DA: V Story ideas?

[Hicalibre]

Do we have much idea of what the story is going to be about? What are you hoping for out of this game?


I don't think they've been this quiet on the story front going on before. All I've read is that it is more or less a DA: Inquisition follow-up game.

I haven't been able to build up any hype for the game myself, and part of that I blame on Bioware fumbling their last few releases (for sure not pre-order worthy imo).


Part of me is hoping for a more action-y clone of BG3 (no, I am not going into the game's tag drama) in terms of how systems work and pacing.


What are the rest of you hoping for?

Obviously this game will play a big role in the future of Bioware, but I think we can agree that it needs to be better than Inquisition and more on-par with its other entries.

[silver_hyena]

I can see where you're coming from. Most of what we've gotten is 'the elven gods are back and we have to stop them' which is a little more nuanced than 'there's a big bad we have to go kill,' but it does fall into that basic overarching rpg storyline where the world is in danger and we have to save it. That can be said about Origins and Inquisition too though. (DA2's smaller stakes were novel, honestly!) The real good stuff will be in the smaller arcs leading up to that and we don't know much about those.

The devs did say that they were trying to create different genre vibes for different quest lines. So we might get an action thriller for one set of quests and political intrigue for another. Something like that. Now, that doesn't tell us anything about the actual content, but it does tell us there should be a good variety to them.

I think the biggest mini plot thing they've shown is Rook trying to save the Grey Wardens (and dealing with a less than cooperative First Warden) because they're needed to deal with blight stuff going on.

We should get more information tomorrow since that's when the review embargo lifts. If you're still on the fence, checking out some of those might be helpful.

[Hicalibre]

Originally posted by bayomaycry:

Originally posted by Hicalibre:

Do we have much idea of what the story is going to be about? What are you hoping for out of this game?


I don't think they've been this quiet on the story front going on before. All I've read is that it is more or less a DA: Inquisition follow-up game.

I haven't been able to build up any hype for the game myself, and part of that I blame on Bioware fumbling their last few releases (for sure not pre-order worthy imo).


Part of me is hoping for a more action-y clone of BG3 (no, I am not going into the game's tag drama) in terms of how systems work and pacing.


What are the rest of you hoping for?

Obviously this game will play a big role in the future of Bioware, but I think we can agree that it needs to be better than Inquisition and more on-par with its other entries.

I try to remain as spoiler free as possible, so..

Inviting theories. Since we've been given next to nothing compared to usual DA entries.