40 different endings: 4 different outcomes for each "major arc", so about 10 arcs each perhaps, or at least 5 arcs and fate of companions.Mr Ink 5000 said:
Dragon Age: Inquisition to Have 40 Different Endings - Update
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People are too pessimistic. I have a lot of hope for this game, everything about it sounds sweet so far!
It's gonna be on par with Witcher 3, I'm sure.
It's gonna be on par with Witcher 3, I'm sure.
People seem to be asking in-thread: is it feasible to do forty different endings? A very cynical attitude if ever I heard one.
My question would be: why STOP at forty different endings when you could do so much more?
Here's a few suggestions that BioWare might not have thought of.
- In a shocking twist, the main character turns out to be a very well-disguised kitten.
- Second twist ending: it was all a dream.
- Third twist ending: it turns out that the main character died in the tutorial, only to be replaced by a Thing.
- Not so much a twist as a "WTF moment": the final boss is killed by a random giant hailstone!
And, of course:
- Just when you think it's all over, frogs start raining from the sky for no damn reason whatsoever.
(And yes... every single one of those "endings" was taken from another game / movie. Including the frogs one.)
My question would be: why STOP at forty different endings when you could do so much more?
Here's a few suggestions that BioWare might not have thought of.
- In a shocking twist, the main character turns out to be a very well-disguised kitten.
- Second twist ending: it was all a dream.
- Third twist ending: it turns out that the main character died in the tutorial, only to be replaced by a Thing.
- Not so much a twist as a "WTF moment": the final boss is killed by a random giant hailstone!
And, of course:
- Just when you think it's all over, frogs start raining from the sky for no damn reason whatsoever.
(And yes... every single one of those "endings" was taken from another game / movie. Including the frogs one.)
They're going to use the entire color wheel to make up all of the different explosions to end this game!Cecilo said:
... In all honesty, I really hope BioWare has coded some meaningfully different endings in Inquisition. I really don't care if it's 40 unique endings or 4 - as long as it isn't the extremely disappointing ME3 endings or anywhere close to that, it should make everyone happy.
The game not sucking would be nice, too.
So 3 or 4 possible paths for ever faction. They could have done a few more. Hopefully the majority of them are not individual character arcs with them instead being the former.
That's not to say that wrapping up character arcs is unimportant, they should be done. What is needed is that all the memorable actors* on the stage are given closure. Anything less is unprofessional.
If EA among others wasn't in the habit of burning me with pre-orders of late I would pre-order this unfortunately I'm skeptical.
*If you feel that you could skip a voice actor for that character then consider them not memorable.
That's not to say that wrapping up character arcs is unimportant, they should be done. What is needed is that all the memorable actors* on the stage are given closure. Anything less is unprofessional.
If EA among others wasn't in the habit of burning me with pre-orders of late I would pre-order this unfortunately I'm skeptical.
*If you feel that you could skip a voice actor for that character then consider them not memorable.
Alright, the color joke isn't so much done to death as it is done to death, then reanimated by a deranged necromancer to an unholy semblance of life through precision application of yet more repetitive jokes. It was funny at first, a bit. Now it's just...after the first ten times, it's more of an eye-roller than the actual problem it's referencing.
Anyway, with regard to the actual topic, much of the non-ending stuff is very encouraging. Kinda wish they'd fess up to the fact that on disk DLC is just plain bad, not a misunderstanding, but some of the story detail sounds good. I'll probably end up enjoying it in the end. I have for most Bioware games, whatever their faults.
Anyway, with regard to the actual topic, much of the non-ending stuff is very encouraging. Kinda wish they'd fess up to the fact that on disk DLC is just plain bad, not a misunderstanding, but some of the story detail sounds good. I'll probably end up enjoying it in the end. I have for most Bioware games, whatever their faults.
Ok... So let me get this straight.
DA: O was about the blight and Ferelden. The Grey Wardens, big stuff. - I'd count 9 major endings. Well made ones.
DA 2 was about ... em... a city. Of Kirkwall. And political bullshit in it. One city. Story including one random fuck that runs away from a village that burns in DA: O. Endings - 2 major ones. Poorly made.
DA: I is supposed to have 40 MAJOR endings.
Pff. Ok bioware, right, I totally buy that.
I'll skip a section in which I write how DA2 is total and utter bullshit from start to finish and how irrevelvant events that would happen in one city somewhere in free marches would be to the ENTIRE rest of DA world.
Apparently, we have hundrends of possibilites just in the save import from DA2.
Where exactly?! Did anybody see them?
Are they under the bed? Screaming in anguish as Bioware makes them irrelevant? Or are they just afraid of me?
I know that it's a hype train, 40 endgins... MY ARSE. Recently Bioware cannot even make 3 endings properly, they can't get their own fucking codex right. And now I am supposed to belive in a story of 40 endings.
Well, shame they didn't mention flying elephants, I would know then that they were on something.
Is there any reason to believe this load of bullcrap? I do not think so.
Go home bioware, you're drunk.
DA: O was about the blight and Ferelden. The Grey Wardens, big stuff. - I'd count 9 major endings. Well made ones.
DA 2 was about ... em... a city. Of Kirkwall. And political bullshit in it. One city. Story including one random fuck that runs away from a village that burns in DA: O. Endings - 2 major ones. Poorly made.
DA: I is supposed to have 40 MAJOR endings.
Pff. Ok bioware, right, I totally buy that.
I'll skip a section in which I write how DA2 is total and utter bullshit from start to finish and how irrevelvant events that would happen in one city somewhere in free marches would be to the ENTIRE rest of DA world.
Apparently, we have hundrends of possibilites just in the save import from DA2.
Where exactly?! Did anybody see them?
Are they under the bed? Screaming in anguish as Bioware makes them irrelevant? Or are they just afraid of me?
I know that it's a hype train, 40 endgins... MY ARSE. Recently Bioware cannot even make 3 endings properly, they can't get their own fucking codex right. And now I am supposed to belive in a story of 40 endings.
Well, shame they didn't mention flying elephants, I would know then that they were on something.
Is there any reason to believe this load of bullcrap? I do not think so.
Go home bioware, you're drunk.
Remember that DA2 e ME3 both had great reviews that mostly failed to pinpoint any flaws in the games. The score is something the reviewer is free to give, but when the reviewer do not access the game properly it is very hard to make an informed decision.iseko said:
I Think I will wait my peer opinions on this one.
The problem with those games is that not only they have shaken my faith in Bioware, but also in the gaming media in general.
It was not something planned either, but I realized I simply stopped to read reviews and now I much prefer to frequent forums and watch more independent shows like youtubers or Jimquisition.
I appreciate the thought, but it still comes off as if BW is under the impression that they're taking the high road here and being generous or something. Uh, no. Giving us a complete game when we give you $60+ should be par for the course.Alex Co said:
Also, where the hell did this dialogue wheel shit come from? I know it was in DA2 as well, but my god, ever since ME1, Bioware is just in love with this dialogue wheel thing where you have to choose between two or three very vague prompts in conversation rather than having five or six options fully spelled out for you at the bottom of the page, like they had in DA:O, Kotor, etc. I don't give a shit about having a voiced PC, I want to have an actual variety of dialogue choices beyond "I'm evil" and "I'm a saint". Can't tell you how many times in the ME series that you had two choices that boiled down to that, or useless prompts on the wheel that ended up being completely different then what they seemed when your PC actually acts it out.
I know it seems like fans are impossible to please nowadays, but maybe that's because of the mile deep fucking hole they dug for themselves over the years.
Look at a paint catalogue or at a graphics program that lets you mix 256 shades each of red, blue and green.Mr Ink 5000 said:
It's probably just a text and graphic based ending. Flash up to 40 different combinations of them = easy peasy. Just have good, evil, neutral endings swapping in and out different locations and characters, ala the old Fallout endings
Don't expect 40 substantially different video-based endings 
Anything is better than ME3's ending.EclipseoftheDarkSun said:Look at a paint catalogue or at a graphics program that lets you mix 256 shades each of red, blue and green.Mr Ink 5000 said:
It's probably just a text and graphic based ending. Flash up to 40 different combinations of them = easy peasy. Just have good, evil, neutral endings swapping in and out different locations and characters, ala the old Fallout endings
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