as combat summons yet Inquisitor?
Cupcake molds are not an improvement.
The characters look great and the tactics compelling but there's one important question the preview didn't even try to address: Is the gameplay as carefully balanced and the world at least as immersive, large, and interesting as Skyrim plus expansions? No amount of eye candy can make up for weak gameplay mechanics or a small world. Is the dialogue matched to gameplay? Is it matched to the gamer's style? Is it close enough to bug free that immersion isn't lost? Is the mechanic for buying and selling goods balanced? Does the game support all possible playing styles without falling apart in some way? Is the AI at least decent?
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
Huge Dragon Age fan. I avoided the games till 2013 because so many people told me it was generic. The Mage-Templar conflict is very cool. How would you react if you found out your neighbor knew magic? Wouldn't you want them watched?
To speak in the words of the venerable Michael Scott, "Fool me once, strike one, but fool me twice... strike three." What Bioware has proven over and over again is that they haven't been able to make any proper decisions involving their games since they released the "are you ready for the new shit?" trailer to promote DA1. Again and again they have alienated their core player base in order to appeal to a wider market... and failed. DA2 was a pile of shit, the ME3 ending an abortion that turned everything they said over the course of the development of the entire ME series into a lie ("the ending won't simply be a button you push in the last five minutes of the game!"), and the departure of the Doctors the final nail in the coffin. I'm not even going to pirate this. Before ME2, the last game worth my time Bioware produced came out in 2003. It's over, we're never going to get another Baldur's Gate 2, at least not from Bioware.
Though I'm hopeful about Pillars of Eternity.
Woah there. Let's not get all homophobic.
If people different genders kiss on screen, that's an attack on homosexuality, not some misguided show of love between two consenting adults!
In all seriousness though; I may like other men in a sexual fashion, but that game was full of faggots.
Assume it has a crap ending that is going to annoy you
It was the time of an epic struggle , the company was in peril. Millions of jocks cried out in Anguish as the fate Of EA Football was held in the hands of vengeful RPG nerds.
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your only mad because the females in the game got more pussy than you did
The combat looked exactly as crappy. I saw lots of rolling and the jump/zoom 40 feet to kill monster. They are making some noise about tactical gameplay, but the guy flat out says you can play the whole thing as an action game. The same shit that made DA2 combat suck. Without even getting into all the other ways DA2 sucked (amazingly ugly, emtpy levels, backtrack over same 3 places over and over, completely uncompelling story, forgettable characters, I honestly can't remember anything I actually liked). I was actually optimistic (stupid I know) until I saw that video. Ah well, I suppose I'll just save my pennies until Witcher 3 comes out.
Sorry, but the Inquisition and its agents is one of the darkest, most evil things humans ever did. I am not going to play one.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
I only played the 1st Dragon Age. I refuse to play a game that could easily support co-op. Bioware has some famous co-op games (Never Winter Nights) so they're just plain lazy for not adding co-op.
Nobody expects the Inquisition!
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
Steam makes them sell any DLC on steam as well and bioware has stopped selling DLC separately. They've also stopped selling new games as a complete package years after release. Even today if you want DA2 and all the DLC you will spend $5 for the game and $60 for the DLC.
Sorry, typo in above post.
I really enjoyed the first game. Pre-ordered the second. It was complete trash in comparison.
I'll be waiting for the user - not the lying paid critic - reviews before I fork out for this one.
Dragon Age can be one of my favorite game, not only because I like the middle ages style, but also the way we players can play. I think the character of each people is very clear, they have their own styles of living attitude. But I still think DA1 is better than DA2 (or Bioware is preparing something amazing for DA3?), DA2's conception of world is a little small, it just happened in a small town, and just branch line of DA1..However, it's very nice of that DA2 can inheritthe data of DA1 !! And I'm going to play DA3 too.