Dragon Age: Origins gameplay and discussion thread.

[tibilicus]

Rumour going round the Bioware social from those who saw an early version of the game at Comic-Con seems to bring the words Ninja Gaiden and "Dynasty Warriors in RPG format" up in many threads. Now make of this what you will but it seems Bioware may be moving into the area of over the top fantasy combat, make of that what you will.

More interestingly, apparently new DLC based on the Deep Roads is in the works and one of the Bioware staffers at Comic-Con stated that Bioware would like to continue DLC for Origins, even after Dragon Age 2 is out. Whilst of course none of this is concrete, it's generating a lot of discussion and suggests to me at at least that the role of origins, as opposed to what Mass Effect was to Mass Effect 2, will have less impact on Dragon Age 2 and the world of Dragon Age II itself. Perhaps it's Bioware's aim to make the Dragon Age series a more tighter narrative, one which has a much more concrete story and more "canonicity". If this is the case, it will probably dramatically alter the way the series plays out.

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http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archi...i-evolved.aspx

All I can say is, are the Dragon Age team beginning to lose their minds? I've never had any reason to lose faith in Bioware before but I just have to ask why? Sure, the Qunari, or Sten at least looked too humanoid, but why did they have to be re-branded as some semi-daemons. This and the new art style fuels my worries that Dragon Age 2 will be some Comic style mess. I hope Bioware convince me otherwise.

Apparently they're also changing the way Elves and Dwarves look. I don't understand why they can't just fix Origins' flaws and build on what they already have. It sounds like DA II is going to cause a major continuity crisis for a lot of people.