>>89355

Bioware is bros.

>>89353
That's some quick damage control, guys. Nice save.

Well what were you expecting with the beauty standards stuff? We've already seen human and dwarf women. What you want the Qunari to be fat as hell or something? All of them are raised to be tools. Their standard is being useful and off the battlefield.

>>89394
I don't think we were expecting much, we're just amused/annoyed/surprised that these people actually think that they're showing different standards of beauty.

Hello, ladies, look at your man, now back to me, now back at your man, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me, but if he stopped using cheap spells and potions and switched to Old Spice, he could smell like he’s me. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re on a boat with the man your man could smell like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s an oyster with two tickets to that thing you love. Look again, the tickets are now diamonds. Anything is possible when your man smells like Old Spice and not a lady. I’m on a throne.

Was there ever an explanation for why they drank poultices?

>>89333
It took a ton of mods to make the first game playable! Fuck you, Bioware. You haven't made a single good thing since NWN1.

>>90148
Oh now we all know that's not true.

>>90148
Listen, I love NWN. Present tense. I still play through Hordes of the Underdark just to fuck around with the endings.

But you're either forgetting about KOTOR, Mass Effect, and (arguably) Jade Empire, or half of your post is wrong.

>>90150
Oh yeah. I forgot Mass Effect. But KOTOR is mostly NWN1 reskinned with Star Wars stuff. So 1 good thing since NWN1!

>>90150


I liked the Jade Empire combat system and companions, story was nice and "de tweest" was fun.

  also where the fuck is my trailer, bioware

>>90229
http://kotaku.com/5614842/dragon-age-2-debut-trailer-looks-slick-pre+rendered

Right there.

>>90233

Interesting fight then DEMON HANDS FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION!!!!

>>90233
I approve. I like that Flemeth is the narrator, too.

>>90233
Also all of BioWare's default menfolk need to be that attractive. If default Shepard looked that good, I'd never STOP playing as him I mean god DAMN.

>>90233
To think, in 30 years we may very well be playing games that have combat as awesome as that trailer.

>>90259
I know, right? Niiiice.

>>90259
Suddenly all the hate melts away when Nurse can fap to his perfect beard.

So how gravely do you think his voice will be?

>>90284
Standard SPESS MAREEN, I'd think. Since there's both peacemaker and warmonger dialogue options they can't take it to far up or down.

>>90285
Nah, I think they'll give him whoever did experienced voice in the original dragon age.

>>90282
EVERYONE should fap to dat beard and his amazing hair. This is a normal response in an adult human that is completely natural. Do not be ashamed! Take pride!

>>90286
The game is over ten years, though.

>>90289

Gonna love that if they put in a good consequences system for actions like what happened in Witcher a time or two. Allow them to snag most of the Witcher Alchemy Kit and the you start facing beefed up Merc Witcher Enhanced Dogs. Actions have consequences bitches HERE ARE SOME HELLHOUNDS!!!!

>>90287
But we you not ragging on this game a few months back? I wonder if one atractive man could boost up any game no matter how boring or bad it turns out to be.

>>90294
I don't... recall ragging on this game. Maybe you have me confused for another doctor? I've never even played Dragon Age! (Mostly for lack of time.) The extent of my exposure to DA:O is from watching my best friend play at her house.

I think the only thing I ever disparaged about DA:O was that it all seemed very cliche'd run-of-the-mill fantasy and that it seemed like BioWare hadn't put nearly as much time and love into Dragon Age as it had in Mass Effect.

>>90297
Y.. You don't remember? You went on a huge tirade for, like days, screaming about how much you hated this game. Seriously, it was across the boards! /baw/, /jam/, /coc/... I had never seen so much hate for a video game before!

Not sure how to feel about these Legacy of Kain Qunari.

>>90492
Why the huge change?
Is it explained?

>>90500
They said they wanted the Qunari to stand out more against the other races, and said since Sten is the only Qunari you see they took that as an excuse to go nuts. They say that some are just randomly born without horns, and that "they are meant for a special role in qunari society such as a Ben-Hassrath or an envoy to the other races", but for the most part now they look like Kain meets Disney's Gargoyles.

>>90502

Wouldn't it be something if our new Qunari companion was voiced by Keith David or if its Female Marina Sirtis. Really would love a Keith David companion

>>90508
I'm just disappointed that they took a fairly original looking race and turned them into Warcraft characters. "Giant brown tank-elves" was relatively unbroken ground in the realm of fantasy.

>>90492
They should be more like ram horns. Then they can headbutt people.

>>90520
They were really more "giant brown tank people" than anything else. Really, their character models were just taller and darker skinned humans. Besides, this better defines the fantasy analogy as giants and makes their darkspawnification into Ogres more logical. I'm not disputing your point on originality, just stating that it solves many problems with how the race was originally utilized in the game itself.

On that note, I do agree with the statements that Dwarven women should be thicker (I wouldn't mind sideburns to reinforce the Dorfs = Beards bit, but considering how many male dwarves are beardless in DA it isn't a big deal) and Elven builds should be leaner and more angular. Still, it's just concept art.

>>90536
Having not played Dragon Age, I assumed that they were just some exotic variety of humans.

Whatever. It's going to be fucking awesome anyway, and you're going to play it whether you baw or not.

>>90553
I feel bad about having started this thread with such a negative post, considering how much better the game looks now than I did initially.

>>90536
Dragon Age Elves were smaller humans with pointed ears and Dragon Age Qunari were bigger humans with pointed ears. That's why I say Qunari were big brown elves.

I don't think that horns have anything to do with being "giant". I can accept that a race on average a head taller than humans would be referred to as "giants" without them looking like big satyrs. I don't have any more trouble believing that they would darkspawniform in ogres that I do believing elves would turn into those ghoul-banshee things, but that may just be me.

>>90562
Makes sense. I suppose I'm used to my fantasy races having specific recurring non-human traits along predetermined lines, but that's admittedly a lazy expectation. The Qunari don't need to have inhuman features and it is something of a forced retcon, but I don't think they're necessarily damaging the previously laid ground nor did the Qunari comes across, to me at least, as being that unique.

As for the ears... I honestly never noticed. To be fair, though, I haven't drawn the boatload of Sten pictures you have.

>>86130
“Nearly a year has passed since the Archdemon’s death, and word has reached the Wardens that Morrigan has returned to Ferelden. She has been sighted in the southern wilderness where she was first encountered. Is it truly her? If it is, then why has is she here and what secret does she carry with her? The Warden heads into the forest to find out and tie up this last loose end once and for all.”

>>91409
>Import your character from Origins or Awakening or create a new, high-level hero!
So, it works like the Flesh Golem DLC? Since we can't directly export the outcome back to our Origins/Awakening saves, I suppose that means the confrontation doesn't affect anything of consequence for DoA2 and, thereby, neither does Morrigan's child.

Geez, they're dumping out the entire plot, aren't they?

>>91424

Eh I think they'll tie everything up in 3

Female Version of Hawke

>>92510
SHORT BROWN HAIR? WHAT IS THIS MADNESS?

>>92511

indeed she needs to be rocking a 'stache

>>92510
YOU THINK BEAUTY MARKS CAN REPLACE A BEARD? YOU FOOLS HAVE ALREADY MADE PEOPLE DECIDE WHAT GENDER THE MAJORITY WILL PLAY THE SECOND YOU RELEASED THE TRAILER.

Holy shit, Witch Hunt was perhaps the worst thing Bioware has shat out since the the main campaign to Neverwinter Nights.

Me: Hmmm... So, I'm starting with Dog outside Flemeth's hut? At right, let's get this final chapter of DA:O started. MORRIGAN, HERE I COME!
Elf Bitch: Hold it! I'm joining you to search for my clan's book.
Me: But what the hell were you doing here?
Elf Bitch: Never mind, we're going to search the Circle Tower for clues.
>Suddenly appear in the Circle Tower.
Me: Don't tell me I actually have to sift through the library's catalog for this. I do, don't I?
>Several pointless minutes of backtracking and rummaging through book descriptions later...
Generic Mage: Hey, that book you were looking for was about magic mirrors. I'm joining you now.
Me: No.
Generic Mage: Tough.
>Backtrack through the Tower's basement from the Mage origin, fighting generic enemies.
Generic Mage: Hey, we need to gather some elf lights and a mirror shard to find the magical ancient mirrors, since the book Morrigan stole was about mirrors.
Me: As good a lead as any. Is this going to suck?
Generic Mage: Oh, yes.
>Backtrack through Cadesh Thaig from the Stone Prisoner DLC, fighting generic enemies.
Me: GOD.
>Backtrack through the Elven Ruins from the Dalish origin, fighting generic enemies.
Me: DAMMIT.
>Backtrack through the Dragonbone Wastes from Awakening, fighting generic enemies.
Poorly-textured Walking Stick Monster: Rar.
Me: That's new. Well, at least the Harvester from Golems of Amgarrak was pretty cool, so this thing should be worth the trip-
>Varterral stomps around in a circle, summons some dragons, and dies. Codex states it had no reason to attack you.
Me: -never mind.
>Morrigan is playing with a magic mirror in the Mother's boss chamber.
Me: Morrigan! At long last, I've tracked you down... perhaps we can finally tie up some loose ends.
Morrigan: Hmph. You come looking for me after denying the ritual?
Me: I... what? I totally fucked you for the ritual! That's why I'm still alive!
Morrigan: Pfft. My departure at Redcliffe was not a betrayal. It's your own fault.
Me: You fought the goddamn Archdemon with me after I fucked you. I brought you there myself! What are you talking about?
Morrigan: Well, your son is well.
Me: Oh, he's a boy? That's cool, I- wait, you just said we didn't complete the ritual. How did I impregnate you if we never slept together?
Morrigan: Want a vague, cryptic warning about an emerging evil that will somehow serve as the plot for the next game?
Me: Not really.
Morrigan: Too bad. Oh, and Flemeth is totally still alive. In fact... she might not even be human!
Me: No shit. You told me that after I defeated her in Origins.
Morrigan: Well, gotta go. The book you wanted is over there with a gift I left for you.
>Morrigan leaves through the purple mirror, which I apparently can't follow her through.
Me: Book? Oh, yeah, the Elf thing. Well, let's see what that gift was-
>Credit roll.
Me: GODDAMMIT!

>>92715

and this is what happens when you let the B team write

>>92715
This is what happenes when you can't decide whether you want to carry things over from the same game or not. YOUR PENIS IMPREGNATED HER JUST BY BEING IN THE VACINITY.

>>92724

which is why you then write a totally separate game to give you some time to work those problems out.