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Thanks for the info, I didn’t know about the devs saying that. It makes a lot of sense though.
Dread wolf sounds like it’s going to be lit, I’ve always felt like rebellions against magic users are under explored in fantasy. Like, if some people can harness the power of creation it would make sense for class divisions t o split along those lines.
Yeah honestly its probably a reaction to dragon age 2. Its a game about the templar mage conflict and if you play a mage you spend the whole time running around in wizard robes and a magic staff talking to templars telling you to report any suspicious people. You can also do blood magic with a party consisting of an active templar, an andrastian choir boy, and the captain of the guard. It's very B movie funny.
Tevinter is going to be a big part of it and their concept art for it looks incredible! I'm really excited for those stories. I love killing slavers.
My expectations are so high for it. Like, EA has given them such a long leash and the DLC that came out for inquisition was so good. It seems like they've been given what they need to make something really great. According to some leaks they are making big changes to the combat system though. Apparently its (recent) god of war style combat with mass effect style party control. It'd be the first time the studio has done anything like it in a very long time, and I'm concerned it will be a drain on the project.
That’s certainly…creative. With the current crog renaissance I kinda hope they don’t go further in on making it an action game, but getting something brand new is nice as well.
And as you said, killing slavers rules. Maybe if they also have GoW tier brutality the action elements can synergize with that.
It would also be cool to see how they incorporate roguery into such a combat system.
And yeah, you’re right it makes sense to remove it. It would be cool though if you had to convince your companions not to ditch you./actually turn against you. It would probably generate gamer rage if Leliana dumps them though.
Yeah its a renaissance but the funny thing is that when the devs of the CRPG games get successful they instantly switch it up to reach a bigger audience. The pillars and tyranny devs are doing it with avowed, bioware has been actionifying dragon age. The ones who have been sticking to the CRPG formula have also slowly been shifting to turn based focus. Real time with pause combat is sorta this middle ground that I think will give way to games focusing on crunchy tactics gameplay, owlcat and inixile, and the ones that push closer to action, bioware. Its like how traditional RTS games split into mobas and 4x/grand strategy.
I actually think that inquisition did a great job with the combat. Trespasser added an additional, swapable, skill upgrade for every skill in the game and it makes it so much better. You can pump the difficulty up really high with the trials system and I quite enjoy it.
Play the pillars games after this! The first one has a rough first 10 hours and combat I don't really like but the story is great. The second one has a worse story and companions but my favorite crpg combat ever, gorgeous art and stellar worldbuilding. The combat has such beautiful math, like, its so pretty. The story is about colonialism, environmentalism, different economics systems clashing, and faith. And you can just sorta land your ship on slaver island and kill all of the slavers and now theres no more (chattel) slavery :)
Yeah I'm pretty unsure about those leaks because how do you make mages and warriors and rogues all fun while moving towards action? Like if they add a parry system how would mages interact with it? In elden ring playing a mage is either roflstomping everything or running and hiding and spending 10 minutes killing 3 people. All it has going for it is the wizard power fantasy and the resource management.
Lmao love taking away the waifu. It'd be great if they saved it to the character file instead of the save file so that save scumming couldn't bring her back. Roll a new character boyo.
People talk about how its such a shame that there aren't more different endings to games because of time and budget constraints, especially for sequels, but things like companions that only follow you on certain playthroughs would be just as cool. Like, imagine if you had to choose between Jowan, Wynne, and Cullen depending on your choices in the circle tower. Or if the second of the new Dwarven king joins your party after. That sorta stuff would be great. The owlcat pathfinder games actually do this pretty well but I've never been as passionate about them. A spinoff game about apostates that deals more directly with blood magic as a central theme would be cool.
I see what you mean. perhaps I’m reaching a bit on this, but I’ve never considered RTwP to be a fundamentally necessary aspect of the genre (more a set of conventions that existed during a golden age that are treated as genre). Like, Larian and Owlcat give me huge amounts of hope for rpg games made for ttrpg enjoyers which is kind of how I’ve viewed the spirit of “crpg” as a genre.
Loved those games
This goes above my head, buts sounds like it’s super interesting.
That’s partly why I find it exciting. I love it when a studio charges head on against a design challenge. Even if it fails, it’s interesting to examine the why and how afterwards. If it works, they’ve progressed the medium.
Diabolical
Agreed. In BG3 it’s highly likely there is going to be a companion lock of some sort after act 1. We only have ancient dev diaries and some vague hints towards from data mining, but that might actually happen based off what we know so far.
I don’t think there’s been an attempt aside from Tyranny to tell a serious story about having a villain protagonist.
This could be an awesome to tell a story of a tragic villain. Like, the character starts as a hunted newly awakened mage who just wanted to be free or something. Have the wise old person character be a blood mage who saves them from the templars and go from there.
I really wished that I liked larian and owlcat's games more, they just feel kinda hokey to me. Maybe the reason I prefer Pillars and Dragon age is that they are more like novels in terms of storytelling than like ttrpgs. It makes sense that they are the ones that are moving towards action given that they feel more like stories than like adventures.
Basically attack rolls are all contested and miss/graze/hit/crit is based on the difference between the two rolls. Additionally each attribute point contributes to things relevant to every character because each contributes to at least 1 of 4 defense stats. The way everything fits together on every roll is incredibly satisfying. There is no part of the combat system that can be disregarded, no mechanics that certain characters ignore, its just very neat.
I mean theoretically a fantasy action combat system with mass effect style companion control sounds fucking excellent so I hope they stick the landing
I haven't tried it yet since I didn't like divinity too much. The artstyle and vibe were off for me. Maybe when its out of early access I will. Do you like it?
I would love it if they were put into a situation where the only way to escape was to use blood magic and so they swallow their pride and do it. But then in the future there was an opportunity to avoid using blood magic, de-escalation, lyrium, leverage/negotiation, but they don't see it. Watching them grapple with either the regret or the burden of the violent world they have created for themselves would be extremely good storytelling. Then they meet a butch lesbian ex templar who promises to protect them if they promise not to use blood magic and they have gay sex