I don't see how difficulty options concern people...they are optional, how is someone playing this single player game THEIR way gonna hindered YOUR way of playing???

People complaing about easy difficulty has got to be one of the most groan inducing things that happen in gaming circles. It's such primary school mentality. Grow up.

People are just wanting to hate on this game for any reason, let’s just wait until it comes out atleast

if you dont like lower difficulty/''''cheaty'''' accessibility options, then just dont lower the difficulty/toggle accessibility options on when youre playing. simple as that

Thank you very much for the video, I like this news of no death option, it will help a lot of people, especially people who have underlying medical conditions, who are less fortunate then others and also for people who just want to enjoy the story, this and Wukong are definitely the games I am waiting most

If you want to have it difficult you can, not everything has to be dark souls, I actually appriciate Story Mode in Rpgs. I just don't want to bother with 100 turns every time a rat appears, or when the difficulty just stops me from enjoying the story and the characters.

In games like Dragon Age, the story, characters and choices are the gameplay. They are making the game for someone, theyre making the game for the people thwt value thoses things.

I actually 100% agree with you. I think the primary draw of the Dragon Age series has always been the choice based storytelling. If they can nail that and have the gameplay at least be fun, then I think they will be successful. The nice thing is, these different difficulties are all options. If you want a more challenging experience, you can still get that through the Nightmare and Unbound difficulties. Of course it will never have the same prestige as Elden Ring because of that, but I agree with you that it doesn't need to. BG3 has easy and customizable difficulties as well, and yet people still love going for the tactician playthroughs and have a sense of accomplishment when they complete them. I think it will come down to 1. If the combat is fun, and 2. If the harder difficulties are actually difficult and require more pausing and strategy. We will have to wait and see for ourselves how it actually plays. But personally, I say the more options the better.

People should play how they want. I won’t turn on the no-death option, for instance. But if someone out there did, how’s that going to hurt me? It won’t.

Some people literally mod out the gameplay of the other DA games. They are truly here for the story. I support them even if I am not one of them. I genially feel like difficulty options are an accessibility feature. I am a scrub who knows I would get too frustrated with Eldon ring. It’s not for me, but in wish I could play it with the ability to finish it.

Look Elden ring and dragon age are two completely different games that look to achieve different goals. Elden Ring and the rest of the souls games have always been about the struggle and that feeling you get after overcoming a difficult challenge. While Elden Ring and Dark Souls do have role play elements and interesting stories it has always been secondary to the gameplay and the challenge because that is the point of those games. Dragon Age on the other hand is the complete opposite. Their focus is the role playing and the story telling and while you do have the option to make the gameplay more difficult that is not the priority. BioWare simply wants to tell a good story while providing serviceable gameplay and I can respect it because I love all the stories for all the dragon age games.

No, it’s not a problem at all. Anyone who says otherwise is straight up just hating to hate. All it does is allow you to play how you want to. 💁🏻‍♀️ Tune it all the way up or down, that’s the point of difficulty levels anyways.

For me, the ONLY thing I care about is the lore and storytelling. I'm a grown adult with a career and family - I do not have time to "Get Gud", so I like that it can be made super easy so I can just experience the story like a visual novel (and experience the power-fantasy of super easy gameplay) without having to grind for hours. It's ALSO cool that the ease vs. difficulty is toggle-able, so people who want more GAME out of the game can have that fun too, but people like me who only care about making a cool character and experiencing the story, and people who have disabilities that make quick reaction time based things difficult, can enjoy the game without having to put an abundance of time into it.

Personally, I’m turning the auto lock all the way up! I’m not good at more action based combat, so I loved the combat in the first two games. The third game was harder, but I felt like it was a nice compromise for more action based players. So when I saw the new combat, I was disappointed. So these new settings make me feel better

gameplay reveal was definitely on "storyteller"

Options are always great

Dragon Age Origins will always be my favorite Dragon age game.

I've never played Dragon Age is it a fun game? I been thinking about getting this one.

Anyon ewho's played Mas Effec tan dDragon Ag ewil ltell you that Biowaer's games aer designed around havin ga good stor ywit hcharacters and companions who join you on the ride. The games hav enever been abou thard difficult. Suer yo ucan mak ethem hard if yo uwantto but they've never been necessarily about that. They wantthe playres tha thave played the pervious games coming back as well as newcomres to enjoy th eexperience. I've loved the experience up t onow and I'm looking forward to Veilguard.

Frankly l am tired of the Elden Ring Darksouls formula approach happening to every game and now the Chinese dev are cranking out game after game with the same approach games like Black Myth Wutung and along with a lot of other games with the same format nothing is more frustrating than to buy a 70 dollar game come home to play it then play it for 30 minutes then not able to beat the first boss you want to fling the game disc out the window then you put the disc back into the case in put it back into your game stack never to play it again you just got done paying 70 dollars for 30 minutes of gameplay enough already with this l am not saying that they can’t make games like this for the hardcore gamers my question is where are all the other games for everybody else my mine concern now when l buy a game is difficulty level when l hear words like Soulslike ,difficult,unforgiving brutal.combat l am not buying the game l don’t how good the story or graphics is if you can’t beat the game all the way through then what’s the point of playing it if you can’t finish the game and l will give you another example l played Marvels Spider-Man sure parts of the game had frustrating difficult moments in the game but l finished it and played Marvel’s Spider-Man Miles Morales and had the same experience as before but when l started playing Marvels Spider-Man 2 they made the combat ridiculously where wave after wave of enemies to fight the combat became exhausting to play and it just wasn’t very much fun anymore and l played over 20 missions already which means l will probably went buy the next because of that the reason we have difficulty modes in the first place is so that everybody can play the game no matter what skill set your at easy for casual gamers normal for average skilled players and hard and nightmare mode for hardcore gamers if the hardcore gamers want to play the game on nightmare mode and want to die a thousand times then go for it knock yourself out but what l really resent is these nasty disgusting comments from hardcore gamers saying that if someone uses a tutorial in game that they are a baby who needs to be spoonfeed l find those kinda comments insulting and condescending to the rest of us gamers just because we are not at their level of skill set as a gamer these comments have to stop we don’t deserve this kind of abuse okay l said my peace you can hate me if you want

The no death option definitely raised my eyebrows.

I'm very interested to see the audience score of this game

Like the cut G

Havings multiple difficulty settings in not a problem. If any doesn't like this, they just want to be upset. Let them go cry in a corner... right next to the people who get offended by pronouns. Dragon Age is NOT the place for them.

No Death Option... The Games Journalist Difficulty Option

Here’s a simple idea: if STORY MODE difficulty’s to hard for you, don’t play the game Why is it a problem??? Becours it’s a game, it’s meant to be played, it screwed the perception by people who are here for a movie complaining there not getting a movie

Excellent news. I'll be playing normal and then hard, but having a choice is great. This is looking like a GOTY contender.

No, it has never been about the gameplay. It is about good stories and choices that impact the world and characters. The gameplay from dragon age origin was really barely enjoyable...

Does every RPG series need to turn into a hack/slash? FF, now Dragon Age. Baldurs Gate 3 showed that traditional crpg can be VERY succesful.

I think customizable difficulty options are great but all the other forced simplification like having one less companion, 3 active skills and smaller skill trees for companions, and the disappearance of the DAKeep is horribly bad. The EA imposed trend chasing for new audiences is not going to prove fruitful on a franchise that started as a crpg by a company that has been doing crpg's since 1998. That's why most BioWare devs are gone and this has close to none DA DNA.

Cartoonifying it was a LAME idea, it takes away from the story, the 'reality' of the world. I'm REALLY turned off by the very idea of this 'Brutal Legend' wannabe.

wow so besides the journalist diffculty they also have baby option?

Yea I’m all for “accessibility” but ehh idk cheapens the whole product to me

They downgraded a lot I just hope the story is good and long.

This is cope a game that is made for everyone is made for no one I have feeling we have an incoming stinker.

It seems like all these new games want to hold your hand where the fun in that where’s the challenge 🤦‍♂️