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[xmojo1]

Hearing about DA: Inquisition got my RPG juices flowing again and I've reinstalled my Origins and DA2 games and are playing them through to create saves to carry over to Inquisition. It also got me reacquainted with the rich lore and history of Dragon Age and got me thinking: what if Bioware released a future DA game based around historical events before DA: Origins? What if we could take part in famous events and interact with famous figures? Just some of the past events I would like to witness would be:

 

• Andraste and Maferath's Exalted March on the Imperium and Andraste's execution
• the formation of the Grey Wardens and the raising of Weisshaupt Fortress
• march with the Legion of Steel and learn its fate
• take part in the fight against the First Blight or any of the blights before the Fifth Blight
• help Caridin create the Anvil of the Void
• take part in the fight for Elvhenan

Anyone else think that a DA game based in the past would be interesting? And which historical period/events would such a game take place in?

[Al Foley]

Meh prequels in books or movies tend to 'work' because they are prestablished storylines and back ground for your main plot so you already have a lot of the work done for you...you just need to execute it.  But for RPGs they do not work for a lot of the same reasons.  We know a lot about certain events in the DA universe (like the first Blight) we know how it ended, and plus it would really be hard to construct a proper game which follows the course of a war that would last for...what centuries? 

 

However, all that being said I would almost love to see a game following Andraste around since Chantry Lore and Chantry history....heck the entire Chantry itself...fascinates me because of the real world parrellels and real world conceits it takes into account.  It, being one of the only major Monotheistic religions to be properly fleshed out and treated fairly in the Fantasy Genre.  Period.  Any medium.  That I have experienced.  So I would be curious to see the 'real' story of Andraste and see how she actually thought and felt about many issues and whether she would approve of modern Theododian institutions, IE the Circles of Magi, IE Orlesian nobility. 

[NoForgiveness]

Well I would like to see the first blight but really only because of how like "the end is nigh" it got. So it wouldn't really need to be the first one, it could be one or both of the remaining blights. But id really really like to see it get to where its like almost an apocalypse.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

Wouldn't be a Dragon Age game then since it doesn't happen in the Dragon Age.

[Mes]

(Just FYI, you won't be able to import your DAO and DA2 saves into Inquisition.)

 

I'm not really a fan of prequels. I don't like instantly knowing (even in a vague sense) what will happen at the end of the story. And I dislike even more the possibility of prequels being used to re-write the future.

 

I think a story that keeps going forward is better, though I wouldn't mind seeing some brief cinematic sequences in DA of events that happened in the past.

[Al Foley]

How is this for a compromise, a whole series of quests, a quest line, perhaps as long as an 'act' in a game.  It can even be provided for via the Fade and not really time travel or anything.

[BloodyTalon]

Don't see preequals for DA working well wiith how indepth the lore is even compared to ME.

[The Night Haunter]

Not for the DA universe. What choices can we make? Andraste died, that is that, we'd have no choices that would affect the world (obviously the events in DAO happened as we know them, so we can't make any kind of choice in a prequel that would result in any different scenario).

As books or comics, sure we could have a prequel like that, but not as a game.

 

Honestly Enterprise killed Star Trek by going back in time (and the new reboot is kinda the same, but its got JJ Abrams directing it so that gives it some redemption points), LOST got wierd when they threw in some meaningless (apart from expanding the viewers knowledge) time travel. Caprica lasted a single season as compared to Battlestar's 4 seasons (too short even ). Prequels rarely add to a series, instead they kill it.

[In Exile]

(Just FYI, you won't be able to import your DAO and DA2 saves into Inquisition.)

 

I'm not really a fan of prequels. I don't like instantly knowing (even in a vague sense) what will happen at the end of the story. And I dislike even more the possibility of prequels being used to re-write the future.

 

I think a story that keeps going forward is better, though I wouldn't mind seeing some brief cinematic sequences in DA of events that happened in the past.

 

That's basically my take. Although I have one DA related exception to that: the first blight. I think a game set in that world, where it has been ravaged for 200 years by the darkspawn, when the GWs are formed for the first time as a separate attempt to slay the archdemon... I think that game can work as a prequel, since it's basically DA:O all over again. 

[TurretSyndrome]

Dragon Age: Days of the Future Past?

 

Let's make a Dragon Age game where we could go back in time and make sure DA 2 never happened. Ugh... that game... *shivers*

[Mistress9Nine]

I could work, but it'd have to be more linear and with little player agency, as history is history and you can't go round killing Andraste and helping the Imperium win. Either way, it'd be a great way to give us some Griffon action without having to resurrect them. Or to be taken back to the days of Arlathan...    *sigh*