Very late to this party, but finally managed to find time to watch the DATV gameplay reveal and read what’s known about it. The Dragon Age games (especially DAO) are some of my favourite in addition to BG3 but I’ve not been keeping up with development. I’ve been waiting until there was something to get excited about!
I’m not quite sure why folks earlier in the thread thought the trailer looked awful, it looked good to me, as do companions old and new. And while good character creation certainly isn’t enough by itself, in games like the DA ones for me it is important to be able to create a character that I’ll find it cool to play, so happy to hear there’s been attention given to this. Though frankly I’ll be happy enough if there’s decent hair, which has been a significant and bewildering gap in many recent BioWare games to my mind. Surely it can’t be that hard!
I’m sure I’ll enjoy the characters and the story: I always do with BioWare games, even ones that others are disappointed by (not that I’m saying all their games are equally good). But like others it’s the combat that makes me most nervous as that’s what I found most disappointing about DAI, plus I’m generally pretty rubbish at games that require good reactions and coordination. And DATV seems to have gone even further down the action RPG route that’s not usually my bag. I’m sure I saw people mention earlier in this thread the automated combat tactics that could be set up in DAO and DA2. I loved those and spent ages tinkering with the rules, particularly with DA2. They seemed the best possible approach to a party-based RPG with real-time combat, allowing for characters to make use of a wide range of abilities in a way that I defined while still letting battles flow freely.
That said, I also love the ME games, and really enjoyed the combat in MEA once I got the hang of it, and in some ways DAVG gameplay is giving me more ME than DA vibes. Perhaps I just need to think of it as an ME game set in Thedas.
