Cultist

Enjoy your medieval feudalism. At least be happy you are in Europe. Byzantine rulers have option to blind or castrate you if their imaginary friends whisper them that you may pose a threat.

Lowest playable title is a count, which means a long tongue to lick ducke's ass. Duke is the most optimal. Plus, CK2 have a thing called UberDukes or SuperDukes. At some point dukes can grow much more powerful than a King or even emperor. But if you become Emperor then you an have a lot of Casus bellis and can create king vassals so they can deal with all micromanagement for you. Downside - if king joins a Faction you are in a lot of trouble. So vote Crown Authority as low as possible in vassal kingdoms because once Faction members get ~30% of liege's forces they will present an ultimatum, and you refuse - enjoy your civil war. Sometimes they are unspeakable devastating.

Try some duchy for starters - Empires are rife with intrigue and everyone wants to kill everyone, and in case of muslims - it's mostly your family wants to kill each other. Simple tips that'll help to avoid a lot of crap: 1. NEVER upgrade anything that is not your demense. 2. ALWAYS upgrade income buildings first 3. Your culture retinue have full bonuses no matter what tech level you are. that means Heavy infantry cultural retinue will have +60% defence, for example. 4. If you want to storm astles easily - stick with archer retinue - archers have high Skirmish value and only skirmish is counted in castle assault. 6000 archer retinue can storm 2k garrison with ease. 5. proper eugenics is the key. Stay away from lisp, hapelip, hunchbacks, imbeciles and other people with such traits even if they are heirs to the empire - that trails will plague your dinasty for generations. 6. At first it may seem that stewardsip is the most important education, but in fact Diplomacy is the most powerful of all. it will help you to screw your dumb vassals that wiull pester you with their retared requests and demands with no cost. Otherwise, you'll have to bribe them - and only if have high intrigue. 7. RAPE AND PILLAGE! 8. Only Elective Monarchy allows you to choose heirs. I STRONGLY recommend you to change to EM, bcause otherwise you can end up with Inbred, hunchback, lisp, imbecile homosexual heir. And if you are Zoroastrian and screwing your sister daily, or a big fan of Game of Thrones, Inbred trait will plague you constantly. 9. Do NOT give your heir a fief to govern - once a ruler, he'll start to go hunting, have feasts and spawn bastards. It seems like AI tends to take most dumb choices and your Brave Gregarious Charitable heir can end up as Maimed Craven Gluttonous slob.

The trick with Paradox Grand strategy games - you understand one - you'll understand every other Grand strategy from Paradox.

A bit of Chris Avellone

They only bothered with Attractive

There's only one way - Rape and Pillage. Set sail to abduct and rape women across the world. Paradox sure knows how to catch hearts of mainstream strategy gamer. Seriously things are way too easy for pagans: 1. Get 6000+ archer retinue. 2 Start abducting women from the loosers on the coast. 3. Sooner or later you'll capture one with Strong or even Genius. 4. Make her concubine. 5. Repeat until you get 3 concubines 6. PROFIT! Even with reduced birthrate there's a neat chance that you'll get heir with that trait. And when properly raped concubine reaches 45 years, set her aside and take another 3 concubines in search for best traits.

and here's Deus Ex design doc by comparison:

Can't say I blame them, judging by results, internal analysis and reviews team in EA were exactly like this:

Why the hell they name EVERYTHING Occupy[XYZ]?

Why the hell russians not supporting BOTH sides? For great justice! Russia, Europe and USA have insane number of heavily outdated small arms literally rotting in their storages thanks to good old Cold War Era. Military have great problem utilizing this old ****. Why not sell it for the needy. they can even share it with Africa - will work wonders with population control and solve starvation problem way better than humanitarian aid.

I'm a fan of Mr. Darwin.

That IS retconning. In a fantasy world, you can bring everyone back in any way writer can imagine. I was talking about retconning just as an example of most "visible" discarded choice in the game.

Uh-huh. CDP screw up so much that they were able to make more expensive Witcher 3.

Nope. I've had enough of bioware failures.

I liked that "Product not yet rated"

Of all this, the funniest thing is that Bioware sticks to retconning their chars again and again. Anders, Leliana, Morrigan, I bet there will be more. So far I expect DA:I to be exactly like Mass Effect 3 - a chest of lies, unfulfilled promises and retardation. Heh, it will be ironic if we will see most choices discarded, as happened in ME3. But 2014 will be a time of a lot of Kickstarter releases a Witcher3, so another generic action herpderping slasher like DA:I would face hard times.

After ugly elves Dragon Age, at last, have gypsy transsexuals

Hmm, Witcher 3 - gameplay footage, plus, CD Projekt proved that they can learn from their mistakes. Dragon Age: Inquisition - no footage, already discarded choices made by players a-la Mass Effect 3. And BioWare already showed that they have a learning capability of BioWare.

From the DA youtube desctiption: ''Dragon Age: Inquisition - Explore a vast, fantasy world at the brink of catastrophe in this next-generation action RPG. Your journey awaits

YUR CHOISUZ WILL MATTUR! I bet Codex will like it.