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[Carmen_Willow]

Patriciachr34 wrote...

Okay, after reading all the posts I had a thought of a hybrid system that might work well for most people. We like the in camp dialog. Cool. Lets keep some of that there. Everyone wants to sit around the fire and chat a bit. This would be a great way to obtain general knowledge about the character (where they're from, what they've been doing, etc.).

For more specific dialog, what if instead of clicking on an object to get area specific dialog options, you could click on the companions in your party and the area specific dialog would appear? Kind of like what you get if Lelianna is in your party and you ask her if she knows something about the area that you're in. The key could be that the party member makes a comment on the area, a specific person/object/animal, or a specific event. This is how you know that they have more dialog options available at that moment. This way the NPC's you travel with become more familiar to you than those you leave at camp. You also get the reactions some have been craving when specific choices or key events happen.

I am no programmer and have no idea how much of a nightmare the coding would be on this system. However, this seems to be a better way to approach the whole conversation system. What do you guys think?

I think it sounds like a good idea.  I loved camp, but I also found it disconcerting to accidentally click on Alistair and talk about his sister in the middle of a big battle. There has to be a way, as you suggest, to limit what sort of dialogue you get.  Some kind of coding that only allows certain dialogue trees in "camp" while other dialogue trees can only be triggered out on the road by clicking on a companion or an object of something.

It was through camp dialogue that you found out how much of a chatterbox Leiliana was.  It was through camp that Wynne's "preachiness" became apparent...that was lost in DA:A because of the way the dialogue was handled. 

Plus, the way you responded to certain characters in DA:O determined how they turned out (ex: Alistair's being hardened).  I'd hate to lose that. It was fun to know that our opinion affected the character...

[Giggles_Manically]

If EA gets their way DA will end up being a pure hack and slash game with almost no dialouge to appeal to the Wow and Diablo fans. Here is to hoping Bioware can pull of another good RPG.

[Lintanis]

it will be a mixture of the two in the next game think its 100% on that. Just hope we dont lose too much dialogue, it was one of the best feature of origins. They create these great companions/npc's and lines we want to talk to them

[Giggles_Manically]

While EA can actually fund good games like Sims 3 or BC 2, they really are more concerned about money than actually making a great game. Look at Jade Empire or the original stuff Bioware did and you can see a difference. They are concerned about narrative, and fun in games the bigger companies only want money and are not worried about people getting into their games.

[GardenSnake]

Myusha wrote...

Don't speak for a majority.
I for one liked Awakenings better then Origins.

 WWWWWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTT????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No, I'm kidding, everyone has an opinion. But still....... I can't believe I'm seeing that. Agree with the OP, the convo system is fine for an expansion or if you don't give a damn about the companions. But Ray did say that DA was made as a nod to the hardcore RPG junkies and I think that the Awakening convo system completely destroys the experience for that entire niche of gamers (again, this is from what I've seen on the forums, you could think differently). The main problem is that not being able to talk to the companions destroys that connection you feel with them in games like KOTOR, Jade Empire and Origins. Plus think of the poor tab key for all of you PC gamers. If DA2 had Origins convo system and figured out a way to add a trigger here and  there, it would be perfect. I posted my perfect plan for how you could integrate them both in another topic but I forget which one........

[Lintanis]

Feb 2011 might be when the 1st Trailer comes out and the info starts would give them a few more months to work on it

[Kanner]

Pardon me, but Awakenings is very much broken, story and game-wise. If David Gaider suddenly magicially fixed it that would be a very good thing indeed. =P

[Aurelet]

I don't care if I get a romance in a game. I'd like to get to know my companions without clicking a stupid tree.