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If the War Table Missions Were The Side Quests


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ArcaneEsper

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Hey everyone, I'm sort of new here. I tend to read the forum on and off and decided to make an account to take part in the discussion.

 

Introductions aside, I've been thinking about how the actual side quests of Inquisition aren't all that relevant to the context of the game. As in, the Inquisition has two clear cut goals during the game, the first is to close the Breach and the second, to stop Corypheus but the side quests don't offer much to really aid either goal and also aren't particularly engaging.

 

So I was thinking about how much more different the game would have been, had the War Table missions been properly fleshed out to become side quests. Granted, not all of those were relevant either, but they would have made for more interesting things to do apart from the main story.

 

Of course there are flaws with this idea, like how there are a lot of locations involved which aren't part of the game itself, among other things, but I just can't shake off this feeling that some of these missions would have been a great deal of fun to actually play, like the one involving the Venatori agent among the Five Belles of Hunter Fell, unmasking Those Across The Sea, all the origin related ones that open up (which IMO would have helped make the Inquisitor feel like they actually existed before the Conclave explosion happened) or earning one's specialisation rather than the trainer telling you how much hard work/training is involved only for you to just make a weapon/whatever at the requisition table.

 

Sorry if it's been discussed before, it's just something I needed to get off my chest. Feel free to disagree. 


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Pretty much everyone here will agree with you about this.


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ArcaneEsper

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Pretty much everyone here will agree with you about this.

Well then, that was a nice chat.



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Sounds great, though the game would be probably be an extra 500 hours if they implemented all of them.

 

They could certainly pick and choose a bunch of the best ones though!



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Other than being utterly unworkable, it's a great idea.

I guess this counts as agreeing with you.
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ArcaneEsper

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Sounds great, though the game would be probably be an extra 500 hours if they implemented all of them.

 

They could certainly pick and choose a bunch of the best ones though!

Yeah, my bad I forgot to mention that I didn't mean including all of them.


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Yes!

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I'm not really sure how the side quests in DAI aren't relevant to your general goal of stopping Corypheus and bringing order.

Oh sure, some of them certainly are, but in most cases, you're only going to a region because his servants are active in that area and stirring up trouble.

As to the war table operations, while some of them sound like fun adventures, most of them are just negotiation and sowing rumours.

Let's consider The Five Belles: the first two operations just involve asking people details about the Belles, and then picking out an assassination target for the third. Would that have much more fun to play out rather than resolve via the War Table?

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completely agree.

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Admittedly side quests aren't really supposed to reverent to the main quest-line of a game, that's why they are side quests after all though I would agree that the side quests could have been better done in the game and at least a few of the war table quests would have been interesting to do myself.



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Welcome @ArcaneEsper!

 

And yeah, that would have been cool. They had some really interesting sounding happenings going on with that WarTable.



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If the war table missions were sidequests, we would've probably gotten to meet Shokrakar.

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GLORIOUS.
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If the war table missions were sidequests, we would've probably gotten to meet Shokrakar.

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LOL. That's ace.
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I approve of this idea.



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ArcaneEsper

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I'm not really sure how the side quests in DAI aren't relevant to your general goal of stopping Corypheus and bringing order.

Oh sure, some of them certainly are, but in most cases, you're only going to a region because his servants are active in that area and stirring up trouble.

As to the war table operations, while some of them sound like fun adventures, most of them are just negotiation and sowing rumours.

Let's consider The Five Belles: the first two operations just involve asking people details about the Belles, and then picking out an assassination target for the third. Would that have much more fun to play out rather than resolve via the War Table?


You have a good point, but one would hope that these missions would be somewhat more fleshed out and offer a little diversity in terms of what we're doing. Like the Five Belles could have been more about court intrigue, the dwarven slaves that the Venatori got a hold of could have been more action oriented along with all the race specific ones.

Of course all of them aren't interesting enough to warrant their own side quest, but if fleshed out there is potential for some of them.

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Disclaimer - this is purely supposition based on a few comments made by David Gaider in this interview.  

 

Gaider mentions that, as is normal with any writing endeavor, quite a bit of content got left on the cutting room floor.  Since hearing that, I've wondered if at least some of the War Table missions were originally slotted as actual quests and then converted to their current state in an effort to at least preserve something of these story threads.  



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Sounds better than what they did



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completely agree.

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Disclaimer - this is purely supposition based on a few comments made by David Gaider in this interview.

Gaider mentions that, as is normal with any writing endeavor, quite a bit of content got left on the cutting room floor. Since hearing that, I've wondered if at least some of the War Table missions were originally slotted as actual quests and then converted to their current state in an effort to at least preserve something of these story threads.

Looking at the list of war table missions, I can't see it. Once we cut out the missions which have to happen in areas that were never going to be in the game, the missions which are there to unlock quests, the missions which are followups and mid-stages to quests, the missions which require highly-specific import conditions, and the missions which are only there to acquire stuff (gold, resources, mounts), what's left? Looks like mostly the political stuff to me, such as the Lydes sequence. I don't see anything that's a plausible conversion from a planned quest.

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The war table missions at least tend to involve choices, which the side quests tend to be short on.

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If the war table missions were sidequests, we would've probably gotten to meet Shokrakar.

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GLORIOUS.

 

Glorious indeed:

 

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