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[DarkKnightHolmes]

What's with all the Fereldan hate? It might not have been the prettiest place in gaming history but it didn't feel dull at all to me.

[Zets09]

I'm a Fereldan at heart, Orlais is just too fab for me. So yeah, looking forward to it.

[drake heath]

Aw, I liked the brown, it gave Ferelden so much character.

 

That and the smell of wet dog and tasteless food.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

The Blight was apparently the best thing for it with how the ecosystem has flourished since then.

[Adhin]

It's not about 'hate'. I loved DAO and definitely have a lot of love for Fereldan. The issue I have is with the engine they where using and level restraints. Half of those places you could stand on Stens shoulders and scale the Keeps walls. Or see a house, go inside and the interior was x4 as big. NOTHING was layout, or built in a manner that made any actual sense simply due to the limitations.

 

That, that right there is one thing I'm looking forward to the most in DAI. Stuff, built, to, scale. Few things we've been to before, built much closer to the scale they originally intended but never could deliver on. Why I'm happy its Redcliff, that was a good example of a small town and a Keep. We get that small town, the keep, and whole surrounding areas in 1 big ass map. And at no point will we go inside a small hut and get a 5 bedroom house some pissy dwarf is currently in.

[Connor Dawson]

I am, joking aside, going to miss all that brown.

[I SOLD MY SOUL TO BIOWARE]

The main colour in Dragon Age's palette seems to have switched from brown to green. 

 

Not complaining, green is much nicer. 

[The Elder King]

The main colour in Dragon Age's palette seems to have switched from brown to green. 
 
Not complaining, green is much nicer.

Not really, it depends on the area.

[I SOLD MY SOUL TO BIOWARE]

Not really, it depends on the area.

 

Ferelden's colour palette.

[The Elder King]

Ferelden's colour palette.

Fair enough.

[seraphymon]

Honestly I liked how things looked like in DAO. Not that the OP or others are wrong  or anything, but I had no problems visualizing things, the scope of Redcliffe or the rest of Ferelden. You could fill in any gaps pretty easily. Graphics or trying to make sure things scale perfectly like the inside of a place looking as big as the outside instead of being 4 times bigger is just not really needed I feel. People have been too spoiled by graphics lately .  AS for dull or backwater. Well this is set in medieval like times and fashion and it is in Ferelden. Would you expect anything else  on the treks?  Im sure we will see new types of outdoor places for the dragon age franchise but as for anything new. I wouldn't hold your breath.

[Estel78]

As much as i'm looking forward to DAI i still think Bioware has a ways to go before it can compete with some other devs when it comes to making areas that feel like real places and not like fake sets. For instance in Redcliffe village, where do people live, where are all the houses? Where are the peasants plowing fields and feeding the livestock. People going about their daily routines. Stuff like that.

 

Having said that, it's difficult to judge just by a few minutes of gameplay. Maybe it's not that bad.

[metalfenix]

No. wanted to see ANOTHER region on it's full splendor, I was hoping it was orlais at least but.....

[Greenface21]

No, Thedas has much more to offer. I'd like to move onto other areas and not rehash old ones. 

[TK514]

I like the OPs optimisim, but I think if that's what people expect, they are going to be disappointed by how little of each country, on a geographic scale, we actually get to explore.  Each individual region we see may be larger, according to ML the region in the demo was larger than all of DA:O, but we'll simply see more around Redcliffe specifically than we did by autoloading directly into the village or keep.  If anything, it will just reenforce how small the playable areas in DA:O really were.

 

We won't be walking around the lake from Redcliffe to the Circle Tower, nor walking the length of the Frostbacks to get from Haven to Orzammar.  We'll see considerably less of Ferelden as a whole, and more of a couple of specific areas.

[andy6915]

I like the OPs optimisim, but I think if that's what people expect, they are going to be disappointed by how little of each country, on a geographic scale, we actually get to explore.  Each individual region we see may be larger, according to ML the region in the demo was larger than all of DA:O, but we'll simply see more around Redcliffe specifically than we did by autoloading directly into the village or keep.  If anything, it will just reenforce how small the playable areas in DA:O really were.

 

We won't be walking around the lake from Redcliffe to the Circle Tower, nor walking the length of the Frostbacks to get from Haven to Orzammar.  We'll see considerably less of Ferelden as a whole, and more of a couple of specific areas.

*sigh*

 

Well we'll see. Bioware has hyped how big and grand it is, so I assumed they weren't entirely fluffing things up.

[Vumba the Wild Elf]

I hope it hasn't lost that crazy, barbaric edge

[In Exile]

What's with all the Fereldan hate? It might not have been the prettiest place in gaming history but it didn't feel dull at all to me.

 

It was just such a backwater, and everyone repeatedly told you what a craphole the place was, which didn't help matters. It's like hearing about all these other amazing places you could go, but sadly you're stuck in Ferelden. 

[General TSAR]

Nope.

[tmp7704]

*sigh*
 
Well we'll see. Bioware has hyped how big and grand it is, so I assumed they weren't entirely fluffing things up.

It's "big and grand" on game scale. To put it in perspective, Skyrim world map is ~15 sq.miles and it packs land features that are allegedly scaled down to 1/10th of "real" distances and such. Now, Ferelden is roughly twice that size so to cover just Ferelden alone at the same scale you'd need 4 entire Skyrim maps stitched together... and that's just Ferelden. DA:I is supposed to contain quite more than that.

So, realistically you can probably expect much smaller snippets of the land than you imagine. Way bigger than the DA:O and DA2 closets, but still not exactly vast.

[TheChris92]

Ferelden again? We just can't escape it, can we? In Dragon Age 2 you were re-located to a city overrun with Ferelden's even if it wasn't in Ferelden -- It's about as standard as fantasy settings go and thus it's interesting. There's been an entire game and an expansion pack exploring the larger parts of it. I wish we could move away from it entirely, but there you go I guess. Maybe next time. :/

[adorkable-panda]

I may seem like a total geek but I always appreciated the architecture in video games and the artistic styles and I'm glad that since Ferelden is being rendered in full beautifulness we'll get a better idea of what exactly is that Ferelden style. And since now we're also going to Orlais it'll be even cooler to see how distinct Orlais' architectural style is compared to Ferelden in terms of cities *if we are going to see big hubs* I'm just excited that Frostbite has allowed Bioware to realize Thedas in how they've always wanted to realize it. 

[Ponendus]

I liked the old Ferelden too, it will always be a memory, after all it made me fall in love with the franchise.

 

But, holy bajeebus the brown... brown everywhere. Mixed with a bit of beige, and then a bit of chocolate-y colour. Even the green looked brown...

 

DA:I looks so much more full of life, like a land I would want to risk my life to preserve.

[Gileadan]

I'm all ferelden'd out, I'm afraid. As much as BioWare claims that the DA series is really about Thedas, it seems it's really about people from or near Ferelden having adventures in or near Ferelden. So many interesting places to explore on the continent, and we get to go back to Dogville.