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[DRTJR]

 

7. Other information:

• There will be a jar of bees, which can be used as a combat item which according to Bioware: "You throw it, the jar breaks open, and little bees fly around stinging your opponents."

I hope you guys will enjoy the information provided!

 

I could not resist.

[ManOfSteel]

Hmm, I'm now very curious to see what the pre-order bonus(es) will be now that they've confirmed there'll be no companion DLC.

None, with any luck.

[Fast Jimmy]

No Day One companion DLC probably means Bioware will get more of my money. Damn. My principled stance against Day one purchases was a nice saver

Agreed. Reading that made me say "well, crap... I may have to actually buy this game now."

Pretty much every summary bullet point for that XBox magazine article made me have that reaction, actually.

But it doesn't take very many people to cause regular arguments on the message board. Just a few people who feel misled, and the help of a troll or two. If most people are inclined to jump to Bioware's defence, that'll just extend the threads.

The subjectiveness of the "promise" means that they'll inevitably not meet expectations for some people. Unless they really knock it out of the park with some sort of totally unparallelled awesomeness, anyway.

Fair enough. I was simply thinking of it as the ME3 boards post-release, where at any given time of the day, the entire forum was filled with topics created less than a minute from the time the page loaded, and a hit of the Refresh button brought an entire page of new topics, 99% of them being about the ending, and 98% of them being negative.

That's pretty widespread, even for a forum.

[Chewin]

Hi fellow Dragon Age: Inquisition fans!

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." [/*]

A bold claim, especially Darrah referring to the endings not being just slightly different from each other. Still, I don't think that will be the case with the game, and calling the endings 'states' would be a more accurate description since I doubt DA:I will offer such vast of particular endings.

Or I could be completely wrong, in which case I am intrigued.

[Alexius]

Damn, it all sounds so good. Now I'd reeeally like to hear some more about Sera.

 

The only thing I truly doubt is the endings part. But well, let's wait and see.

 

Thanks OP!

[Gwydden]

A bold claim, especially Darrah referring to the endings being wastly different from each other. Still, I don't think that will be the case with the game, and calling the endings 'states' would be a more accurate description since I doubt DA:I will offer such vast of particular endings.

Or I could be completely wrong, in which case I am intrigued.

Couldn't it be a mistake in translation or other sort of misunderstanding? Maybe he meant something more reasonable, like 14.

[Jaison1986]

I think it's far more accurate if we have like, 3 or 4 different ending. And each of these endings would vary depending of how you solved each major conflict, such as the orlesian civil war, the dalish trying to find a homeland, the mage templar war, etc.

[The Elder King]

I think it's far more accurate if we have like, 3 or 4 different ending. And each of these endings would vary depending of how you solved each major conflict, such as the orlesian civil war, the dalish trying to find a homeland, the mage templar war, etc.

Agreed.

[Alexius]

Couldn't it be a mistake in translation or other sort of misunderstanding? Maybe he meant something more reasonable, like 14.

 

Could be. 14 would still be a lot. How many variables did DA:O have?

 

Still, those claims could go the ME3 route and that's... well, not good.

[Chewin]

@Gwydden Yeah, hence why I said ending 'states' would be a bit more accurate. Well as always, one should take the info with a grain of salt, even if the info is now in English and not German.

[Gwydden]

Could be. 14 would still be a lot. How many variables did DA:O have?

 

Still, those claims could go the ME3 route and that's... well, not good.

It could be just 3 or 4 with some variations, as others have said. But 14 seems tame compared to 40.

[JeffZero]

Er, this is in English though. It'd have to be a misunderstanding, and thus far we're 2-for-2 on reporters taking this as "40."

[MisterJB]

They promise a great deal. Let's see if they can deliver.

[JeffZero]

I think BioWare has to expect mass skepticism after the effects of 3.

[MisterJB]

I hope this special power doesn't automatically make us a mage in the eyes of the general population.

 

Warriors/Rogues and Mages should merit different reactions from different people; not "one size fits all."

[azarhal]

Couldn't it be a mistake in translation or other sort of misunderstanding? Maybe he meant something more reasonable, like 14.

 

Canadians and Americans do not have that much of different English language.

 

But, I like I said before, what future players here consider to be different endings and what Mark call different endings might not be the same thing at all.

[Hrungr]

40 endings...?

 

I'm not even sure what to think.

[JeffZero]

40 endings...?

I'm not even sure what to think.

Best not to. It could mean almost 40 different things right now.

[Gwydden]

Canadians and Americans do not have that much of different English language.

 

But, I like I said before, what future players here consider to be different endings and what Mark call different endings might not be the same thing at all.

Wasn't that a German magazine, or am I getting things mixed up?

[MatroxYang]

Thanks for the info man, good job.

[JeffZero]

Er, this is in English though. It'd have to be a misunderstanding, and thus far we're 2-for-2 on reporters taking this as "40."

[azarhal]

Wasn't that a German magazine, or am I getting things mixed up?

 

This is the OXM  thread (it's an UK or US mag).

[Gwydden]

All right, my bad. I still think a misunderstanding of some sort may have happened, even if a different definition of "40 different endings" is the more likely explanation.

[Fast Jimmy]

I think it's far more accurate if we have like, 3 or 4 different ending. And each of these endings would vary depending of how you solved each major conflict, such as the orlesian civil war, the dalish trying to find a homeland, the mage templar war, etc.

Agreed. Again, I'd like to see them count the number of DA:O endings based on the same rule of thumb, to get an idea.

For Orzammar alone, you had Bhelen/Harrowmont, further elucidated by whether or not you take out all of Bhelen's supporters post-coronation or not. Then you have the Anvil. You also have side quest slides, such as Dagna and your support/lack-thereof of a Dwarven Chantry. Does this mean that Orzammar alone led to over a dozen different endings in DA:O?

If so, then 40 might be actually a small number. Because then you also have the "big" decisions in DA:O, like the Dark Ritual or who took the shot during the US. Not to mention that each Origin technically has it's own ending variation, where a different NPC shows up at the coronation/funeral scene depending on which background you chose. This could lead to dozens, if not over a hundred, different combinations of endings and slides. Making 40 much less varied than DA:O (but still more diverse than DA2 or even ME3).

So it comes back to the definition of what an ending is and how accurate the claims are that they aren't just "slight" differences.

[MisterJB]

On the other hand, it would be pretty funny to roleplay an offended Warrior.

 

"Halt there, mage.

 

Who ya calling a mage? I'm no mage, I just had an accident."