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New Dragon Age: Inquisition Arrives in October

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a b 4 Gaming
April 23, 2014 6:22:51 AM

Hope they don't make it as DA2
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April 23, 2014 7:45:17 AM

If i knew for a fact that this game isnt a direct port from console to pc, limiting it to console graphics and features, id buy it now! I just hope that the pc user can take advantage of new hardware/sofware like amd's mantle and boost this game to how a pc should play games (not be limited to console play style, graphics & features)
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April 23, 2014 8:38:17 AM

Sign me up,
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a b 4 Gaming
April 23, 2014 9:19:02 AM

Teddiebear - have you not seen any of the other released videos for this game? They're all built on Frostbite 3, which is designed with PC in mind. Bioware has been more mindful of their PC crowd than most developers. It may even support Mantle since it is using Frostbite but there is no confirmation of that yet.

Go watch the videos. I think you will find you have nothing to worry about and should definitely pick it up :) 
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April 23, 2014 9:55:20 AM

Nice looking game, looks like something worth... oh, wait... EA
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a b 4 Gaming
April 23, 2014 10:35:58 AM

Since it's made with Frostbite it may have Mantle support.
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a b 4 Gaming
April 23, 2014 10:57:06 AM

Graphics look nice except the hair. The models seriously need some tressfx.
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a b 4 Gaming
April 23, 2014 11:02:55 AM

My only question is if this is going to be Origin exclusive or will it also be on Steam. If it is Origin exclusive I will probably pass it up. I have three games on Origin, two I got for free and one I bought well before it Origin came out (Spore). Juts not a fan of the application itself.

damric said:
Since it's made with Frostbite it may have Mantle support.


It depends on if it is using the version of the engine that has it enabled or if the developer even decided to enable it themselves.
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April 23, 2014 11:52:03 AM

Not gonna buy any game through Origin.
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April 23, 2014 12:02:33 PM

If its like DA1, then just take my money! I'll even tolerate Origin for that!
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April 23, 2014 12:30:00 PM

yes please! give me morrigan! where is my child?! !!!

DA2 ? no thanks. what a let down, i do hope this new DA will be good.
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a b 4 Gaming
April 23, 2014 12:36:42 PM

Hopefully I get to bang everyone in the party including the dog this time around.
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April 23, 2014 1:24:11 PM

Hope it doesn't suck big blue ones like DA2 did.
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April 23, 2014 3:04:16 PM

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Hope it doesn't suck big blue ones like DA2 did.


Would that be "The Blue Oyster"?
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Anonymous
April 23, 2014 3:17:34 PM

Some of the characters revealed so far are from DA2, so I'm kinda worried. Also, I'm not Catholic so can't really appreciate the subtitle. Graphics look nice for an RPG though.
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April 23, 2014 5:15:05 PM

"Next generation of RPG"... Still released for 360/PS3. No thanks, I'll wait for The Witcher 3 with the added bonus of supporting a decent developer like CDProjektRED instead of EA.
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April 23, 2014 5:23:41 PM

"Players will experience the rich storylines and characters that they've come to expect from BioWare" What the heck!? So it will be a pile of complete s*** like dragon age 2!?


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April 24, 2014 1:15:32 AM


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Teddiebear - have you not seen any of the other released videos for this game? They're all built on Frostbite 3, which is designed with PC in mind. Bioware has been more mindful of their PC crowd than most developers. It may even support Mantle since it is using Frostbite but there is no confirmation of that yet.

Go watch the videos. I think you will find you have nothing to worry about and should definitely pick it up :) 

thanks for the update craigN. I've been a fan of the series so far and very keen to get my hands on this title. Due to this new info i'll def get it now. Thanks bud :D 
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a b 4 Gaming
April 24, 2014 1:52:20 AM

1:17 "Get Over here".

Considering the DA2 Fiasco, Im gonna let this one stay cold untill I can see gameplay on youtube or something similar. Then ill decide if there is a point in spending my cash on the company that killed Mass effect with the worst ending ever and blew up DA Origins with a sequel that had nothing interesting.
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a b 4 Gaming
April 24, 2014 5:23:32 AM

cats_Paw

There are plenty of gameplay videos on Youtube already, INCLUDING in that trailer you just saw. That is actual gameplay. It's an upgrade to DA2's faster combat system mixed with the ability to strategize like in Dragon Age: Origins.

teddiebear - Yeah. I'm very excited for it. I think with all the combined video footage that's out, it's obvious to tell Bioware has taken a few steps back and tried to figure out how not to do another ME3 or DA2, hopefully. In some of their more recent interviews at trade shows, they acknowledge the pitfalls of DA2 and have tried to take what's worked best from both games to put into this one.

Anonymous said:
Some of the characters revealed so far are from DA2, so I'm kinda worried. Also, I'm not Catholic so can't really appreciate the subtitle. Graphics look nice for an RPG though.

centralpoint said:
"Players will experience the rich storylines and characters that they've come to expect from BioWare" What the heck!? So it will be a pile of complete s*** like dragon age 2!?


On a more recent replay of DA2, honestly story and character wise it holds up pretty well to Origins (minus characters like Merrill and Aveline..I found them awfully boring). Especially if you play as Mage, as it makes the story way more personal.

The biggest complaints I had were the recycled level design and the lack of strategic combat (waves of respawning enemies instead of the ability to lay traps, create choke points, etc.) and too small of a world. Inquisition looks like it's fixing all of those issues.

I know I'm probably coming off a little fanboyish, but honestly DA2 was better than most of the crap it gets. Beyond the lazy level design and lack of a variety of unique items and no way to strategize combat, it still had a great story and great characters, and the combat was significantly more intense than in Origins.


Lastly but not least...

Queenslander said:
"Next generation of RPG"... Still released for 360/PS3. No thanks, I'll wait for The Witcher 3 with the added bonus of supporting a decent developer like CDProjektRED instead of EA.


FFS, EA is not a developer. EA is a publisher. Bioware is the developer, the game is put on shelves by EA. There is a difference.
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April 24, 2014 5:51:06 AM

DA Origins - one of my favorite games
DA2 - total abomination and abuse of loyalty

How could they take a RPG that allowed you to play it over and over again and turn it into a click fest - with 'cool' kiddy candy attack moves. Tekken abortion.

I know EA is the publisher and not the developer, but I am still feeling the burns for previous EA released games.
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a b 4 Gaming
April 24, 2014 7:51:44 AM

CraigN,
What is in this video is not "gameplay", its "selected parts of the game to draw attention to it".
Gameplay in my book is how you feel about the game after you have been playing it for about 3 hours:
-Do I feel like the story is interesting? Intriguing? Relatable? Engaging? Realistic?
-Do the characters grow on me over time? Do they have a story to tell? The story they tell makes sense to their behaviour?
-Is the combat interesting? Does it reward smart real-time adjustments? Cant it be fought in a different way and still archive victory? (Baldurs gate 2 crown here).
-The intems in the game, Is there a point to try new items? To save up cash for later? Are weapons/armor diffenrent enought and yet still usefull to carry something more than jsut the storngest weapon you just found?
-The worlds, are they giving you the feeling as you are seeing new and interesting places? are they different from each other enoguht to want you to explore every place?

Those are the things I thoguht about in like 15 minutes. Im assuming that DA2 planning was done in a bit longer that that.
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a b 4 Gaming
April 24, 2014 11:01:21 AM

Well, considering that definition, I can understand some of those concerns. When I hear "gameplay" I assume you meant seeing how the game actually is going to look and play like, i.e. combat and graphics. But between interviews and footage, this is what has already been revealed about your concerns, in case you're interested:

- Between trailers and interviews, they've gone into what the overarching theme of the story about, and that it's back on the "epic" scale that DA: O was, and personally, it sounds plenty interesting, intriguing and engaging to me. The fact that you'll be travelling to multiple locations in Thedas to close open Fade tears sounds awesome.

- Varric is back. That's at least one character that has plenty of stories to tell :p 

- You can see combat in many of the videos, and from some of the press conference floor videos (including the return of the tactical camera). One interview even mentioned that when fighting certain large enemies, attacking different parts of them (i.e., wings or legs of the dragon) actually has an impact on your enemy rather than just charging it head first.

- They've announced before that companion gear will be fully customizable, i.e. DA: O.

- See the Worlds trailer. I think that's reasonable assurance alone that we're not getting the "copy-paste" dungeons that came in 2.

I'd would agree that the DA2 level design was done in about that amount of time :p  haha.
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a b 4 Gaming
April 29, 2014 1:50:37 AM

I heard many time companies say one thing and then do another:

Starcraft 2 expansions were supposed to be free in multiplayer (first conference blizzard gave on starcraft 2 expansions) and prices were supposed to be 15 to 25 dollars (we saw prices on Heart of the swarm).

Dragon Age 2 was supposed to be "better than origins in every way" (yes this one gets first place for a good troll).

Crysis 2 was supposed to be Dx11, and it was Dx9. Later they added Dx 11 but It was a very poor implementation (Dx11 support is not the same as originally coded for Dx11).

There are more examples like this but I figured its a bit pointless to name as many as possible.
I just rather play it safe because Ive been dissapointed so many times :D .

There have been some cool games Ive discovered in the last year, but most of them were not AAA titles (Tribes Ascend, Warframe, Dark Souls 1 althou my i5 laptop cant handle it too well hehe).

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a b 4 Gaming
April 29, 2014 5:17:20 AM

I can totally understand that. Also, Tribes Ascend was truly a gem, too bad the developer has all but stopped supporting it in order to work on Smite instead.

You might find this interview an interesting read:

http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/04/22/dragon-age-inquisitio...

They touch on the DA2 issues a bit too.
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April 29, 2014 8:34:56 PM

I'd just rather my hard-earned go towards a group of people like CDPR than Bioware/EA. I have never played the DA games, but the company behind tW series easily takes the cake for fan involvement and passion for a quality product/IP.
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a b 4 Gaming
April 30, 2014 4:54:13 AM

Queenslander - Are you implying that a game you haven't played isn't a quality product? That's some shaky ground to argue on.

Granted, CDPR is doing a great job so far, and has shown a remarkable care for quality, but their game isn't coming till 2015. Also, Dragon Age: Origins is one of Bioware's greatest games before the whole Mass Effect 3/SWTOR/DA2 faceplant they've had these last few years, and they definitely look like they've been trying to turn things around.

Hell, even SWTOR is finally getting to be better, that's gotta count for somethin' right? :p 
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May 1, 2014 6:09:56 PM

Haha. Yea you got me. I just get really thrown off when I read the forums that talk about the poor form of EA in the past 18-24 months. Surely if that many people say that they're no good, there has to be at least a sliver of truth to it yeah?
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a b 4 Gaming
May 4, 2014 3:22:23 PM

There is some sliver of truth to it. Keep in mind EA is just the publisher, not the developer. EA =/= Bioware, although it is obvious that EA's meddling/push for deadlines has affected their games.

Mass Effect 3 was still an otherwise great game but the ending is subpar. SWTOR went for like four months without a content update before finally going F2P and moving to a 6-week update pace. Dragon Age 2 had a lot of recycled environments and dumbed-down combat, but made up for it with an interesting story and (mostly) lovable characters.

Honestly, I would strongly recommend picking up Dragon Age: Origins and giving it a play through, especially since you can so easily find it for like $5 these days on a sale. It'll feel a bit old school compared to Witcher 2, but it's a fantastic game nonetheless.
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May 4, 2014 8:22:36 PM

I may just do that. Still have to play through AC4 and Arkham Origins but I'll add it to "The List" haha.
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August 7, 2014 6:45:09 AM

I never ever again pre-purchase an EA product. Absolute con artists.

Dragon Age Origins was an amazing game, DA 2 was an total disappointment.
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