Can you predict the Plot?

[Drake Ravenwolf]

As a way to pass the time, anyone else want to speculate on the DAV plot?

I'm especially interested in this quote from a previewer:

In my 7 hours most of the decisions I got to make were pretty small in terms of scale, but one of the decisions was extremely interesting, at least as a concept. I won’t spoil it, but what I’ll say is that I couldn’t exaggerate the scale of what we had the option to do if I tried, and if, big if, that choice affects the rest of your playthrough and compounds with other decisions like it, well that could be really cool, but unfortunately "could" is all I can really say.

My guess for the choice he won't spoil?
Maybe you really are offered the option to side with Solas and at least SAY you will merge Thedas and the Fade... what do you think?

[pr1mus]

Originally posted by Drake Ravenwolf:

My guess for the choice he won't spoil?
Maybe you really are offered the option to side with Solas and at least SAY you will merge Thedas and the Fade... what do you think?

if they were suggesting something like siding with Iorveth/Roche like in Witcher 2 then that'd be pretty ambitious but i'm really curious how siding with Solas would work out with the rest of the party.

[deathmaster snikch]

The evil white man wants to open a portal for the darkspawn and it's up to our diverse cast of heroes to stop him.

[Flinsberg]

We send Ghilan'nain and Elgar'nan back (or imprison them)

Solas dies (There's no way in hell we're gonna let him live. If he actually survives I'll be so unfathomably pissed)

The Lighthouse will prob get destroyed closer to the end. The elven gods will find their way in (most likely point-of-no-return in the story)

Happy ending where every companion goes back to living their normal life (we all know they don't have the balls to do a bad ending)

A potential setup for the next game. I can totally see them end this game on a cliffhanger (something something awakens, or someone didn't die when we thought they did, or a good character gets corrupted and is setup to be the next villain)

[Ka-mai19]

I'm not sure. The game seems to be 60-80 hours long (maybe?) which means that there will likely be some curveballs here and there.

I do think it will eventually go into a "good vs. evil" straight up narrative but things will probably get messy before we get there.

[Holy Fool Sehrael]

Give Solas a very satisfying, accelerated pat in the face - happy ending :D :)

[alekth]

The major choice he had to make is known, but with one week to go, if you want to play the game, don’t spoil it for yourself.
It is a choice that pisses off either Neve or Lucanis.

[alekth]

The scope is pretty large. Though it remains to be seen how much it will affect the actual story and gameplay.
Inquisition had mages/templars big choice pretty early on, and while it legitimately diversified between two sets of main/subquest, it didn’t really make much of a difference in the actual game world.

[Ellorien]

The main choice is whether you “stop Solus” or “save Solus from himself.”
That’s pretty obvious. That probably means you either kill him yourself or he will be killed by the game and you will get to kneel beside his broken body and cry. He will touch your face and say something in Elvish which will make you cry even harder. Then he will take your hand and you both will melt into the purple sunset.

[Drake Ravenwolf]

Originally posted by Red Phantom:

Another prediction: one of the major choices at the end will be about whether or not to end magic in Thedas permanently and save the world by destroying or severing the connection to the Fade altogether.

I really like that one! Probably better than what they actually did to be honest...

Originally posted by alekth:

The major choice he had to make is known, but with one week to go, if you want to play the game, don’t spoil it for yourself.
It is a choice that pisses off either Neve or Lucanis.

The previewer made it sound like a world changing decision... I really hope it isn't just "Choose one companion over another" >.> ... what is your source that info?

[Nightmarian]

Originally posted by Drake Ravenwolf:

As a way to pass the time, anyone else want to speculate on the DAV plot?

I'm especially interested in this quote from a previewer:

In my 7 hours most of the decisions I got to make were pretty small in terms of scale, but one of the decisions was extremely interesting, at least as a concept. I won’t spoil it, but what I’ll say is that I couldn’t exaggerate the scale of what we had the option to do if I tried, and if, big if, that choice affects the rest of your playthrough and compounds with other decisions like it, well that could be really cool, but unfortunately "could" is all I can really say.

My guess for the choice he won't spoil?
Maybe you really are offered the option to side with Solas and at least SAY you will merge Thedas and the Fade... what do you think?

From the leaks, Solas basically uses you and grudgingly helps you deal with the escaped gods or whatever, sidelining his cliffhanger from Inquisition. So he's not really involved until the end where it's yet another cliffhanger... kinda the same one from Inquisition, lol.

As for the big choices, supposedly the 'big' ones are just big on paper but have limited reactivity throughout the game in anything but references or asthetics.

We're talking like bombing half a city kind of thing, where you can mentally realize it's a big choice but it's not really going to change much in terms of gameplay or overall plot.

Not that this is bad, this was how the old dragon age (and even mass effect) games did it too. The choices were kind of silly nothingburgers in a lot of cases minus a few instances.

This really is something you have to plan from the start, not do retroactively across a decade of dev time with different teams lol.

[Nightmarian]

Originally posted by Drake Ravenwolf:

Originally posted by Red Phantom:

Another prediction: one of the major choices at the end will be about whether or not to end magic in Thedas permanently and save the world by destroying or severing the connection to the Fade altogether.

I really like that one! Probably better than what they actually did to be honest...

Originally posted by alekth:

The major choice he had to make is known, but with one week to go, if you want to play the game, don’t spoil it for yourself.
It is a choice that pisses off either Neve or Lucanis.

The previewer made it sound like a world changing decision... I really hope it isn't just "Choose one companion over another" >.> ... what is your source that info?

It's not that simple, but yeah it's true. And it's from leaks. A lot of those preview blokes are just regular creators, they leak ♥♥♥♥ all the time on their discords and ♥♥♥♥, sometimes indirectly via intermediaries to spare their arses.

I didn't spoil myself on the choice but a lot of them supposedly boil down to the kind of person you are. I think this is how they are going to build you up since Rook doesn't have much of a bespoke past.

It's world changing but probably only on paper. A lot of other previewers were less impressed than the guy everyone is quoting, he's reacting to the plot not the reactivity and is just guessing.

[silver_hyena]

Originally posted by Drake Ravenwolf:

Originally posted by alekth:

The major choice he had to make is known, but with one week to go, if you want to play the game, don’t spoil it for yourself.
It is a choice that pisses off either Neve or Lucanis.

The previewer made it sound like a world changing decision... I really hope it isn't just "Choose one companion over another" >.> ... what is your source that info?

It's more than choosing one companion over another. Much more. Especially if it does have consequences further on in the game, which I'm assuming it will. That information is from a leak though so I don't feel comfortable sharing it. You can probably still find it if you search for it, but if you're going to buy the game anyway, I'm with alekth. Don't spoil it for yourself. I'm a little sad I got it spoiled.

Also, I'll point out that there's no way they would have shown off the biggest choices to the previewers. What they got was almost exclusively from act 1. So knowing that combined with what the one decision actually was is pretty exciting to me.

[Nightmarian]

Originally posted by silver_hyena:

Originally posted by Drake Ravenwolf:

The previewer made it sound like a world changing decision... I really hope it isn't just "Choose one companion over another" >.> ... what is your source that info?

It's more than choosing one companion over another. Much more. Especially if it does have consequences further on in the game, which I'm assuming it will. That information is from a leak though so I don't feel comfortable sharing it. You can probably still find it if you search for it, but if you're going to buy the game anyway, I'm with alekth. Don't spoil it for yourself. I'm a little sad I got it spoiled.

Also, I'll point out that there's no way they would have shown off the biggest choices to the previewers. What they got was almost exclusively from act 1. So knowing that combined with what the one decision actually was is pretty exciting to me.

Well, I think they did show off one of the biggest choices as an example of what they're like. Also, outside of endgame stuff, the earlier choices are going to be the ones with the potential for the most reactivity across the length of the game, so one would argue they are as a result the biggest choices you can make.

[sevenfacedsin]

Someone claims she is non-binary, dragons appear and all hell breaks loose. You find out the dragons are bringers of the apocalypse to stop this non-binary nonsense and it’s your job to stop the dragons and spread the plague as far as it can go.

[silver_hyena]

Originally posted by Nightmarian:

Originally posted by silver_hyena:

It's more than choosing one companion over another. Much more. Especially if it does have consequences further on in the game, which I'm assuming it will. That information is from a leak though so I don't feel comfortable sharing it. You can probably still find it if you search for it, but if you're going to buy the game anyway, I'm with alekth. Don't spoil it for yourself. I'm a little sad I got it spoiled.

Also, I'll point out that there's no way they would have shown off the biggest choices to the previewers. What they got was almost exclusively from act 1. So knowing that combined with what the one decision actually was is pretty exciting to me.

Well, I think they did show off one of the biggest choices as an example of what they're like. Also, outside of endgame stuff, the earlier choices are going to be the ones with the potential for the most reactivity across the length of the game, so one would argue they are as a result the biggest choices you can make.

True. Maybe 'there's no way they would have shown off ALL the biggest choices' is the better wording here.