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Finally! Some gameplay. Two things stick out.

- I'm not a fan of the over-sized sword. Too exaggerated.

- I most definitely am a fan of the animation. It's reminiscent of Devil May Cry, which isn't a bad thing. I love the gore, and Beth's exploding fireballs... and her boobs. :)

All in all some impressive stuff.

Edited by slimgrin, 28 September 2010 - 12:19 AM.


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Wow it looked pretty fun loved the fluidity and pace even though its just a small sampling.

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jhawke wrote...

judging from that gameplay vid...........I'm wondering. When we start the game, are we FORCED to play as the default Hawke during Varric's exaggerated narration. Then, once he starts telling the "real story" we get to customize Hawke's appearance.

I'm hoping this is just for demo purposes. And in the final game, we will be able to customize our Hawke right from the beginning........


Uhhhh... I seriously doubt it?


slimgrin wrote...

Finally! Some gameplay. Two things stick out.

- I'm not a fan of the over-sized sword. Too exaggerated.

-
I most definitely am a fan of the animation. It's reminiscent of Devil
May Cry, which isn't a bad thing. I love the gore, and Beth's exploding
fireballs... and her boobs. :)

All in all some impressive stuff.



Devil May Cry! Yes, that was the game!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Edited by JoePinasi1989, 28 September 2010 - 12:22 AM.


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jhawke wrote...

I'm hoping this is just for demo purposes. And in the final game, we will be able to customize our Hawke right from the beginning........


Likely demo. Although if that's to be the new starting screen for the character creator I wouldn't mind. Much nicer to look at.

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JoePinasi1989 wrote...

joriandrake wrote...

I love the sword, I wish it would be about 30% bigger tho


You're joking...


Throw in a giant red coat and two glocks and he'd be in ecstasy.


make that two ARMS .454 Casull and we got a deal ^_^

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I like how detailed the armor is. Funny really as I've just made a comment about that in another thread.

The gameplay seems speeded up as you would in a beat em up like soul caliber or something, perhaps just because of the exaggerated version.

Also be carefull not to cut off your ears!

Edited by Faz432, 28 September 2010 - 12:26 AM.


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Silentmode wrote...

Wow it looked pretty fun loved the fluidity and pace even though its just a small sampling.


Agreed.

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Damn you, slow internet. God, Lady Hawke is gorgeous. I can even say she's prettier than Bethany, in her own awesome way <3

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I like it. Combat gameplay definitely looks more responsive, more snappy.

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I hope so too...

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Dhiro wrote...

Damn you, slow internet. God, Lady Hawke is gorgeous. I can even say she's prettier than Bethany, in her own awesome way <3


I just hope there will be a height change option at creation, I like my heroines small and cute

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we.........we need more videos like this!!!



oh........and default Lady Hawke is gorgeous!! Those blue eyes!!

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slimgrin wrote...

- I most definitely am a fan of the animation. It's reminiscent of Devil May Cry, which isn't a bad thing.


I got the same feeling when Hawke actually started to fight. Especially given the size of the sword and how he swings, cuts four people in half and keeps going.

I love the gore, and Beth's exploding fireballs... and her boobs. :)


Yes, yes we know. You like bewbs.

Meanwhile I'm left to wonder if I'll be damned to forever stare at over sized ****** on lamp posts or will I ever get eye candy I enjoy.

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joriandrake wrote...

tool_bot wrote...

JoePinasi1989 wrote...

joriandrake wrote...

I love the sword, I wish it would be about 30% bigger tho


You're joking...


Throw in a giant red coat and two glocks and he'd be in ecstasy.


make that two ARMS .454 Casull and we got a deal ^_^


Hellsing?

I was going for devil may cry with that reference.

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tool_bot wrote...

slimgrin wrote...

- I most definitely am a fan of the animation. It's reminiscent of Devil May Cry, which isn't a bad thing.


I got the same feeling when Hawke actually started to fight. Especially given the size of the sword and how he swings, cuts four people in half and keeps going.


I agree, the animation style starts to go into the right way finally, I hope we can pick white hair for our character too :)

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joriandrake wrote...

Dhiro wrote...

Damn you, slow internet. God, Lady Hawke is gorgeous. I can even say she's prettier than Bethany, in her own awesome way <3


I just hope there will be a height change option at creation, I like my heroines small and cute


Me too, especially when they beat Darkspawns to a bloody mass of grey meat:wizard:

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tool_bot wrote...

joriandrake wrote...

tool_bot wrote...

JoePinasi1989 wrote...

joriandrake wrote...

I love the sword, I wish it would be about 30% bigger tho


You're joking...


Throw in a giant red coat and two glocks and he'd be in ecstasy.


make that two ARMS .454 Casull and we got a deal ^_^


Hellsing?

I was going for devil may cry with that reference.


I know, and you get a cookie for knowing my reference, allthough I could have said something about Trigun too tbh, your comment just made me want a red coat

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One little nitpic at one point after switching from Beth to Hawke Beth just stands there getting hit for a couple seconds hope that reaction time gets sped up.

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Dhiro wrote...

joriandrake wrote...

Dhiro wrote...

Damn you, slow internet. God, Lady Hawke is gorgeous. I can even say she's prettier than Bethany, in her own awesome way <3


I just hope there will be a height change option at creation, I like my heroines small and cute


Me too, especially when they beat Darkspawns to a bloody mass of grey meat:wizard:


yeah :wub:


I think I will call my character Shana

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It reminded me of Devil May Cry.

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interesting. The animations really did get a make-over, overall I think they look nice. Looks to be much more engaging combat than the first. Not totally sold on the looks of the darkspawn but that is nothing new. My one hope is that Bioware goes crazy with higher res textures than what we have seen so far from these early builds.....give the PC users with higher end rigs some decent scaling.

Edited by DespiertaLosNinos, 28 September 2010 - 12:37 AM.


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Seems quite similar to the previous console versions, just not obnoxiously slow.

Swing....miss. Three seconds later, swing....miss.

And obviously much better animations.

Edited by marshalleck, 28 September 2010 - 12:38 AM.


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It reminded me of Devil May Cry.


DMC had a huge influence on the Hack n' Slash genre. Bioware could have done a lot worse if that game was indeed the model for those melee animations. 

Edited by slimgrin, 28 September 2010 - 12:39 AM.


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Let's see... they used



-Fireball [Bethany]

-Mighty Blow [Lady Hawke]

-Charge [Lady Hawke]

-Whirlwind [Lady Hawke]

-Spirit Bolt [Bethany]



Spirit Bolt looks like Arcane Bolt, if you consider that doesn't cost much mana (in fact, almost doesn't cost any mana at all). Also, Bethany's mana recover faster than Lady Hawke's stamina, but that's probably a efect of Varric's story.

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Seeing a woman with a sword that big is slightly ridiculous. Also that video did not make the game look good at all.



For example, the environment is ugly (and not in a good way) and the combat looked like a dynasty warriors game.