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[Elhanan]

That's not all cut scenes or story though, most of it is just random gameplay like the hinterlands etc.

Have not seen it, but it has been appearing on my recommendations for some time. It sounds like most Players experiences then.

[correctamundo]

That's not all cut scenes or story though, most of it is just random gameplay like the hinterlands etc.

 

Yes but TW3 is mostly random gameplay from Velen, Novigrad, Skellige etc. Not boring but but still random. Otherwise you could just rent a movie.

[Aren]

I died a lot on those suicide missions. Reloading was required and different tactics were chosen. 

It mainly depend on the approach that you have used for your character.

(As ignacio have said most of the enemy of DAO mainly the darkspawn are quite predictable and a less threat of the "surprises" that you can encounter on Rialto bay,and he was right) 

My Warden never died, with stealth and traps it was a walk in the park,in entire sections i have not even engaged in  battle 

(obviously it was only my warden or only rogues) is realistic, why bother to fight so many enemies when you can simply avoid them?

But of course if you specifically go with the intention to kill every single breathing creature that you see, you may encounter problems but it is your approach who can be too "brutal"

My Inquisitor is dead many times unlike my Warden  which have get the achievement I'm kind of a big deal,which i have aquired only with the rogue.

[Xetykins]

Have not seen it, but it has been appearing on my recommendations for some time. It sounds like most Players experiences then.

I admit i don't watch the dai cutscenes on tube because I have played the game. But those files you linked seems to be partly talking. The witcher one was made to be movielike with tiny portion of gameplay for presentation purposes. So I knocked off an hr of it from the length.

[Xetykins]

It mainly depend on the approach that you have used for your character.
(As ignacio have said most of the enemy of DAO mainly the darkspawn are quite predictable and a less threat of the "surprises" that you can encounter on Rialto bay,and he was right) 
My Warden never died, with stealth and traps it was a walk in the park,in entire sections i have not even engaged in  battle 
(obviously it was only my warden or only rogues) is realistic, why bother to fight so many enemies when you can simply avoid them?
But of course if you specifically go with the intention to kill every single breathing creature that you see, you may encounter problems but it is your approach who can be too "brutal"
My Inquisitor is dead many times unlike my Warden  which have get the achievement I'm kind of a big deal,which i have aquired only with the rogue.

How is this a testament of the "special snowflake" of the warden though? I died a lot more on that first ogier in ostagar than i did on my inquisitor one 1 pt for example. That does not mean anything. Just meant I was playing like an idiot in dao and smarter ( maybe) in dai. Or maybe blackwall was just made for a really imba tank that's why I hardly get hit.

[Torgette]

So Novigrad is neat and all but for DA i'd rather Bioware mimicked Assassin's Creed for Val Royeaux at the very least, I do like that you come across random side quests even if they're very very simple (reminds me of the side quests in ME1 and ME2 on the urban worlds/citadel).

[midnight tea]

So Novigrad is neat and all but for DA i'd rather Bioware mimicked Assassin's Creed for Val Royeaux at the very least, I do like that you come across random side quests even if they're very very simple (reminds me of the side quests in ME1 and ME2 on the urban worlds/citadel).

 

Novigrad can be somewhat "annoying" in a sense that we can easily get lost when running all the errands (and I'm speaking from perspective of someone who has rather excellent spatial orientation and rarely gets lost, even on game maps). Though I'm pretty sure it's intentional

 

It's an old, European city through and through, based in great measure on city of Gdansk (Danzig), which itself was an important seaport and had a status of 'free city' for long periods of time, till after WWII.

 

There's even a rather famous historic landmark of Gdansk to be found in Novigrad.

 

Anyone who can tell me which is it gets a cookie

[RINNZ]

Glad you got a brand new card! Was it the 970? I forgot which one you were looking at.

I love AMD's new cards myself but since I play Arma3 and require shadowplay for reporting offenders, I have to stick with Nvidia, which isn't a terrible sacrifice

Did someone say Arma 3?

Kreygasm

[Hazegurl]

Yes of course they have you duel Loghain. And then Loghain dies. Like I wrote up there. As for other choices there is no fundamental difference there between the landsmeet or whwe. Well in the landsmeet you can skip form entirely whereas in Halamshiral you have to conform to the game at least a minimum.

Loghain doesn't have to die...unless you get Alistair to duel him or choose to kill him yourself.  And you do have to conform to the game.  Like I posted above, you can get dumped by Alistair and flat out told you cannot be a Queen if you are the wrong race and class.  You have to settle for being his mistress, if you choose to be and only if Alistair is hardened.  You can't even propose a marriage to Anora if you are not a human noble male.  There is no such conformity in DAI.  You just lose some favor points which you can get back by making the right moves at court.  What both Halam and Landsmeet have in common is that they both offer a way out for the player if they make stupid moves.  But the Landsmeet has The Winter Palace beat in that your race and class actually creates a wall that you cannot pass no matter what, and your companion will not yield to your decision if he does not like it.  

[TheOgre]

Did someone say Arma 3?

Kreygasm

Life mods, the server I play on and off on has been rather Gang heavy and minimalistic rp but I'm too lazy to apply for a white listed community. I should do something about that.

DAYZ and h1z1 are my favorites though too as I can find random funny rp. In battle royals I role play as a cannibal that talks in the third person that belongs to a clan of cannibals. "Ogre shall rip your carcass in half and roast it over a spit!"

There's a viral video out right now where in DAYZ a fellow randomly encounters tiny Tim.. It's super eerie and creepy. The rp is amazing. It's why I prefer rpgs over CoD and halo. Never know what kind of nut job you will run into in a survival apocalypse.

[correctamundo]

Loghain doesn't have to die...unless you get Alistair to duel him or choose to kill him yourself.  And you do have to conform to the game.  Like I posted above, you can get dumped by Alistair and flat out told you cannot be a Queen if you are the wrong race and class.  You have to settle for being his mistress, if you choose to be and only if Alistair is hardened.  You can't even propose a marriage to Anora if you are not a human noble male.  There is no such conformity in DAI.  You just lose some favor points which you can get back by making the right moves at court.  What both Halam and Landsmeet have in common is that they both offer a way out for the player if they make stupid moves.  But the Landsmeet has The Winter Palace beat in that your race and class actually creates a wall that you cannot pass no matter what, and your companion will not yield to your decision if he does not like it.  

 

If you don't play the game in Halamshiral it is game over. If you don't play the game in Denerim you get to kill Loghain, or not, either way it is on with the show. All the rest is just icing on the cake. If you are wanting for a specific result in either place you have try a little harder of course. And doing just minimum in Halamshiral isn't that hard but at least you have to keep up appearances. In Denerim you can beat the opposition into submission if you like.

[TheOgre]

? You don't have to play the game. You can fail at the game completely and still force the players to either cooperate or have one person rule and the others twist. You are guaranteed success in that situation.. Mental gymnastics at this point to make your argument work.

Oh I forgot..that the mechanic is if you lose complete favor with the court by hitting 0.. Hah.. The world gets taken over by corypheous. I suppose if that's really something to boast about then sure. But if your arguing from a complete mechanic x versus x, you have secrets, coins, all sorts of mechanics to keep you from falling to 0. It's not a guaranteed victory but it may as well be.

[midnight tea]

? You don't have to play the game. You can fail at the game completely and still force the players to either cooperate or have one person rule and the others twist. You are guaranteed success in that situation.. Mental gymnastics at this point to make your argument work.

Oh I forgot..that the mechanic is if you lose complete favor with the court by hitting 0.. Hah.. The world gets taken over by corypheous. I suppose if that's really something to boast about then sure. But if your arguing from a complete mechanic x versus x, you have secrets, coins, all sorts of mechanics to keep you from falling to 0. It's not a guaranteed victory but it may as well be.

 

We can't fail at WYWH in DAI just like we can't fail at finding Ciri in TW3 (or eventually resolving any major plot point). I can't see why this is used as an argument against game's design - the fate of Thedas balances on edge of a knife and depends on the fate of Inquisitor succeeding at the Ball.... even if it's barely done, the decision is hasty and ill-considered and Inquisitor leaves with hardly any positive impression on nobility (or companions/advisors) and not gaining any of their favors.

 

And yes, the Inquisitor still plays the Game - only their way of playing the Game can be the one which, say, Gaspard prefers. Enter, pretend for a bit, then the IQ cuts through the charade like Alexander the Great cuts through the Gordian Knot.

[correctamundo]

? You don't have to play the game. You can fail at the game completely and still force the players to either cooperate or have one person rule and the others twist. You are guaranteed success in that situation.. Mental gymnastics at this point to make your argument work.

Oh I forgot..that the mechanic is if you lose complete favor with the court by hitting 0.. Hah.. The world gets taken over by corypheous. I suppose if that's really something to boast about then sure. But if your arguing from a complete mechanic x versus x, you have secrets, coins, all sorts of mechanics to keep you from falling to 0. It's not a guaranteed victory but it may as well be.

 

What has boasting got to do with it. I just don't see how there is any principle difference. I like to play DAO and DAI but I was expecting some kind of problem if you choose all the wrong answers at the landsmeet.

[Aren]

How is this a testament of the "special snowflake" of the warden though? I died a lot more on that first ogier in ostagar than i did on my inquisitor one 1 pt for example. That does not mean anything. Just meant I was playing like an idiot in dao and smarter ( maybe) in dai. Or maybe blackwall was just made for a really imba tank that's why I hardly get hit.

even without the mark the narrative of DAO hold up the warden as a snowflake.

1 blight destroyed in 1 year,(all the suicide missions even Gaxkang the demon )even the Architect and the Mother(who are dangerous as Corypheus) and their minions, the baroness,Flemeth  the monsters in agmarrak ecc...

These are things for "the avengers" not for real people.

both Inq and warden are snowflakes,Hawke be the only protagonist of DA game who isn't.

[Xetykins]

Anyone playing TW3 on 4k? What's it like graphic/fps/lag-wise?

[Hazegurl]

If you don't play the game in Halamshiral it is game over. If you don't play the game in Denerim you get to kill Loghain, or not, either way it is on with the show. All the rest is just icing on the cake. If you are wanting for a specific result in either place you have try a little harder of course. And doing just minimum in Halamshiral isn't that hard but at least you have to keep up appearances. In Denerim you can beat the opposition into submission if you like.

To mess up at the Winter palace you have to be the derpiest derp derp to ever play the game. The entire palace is set up for you to win even with the small drop in points for not being a human noble.  You can even decide to just have the Queen killed with no consequences. And the blackmail material on her brother is weak, but hey if you want elves running the place the game sets it up for you to get whatever you want.  Josie can complain about the Queen, but that's all.  What do you lose based on your race and class besides a few points? What decisions can you make which results in a rift between the IQ and council/companions? Storywise, the Landsmeet has more to play with in this regard. The Winter Palace is probably the only thing I liked about DAI and I do have an issue with the Warden deciding the fate of a lot of people, especially when they are a certain race and class. (Ex: Everyone but a dwarf noble deciding who should rule Orzamaar, and everyone but a human noble putting Anora or Alistair on the throne). But if I have to choose which one I liked the most. I'm picking the Landsmeet because not everything can go your way there.

 

Sure, if you lose favor at TWP it's game over, resulting in the player having to reload and try again.  But you can die just before getting to the landsmeet (if you fight Ser Cauthrien) resulting in a game over, and a reload. 

[Saphiron123]

Loghain doesn't have to die...unless you get Alistair to duel him or choose to kill him yourself.  And you do have to conform to the game.  Like I posted above, you can get dumped by Alistair and flat out told you cannot be a Queen if you are the wrong race and class.  You have to settle for being his mistress, if you choose to be and only if Alistair is hardened.  You can't even propose a marriage to Anora if you are not a human noble male.  There is no such conformity in DAI.  You just lose some favor points which you can get back by making the right moves at court.  What both Halam and Landsmeet have in common is that they both offer a way out for the player if they make stupid moves.  But the Landsmeet has The Winter Palace beat in that your race and class actually creates a wall that you cannot pass no matter what, and your companion will not yield to your decision if he does not like it.  

Loghain joining you is awesome. I recently learned if you take him into return at ostagar with wynne, they have a bunch of unique party dialogue throughout the dlc.

[Elhanan]

Loghain joining you is awesome. I recently learned if you take him into return at ostagar with wynne, they have a bunch of unique party dialogue throughout the dlc.

Yes; recommended to try this at least once. However, the vast majority of the time Loghain either dies at the Landsmeet or by killing Archie in my sessions.

[harlekein]

DA: I is a sad excuse for a game compared to Dragon Age Origins. And now the Witcher 3 has come out and puts all of EA and Bioware to shame.

 

I hope they are taking note for the new Mass Effect, but it's probably going to be just as bad as the last couple of EAware boardroom driven games.

[Elhanan]

DA: I is a sad excuse for a game compared to Dragon Age Origins. And now the Witcher 3 has come out and puts all of EA and Bioware to shame.
 
I hope they are taking note for the new Mass Effect, but it's probably going to be just as bad as the last couple of EAware boardroom driven games.

Or they can simply differentiate the constructive criticism from the obviously biased complaints given by others, and let the latter posts dissipate like smoke in the breeze....

[Hazegurl]

Loghain joining you is awesome. I recently learned if you take him into return at ostagar with wynne, they have a bunch of unique party dialogue throughout the dlc.

I love recruiting Loghain.  Alistair is dead in my canon.

 

 

DA: I is a sad excuse for a game compared to Dragon Age Origins. And now the Witcher 3 has come out and puts all of EA and Bioware to shame.

 

I hope they are taking note for the new Mass Effect, but it's probably going to be just as bad as the last couple of EAware boardroom driven games.

 

I hope they aren't tempted to repeat DAI just because it won GOTY.  A part of me thinks they will but I hope not.  I like the ME series way more than I do the DA series.

[dreamgazer]

I hope they aren't tempted to repeat DAI just because it won GOTY.

Andromeda will have guided exploration, some of it of a fetch-y nature since resources are probably going to be crucial in the setting, but Aaryn Flynn's already stated that they're not using Inquisition as a template for the next Mass Effect game.

[ashwind]

Anyone playing TW3 on 4k? What's it like graphic/fps/lag-wise?

I play @ 1440p with nvidia DSR. I feel that it is better looking with DSR because at ultra setting, texture becomes too crisp. DSR softens it just nice for my taste.

A single Gtx 970 at 1440p maxed out without hairworks FPS hops between 30-40ish and causes the game to be choppy. Limiting the game to 30 fps smoothen things since I get a constant fps.

Between 60fps at 1080p and 30fps at 1440p with DSR. I definitelt prefer the later cos it looks so much better. Usually only experience lag in cut scenes. Combat wise no because of the lengthy animation.

Highly recommemd playing with nvidia's DSR. Really looks awesome.

[ashwind]

Andromeda will have guided exploration, some of it of a fetch-y nature since resources are probably going to be crucial in the setting, but Aaryn Flynn's already stated that they're not using Inquisition as a template for the next Mass Effect game.

DAI already did something better compared to MEA in my books; the choice of music. The cowboy music grrrr I just cant get it out of ma head, it kills the ME theme ...