NOK222 Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 I've always said that the black city would be the climax of the series. Ka-ka-ka-ka-Cocaine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarex Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 I've always said that the black city would be the climax of the series. So this is the conclusion to the Flemeth story then? "because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 (edited) http://uk.gamespot.com/news/bioware-details-save-import-options-for-dragon-age-inquisition-6413859 New save file system allows users to create customised historical world states from scratch to use in Dragon Age: Inquisition. BioWare has revealed a method for creating save files to use in its upcoming game, Dragon Age: Inquisition. Posted on the official BioWare Blog, Dragon Age executive producer Mark Darrah announced the Dragon Age Keep. The Dragon Age Keep allows players to create a customised Dragon Age historical world state, which carries over choices made in Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age II. Players will be able to customise "as much or as little about the world of Thedas" using the Dragon Age Keep. This customised world state will then be possible to import into Dragon Age: Inquisition. Darrah also stated that importing game saves is an issue that BioWare is "continuing to investigate". In particular, how saves from previous games could be utilised to "populate the initial world state of the Dragon Age Keep". Darrah did not specify whether importing saves directly into Dragon Age: Inquisition will be possible. http://blog.bioware.com/2013/08/28/the-dragon-age-keep/ Edited August 30, 2013 by Raithe "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrashMan Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 I've fired a shed-load of small arms (and not-so-small-arms) on automatic. Yep, you don't hit much. Which leads me to Q2. Amount of rounds fired versus kills is utterly Point Not Found. Infantrymen try to win the firefight. This means saturating the enemy location with fire to keep his head down so you can advance / flank / bring support weapons to bear. As long as you win the firefight it matters not how many kills you get. In fact, if you put down 5,000 rounds of MG and rifle fire and kill nobody, but pin the enemy for long enough to kill him with fast air then it's a massive tick in the 'Win' column. I hope that makes sense. The only rounds fired / kill ratio that means squat in a military context are those fired by a sniper, a military specialism. 170 years from now I'd expect firearms still to fire slugs. Almost certainly caseless, maybe in the 6-7mm range and using weapons that utilize electricity and have relatively few moving parts. An Advanced Combat Rifle might well have a large capacity magazine of 100+ rounds with a wide choice of sub-munitions. I think that 'ray guns' and 'lasers' are many years on from that because your personal weapon is always made by the lowest bidder (qv Murphy's Laws of Combat). The point, my fine friend, is that "my machingun isn't accurate enough" is a redicolous complaint. If you want to be realistic, you're gonna be missing most of the time, because rapid-fire ballistic weapons aren't accurate. Period. If you're not, then the appropriate amount of accuracy is for the devs to determine and the player complaint has no leg to stand on, other than "but I want to kill stuff dead faster" * YOU ARE A WRONGULARITY FROM WHICH NO RIGHT CAN ESCAPE! *Chuck Norris was wrong once - He thought HE made a mistake! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PK htiw klaw eriF Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 So alanshu, now that PAX has started, are you going to reveal anything good? On complexity: I've always thought that complexity in a game was derived from the variety of enemies, in which case DA2 is definitely not as complex as BG2, which isn't as complex as a game made using the Pathfinder system would be. "Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic "I'm gonna hunt you down so that I can slap you square in the mouth." - Bartimaeus "Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander "Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador "You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort "thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex "Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock "Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco "we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii "I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing "feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth "Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi "Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor "I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine "Am I phrasing in the most negative light for them? Yes, but it's not untrue." - ShadySands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anubite Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Enemy variety has no effect on complexity if you have no choices to even make. I would agree the types of enemies you fight effects complexity, but only in a 'meta-gaming' sense - it's not like you know who you're going to fight when you first play the game. I made a 2 hour rant video about dragon age 2. It's not the greatest... but if you want to watch it, here ya go: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PK htiw klaw eriF Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Enemy variety has no effect on complexity if you have no choices to even make. I would agree the types of enemies you fight effects complexity, but only in a 'meta-gaming' sense - it's not like you know who you're going to fight when you first play the game. I disagree. Sure, you don't know exactly what your PC will be fighting, but if foes are essentially a dozen types that use the same abilities, the same tactics, and are level-scaled to have the same attributes, battles will be incredibly similar and generally not very complex. Take DA2 vs BG2. In DA2, every enemy mage used the same spell list, and unless you were playing on Nightmare and they had some random immunity slapped on, tactics against them would be the same. Ditto for Warrior and Rogue foes as well. In BG2, Mages were much more complex and fighting them you needed to cast certain spells to remove their protections and dispell any effects they caused your party, but Thieves backstabbed and Warriors(Barbarians, Fighters, Paladins, Rangers) hit **** with their weapons. In a Pathfinder game, battles would be much more complex because with the large amount of feats, spells, and special abilities, characters that are of the same class could be vastly different than in BG2. 1 "Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic "I'm gonna hunt you down so that I can slap you square in the mouth." - Bartimaeus "Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander "Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador "You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort "thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex "Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock "Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco "we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii "I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing "feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth "Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi "Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor "I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine "Am I phrasing in the most negative light for them? Yes, but it's not untrue." - ShadySands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maria Caliban Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 "When is this out. I can't wait to play it so I can talk at length about how bad it is." - Gorgon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Is that the latest romance option? "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monte Carlo Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Is that the latest romance option? Cute dinosaurs with flammable tails have been under-represented in video games for too long. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Agreed. I imagine that would be a pretty hot relationship. Aside, I know they do inter-species relationships, but was Shale romanceable? "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Slinky Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 (edited) Is it a felony in DA world to have a relationship with a underaged dinosaur? Edited August 30, 2013 by Slinky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monte Carlo Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Hmmm. We are in strange legal territory here. I'd err on the side of caution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Aside, I know they do inter-species relationships, but was Shale romanceable? As far as I know - no. I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Shale is more of a 'get his rocks off and roll' guy than relationship material. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nepenthe Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Shale is more of a 'get his rocks off and roll' guy than relationship material. Girl. 1 You're a cheery wee bugger, Nep. Have I ever said that? Reapercussions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
licketysplit Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Shale is more of a 'get his rocks off and roll' guy than relationship material. Son, I am disappoint. As for romance, I hope they're inclusive enough to represent the self pleasuring type. Too long have we labored on the outskirts of humanity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orogun01 Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 (edited) Shale is more of a 'get his rocks off and roll' guy than relationship material. Girl. Yep, she is a brick house indeed. On another point, why the hell all threads about BW degenerate into the same thing? "Who is romanceable?" "Is the game going to suck?" " [insert BW game here] sucked so this one is going to" "No that game didn't suck this other BW game sucked more" Vol spawns and says something crazy. Is like if a vicious cycle had an affair with infinite regression. Edited August 30, 2013 by Orogun01 4 I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"* *If you can't tell, it's you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 It's the haters fault, man. Or something. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volourn Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 "Vol spawns and says something crazy." Nothing crazier than what you others post. L0L 1 DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maria Caliban Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Putting the Dragons in Dragon Age "When is this out. I can't wait to play it so I can talk at length about how bad it is." - Gorgon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PK htiw klaw eriF Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 "For example, if you fight a dragon in a rocky clearing, you may be able to take cover from its breath weapon behind boulders. However, the dragon can flush you out by concentrating its fire to melt the stone." “You can individually target their limbs, and they react to the damage to a leg versus another one,” says Laidlaw. “I think that helps ground the encounter a lot more. If you need to get in close to the legs, we open up a whole new realm of counter-moves. He can take a swipe at where you likely are, which feels more like what a real beast would do. It grounds the encounter, and keeps it very physical.” Meh, sounds like Twitcher or some other action game to me. "Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic "I'm gonna hunt you down so that I can slap you square in the mouth." - Bartimaeus "Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander "Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador "You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort "thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex "Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock "Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco "we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii "I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing "feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth "Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi "Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor "I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine "Am I phrasing in the most negative light for them? Yes, but it's not untrue." - ShadySands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volourn Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 It sounds good. It sounds like it gives more options and more variety. How can people find things like that a negative? L0LZ 2 DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarex Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 That is really disappointing, the next thing I'm expecting to hear is that the pause function is getting removed, because, let's be honest, if the gameplay is going in that direction, who needs it. "because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maria Caliban Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 (edited) Meh, sounds like Twitcher or some other action game to me. == Vivianne: Use a Sign! TRAP IT WITH THE YRDEN. Inquisitor: Maker help me. You're going to betray me in Act 3, aren't you? Edited August 30, 2013 by Maria Caliban 3 "When is this out. I can't wait to play it so I can talk at length about how bad it is." - Gorgon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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