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[Victor Wachter]

Tune in to the BioWare Blog for the latest edition of the Dragon Age 2 podcast, this month featuring two interviews with the Dragon Age franchise team! First, We interview EA2D Producer Ethan Levy to discuss the upcoming Dragon Age: Legends. Next, DA2 Lead Designer Mike Laidlaw joins us to give us a closer look at inventory and talent progression for Hawke and your DA2 followers.

Modifié par Victor Wachter, 05 novembre 2010 - 05:24 .

[Dave of Canada]

I fear for these forums from this news.

[Special_Agent_Goodwrench]

Just started the podcast, but after seeing the screen of Isabela's inventory, I do to fear that the forums will asplode. Oh noez! You can't customize companions' outfits!

[blothulfur]

I liked everything I heard once again thanks for the podcast victor, now i'll sit back and watch the angry forumites form into armed camps and rage on into the night.

[skuid]

Is just me or Isabela actually looks prettier?

[Apollo Starflare]

skuid wrote...

Is just me or Isabela actually looks prettier?

And there I was thinking it wasn't possible.

Thanks for the podcast guys! Very interesting listen as always. Props also for including the screenshots, you didn't have to do that but it was a nice touch. Were they PC or console though? Just curious about the layout of icons on the bottom of the screen.

Glad to see the junk section of the inventory is still there for us to dump trash in, handy.

I do hope we see some change in the appearence of our companions over time though! Even one extra outfit per companion would go a long way to changing things up as the ten years go by.

[Gerudan]

She looks quite good, yes. Far better than on the first pictures.

[Captain Crash]

There is still customisation for companions, dont jump the gun people. Listen at around 24 minutes.



However it sounds a lot more unique and armour upgrades are specific for each companion. That way it fits their style. You wont however for example be able to put plate mail on Isabella. You will however be able to upgrade her look and armour through the game which is most likely preset to her.

[Knightsire]

I wonder why Bioware would want to restrict choices instead of allowing players to have more freedom...

[andar91]

Thanks for the podcast; I've got no real complaints. I can already hear the rumble of forum rage coming about the companion's appearance staying the same.

[Captain Crash]

Knightsire wrote...



I wonder why Bioware would want to restrict choices instead of allowing players to have more freedom...

I think they want to make characters more believable and make the game play really high quality. If Isabella were to equip Heavy Dragonbone Plate this would ruin the believability of her.



We have seen her a an ambitious rogue, jumping and attacking with swift efficiency and Bioware have advertised her as such. As a result she will have her own unique style of in game fighting. She wouldn't be able to do most of what she does wearing over the top types of armours. By upgrading a default set it makes her looks and armour believable and unique to her.



Additionally the fighting style of DA2 isnt like Origins. The fact that you cant equip her with what ever armour you find is actually quite exciting to me. It shows that every companion wont go into combat as the clunky default approach of Origins. We now will have companions with their own physics and abilities which will make combat flow much better and make battles far more visually pleasing and exciting.

[Dave of Canada]

Captain Crash wrote...

There is still customisation for companions, dont jump the gun people.

People hear what they want to hear and the people yelling at the top of their lungs probably didn't hear the rest of the podcast.

[slimgrin]

andar91 wrote...

Thanks for the podcast; I've got no real complaints. I can already hear the rumble of forum rage coming about the companion's appearance staying the same.

I am curious how it will work to have them automatically upgraded over time.

At least there are ways to enhance them, and there's the rune slots which sound cool.

Modifié par slimgrin, 05 novembre 2010 - 08:53 .

[Tranceptor]

I certainly feel a bit better about inventory, it's not like ME2 and I'm happy about that. I'm deffinately probably going to name my third child after you Laidlaw.

Modifié par Tranceptor, 05 novembre 2010 - 08:55 .

[Kilshrek]

So if I'm not entirely thick, the inventory/talent tree works in a similar way to PST then? That is no bad thing. I can't say I didn't expect this. And the visuals change along the game? Again no bad thing. Dave did scare me when I read down, but listening to the podcast, I'm preordering today.



I'm not sure if I heard anything about this, but for dual wield rogues, do they get two individual weapons to mix and match or is it 'one' weapon set?



And the persistent weapon bit sounds like Fable 3...

[JakePT]

Ignoring any discussion of the mechanics, I love the design of the UI, the colours, icons, layout, all look great.

[Onyx Jaguar]

Was ok with it until I realized that I would be curious what X character would look like in Heavy Chainmail (in theory anyway), now I'm super bummed

[vaporie]

JakePT wrote...

Ignoring any discussion of the mechanics, I love the design of the UI, the colours, icons, layout, all look great.

Hmm, I'm not so sure about the icons. They kinda look like road/hazard signs, especially Isabela's 1st, 4th and 8th talents.

[Schuback]

Isabela looks different. Did they change her abit?

[anillop]

Wow that sucks, Legends is going to require you to play with facebook friends. Well that pretty much makes the game a no go for me. I don't have any friends who play games like that and I am not going to add some random schmucks to my friends just to play. How disappointing.

[DarthCaine]

Captain Crash wrote...

I think they want to make characters more believable and make the game play really high quality. If Isabella were to equip Heavy Dragonbone Plate this would ruin the believability of her.

Wouldn't it be less believable if a character wear the exact same thing for 10 years during dozens of battles and after sustaining multiple injuries the armor looks the same as brand new (after a decade) ?

I don't mind having unique outfits, but having only one armor for each character?

I'd have no problems if there were at least 5 unique outfits for each character

Modifié par DarthCaine, 06 novembre 2010 - 10:24 .

[Tennyochan]

thanks for the update

*listening now, impressions later.*

[SirGladiator]

It doesn't really make any sense to not let you change the outfits of your various teammates. I don't care if its the greatest outfit of all time, different people like different things, and they should be free to use whatever outfits they like best, not be forced to use a single outfit the whole game. I just don't understand why they would do something like that, its certainly not like its hard at all to let you change your teammates outfits, you do it all the time in DAO. Hopefully they'll correct that mistake soon.

[Gerudan]

SirGladiator wrote...

It doesn't really make any sense to not let you change the outfits of your various teammates. I don't care if its the greatest outfit of all time, different people like different things, and they should be free to use whatever outfits they like best, not be forced to use a single outfit the whole game. I just don't understand why they would do something like that, its certainly not like its hard at all to let you change your teammates outfits, you do it all the time in DAO. Hopefully they'll correct that mistake soon.

This way, they can change the overall model of the characters and make them individual. It makes perfect sense, if you think about it.

Modifié par Gerudan, 07 novembre 2010 - 07:36 .

[Tennyochan]

@SirGladiator
i actually support biowares idea-but not to the extent of ME2.

it gives them a individual look- eg. the rouge armor leliana has that is pretty much carbon copied with various npcs isn't very inspiring compared to what Morgan wears.(or the CG trailers)

but i do like to customize their armors(+stats) If the characters style remains intact. eg. with isabella she would have the same silhouette(dress-thing and boots) but change the style of the boots/dress/headband. and i don't mean colour/pattern-swatching either.(oh maybe 1 or 2)
sorry i have to use fashion examples :
same styles 1|2| 3| 4(ME jack )

Modifié par tennyochan, 07 novembre 2010 - 07:58 .