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[Baaleos]

The better implementations of time travel are the ones that show that the timeline cannot be altered - eg: Futures are fixed and cannot be easily changed.
For instance:
Harry Potter - Prisoner of Azkaban - Harry and Co on their original trek through the story encountered unexplained events that at the end are suddenly explained to be themselves influencing events unknown to themselves.
Therefore - they didnt really change history - they were pre-destined to do the whole time travel thing, and their time travelling antics were part of history already.
(Legacy of Kain series does this well too - although they allow for minor changes to history which kinda works against it)

This is in contrast to DA-I - Where we see a stark contrast of a future where Cory thinks that the Inquisitor had died and Cory is king of the world and regardless of that future, the Inquisitor is eventually able to stop Cory in the end.

If this was a harry potter style time-travel - then the inquisitor would have been doomed - as the future would have been fixed and nothing could change it. (As their attempts to fix it or not fix it, would have been part of the history that contributed to it)

However- in the end Cory is dead - and that time line gets erased, save for the memories of it.

[Mykel54]

After seeing the quest in my first playthrough, now i deliberately avoid going to the redcliff chantry to meet Dorian.

Just to avoid having him talk about time magic and practically forcing you to do the mage quest.

 

If we accept time magic is possible, then it is such a threat to the world - like Corypheus level threat- that stopping Alexius is really a huge priority. Specially if you suspect he has ties with the Venatori - time magic at the service of Corypheus? even more dangerous.

 

I would rather not see the quest altogether, so i go to Therinfall after meeting Fiona.

Now you say "time magic is ingame deal with it"

<puts hands in ears> I´m not listening.

[Kantr]

However- in the end Cory is dead - and that time line gets erased, save for the memories of it.

Possibly. Depending on your view on time travel and time-lines. But that's going into theoretical physics territory.

[N7recruit]

depends do you go back and shag your mum?

Well Mike Hawke does have the same voice actor as Malcolm Hawke....

 

OMG! Hawke is his own Farther! Time travelling Incest Confirmed for DA4! 

[Nathair Nimheil]

Time travel is something that's rarely done well, or even in a way that makes sense.

Primer.

[Vox Draco]

Well Mike Hawke does have the same voice actor as Malcolm Hawke....

 

OMG! Hawke is his own Farther! Time travelling Incest Confirmed for DA4! 

 

[Bayonet Hipshot]

This whole time travel means we will have...

 

A Reverse-Inquisitor DLC !  

 

*hope you all watched The Flash*

[chr0n0mancer]

I don't have too much of a problem with it as long it's used sparingly and not to retcon choices. Also that it doesn't cause mind boggling paradoxes.

[errantknight]

Didn't they say that Alexius' Time Travel spell never actually worked until the Breach happened? Suggesting that Time Travel doesn't actually work anymore now that the Breach is closed.

It would take an exceptional circumstance for it to ever happen again, and if it did, it probably wouldn't work in the same way. No meaningful precedent has been established.

[Ziegrif]

Well as a person who is very much against time travel.

I was basically shouting "ABORT! ABORT! THIS IS A VERY BAD IDEA! THE TIME SPACE CONTINUUM IS GOING TO TAKE IT UP THE ARSE FOR THIS!"

 

But that's just me.

[lLord Bhaal]

Reminds me of the direction the Star Trek movies are moving in.

[cJohnOne]

I hate time travel.  It gets ridiculous.

[Precursor Meta]

"SHOW ME HOW YOURE GOING TO CLOSE THE BREACH!"

In all honesty, I didn't like it. But I'm biased against themes dealing with time travel. I much prefered the Templar Quest.

[Draining Dragon]

The dragon age cannon?

Does it shoot blood dragons?

[Kinsz]

The mage quest was very well done , if they are in fact going to use time travel in the next game and its going to be done as well as this one was then i welcome it.

[Pewps]

Time travel is dangerously close to "Jumping the shark" levels. It's too easy to mess up.

[o Ventus]

 

To legitimise Cory as a world ending treat & to pander to the players hero fantasy showing them how they are the only one who can save the world.

 

What do you guys think?

I think every time someone says "hero fantasy", a writer kills themselves to protest the use of the phrase "hero fantasy". It's up there with "male power fantasy" on the 'are you sh*tting me, that's stupid' scale.

[Toasted Llama]

I hope they don't take the Bioshock Infinite route with the multiple possibilities and ****. I mean, I love Bioshock Infinite, but that game was built from the very foundation up to fit around time travel/multiple possibilities. Dragon Age already has a foundation, one that does NOT include time travel.

[TheLastArchivist]

I may have liked the alternate future quest, but this time travel **** is not fooling anyone.

 

Really? A trinket that can warp time? And you just throw a spell at it and them BOOM? Primitive late 70's movies special effects and we're off to the future?

 

Sorry. Not buying it. EVER. Tevinter Magisters may be all powerful, but this is just absurd. Still prefer Back To The Future. More credible. 

[TheLastArchivist]

Bioware goes to all the trouble of making a realistic medieval fantasy RPG and then uses this predictable plot of time travel, the most unrealistic thing in the universe of fiction?

Talk about contradiction.

[leadintea]

I was not pleased at all with it. Time traveling and alternate dimensions can make for some really cheap experiences and we've already seen it happen with the Redcliffe scenario where all the emotion and sacrifices that happened were for nothing once you returned to the present time.

[sunnydxmen]

i think time magic has always been possible  just know one could figure it until now  with its introduction to it i see a new healing spec coming reversing time too heal wounds  the time mage.

[Arro3438]

Well Avernius said that he tried to go back before the breach to save his son from the taint but couldn't. So theres really no way to change anything before a breach. That might be why the writers went ahead with the close the breach in the beginning to avoid any time altering later in the game.

[StarcloudSWG]

It isn't something that they can pull out of a hat whenever they want.

 

First, it *relied* on the Breach. Second, it could not reach back farther than the moment of the Breach.

 

Third, it would require another Breach into the Fade to work, and that's not going to be possible anymore. The focus orb was destroyed, and the energy dissipated into the Fade.