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Introducing Dragon Age's Leliana

Meet a lady who's not afraid to get down and bloody in BioWare's new RPG.

Sep. 10 2009

Posted by: Brad

In This Episode:

Dragon Age: Origins

Leliana

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@steelknight2000 said:
" Truly..this is the age... "

Of ruining the good feeling people had for your game with terrible terrible trailers
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I totally didn't care about this game when I first heard about it, but for some reason its growing on me.

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@Krystal_Sackful said:
" It's like an Imoen I get to graphically bone. "
Didn't play Mirrabo's Imoen romance mod?
 
Oh, wait that's more text pron. ^_^
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@fallen_elite said:

" @Zabant said:

" 06-07 seconds in top left corner on the dudes armour.  texture pop in.  ON THE FUCKING TRAILER.  this game looks like ass. "

The trailer is obviously on an unfinished build of the game. Oh and didn't Mass Effect have bad pop in on consoles? That is an amazing game. I'm actually really excited it. It's a Bioware game, it's going to be good. "
Tell that to Bioware's Sonic RPG.  Bioware is not sacrosanct.  Not by a long shot.
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The people all look stiff in these but im looking forward to this still the npc could just slide around with no animation and id still buy it
 
this thing is also coming with a editor NWN1 SP camp was a pile of shit but the mods made that game great def a pc buy

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@Jimbo said:
" Actually, there has been one good trailer.  But it wasn't this one. Also, 2009, no bowstring.  I'm supposed to be living on the fucking moon by now and still no bowstring. "
seriously, I know what you mean.  
 
And  is it just me, or do the character models look emotionless and robotic? I can't picture that voice coming out of that character model at all. I hate to rag on this game, cause it does look it will be a good game overall, but I find these things detract from the overall experience of the game. It looks like they are trying to tell a real good story, and I think it will be good a good story, I just don't know if this game will technically be ready to do all the things the developers want the engine to do.
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@Turambar said:
" @fallen_elite said:

" @Zabant said:

" 06-07 seconds in top left corner on the dudes armour.  texture pop in.  ON THE FUCKING TRAILER.  this game looks like ass. "

The trailer is obviously on an unfinished build of the game. Oh and didn't Mass Effect have bad pop in on consoles? That is an amazing game. I'm actually really excited it. It's a Bioware game, it's going to be good. "
Tell that to Bioware's Sonic RPG.  Bioware is not sacrosanct.  Not by a long shot. "
Well they're eatign away the last bit of charity they had from Mass Effect with this pile right here. I mean honestly, same game, some noname Swede dev studio? Its either ignored or a laughing stock.
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@Turambar said:
" @fallen_elite said:

" @Zabant said:

" 06-07 seconds in top left corner on the dudes armour.  texture pop in.  ON THE FUCKING TRAILER.  this game looks like ass. "

The trailer is obviously on an unfinished build of the game. Oh and didn't Mass Effect have bad pop in on consoles? That is an amazing game. I'm actually really excited it. It's a Bioware game, it's going to be good. "
Tell that to Bioware's Sonic RPG.  Bioware is not sacrosanct.  Not by a long shot. "
Sonic games are cursed so I don't even consider that a poor job from Bioware. Plus it was a DS game.
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@fallen_elite: Since when did a game's name have to do with the quality of the finished product aside from the minds of the deluded?  That and what does it being a DS game have to do with its potential quality?
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these trailers are thrash

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The lip syncing looks pretty strange but I'm willing to forgive it if the game is as massive as they say it's going to be.

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@Turambar said:

" @fallen_elite: Since when did a game's name have to do with the quality of the finished product aside from the minds of the deluded?  That and what does it being a DS game have to do with its potential quality? "

It was Bioware's first game on the DS and a Sonic themed game was so much different from anything else they've made. I don't think that every game that they will ever put out will be great but considering their previous work, I've got confidence in them. And I don't think the Sonic game was THAT bad. Don't be hatin'.
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My god, the trailer for Dragon Age get even worse. Shame really, the game itself seems quite alright. Somebody should fire the guy that does these trailers.

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@Ghostiet said:
" If she's not covered in blood during the sex scene, I'm not buying. "
HAHAHA, good stuff. 
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Yea... at first when this was first announced it looked really good, but the more trailers they release, the less and less interested I get.

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Hard to believe Bioware made this. Terrible voice acting, terrible writing, terrible animation, terrible music.
 
Maybe it's actually a parody of crappy fantasy fiction/games? Anyway, I would definitely like this to be the game for Endurance Run 2.0.

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I dunno what it is but the characters/story in this game all just seem so... dull.
Not to mention the gameplay looks like a boring single player version of WoW.
I was excited for it but now I'm wondering if making this old-school-ish rpg wasn't just one big waste of time.

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@fallen_elite said:
And I don't think the Sonic game was THAT bad. Don't be hatin'. "
"More crazy? I thought we were all full up."
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Wow, I can’t believe just how bad the lip animations are. O_o So disappointing. Mass Effect 2 so much better. Why not use the same engine?

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 yay! more un-needed sex/sex-intended scenes in my dungeon-crawling rpg's!
 
 
:(

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@Ghostiet said:
" If she's not covered in blood during the sex scene, I'm not buying. "
That is the best comment ever.
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She looks like an older,digital version of my girlfriend....THAT'S HOT!!!

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industrial rock songs that don't fit and bad facial animation, go BioWare

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why must every teaser for this game that features a woman include a sex scene? they're playing up the blood and boobs (actually, i doubt you'll ever see much more than what they show in the trailers in terms of sex) way too much, and ignoring the fact that this looks to be a deep and complex RPG. i really want the game, but the trailers are lacking.

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Just release the game already. Geeze. I'm not going to watch any of these things because I want everything to be fresh when I pop the game in.

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Sooo, Imoen meets... Insanity?

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Kinda creepy to see her talk splattered across her face

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@shanchett99 said:
"  yay! more un-needed sex/sex-intended scenes in my dungeon-crawling rpg's!   :( "
If it's like Baldur's Gate/KOTOR/Jade Empire/Mass Effect/Neverwinter Nights, the romance and/or sex scenes will be optional, so you should be okay.
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Why did that take place in the Bowerstone Tavern? 
 
Also, I agree that this game seems to be more cold or sterile on the visual side...

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cool they ended the video off with a Marilyn Manson song 
that would be good if they had him in the game

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I cannot get behind this game any less. It's just. It's gross. All around. It's what's wrong with socially misanthropic video gamers. It's a game all about blood, violence, sex, and terrible ass animations and voice acting.

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Never thought I'd say this but this game needs to get delayed to 2010. That way they can get rid of all the sucky graphics, terrible animation, and have enough spare time to launch a marketing campaign suited to a fantasy RPG and not an S&M porno.
 
And why is every game so fucking dull these days. In the opening frames everything was so brown and gray that I could barely distinguish the characters from the background.

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This game just looks worse and worse.  I cant believe they are using that old ass Marilyn Manson song, it is so sad.  Do no one at Bioware listen to music?  No one fucking listens to Marilyn Manson anymore, the guy is a joke.

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My ultimate goal when i play this game is to see every single sex or romance scene in the entire game on my 1st play through. BAM!!!

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why do her cans have to be so damn huge. and why is there 'rockin' guitars in a medieval (or thereabouts) game. and why..... 
 
I dont know. Cant believe the publicity for this game has been so bad that im actually considering passing. 
 
.....Just watched it again. 
Lame.
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Still not interested. Keep trying Bioware.

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@TomA said:
" My ultimate goal when i play this game is to see every single sex or romance scene in the entire game on my 1st play through. BAM!!! "
hehe that sounds like a really wierd goal:). To be honnest I think bioware has figured out that if you promise titties in a game more people will buy it. Kind of sad to be honnest. Still like their games they are ussually pretty good at making rpg's
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Dragon Age: Attack of the Lobotomized Clones.

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This is a strangely edited clip.  It doesn't quite communicate well enough.  Probably pieced together from the actual game rather than made solely for this promotion.  Doesn't feel right because of that, I think.

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@egads said:

" This game just looks worse and worse.  I cant believe they are using that old ass Marilyn Manson song, it is so sad.  Do no one at Bioware listen to music?  No one fucking listens to Marilyn Manson anymore, the guy is a joke. "

I suspect it's meant to imply that this game is the "new shit" of the classic CRPG genre, regardless of how not-new the song actually might be.
 

@TomA

said:

" My ultimate goal when i play this game is to see every single sex or romance scene in the entire game on my 1st play through. BAM!!! "

But what if none of the ladies will sleep with you after you attain the dreaded "sheep fucker" title?
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I haven't played a good RPG in a long time and I'm close to ignoring this game completely, this is crazy.
I wish they would stop trying to sell this as gore, sex, and action and show me the actual game.  Unless that is the actual game - if so, screw this.

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Hey there, Ridiculous Forced Fake Deep Voice Guy, we've been missing you since Warcraft II.  How about a nice chorus of Chocolate Rain?

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More I see of this the less convinced I'm becoming, have to wonder who their target audience is with these trailers, since its certainly not me.

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Reminds me of the really stiff animation from Neverwinter Nights 2 :-/

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YO DAT BITCH LOOKS CRAZY!
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You're unselling me on this game Docs!
 
Whats up with all the unreal facial animations ?! How does this game have worse animations than Mass Effect which came out more than 2 years ago? Did the Dragon Age dev team get caught in some weird time warp where they are forced to recreate Baldur's Gate with 2004 tech.
 
@murse2008 said:
" And why is every game so fucking dull these days. In the opening frames everything was so brown and gray that I could barely distinguish the characters from the background. "
Thats an interesting and accurate observation.I don't understand their reasoning behind it either. BioWare is taking great measures in making The Old Republic and Mass Effect universes really colorful but Dragon Age looks devoid of any color except random blood splattering.
 
You CAN set a dark/gritty tone without coloring everything in shades of brown.
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This combination of kinda-bad photoreal character models, really stiff robotic animation and sex is really not working for me.
 
I'll go as far as to say i plain don't like the art direction on this game. Generic fantasy bleh.

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I'm SO glad people are finally seeing what I saw in these trailers the first time. This game is incredibly poorly advertised. I don't know why whoever makes these videos is trying to make it look like some kind of gore covered action game but that's not what this is. Even the description of the game underneath the video calls it an action RPG! Dragon Age is a fantasy RPG and if it's good, hopefully it will sell. Why do they feel the need to dump all this "M-Rated" crap on it? 
 
Also, I know BioWare has never been good with animation (EVER) but Jesus, this game is a step back from Mass Effect, and that's saying something.

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Boobs make all games better.

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Lol I know people will think that they cut a scene out because it was too gorey, but what actually happened was that they didn't animate that sequence, Persona 4 style. 
 
Lol seriously, is blinking forbidden in the world of dragon age?