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[Draconus Kahn]

Anyone else avoiding posts so the game can surprise you?

I am finding myself avoiding most of the posts here on members you can or will pick up through the course of the game. I also avoid posts on some of the lore. I am completely new to this saga (from what I hear it's based on a series of novels). I feel when I play these games, I am much more immersed when I start from scratch and only know as much of the lore in the world as my character aught to. Is it just me?

Please tell me what you guys think. I am interested in your thoughts.

[lawsie100]

well i am new to this game too, but i am reading a little about the lore as a headstart. Really looking forward to this game more than any other in a long time actually. But yes i stay away from any potential spoiler threads.

[tkaz85]

I am deliberately not looking at any of the origin videos for this very reason-i want to be shocked!

[Arttis]

I'm sure they there isn't enough info on these forum to make me not surprised by this game.

Although i wouldn't mind if i heard it all.

[Seagloom]

I should probably start to avoid posts considering the amount of spoilers I've either stumbled into or found in previews lately. Knowing my luck I'll probably accidentally read a few more before DA's out.

Modifié par Seagloom, 22 octobre 2009 - 01:09 .

[dragoager]

I've only looked at 2 videos, the trailer where they kill the dragon and one showing actual game play.



Some spoilers are leaking out through the general discussion thread though. I don't know all of the NPCs that can join the party, and I don't want to know.



I haven't looked over any of the threads about the books or history of Dragon Age either.



I'm trying to ignore names and locations so I can discover them first hand for myself.

[Arttis]

Don't look through the character profiles...

[Knights Templar]

Most of the lore i have found doesn't have any thing to do with the main story although some of it does. Most of the stuff is just lore about why the world is like it is. So not to much of a big deal and with a 60+ hour game i would like to know what im getting in to. Just incase npc says this and i have no idea why he's telling me to do that. So i think some lore is good but main plot lines are bad.

[Aristorum]

I'm hoping that I'll be able to read all the posts and still be surprised by the final outcome.

[flem1]

I would say Book #1 is definitely safe to read for the spoiler-averse. Book #2 has some serious lore stuff your character might not know, plus a big foreshadow in the epilogue.

[flem1]

(how this this turn into a double post?)

Modifié par flem1, 22 octobre 2009 - 02:03 .

[Marik333]

I think that my character, as a mage, would know Chantry and mage-y stuff from the get-go. Everything else that I like to know, lore-wise, is just for me.



Regardless of how much he knows, my character is still going to ask for lengthy explanations every chance he gets, since that's how I always go through my first time.

[Knights Templar]

Marik333 wrote...

I think that my character, as a mage, would know Chantry and mage-y stuff from the get-go. Everything else that I like to know, lore-wise, is just for me.

Regardless of how much he knows, my character is still going to ask for lengthy explanations every chance he gets, since that's how I always go through my first time.

Never thought of that how would you grow up not knowing any thing about the world.

Good RP for knowing this stuff

[NewYears1978]

I alwasy want to be surprised. In DA:O's case I am so obsessed I have read previews, reviews and watched countless videos..and still do not feel spoiled. The game's huge..even if you get spoiled there is plenty left to surprise. Unless you read some REALLY spoilerific stuff that is story related..but I dunno many who do that.

[Marik333]

ColtPeaceMaker wrote...

Marik333 wrote...

I think that my character, as a mage, would know Chantry and mage-y stuff from the get-go. Everything else that I like to know, lore-wise, is just for me.

Regardless of how much he knows, my character is still going to ask for lengthy explanations every chance he gets, since that's how I always go through my first time.

Never thought of that how would you grow up not knowing any thing about the world.

Good RP for knowing this stuff

Exactly. 

As far as big secrety things, like stuff about the Grey Wardens, or non-mages knowing mage-y things (same applies for non-elves knowing elf-y things, elves knowing non-elfy things, etc.) goes, though, you have to draw the line somewhere... My character, as I play him, is going to be largly ignorant of anything not involving mages and the Chantry (not to say that he'll be devout by any means).  Which is, if you think about it, kinda perfect for a first playthrough! What better way than take your maiden voyage into the world of DA:O by playing a character who hasn't set foot out of a giant stone tower the last decade and a half or so of his (or her) life?

[Knights Templar]

Hmm imma play a human noble which will be taught about all aspects of life in case of war or trade .

[Rustedknight]

Draconus Kahn wrote...

Anyone else avoiding posts so the game can surprise you?

I am finding myself avoiding most of the posts here on members you can or will pick up through the course of the game. I also avoid posts on some of the lore. I am completely new to this saga (from what I hear it's based on a series of novels). I feel when I play these games, I am much more immersed when I start from scratch and only know as much of the lore in the world as my character aught to. Is it just me?

Please tell me what you guys think. I am interested in your thoughts.

Actually it is the other way around. The novels are based on the game and written by the head writer for the game.

[Enderion De'Veryn]

To OP:



You definitely have to read the Lore and Locations, other-wise, the story in-game won't make any sense to you as you play it. I really doubt they will go in-depth in the game about what you should already know as an adult character about to face another Blight.

[Wayne_Carrion]

Since you don't start your character as a child, I would expect that you would know something about the world. And knowing history should not detract from the gameplay. To me, not knowing anything would be equivalent to traveling in a foreign country and not being able to speak a common language. A lot of talk and no comprehension. Where's the fun in that?

[Aleksandrov]

I've been avoiding nearly everything so I can be surprised.



Expect the Dwarf Noble/Human Noble and Dalish Elf opening when I couldn't help myself.



Still a bit hazy on game mechanics and lore though, which is only a good thing.

[Darthnemesis2]

I think learning the lore is very important if you want to know what your character would know. Not know would be like some RPing the real world but not knowing what Europe is or what the middle age means, or who won WW2. Lore gives context. I can understand not wanting to know what happens in game, but the devs have created thousands of years of history, history that your PC would know (or at least have heard of).

[flem1]

About The Calling: I'm not talking history or politics, I'm talking things that only a high-ranking Grey Warden would know (and in terms of the foreshadow, something that only maybe three people in the world know). No way any PC would know this stuff.

[vyvexthorne]

Wayne_Carrion wrote...

Since you don't start your character as a child, I would expect that you would know something about the world. And knowing history should not detract from the gameplay. To me, not knowing anything would be equivalent to traveling in a foreign country and not being able to speak a common language. A lot of talk and no comprehension. Where's the fun in that?

That for me is one of the best things about traveling to another country... You can somehow still communicate with people by pointing at things and making faces.. It can really become quite a unique, silly and fun experience.  I've always loved jumping into situations I know nothing about... sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad.. either way it seems to make that experience just a little brighter in my memory.

[Srikandi715]

RPGs always kinda force you to make decisions during character creation, before you have any idea of what the consequences of those decisions will be >< This drives me nuts, so I tend to try to inform myself about how the character development system works beforehand.



As for surprises, though, I am confident that a game this complex will have its share of unpredictable bugs, so we can count on being surpised by those

[Srikandi715]

RPGs always kinda force you to make decisions during character creation, before you have any idea of what the consequences of those decisions will be >< This drives me nuts, so I tend to try to inform myself about how the character development system works beforehand.



As for surprises, though, I am confident that a game this complex will have its share of unpredictable bugs, so we can count on being surpised by those