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[Frankaidenryan]

I've a question, if I may. And I apologise if a topic such as this has already been posted but I couldn't find any.

I love Origins to bits, and I have always liked Dragon Age 2 as well. The story, characters, Snark!Hawke, they really have a special place in my heart. However, one minor thing has always annoyed the hell out of me, and that's the loot icons.

I LOVE scouting for treasure. It's one of the things I really love about adventure games, really exploring the world or dungeons and finding all sorts of marvellous treasue. Dragon Age Origins handled this really well, I think, with each item having a specially created icon in your inventory. Even stuff like the fancy vase or the silk carpet. The icons just really made it all that more interesting. And Dragon Age 2 didn't have that at all.

I really did NOT like the 'junk' catergory because it made the whole feel of treasure hunting rather pointless. Finding a junk item which all looked the same and didn't have any substantial value really was a downer. And it went right into a special junk category where one didn't even have to look in, at all, because the items were pointless anyhow. That really didn't cater to my ' treasure hunting' kick.

The same was largely true with weapons and armour, where a lot of icons essentially looked the same with only really small variations and those ghastly neon colours to indicate 'power level'. I really did not care for that either.

So my question would be this: Will Dragon Age Inquisition allow for better and more attractive inventory items, which really adds that much more flavor to the game, and can we never ever speak of the junk items again, please?

[Allan Schumacher]

"Junk" is a name that has an advantage of "this item can safely be sold because it's principle purpose is simply to be sold."

Although I can agree that that may not be the best way of doing things. There's been discussions over whether or not we should just give the copper equivalents straight up, but it starts to make less sense with creatures and frankly I get the impression that some would be disappointed if the game didn't contain inventory that existed for little other reason than to be sold. The idea of looting creatures and bringing back the haul is fun for them.

Terminology could be improved, however.

[Allan Schumacher]

StarcloudSWG wrote...

You could also minimize the need for looting and thus for 'junk' items that are sellable simply by, gasp, giving the character an in-game salary or, double gasp, letter of credit from the Chantry, so that would leave most loot from creatures/animals to be things that can be sold for a reason. Like feathers from avians, they have a use in fletching and tailoring, as one example. Resources that it would be reasonable for a wanderer to pick up.

The attitude isn't necessary.  You take what are perfectly reasonable suggestions and undermine them with your apparent lack of breath.

[Allan Schumacher]

Why would you ever need items whose "sole purpose is simply to be sold."

Because a lot of people like that.

Shouldn't be the player the one deciding what items s/he feels safe selling

The current system still does that.  I guess I just used the wrong word since that's what you latched onto.  The "junk" items are more "random loot that exist to be sold."  Because as seen even in this thread, people enjoy that.  We can do it better (not make it torn trousers or whatever), or we could not even do it at all.

The player is more than welcome to decide if he/she feels safe selling the weapons or rings or consumables, with or without a junk tab.

Modifié par Allan Schumacher, 27 novembre 2012 - 06:28 .

[Allan Schumacher]

I'm not saying that I'm unable to decide which items are safe to sell, I was trying to say that I don't need the game to spell it out for me.

Because the inventory is placed into categories. It's not a weapon, it's not a ring, it's not armor. If you'd prefer, we could call it "Miscellaneous" or something.

Or we could just have a huge list like KOTOR. That was popular!