What Dragon Age 5 NEEDS to Have! — Transcript

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1. 0:01The release of Bel Gaad was not too long
2. 0:03ago and a sequel won't likely be out for
3. 0:05another four to five years, which is
4. 0:07just my personal guesstimation. So,
5. 0:10you're probably thinking this video is
6. 0:11way too early. However, with no
7. 0:14confirmation on DLC and reports on the
8. 0:16dev team focusing on Mass Effect 5, I
9. 0:19believe we should go ahead and start
10. 0:20looking to the future. And although
11. 0:22plenty of people are working on Mass
12. 0:23Effect 5, I am willing to wager that
13. 0:25there's also plenty of people thinking
14. 0:27about what a sequel for Dragon Age
15. 0:29should look like. Hello crows and
16. 0:31non-crows alike, my name is Joe Mack,
17. 0:32otherwise known as Support Crow, and
18. 0:34here are my five must-haves for Dragon
19. 0:38Age 5.
20. 0:39Number one, better backstories.
21. 0:41In Bel Gaad and in Origins, we get to
22. 0:43choose our own faction or origin and
23. 0:45both games do a very good job
24. 0:48implementing the importance of that
25. 0:49choice throughout the game.
26. 0:51Some factions and choices better than
27. 0:54others, but for the most part, they do a
28. 0:56pretty decent job.
29. 0:58I like Dragon Age 5 to expand further
30. 1:01with this. Instead of giving us places
31. 1:03where we're from, factions we joined,
32. 1:05also give us conflicts to deal with. In
33. 1:08every game you have a major quest line
34. 1:10and your companions have their own
35. 1:12personal quest line
36. 1:14and that are unique to them and you help
37. 1:16them get through all that. It's assumed,
38. 1:18however, that your personal conflict for
39. 1:20the main character is the major conflict
40. 1:22of the game. I like our background
41. 1:24choice to give us a conflict that is
42. 1:26personal to us, something that we
43. 1:28personally have to deal with. For
44. 1:30example, perhaps we've been infected by
45. 1:31the Blight and we either need to join
46. 1:34the Wardens or accept our fate.
47. 1:36Playing through the game with this
48. 1:37crippling painful condition. Perhaps we
49. 1:39can choose to be from a noble house that
50. 1:41is in severe debt and we're being hunted
51. 1:43by the debt collector. Or maybe we can
52. 1:45be a former blood mage that's trying to
53. 1:47turn over a new leaf, but we're
54. 1:48constantly tempted to use this power to
55. 1:51achieve our goals. Overall, I love the
56. 1:54factions in Origins from Bel Gaad and
57. 1:56the first game, but I want to see these
58. 1:58backstories not only give me new avenues
59. 2:00to progress through the game, but also
60. 2:02challenge myself with the conflict
61. 2:04unique to our character. Number two,
62. 2:06import more choices. The amount of
63. 2:08choices we were allowed to bring in from
64. 2:10the past games was hauntingly depressing
65. 2:13in Belguard. It did the trick and I
66. 2:15appreciate what we got, but I'd love to
67. 2:17see more than three choices being
68. 2:19represented in the next game. However,
69. 2:21while I do enjoy the keep and appreciate
70. 2:23it for what it accomplished, I find
71. 2:25myself enjoying the ability to make
72. 2:27these different choices at the start of
73. 2:28a new game rather than running to my
74. 2:30laptop, uploading a world state, and
75. 2:32then running back to my console. I can
76. 2:34just make this world state and start
77. 2:36playing. However, I do want more
78. 2:38choices, but let's not overcomplicate
79. 2:40it. Have us go down a list of choices
80. 2:42like we did in Belguard, but give us an
81. 2:43option to access the choices of lesser
82. 2:46consequence. If a choice doesn't make a
83. 2:48difference, then obviously don't add it
84. 2:50to the list. Number three, better
85. 2:52playgrounds. If you watched my five
86. 2:54things I love about Belguard video, then
87. 2:55you know I absolutely love the
88. 2:57handcrafted linear levels in the game.
89. 3:01While the explorable areas of game
90. 3:04weren't my favorite, I did appreciate
91. 3:06them for what they were. I refer to
92. 3:08these areas as playgrounds because of
93. 3:10their relatively smaller size and their
94. 3:12multi-level structure. You explore by
95. 3:15basically playing a game of slides and
96. 3:17ladders while gathering collectibles,
97. 3:19and solving puzzles, and defeating
98. 3:21enemies. I'm not delusional enough to
99. 3:23believe that Bioware is going to ditch
100. 3:24open exploration altogether. So, I would
101. 3:27like to see more interactivity with the
102. 3:29world space. If I'm going to continue to
103. 3:31return to the same space, then I like
104. 3:34more things to do there than just gather
105. 3:37collectibles, and solve puzzles, and
106. 3:39fight responding enemies. Let's try
107. 3:41drinking some loads of fortune under the
108. 3:42table. Let's play a game of wicked
109. 3:44grace. Let's grab some street food.
110. 3:47Let's get into a bar fight. Let's
111. 3:48interact with unique set pieces out in
112. 3:51the world. I'm not expecting Red Dead or
113. 3:54Skyrim level immersion here. However, if
114. 3:58we're going to play a game about saving
115. 4:00the world and if we're going to have
116. 4:01these open areas to explore,
117. 4:04then show us why this world is worth
118. 4:06saving. Give us opportunities to live
119. 4:09there. And the same goes for our base of
120. 4:11operations. While I like the lighthouse,
121. 4:13I
122. 4:14wanted to do more things there. I wanted
123. 4:16to feel like I was living there, not
124. 4:18just housing my companions. And I see
125. 4:21this sentiment kind of echo throughout
126. 4:23all of social media when it comes to the
127. 4:26fans. You know, people wants to kind of
128. 4:29engage with the whole book. People want
129. 4:31to have like the dinners with the
130. 4:32companions. People want to engage in the
131. 4:35conversations that they are having and
132. 4:37not just be an eavesdropper. Number
133. 4:40four, blood magic. Blood magic and blood
134. 4:43mages have been an antagonistic force in
135. 4:45every Dragon Age game. In Dragon Age
136. 4:47Origins and the second game, you could
137. 4:49actually be a blood mage and face the
138. 4:51consequences of being such. Inquisition
139. 4:53and Veil Guard don't offer the
140. 4:55opportunity, but I like for it to make a
141. 4:57return in Dragon Age 5. Either as a
142. 5:00premise for the main character that is
143. 5:02struggling to fight off the urge to use
144. 5:04blood magic or as a returning
145. 5:06specialization. Number five, last but
146. 5:09not least,
147. 5:10swimming. You know, it's been a running
148. 5:12joke that our main protagonist
149. 5:14throughout all of these games just has a
150. 5:15very severe case of aquaphobia. BioWare,
151. 5:19it is time.
152. 5:20We've gone through four major releases.
153. 5:22If I get another protagonist that drowns
154. 5:25whenever they step into a kiddie pool's
155. 5:26worth of water, I might jump off the
156. 5:28tower of Ostagar. BioWare, look, hey,
157. 5:31listen to my voice, okay? You can do it.
158. 5:33If you were working with Unreal, I'd
159. 5:34even try to help you out. But someone
160. 5:37decided to use Frostbite instead, so
161. 5:38you're on your own on this one, but you
162. 5:39got this. I believe in you. Give us
163. 5:41swimming. It doesn't have to be
164. 5:43underwater swimming. It doesn't have to
165. 5:44be performance swimming. Doggy paddling
166. 5:47is enough. Just floating on your back is
167. 5:50just fine. I know we can do backstrokes.
168. 5:52It'll be It'll be okay. And those are my
169. 5:54hopes and desires out of Dragon Age 5.
170. 5:56I'm sure I'll have more as the years go
171. 5:59by, but for now I'm satisfied with this.
172. 6:03Since you watched the video this far,
173. 6:04I'll give you one more and this is
174. 6:05probably my most controversial one that
175. 6:08I've kept to myself. I believe that
176. 6:10Dragon Age 5 should be
177. 6:13the last Dragon Age game. Don't hit that
178. 6:15dislike button just yet. Let me explain
179. 6:16first. Whether it's a true final story
180. 6:19for this franchise or just a final game
181. 6:21that represents Dragon Age as we know
182. 6:22it,
183. 6:23I think all the choices and consequences
184. 6:26and threads that have built up over this
185. 6:29time
186. 6:30need to end with five. And I know I
187. 6:33previously released a video that
188. 6:35discussed a trilogy theory and if they
189. 6:39want to go through with that
190. 6:40and
191. 6:42make something out of that, then sure,
192. 6:43fine, I'm all for it. But if that's not
193. 6:45the case and if Dragon Age 5 is just
194. 6:48another game to add to the list, then I
195. 6:50think it needs to be the last one. But
196. 6:52maybe it doesn't have to be a total
197. 6:54ending. Maybe the next set of games
198. 6:55takes place
199. 6:57far in the future
200. 6:58in a Titan Age where Thedas is starting
201. 7:00to embrace an industrial revolution.
202. 7:02Maybe it takes place on an entirely
203. 7:04different continent. Either way, the
204. 7:05slate needs to be scraped clean and we
205. 7:07deserve a game that's free from the
206. 7:09burden of consequence. Be it put into a
207. 7:12brand new age or a
208. 7:14brand new IP altogether. I think fans of
209. 7:18BioWare in general deserve a brand new
210. 7:20beginning,
211. 7:21especially considering how much we've
212. 7:23lost along the way. Also, apparently,
213. 7:27there has been a mysterious force
214. 7:29weaving all the conflicts of the last
215. 7:31four games together and will be making
216. 7:33an appearance. This makes Dragon Age 5
217. 7:35the perfect opportunity to bring this
218. 7:37epic story to a close.
219. 7:39I hope you enjoyed the video. Let me
220. 7:41know what you'd like to see in Dragon
221. 7:42Age 5 down in the comments. I'm working
222. 7:44on a Dragon Age theory bit on what or
223. 7:47who this mysterious force could be, but
224. 7:49until then,
225. 7:50be safe, be well, be kind.
226. 7:53Bye-bye.