garin
1861
EA is producing the game, yeah-- it’s not a fan project. Official release date is October 20th.
It’s unmistakably an RPG, there really are no action elements at all. The trailer is just sort of a sizzle-reel using assets from the game. The actual combat gameplay is turn-based on a hex grid, similar to Heroes of Might and Magic. (battle screenshot)
Wow, garin, congrats on that gig. I was just wondering the other day what you were going to spring on us next, and the game looks great! Looking forward to checking it out.
Over on the Dragon Age forums they have a thread asking how Dragon Age will get away with not being banned in many countries given the sexual content. J. Random Netmoron chimed in with this winner:
It’s more making love and less sex. So with an M rating and the scene being completely voluntary to initiate I would definately say it’s perfectly fine, and it is certainly protected by the 4th amendment.
Quitch
1864
Protected by the 4th amendment… in other countries? Or am I missing a joke (not being familiar with any amendment beyond the 1st and 5th).
That trailer is too bad for the game. I watched it and thought: “meh, an action flash game, not my thing” and moved on. Yet, a simple turn-based RPG IS interesting to me. I’d say it’s exactly the opposite of what the trailer made it out to be.
Now I will have to check it out if/when I have the chance. Thanks for the screenshot.
On another note, the leaked new trailer for DA:O is actually pretty good in generating some excitement. Over-the-top stuff, sure, but it’s entertaining and exactly what a lot of the other trailers should have been. And that Giantbomb gameplay vid was just pure fun to watch. Where was this stuff all of the previous months?
I’m ecstatic to hear that Dragon Age will be protected against random stop and frisks. That’s important.
Yeah the Giant Bomb quick look got me interested where I really kind of wasn’t before.
I’m glad she’s wearing her miniskirt during the blizzard, wouldn’t want her crotch to overheat.
Hugin
1869
It just boggles the mind, nothing, nothing, can stand in the way of making female characters skin-baring eye candy for these people.
Cubit
1870
Truly, it is the age of dragons.
What fantasy artist / game / movie doesn’t do that with their female characters?
(not that “but everyone does it that way!” is an acceptable defense; however, I can’t think of any examples that go against the grain)
Oh please, none of the characters even bare that much skin in the trailer. A plate mail bikini is ridiculous because lowering the protection area serves no purpose and breaks the sense of immersion generally. A skirt like that is almost like the stuff romans would wear. What boggles the mind is the ability to nitpick about everything and somehow make it sound like dragon ages is some Japanese sex game when everything i’ve seen makes it look way more tame than a game like GTA. Some people won’t be happy until everyone is dressed like nuns, and even then they will nitpick that the nun dresses aren’t stylish!
It would have been nice if the dragon had been stronger though as it did die only after being (deeply) slashed in the leg and then lightning something’ed in the mouth.
That witch was pretty damn good though. Hopefully that touch and explode thing is blood magic.
That touch and explode spell looked like Walking Bomb to me, which is not a blood magic spell. It’s Spirit.
I also would be interested in hearing more about these Romans who wear miniskirts in deep snow.
Joe_M
1875
To be fair it was probably lightning something, rank 3.
It didn’t look like anyone else changed their clothing to fit the climate either though. The only thing that i’d assume they added was the cloaks which for obvious reasons they threw away the second the fighting started.
This is a game, I don’t think people expect their heroic party to start loading on the furs when it snows and take off their smoldering plate in the desert.
I’m guessing the dragon died easy so that the video didn’t have to be a 19 min CGI trailer… ;)
No, I don’t expect it, but that doesn’t mean I don’t find it funny. Add to that the fact that this is CG and not gameplay and that means they made a series of decisions.
- Let’s keep the characters in their game-standard armor
- Let’s put that one in a mini-skirt
- Let’s put them in snow
Believe me, if they had a dude in a loincloth in the snow I’d be experiencing sympathetic shivers for him too, but DA seems sadly lacking in semi-nude beefcake.
sam16
1879
You could always do what they did in this preview and have your party fight in their underwear.
Sure, in the same sense that underwear is almost like the stuff that I wear, except that I usually wear additional things along with it. I’d point out that A) the Romans came from the Mediterranean, and thus it was only natural that their clothing was designed for warm weather, B) even in Rome, the Romans typically wore that particular piece of armor over a tunic, and C) in cold regions, they replaced the tunic with wool pants.
Don’t get me wrong–goofy, impractical armor doesn’t bother me that much in games. And on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is realistic armor and 10 is chain mail bras and studded leather thongs and spaulders with spikes that stick up 20 inches over the top of the character’s head, that outfit from the trailer rates maybe a 4. But it’s still somewhat goofy.
