'Dragon Age Inquisition' Release Date And New Gameplay Trailer From Bioware At Gamescon [VIDEO]
After a recent release date delay "Dragon Age Inquistion" has unveiled a new gameplay trailer at Gamescon.
Aaryn Flynn, general manager at BioWare, drove the demo. He noted there will be nine companions by your side as you explore this massive game with hundreds of weapons in the game, all of which you can name as you claim them for your own. You can customize your own stronghold in a fortress dubbed Skyhold. And you can explore big regions.
In the latest game demo, EA showed on how the combat is incredibly fast paced. The hero, a human woman, ran around with a huge flaming sword, setting alight every foe as she slammed the sword into them. Flynn paused in the middle to look at inventory and show there are 200 spells and abilities to choose from. The hero went into a castle, dubbed Hargrave Keep, amid a downpour in the middle of the night in the world of Thedas. The hero performs a rescue, one of hundreds that can happen in the game. In the game, the heroes of the Inquisition must stand together as tales of an Elder One emerge. Flynn said there are at least 150 hours of gameplay in the title. "It's the next-generation RPG that defines the future of BioWare," Flynn said. "It's up to you to lead, or the world will fall."
The trailer is largely focus on the fact that our heroes look pretty doomed in the face of an onslaught of Demons from the fade as well as a new bad guy named The Old One.
Bioware had previously teased the involvement of the previous player characters of the Dragon Age series in Inquistion, but the last we heard from them was that it wasn't likely, according to this PC Gamer Interview with Mark Darrah at least:
"One of the reasons that we've decided to do that in the Dragon Age series is that it lets us explore a lot more themes. Hawke's story, it's not done, but the most important event of his life is essentially what's happening in Dragon Age 2. With the warden from Dragon Age: Origins he carries a lot of very divergent baggage. Anything from he could be dead to maybe there's a kid in the picture, maybe he's actually ruling Ferelden with Anora.
He's a very difficult character to proceed with because the universe is in very different places based on the events of the Dragon Age: Origins. Just reflecting those changes in the future games is a big challenge. To actually have him as a playable character is just-it would tie our hands too much. It would require us to make a story that was too constrained."
It's not just lore implications either - we know the upcoming Dragon Age Keep will act as a repository of choices we made in Origins and Dragon Age II, so players can be free to carry over saves to different platforms like the PC or current-gen consoles. But with this new development, are we also going to be bringing in customised Hawkes and Wardens? Or can we only decide their gender, and in the case of the Warden, their race? Will we be getting 'canon' versions, or our true own?
"Dragon Age Inquistion' release date will be November 18.
