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Game News Dragon Age: Inquisition Release Date & Launch Trailer

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Tags: BioWare; Dragon Age III: Inquisition; Electronic Arts

BioWare's upcoming masterpiece, Dragon Age: Inquisition, has received a release date - October 7, 2014 - as well as a launch trailer:



Polygon has a summary of the trailer; here's a snippet:

Combat in Dragon Age: Inquisition seeks to merge the third-person fighting mechanics common to today's action-RPGs with a more strategic party-based approach reminiscent of earlier RPGs. A fight involving the Gray Warden Stronghold is shown, although there are still no details on the Wardens relationship to the war.

The game world is also significantly larger and more varied than in previous Dragon Age games, according to Laidlaw. Today's trailer shows some epic sweeping shots of locations such as a frozen forest with abandoned elven ruins. There is also footage of beast riding, which offers various species of mounts although none, alas, that can fly. Dragons are shown only briefly.

"We want to show people the central premise of the game, including the Inquisitor and how it is related to the Fade," said Laidlaw. "You can also see some of the great personality of the game and the scale of this open world."​

You can preorder the game from the official website, too, though I dunno why you'd want to.
 

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Pretty corny. I dunno why but I'm getting that Jade Empire feeling. Seems to me they're stuck in a loop.
 

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http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/04/22/d...ance-returning-characters-and-the-open-world/

Dragon Age 2, we decided we want to try something, to try to do very different storytelling, something much more personal, something much more tightly constrained. No chosen one, no clear overarching threat. I don’t think it was a perfect success, but that was intentional.

A lot of the other changes that are perceived, the overall scope of the game or the perception of the combat getting a lot simpler or waves and things like that—not intended, exactly. That was supposed to be more evolutionary. I think we just overreached. We pushed too hard.

Because of Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age: Inquisition is having to be a lot more ambitious, to address those concerns and really try to get back much more to the roots of the franchise. Much more about tactical combat and a higher level of deliberate difficulty. More clear overall story, with the moral choices still in there, but much more in vein of Dragon Age: Origins style storytelling. You’re right to ask. The goal wasn’t to revolutionize the series every single time, but Dragon Age 2 forced our hand to a certain degree.

Emphasis mine.

You have to breathe barracuda watermelon air and have antifreeze as your blood to believe this mollusk secretion for two seconds. I mean, am I not the only one who can hear the interviewee talking out of the right side of his mouth as he says this brain-dribbling, insulting revisionist sewage water? I'm surprised he was not immediately struck three times by lightning on the spot for making such mindbogglingly backward untruthful statements about a game everyone but Metacritic knows is complete waste of everyone who ever worked on it's time!

BioWare, you didn't "overreach" and there wasn't a "perceived" problem of the game being fucking wave-based or simple. It was the most dumbed-down BioWare game ever made -- and it can be proved mathematically if you really want to debate this; the fewest choices, the fewest areas, the fewest specialization, the fewest halls in every corridor-based dungeon... on and on I could babble about how iphone-like the game was. Rushed out the door, riddled with plot holes and banality, there was nothing wrong with the soul of the game -- since at its most basic elements it was a lot like BG2, which many would consider to be the greatest bar none. What was wrong with how it was executed - EA and BioWare became so associated with "incompetence" by releasing this game that they shouldn't even try to defend it like they do here -- but they do, and it's clear how out of touch BioWare really is at this point, that they would try to convince us that they tried too hard making Dragon Age 2.

You didn't need to acknowledge why DA2 sucked ass in this interview though, you just needed to say, "Hey, 9 month development cycle. We were rushed. This time, we're not." And that'd assauge 98% of the idiots who buy your shit.

Dragon Age 2 is the worst game BW has ever produced and one of the most embarassingly awful RPGs of recent memory. To say the above in any official statement with a serious face... I could write paragraphs explaining why Dragon Age 2 was not only an anti-RPG, but that it was a genuinely bad, rushed game. The only thing they did do right was try a more "personal story" (too bad it was poorly executed).

Buying DA3 at this stage should be considered a mortal sin.

And because this "gameplay trailer" showed all of .2*10 seconds of "gameplay" (gameplay trailers shouldn't have scripted combat like the above and should show the UI unlike the above; can you even call the 'gameplay' we were shown gameplay?)... I am now absolutely confident its gameplay will be floaty, shitty action-based combat on the level of popamole ME3. And after having seen so much of the cast already, I can already tell 90% will be just as unlikeable as Anders in DA2.
 
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Never forget.

Well, I did forget, but thanks for the reminder. :lol:

So, is Manson not cool with today's kids anymore or why don't they still use him? Should have made it sort of running thing.. kinda like war never changes.. except in this case it would be "shit never changes".
 

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Oh great more Oblivion Gates, eh, I mean, Breaches to close because they are really growing by the hour and will effect the game world the longer it's open. :roll:
 

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Oh great more Oblivion Gates, eh, I mean, Breaches to close because they are really growing by the hour and will effect the game world the longer it's open. :roll:

Gee I do hope Ill have enough time to stop and listen my companions whining how their daddies didnt love them, ITS SUPER SERIAL!
 

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So, are you motherfuckers ready for the new shit?

Funny how an anti-consumersism song was used to promote a dumbed down RPG. Wonderfully ironic.
 
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Judging by the armor design only, it's going to be the worst game ever.

I mean, look at this shit.

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I knew EA is trying hard to befriend the LGBT community for quite some time now, but fuck... Those look fabulous! It's obvious who's their core audience now. Don't know if that's a wise business decission though.
 

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I knew EA is trying hard to befriend the LGBT community for quite some time now, but fuck... Those look fabulous! It's obvious who's their core audience now. Don't know if that's a wise business decission though.

At least they're all standing like men. Although with some kind of a ballsack sore, it seems.
 

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Was looking for any kind of gameplay footage, just saw yet another cinematic trailer.

Ahh well, Bioware ...
 

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Judging by the armor design only, it's going to be the worst game ever.

I mean, look at this shit.

maxresdefault.jpg


I knew EA is trying hard to befriend the LGBT community for quite some time now, but fuck... Those look fabulous! It's obvious who's their core audience now. Don't know if that's a wise business decission though.

That looks like a bad parody of The Village People. Just waiting for the video where they break into a YMCA song...
 

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Judging by the armor design only, it's going to be the worst game ever.

I mean, look at this shit.

maxresdefault.jpg


I knew EA is trying hard to befriend the LGBT community for quite some time now, but fuck... Those look fabulous! It's obvious who's their core audience now. Don't know if that's a wise business decission though.

OH SNAP! It all comes together now.

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Are those outfits for real or is it some sort of fan art? I mean W. T. F.
 

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