/dag/+/bwg/ - Dragon Age & Bioware General #1026

*coughs*

Kalach-cha!

>>166966530
>Friendly reminder that you should preorder Mass Effect Andromeda!
I don't wanna!

https://twitter.com/davidgaider/status/825899556453879808

unsubtle drag

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Pillars is on sale
pic related we ded now

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>>166966530

What did you do to my last thread anons? I was absent for just 1 day.

SHAUN?!

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Dead thread anon.

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Meredith did nothing wrong.

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>>166973992
?

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are we doing this again this year?

>>166976718
It was like four people last year, I'm afraid to think of current /dag/'s waifufag turnout.

>>166976718
I'll do it if a few other people do

10

we won't last til valentines....

>>166980140
RIP in piss.

Where does it say in the game that the Warden has returned?
I need this ;_;

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>>166981687
Nowhere anon. He is still cuddling with the Architect in the deepest reaches of Thedas.

>>166981669
lol

>>166982048
>he

>>166982048
Some of you fags were saying he did.
Some things can't be joked with hurts.
Why did I grow attached to her ;_; more than edgelord Hawke and faggot inquisitor

>>166982592
People like the warden the most because he/she is the easiest one to self-insert into.

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>>166982592
You can always replay Origins anon.

I am also planning to, once I get done with the Witcher 3.

I'm just now playing Inquisition. Do I go knight enchanter mage or reaver warrior?

>>166983274
KE

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>>166970135
>even daddy realizes DA:I's world was shit
Why is Bioware so incompetent?

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>>166985029
CDPR is just exceptionally good.

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Ok, so I wasted my whole day downloading DA:I on my PS4 with all the addons and all the extra shit that came with the bundle I purchased last summer, and I'm finally ready to give it a try.

I bought the game at the same time I got Bloodborne and the Witcher 3, so I pretty much forgot about it existing right after getting it, and I'm here for advice. I know the game has some major flaws, which is to be expected from neo-Bioware, but I'm sure there are some cons in the game as well, so I'm willing to test it.

That said - what is the most fun/satisfying class to pick? Any general tips I should be absolutely aware of before playing the game? Are romance options the only difference between picking a male and a female character and how much does the race choice affect the gameplay and how much does it affect the story's progression in DA:I?

Thanks in advance for your time.

>>166976325

Bestsassin desu

>>166981687

Leliana mentions it in Trespasser when you romanced her in DA:O.

>>166986789
I'm literally retarded - I meant "pros" not "cons"

>>166986789
>what is the most fun/satisfying class to pick?
I liked archer rogue the best because there are several really OP builds for it, and the rogue companions are pretty lame anyway. Mages kind of lack impact because they're focused on crowd control this time, and warriors are just boring.
>Any general tips I should be absolutely aware of before playing the game?
Don't try to fully explore every area because there's absolutely nothing of note aside from some codex entries in most of the maps. Also, collecting the shards is pointless.
When you have enough influence to unlock perks, it's a good idea to pick the ones that unlock extra dialog choices first.
>Are romance options the only difference between picking a male and a female character
Yes.
>how much does the race choice affect the gameplay
Not at all, but the camera is a bit fucked up for the dwarves and the qunari.
>and how much does it affect the story's progression in DA:I?
Elves can understand some untranslated elvish lines in one scene, dwarves get some extra lines in one of the dlcs, and humans get unique responses a couple of times. It's very minor though.

>>166966530
who are the guys left of the accepting your death image

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>>166986789
Just play a female elf Rift-Mage and romance Solas to experience everything.

>>166986789
I had fun playing a mage

>>166986794
Well it's something to cling to

>>166982752
>Self insert
Fuck that shit lel

>>166983002
I tried to go back but it's too boring.

I have to stop replaying games, the backlog keeps growing.

>>166985029
He is grudgingly accepting the Witcher supremacy.

He wanted gay Geralt though, good thing he'll never be in CDPR
He could write better quests too

Grabbing Cullen's coat and wiping the floor with it.

>>166992971
Not the mantle. It's real fur and it'll get dirty.

>>166995862
Cullen crying as he crawls on the floor trying to pick up the bits of fur that got torn off. Cullen forgetting to wash off the tears and snot that cover his face and showing up in the war room looking all gross.

let it end

Don't worry, it's because of the weekend.

>>167002909
Dragon Age Tactics is going to save us.

>>167001358
Do you actually like this creature?

Can someone explain that theory where Kieran or whomever would be able to stop bald cunt in the future

t. newfag

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>>167007989

>>166981669
actual shepard angels?

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>>167010269

Never heard of that theory, Kieran doesn't have any special powers left after DA:I. He may be able to become a mage/apostate but Morrigan is more likely to be involved in fucking up Solas somehow because she will inherit Mythal.
Or the whole Solas deal will be delayed until the last game and you can choose an ending like in ME3, let him win (Color:Green) or keep the world as it is (Color: Blue) or optionally destroy the world entirely (Color: Red)

Whatever happens, at least Andromeda won't have the worst writing, voice acting, and animations in a game this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUpPYvELLB8&feature=youtu.be

>>167012169
Don't be so sure, what they have shown in the MEA trailer was, in their opinion, the scene that was supposed to represent how good the game looks.

>>167012103
I want to FUCK that Kieran.

>>167012169
The black guy looks better than Liam to be honest.

>>167013026
I wonder if Liam will also sound white

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>Sleep and wake up
>/dag/ is still dead

Anon..

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>thread is going to die with less than 100 posts in it
A fitting end for /dag/. See you in hell, losers.

Wait!

>>167022564
WHAT?

https://twitter.com/davidgaider/status/826130252422340608

daddy...

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Only 16 anons since yesterday..

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i don't think i've seen this general be THIS dead.

wow

>>167026770
4 of the IPs are mine

>>167028012
Four? Shitposting on the go?
To be fair, I don't think I've posted in this one yet.

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>>167028865
I also have 2 unique IPs in this thread.

Even shitposting would be blessing at this point. Everyone has migrated to /meg/ anon..

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looks like this general will die again, better end with a picture of a cute girl

>>167031796
Cute!

>>167029769
They may have migrated there, but you can talk about all of one game series there, whereas here you can talk about several.
I was already there to see their lengthy conversation about asexuality/aromance, which I honest to christ never thought would happen there of all places.

>>167033940
I unironically thought I was asexual for most of my adolescence

>>167034379
It's not like it makes a difference right

>>167034379
So did I, but I also have abysmal testosterone levels.
Injections are packed in oil and hurt like a motherfucker, in case you're curious.

>>167034954
No, not really, but people are weird like that

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Get out of page 10 anon..

playan pillars, should I kill Nyfre ?

shes supposed to have killed babies and I'm supposed to be a good guy

>>167038976
I don't know what any of that means!

>>167038976
Destroy her, anon.

Wakey wakey.

http://fraghero.com/rumor-fallout-new-vegas-2-details-leaked-reveal-planned/

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>>166985029
Because of two reasons:
First, their fundamental approach to most systems is either lazy or incompetent.
Second, EA dictates largely how they want resources to be allocated so they told them to create Skyrim/Witcher3 open-world for competition and they did and everyone hated it.

At least DA2's areas didnt pretend to be larger than they needed to be. DAI's open world contributes nothing from a gameplay standpoint. There are no attacks or hidden resources or aspects enough to justify the sprawling size of the maps. The interesting bits could honestly just have been put much closer to each other or made use of the larger spaces more interestingly.

Like MGSV uses open world to give tactical options but sneaking up on enemies as anything that isnt a thief is near impossible and yields minimum aid. Enemies notice you even if you're coming up from a ridge that theyre not looking at.

All the additions and streamlining to DAI came at no tangible benefit so it was an overall downgrade in every way except in terms of map size and graphics.

Post smug faces if you want me make pessimistic predictions about Andromeda. Respond to this post with anything else if you want to see me rant about Tyranny and Dragon Commander. Post smug faces if you want me to

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So I pressed my monitor screen hard and broke it. There are hundreds of rainbow lines and grey liquid all over the screen.

Which resolution should I upgrade to? My current broken monitor is 20 inch, 1600x900. My gpu is a 970.

>>167046515
You pressed it.. and broke it?
What compelled you to do such a thing?

>>167047005
There was one horizontal white line appearing on the bottom of my monitor's screen for months. Pressing on the screen sometimes made it flicker and disappear.

Today I pressed it too hard and now there are 100s of vertical-horizontal rainbow lines all over the screen. And some grey patches of dead pixels where I pressed the screen. I fucked up, it was just a thin white line before.

>>167046515
1920x1080
t. have a 970

>>167047005
Trying to touch waifu?

>>167047553
I googled and found out that 1920x1080 resolution is for 21.5 inch, 22 inch and 23 inch monitors. What is this sorcery?

>>167048069
I'm not an expert on monitors, but I'm guessing that the 23 inch will be less crisp than the 21.5 inch. Probably a small trade-off compared to the extra size

Can your AI controlled party members use all their abilities in Inquisition? Was wondering if they could take advantage of that even if the player controlled character only gets the 8.

>>167048667
They can only use the ones on the diamond interface.
So no, I'd say

>>167048951
Weird, could have sworn i've seen Varric using the traps i didnt map for him. Still that sucks if true, a mage could really take advantage of all the spells.

>>167045116
I believe it!

It's kind of weird how DAI obviously has bigger stakes in it and yet i feel like the celebration at the end of the game pales in comparison to the one Origins had. I think it's mainly in how many options you had in the dialogue with your companions.

>>167052351
DAI didn't really have very good build in my opinion. I wouldn't say the final battle was much more climactic than any of the other major set pieces like the attack on haven or the warden shit. Basically the game peaked at the end of haven and while it hit that level again once or twice, it never surpassed it. At least in my opinion.

Also I feel like the blight felt more threatening, and it really seems like it's a desperate fight at the end. Whereas at the end of DAI, it's Corypheus who's desperate, not you. You've destroyed most of his army, and stopped him from enacting all of his plans by the end of the game. It's his last desperate attempt to win.

>>167053901
Through out DAO it feels like the threat is just getting bigger and you're rushing against time. You're bringing together what little you can in an effort to not even really stop it but just to do something.

In DAI the threat gets smaller and smaller and by the end you're in the position of power, not Cory. He's got no army, his right hand man is dead, his demons are gone, his wardens are gone. All he's got is the little bit of Templars/Venatori that are still kicking about. Meanwhile by the end of the game you basically control Ferelden, and Orlais, and have most nations begging to suck your holy cock. You have near unlimited resources. The only thing that kinda puts the final battle in his favor is the arbitrary "Oh yeah you know that army you had? It's not here for some reason lol.". Which isn't a particularly interesting story point.

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/dag/ my monitor is fading and so are you..

>>167045421
Even if ME:A managed to avoid all of DA:I's problems, it would probably still be the same kind of lame "humanity fuck yeah xD" wish fulfillment space-fantasy as ME2-3.

>>167053901
>>167054146
All good points. Haven was probably the high point for me and it was riding off the just as good moment with the Templars and Therin's Redoubt. It's cool and all that you're basically rising to power as the strongest organization in Thedas but it doesnt capture that desperate struggle against impossible odds that the Blight managed to accomplish.

>>167054569

>/dag/ in rainbow colors
You are the only one seeing the real /dag/

Dorian impregnating FTM Lavellan.........

>>167057547
Dorian dumping FTM Lavellan to marry papa Halward......

>>167057735
Dorianne magically impregnating herself with Halward's rightful heir......

>>167057547
Dorian impregnating male Lavellan with blood magic...?

Magical pregnancies for everyone!

except Miranda

>Creepy song is creepy
I knew it, they couldnt resist having her spout memes.

memes!

>>167061668
jack is NOT for wlw

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>>167061737
jack IS a wlw

>>167061837
what is wrong with her face

>>167061890
why do you think there's something wrong with a woman of color's face...

Is Inquisition worth playing for shits and giggles now that it isn't full priced? My expectations for it are about as low as they could possibly be, but is there any enjoyment to be had with it or should I not waste my time?

Shepard didn’t mind that he no longer came when they had sex. Jack would climb on top of him and ride his pubis, grinding herself on Shepard until she spasmed and fell on top of him, exhausted and mumbling about love. He liked the way it got her excited and after she left to have fun with Jacob, later he would take care of himself. He really just wanted to feel the power of her body on top of his, to know that he was still exciting to her. Besides, what are orgasms and infidelity when compared to true love?

>>167062327
Jack canonically hates nigs

>>167062324
It's a pretty good game, moreso if you like Dragon Age

>>167062413
Her hatred only makes her more horny. The only way she can pretend to be turned on by Shepard is by making him talk in Ebonics.

>>167062564
Is it really? I fell out of the loop with it after all the initial controversy and forgot all about it so I honestly don't know too much about it. Most opinions/reviews I've seen of it said it was kinda meh though. I guess it can't be as bad as DA2 though...

>>167062413
Source?

>>167062826
Anon's thicc hairy butt

>>167062819
It's really not that bad. Some perplexing and irritating design decisions but still good overall. I got the GOTY edition on sale for 12 bucks so definitely worth it i think.

>>167062413
Jack is canonically a degenerate dumpster slut who would suck dicks for cheeseburgers.

>>167063421
She would suck dicks for no reason at all.

daddy?

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>>167065131

>>167065314
not muh daddy

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Finally got my new monitor. I will miss my 1600x900 screenshots.

/dag/ looks wider but smaller now.

>>167066192
Set the game to 1600x900 then

>the next Hunie game won't be out until 2018
Fucking kill me.

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>Oh yeah Calliope Maeve has hit the world. Currently wearing a onesie that says "Bard in Training."
Our queen is officially a MILF.

>>167067876
do her ears droop when she's sad

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>>167067961
Elf ears are only erect when they're aroused.

>>167067876
What kinda name is that?

>>167068807
The kind that gets you bullied.

>>167070191

Being related to Felicia Day is reason enough to get bullied already. Poor girl... or guy, not sure what that name stands for really...

>Hey anon, you coming?
>Nah man I have to wait until some dead thread on 4chan is on page 10 to post felicia day

>>167076776
AHHHH~

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>>167076776

Is that...

>>167061837
Oh jesus. It looks like the malformed version of Michelle Obama.

>>167067876
>our queen
No.
However, those baby toes are admittedly precious.

>>167076776
Oh. I didn't realize her smile was so.... gummy.
Is she missing a tooth?

>>167076776
H-huggles

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>tfw running out of tallispics

>>167090675
thank the maker

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i've never tought i'd see a tallisfag

i don't get it, shes an elf and looks cute sure, but shes a shit character

>>167076776
c-colefriend...?

>>167093482
Talis is neutral ground. It's impossible to offend anyone by posting her because nobody actually cares about her.

>>167093482
>looks cute
How about no.

>>167054584
ME2-3 had such a weird relationship with Humanity.
Like, we're supposed to think that all the species in the galaxy aren't more or less special than us, especially cause Cerberus is pro-human and they're the bad guys.
At the same time, the Reapers themselves say we've got the most genetic variance within our race among the main species in the galaxy.

So we've got a social message to make us think that Cerberus is space-Breitbart but then we've got to make you feel particularly pissed off at the baby-reaper so that the ending fight is more poignant.

Bioware doesn't know how to write thematically or scenically.
>>167063007
It's a bad game, an okay sequel

>>167095027
>the qunari looks better in live action than the elf

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help me
i cant make the Increase Inventory mod work nor edit my save game.

>>167096969
As a game it's not even bad.

>>167093574
Yeah, with a shark tooth. I remember her being obsessed with sharks. I like cats and dogs myself.

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>>167095709
all femelves are cute anon

>>167096969
>Cerberus is pro-human and they're the bad guys
The writers were clearly trying to manipulate the player into thinking that Cerberus are actually cool and rebellious instead of ruthless and corrupt by focusing on characters like Miranda and TIM in ME2. However, this sort of blatant railroading into a shallow celebration of mediocrity without giving the player a chance to challenge it (humans don't really excel at anything, but it's ok because they're loud and determined to make an impression) can be excused since the part of bioware that's responsible for the visuals didn't even bother making one than two models for every non-human race that's not the asari.

>>167097456
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BhqoSajnPI

hi

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Good Morning page 10 dead /dag/.

>>167100430
Hello anon.

>http://blog.bioware.com/2017/01/31/a-note-about-our-new-ip/
seems like they're making Destiny

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>>167104289
>we are creating a unique IP that will bring players together in exciting new ways
>In 2012, we began crafting a new universe full of new characters, stories, and gameplay. Our ambition is simple: Draw upon 20+ years of development knowledge and lessons to create something fun and new for you to enjoy with your friends.

So they are delaying DA4 for some random mmorpg/multiplayer game that no one cares about..wow anon.

>>167105124
>Delayed
Heh, it's not even confirmed

>>167105124
I still don't understand the risk taking involved with wanting to put focus on a new project that has zero garnered interest and no previous success.
Just work with what you know.

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>>167107490

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNMQVcyowss
>Square Enix originally approached Obsidian to do Deus Ex Human revolution 2

>>167108593
Maybe if they hadn't tried to compete with Overwatch it wouldn't have been such a failure. They probably straight up murdered the intern who made that tweet.

>>167110520
I mean

Blizzard timed their Overwatch open beta to start on the day of Battleborn's release, and Battleborn was announced first, so I don't know how much of that was on Gearbox

still a mediocre game and a 6 month delay wouldn't have fixed its core issues

>>167110520
It was pretty much just a case of supremely bad timing. It's not like they intended for them to compete.

>>167097624
That's a good point.
Ye, they played Cerberus up as this sort of rogue faction that 'does what they need to' but given that every renegade option in the game favors them it's obvious how the designers intended for them to fall on the morality spectrum.
>>167097160
>a combat system that, coding issues aside, has an identity crisis over whether its action or tactical, trying to be both and failing at both.
>Base building mechanics that amount to a sum total of nothing
>Wartable missions that get you more generally useless resources or POWER
>POWER which is only ever used to unlock new maps
>Final fight comes in hot and without much build up.

It's pretty bad compared even to something like Dragon Commander.

>>167115291
All of that stuff just points to it being more average than outright bad.

>>167115285
Bad timing and being an inferior game.
Let me be clear: Blizzard has a pretty large audience but Borderlands was a bigger mainstream hit.

But Overwatch's aesthetic was cleaner and more appealing where Battleborn's was kaleidoscopic (especially concerning attack sfx). Battleborn had a suite of level-up mechanics where Overwatch had every character kit be static and therefore knowable in every match.

>>167110289
Im surprised most devs don't jsut go to the Screenwriters guild or Obsidian for scripts at this point

>>167115631
It's more complicated than that.

>>167115397
Not really. Base building even in shit like Fallout 4 actually gives mechanical benefits.
Combat is the cornerstone of most games and even something average like Amalur has pretty pleasant combat. DAI's combat has three issues:
>Actual coding for attacks isn't consistent, hitboxes are often spotty and movement and combat feel distinctly separate causing a lot of stop-go and breaking momentum
>This makes sense from a tactical perspective but the combat is also too simple to allow for strategies or gambits to be employed, making the tactical camera useless.
>The action of the action-combat itself lacks basic features like combos or consistently high-damage dealing attacks/finishers. ME circumvents this issue with ally-quickcall but DAI party members either use attacks at exactly the wrong moment or negate the set-ups for finishers, meaning you have to build a character with able to set up and finish their own combos, making effective combat repetitive

If Dragon Commander is beating you, then you're below average.

>>167116137
Combat is important, like gameplay in any game of course, but it's not like people ever played any Bioware games for that. A game isnt just its mechanics as evidenced by how this company manages to stay around even after being swallowed up by EA.

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>>167116446
But that's the issue, where combat was serviceable in DAO and DA2, it's actually unfun in DAI.
The only thing Inquisition tangibly added was open worlds but spaces are not content in of themselves. They take time and money to design but their return is only modest (at best) on their own.

Compare that to what DAI took away from both DAO and DA2: okay combat, companion tactical options, various forms of befriending the same characters.

My issue with DAI isn't just its combat but how it keeps all the story trappings of what was advertised (building a large paramilitary force and inquiring into the goings ons of a chaotic world).

Most of the faction-building is null and void compared to what was advertised earlier and it wasn't just downgraded but effectively removed altogether. The story keeps acting like you're having an intent and important hand in the Inquisition's design but your character is basically a figurehead. It breaks the story immersion.

The inquiring is what gives me a lot of pause too since most of it is done through the wartable, or as I call it, "Bioware has more writers than programmers." The Wartable is flavor-text: the game. It is giant and subtle interactions with the larger world reduced to three alternate paths with negligibly different consequences and no larger pay off.

I mean, even with how it was built it was done in the laziest way possible: a single resource "Power" and sometimes crafting materials.

I could design a better system BASED off of theirs:
>Three resources: intrigue, clout and forces. These can be allocated and acquired in various ways.
>New operations actually requiring an adjustment of resources that have different effects
>Example: You need to clear out the Red Templars from a foothold in the Desert
>You can direct your forces there enmasse, and there will be a Vanguard Forces cost, a Maitenance Forces Cost and an Infrastructure Forces Cost.

>>167118196
>Alternately, you can allocate your maintenance cost to Rivaini traders and pirates using Clout which will produce a different rippling effect as it alters an underlying economics system
>Or you can use your intrigue resource to supplant dissenters among the Red Templar ranks, making the Vanguard Forces cost lower.

>Operations have flags on top of value changes to invisible political and economic and religious systems that can result in entirely different geopolitical situations in the end-game

Best love interest for a female elven mage supporting their freedom who is also a bit of a jerk?

>>167121334
Solas.

>>167121421
I thought he wouldnt take too kindly to someone who isnt a goody goody? But i dont know for sure, he definitely has his angry moments to balance out his quiet sage-like dialogue but that all comes back to being nice to the spirits and everyone.

>>167121568
He won't care if you're not a goody goody.

He's the best romance for female elven mages regardless of their attitude

>>167121758
I'll probably give that a go then, i was thinking of Cullen since he had that whole mage phobia for a while but that can probably be reserved for a human or qunari route.

>>167122036
Cullen works best with a mage Trevelyan imo

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>>167122229
Ye,
Female elves for Solas
Human mage females for Cullen
Qunari mages for Cass.
Rogues in general for Sera
Human Warrior/Noble for Josie
Dwarf men for no one, no one is worthy. Not for Varric, not for a Dwarf Male PC.

>>167123026
Why do people have a hard-on for qunari/Cass pairings?

>>167123324
Big DarkGrey Cock
But it's mainly the dynamic in their religions and professions
Andraste vs Qun, Mage Hunter vs Slave Mage

big dorf dick or big qun qock?

>>167124405
Moderate human peenie.

>2017 ME:A
>2018 new online game
>2019 DA:4
how will i survive?

>>167122229
>>167123026
Is there any path that's good for a dwarf? Dwarf royal was probably the best origin story and i have a feeling that they wont have much to do in this game since you dont get to go to Orzamaar or anything.

>>167125364
There's a whole dlc dedicated to Dorf lore. Trespasser even goes into a little.

>>167125364
>>167125605
Inquisition touches on Dwarves a bit in the optional maps you can explore.

Dwarves are generally treated in classic Tolkien fashion in Inquisition though: Subterranean Jews.

Being a Carta guy is kinda cool but I wish we got to do more but that's on top of my complaints of the whole game

Best spec is Templar for Dwarves. Stack that anti-magic potency

>>167125298
Tyranny and Tides of Numenara

Alpha Protocol is solid too imo

>>167124765
better than elf at least

>>167126016
literally who: the games.

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>>167126543
Tyrannny: /pol/ meets Bronze Age high fantasy in a world where you play a paramilitary legal clerk in service to an evil overlord to judge proceedings in the final conquered territory, written by Obsidian

Numenara is a cRPG with a million lines of written content and an Eldritch styling. Very old school.

Alpha Protocol is a game written and designed by Obsidian and coded by Sega, it's effectively a sort of Mass Effect but themed after spy and espionage fiction rather than Star Trek

>>167127245
I personally recommend Tyranny. It's probably the best RPG I've played this decade in terms of writing, concept and gameplay. It's short but the role playing is strong and the endings and routes are pretty diverse.

I'm going to marry Steven Heck!

>>167127557
I'm going to marry the German milf!
I mean it's literally best boy and best girl.

>final act
>just got betrayed by that one girl while confronting the final guy
>see Steve heck in background, am convinced it's a glitch
>he's sneaking up on these guys, oh god, keep talking
>*teleports behind them* don't call me steve

It's criminal that Alpha Protocol didn't get a sequel

>>167125298
Are you just saying 2019 or have they said it?

Christ, I can't even remember my last Alpha Protocol playthrough

>>167131423
Officially Dragon Age 4 dies not exists.

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>http://www.polygon.com/2017/1/31/14461222/new-bioware-game-release-date
>new IP March 2018
>Dragon Age Inquisition came out 2.1 years ago.
>Dragon Age 4, 2019 Sept-Dec

Just 2.8 more years, hold me anons..

>>167132307
>action game
They're off their fucking nut

>>167132656
Ye. It implies there's anyone at Bioware who knows how to design an action game well.

DA2 was serviceable but DAI was supposed to be their upgrade to that in some ways and they failed.

Does EA own any studios that produce action games?

>>167123026
Whos good for Thom?

>>167132656
It's also multiplayer and futuristic. *cough* Destiny 2.0 *cough*

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>>167133250
Female Dorfs.
It's the beard
>>167132307
Pick up Unreal or Unity and make your own game anon!

>>167133353
>Female dorfs
that's illegal!

>>167133479
Not if you're playing one. Then it's EMPOWERING.

Everyone gets a waifu/husbando unless you're a male dorf, in which case you're too pure and sensible for fricking in times of wer

>>167133250
the guillotine

>>167133250
Me!

>>167133852
i love it, bae!

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>>167133250
Anon..he canonically likes Sera

>>167076776
oh no.....

>>167134272
and Josie!

can't wait to play Bioware's new IP with my fellow /dag/nas...!

Let's all play ME:A's MP together! Just like we did with DA:I's... oh wait...

>>167134272
>>167134807

A man of the finest shit taste

Could electroshock therapy fix the Sera?

>>167102869
>>167105124
Why is he so cute? ;_;

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>>167136397
Josephine is cute

>>167136809
maybe fix her inability to achieve an orgasm

>>167137536
Not as cute as you

>>167137536
cuter than lillyanna at least

my ass

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>Doing Trespassing
>Something goes wrong, of course, need to pass through an Eluvian in the crossroads
>"I could stop here for a break, i'm sure what's on the other side cant be that interesting"
>Walk through it
>Mfw

Gave me that same feeling i got at the end of the Descent.

Biofan....... BIOFAN.......!!!!

>>167122229
Is there any special dialogue in the middle of all that spaghetti?

>>167139304
>>167102869
I'm literally getting hauled to the insane asylum right now because of my undying love of BioFan.

>>167140918
have fun sweaty

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>>167140918
Who is that mysterious person called BioFan?

>>167141421
e celeb

Alistair's smegma...

Tearing off Garrus' arms and legs, sticking him with a spear and roasting him.

oh oh oh..... yes!!

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Who'll be the 40th anon..

Widowmaker...

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>"It’s an action-adventure, not RPG”
No surprise that Gaider fucked off lmao

>>167132307
>>167125298

When DA4 is not even confirmed, how much serious work could they have done on it yet other than story and character design preparations? 2019 seems a bit early.

>>167146808
>>167132307
>>167125298
You sorry fags can't play anything else?

There are other developers out there with equally good and way better games than Bioware.

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>>167147907

Maybe I play other games all the time but usually don't talk about them here because this is /bwg/?

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>>167105124
>So they are delaying DA4 for some random mmorpg/multiplayer game that no one cares about

We don't know that. They never even said that. For all we know now, given all their tweets and several unofficial claims to be working on something big for DA, they might as well be working on DA4 too.

I mean, a company is supposed to be able to work on multiple projects and the guys working on the new IP aren't the same as the ones working on DA. Two years and a half have passed, they had to focus the hype on Andromeda and that game is finally almost out: I think they will reveal something at this E3, even with a satisfying date release.

EA knows better than leaving fans of a series whose last game literally ended with a cliffhanger wait too long, it kills the hype and less hype = less money.

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>>167147907
I got into Bioware games just 5 months ago anon. And I do play other games..

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>>167132307
>EA CEO Andrew Wilson teased details about the game, which is being worked on by members of the Mass Effect franchise.
>by members of the Mass Effect franchise

It won't influence the development of DA4 at all, then. Now that they are finished with Andromeda, the ME team can focus on this new IP only, while the members of DA who helped them with Andromeda will go back to their original team and continue the work on DA4. It's evident they have been making something in the past two years, that cannot be denied. Stop panicking.

>>167148420
Yes but it will still take so crazy long that all my /dag/ friends will be gone when it comes out....

>>167148420
Big companies never work on two games simultaneously. They share developers between teams. Take Bethesda for example.

>>167146623
Genji...

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Good night anons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6rTELdJEbU

>>167150707
>that bloom
Thanks for raping my retinas.

>http://blog.bioware.com/2017/01/31/mass-effect-andromeda-character-kits/
>muscular black guy has a flat ass
>skinny white girl's ass cannot be contained by her "armor"
Bioware...

>>167151473
>fat milf ass
Hnngh. I still hate her stupid lumpy face and ugly hair, but that body is perfect for degradation and humiliation.

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Starting to miss Seragh.

>>167151845
She looks like ME3 Ashley to me

>>167151915
dead inside?

>>167152026
And slightly deformed

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>>167152026
Why are their eyes so devoid of life?

>>167149940
Haha, that magic markered on templar symbol.

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Why do people even want DA4 at this point when looking at BioWare's work in the last years?

>>167149940
>that baggy, overly long chain mail
biowhy

>>167152183
It looks like there's no detail in the iris, the eyes lacking expression.
>>167152185
The armor looks kinda haphazardly on his shoulders. I guess that's going to happen when you're wearing painted foam.
>>167152337
If they fuck up with DA4, I think I'll wash my hands of the series.

>>167152403
Manlets can't even LARP right.

>>167148796
>Big companies never work on two games simultaneously.

They worked on Andromeda and Inquisition at the same time. Inquisition was released sooner, then some of its devs went to help with Andromeda to speed up the development. At the same time, they worked on the new IP too (the post on their blog says "since 2012", meaning back when they were working on Andromeda and Inquisition too).

So now that Andromeda is ready, the ME guys will completely focus on the new IP, while the DA guys they borrowed will go back to DA. Laidlaw himself confirmed this in that weird interview from months ago.

>>167152337
I just want them to finish what they started.

>>167154274
I like how they made her plain Jane tits bigger.

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>You will never get Tallis in her elven undies

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>>167160323
>>167159171
>>167157342
God stop. I hate looking at this chin-less cuntrag.

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>>167160323
Thank god.

Ohhh /dag/. I pulled up whatI thought was this thread and grew deeply fucking concerned after seeing pic related.

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>>167161279

>60x125

>>167161279
Too small.

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>>167160701
she definetly wore it better

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>>167161615
>>167161625
I saved the thumbnail. Whoops.

>>167161615
Also, this is really cute.

>>167162039
.....Solas?

>>167162039
Cory?

>BW's priorities are ME > New literal who IP > Shit > DA
It's time for our suicide pact

>>167162496
>>167164171
Nope. Sorry for the disappointment.
>>167165532
I'm upset about this too, but I just bought a multicooker so this suicide pact shit's gonna have to wait.

>>167166000
Cooking our waifus to cement the suicide pact?

>>167166408
Maybe just symbolically cooking them.

>>167177290
All of the figures have been up for order on this.

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>ywn rest your head on this

>>167179686
Did Cora get some of those booty lifting Spanx with ass armor built in?

>>167181670
It's just a fat milf ass. If she even is a MILF, saw no data on her age yet. She could just look weird.

>>167181826
That tuchus is deflated as fuck, son. I was making a joke because it looks like those butt pads.

>>167179686
*pssshhhhhhh*

het

>>167184619
Дa

>>167179686
*BRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP*
Ryder, I... I didn't mean to--
*BRRRRRROAAAWWWP*

>>167188612
This meme makes me mad and I have no idea why.

>>167189061
Because it reminds you of the fact that girls can fart

daily reminder that Blood Wound is CANCER

>>167151473
>male LI wears ugly loose, baggy clothing and no ass/bulge
>female LI wears skintight latex and has big tit/butt
>still give her an ugly face and bad hair
p-progressive....

>>167189641
I assumed it was belching.
Accidentally farting in front of people is hilariously awkward. Hilarious enough to cause a domino effect of chain laughter and poots.
>>167192148
>big tit
They're not very large, but maybe it's the armor and they're being crushed in there like canned tomatoes waiting to be freed and make a mess.

>>167194083
>Hilarious enough to cause a domino effect of chain laughter and poots
>like canned tomatoes waiting to be freed and make a mess.
These are some bizarre mental images

>>167194083
poking Cora's tit with a pin a watching the silicone spill out.....

>>167176365
What she even do now?

Does Mass Effect take place 1000's of years in the future from Dragon Age?

>>167192148
You can't play as a white male. Now that's progressive

>>167198826

The other way around.

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Good mo-afternoon anons.

>>167198826
Yes.

>>167199457
>>167199481

No wonder /meg/ wants nothing to do with this general

>>167199695

The other way around.

>>167199695
Because you didn't get an answer that met your preferences?

>have one healer
>switch to a healer so we have two
>our first healer switches to a sniper
why do I even try

Whoops! Wrong thread!

>>167090675
Literally the worst character in DA and that is saying quite a bit considering Fenris exists

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>>167201694
>>167201896
...get out

>>167204984
hehehe... nope!

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is she wearing a fucking diaper what the fuck

>>167205836
Cora's! Wet! Full! Diaper!

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>>167090675
>>167204841
Holy shit, I must not have paid very close attention to that picture. Left inage looks like an evil ventriloquist dummy.
>>167205836
>dem Depends
Must be bladder leakage. Would have thought that was an easily fixed issue so far into technology.

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>>167201694
Overwatch? Ana? Anon.

>>167207636
I was Ana

Anarietta...

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpz0ZwWnRqc
>Bioware will NEVER put tit, pec, and dick sliders in their games