Crabtree posted:

I like how according to Building a Dragon Age Rivalry, the initial thoughts of being the founder of the Inquisition was "what if you could found the Jedi Order instead of becoming a Jedi". It's almost as if Inquisition was created to make up for another game who's name currently eludes me.

Is it safe to assume there will at least be some heresy trials in this game? Seeing as this is taking place in fantasy France, I can only assume we're dealing with the early Medieval or episcopal Inquisition that wanted to stop local social unrest from everyone accusing everyone else of heresy. Maybe be summoned to a mage trial or two and have to bullshit some ancient scripture to make a case on whether or not they are actually possessed by a demon? Hopefully at least debate some quack theologian who tries to prove someone is an evil mage because they float in water?

It probably won't involve much more than kill another group of next gen Templars or Blood Mages in yonder cave room, but may I at least dream?

Mosaic Perception posted:

The Game of Thrones RPG which despite the poor reception I've actually found to be fun. The old graphics don't bother me at all and the game is quite enjoyable to actually play. It's also much much better than DA:2 so I don't know how Game of Thrones got poo poo on and DA:2 got so many passes seeing as it was completely unplayable for me (and I LOVED DA:O/awakenings even though awakenings dumbed things down).

TheWorldIsSquare posted:

But does the Thedas Inquisition actually do that? They're not accusing anyone of anything, aren't they just another Jedi/Spectre/Grey Warden autonomous military organization meant to... do something about the mage vs. templar war? I don't know, they haven't explained it well so far.

Pick posted:

I'd actually find a linear game where your decisions are laid out but your motivations are determined and stated by the player to be more interesting than the converse.

NihilVerumNisiMors posted:

At this point even something like the tent scene from Austin Powers would be more tasteful.

jerichojx posted:

Erm... Who is actually invested in the trials and tribulations of fictional characters?

Torrannor posted:

What part of DA2 suffered because of the romances? I think most of it's flaws were because of time constrains, executive meddling (the Orsino fight) and bad writing in general.

Anders Breivik, Norwegian Mass Murderer posted:

"It was now April 25th and I was finally back to normal. I had spent the past couple of weeks playing through Dragon Age II and a couple of other newly released games. Awesome!"

Lightning Knight posted:

The mage/templar thing doesn't have a good equivalent in reality, and is in and of itself a good moral dilemma. People - sapient, otherwise normal people - given extraordinary power from birth that could be super useful and helpful to society but also immensely harmful and also gives them the power to be tyrants or otherwise really awful. They also serve as beacons and gateways for monsters from other dimensions. How do you deal with that? This is a really good problem to confront a player with, in theory. Bioware just fell on their face with it all the way through. It was ok in DA:O when that wasn't the main conflict, but once it became such they just couldn't get it right.

Lightning Knight posted:

I don't think capitalism/socialism or just wealth inequality fits very well though cause rich people have that quality in the form of material goods, that you can just take from them and be done with; mages are mages via inborn, natural traits that can't be taken away without lobotomizing them.

Like, if rich people were rich cause they all had super powers, I guess, but...

gently caress Tevinter, that place can burn.

Pick posted:

Malcolm's honor had labia.

Pick posted:

You have to go into the texture files .

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John Epler has issued a response in regards to a fan’s concern about the upcoming multiplatform video game, “Dragon Age 3: Inquisition,” lacking in mature contents. According to a post from the Bioware Social Network forum on May 17, the cinematic designer for the “Dragon Age” stated that “gratuitous nudity and violence” won’t make the sequel more mature by default.

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I remember reading an interview back when Mass Effect 2 was released, about how the Mass Effect team was aiming for a PG-13 feel for their game
http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=9026170

While the Mass Effect and Dragon Age teams are not the same, I get the feeling that the general directive from Bioware or maybe EA is for the two teams to make tame games that would earn PG-13 ratings if they were movies. And this is something I just don't understand.smilie

Your game is rated M, so why are you trying to create a game that is suitable for children? We get that many children will want to play your games, but why should adults pay the price because of children's needs? A hard mature game or one that barely qualifies as M is still an M-rated game, so there's no reason to hold back.

More nudity (breasts, penis shots, rear end shots), more violence (more graphic deaths like head bashings, gut cuttings, balls squishings, eye gougings, etc.), more adult themes (like prostitution, sex slavery, depravity, pissing on corpses of your enemies, etc.). I don't know, I just feel like I need real mature entertainment, and with Hollywood going the mass public family friendly route, video games are pretty much the only ones that could truly make something satisfyingly mature (well, maybe television and books could too, but I don't like reading much and TV shows are usually very limited in budget).


To sum up, why does Bioware hold back from going all out in making DA3 a real hard mature game? What reasons do they have to keep it tame, PG-13 feel?

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We could fill a game with pendulous dwarf penises, sure. Does that make it more mature?

But let's be clear - mature and adult are not the same thing. Gratuitous nudity and violence make something adult, but you'd have a hard time convincing me that it makes it mature.

Or, more concretely - something like 'Depression Quest' is undoubtedly mature due to the themes it explores and the topics it handles. Something like Gears of War, despite the gore and the violence, is 'adult'.

Regardless, as always, we'll make the game we want with the themes we want and the writing we want and not worry too tremendously about where it falls on the rating scale.

Sleep of Bronze posted:

I would note that this all came up in May of last year.

ElrondHubbard posted:

I think you're being a bit unfair. Bioware went through the trouble of also making a series of novels, comic books, and an anime that poo poo all over Origins and even DAII (vomit inducing as the thought might be).


I really hope there isn't a repeat of that kind of ending for DA3 or worse, a repeat of the reaper-baby final boss vs Morrigan's kid.

Lava Lamp Goddess posted:

Am I the only one who thought the environments in the trailer didn't look all that great? I mean sure they looked okay, especially the foliage. But the general quality just didn't impress me. I guess I'm just spoiled by CD Projekt graphics...

Now if the whole game could take place in the woods and on the coast, it'd be great. Just stay out of those really dull looking castles.

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Kurtofan posted:

Bioware made a post about Vivienne on their blog:

http://blog.bioware.com/2014/03/28/vivienne-writing-an-imperial-enchanter/

Getting a Merteuil vibe from her.

“Vivienne was fun to write because she let me play around with different ways for a character to be powerful. Any mage can destroy their enemies with fire and ice, but Vivienne can rip her opponents apart verbally, politically, socially—and make ice seem like the gentlest option. She takes great pride in her work, and her interactions with a certain unnamed Inquisition mage can be a little… explosive. In a good way. Mostly.”

Josef bugman posted:

Who are you talking to who thinks this? Because it is nigh on always Planescape that gets given that particular accolade. Plus, as with a lot of things, now that people have started playing Dues Ex again the complaints have come beetling out of the woodwork as well. The fact that it looks and plays like arse doesn't really help it.

Drifter posted:

It didn't really have good writing at all, it had an amazing world system for its time, one that wasn't matched for quite some time, at which point it had already rooted itself into player nostalgia.

Plus, it had Gunther and his skulgun and drinking problems.