Dragon Age

Looking back at a Human Male Noble who romanced Morrigan but was betrothed to Anora, Morrigan questions you about it. When I told her it was purely political, she gave a "well, of course!" answer, but I thought it was cute and sad that she was actually worried you were in love with Anora, despite all her blather about love being a weakness. The way she says "Well, of course" is full of "oh, yeah, I knew it all the time!"

No, no you didn't Morrigan.

Okay I just read on the trope page that apparently Sandal is in Champions of the Just? I haven't seen anything to corroborate that and I don't have a save data that can easily access that mission. Can anyone confirm?

Enchantment!

edited 10th Feb '18 10:17:55 PM by AnotherGuy

Considering how many times I've heard people disparage that he's not in DAI, I don't think he is.

Think i'd remember that, unless he's in a note or something Cole says. Or maybe he's in one of the cells during the dream sequence?

Yeah it said that he's in one of the cells.

edited 11th Feb '18 8:10:18 AM by LordVatek

In Champion of the Just, during that sequence with Envy, there's a dwarf that can be seen. People assume it's Sandal since it's supposedly happen in the Fade. Far-reaching, but y'know, Wild Mass Guessing is fun. Here's the video:

I mean, that could be any dwarf. It doesn't especially look like Sandal, and none of this is even real on any level— it's a fake vision created by the envy demon during the split second in which it was attempting to possess you. Kind of weak.

edited 11th Feb '18 2:18:26 PM by Unsung

I think the reason people assume its him is 'Dwarfs =/= Fade' so having a Dwarf in the fade is out of place. But, yeah, its not the fade. Its supposed to be in your mind.

Former BioWare Writer Mike Laidlaw Sheds More Light on Dragon Age 4's Development, Possible Story

"Bio Ware's much-loved Dragon Age series is in a strange place right now, much like Bioware itself. If the games progressed as former Bio Ware lead writer Mike Laidlaw initially planned, where would the story travel? Laidlaw himself laid out some of his ideas during a conversation at GDC 2018. He also shared his thoughts on leaving Bio Ware behind.

Under Laidlaw's direction we might've learned a more about Solas, the elven apostate who played a large role in Dragon Age Inquisition (which Kat enjoyed) and its Trespasser DLC. "Post-[Dragon Age: Inquisition Trespasser DLC], there's obviously a route to go with the Solas revelations," Laidlaw says. "If you've played Trespasser, you will know what logically will follow." The idea of possibly following Solas into Dragon Age 4 is intriguing, as the Dragon Age games aren't direct sequels of each other.

Ultimately, Laidlaw felt it was time to leave Bio Ware behind regardless of Dragon Age's loose threads. "I wanted to try a new challenge, and I knew that [the staff reassignments] would change the date," he says. "I was going to have a very small skeleton crew, and I'm lucky because Patrick Weekes is an exceptional lead writer, Daniel Kading is an exceptional lead designer. There were two very veteran designers who could hold a vision, and it was going to move down to a very small team.'

"I thought if I'm ever gonna go, this is the least disruptive time for me to leave. So I would be stunned if whatever plan I had remained completely unchanged.""

This is mildly concerning. Whywould DA 4 have a "skeleton crew"? Why wouldn't BW be pouring all its resources into this huge franchise?

Because BW doesn't exist except as another studio EA has gutted and destroyed. And there have been plenty of signs DA isn't a priority for EA.

edited 23rd Mar '18 8:33:21 PM by deludedmusings

EA hates anything that isn't a multiplayer cash cow. Which makes it insane that they keep buying companies that specialize in single-player, then trying to shoehorn them into multiplayer. That hasn't always been terrible (the ME3 multiplayer was very well-received, for example), but it's a bizarre business strategy, and they're only getting worse about it.

Another casualty of EA.

EA. The place where good games go to die.

Bioware only has itself to blame for it's fall, especially related to Andromeda.

Dropping links without context is against the rules. Please summarize the video.

Sigh, its all but official now, the Bioware I knew and loved is gone.

Well, I wish everyone at "Bioware" has an amazing success with Anthem, if only so that no one loses their jobs, but I'm not interested in EA's Destiny.

I just wish there were still studios that made games like Bioware used to :(

edited 24th Mar '18 2:54:54 PM by Ludlow

To be fair, Dragon Age is probably at the early production stages still while Anthem ships in a year. Video Game Development NEVER has a consistent number of developers from Day 1 to Launch. That number will be small early on during development stages and then grow when there's actual game to program, quests to impliment, gameplay to tinker with, and bugs to patch. Athem is naturally going to have the most resources right now.

Especially if Bioware's future depends on Anthem's success. Ugh.

Anyway, I thought that whole thing was HILARIOUS.

"If the games progressed as former Bio Ware lead writer Mike Laidlaw initially planned, where would the story travel? Laidlaw himself laid out some of his ideas during a conversation at GDC 2018. He also shared his thoughts on leaving Bio Ware behind."

• Laidlaw then discusses LITERALLY the most logical progression for the fourth installment to take*

How facinating... I mean, the entirity of Inquisition and Trespasser is to set up Solas as a Big Bad and Patrick Weekes wrote that character in the first place. I know there'd be deviations from Laidlaw's plans no matter what, but I can't see Weekes taking some dramatic twist with Solas and other things left dangling. He's a better writer than that.

I don't understand why they're throwing around 'reboot' either. Game Development shifts dramatically all the time. If any game was a reboot, Inquisition was since it standardized a lot of lore and art to uniform and reintroduced a lot of concepts while also being more streamlined in both a new-player friendly and longtime-player friendly way. Throwing around 'the Dragon Age reboot' so callously is going to confuse a lot of people needlessly.

edited 24th Mar '18 5:28:21 PM by InkDagger

So there is the awesome Trespasser trailer and at the end Alix Reagen!Inquisitor says, "Whatever happens to the Inquisition, the world needs you. I need you. Who's with me?

Want to replay for this moment and trying to remember where it comes up. Anyone remember?

Now this is just goofy. Bioware's announcement of Dragon Age II backwards compatibility for Xbox One.

The good news: New Dragon Age comic series from the same creative team as the (IMO) amazing Knight Errant

The bad news: It shares a name with the Mass Effect tie-in novel that was so bad it got declared non-canon. But Knight-Errant was good so I'm betting this one will be too.

Maybe...this means they're considering making a 4th Dragon Age game?

...Please....please release Dragon Age 4 and make it good....

Any company that allows themselves to be bought by EA, especially given as it's common knowlege that any company EA grabs are dead men walking, deserve what happens to them next.

Smaller companies don't always have a choice in the matter. Even if it's nominally not a hostile takeover, the smaller company might not have the money to keep the doors open much longer, so the bigger company swoops in to "rescue" them.

I don't know much about Bioware's specific situation, though. It might just be a simple case of the owners being blinded by their own greed. Which brings up another point—the employees working on the games rarely have any say in these matters. They certainly don't deserve to get screwed with because their boss wanted a big pile of cash.

"Deserves" is harsh. There were a lot of people in the company who weren't Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk. Who, as far as I'm aware, pretty much helicoptered out of the company and hadn't been all that involved in the actual making of the games for some time even before the buyout.

Edited by Unsung on Jul 3rd 2018 at 6:55:57 AM

Inquisiton isn't what I want from Dragon Age.

I liked dark adult fantasy and social awareness.

None of which existed in Inquisition.