The way I would recommend it is make the whole thing appear as a book. First, you could optionally import a DA:O and DA2 save. You would still go through the book, making changes if you like, or just verifying that all of your decisions were carried over properly (and correcting any that went wrong).
The first chapter, entitled "The Hero of Ferelden" would cover the events of DA:O. First you have your character creator for visual appearance (and possibly voice), then the events of the game. Each page would have a summary at the top, then at the bottom a choice to make. If you imported a save, the choice would be pre-filled in (although you could change it at this point if you desire). Each page represents one choice. For example, there would be one page for the Elves, one page for the Dwarves, one page for Redcliff, one page for Romance, etc etc etc.
Here's the tricky bit of the whole thing: Transitioning from Origins to Awakening. Here's what I propose. A "Fate of the Warden" screen, in which you choose from the following:
1- Warden died fighting Archdemon. Awakening (and DLC) will star the Orlesian Warden Commander.
2- Warden is alive, but pursuing whatever is relevant in epilogue (leading alienage, travelling with Sten, etc). Awakening (and DLC) will star the Orlesian Warden Commander.
3- Warden continues on to Vigil's Keep. Awakening (and DLC) will star the Ferelden Warden Hero. After that, he/she then pursues whatever was relevant in the DA:O epilogue.
Then, Chapter Two ("Awakening") would begin. IF you have an Orlesian Warden Commander, you go through a new character creator (If voice is relevant, it should be locked in as an Orlesian one). Then you dive through the decisions as normal.
Then you have Chapter Three, which is Golems of Amgarak and Witch Hunt ("Further Adventures in Ferelden"). These will feature whichever was the protagonist of chapter two, with ONE EXCEPTION: If you chose option 2 during the "Fate of the Warden" screen, and the epilogue choice was "Hunt Morrigan", Witch Hunt would star the Ferelden Warden Hero, while Golems would star the Orlesian Warden Commander.
Finally, you have chapter four ("The Champion of Kirkwall"), again with character creator for Hawke and page-by-page decision making. Not much to say here, other than that it should include Legacy and Mark of the Assassin.
When you're done, BOOM! You now have a big "super saved game" to import into DA3.
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In fact, I think they should release this tool before DA3 comes out, similar to the character creator for DA:O, to let old players prepare their characters, let new players become familiar with the history of the franchise, and generate buzz about the game. It seems like a win-win, especially since this would be relatively simple for Bioware to do. (They are obviously already doing a character creator, so it's not like that would need to be new. And the rest is more or less text options being written to a small database.)
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Addendum 1: If they feel like being REALLY kind, you could have the option to export before the DA2 chapter, so you can use it as an importer for DA2 as well.
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Addendum 2: In my opinion, one of the most important factors in this system (and one of the greatest arguments for it) is that it fixes the DA:O to DA:A awkwardness.
Theoretically speaking, there should be three possibilities:
1 - YOUR Ferelden Hero does the Ultimate Sacrifice, YOUR Orlesian gets sent to Vigil's Keep.
2 - YOUR Ferelden Hero wanders off, YOUR Orlesian gets sent to Vigil's Keep.
3 - YOUR Ferelden Hero gets sent to Vigil's Keep.
However, in the current setup, there's only two options:
1 - YOUR Ferelden Hero gets sent to Vigil's Keep, even if they're dead.
2 - DEFAULT Ferelden Hero does the Ultimate Sacrifice, YOUR Orlesian gets sent to Vigil's Keep.
Neither of those are good. My system would fix that.
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Addendum 3: As an alternative to a stand-alone program, that would have to be ported over to various consoles, the whole thing could be a web-based interface. The final save would be uploaded to your BSN profile, and could be downloaded for importing into DA3 on whatever device you were using.
Modifié par Maclimes, 02 novembre 2012 - 04:31 .
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