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[LolaLei]

The major concern I have for DAI (and TW3) is in how they'll mix the story-heavy content their games usually have with the open world content. Being not completely OW is a smart thing to do, in my opinion, but we'll have to wait to see the results.
Though I don't understand the problem with your example. It seems very similar to how DAO was, expect the keep part. i guess that if the majority of the quests will be about conquering keeps it might become repetitive, but Indont think it'll be like that. The Emerald Graves and Exalted plains doesn't seem focused on keeps, and we'll have in the game villages (and possibly one-two cities) to focus on. We know that there'll be at least two: Crestwood and Redcliffe.
And Vivienne's recruitment might be around a Circle.

They mixed things up more in DA:O, you had the thieves quests, the throwing dead bodies down the well, dialogue based ones, silly ones like sending the companions in to rescue your Warden and Alistair by having them dress up in stupid clothing, etc. It also helped that we could have conversations anywhere, which broke up the hack 'n' slash nicely.

[LolaLei]

I think my Inquisitor would be a super awkward flirter. Poor Cullen!

I just hope the flirt options will be a little more subtle this time around! Hawke was absolutely terrifying and corny with his/her flirt dialogue, poor Cullen would have a nose bleed, LOL!

[Dirgegun]

Dorian IS NOT pro-Tervinter

 

He want's to change the way the government is. He doesn't want to completely destroy it though if that's what you're getting at:

"Dorian-Dorian Pavus is a Tevinter magister. The title conjures fear of arcane master who once enslaved nations. Dorian may wield the power of the magisters, but he delights in not being what you would expect. Brazen and clever, this outcast is on a crusade to rid his homeland of its corruption."

 

I don't see what's so boring about that, personally. I think he'll be one of my favourites just judging by that blurb. It kind of reminds me of how Abraham Lincoln was way, way ahead of his time. Or how Theodore Roosevelt's wife didn't stand for racism or any such crap. 

[TreeHuggerHannah]

I just hope the flirt options will be a little more subtle this time around! Hawke was absolutely terrifying and corny with his/her flirt dialogue, poor Cullen would have a nose bleed, LOL!

 

Agreed! It worked for my Hawke because I was playing her as a socially awkward occasionally inappropriate person (and for some reason Fenris was okay with the horrible flirtation,) but I'd like my Inquisitor to be a little less of... well, a jerk about about it. 

 

Even if my Inquisitor can't romance Cullen, I hope she can at least flirt with him once or twice. It would probably be good for her to loosen up and flirt with an attractive person.

[LolaLei]

Either way, I guess Cullen's brave enough to start flirting back at some point because his voice actor tweeted about recording flirty, sexy, romantic and "raunchy" dialogue in the recording booth a couple of weeks ago. Apparently the guy even sings in the game, so he's clearly not that shy, lol!

[TreeHuggerHannah]

Either way, I guess Cullen's brave enough to start flirting back at some point because his voice actor tweeted about recording flirty, sexy, romantic and "raunchy" dialogue in the recording booth a couple of weeks ago. Apparently the guy even sings in the game, so he's clearly not that shy, lol!

 

Well, and he's an LI. I don't think that would work out if Cullen just acted awkward and changed the subject whenever anyone flirted. 

[CuriousArtemis]

re: Dorian, Different strokes for different folks I also find Vivienne's concept boring. A pro-Circle Circle mage, blah. But I say things without having met these guys yet. We'll just have to wait and see.

 

So far the companion that has the most potential to me believe it or not is Sera. She seems like some kind of Slum Queen or something... like a Thieves Guild head. She could be pretty awesome.

[Dirgegun]

Either way, I guess Cullen's brave enough to start flirting back at some point because his voice actor tweeted about recording flirty, sexy, romantic and "raunchy" dialogue in the recording booth a couple of weeks ago. Apparently the guy even sings in the game, so he's clearly not that shy, lol!

 

He better! It'll kill my attraction if he' completely shy and doesn't even make a move once things get going! If he was like that he'd be getting a pat on the head while I find someone else for my Inquisitors.

[Dirgegun]

re: Dorian, Different strokes for different folks I also find Vivienne's concept boring. A pro-Circle Circle mage, blah. But I say things without having met these guys yet. We'll just have to wait and see.

 

So far the companion that has the most potential to me believe it or not is Sera. She seems like some kind of Slum Queen or something... like a Thieves Guild head. She could be pretty awesome.

 

Oh, definitely. 

 

I actually find Sera's concept, at a base level, pretty boring. I've seen the queen of the underground/thieves guild trope done so many times, that another one doesn't really pique my interest. Of course, I haven't disliked a Bioware companion yet, so I'm expecting to love all of 'em.

[The Elder King]

They mixed things up more in DA:O, you had the thieves quests, the throwing dead bodies down the well, dialogue based ones, silly ones like sending the companions in to rescue your Warden and Alistair by having them dress up in stupid clothing, etc. It also helped that we could have conversations anywhere, which broke up the hack 'n' slash nicely.

Well, those type of quests can still happen. As I said we'll visit villages and probably one city, and the keeps might have a lot of non-combat quests.

[LolaLei]

He better! It'll kill my attraction if he' completely shy and doesn't even make a move once things get going! If he was like that he'd be getting a pat on the head while I find someone else for my Inquisitors.

I'm hoping he'll let slip the odd sign that he's interested even if we don't flirt with him immediately, kinda like Anders did but A LOT more subtle, lol.

Truth be told, I don't want us to be able to flirt with him or any of the other companions until we're at a point where we've got to know them beyond just an acquaintance, the fact that Hawke could flirt (and say some real clangers) straight after meeting them or when something awful had just happened (Anders losing Karl to tranquility and having to kill him), was wholly inappropriate (but funny)!

[Mes]

Truth be told, I don't want us to be able to flirt with him or any of the other companions until we're at a point where we've got to know them beyond just an acquaintance

 

I'd like this too. I'd like the romance to be drawn out to an extent... For me the very very beginning of a possible romance is the most fun!!

[LolaLei]

I'd like this too. I'd like the romance to be drawn out to an extent... For me the very very beginning of a possible romance is the most fun!!

Agreed! It's the thrill of the chase. I'd prefer the romance arc to be drawn out until the end, so we'd get the sexytime scene the night before battle like they did with the Mass Effect games.

[berelinde]

I reckon that would be just to show proof of skill, like part of one's technical portfolio, no? Not necessarily that there will or won't be a toolkit with the new game.

I know. My comment was nothing more than a passive-aggressive jab at the devs for wanting people to mod but not giving them the tools to do it.

 

I do understand the conundrum. They really do want people to make mods. They know that it extends the shelf life of their games and encourages people to keep the games installed on their systems and therefore increase the odds of them purchasing DLC. But their reliance on third-party tools and the expense of universal licenses for those tools makes that cost prohibitive, and that's a shame. Complexity of the toolset is not an issue. No matter how advanced it is, the gaming population contains some staggeringly intelligent individuals and they will figure out how it works and explain it to dummies like me. PC gamers, those who can utilize mods, make up less than 25% of their gaming audience, so any perks aimed at them is pretty much money wasted. I hate that.

[BioFan (Official)]

Is anyone else concerned that DAI will be more focused on these combat encounters and it's dangerous open world than it's story and characters?

Don't get me wrong, I know the characters are going to be entertaining, but I'm concerned it's going to be: get quest, travel through a pretty location, get attacked a lot, start quest, have a mini boss fight, capture a keep, rinse and repeat with only a little variation in between just to get to the next major story quest, kinda like all the fed-ex style quests in DA2 where that's all we pretty much done between the big quest lines.

 

 

That's also my fear...

 

I hope they didn't look TOO heavily at Skyrim. 

[LolaLei]

In my mind, the best time for Cullen to finally "give in" to his feelings and desires would either be right before the final battle OR right after something really bad happens that almost kills him and/or the Inquisitor (ideally the latter, just to make the Inquisitor seem less of a special snowflake) towards the final quarter of the game. Maybe after the attack on our Skyhold?

[BioFan (Official)]

Agreed! It's the thrill of the chase. I'd prefer the romance arc to be drawn out until the end, so we'd get the sexytime scene the night before battle like they did with the Mass Effect games.

 

 

PREACH

[Panda]

Agreed! It's the thrill of the chase. I'd prefer the romance arc to be drawn out until the end, so we'd get the sexytime scene the night before battle like they did with the Mass Effect games.

 

I don't think I'd want this.. or at least I'd want some easy to bed characters in DAI and other harder ones. I just feel like I got more from DA2's romance than in ME's romances.

[BioFan (Official)]

I don't think I'd want this.. or at least I'd want some easy to bed characters in DAI and other harder ones. I just feel like I got more from DA2's romance than in ME's romances.

 

 

I'd maybe like more than just one bedroom scene.... 

 

We should be given the option to be prides, not forced into it... 

[berelinde]

104 pages before E3. Hmmm, well we're f***ed

Slow page progression, please. I've got a whole mod to make between now and 1000.

[Milady]

This thread is just.. so filled with hormones  I love it!

[LolaLei]

I don't think I'd want this.. or at least I'd want some easy to bed characters in DAI and other harder ones. I just feel like I got more from DA2's romance than in ME's romances.

That could work too, the problem is that once you've locked yourself into the relationship little else happens in the romance arc, thus why dragging the actual locking in part itself should be left until closer towards the end of the game. I used the sexytime scene as an example since with the majority of the characters that's what locks you into the romance because straight after you have the "conversation" after that allows you to stick with that LI or tell them it was a one off, with the except of Zev, Isabela, Fenris and (I think) Morrigan?

[LolaLei]

This thread is just.. so filled with hormones I love it!

Naw, you just caught us on a rare occasion when we're actually talking about Cullen and the romance arc.

[CuriousArtemis]

That could work too, the problem is that once you've locked yourself into the relationship little else happens in the romance arc, thus why dragging the actual locking in part itself should be left until closer towards the end of the game. 

 

Well... kind of depends on the character. Both Zevran and Fenris had issues that continued far after the first sexy times encounter.

[LolaLei]

Well... kind of depends on the character. Both Zevran and Fenris had issues that continued far after the first sexy times encounter.

That's why I said with exception to those I listed in the last post. I used the sexytime scene as an example since with the majority it's that scene with the dialogue straight after that locks you in.