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Dragon Age: Whatever we were before, we are now... The Inquisition!


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What I'm linking to HERE is the 'final' trailer, and it's pretty good. I didn't know about it until just now, and since it's so much better than the 'Hero of Thedas' trailer before it, I thought I would give it a post.



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Spoilers are allowed, but since different players will be progressing at different times, please make sure you're not dropping a massive game-changer with no warnings.


It will probably be best if for observations of gameplay or what we see, that probably doesn't need to be spoiler tagged. Though if you're iffy, side on caution.


Story material gets automatic spoilertag unless most of the posters have reached or passed the point where the usage of a spoiler is unnecessary.


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So who's story looks like what?



I've got a female noble rogue named Antonia Cousland. She marries the weak-minded Allistair and sets him aside so that she can govern the realm. Peace has been bought, with much bloodshed, but Queen Antonia has started the nation on a road to economic and cultural prosperity. For that reason, she's reengaged trade with the Dwarves. Fereldan gets lyrium at cost, and the Dwarves get a new free labor force. And the cities are so much cleaner without those alienages, really.



Sistah' Hawk is a freaking badass mage who went ham on the darkspawn, made piece with the Arishok, fell head over heels for the lovely Anders, hates religion and the templars, and encouraged her moon and stars to destroy the chantry.



My new character, I'll get back to you on that one. I've got to look at some creation videos.


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I am excite.



As I've said before, my only real concern at this point is that if the game really is 80+ hours like a lot of the reviewers are indicating, it has the gameplay to back that up and there's not just a lot of padding and filler stretching out what should be closer to 30 hours.



On the plus side, the number that keeps getting thrown around is that the game has roughly one million words of spoken dialog, which is just a crazy large amount. To give some perspective, AGOT, ACOK, and ASOS combined have about a million words in them. So if that's accurate, there's certainly enough story to cover a playlength that long.


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Hmm, storylines lets see...




Male Cousland banged Morrigan (and wuvvvvved her :( ) and banged everyone else with glorious sword and board, still rockin the family crest shield from the very beginning. (Know your roots)



Shivstina Cousland opted for "talking about shoes" with Leliana and browbeat her flunky Alistair into becoming King. Also manipulated Loghain into banging Morrigan so she could cheat death (also, the lulz).



Other than saving their own asses (and making royal power grabs) they were basically good guy life-saving demon-busting people (even redeemed little Nathaniel Howe, the highlight of Awakening.)



Casteless Elf Girl I deliberately tried to shoe in as many double-crosses as possible, even when gratuitous and even when counter productive and the path of most resistance (I really got on a roll with that whole story arc about the ashes of Andraste, and surrounding parties). I think she also had Alistair bang Morrigan out of a sense of "Morrigan, honey, you want that magic baby? Lets see just how bad you really want it :D



Fooking Legend Of Denerim Alienage I don't think I ever finished that play through but I'm pretty sure she started out in Kill Bill mode after her wedding got fucked up and never stopped murderin.



I do remember I at least started an M and F of all 6 origins but i don't remember how far each one got or how (or if) they ended.



Shepard Hawke did some things involving The Arishok and Isabella but IDGAF what it was because Dragon Age II hurt me.


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I don't think I saved any of them so I'd have to start all over if I wanted to continue the story, unless Inquisition has a quick "pick your 1 and 2 options" mode.



Starting all over isn't a problem (time notwithstanding) so much with Origins. Origins was fun and had quite a bit of replay value. II, on the other hand... going through that again, I'd need to prepare myself for something like that.


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What I'm linking to HERE is the 'final' trailer, and it's pretty good. I didn't know about it until just now, and since it's so much better than the 'Hero of Thedas' trailer before it, I thought I would give it a post.

This has made me very excited! Can't wait to dig into the game over Christmas break. (soo...long...from...now...)

Let's just hope my three-and-half-year-old twice-dropped laptop can handle it.

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Nice OP, and awesome thread title!



I'm going to be doing my first DAO and DA2 set up in the keep tonight, so will report on my choices. My main problem here though is the Keep has only recognised a couple of my DA:O PS3 plays (human male mage and female dwarf commoner rogue), and just one of my DA2 PS3 plays (Female Warrior), and not necessarily the characters I want to carry through first time around. I'll need to go through the other character profiles by loading the game and checking the options menu to make sure the data upload option is on apparently. The keep correctly records me having PS3 and PC platforms for the games so at least I can be sure of being able to import the Keep data into DAI on PS4 when it arrives.


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This has made me very excited! Can't wait to dig into the game over Christmas break. (soo...long...from...now...)

Let's just hope my three-and-half-year-old twice-dropped laptop can handle it.

Minimum System Specs straight from dragonage.com

Minimum:

OS - Windows 7 or 8.1 64-bit

CPU - AMD quad core CPU @ 2.5 GHz or Intel quad core CPU @ 2.0 GHz

System RAM - 4 GB

Graphics CARD - AMD Radeon HD 4870, or NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

Graphics Memory 512 MB

Hard Drive 26 GB

DirectX 10

I meet all those PC specs on my desktop except for the GPU. I think a 3-year old gaming laptop should meet these specs no problem. A general purpose laptop a wee bit tarted up for gaming maybe not. I got a brand new laptop this year a wee bit tarted up for gaming and it fails on these specs (CPU and GPU), though it's good enough to play Smite, Heroes of the Storm and DOTA 2 on low settings.

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I don't think I saved any of them so I'd have to start all over if I wanted to continue the story, unless Inquisition has a quick "pick your 1 and 2 options" mode.

You can't import saves, only characters (not sure what the effect of that is going to be, their appearance?). For the story you have to use the Keep website to set your choices.

My first world state is going to have a Cousland warrior who married Anora, with Alistair becoming a drunk wandering the Free Marches, and obviously had that god baby with Morrigan.

He ensured that Bhelen ruled Orzammar, saved the Circle, cured the Werewolves and was even genre savvy enough to save Connor.

Awakenings presented much less memorable choices. The Architect lived and, being a guy with a reload button great administrative skills he managed to save the maximum amount of people during the final Darkspawn assault.

DA2 doesn't have that many decisions that feel like they'll be important down the road:

Hawke's sister became a reasonably happy Circle mage while Hawke and friends were constantly being dragged into the Mage-Templar conflict in Kirkwall (individuals of both sides regularly going mad with different kinds of power is going to do that). They sorted out the Quanri presence in Kirkwall with an epic duel, investigated the prison of one of the first Darkspawn (who probably escaped by possessing a Grey Warden...), and were than duped by a crazy abomination into abetting mass murder. Obviously the villain had to be killed, since they couldn't possibly keep an eye on him in the ensuing chaos, and then they had to clean up after both a crazy First Enchanter (who had also been in league with the crazy mage who murdered Hawke's mother) and a crazy Templar commander (seriously, there's way too many crazy people in Kirkwall).

After that Hawke presumably said "fuck this" and left with Isabela to become a pirate.

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You can't import saves, only characters (not sure what the effect of that is going to be, their appearance?). For the story you have to use the Keep website to set your choices.

My first world state is going to have a Cousland rogue who married Alistair, with Anora being exiled, and Al had that god baby with Morrigan. I kill Logain

she ensured that Harrowmont ruled Orzammar, saved the Circle, cured the Werewolves and was even genre savvy enough to save Connor.

Awakenings presented much less memorable choices. The Architect lived and, being a girl with a reload button great administrative skills she managed to save the maximum amount of people during the final Darkspawn assault.

DA2 doesn't have that many decisions that feel like they'll be important down the road:

Fem Hawke's sister became a reasonably grumpy Grey Warden mage while Hawke and friends were constantly being dragged into the Mage-Templar conflict in Kirkwall (individuals of both sides regularly going mad with different kinds of power is going to do that). They sorted out the Quanri presence in Kirkwall with an epic duel, investigated the prison of one of the first Darkspawn (who probably escaped by possessing a Grey Warden...), and were then duped by a crazy abomination into abetting mass murder. Obviously the villain had to be killed, since they couldn't possibly keep an eye on him in the ensuing chaos, and then they had to clean up after both a crazy First Enchanter (who had also been in league with the crazy mage who murdered Hawke's mother) and a crazy Templar commander (seriously, there's way too many crazy people in Kirkwall).

After that Hawke presumably said "fuck this" and left with Merrill to take up the Elvan tradition of frollicking.

That's about me for my first run through.

I also hung out with tallis and two timed on Merrill briefly as a result.

If I ever get my dude Hawke rogue recognised by the Keep website I think he'll sail off into the sunset with Isabella, though I may still go with Merrill. I don't want generic look Hawke for my dude set up because my dude Hawke was an awesome looking white haired slightly Chinese-looking dude with a major porn star moustache.

If/when I get my city elf warrior chick from DAO loaded in to the Keep I'll be running through without romancing anyone (hate humans and dwarves, and Zevran is too flippant for my serious self) and put Anora on the throne because girl power.

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I played the first one and second- recommened from a friend who said it has some ASOIAF plot twists. I disagree in that department but the characters are pretty memorable. They lack a Stannis and Renly character. Never got passed normal. Since the newest system I have is a 360 I will end up getting the 360 one. Do either of your siblings appear in inquisition? Bethany and varric are the only two characters I actually liked from the second game.


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I'm importing my Dwarf Noble with Bhelen on the Throne and Alistair Anora combo for Fereldan and a Templar Hawke cause fuck it it may have been a fairly unwarranted massacre but I wanted to be Viscount.


Seems a bit strange though that Origins and Inquisition are saving the world while the best I can say of Hawke is that he was either a strong argument for or against immigration


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I'm importing my Dwarf Noble with Bhelen on the Throne and Alistair Anora combo for Fereldan and a Templar Hawke cause fuck it it may have been a fairly unwarranted massacre but I wanted to be Viscount.

Seems a bit strange though that Origins and Inquisition are saving the world while the best I can say of Hawke is that he was either a strong argument for or against immigration

Hawke is a lot like Alistair- he is a story mover but not the story. Hawke will appear and disappear through the game's most likely. He is what? 30ish at the end of the second gameUnlike the warden and the inquisitor who are good for one or two stories but due to their open nature can't reappear in games.
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Set up my Dalish elf rogue, because to hell with the kneelers. Had a god baby with Morigan, put Alister and Anora on the throne, saved that dumb demon kid, left Harrowmont to rule Orzamar, completed all "loyalty" missions for my party, and many other things I barely remember.

For DA2 my funny Hawke rogue did his best and sailed off with Isabella in the end. As sad as it is to say, I think I'm most excited to run into Sandel again. That mouth breathing dwarf is a bad ass.

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Hawke is a lot like Alistair- he is a story mover but not the story. Hawke will appear and disappear through the game's most likely. He is what? 30ish at the end of the second gameUnlike the warden and the inquisitor who are good for one or two stories but due to their open nature can't reappear in games.

I'm almost positive its confirmed that the warden is in DAI too, if they survived the archdemon. Although I can't imagine it'd be for very long, there just too many assets that would be required from all the different variables for s/he to do much.

And I suspect that the end of DAI will be as world-changing and variable as ME3 (although, obviously, hopefully much better done), which would prevent much in the way of an immediate sequel anyway; so there was no need to hold back on the Inquisitor's variables. I did see it claimed that it has 40 different endings, but I wonder how similar that is to the "ME3 has 16 different endings" thing. I'd imagine there'd have to be a lot of similarities between at least some of them.

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Minimum System Specs straight from dragonage.com

Minimum:

OS - Windows 7 or 8.1 64-bit

CPU - AMD quad core CPU @ 2.5 GHz or Intel quad core CPU @ 2.0 GHz

System RAM - 4 GB

Graphics CARD - AMD Radeon HD 4870, or NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

Graphics Memory 512 MB

Hard Drive 26 GB

DirectX 10

I meet all those PC specs on my desktop except for the GPU. I think a 3-year old gaming laptop should meet these specs no problem. A general purpose laptop a wee bit tarted up for gaming maybe not. I got a brand new laptop this year a wee bit tarted up for gaming and it fails on these specs (CPU and GPU), though it's good enough to play Smite, Heroes of the Storm and DOTA 2 on low settings.

I meet everything except possibly the video card, which is what I'm worried about. I don't know what it is off the top of my head other than that it is nvidia. Nvidia 5400 something? 5600? It gave me some trouble last year and I thought I'd fried it, but it was working alright during my half finished Origins replay earlier this fall. I can run Skyrim and Witcher 2 on it, do you think I'm covered for DA: Inquisition?

Anyways, my first DA:O playthrough I was a female noble human rogue who unsuccessfully tried to romance Morrigan and settled for Leliana. I put Harrowmont on the throne, saved the demon child, and ended up not being sly enough to save Loghain. So he died, Anora ruled on her own, and Alistair stuck with me through the end, and must have ended up giving Morrigan a god baby.

Awakenings was also with my noble rogue, and I don't remember much except how badass she was by that point, and that she ended up killing the talking darkspawn guy.

My Hawke was a female (funny) rogue as well. Not a very memorable playthrough except that she wasn't able to romance the surly elf guy. I don't think she did anything radical with the chantry, but I honestly don't remember much of the plot, let alone what I chose to do.

Can't wait to have a chance to finish my current DA:O playthrough and start on DA:I. Worst comes to worst I get it on my PS3 (bleh)

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