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[king cailan] We’re not even sure this is a true Blight. There were plenty of darkspawn but, alas, we’ve seen no sign of an archdeamon.
[duncan] Disappointed your majesty?
[king cailan] I’d hope for a war like in the tales. Yet a King riding with the fleet with Grey Wardens against a tainted God… but I suppose this will have to do. I must go before Loghain sends out a search party. Farewell, Grey Wardens.
[prisoner] I’m a deserter, or so they think. But there’s no arguing with [...?...]. Army’s are funny that way.
[player makes a choice]
[prisoner] I wasn’t a deserter, but when you catch someone sneaking around in the middle of the night, what else are you going to think? Does it matter? All I want is a bit of food and water.
[player makes a choice]
[prisoner] Just ask my guard for his. He’s still got some dinner. I saw him put it in his camp.
[presenter] So, instead of electing to murder him on the spot, we’re going to try to see if we can find him some food, starting with the guard here.
[guard] Lucky tart. You Grey Wardens get to ride with the King while I’m left with the drudgery of guarding this deserter. They should have just hanged him; put his head on a pike as an example.
[player makes a choice]
[guard] I don’t expect it was an enlightening conversation.
[player makes a choice]
[guard] Did you now? Since nobody sends me nothing to feed him with, the only way you’ll get that is if I give him mine.
[player makes a choice]
[guard] Alright, alright. I guess the poor fellow could stand to have one meal before he’s hanged. Though I don’t know why you’d care. I had nothing to do with it though – if anyone asks why he’s burping, I’m going to say it was you. Just so you know.
[presenter] So, I’m also playing a character with a high persuade skill, I’ve convinced the guard the prisoner some food.
[prisoner] Oh? You’ve brought me some food then? I’m so hungry I could faint dead away.
[player makes a choice]
[prisoner] Much obliged. You’re a kind soul, you are. May Andraste herself rain blessings upon you.
[presenter] There you go. You did a very good deed, you gave him some food; feel good about ourselves. Did you notice something that was missing? ⌊he refers to the alternate course of events seen in this demo⌉ Didn’t find out about the key, didn’t know that he had it on him, didn’t get any of the stuff that might have been in that treasure chest. You make a lot of moral choices in ‘Dragon Age: Origins’, sometimes they don’t pay off. Just because you’re the good guy, or just because you’re the bad guy, maybe it doesn’t pay off in the end. So, you just have to make those choices.
It’s real-time, however you can pause, you can zoom out for a more tactical view - you should recognise this from playing a bit of Baldurs Gate. Check out what the enemy is doing. You can cast spells, use your talents, issue commands. You can run the whole fight from here, or you can zoom in, pop into the other party member, so you’re always in the thick of battle, make use of talents. Speaking of talents, let’s use one of the Warrior talents, that’s our character class, called ‘Berserk’: makes us very strong at the cost of stamina.
So the Hurlocks are coming now. I wanna show off another one of the Warrior talents called ‘Shield Bash’. If done correctly and it’s not resisted, it will actually knock an opponent to the floor. We can follow that up with something called ‘Assault’, which is four quick strikes. There’s a Hurlock Alpha there, much tougher opponent, you can see he’s using his own talents... felled by an arrow! Switch over to one of our party members there to continue; I think we’ll have to get everyone involved in close quarters combat, so I’m going to switch to Jory there, who’s using the bow, and switch out for sword & shield... there we go. Now we’re going to bring the combat to them. Looks like we’ve got two more archers to deal with - you see up in the mini-map here, help to sort things out... one more archer, we’ll make short work of him. So if there’s any healing to do, the mage can do that... oh, we don’t have a mage, that’s right.
Ok, we’re going to keep going, we’re going to show you a character who hasn’t been seen before as well, her name is Morrigan. Sort of a mysterious character, there’s been a bit of speculation about what she is. This is actually the first time that you will meet her in the game.
[morrigan] Well well, what have we here? Are you a vulture, I wonder, a scavenger poking amongst the corpses for bones that are long since cleaned. Or merely an intruder, come into this Dark Spawn [...?...] easy prey.
[presenter] So we’re not going to talk too much about her today. Just wanted to show her off a little bit. Actually going to jump ahead a little bit further. But if you look [... video cuts out]