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[Tayah]

... is it wrong that the thing I'm most excited about is the jar of bees? I was happily reading about everything else and then JAR OF BEES, OMG!

 

So now we have six confirmed companions plus the Grey Warden, and we know there won't be a DLC companion. It's officially impossible for Cullen, Cole and Dorian to all be companions, even if they were going to skew the gender balance six male three female.

I really hope they don't skew the gender balance 6 male 3 female especially since there is no possible DLC character to bridge the gap somewhat. I'm looking forward to learning more about Sera and Iron Bull though and curious to see how the environment changes depending on what creatures or people you kill though.

[RaduM]

I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt. Actually, I'm more waiting til I hear it from his own mouth, to make sure his quotes weren't taken out of context or mistranslated or anything before I'm gonna cast judgement.

 

See... 40 feels like overkill unless they absolutely, positively stepped on the gas in this respect.

 

Even 4 different endings, a la, say, Fallout New Vegas ( join NCR, join Legion, join House or prop yourself up) if they are the "culmination" of decisions (much like New Vegas where you see the narative branch off quite early depending on whose side you are on), that would be just great for me.

 

It's not the numbers that do it for me, but how each action is a brick in the ending you yourself are building (better yet, not even knowing action A will have consequences down the road); be that a good ending where things fall in neatly or bad ending where your selfish actions blow up in your face.

 

Come to think of it, for an open-world game, Fallout New Vegas allowed for a huge amount of narrative freedom, allowing the player to juggle with the regional politics in very diverse and satifying ways. It's been a while, but the epilogue to Fallout New Vegas felt very satifying.

 

It's just that... the last time Bioware pulled off that kind of "here's how all your actions affected the world" was back in Dragon Age : Origins. A good few years ago.

 

For all we know, the people now in charge are just fine with Dragon Age 2 / Mass Effect 3 "minimalistic" epilogues.

[Warden Nick]

Nice to hear, especially about Sera and the endings. So now we have 2 warriors, 2 mages and a rogue. Wonder who the 3rd warrior will be.

[Zered]

 

 

1. There will be 5 regions in Dragon Age: Inquisition: Fereldan, The Free Marches, Orlais, Nevarra and the Dales  

 

Very excited about going back to thee Free Marches.

[Cylan Cooper]

I'm skeptical about the whole 40 endings part. DA:O had 4 going by the perfectionist achievement and in reality there was only 3. Dark Ritual, Ultimate Sacrifice, the other warden kills the archdemon. I can't stress enough how ridiculously high a number that is. A similar claim was made about Fallout 3 and when people called Bethesda on it, they said "Weeeeell, there's that many number of combinations of ending slides." So on that, I won't hold my breath.

 

Another source is saying the Iron Bull is confirmed. Woohoo! And Sera got mentioned. Assuming the Iron Bull is a warrior like he pretty obviously is, that means 2 warriors, 2 rogues, and 2 mages have been officially revealed. Sera and Varric are both ranged fighters, so I assume there's going to be a 3rd rogue that's melee based.

 

I'm also kind of curious about the prologue. I kind of want to see it in action and hear more about it but at the same time, I want to experience it myself. Watching the openings of Arkham City and AC3 made them seem slightly less awesome when I actually played. It's hard to imagine an Elf warrior and a Qunari mage could both be at the same starting point but hey, it's Bioware, I'm sure they know what they're doing.

[CannotCompute]

Holy crap! There's gonna be so much awesome in this game. Also, good to hear BW got rid of the "Day 1 DLC companion" thing.

 

Edit: And Bees? Hmmm... another Nicolas Cage reference. Coincidence? Best to keep an eye on his Twitter account.

[nightcobra]

Nice to hear, especially about Sera and the endings. So now we have 2 warriors, 2 mages and a rogue. Wonder who the 3rd warrior will be.

 

ok so out of the 9 we have:

 

cassandra - warrior

iron bull - warrior

solas - mage

vivienne - mage

seras - rogue

varric - rogue

 

possible companions to go:

 

bearded warden - warrior

??? - mage

???/leliana? - rogue

[RaduM]

if i see a hint of a god-like entity that appears at the very end that gives you 3 arbitrary choices (with all 3 being choices you don't want) regardless of what you did through the entire game....

 

*inhales deeply*

that didn't happen, that didn't exist, everything is fine,that didn't happen, that didn't exist, everything is fine,that didn't happen, that didn't exist, everything is fine,that didn't happen, that didn't exist, everything is fine... 

 

I don't know about you, but the Mass Effect 3 Citadel DLC party aftermath is my "true" ending for the Trilogy.

 

Wonder how would a Dragon Age "Citadel" Party look like?

[Nocte ad Mortem]

I think it'll be either Cole or Cullen and an unknown female character. I'd rather it was Cole than Cullen, but there's some evidence to suggest it could be either.

 

I think Dorian as a concept may have gotten cut to save for a game that actually takes place in Tevinter. Another thought I've had is that maybe they did keep the concept, but they'll change it to a female to balance the gender gap. Dorian wasn't an established character anywhere else, so they could easily revise him into a her.

 

We may have just all guessed way off base, though, and none of these characters were going to be companions since the early stages. Who knows?

[ElitePinecone]

 

• "Bioware is promising a staggering 40 possible endings for the game, dependent not only on choices made in character generation but by actions taken throughout the storyline. [Mark] Darrah stresses, however, that the endings will all be meaningfully different from one another. You won't find 40 endings with only slight degrees of variation between them."

 

 

Thanks for posting, this is all really cool!

 

40 endings is... staggeringly ambitious. Awesome, but ambitious.

 

It kinda sounds like an amusingly excessive reaction to the ME3 backlash - people were angry with three endings, so let's give them forty?

[Darth Krytie]

See... 40 feels like overkill unless they absolutely, positively stepped on the gas in this respect.

 

Even 4 different endings, a la, say, Fallout New Vegas ( join NCR, join Legion, join House or prop yourself up) if they are the "culmination" of decisions (much like New Vegas where you see the narative branch off quite early depending on whose side you are on), that would be just great for me.

 

It's not the numbers that do it for me, but how each action is a brick in the ending you yourself are building (better yet, not even knowing action A will have consequences down the road); be that a good ending where things fall in neatly or bad ending where your selfish actions blow up in your face.

 

Come to think of it, for an open-world game, Fallout New Vegas allowed for a huge amount of narrative freedom, allowing the player to juggle with the regional politics in very diverse and satifying ways. It's been a while, but the epilogue to Fallout New Vegas felt very satifying.

 

It's just that... the last time Bioware pulled off that kind of "here's how all your actions affected the world" was back in Dragon Age : Origins. A good few years ago.

 

For all we know, the people now in charge are just fine with Dragon Age 2 / Mass Effect 3 "minimalistic" epilogues.

 

Well, Dragon Age 2's ending was unsatisfying, sure, but ME3's not the DA team's fault. It's a different team entirely even if they're both made by BioWare.

 

I just want to know what they mean by it, exactly. Does it mean a combo of epilogue slides or a cutscene or what? And if they really mean forty endings. Or forty-end game states. I dunno. I'm willing to wait until I see a vid with Mark Darrah explaining it before I jump to conclusions.

[nightcobra]

I don't know about you, but the Mass Effect 3 Citadel DLC party aftermath is my "true" ending for the Trilogy.

 

Wonder how would a Dragon Age "Citadel" Party look like?

 

 

that's how i'd like to see it

 

reapers appear...something something happens... we beat reapers... something something happens, the citadel dlc happens (not before ending, After)

it's more...tolerable that way...and hurray for selective amnesia!

[ElitePinecone]

possible companions to go:

 

bearded warden - warrior

??? - mage

???/leliana? - rogue

 

The Grey Warden, Dorian and Cole.

[Vulpe]

Nice to hear, especially about Sera and the endings. So now we have 2 warriors, 2 mages and a rogue. Wonder who the 3rd warrior will be.

 

If I had to make a bet, I'd say that Feathers aka Warden McBeard will be the third. Cullen might play a more political role. Feathers doesn't have any such connections. If they go on the 3/3/3 rute, Cullen might not be a companion. Let the fangirls tears flow 

 

Also, we have 2 rogues. You forgot Varric and his chest hair. I condemn you to death by lapidation for this sacrilege 

[Warden Nick]

Yeah forgot about Varric being the second rogue . I guess Cole as the third rogue (think Leliana will be an agent), Grey Warden third warrior, and no clue about mage. Sadly I think the Cullen fans will be disapointed

[ElitePinecone]

... is it wrong that the thing I'm most excited about is the jar of bees? I was happily reading about everything else and then JAR OF BEES, OMG!

 

So now we have six confirmed companions plus the Grey Warden, and we know there won't be a DLC companion. It's officially impossible for Cullen, Cole and Dorian to all be companions, even if they were going to skew the gender balance six male three female.

 

I don't think Cullen was ever likely to be a companion - he was in the survey and in that War Room concept art, but David Gaider did say that many of those characters were NPCs. 

 

(Ditto for Leliana and the Scribe Lady)

[nightcobra]

The Grey Warden, Dorian and Cole.

 i'm only saying "leliana?" due to the concepts arts (mainly war room and coronation arts) showing someone that really looks like her, although she could just be an important NPC like our "seneschal/councelor/spy master" 

[Darth Krytie]

 i'm only saying "leliana?" due to the concepts arts (mainly war room and coronation arts) showing someone that really looks like her, although she could just be an important NPC like our "seneschal/councelor/spy master" 

I honestly hope that Varric is the only companion we've had before. I really just want to see new faces.

[Vulpe]

@nightcobra8928

 

According to an info leake, Leliana is the head of the Inquisitors spy network.

[Nocte ad Mortem]

I think it wouldn't make much sense to have Leliana since we already have one Seeker. It just seems redundant, to me. 

[NRieh]

Cole?! Now that'd be interesting.... Yet, I'm afraid it's easier to ruin him than to evolve his character in game...Also, it's hard to represent him equally for those who had and had not read the Asunder. 

[Vulpe]

I think it wouldn't make much sense to have Leliana since we already have one Seeker. It just seems redundant, to me. 

 

I think that everyone knows that when we capture a keep, we can chose to specialize it for war and combat, espionage or commerce.

 

It's safe to say that there will be characters to whom the Inquisitor interacts when dealing with those aspects. This also fits with the info leak.

 

I think that Cullen will be busy with the troops management (That if they go with 3 characters of each class. I personaly prefer 2 rogues and 4 warriors. I don't like the ideea of Cole as a companion), scribe girl with the traiding and Leliana with the spy thingies.

[Janus198]

I think it wouldn't make much sense to have Leliana since we already have one Seeker. It just seems redundant, to me. 

Leliana isn´t a seeker. She only wear a seeker uniform.

 

I don´t know who the two missing companions are. But something i know. We haven´t the typical human male romance companion.

In my opinion Grey Warden is too old for that.

So Cullen or Dorian. I prefer Cullen and have the feeling that Dorian was the cut companion from the Leak.

 

[nightcobra]

It would awesome if their budget allows for a "party member" content treatment to non-party members, kinda like leandra, bodhan and sandal.

Even if they're not fighting alongside you, they'd matter to you all the same.

The head agents could fit into this category.

Just speculation of course.

[Nocte ad Mortem]

I think that everyone knows that when we capture a keep, we can chose to specialize it for war and combat, espionace or commerce.

 

It's safe to say that there will be characters to whom the Inquisitor interacts when dealing with those aspects. This also fits with the info leak.

 

I think that Cullen will be busy with the troops management (That if they go with 3 characters of each class. I personaly prefer 2 rogues and 4 warriors. I don't like the ideea of Cole as a companion), scribe girl with the traiding and Leliana with the spy thingies.

I think you're probably right Cullen on troops, scribe girl on trade, Leliana on espionage.