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Post by disgustednoise on Oct 22, 2022 2:14:06 GMT
Between Varric and Alistair, the heads of state in Thedas really say fuck their responsibilities to go do some comic book nonsense, huh?
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Post by Andrew Mancer on Oct 23, 2022 0:29:05 GMT
...Do they seriously need to put Varric in everything? There's seriously ZERO reason for him to be included an anymore.
I hope we get some real details on the game soon. They said we'd see more this year but it doesn't feel like we've been given anything. I just really want to play another good Dragon Age/RPG. It's been too long.
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Post by dgcatanisiri on Oct 26, 2022 4:54:17 GMT
Yeah, I love Varric and all, but I could DEFINITELY do with him sitting this next game out.
Though I personally will take a Varric reappearance over another appearance from Dorian...
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Post by Lee on Oct 26, 2022 11:13:09 GMT
honestly, I don't want anyone coming back in the next game. I feel like a lot of the time characters get changed by new writers to the point that they should have just been new characters anyway.
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Post by Scottphoto on Oct 26, 2022 18:06:57 GMT
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Post by Lee on Oct 26, 2022 23:25:55 GMT
I hope they give out the romance details before the launch.
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Post by Andrew Mancer on Nov 1, 2022 16:16:47 GMT
I REALLY hope this means we'll get the game sometime at the end of next year! Nine years is just so much time between games and I honestly can't believe it's been that long. (This makes me feel so old.)
I would definitely love to see more information coming out soon instead of just minor development updates we've been getting. And yes, PLEASE give out all the romance details before the game releases instead of the whole Andromeda mess. ....Make me wait almost ten years I expect a hot KISA LOL.
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Post by Scottphoto on Nov 9, 2022 3:34:48 GMT
I REALLY hope this means we'll get the game sometime at the end of next year! Nine years is just so much time between games and I honestly can't believe it's been that long. (This makes me feel so old.) I would definitely love to see more information coming out soon instead of just minor development updates we've been getting. And yes, PLEASE give out all the romance details before the game releases instead of the whole Andromeda mess. ....Make me wait almost ten years I expect a hot KISA LOL. Seens likely so far, Mark Darrah who work leading the last DAs says the best probable estimate is around the fall of next year. It could be summer, but fall is a safer bet to make sure things go smoother. He also says very likely we might see the game shown in this upcoming game awards show, so will see! For his video:
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Post by Lee on Dec 5, 2022 4:03:17 GMT
So I just read some of the Dragon Age day stuff. nothing too impressive...not shocked that the new trailer/teaser wasn't even posted here. Just more Varric and Solas white noise.
I am somewhat interested in seeing what the new Sims 4 items are, but not enough to log in yet.
I am, however, pretty interested in the Dragon Age animated series coming to Netflix. I hope it doesn't suck.
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Post by farferello on Dec 5, 2022 4:38:14 GMT
I read from various people it was more Solas so I haven't even bothered to look at anything new. FFS. We know there's gonna be Solas, that's all they've talked about and shown since they announced the frickin title. I don't care. Solas is the least important or interesting thing for me at this point, if anything they are killing any hype I had by just focusing repeatedly on his bald ass.
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Post by Lee on Dec 5, 2022 5:20:51 GMT
I read from various people it was more Solas so I haven't even bothered to look at anything new. FFS. We know there's gonna be Solas, that's all they've talked about and shown since they announced the frickin title. I don't care. Solas is the least important or interesting thing for me at this point, if anything they are killing any hype I had by just focusing repeatedly on his bald ass. The trailer retails the fact that he's the dreadwolf and that he created the veil and wants to destroy it and we have to stop him. So I guess the trailer is for people who didn't play the dlc (cause that's extremely old news for most Dragon Age fans).
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Post by farferello on Dec 5, 2022 5:38:24 GMT
The trailer retails the fact that he's the dreadwolf and that he created the veil and wants to destroy it and we have to stop him. So I guess the trailer is for people who didn't play the dlc (cause that's extremely old news for most Dragon Age fans). So in other words it's telling us what every other trailer about DA:D has told us. I guess the entire game is Solas and nothing but Solas at this point considering we know jack all else about the game at this point. It's concerning that they're relying so hard on Solas, it doesn't bode well if they're not confident enough to show anything else. Not everyone gives a damn about that egg.
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Post by dgcatanisiri on Dec 5, 2022 9:22:41 GMT
On my Tumblr, I even saw a person who admits to being a Solas fan wanting to have something other than Solas to go on. Like... I get it, I really do. Solas is the one thing you can be certain that talking about won't spoil something that you're not entirely certain you're ready to reveal - there was, IIRC, an instance during Inquisition of a tour guide of some sort accidentally letting a group of visitors know that "the big bad" was in the party, when the Solas reveal was Inquisition's big "le gasp" aspect, but... Putting all this attention on Solas just alienates those of us not interested in him.
Like I think what REALLY grates about all this focus on Solas and nothing but is the fact that... This character didn't even EXIST prior to Inquisition. That's when he joined the franchise. We had two games that preceded him, AND there've been books and comics that haven't had anything to do with him... But the way that BioWare approaches him at this point, you'd think HE was the central figure of the whole franchise, that it couldn't exist without him, that there's no way to approach this franchise without doing something with him in specific... But that really isn't the case! Sure, they HAVE tied him to the existence of the Veil, but we could have gone the life of the franchise without that mystery being explained or solved, and Inquisition could have offered a different explanation entirely. To give this overwhelming attention to Solas and nothing but... This is a CHOICE.
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Post by nickclark89 on Dec 5, 2022 11:06:46 GMT
the teaser trailer was so yawwwwn worthy lol I'm so tired of Solas, we knooooow alreaaady and not even mentioning Varric being in the "I'm the narrator" spotlight again, as much as I like his character, it should have been Dorian the one narrating the events since we are going to Tevinter as main setting the cynicism in every cell of my body is telling me that they dont want a gay character to be that centric lol but I guess thats only me and I really hope every single companon is new, Varric and Dorian should stay as advisors. I'm kinda afraid about Dreadwolf not being in the game awards now
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Post by Scottphoto on Dec 5, 2022 19:59:18 GMT
Lol I was going to post it yesterday, but I wasn't feeling well and then I actually saw it didn't really tell anything new, I was like meh I don't think is news worthy hahaha, but for those that still want to see: It does seem this is going to be on the game itself though, maybe at the beginning or some place. I am curious if we are going to have a lot of narrations in between like DA2 or it just happens to be this instance. nickclark89 I am hoping it is on game awards, is the only way it makes sense for them not to do yesterday big, because game awards is so close this week. If not then ooof, I mean we don't even need gameplay just want to see some new chars, enough with the varric solas stuff. Hell even a leliana or morrigan bit would be a change of pace at this point. I feel bad for Corypheus, he didn't get all this early marketing XD.
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Post by Andrew Mancer on Dec 6, 2022 1:36:29 GMT
Just the other day I was thinking about how disappointed I was that we are so far removed from Dragon Age Origins at this point (in both gameplay, story, and in game years) that it's almost like they're not even the same games anymore. There are so many plot/story threads from Origins and Awakening that are likely going to be forgotten, dropped, never mentioned again that it makes me sad. I remember how excited I was for the future of Dragon Age after finishing Origins/Awakening/Witch Hunt for the first time, but so much of what I wanted to see was forgotten or never panned out or reworked that it did not live up to what it seemed to be setting up. I WISH I could see the Dragon Age that I was expecting all those years ago, but that dream is long gone.
I am in agreement that I don't care for Solas and am sick of the focus on him. Same with Varric. There is ZERO reason for Varric to be involved other than the fact that he is the writer's pet that they expect everyone to love. I hate that they forced him as Hawke's best friend when MY Hawke doesn't like him and MY Inquisitor never talked to the guy. There is SO MUCH more to the series than just Solas or Varric. I HOPE their roles are minimal and there is more focus on other stuff but I don't think that is going to happen.
....That said...I am weak gay man and starved for RPGs and representation so I am still excited for DA4 even if my talk about it is negative. I hope to discuss everything with all of you when it's put and we get some good gay romance!!!
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Post by Lee on Dec 6, 2022 13:43:28 GMT
1 more thing that was bugging me was that I saw all the people saying how great it was looking (graphics). Buttttt the first thing shown in the video was a quick disclaimer that the video was not actual game footage. I swear the BioWare Twitter yes people are so easily pleased by ANYTHING.
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Post by farferello on Dec 6, 2022 21:15:29 GMT
At this point I hope after all they keep showing him off, Solas will get like five minutes of screen time and most of that will involve the playable character putting their foot up his arse. (I can dream okay.) The end of Trespasser we were promised so many different, vastly more interesting things than Solas, like the Qunari and Tevinter war and instead the marketing is just... egg.
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Post by dgcatanisiri on Dec 7, 2022 4:09:05 GMT
Yeah, and we're seeing things in the expanded universe material - the Qunari have taken Qarinus from the Imperium (comics), the Crows have had their leadership halved on the order of the Qunari (Tevinter Nights), we have rumors of things like Those Across the Sea, who in the final tale of Tevinter Nights, even Solas acknowledged as dangerous... And while I don't want Dragon Age to be in a position where going and picking up the various expanded universe stuff is mandatory to make everything make sense (in the way that the Winter Palace of Inquisition has VERY. DIFFERENT. CONTEXT. if you've read The Masked Empire)... I also don't want all this stuff shoved off into them, ESPECIALLY to just make more room for Solas.
Hell, much as I dislike Dorian, focus on the dynamics of Tevinter and the Magisterium - they shot his romance in the foot in order to ensure he'd be in Tevinter during DA4, to push him as "redeeming" Tevinter, I wouldn't exactly be happy about it, but have a trailer narrated by Dorian, talking about the civil unrest in Tevinter. Hell, even if the implication is that Solas's forces are fomenting the unrest, it'd at least be SOMETHING different.
This is an expansive tapestry, WHY do we have to be stuck this one, singular character?
Two characters, if you want to get pedantic and bring up Varric - much as I love the guy, I don't like the implication of him being back in a major role either. AT MOST, I want him as an advisor figure who pops in as a contact for the Inquisitor and their allies, offers some exposition, gives a mission, and stays out of things otherwise. Dude's a Viscount in Kirkwall now, too, the guy has things to do that DON'T revolve around saving the world.
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Post by farferello on Dec 7, 2022 6:17:41 GMT
I kinda hate Bioware always pushing the 'this is your best friend whether you like it or not.' It annoyed me with Garrus, and it annoys me with Varric. I hardly ever used Varric in DA2, and after the writers made him their 'Anders, and Mages are bad' mouthpiece in Inquisition, I don't like him a whole lot there either (plus my Hawke would have honestly just fucked right off back to Anders if he heard Varric talking about him the way he does to the Inquisitor) so I really hope we don't get more of him in DA:D outside of idk, a letter, or brief voice over. At least Dorian kinda makes sense given they ruined his romance to have him back in Tevinter to fuck around and find out, so I don't mind toooo much if he ends up as the Tevinter advisor or something.
I'd just rather they introduce new characters rather that repeatedly pulling old ones out of the woodwork at this point, because they always ruin their characterization when they do. (My Hawke would not! say that Bioware, fuck you. I can't believe I had to get a mod to remove the bullshit they put in his mouth.)
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