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GhostBoy posted:The recent RPS interview answered this one. If you are running un-paused, you dodge by hitting a key and moving in a direction to dodge. If you are paused, you activate the "dodge" ability, which presents you with a little aoe-like positioning circle that lets you pick where you dodge to once you unpause. It sounds like they may also bake dodging into some of the skills, like the backflip ability rogues got in DAII. Cool, thanks for the info!
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Varric's model looks exceptionally high quality, however. It seems like they are taking dramatic steps in the poly count / normal map / tesselation direction.
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Mar 25, 2014 13:06
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member001 posted:Always figured that was deliberate as playing SWTOR with Hale's interaction gave a 'Mass Effect the MMO' feel. My favourite silly Jennifer Hale performance is the character she played in BG1 where she's speaking horrible mangled old English in a weird French accent. God knows what they were thinking.
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Apr 3, 2014 11:36
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I always take British Female as an option where it's available. Jo Wyatt did a pretty good job in DA2, although I assume it'll be somebody else this time around.
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Geostomp posted:You're right. The trailer shows the same green glow coming form the Inquisitor's arm without any big Fade monsters too. I guess that means he/she really will get special Fade powers, putting them far beyond the Warden and (especially) Hawke. Nah Hawke is just like *sassy remark about green hand* instant death.
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Apr 22, 2014 14:49
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Lotish posted:Liking things is the worst thing. Once I liked a thing and I have never recovered to this day. I imagine some of the idea behind the increasing fanciness of the armour is that Orlesians are Fancy as gently caress.
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Mymla posted:I don't really get why people go on about caster supremacy in DAO. Sure, they're really strong, but so is any properly built rogue or warrior. Mages are good at supporting the party and at crowd control, but they're not really that great at actually killing things. When I last played I ran a triple mage party and killed every large enemy in roughly one turn. The entropic death combo bases its damage off the mage casting the death cloud, not the hexers, so you can chain together some absolutely crazy damage numbers by just dumping the cloud then 3 death hexes. That's not even counting mana clash instantly killing any enemy with a mana bar! The greatest single target damage is pretty much entropic death cycling :<
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Fojar38 posted:So I'm replaying DA:O and doing something with it I had never done before, which was actually play the game on normal difficulty. Before this playthrough I just switched to easy and creamed everyone because all I was interested in was the story, but this run I swore to myself I'd see it through on at least normal difficulty, doing the whole pausing and readjusting my party and taking into account tactics and line of sight and everything. You can go without healers if you abuse the way the defensive stats work. Let's just say it's not very hard to make a character that is, for all intents and purposes, literally invulnerable >.>
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pentyne posted:I'm expecting that it turns out the Maker is the evil enemy you have to kill at the end of DA:I because everything that's happened is a result of him trying to imprison all other gods and gain all worship for himself. Killing god at the end is both vital and necessary.
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Cythereal posted:DAI being great or even merely good would be a heck of a surprise, I agree. Mass Effect 3, ending aside, was a very competently put together game. The combat system was tight, the multiplayer was surprisingly good, etc. Putting aside concerns about story, I would be astonished if this game was not a distinct improvement on the preceding game. I also suspect that they will be going out of their way to play silly buggers with the ending given the reaction to mass effect 3.
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Afraid of Audio posted:Mages are a Very Serious metaphor for homosexuality which is why they turn into literal monsters when they use magic as that is how it works in real life. Look as a repeat victim of gay wizard rampages I am not amused by your making light of this scourge.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfGTtyYeO8E This stuff seems mostly fairly promising. The spaces you are moving in are much much more naturalistic, which is great.
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Lotish posted:Yeah, which is what I was saying. Even in the sci-fi games that don't let you play as a space chicken or their fantasy games that don't let you play an elf, they at least let you play a woman of your color choice (though trying to make Hawke black is hilarious in how awful it looks). Hey my hawke was black! No insultaroonie, her feelings are very fragile...
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Strenuous Manflurry posted:This dude called it btw. What? Well, guess I'm not playing a Qunari then. I wanted to be an English Qunari 
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Lotish posted:For what it's worth, I've read that you can pick your voice regardless of race, so you may still be in luck. Oh, fabulous!
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marktheando posted:Yeah I also got the impression that you can choose whatever voice you like. Well, any of the two voices for your gender, I'm assuming you can't give a female Inquisitor a male voice, Saints Row style. They should add the package slider too >_>
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Jun 12, 2014 19:41
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The most important question in Dragon Age Inquisition is if we ever see if Hawke got to achieve his dream of becoming a wall-eyed dragon!
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etjester posted:Gigglesquee is so 2011. Prepare for the gigglesnort: I'm hoping that's just an awful laugh where it sounds like she's a pig.
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poptart_fairy posted:This honestly looks like DA2 filtered through Reddit and SA. Why don't more games have dropping shrooms as an option
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Section Z posted:Thank you for making me imagine Dragon Age: Revengeance RULES OF THEDAS 
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HapiMerchant posted:I should add on that if they'd really wanted to make us hate the qunari they really should have done more to show how nasty the Qun can be. Like, shown us the Qamek and the brainwashing camps. As it stands, a newcomer to the series playing DA2 is going to walk away from the Qun with "Wow, these dudes have their poo poo together, unlike everyone else in this loving city. Sure they do some bad stuff to their mages but hell after seeing Kirkwall's mages I can't blame them." I think it's better that they didn't. We should not underestimate how attractive groups have appeared in history purely through having their poo poo together. Let the player be drawn in the same way an inhabitant of the world might be before you go all BUT THEY'RE EVIL on them.
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Lotish posted:Well he has since been replaced with about a dozen imitators, if what I saw last night is any indication. Even mods that just say they'll tweak Isabela's face or body proportions seem to have an optional extension to make her white and blond. This makes me so salty
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Pattonesque posted:I am actually writing an article on this, and how it applies to Vivienne in the upcoming game. There's an image floating around tumblr of a whitewashed Vivienne -- the artist also took it upon himself to fix her "drat lips." I thought she actually looked really good - I even liked her ridiculously goofy outfit and her silly masquerade staff! Terrible quotations aside, I am looking forwards to DAI. I'm going to make a female qunari wizard and just stand in front of other qunari pressing the "wiggle tongue" button.
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Also I'm entirely pro ridiculous curly mustaches. The quote is the problem, not his Salvador Dali facial hair stylings!
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Tezzeract posted:Then the obvious question is why you couldn't talk your way out of all the battles. Should be called Dragon Age Diplomacy where the combat system gets replaced with an immersive text dialogue system. I disagree. If it is well implemented and the player has a fairly clear idea of what is about to happen there is absolutely no reason why a player who has played the game in a diplomatic fashion shouldn't be able to use that to finish the game too. If somebody wants to resolve their version of the story that way, it isn't inherently "dumb".
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To be fair they absolutely have learned from DA2. We know already, for example, that they have actually given this game a sensible development schedule. Of course, writing is another matter...!
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Drifter posted:So you're saying the Publisher has learned something from DA2, not the devs. Certainly the scheduling is more the publisher, but plenty of other aspects of DA3 are clearly improvements on DA2, or adaptations of lessons learned from ME3. Given the level of vitriol DA2 received I would be absolutely astonished if they didn't react to it. More significantly, what they have said about the ending variations (to take an example) indicates that they recognised how unhappy people were with both the ME3 and DA2 ending. I'm not saying they're going to turn into obsidian overnight, but I think an entirely pessimistic view is unwarranted. Those quotes are pretty obviously compressed PR type deals - here we lay out the character's archetype, then we add the twist afterwards. It's not particularly beautiful but it serves its purpose - most of the writing in the game will not have to be as instrumental as that. I've been pretty pleased by all the screenshots and footage I've seen so far. The new engine looks excellent, the gameplay looks like an improvement on both DAO and DA2, the ability to play an Inquisitor of multiple races (again, something they learned from DA2... >_>) is good, etc etc. Bioware's writing is always a little bit clever-clever and inward-turned, but I still enjoyed large parts of Mass Effect 3.
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Drifter posted:But can you gently caress him? Something something swallowing something something
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Dragon Age 2's loading screens are really really good. Like, that's the main thing I remember from it.
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Captain Oblivious posted:Nobody really knows man, and nobody really can know until the game is out. I know. Because I'm a wizard. But I'm not telling so I can
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etjester posted:Spit takes confirmed. Oh my god it's that Alix. She went to Latymer? Hahahahahahahahaha
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Drifter posted:? What's up? Oh, just heard a few stories about her from various friends who went there. It's just one of those weird real life <--> internet confluence things.
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It turns out... Dragon Age 3 never existed. Directed by M Night
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Literally just a few posts above is David Gaider talking about how he ran elements of the transgender Dark Horse comics character past an outside trans person in order to make sure it wasn't completely out of line. They probably don't do it that much, but it's not like they've never done it.
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Drifter posted:"Is Transing contagious? I want to make an elven vampire hooker, but I don't really want to have other people become trans. I'm good, right?" Look it's called Transylvania for a reason~
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Character creation Described as "really in depth" You'll create your Inquisitor before the big opening cut-scene Can change inner and outer iris colours* Can have scars* Qunari horns are customisable Male Qunari player model will be smaller than Iron Bull (party member) model There are "a lot" of lip options There are no 'body type' choices Your Inquisitor will also be referred to by his or her surname. (Not clear if the surname will be set and voiced like Shepard in Mass Effect.) Your background depends on your race/class choice. No dwarven mages Yay iris colours! Making my dude is always the part I spend the most time on. Also there are 3 specialisations per class and the specialisations will have impacts in certain cutscenes.
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