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Yeah disliking boring characters who are only included because Gaider is on SJW crusade makes me a racist. What's next?

 

Well you can see it like Gaider is on  some grand SJW crusade or you can see it like he is  making Bioware games more inclusive. I prefer to see it like the latter and his endeavors are much appreciated

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Not only that but the ''bowguard'' is also in the way of the arrow. The artist has no clue about bows, but game designers in general have no clue about medieval weaponry. 

If I was a game designer I'd at least gather some first hand information about the things I'm designing so I don't make a fool out of myself. 

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Not only that but the ''bowguard'' is also in the way of the arrow. The artist has no clue about bows, but game designers in general have no clue about medieval weaponry. 

 

The Pillars of Eternity guys very much disagree.

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That pretty much fails on all levels.

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I just read this over at GiantBomb:

"Similar in concept to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, BioWare has adopted an open world approach for Inquisition, encouraging exploration and undertaking side quests on behalf of local NPCs. Inquisition however is not one giant landscape but rather ten large, spacious locations, each one larger than all of the areas in Dragon Age: Origins or Dragon Age II."

 

I really hope I read this correctly: We'll get ten areas, each of which are larger than all of those in DAO and DAII combined! Holy Moses! :aiee:

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Just having giant open landmasses in and of itself isn't necessarily a good thing, and this goes for The Witcher 3 as well as DA:I.  Those large open areas need to be filled with interesting locations to explore, interesting things to do, and (*glares menacingly at Bethesda*) interesting characters to meet.  In fact, the larger the land masses, the more challenging it becomes for the developer to fill them with enough interesting and different things to do and the more likely said developer is to fall into a rut of copy & paste filler quests.  Hopefully BioWare (and CDPR, for that matter) rises to the occasion and manages to make these giant areas feel interesting and alive.

 

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Keyrock: Insightful post. It all comes down to what's in those areas, regardless of size, and yeah, the bigger they are, the harder they are to fill. I'll keep my fingers crossed. However, overall, it looks promising. I hope that DA:I will place itself cleverly in that Goldilock zone in-between Skyrim, BG2 and MotB. For once, I will seek out the romances in this game. I haven't before, and they felt forced upon me. This time, I will go all in. I'm already checking out all the companions to see who it'll be. :wub:

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Keyrock: Insightful post. It all comes down to what's in those areas, regardless of size, and yeah, the bigger they are, the harder they are to fill. I'll keep my fingers crossed. However, overall, it looks promising. I hope that DA:I will place itself cleverly in that Goldilock zone in-between Skyrim, BG2 and MotB. For once, I will seek out the romances in this game. I haven't before, and they felt forced upon me. This time, I will go all in. I'm already checking out all the companions to see who it'll be. :wub:

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I just hope that their idea of granting "exploration" isn't just placing random 'hard to miss' prompts across the field, spread out as randomly as dandelions, where a codex entry will pop up as soon as you interact with it. There needs to be something more than that, something that doesn't come off as tedious collectible/patience simulator challenges.

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Keyrock: Insightful post. It all comes down to what's in those areas, regardless of size, and yeah, the bigger they are, the harder they are to fill. I'll keep my fingers crossed. However, overall, it looks promising. I hope that DA:I will place itself cleverly in that Goldilock zone in-between Skyrim, BG2 and MotB. For once, I will seek out the romances in this game. I haven't before, and they felt forced upon me. This time, I will go all in. I'm already checking out all the companions to see who it'll be. :wub:

I can hear Bruce's cheers from here. :lol:

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So apparently it has been confirmed by Mark Darrah that the Grey Warden you played as in Origins will *NOT* be making an on-screen appearance in Inquisition (though you will apparently hear of him/her, which kind of leaves us in the same boat we were in in 2), which is kind of a huge bummer for me and my chaotic good lady city elf duelist rogue.

 

And you know what? Cole doesn't seem so bad anymore when he's channeling Van Hellsing or a Witchhunter of the Ordo Hereticus:

 

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Just having giant open landmasses in and of itself isn't necessarily a good thing, and this goes for The Witcher 3 as well as DA:I.  Those large open areas need to be filled with interesting locations to explore, interesting things to do, and (*glares menacingly at Bethesda*) interesting characters to meet.  In fact, the larger the land masses, the more challenging it becomes for the developer to fill them with enough interesting and different things to do and the more likely said developer is to fall into a rut of copy & paste filler quests.  Hopefully BioWare (and CDPR, for that matter) rises to the occasion and manages to make these giant areas feel interesting and alive.

 

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From a fledgling developer standpoint, one that has a crew of three unpaid and four paid (three of which I should not have) and not 400, I do not understand open world games.

 

They are incredibly ridiculous to plan - let alone design. They cost way too much money for the benefit, and you can have the same effect simply by having an interesting enough overworld map with enough stuff to discover and do. Wasteland 2 does this well. So does Mario World. And the original Dragon Age.

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