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[BFace]

 

http://dragonaging.t...-and-interviews

 

Couple interesting things!

 

New info from these videos:

• Some of the areas in the game are bigger than the Fereldan Hinterland area shown in the demo at E3

• The real-time roleplaying system means that you won’t be pulled directly into a fully-staged conversation when having conversations out in the world e.g. talking to a townsperson or someone with a smaller quest. You stay in control of the camera and you can walk away from the conversation like you can do in real life, giving you more agency

• Templar addiction to lyrium is addressed in the game

• Out in the world you’ll find things like beds, thrones and tapestries that you can put in your castle to customize it. Some of these customization options are purely visual

• There are different levels of choice: choices about tone (about defining what your character is to you e.g. saying yes to a quest reluctantly), vs choice with long-term implications that will ripple through the rest of the game and have big impact e.g. potentially choosing who takes the throne of Orlais

• The devs have been trying to move past choice to dilemna

• Deepest customization of any BioWare game so far

• The dragon is twice the size of what they had before

 

Emphasis mine, and I am even more excited~

 

This sort of thing will let us build completely different kinds of characters!

 

The bold area (My bolding) about decorative stuff. *Some* are purely visual, insinuating that some of this stuff will add bonuses of some sort?  To our keep, I imagine.

 

I'm more excited than I should be about being able to decorate my castle. I swear I played Everquest 2 almost exclusively to level a carpenter so that I could decorate all my houses. (And go kill sh!t with the hubby, but that's expected.) 

 

With all the things to do and see and be a part of, already, I have a feeling that I will be playing this game for hundreds of hours over the course of the winter.

[R2s Muse]

@berelinde, well I'm truly sorry you feel that way. I don't really view most of us actually having editors other than ourselves. And I did think it was funny to view my own fic through that lens. I can now see how you misinterpreted my comment. And indeed, apparently everything needs a disclaimer now.

[Dirgegun]

The bold area (My bolding) about decorative stuff. *Some* are purely visual, insinuating that some of this stuff will add bonuses of some sort?  To our keep, I imagine.

 

I'm more excited than I should be about being able to decorate my castle. I swear I played Everquest 2 almost exclusively to level a carpenter so that I could decorate all my houses. (And go kill sh!t with the hubby, but that's expected.) 

 

With all the things to do and see and be a part of, already, I have a feeling that I will be playing this game for hundreds of hours over the course of the winter.

 

I love house (keep) customisation! So I'm definitely excited about that!

 

I also love character building, so the idea that we have different ways to accept a quest has me excited. I can play people who genuinely want to help and Inquisitors who are more reluctant about finding that lost cat or whatever. 

[R2s Muse]

Just a general caution that Allan has asked that we not discuss other threads, so let's leave the romance thread aside.

[ChachiBobinks]

I know, right?  That's why I'm so curious about what they're going to do with his character moving forward.  I mean, at first glance he comes across as this ordinary, uptight man - but then you look at of his story arc as a whole....

 

Since I never play male characters, it wasn't until recently that I learned pre-Broken Circle Cullen had never even seen an abomination before - had no idea what they would even look like.  And yet, he beats out even the more experienced templars in resisting them.  And in my last DA2 playthrough, I played a very pro-mage warrior, who even threatens to kill him when he takes Bethany away (seriously, aggressive!Hawke is so much fun), makes no secret about her opinions on the templars to Cullen (because of course I HAD to talk to him at the Gallows whenever possible... *may or may not have clicked on him repeatedly to see if he'd say something new*)

 

And yet he defends her when Meredith threatens execution, fights by her side, and stands aside to let her and her Chantry-bombing apostate boyfriend peacefully leave.  At that point, doing what he perceives as right is far more important then doing what The Order Dictates.  I can't imagine many of his fellow templars would be very happy with him.

 

NAILED IT.

 

I like you. You can come sit over here now. *pats cushion*

 

*snip*

 

 

This is the best thread on the forum, hands down, simply from the way everyone is so great here - even when disagreeing on a subject. 

 

I got out of the romance thread as well, after reporting the post that started some quick degeneration. The mod was quite fast, but I don't think I'll venture anywhere near that thread again.

 

Which is why despite us sometimes disagreeing with each other, and sometimes being buttheads (most recent disagreement NOT included or to be used as an example), I love this thread. That said, it might be a good time to insert that quiet reminder that we should try to keep it as OT as we can, just because when we go OT we tend to attract trolls.

 

EDIT: & what R2 said.

[Dirgegun]

@berelinde, well I'm truly sorry you feel that way. I don't really view most of us actually having editors other than ourselves. And I did think it was funny to view my own fic through that lens. I can now see how you misinterpreted my comment. And indeed, apparently everything needs a disclaimer now.

 

That's the problem with text, I suppose? Without a tone of voice behind it, it's up to interpretation. I don't really see disclaimers as bad, like they seem to get made into? It's just clarification where there's no tone to judge from?

[Galagraphia]

The bold area (My bolding) about decorative stuff. *Some* are purely visual, insinuating that some of this stuff will add bonuses of some sort?  To our keep, I imagine.

 

I'm more excited than I should be about being able to decorate my castle. I swear I played Everquest 2 almost exclusively to level a carpenter so that I could decorate all my houses. (And go kill sh!t with the hubby, but that's expected.) 

 

With all the things to do and see and be a part of, already, I have a feeling that I will be playing this game for hundreds of hours over the course of the winter.

I want to decorate the rooms of our friends! I will buy Cullen an archdemon-sized bathtub, and my Quizzy will be doing a creepy Traynor bathing thing 

Quizzy: Hello, Cullen, may I use you bathtub? Yours is so big, mine is so small!
Cullen: Let me just move it into your room, I'm the shower type anyway.

Quizzy:   *epic fail*

[Dirgegun]

On a lighter note:

 

http://dragonaging.t...lent-spec-trees

 

Some pretty clear-ish screencaps of some of the talent trees that were shown for our analysing pleasure. c:

[Liadan]

 

http://dragonaging.t...-and-interviews

 

Couple interesting things!

 

New info from these videos:

 

• Templar addiction to lyrium is addressed in the game

 

Do you think the lyrium addiction will be shown in Cullen or only adressed by templars in general? Cause a scenario just came to my mind: at the beginning of the game when the inquisition is in early stages maybe the access to lyrium is limitated and maybe after a certain amount of time the supply ends. And maybe from time to time Cullen has to take lyrium or his skills decrease not to mention that the lyrium withdraw will begin.So i was thinking that maybe the inquisitor will have to negotiate early in game with the dwarven smugglers or other entities to adquire lyrium for Cullen and other templars\mages. 

[Crunchycarp]

On a lighter note:
 
http://dragonaging.t...lent-spec-trees
 
Some pretty clear-ish screencaps of some of the talent trees that were shown for our analysing pleasure. c:

Did you notice that creation and spirit magic have been merged together and ice and fire are now their own skill trees.

[Dirgegun]

Did you notice that creation and spirit magic have been merged together and ice and fire are now their own skill trees.

 

I did! That would have been useful with my canon Hawke who was a healer and spirit mage, because Anders became a sh!t healer in DA2. 

 

...Now take a moment to imagine how the Arishock fight went with that kind of set up. Aha... ha...

 

It wasn't as romantic and epic as Varric made it sound, Cassandra. 

[Crunchycarp]

I did! That would have been useful with my canon Hawke who was a healer and spirit mage, because Anders became a sh!t healer in DA2. 
 
...Now take a moment to imagine how the Arishock fight went with that kind of set up. Aha... ha...
 
It wasn't as romantic and epic as Varric made it sound, Cassandra.

I just hope they add more spells that have to do with earth and maybe add some wind spells along with some nature spells.

[Potato Cat]

Did you notice that creation and spirit magic have been merged together and ice and fire are now their own skill trees.

I still think the far left is Entropy. It's just the colours have been reversed from DA2.
http://dragonage.wik..._(Dragon_Age_II)

I think it's Entropy, Elemental, Knight Enchanter, Spirit and Primal(?).

[serenai]

The bold area (My bolding) about decorative stuff. *Some* are purely visual, insinuating that some of this stuff will add bonuses of some sort?  To our keep, I imagine.

 

I'm more excited than I should be about being able to decorate my castle. I swear I played Everquest 2 almost exclusively to level a carpenter so that I could decorate all my houses. (And go kill sh!t with the hubby, but that's expected.) 

 

With all the things to do and see and be a part of, already, I have a feeling that I will be playing this game for hundreds of hours over the course of the winter.

I still play EQ2 for that reason. I ended up with all 9 crafters and I log in sometimes just to decorate when I need a creative fix, and when I'm angry I take my warden out and kill ALL the things 

[Dirgegun]

I just hope they add more spells that have to do with earth and maybe add some wind spells along with some nature spells.

 

Oh, wind magic! I would love that. 

 

I don't normally play the elemental mages-- I like arcane for magic more than fire, ice, earth and such, but if they add some proper wind magic I might make an elemental mage! 

[Crunchycarp]

I still think the far left is Entropy. It's just the colours have been reversed from DA2.http://dragonage.wik..._(Dragon_Age_II)
I think it's Entropy, Elemental, Knight Enchanter, Spirit and Primal(?).

Entropy is on the far right, it looks like a little sun. I think that's entropy, Hmm.

Edit: the order I think it goes in that picture is: fire, ice, spirit, primal, entropy.

[BFace]

I still play EQ2 for that reason. I ended up with all 9 crafters and I log in sometimes just to decorate when I need a creative fix, and when I'm angry I take my warden out and kill ALL the things 

I am actually going to log in when I'm done here and see what's new. *grin* (I have a million characters, but the beastlord's the one I take out with hubby. *grin*)

[Dirgegun]

I hope Arcane is still in. *adores her crushing prison* 

[Galagraphia]

Do you think the lyrium addiction will be shown in Cullen or only adressed by templars in general? Cause a scenario just came to my mind: at the beginning of the game when the inquisition is in early stages maybe the access to lyrium is limitated and maybe after a certain amount of time the supply ends. And maybe from time to time Cullen has to take lyrium or his skills decrease not to mention that the lyrium withdraw will begin.So i was thinking that maybe the inquisitor will have to negotiate early in game with the dwarven smugglers or other entities to adquire lyrium for Cullen and other templars\mages. 

Lyrium will be a vital resource anyway, because the efficiency of our mages depends on it. Without it they will just run out of mana, and become useless. So searching for lyrium will be super-important. I hope Cassandra will bring some from the Chantry vaults, I'm sure Divine gave her the keys Otherwise the game will be really hardcore. 

[MacyNell]

I know, right?  That's why I'm so curious about what they're going to do with his character moving forward.  I mean, at first glance he comes across as this ordinary, uptight man - but then you look at of his story arc as a whole....

 

Since I never play male characters, it wasn't until recently that I learned pre-Broken Circle Cullen had never even seen an abomination before - had no idea what they would even look like.  And yet, he beats out even the more experienced templars in resisting them.  And in my last DA2 playthrough, I played a very pro-mage warrior, who even threatens to kill him when he takes Bethany away (seriously, aggressive!Hawke is so much fun), makes no secret about her opinions on the templars to Cullen (because of course I HAD to talk to him at the Gallows whenever possible... *may or may not have clicked on him repeatedly to see if he'd say something new*)

 

And yet he defends her when Meredith threatens execution, fights by her side, and stands aside to let her and her Chantry-bombing apostate boyfriend peacefully leave.  At that point, doing what he perceives as right is far more important then doing what The Order Dictates.  I can't imagine many of his fellow templars would be very happy with him.

 

This perfectly reflects my thoughts as well!!

 

I wish I could like things more than once (though my likes would probably run out after one page in that case! ) 

 

So, many many LIKES.  

[BFace]

I hope Arcane is still in. *adores her crushing prison* 

Oh man. What I loved was force magic. Fist of the Maker=best spell EVER. Damn.

[serenai]

I am actually going to log in when I'm done here and see what's new. *grin* (I have a million characters, but the beastlord's the one I take out with hubby. *grin*)

My husband doesn't play any games, which makes me sad. You're a lucky one! I can't talk to him about my Dragon Age fixation or even about all the fun I used to have in our little guild raids in EQ (not "true" raids, we didn't have a big enough guild for that, just a big group over skype, killing things).. but that's where my kids come in!

[Fialka]

I'd really love to know more about the necromancy stuff, myself. Whenever I play a mage, I like to go creepy. Wind spells would be pretty neat though.

And, slightly OT, that arishok duel was pretty hilarious. My 2h warrior did okay, but my rogue did a whole lot of running around and hiding behind things and throwing bombs at the guy. Took forever to bring him down. Nothing glorious about it.

[Dirgegun]

Do you think the lyrium addiction will be shown in Cullen or only adressed by templars in general? Cause a scenario just came to my mind: at the beginning of the game when the inquisition is in early stages maybe the access to lyrium is limitated and maybe after a certain amount of time the supply ends. And maybe from time to time Cullen has to take lyrium or his skills decrease not to mention that the lyrium withdraw will begin.So i was thinking that maybe the inquisitor will have to negotiate early in game with the dwarven smugglers or other entities to adquire lyrium for Cullen and other templars\mages. 

 

 

Lyrium will be a vital resource anyway, because the efficiency of our mages depends on it. Without it they will just run out of mana, and become useless. So searching for lyrium will be super-important. I hope Cassandra will bring some from the Chantry vaults, I'm sure Divine gave her the keys Otherwise the game will be really hardcore. 

 

I show my utter selfishness by wondering if the Inquisitor can become addicted. I appear to want all the bad things to happen to my Inquisitors, poor bastards.

[Dirgegun]

Oh man. What I loved was force magic. Fist of the Maker=best spell EVER. Damn.

 

Yessssssss.

 

Force Mage was awesome. And made my Hawke feel like a Jedi.