My guess is that rather than an item snapping and breaking completely, it probably just becomes less effective, looks a bit rough and needs a fix up at a blacksmiths or something. The armor will probably just give us less protection and look a bit tatty in places.
I want the mirror because I'd like to change my hair/beard during the game (even if it won't be as long as DA2 it'll be one-two year long as you said). Plus, if we can have scars in the CC I'd like to add the during the game for showing the danger we face.
It'd be awesome to have various outfits, for different occasions. Like how Aveline could switch between Assassin gear, formal attire and her slave disguise in Assassin's Creed: Liberation. Only with more customisation.
My guess is that rather than an item snapping and breaking completely, it probably just becomes less effective, looks a bit rough and needs a fix up at a blacksmiths or something. The armor will probably just give us less protection and look a bit tatty in places.
I'm cool with a standard repair system, where your armor becomes less effective the longer you wait to repair it, and then once you visit your blacksmith at home, it gets repaired (and of course, beautified and buffed behind the scenes). And, it would be cool to actually see the wear and tear until you get a chance to repair.
That's what I'd like to do. Like, with my Hawke I kept his beard looking the same since everything was in and around Kirkwall so he could always get home to have a shave etc. But in DAI we'll be out in the world constantly, so by the time you get back your beard would be massive if you're playing as a dude, lol!
With my female Inquisitor I want to be able to use the mirror/whatever to change my hairstyle to suit the situation, so if I'm going into battle I can wear it tied up away from my face in a basic practical style, then when I'm running around the rich end of Orlais I can have something a little prettier, when I'm dossing around the Skyhold I could change it to a relaxed down style and so on. Then if I get my arse handed to me in a particularly harsh battle I can start adding in important scars (like after the big bad attacks our Skyhold/base) 'n' so on.
I just hope the mirror is at home this time... 
I just hope the mirror is at home this time...
What I wonder, is if picking one type of advisor's suggestions over the others and having the majority of your captured keeps decorated in that advisor's style will have a drastic effect on the fate of Thedas.
For example, let's say I ran with every suggestion Cullen put forward and made all my keeps militaristic because I didn't want to miss any dialogue or interaction with him, would I end up with Ferelden/Orlais looking like battlefield and "peace" being formed via a strict army style Inquisition?
Could it be that going all/mostly militant/espionage/political could actually have a negative effect? And striking a balance where each facet is used within it's optimal situation is what is considered the "best" way to go about things? We really need to know more on how this advisor thing will work, lol.
I'm thinking this is probably part of the multiple playthroughs strategy... there must be all sorts of implications for balancing your support of the three facets. e.g. your military is strong, but you keep getting surprised by other forces because you have no spy intel that they're coming, or you can't afford to upgrade your soldier's weapons because you don't have enough money. I would even guess that they call them pillars because you need to balance between the three to give you Inquisition a solid foundation ( 
how's that for running with the metaphor!)
I'm thinking this is probably part of the multiple playthroughs strategy... there must be all sorts of implications for balancing your support of the three facets. e.g. your military is strong, but you keep getting surprised by other forces because you have no spy intel that they're coming, or you can't afford to upgrade your soldier's weapons because you don't have enough money. I would even guess that they call them pillars because you need to balance between the three to give you Inquisition a solid foundation (
Xenon could have it made into a small compact vanity mirror that would could just take with us everywhere, lol!
Love. This.
Inquis: Hold on a moment, Cullen, while I powder my nose.
*open compact*poof*add freckles*darken and lengthen hair*add nose ring*
Cullen: Um, WHO are you??
Love. This.
Inquis: Hold on a moment, Cullen, while I powder my nose.
*open compact*poof*add freckles*darken and lengthen hair*add nose ring*
Cullen: Um, WHO are you??
That's what I'd like to do. Like, with my Hawke I kept his beard looking the same since everything was in and around Kirkwall so he could always get home to have a shave etc. But in DAI we'll be out in the world constantly, so by the time you get back your beard would be massive if you're playing as a dude, lol!
With my female Inquisitor I want to be able to use the mirror/whatever to change my hairstyle to suit the situation, so if I'm going into battle I can wear it tied up away from my face in a basic practical style, then when I'm running around the rich end of Orlais I can have something a little prettier, when I'm dossing around the Skyhold I could change it to a relaxed down style and so on. Then if I get my arse handed to me in a particularly harsh battle I can start adding in important scars (like after the big bad attacks our Skyhold/base) 'n' so on.
you know i would love if we got the option in the CC to choose two looks for our inquisitor: one for battle\outdoor things and one for casual\camp. Not having that option i really hope we still have the mirror or an equivalent option.
I bet you're spot on! Let's hope that by picking one you're not locking yourself out of dialogue/interaction with the other two!
***adding more playthroughs***
Jeesh, it does actually stress me out a bit that I know I'll be missing so much content in a given playthrough. With my annoying 'plan twice fifteen times, cut once' mindset, I may never get around to actually playing the game! LOL
The advisors being called pillars sounds like they're even more important to the game than we realise! *Sniff* our Cullen's finally important... they grow so fast!
Yes,this also makes me think that we also might kind of depend on them,if they provide the Inquisition with available resources.
In the end of the day we may have the glowing hand,but we'll need armies,money and our "little birds"to keep us updated,in order to make the Inquisition a respectable organization and a force to be reckoned with.
Tell me about it! I got about 2 years worth of gameplay out of DA:O with all the different combos and about a year out of DA2, but I continued to play it to get all the achievements. DAI will likely tide me over for years!***adding more playthroughs***
Jeesh, it does actually stress me out a bit that I know I'll be missing so much content in a given playthrough. With my annoying 'plantwicefifteen times, cut once' mindset, I may never get around to actually playing the game! LOL
I guess really we can't use DA2 as an accurate representation of romance arcs/story arcs for DAI because the game had such a short development time that a lot of things were cut and everything was condensed, not to mention it was a lot shorter in length than DA:O.
I actually had real problems with how DA2 handled the romances. The sex was mandatory and that made me very uncomfortable. (Although, with Anders, we never see them "naked" and they're both dressed right after, so I headcanon with my canon Hawke that nothing more than necking happened. ) Heck, in DAO, you could go the entire game in a romance with Zevran and never have sex with him. Zevran. And the game even acknowledged it! In DA2, it felt more like I was just picking the person I wanted, and the romance was like a small movie I, the player, had no part in. It was very impersonal.
So my hopes for DAI romances are that they are definitely more, ah, gated than DAO's, drawing out the experiences by using the main plot as triggering points for the next step, but have far more options within the romance than DA2.
For a Cullen romance, because of GE's tweets on the subject, I assume there will be stuttering in the early parts of the romance. And a bit of awkwardness. In my mind, I see Cullen being the kind of person to bump into a table as he's nervously chattering at the Inquisitor. But as others have said, he'll grow more comfortable with the situation and that'll stop. Which is good. Even though the stuttering is what endeared me to Cullen, I'm not sure I could handle an entire romance where he was staring at his feet, or jumping like a spooked horse whenever my Inquisitor made a move on him. 
What I wonder, is if picking one type of advisor's suggestions over the others and having the majority of your captured keeps decorated in that advisor's style will have a drastic effect on the fate of Thedas?
For example, let's say I ran with every suggestion Cullen put forward and made all my keeps militaristic because I didn't want to miss any dialogue or interaction with him, would I end up with Ferelden/Orlais looking like battlefield and "peace" being formed via a strict army style Inquisition?
Could it be that going all/mostly militant/espionage/political could actually have a negative effect? And striking a balance where each facet is used within it's optimal situation/environment is what would be considered the "best" way to go about things? We really need to know more on how this advisor thing will work, lol.
I don't think that this is how they will be gating the advisors on a personal level. I mean, perhaps the more military keeps you have the more military troops you have, meaning your army is stronger. Cullen, himself, would be unaffected in your interactions for the most part. Or, at least, it wouldn't be every keep. Perhaps a few to really open up Cullen entirely. I'd be very disappointed if a sneaky character who saw less value in outright confrontation was locked out of dialogue with Cullen because more of their keeps were espionage-focused.
That said, I'd bet that some quests will open or close depending on the balance of your keeps. Perhaps having a lot of military keeps will make the populace view you as a warlord, or a lot of espionage keeps will make you almost unknown to them, or a lot of commerce keeps will make you unpopular with the poor.
Also: 100 pages to go! Any guesstimates on when we'll reach that grand ol' page 1000?
It`s kind of a tradition in DA games that our PC gives a meaningful gift to each companion. So just for fun 
, what would be the perfect gift for Cullen? A weapon, a pet, a book, flowers, an amulet....?
For me he seems like a practical man, so my perfect gift would be something he could use in battle, like a customize sword or shield.
It`s kind of a tradition in DA games that our PC gives a meaningful gift to each companion. So just for fun
For me he seems like a practical man, so my perfect gift would be something he could use in battle, like a customize sword or shield.
Something practical or something about Andraste and Chantry ^^ I hope DAI's gifts are at least different than DA2's, Hawke was terrible gift giver XD Like Fenris and Aveline's gifts.. they hated them!
Hard to say. Perhaps something religious/faith based if he's going through a crisis of faith? Or a sword that once belonged to someone important? I dunno. I just hope we can actually give him a gift as an NPC-romance option.It`s kind of a tradition in DA games that our PC gives a meaningful gift to each companion. So just for fun
For me he seems like a practical man, so my perfect gift would be something he could use in battle, like a customize sword or shield.
Either way, he obviously moves on from whatever it is people pick/RP/head canon for Cullen and the Amell/Surana because he's certainly romanceable in DAI. Perhaps he will address his past feelings for Amell/Surana and explain how well he knew her and whether it was love, or just a youthful infatuation that we've all experienced in our time.
As a personal preference I'd prefer him to say it was just a youthful crush/infatuation, it's all well and good looking back fondly, but if you're still hung up on someone you hardly knew after 10+ years and putting that person on a pedestal without really knowing them well/intimately then that's a bit weird and my Inquisitor shall be jumping ship onto the Dorian train! Cho-cho!
(My Warden would be horrified to learn such a thing, she's ALL about Alistair... and maybe Jowan, in her younger circle years, lol!)
Yes, he definitely moves on if you want to romance him. But I want to have some space here to squeeze my Cullen/Amell headcanon in, so I would prefer if he didn't specify what kind of relationship they had. Like in DAII, "I knew her. She was awesome. Let's change the subject." 
I kinda love the idea that Cullen was stopping himself using a slang term for the Blooming Rose workers. I've always figured that he's probably got a bit of a potty mouth simply because he's a soldier in a military setting surrounded by men and tough women, but at the same time tries to avoid swearing when talking to the general public or dealing with people outside the Order in a professional manner.
I wouldn't mind hearing him come out with some real clangers when he forgets himself for a moment, or have him tell a crude story/laugh at a crude story told by Sera or something. Above all else, I hope he isn't always super serious or a bit of a wet lettuce, lol.
I've never heard anything rude from any templar, actually. Don't forget, they are a religious order, and maybe they think Maker won't let them join the party in the afterlife if they swear
Also, military men are not always rude. I've known guys who would return after the military service actually speaking in filthy words, and I've known guys who has always been polite, and the army didn't change that Like my husband, he freaks out even when I swear, and never swears himself. So I believe Cullen's politeness can be a part of his character.
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Maybe he compensates with some really witty euphemisms?
It`s kind of a tradition in DA games that our PC gives a meaningful gift to each companion. So just for fun
For me he seems like a practical man, so my perfect gift would be something he could use in battle, like a customize sword or shield.
I would like to give him a horse, so we can go on rides together. And so he can wash it.
I would like to give him a horse, so we can go on rides together. And so he can wash it.
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