Dragon Age - Sacred Ashes Trailer

Head over to Gametrailers to watch a new Dragon Age cinematic trailer titled Sacred Ashes (~4 min).
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My thongue is on the floor.
OMG

It is an awesome trailer and no MM music either, which was nice (at least not that I could tell).

wow, that was cool. Fantasy Porn if I've ever see it, I was loosening my collar here!

I liked that suicide bomber spell she pulled on that one Darkspawn, pretty funny

Very nice cinematic and smooth combat animation, although i would have preferred the dragon kicked everyone else arse. Dragon supposed to be one of the strongest enemies in many fantasy / D&D games.

OK, now I know I'm getting old. When the mage gal was complaining about the cold while flaunting her cleavage, I just had to yell out "so put on a sweater!"

Incredible trailer, though! Saving that one for sure!

Loved it! I would be drooling, except I just got Risen today (finally it arrived!!) and I'm totally in love with that

as trailers keep getting (just graphically) cooler (crystal clear where the budget went), the actual game appears to be shittier every day, as they disclose any additional brag-thing.

short stories vs. hollypoop trailers, guess who wins in the end. but still, how many will keep chewing hollypoop for f's sake.
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Originally Posted by baron
as trailers keep getting (just graphically) cooler (crystal clear where the budget went), the actual game appears to be shittier every day, as they disclose any additional brag-thing.

short stories vs. hollypoop trailers, guess who wins in the end. but still, how many will keep chewing hollypoop for f's sake.

Luckily for many of us it keeps looking better and better, the more they show actual game play. I thought Sacred Ashes was pretty cool, kinda like Blizzard's videos.

this trailer says absolutley nothing about the game itself.
its nice to look at, but its not the game.

thers no jumping, no flik flacs and morphing in midair,no button for stabbing orcs in the eyes and no propably no "one hitting" enemys.

Originally Posted by turian
this trailer says absolutley nothing about the game itself.
its nice to look at, but its not the game.

thers no jumping, no flik flacs and morphing in midair,no button for stabbing orcs in the eyes and no propably no "one hitting" enemys.

That's true for most of these trailers, though - as in they generally look better and exaggerate features.

Not that I necessarily support that direction, but it's been the case for decades and as you sound like you're targeting DA:O specifically with your critique - it's only fair to point out how it's 100% par for the course.

cant help but thinking of how much in-game content, bug fixes and graphical improvements they could have done instead of this video which probably took them months.. haha im such a pessimist

Very cool.

These trailers are killing me. I just can't wait for this to be released.

Originally Posted by bemushroomed
cant help but thinking of how much in-game content, bug fixes and graphical improvements they could have done instead of this video which probably took them months.. haha im such a pessimist

Bioware didn't make this trailer, Blur Studio did.

http://www.blur.com/

True.. However the costs associated with producing it could have gone into game development. Marketing is important though.

According to Desslock, the actual fight in game is just as epic:

In other news, the fight with the dragon that the most recent trailer depicted actually looks almost as epic in game:

Desslock posted this:

….I don't think you have to worry about dragons not being strong enough in the actual game. They make BG2's dragons looking like overgrown iguanas -- this is an actual combat scene

Dragon Fight In game

Any mage can acquire any spells, so you can transition them to any role you want. But there's so much variety that you'll want to try out different branches -- I mixed my party up a lot because I like a variety of challenges and wanted to see as many interactions as possible, but when I wanted to get shit done and deal with big battles, I generally had 2 mages (both of whom could provide healing but different offensive capabilities), a warrior and my main character Rogue.

I love magic in this game - like Dragon Age in general, it's essentially "freestyle D&D" --- without legacy baggage and billions of redundant spells that basically do the same thing. And you can't just spam your most powerful area of effect spells because they have cool-down periods that are very well-balanced to reflect their potency.

I much prefer BioWare's character development/magic systems to 4th Edition D&D, for instance, even though I think they had a lot of common goals for how to evolve a fantasy RPG beyond the limitations of older editions of D&D and similar games.

Hmmm a rogue main char. I wonder if there will be a rogue NPC that you can pick up in game as well.

Originally Posted by Daroou
True.. However the costs associated with producing it could have gone into game development. Marketing is important though.

Can we at least agree that if they should have changed anything, then maybe it should be the "this is the new shit" marketing, and not a trailer like this one?

I mean, as "mature" as the modern audience is - I simply can't accept that the crap we've witnessed in the "shit" marketing campaign is going to have a more beneficial effect than a less ridiculous and more considered campaign.

But what do I know.

Originally Posted by DPB
Bioware didn't make this trailer, Blur Studio did.

http://www.blur.com/

So? They hardly did it for free + it's not like they couldnt have been assigned to other tasks, or other people could have been, for that money..

Marketing is important i guess, but still.. i think marketing can be done with just showing of the gameplay, if the game is good enough.. personally i never buy games based on seeing cool/expensive looking CGI trailers, it doesnt help me getting hyped either.

Originally Posted by Daroou
True.. However the costs associated with producing it could have gone into game development. Marketing is important though.

It's probably not Bioware's budget. It's EA's marketing budget I would assume. And I don't think that you can take money from the marketing budget and throw it into the development budget any which way. Producing these trailers is probably a good way to reach more mainstream audiences that don't spend lots of time in RPG-forums.

On the trailer itself I thought the dragon went down very easily. Eventhough it's fantasy and I know it's not realistic but it feels like a dragon should be harder to kill. I would have liked to see it eat and barbeque a few of the main characters.

Originally Posted by leth
Hmmm a rogue main char. I wonder if there will be a rogue NPC that you can pick up in game as well.

Two, that are known so far.

A human female bard variant, and an elf male assassin.