Dragon Age 3
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As the person with the first response pointed out: pretty sure you are going to be playing as an all new protagonist. However the endings to both Origins and DA2 do imply that both The Warden and Hawke will show up in some way or another in DA 2.Aarowbeatsdragon said:
Considering the events of DA2, I'd imagine the story is going to take place some time during a civil war between the mages and templars...and seeing as how Hawke was a central figure in the events that led to that said civil war, I'd imagine that means that Hawke, in particular, should have a big role in DA3.
On an interesting note, one of the biggest complaints about DA2 is "IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH DA:O!!!!!
" to which I disagree and have actually written a defense towards (search "About Dragon Age II's story..." on the site), it's looking more and more like the events of DA:0 will have nothing to do with the events of the rest of the story. This is a point that I'll actually disagree with since I'm one of the few that see how the events of DA:O impact DA:2 beyond a couple cameos here and there and having the words "Dragon Age" in the title. Just saying I can already hear the haters screaming about how the entire DA series is a bunch of unconnected crap.
Yes, but it's because of the non-romance relationship that Shepard and Garrus have that the relationship is so good. If Garrus wasn't so well characterized as Sheps bro, it just would've been awkward.Sp3ratus said:
I think that the "snarky" personality option in DA2 stands out as a particularly terrible writing choice even in the sea of terrible writing choices that game was. The Dragon Age team is painfully unfunny at the best of times, and they just don't have enough jokes to sustain a third of the dialogue choices being attempts at humor.Wenseph said:
I thought DA2 had a better combat mechanic except for the bullshit waves of enemies from no-where that made tactics a joke since you were ALWAYS about to be flanked. I preferred Origins' epic journey to 2's one city, and Origins ending was better. I kind of suspect 2 was supposed to seque into the cancelled expansion instead of stand on it's own, but now we'll never know.
My favorite combat system in an RPG remains Jade Empire, so moving even more towards that than DA2 did is great in my book.
My favorite combat system in an RPG remains Jade Empire, so moving even more towards that than DA2 did is great in my book.
Well, colour me stupid then. Thanks for the correction, I thought it was quite a weird shift from what DA looks like now.Blargh McBlargh said:
I'll concede to that. Also, building his character up through 3 games did help, rather than just having one or two as most others.wintercoat said:
Well for DA 3 your probably going to at least start in Orlais. Its where Bodhan and Sandal were heading. If Alistar was made King there is a scene in DA 2 where he talks about how some Orlaisains want there old territory back. My guess since the DA 2 expansion was supposed to be called the Exalted Marches is that the quinari have attacked in force. Since Orlais is the religious center of Thedas and home to where ever Divine Justine happens to sit, I'm guessing that the March would of started there, much like our Crusades started in Italy. The Quinari would see this as the perfect time to strike at the heart of "inferior" culture. The game would open with the Divine, Empress, and possibly Leliana trying to escape the city. This would give them a chance to re-introduce the ability to play as different races. You just start as some shmuck who gets caught up in it. A little cliche but hey, it works.
I would also like to see some new teammates, especially a tevinter magister. Through the first two games we have been told they were evil and responsible for the darkspawn, but the DA 2 DLC, i cant think of whats its called right now, cast doubt on this because Cor-whatever the hell his name is says that the city was already black when the mages got there. You could make this interesting too. This magister could be just starting out and ready to make it in Tevinter and your actions and convo's could sway him to use Blood magic or stay with more accepted practices. A summon heavy Demon tree of magic would also be pretty cool.
Anyway just some thoughts and ideas, but when it comes time for DA 3 i know i will be there at midnite. lol
I would also like to see some new teammates, especially a tevinter magister. Through the first two games we have been told they were evil and responsible for the darkspawn, but the DA 2 DLC, i cant think of whats its called right now, cast doubt on this because Cor-whatever the hell his name is says that the city was already black when the mages got there. You could make this interesting too. This magister could be just starting out and ready to make it in Tevinter and your actions and convo's could sway him to use Blood magic or stay with more accepted practices. A summon heavy Demon tree of magic would also be pretty cool.
Anyway just some thoughts and ideas, but when it comes time for DA 3 i know i will be there at midnite. lol
And Varric in DA2, easily the best thing out of that game.endtherapture said:
I'd like DA2 combat mechanics with the enemies in DA:O. And the writing to continue throughout the whole game, and not just give up at act 3. I really liked DA2 (nowhere near as much as DA:O, but still, good game) up until act 3.
Also, the game will be in the frostbite 2 engine. Bioware, gief screenshots please, I wish to be aroused by visuals again.
^This. Origins had it right, the only thing I'd take out of DA2 was the viability of Warriors/Rogues for player characters (they were ridiculously underpowered in Origins, though Awakening did do a decent job on catching them up later) and taking out the ability to just take a group full of mages and AoE the shit out of everything (which is fun for a while, but gets old later). Really though, I'd be happy with a true sequel to Origins with just a new story.endtherapture said:
(To the quoted's second paragraph, I technically agree, but this is BioWare, that ain't happening, they can't even do/pull off exploration in an MMO, it's just not their thing)
I just hope they make the storyline a bit more sensible than 2 and let the game be challenging. I loved origins whereas DA2 was kind of the bad side of meh.
Ninja'd!badreaper74 said:
All roads lead to Orlais for the sequel, which to me just feels like more padding. Take the game to Tevinter FFS, thats where everyone wants to go. Or hey, here's a wild idea, how about having both? How about being able to play as both the Warden AND Hawke, in two seperate storylines, that come together in some kind of epic conflict. On one side you've got the warden, on the other, Hawke. So you have to play both characters in the finale. No matter what happens, you will both win, and lose. Biware cover all the bases just to play it safe to avoid the kind of fan rage that ME3 caused, everybody wins!
You don't have to play the multiplayer to get the best possible ending. If you disconnect from the internet, your Galactic Readiness doesn't go down daily. That is what I read on the wiki at least, that might be different now.Whitbane said:
You don't need multiplayer for the best ending. There wasn't even any reason to build up resources you still got a shit ending.Whitbane said:
I will buy it because wether it will be based off of da2 or da
it will be fine to me. After replaying da2 I found I enjoyed it but not as much as da.
Just put in characters that don't make me want to kill them. And make it so using blood magic actually has fucking consequences. I hate everything about blood magic in these games and am severely pissed off about how the game seems to not even care if I am one.
how about this.
make a game where i don't look back on it and go 'why did i bother?'. seirusly, in hind sight :/ i can't really think of anything really good about DA:O
make a game where i don't look back on it and go 'why did i bother?'. seirusly, in hind sight :/ i can't really think of anything really good about DA:O