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[Little Princess Peach]

I was wondering are we going to see diffrent kinds of dragons? or will they just be high dragons and the tiny ones again?

[nightscrawl]

BasilKarlo wrote...

Why would the details of a pre-alpha build of game systems ruin our enjoyment? It's not the full game and it's meant for gathering feedback on mechanics of the game, not the story.

EVERYTHING in such builds is "subject to change." People would only carry on over _____ feature, whether they like or dislike it, only to rage if it's removed or changed later on. Getting info from preprepreprepreprepre-alpha is pointless.

Tali-vas-normandy wrote...

I was wondering are we going to see diffrent kinds of dragons? or will they just be high dragons and the tiny ones again?

Are there different "kinds" of dragons? Just because we have different species of whale or elephant in our own world, doesn't necessarily mean that there are different species of dragon in Thedas. Also, in Mark of the Assassin, I believe that wyverns are said to be related to dragons.

We've seen the five levels of maturity of the dragon: dragonlings (babies), drakes (mature males), dragons (immature females), high dragons (mature females), and the Archdemon. In addition, we've encountered a "mature dragon," "dragon thrall," and a "spectral dragon," which I assume were added for some game variety. This is eight different dragons in both games.

Modifié par nightscrawl, 24 décembre 2012 - 06:58 .

[daft inquisitor]

Can it really be considered "five levels of maturity", if you're not counting different genders? You can't go from being a mature male to an immature female. Though, have we any confirmation that drakes are only male, and high dragons are only female?

My point is, if it really goes that track of five stages no matter what, it shouldn't have gender denotations. And if it DOES matter on the gender, then it's not five stages. It's two/three for the male, three/four for the female...

Also, can we really consider them to be "Archdemons" before they become Blighted? They are still the Old Gods at that point, right?

[Cirram55]

ShadowDragoonFTW wrote...
Can it really be considered "five levels of maturity", if you're not counting different genders? You can't go from being a mature male to an immature female. Though, have we any confirmation that drakes are only male, and high dragons are only female?

High dragons are only females, yes it's official, though I see your point. I do not consider the Archdemon to be another kind of dragon more than its name either.
I would like to see new types of dragons as well, not just "levels of maturity", but, idk, something like an elemental dragon, a spirit dragon and so forth each one with several diverse abilities.
It just adds to the overall combat variety if we get to fight them with different strategies.

They are still the Old Gods at that point, right?

Yes, they are (or are believed to be).

Modifié par Cirram55, 26 décembre 2012 - 01:25 .

[nightscrawl]

ShadowDragoonFTW wrote...

Can it really be considered "five levels of maturity", if you're not counting different genders? You can't go from being a mature male to an immature female. Though, have we any confirmation that drakes are only male, and high dragons are only female?

My point is, if it really goes that track of five stages no matter what, it shouldn't have gender denotations. And if it DOES matter on the gender, then it's not five stages. It's two/three for the male, three/four for the female...

Also, can we really consider them to be "Archdemons" before they become Blighted? They are still the Old Gods at that point, right?

Said like that, you're right; I probably should have phrased it some other way.

However, if you combine all of those, we've seen eight different types of dragons, including the spectral dragon from DAA, which is certainly unique. I was trying to show that there has been a great variety in the dragons we've encountered so far, since the person asked, "I was wondering are we going to see diffrent kinds of dragons? or will they just be high dragons and the tiny ones again?" We've certainly seen more than two thus far, even among the larger size.

If Tali-vas-normandy was referring to different dragon species, like their cousin wyvern and any as of yet unknown species, that's another matter entirely. Seeing different species, like perhaps an Asian inspired serpent-like dragon is not something I'm interested in for Dragon Age.

I actually like the fact the Dragon Age doesn't have the whole bestiary of creatures from DnD, but only a few fantasy-types. Giants, trolls, bugbears, kobolds, and on and on... meh.

[Travie]

I did everything but fall on my knees and beg them to take their time with this iteration, so it'd be a bit hypocritical to whine about no videos now...

...but I will say I'm excited to hear how it's coming together behind the scenes, good luck guys!

[ElitePinecone]

Travie wrote...

I did everything but fall on my knees and beg them to take their time with this iteration, so it'd be a bit hypocritical to whine about no videos now...

...but I will say I'm excited to hear how it's coming together behind the scenes, good luck guys!

I think the strategy of showing rather than telling is a good move; after the way DA2 was marketed I think DA3 needs more gameplay footage instead of potentialy-wooly dev-speak. The upside, I guess, is that when they do start to reveal info in a few (?) months it'll probably be quite shiny. . 

(Come to think of it, ME3 was also lambasted for over-promising in pre-release developer comments, so it's probably a good thing that they're erring on the side of circumspection.)

[Savber100]

EP speaks the truth.

If the first thing that we see of DA:I is some pretty Blur cinematic and some vague features about improving on button awesome, I'm pretty sure more than several people will start generating an angry feedback.

[Nerevar-as]

ElitePinecone wrote...

Travie wrote...

I did everything but fall on my knees and beg them to take their time with this iteration, so it'd be a bit hypocritical to whine about no videos now...

...but I will say I'm excited to hear how it's coming together behind the scenes, good luck guys!

I think the strategy of showing rather than telling is a good move; after the way DA2 was marketed I think DA3 needs more gameplay footage instead of potentialy-wooly dev-speak. The upside, I guess, is that when they do start to reveal info in a few (?) months it'll probably be quite shiny. . 

(Come to think of it, ME3 was also lambasted for over-promising in pre-release developer comments, so it's probably a good thing that they're erring on the side of circumspection.)

ME3 failed at that because they outright lied several times about story points. Gameplay wise they did marketing quite well IMHO.

[Cribbian]

Mark Darrah ‏@BioMarkDarrah
At work Working on #DA3

[Ilidan_DA]

Nice

[Fast Jimmy]

Is there any reason this thread isn't stickied? It has some of the most dev comments and the most relevant information of anything this forum has going right now.

Just saying.

[daft inquisitor]

No idea. This is probably the most official any news thread about the game is likely to get, so I'm in favor of it being pinned.

[Steppenwolf]

It was stickied, but then unstickied for some reason.

[ElitePinecone]

Mark Darrah tweeted that the next sprint review day will be around the end of January.

Based on past dev statements, we also shouldn't expect much concrete information about DA3 to emerge before the northern spring.

[nightscrawl]

ElitePinecone wrote...

Mark Darrah tweeted that the next sprint review day will be around the end of January.

Based on past dev statements, we also shouldn't expect much concrete information about DA3 to emerge before the northern spring.

Dag nabbit. Here I was hoping for a Bioware birthday present (end of Jan).

[Ilidan_DA]

Yea!

[Aolbain]

Yes! Tweets from the tweet god! Teasers for the teaser throne!

[Noviere]

What is a sprint review day?

[Aolbain]

Noviere wrote...

What is a sprint review day?

They have a internal show-off of everything they have done since the last sprint review day. And the tweet a bunch of cryptic comments about the game.  

Modifié par Aolbain, 06 janvier 2013 - 05:24 .

[Kidd]

I bet they're F5ing twitter and BSN for a while after putting their cryptic tweets out there. Looking at the fans trying to make sense out of a line that could mean almost anything, cackling maniacally!

[King Cousland]

Yay! It got re-stickied!

[Fast Jimmy]

^

Nice!

[ElitePinecone]

I've put the latest sprint review news and a note about when devs said to expect new info up on the original post, also cleaned up a lot of the images that were probably cluttering that first page.

(I figure the companion armour customisation blog is nearly a year old; the link is still there for people who want to read it.)