Dragon Age: Inquisition is beautiful. We know this, because EA keeps on telling us this by way of its slow releases of screenshots. Still, as the next big RPG it’s something I’m personally quite excited about. These new screenshots show The Fade and Therinfal Redoubt, wholly exportable environments from the game.
"Always in a constant state of change, the Fade is impossible for mortals to accurately map,” reads the description of the Fade, the Dragon Age Universe’s spirit realm.
Therinfal Redoubt is a castle in Ferelden that acts as compound for the Seekers. The Seekers of Truth are an Andrastian order, a counterbalance to the Templar Order; a secretive and investigative bunch who root out evil and chaos within the Chantry.
Bioware is promising a game of far greater scope than the last one, which is great, because that one was stuck in just one little section, with its one little cave and one little dungeon. It’ll also require your party working in unison to bring down far great beasties than the series has tasked you with before. I don’t want to get my (or your!) hopes up too much, but Inquisition seems like it’s shaping up to be rather excellent.
Here are those screens, which EA shared on its Dragon Age Facebook page. Dragon Age: Inquisition will interrogate your Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 or PC on Oct. 7
Last Updated: June 3, 2014
Alien Emperor Trevor
June 3, 2014 at 13:37
“It’ll also require your party working in unison to bring down far great beasties than the series has takes you with before.” The grammar… IT BURNSSSSSSSSSSSS
Jedi JJ
June 3, 2014 at 13:39
LOL
RinceofThis
June 3, 2014 at 13:45
Don’t be mean, Geoff is down 2 staff. You know, the ones who know how to use da grammar!
Hammersteyn
June 3, 2014 at 13:45
He probably feels he has all the “Reich” in the world to point out the mistakes
Alien Emperor Trevor
June 3, 2014 at 13:47
I have the Reich stuff :/
Hammersteyn
June 3, 2014 at 13:52
You’re a real gas!
Alien Emperor Trevor
June 3, 2014 at 13:45
You mean Darryn? The other one is ‘Murican ;P
RinceofThis
June 3, 2014 at 13:46
Ouch!
Exalted Overlord Geoffrey Tim
June 3, 2014 at 13:57
The word that was in my head, and the word my fingers produces are different things. I am sad. Fixed.
RinceofThis
June 3, 2014 at 14:00
Don’t feel bad, Trevor has to do this to make himself feel special, which his odd as we all know he is… http://media.tumblr.com/ce8d7dadb72d35eeed1d4e6534b091cf/tumblr_inline_mqx8eirsl91qz4rgp.gif
Alien Emperor Trevor
June 3, 2014 at 14:03
Here’s a tissue, you have something on your nose ;P
Alien Emperor Trevor
June 3, 2014 at 14:03
I forgive you 😀
Umar's Crown
June 3, 2014 at 13:39
I know ya’ll gonna think I’m like bias, gonna be calling me..ToBIAS and shit…But this has got nothing to do with JRPGs…but…Don’t you think that WRPG’s settings are getting old? I mean, it’s either Sci-fi or Tolkien…Fallout was great, let’s see more creative setting for wrpgs….I’m sick of orcs and elves or alien boobs
Alien Emperor Trevor
June 3, 2014 at 13:42
…
RinceofThis
June 3, 2014 at 13:44
MUST, HOLD, BACK! BWAHAHAHA!
Umar's Crown
June 3, 2014 at 14:03
LOL Dammit, can’t escape the stigma
Hammersteyn
June 3, 2014 at 13:46
LOL!!!
RinceofThis
June 3, 2014 at 13:47
I almost spat my soup out when I read this 🙂
Alien Emperor Trevor
June 3, 2014 at 13:51
The irony is so strong I had to catch my desk magnets before they flew away.
RinceofThis
June 3, 2014 at 13:57
Make sure no one steels them man…
Umar's Crown
June 3, 2014 at 14:03
Damn you! I put a disclaimer in there
Alien Emperor Trevor
June 3, 2014 at 14:12
😀 I ignored it.
If you think about it, sci-fi & fantasy is basically all you will get, but they’re really wide genres. Post-apocalyptic can be a subset of either depending on the direction they take, Fallout is sci-fi. It’s what they do in the setting that counts to me. Alpha Protocol is the only real world style RPG I can think of offhand & that bombed.
Umar's Crown
June 3, 2014 at 14:17
True, that can fall under Sci-fi, lemme be specific, Galactic Sci-fi, it’s always either aliens or orcs. Fallout was different in a way, so was Deus Ex. But A lot of WRPGs keep revolving around medieval times. Alpha might’ve bombed, but it was unique and different
RinceofThis
June 3, 2014 at 14:26
To me it’s the sign of the times. Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings etc, that is so called western culture. Japanese culture is having a guy who is six 6″7 date a girl who looks like she hasn’t made it into first grade yet 😛 WRPGs to me are far less shiny than the majority of Japanese games, which to me try to retain a certain level of innocence, even in heavy stories.
Umar's Crown
June 3, 2014 at 14:38
WRPGs like to be grounded in reality while still depicting fantasy., For me in anycase, it always find it unappealing, even if the narrative is strong. I love it when a game, just explores things most of the time our minds could never come up with
RinceofThis
June 3, 2014 at 14:49
I suppose I find WRPGS far more adult. I mean, I’ve lived in the east, maybe that’s why I am tired of the ‘pretend’ innocence of much of their stories. You walk around looking at people dressed as hello Kitty long enough and you get tired of it, this thin layer of ‘oh I am so cute’, not when you are taking a crap you aren’t 😛 Tehehehe. That being said I like jrpgs, just not in everything I play.
Umar's Crown
June 3, 2014 at 14:52
Have to agree , more than you know. I’m tired of that too. Sick of it to be honest, even though I really like it lol Thing is, when the Jrpgs produce serious stories, then it’s freaking amazing. Lost Odyssey dealt with some serious issues, Xenogears was a surreal game touching on religion and God…but seriously…I’m tired of of having 5 party members that have not yet reached puberty
RinceofThis
June 3, 2014 at 14:54
Lol. Agreed. And I thought LO was produced by MS, not a jrpg?
Umar's Crown
June 3, 2014 at 15:03
MS? It was a pure JRPG produced by Mistwalker, published by MS. Mistwalker consists of Hironobu Sakaguchi of FF. They made The Last Story for the Wii as well…So no, PURE JRPG lol
RinceofThis
June 3, 2014 at 15:06
Ah, that’s right, published by them. Think I was remembering that many left FF to go over to this. Either way, it’s by far the most adult JRPG I’ve played, even the kids in it didn’t make me want to murder the world 😛
Umar's Crown
June 3, 2014 at 15:17
Lol yeah cooke and mack were cool, I liked them a lot. Wish more JRPGS let you play as a fully grown man lol
Alien Emperor Trevor
June 3, 2014 at 14:33
I’ll agree with getting tired of elves, dwarves & orcs & their space equivalents.
Umar's Crown
June 3, 2014 at 14:36
Both ends of the spectrum could do with some spicing up. J and W. I will always use Vampire Masquerade as an example. Dat was a bloody unique rpg
Alien Emperor Trevor
June 3, 2014 at 14:38
Exactly, that’s my all time favourite RPG. I actually really enjoyed Alpha Protocol too.
Umar's Crown
June 3, 2014 at 14:39
Nice 🙂 That was a great game damn, so dark and moody. And me too, to an extent, it was just really broken and a bit dry, but I’ve seen MUCH worse
Matewis Jubilai
June 3, 2014 at 13:47
sick of alien boobs? gtfo
RinceofThis
June 3, 2014 at 13:47
He likes alien tentacles…
Matewis Jubilai
June 3, 2014 at 13:48
like that girl-alien in Galaxy quest!
Mark Treloar
June 3, 2014 at 14:10
Your comment made me think of this
Alien Emperor Trevor
June 3, 2014 at 14:13
That movie rocks.
Mark Treloar
June 3, 2014 at 14:17
That the kind of bible salesman I want to be.
Umar's Crown
June 3, 2014 at 14:15
The titties lol
Mossel
June 3, 2014 at 14:20
What about a wrpg that is realistic? Like no elves, dwarves, orcs. Just humans. Vikings and English fighting it out. The tale of a sellsword or something like that?
Tauriq Moosa
June 3, 2014 at 15:05
Weeellll http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/02/18/kingdom-come-deliverance-officially-hitting-ps4-and-xbox-one
Mossel
June 4, 2014 at 08:10
I just read through the kickstarter campaign and the game looks fantastic! I hope they have a realistic combat mode, almost like Ranger Hardcore from Metro, where one stab kills a person, or one arrow.
Jedi JJ
June 3, 2014 at 13:40
This is actually looking quite good. Haven’t been interested in a Dragon Age for a while now.
Ultimo_Cleric N7
June 3, 2014 at 13:45
Yes yes, the next Witcher game looks amazing. But I am really excited for this too.
Kromas
June 3, 2014 at 13:56
Please stop. These pictures are driving me insane. I really need this to get released tomorrow.
geelslang
June 3, 2014 at 13:58
Would be nice to have hi-res screenshots with some people in it.