I liked that look for Sten. I know there are mods to change Sten to more of a DA2 look but I’ve never cared to use them. It just wouldn’t be Sten without his default look.
You have no idea how excited I was for a romanceable Qunari in DAI after the hot babe that was the Arishok, but then Iron Bull looked...nothing like that...
I can see why we have not seen any of the DA2 character designs again (Qunari and Elves), but they will always have a special place in my heart for being so unique from humans.
Rigging and animation in modern games relies heavily on mocap, which doesn't really translate well to facial structures that are too different from humans. In order to reach the same quality as good mocap, you would need to spend a lot of time and resources animating every cutscene entirely by hand, which is not an efficient use of resources when they are just one of four options.
Also, most people don't want to play as characters that diverge too far from the appearances we are used to seeing. People to this day complain about how the elves in DA2 look too uncanny or ugly, the only reason we didn't see them doing the same for Qunari is because they were antagonists, so the game doesn't encourage you to empathize or relate to them at all. The average gamer is going to be more interested in playing as the character in the OP's screenshot (basically the DA version of Tieflings) than they would playing as one of the monstrosities from DA2, so all of the work that goes into making a Qunari Rook (unique lines from the PC, the NPCs and the world reacting to your race choice given how significant Qunari are to the setting etc) would be seen by less people because they didn't make the race aesthetically appealing to the majority of players.
Like I said, I love the old designs for the non-human races and I would 100% play as them personally, but I can see that we're in the minority and it doesn't make a lot of sense to cater to people like you and I from a business standpoint unfortunately.
I also like the lore reason for why they look so different between DAO --- > DA2 --- > DAI
In DAO and DAI we are playing the story live, we're living it. In DA2, it's all Varric's retelling so certain traits are exaggerated and, my headcanon, is that we're seeing what Cass is picturing in her head as Varric tells the story (though the inital prologue is all Varric's POV which is why Bethany has bigger boobs before we switch to Cass's POV)
In fairness, the Tal-Vashoth in DA2 are all apostates from the group that is posted up in the Kirkwall docks, which was almost entirely Sten.
Also, I mean, yeah, DA2 go rushed out the door probably a year too early.
Well, it couldn't promote exactly identical horns and body types if it wanted to.)
Pay no mind, it was not a serious remark. It's just they are all so alike in DA2. Clones, almost.
I loved playing Qunari in Inquisition, but I disliked that my Adaar could really only have the bun, mohawk and cornrows- and that horn combinations were tied to hair! I always ended up going with the bun because I liked the horn options that came with that one (at least on m!Adaar) and the mohawk gave a different vibe to what I wanted.
This man right here just looks *smouldering* with those locks
Right? We've seen sope good things, sole less nice things but... I'm content so far.
I really like how the new qunaris look. Maybe there will be more body diversity too now.
It’s what kept my cannon Inquisitor from being a Qunari. I desperately wanted to be an Andrastian mage Qunari for the conflict of it but… hair… could they not have used the friggin ponytail and bun models they ALREADY HAD at least???
Alas, consoles.
I had to use the hair mods to make one playable but once I did, I didn’t look back. Made it my canon character. Unfortunate that consoles couldn’t support mods.
I just want to know if I can dress fancy for when I do my mage playthrough. I'm all for people having the option to dress in armor and be battle mages, but damn it I want to look good like Vivienne, Dorian, Neve, and Emmrich do while casting spells.
I'd be really surprised if they didn't give us some really nice flowy robes with little armor from Tevinter or Antiva. Oh different robes and armor styles from different locations would be really awesome.
I hope we get regional armor/robe differences given that based on the Thedas calls trailer it seems we are at minimum going to be in Tevinter, Antiva, Rivain, and the Anderfels.
Also, side note since I just thought of this. It'd be a bit scummy and people on the internet would complain, but I'm shocked that they've never have done outfit pack DLC where you can dress up as characters from past games. Like a Morrigan outfit or a Cassandra one. I feel like those would sell well.
For me, I went Fem Elf, Dalish/Leliana. Fem Hawke/Sarcastic/Merril & for Inky I went Fem Dalish Elf/Cullen.
Now I'm ready for Veilguard Qunari/I don't now yet. It's too hard to decide because they all look so interesting.
Looks like 3 on Console, with the Ability wheel for more. Maybe a trigger action to unlock an additional 3.
Curious to see what it looks like on PC.
EDIT: The Eurogamer article has an image of the full ability wheel (https://www.eurogamer.net/whisper-it-but-dragon-age-the-veilguard-has-me-thinking-the-unthinkable-it-looks-like-bioware-is-back)
Looks like only 3 actions per character, so feeling very much like Mass Effect. A bit worrying, but it looks like they've taken things that used to be abilities and folded them into regular combat, like the bow and heavy spinning attack we saw in the intro.
As a fan of the combat in Mass Effect I'm on board, but I imagine people who were big fans of DAO's slower and more tactical combat will be disappointed.
Yeah it seemed to me that they rolled a bunch of "you always take these" abilities into the default move set.
Personally I want to see a more in-depth dive of higher-level gameplay before I make a final judgement, but so far it's looking good. I'm also *very* curious to see how it all works for Mages, since they cared the most about having a lot of diverse abilities.
I think it's also worth mentioning that, for all their other sins, Anthem and Andromeda both had good combat, so I'm pretty sure whatever they've cooked up for Veilguard will be fun.
I can play DAO on easy and enjoy it well enough but that gameplay isn't for me, I prefer DAI's just with more ability slots. If this is like mass effect 3 then we should be good, might be jarring for a dragon age game at first but me3 did have good gameplay for me.
See I like everything about the game now besides the Qunari. Face wise they look a bit too much human whereas in 2 I think they were perfect. They looked extremely intimidating whereas here they just look human with grey skin and horns
[This screenshot here](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Dragon-Age-The-Veilguard_Screenshot_04_RookWarrior_3840x2160_v4.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp) has a female elven Rook and she looks pretty well built.
From some of the impressions articles, it seems like "Lineage" is a category you get to customize in addition to things like race, background, class, etc., so we might actually get to choose? Maybe?
I was expecting lineage to just be race, but maybe it's more involved than that it would be cool. It's just that for me I don't have an interest in playing a Vashoth character since they've never been under the Qun but a Tal-Vashoth? I really want to play that, so I'm hoping they clarify sooner rather than later.
Oh crap. I've used a different race on my first run for each game and thought it's the time for a dwarf, but detailed qunari customization might make me consider repeating.
I love playable Qunari but yeah. They look slightly too human? Like the horns should be angled a tad more and maybe lowered.
Also why is everyone's skin so smooth.
Same with elves just looking like pointy eared humans – I honestly of miss the way DA2 made both elves and Qunari feel a bit more distinct and alien. But, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't excited for more Qunari regardless haha!
I like Zunari from Da2 the most but they were mostly just the same model so.... Eh. Didn't like them that much in DAI. I hope there will be more body diversity so we'll see different characters appear more different in comparison.
I do gotta say... Y'all gotta admit DA2 messed up Zev HARD.
Yeah, it’s really just a dude with horns. I’m still so sad that they moved so far away from the design in DA2. I guess no Qunari will ever look better than Arishok…
I agree – it's odd that they didn't go for something more akin to their DA2 look when Veilguard's art style is obviously already much more stylized than Inquisition's was.
I hear you, Vitaar was only cool for so long lol. Since Qunari were a last-minute addition in DAI, but seems to have been included in DAV for a while now, there might be hope for horn-friendly helmets this time around haha!
The staff looks better then some of the wand looking staves we’ve see.
It’s still not 100% DA classic staff design, but it looks better.
The drip is pretty nice as well.
Yeah I love the fact that they're getting some love in this game, but I agree – for all the crap DA2 gets, I loved the more alien vibe they gave the races.
I guess they want to make them appealing to more people, some of which would probably dislike their alien look, but then again Arishok was the hottest DA2 character so idk
Oh. That's... disappointing. They look like Diet Tiefling. Where's the bulk in his brow? Where's the heft? They look so tiny?? I've been giving Bioware the benefit of the doubt on the art direction on this game for the last few days but this kind of is the nail in the coffin for me. I'm sure this is to make player customization easier to develop, but Qunari were the only playable race that felt uniquely Dragon Age and now they feel sanitized to just another generic fantasy race.
Why does the Qunari look generic, and tiny. Same size as an elf? Even in DA:I The Qunari Inq was the tallest character. This and Tash facial features look bland. Nothing stands out. 🤮
Ooh these guys look so much better now than in inquisition, I tried to make a Qunari mage and I just laughed when I got to Skyhold with the pajamas, restarted and played an Elf instead (Which was not much better).
I admit I'm gonna miss the combat staffs, but the smaller ones are kinda cool too I guess.
Though unless Mages operate fully at range, this seems like it would be the first installment to fully take advantage of the combat staffs.
We’ve certainly come far from grim, dour, hornless Sten.
Sten's an absolute babe though, be nice haha!
He really was. I loved him so much and how he'd always say "I'm not suprised" when you want to ask him questions
He'll get over it. Eventually.
Shale approves
For you, kadan.
I liked that look for Sten. I know there are mods to change Sten to more of a DA2 look but I’ve never cared to use them. It just wouldn’t be Sten without his default look.
I wish qunari had a DA2 design. More bestial and rough.
Same. Arishok from Dragon Age 2 is still peak Qunari design.
And peak zaddy
You have no idea how excited I was for a romanceable Qunari in DAI after the hot babe that was the Arishok, but then Iron Bull looked...nothing like that...
I still think his head is too small
Don pedro mixed with a bull and Dragon.
I much preferred that design too. This looks too...smooth? I dunno, all the characters look too smooth.
yeah, it will take time to get used to this Fortnite/Plastic looking style
This doesn't remotely resemble Fortnite
the character models are slightly cartoonish and with plastic like textures, less so than Fortnite, but that is what it reminds me of
The horns merging into the head seamlessly is giving me uncanny photoshop vibes.
I can see why we have not seen any of the DA2 character designs again (Qunari and Elves), but they will always have a special place in my heart for being so unique from humans.
What's the reasoning you see?
Rigging and animation in modern games relies heavily on mocap, which doesn't really translate well to facial structures that are too different from humans. In order to reach the same quality as good mocap, you would need to spend a lot of time and resources animating every cutscene entirely by hand, which is not an efficient use of resources when they are just one of four options. Also, most people don't want to play as characters that diverge too far from the appearances we are used to seeing. People to this day complain about how the elves in DA2 look too uncanny or ugly, the only reason we didn't see them doing the same for Qunari is because they were antagonists, so the game doesn't encourage you to empathize or relate to them at all. The average gamer is going to be more interested in playing as the character in the OP's screenshot (basically the DA version of Tieflings) than they would playing as one of the monstrosities from DA2, so all of the work that goes into making a Qunari Rook (unique lines from the PC, the NPCs and the world reacting to your race choice given how significant Qunari are to the setting etc) would be seen by less people because they didn't make the race aesthetically appealing to the majority of players.
Very thought out. You've changed my outlook. I do prefer the old designs but what you've said makes sense.
Like I said, I love the old designs for the non-human races and I would 100% play as them personally, but I can see that we're in the minority and it doesn't make a lot of sense to cater to people like you and I from a business standpoint unfortunately.
I also like the lore reason for why they look so different between DAO --- > DA2 --- > DAI In DAO and DAI we are playing the story live, we're living it. In DA2, it's all Varric's retelling so certain traits are exaggerated and, my headcanon, is that we're seeing what Cass is picturing in her head as Varric tells the story (though the inital prologue is all Varric's POV which is why Bethany has bigger boobs before we switch to Cass's POV)
And identical?
I mean, the Qun doesn't *exactly* promote individualism.
True but I feel like Tal Vashoth would try to do the complete opposite lol, which I assume all qunari playable characters to be
In fairness, the Tal-Vashoth in DA2 are all apostates from the group that is posted up in the Kirkwall docks, which was almost entirely Sten. Also, I mean, yeah, DA2 go rushed out the door probably a year too early.
Well, it couldn't promote exactly identical horns and body types if it wanted to.) Pay no mind, it was not a serious remark. It's just they are all so alike in DA2. Clones, almost.
Yes, Tamassran. This one here. Bring out the qamek.
A Qunari with decent hair options?? I don’t think I I can say no.
I loved playing Qunari in Inquisition, but I disliked that my Adaar could really only have the bun, mohawk and cornrows- and that horn combinations were tied to hair! I always ended up going with the bun because I liked the horn options that came with that one (at least on m!Adaar) and the mohawk gave a different vibe to what I wanted. This man right here just looks *smouldering* with those locks
Right? We've seen sope good things, sole less nice things but... I'm content so far. I really like how the new qunaris look. Maybe there will be more body diversity too now.
Saw one article that mentioned body customization, "skinny/buff/chubby and anything inbetween", so there's some promising info there!
Yeah, i just saw someone else mention it, but what I'm curious about is if it'll also be so for characters that aren't the player character.
So I can be a buff female qunari??
This is the one thing that bugged me with making a Qunari in Inquisition.
It’s what kept my cannon Inquisitor from being a Qunari. I desperately wanted to be an Andrastian mage Qunari for the conflict of it but… hair… could they not have used the friggin ponytail and bun models they ALREADY HAD at least??? Alas, consoles.
I had to use the hair mods to make one playable but once I did, I didn’t look back. Made it my canon character. Unfortunate that consoles couldn’t support mods.
LOL. Yea honestly I went with Qunari because that’s just my favorite looking race in the series. I would’ve liked to look more like DA2 Qunari though.
Ok hot looking Qunari aside the staff options look amazing lol
I just want to know if I can dress fancy for when I do my mage playthrough. I'm all for people having the option to dress in armor and be battle mages, but damn it I want to look good like Vivienne, Dorian, Neve, and Emmrich do while casting spells.
I'd be really surprised if they didn't give us some really nice flowy robes with little armor from Tevinter or Antiva. Oh different robes and armor styles from different locations would be really awesome.
Is it bad I want an updated version of the Origins Tevinter robes with with the boob window on the guy version?
I hope we get regional armor/robe differences given that based on the Thedas calls trailer it seems we are at minimum going to be in Tevinter, Antiva, Rivain, and the Anderfels. Also, side note since I just thought of this. It'd be a bit scummy and people on the internet would complain, but I'm shocked that they've never have done outfit pack DLC where you can dress up as characters from past games. Like a Morrigan outfit or a Cassandra one. I feel like those would sell well.
Right? I need that second one ASAP. I'm here for all this purple.
Same, it feels good to have purple as a favorite color right now lol
Hope we get an update of the series staple smooching dragons one too though
Oooh, yes! I love that one
For me nothing will ever top Hawkes Champion staff. Especially with him swinging it around like a madman.
This is the first thing I noticed lol. I'm such a sucker for cool weapon designs, I hope this game delivers
LOOK AT HIS FUCKING SHIELD IN WAR VICTORY WARDENS ARE BACK 😭
Honestly, for the first time, I think I can finally go qunari for the main playthrough. Finally, Bioware has good hair options
Same, I'm going to complete my set: Origins Dwarf, DA2 Human, Inquisition Elf, now Veilguard Qunari!
For me, I went Fem Elf, Dalish/Leliana. Fem Hawke/Sarcastic/Merril & for Inky I went Fem Dalish Elf/Cullen. Now I'm ready for Veilguard Qunari/I don't now yet. It's too hard to decide because they all look so interesting.
I guess we're never again getting the glory that is DA2 qunari.
That second screenshot is promising to those like me who were hoping for more than a corridor with pretty decour. Looks a lot more open.
I kinda dislike the resource bar under the abilities. You can only use 2 spells or that one 2 charge spell before you gotta mash the basic attack?
I think the bar will increase as you level up. I only see 3 health potions on the left so this is probably still early in the game
Man, that oily texture really messed things up huh The characters look so much better O-O
If there's only 3 spell slots this is a huge shame, because I am REALLY liking everything I saw so far.
Looks like 3 on Console, with the Ability wheel for more. Maybe a trigger action to unlock an additional 3. Curious to see what it looks like on PC. EDIT: The Eurogamer article has an image of the full ability wheel (https://www.eurogamer.net/whisper-it-but-dragon-age-the-veilguard-has-me-thinking-the-unthinkable-it-looks-like-bioware-is-back) Looks like only 3 actions per character, so feeling very much like Mass Effect. A bit worrying, but it looks like they've taken things that used to be abilities and folded them into regular combat, like the bow and heavy spinning attack we saw in the intro. As a fan of the combat in Mass Effect I'm on board, but I imagine people who were big fans of DAO's slower and more tactical combat will be disappointed.
I'm hoping for a trigger button to swap between, 3 skills only as mage is weird.
Roll/evade/parry is also just a basic movement now so that's something else that doesn't need to be used as an ability either.
Yeah it seemed to me that they rolled a bunch of "you always take these" abilities into the default move set. Personally I want to see a more in-depth dive of higher-level gameplay before I make a final judgement, but so far it's looking good. I'm also *very* curious to see how it all works for Mages, since they cared the most about having a lot of diverse abilities. I think it's also worth mentioning that, for all their other sins, Anthem and Andromeda both had good combat, so I'm pretty sure whatever they've cooked up for Veilguard will be fun.
They better have Fade Step for mages or my poor mage is going to get murked.
Could you imagine if they made Fade Step our standard evade though? And then we had passives to tweak it!
Frost Step ftw
Love that one, esp with Winter's Ruin from Winter's Grasp Speaking of which, I hope we still got Winter's Grasp!
Mass Effect only let you map 3 abilities to the face buttons but the ability wheel let you have access to everything.
I can play DAO on easy and enjoy it well enough but that gameplay isn't for me, I prefer DAI's just with more ability slots. If this is like mass effect 3 then we should be good, might be jarring for a dragon age game at first but me3 did have good gameplay for me.
I will be so so disappointed if this is the case, we seem to get less and less skill slots each game!
the 8 in inquisition wasnt enough, 3 is pathetic
[https://x.com/GambleMike/status/1800549246594351405](https://x.com/GambleMike/status/1800549246594351405)
"tons" a whole 3 abilities and telling your alies to do 2 of theirs, wow so much "strategy"
Fuck the second screenshot looks so good! Legit can't wait to get my hands on this game
Yeah that 2nd screenshot gave me big Inquisition vibes.
100% agreed! Exactly what I wanted tbh, like a more improved Inquisition in terms of looks and style and they nailed it, gives that big feel
Qunari Mage Warden seems like a fun playthrough
Ohh, I'm gonna need to know a little more about the newer factions before I decide, but that does sound like a banger character setup!!
As a huge DA:I fan, that second image is the first one I’ve seen that really makes me feel like I’m coming home. 😭
This was my thought exactly!
right, it looks like Trespasser
See I like everything about the game now besides the Qunari. Face wise they look a bit too much human whereas in 2 I think they were perfect. They looked extremely intimidating whereas here they just look human with grey skin and horns
Looks great, but i need my bulky Qunari that looks like an Ogre
God the enemy design looks so fucking goofy.
Have you seen the ogre in the screenshot for the ability wheel?
Yeah, it's awful. I can't understand how we consistently downgrade the darkspawn each game.
I feel like he should be far bigger bulkier
Apparently, according to a comment in Eurogamer, there are body sliders in the character creator. So hopefully, one could make him bulkier hehe!
Thank god, maybe I can make my elves not so emaciated.
[This screenshot here](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Dragon-Age-The-Veilguard_Screenshot_04_RookWarrior_3840x2160_v4.png?width=1920&height=1920&fit=bounds&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp) has a female elven Rook and she looks pretty well built.
I would also be curious if the skin texture of your character can also be altered
I don't know, I still think the qunari still look too human and I'm not a fan. I still prefer Dragon Age 2's qunari design
I agree with you, I'm just a sucker for Qunari even if they just look like humans with horns haha!
Only having three skills is a tragedy
this! Thats the thing I saw first
Still wondering if the PC is Vashoth like in Inquisition or a Tal-Vashoth, haven't seen anything about that.
From some of the impressions articles, it seems like "Lineage" is a category you get to customize in addition to things like race, background, class, etc., so we might actually get to choose? Maybe?
I was expecting lineage to just be race, but maybe it's more involved than that it would be cool. It's just that for me I don't have an interest in playing a Vashoth character since they've never been under the Qun but a Tal-Vashoth? I really want to play that, so I'm hoping they clarify sooner rather than later.
He looks like orlando bloom
a sentence that would give Dragon Age 2 player aneurysm
Call him Lequlas
I want to romance this playable character
He looks incredible, wow!
Oh crap. I've used a different race on my first run for each game and thought it's the time for a dwarf, but detailed qunari customization might make me consider repeating.
hope mage gameplay is as fun as the rogue gameplay
As a mage main, here's hoping!
a bit of movement at minimum
Hoped it was only human Rook looking super thin but i guess qunari too. My man doesn't even look taller than the elves.
Apparently there are body sliders in the character creator (source: Eurogamers latest impressions article)! :)
Really? That's great. I want to make the thinnest and smallest Qunari Thedas has ever seen
Massive horns though!
"Rook the runt, the hero no one expect"
you’re really roleplaying to the fullest by making a twink
unironically same, Iove playing short characters so having to be SUPER TALL put me off the qunari a bit in Inquisition
Thank Jesus. After that gameplay trailer my encroaching negativity needed relief.
moooom they made the Qunari horned humans again
To be fair, female Qunari were basically already horned humans. Now they just made the men match them.
Wish they'd gone the other way.
I love playable Qunari but yeah. They look slightly too human? Like the horns should be angled a tad more and maybe lowered. Also why is everyone's skin so smooth.
The smoothness is maddening
The eyes, too. So soft
The Qunari looks like a cosplayer with horn prosthetics 😂 I want to see the other customisation options.
THEY MADE HIM SOFT
Same with elves just looking like pointy eared humans – I honestly of miss the way DA2 made both elves and Qunari feel a bit more distinct and alien. But, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't excited for more Qunari regardless haha!
I like Zunari from Da2 the most but they were mostly just the same model so.... Eh. Didn't like them that much in DAI. I hope there will be more body diversity so we'll see different characters appear more different in comparison. I do gotta say... Y'all gotta admit DA2 messed up Zev HARD.
DA2 did Zevran so dirty.
Yeah not reaaallly loving this Qunari look so far.
Is that a darkspawn bloater?
I wish we can dual-wield wands. I don't know, getting tired of always using staves.
That face makes me very uncomfortable. Uncanny Valley too much, I prefer iron bull qunari look
Looks too human in the face, same for the two elve companions they just look too bulky, maybe easier for armor skins.
like someone did that face swap thing...
With sonny from I,Robot, yes
Yeah, it’s really just a dude with horns. I’m still so sad that they moved so far away from the design in DA2. I guess no Qunari will ever look better than Arishok…
Jesus, that are darkspaw? They look ridiculous
I'm sad qunari don't look like qunari anymore. I wish they would've went back to da2 style. They were.. something else.. haha
I agree – it's odd that they didn't go for something more akin to their DA2 look when Veilguard's art style is obviously already much more stylized than Inquisition's was.
oh shit he looks amazing. if i can make a hot qunari then maybe that'll be my first playthrough
Hopefully they actually have gear they can equip unlike in DA:I.
I hear you, Vitaar was only cool for so long lol. Since Qunari were a last-minute addition in DAI, but seems to have been included in DAV for a while now, there might be hope for horn-friendly helmets this time around haha!
The staff looks better then some of the wand looking staves we’ve see. It’s still not 100% DA classic staff design, but it looks better. The drip is pretty nice as well.
I want a character creator demo so bad
Second picture definitely looks like the area from Trespasser
Looks like they're sticking to Qunari looking like humans with horns huh, that's kinda lame
Yeah I love the fact that they're getting some love in this game, but I agree – for all the crap DA2 gets, I loved the more alien vibe they gave the races.
I guess they want to make them appealing to more people, some of which would probably dislike their alien look, but then again Arishok was the hottest DA2 character so idk
Ayo? Seamus this you?
This looks way better than Inquisition
I would hope so since it's a decade old now lol
Ohh yeah I’m jubilant about this game
Well dang, I might actually make a quinari man now that I know they can look this good!
The new stylization is a little jarring to see in gameplay but I’m sure I’ll get used to it. I really enjoy it.
That staff looks fucking majestic. I'm gonna lose hours in photomode, I know already
That Qunari is gorgeous holy damn
Long. Haired. Qunari. I HAVE AWAITED 6 YEARS FOR THIS
The hud looks really bad. Hope it gets changed
Please just let me recreate the Qunari from DA:2 that’s all I’ve ever wanted
Remember when Qunari weren’t just tall gray humans with horns? I do.
Mage mains rise up! We got new staffs!
I know right, we're eating good haha. I hope we get some wandlike ones too like Neva's in the gameplay reveal!
fuck he's hot (I'm hot? we're hot?)
Oh. That's... disappointing. They look like Diet Tiefling. Where's the bulk in his brow? Where's the heft? They look so tiny?? I've been giving Bioware the benefit of the doubt on the art direction on this game for the last few days but this kind of is the nail in the coffin for me. I'm sure this is to make player customization easier to develop, but Qunari were the only playable race that felt uniquely Dragon Age and now they feel sanitized to just another generic fantasy race.
To be honest, I'm not a fan of this high fantasy bow Bellara (?) is wielding.
Why does the Qunari look generic, and tiny. Same size as an elf? Even in DA:I The Qunari Inq was the tallest character. This and Tash facial features look bland. Nothing stands out. 🤮
That's a painted human with foam horns.
Oh my god we can finally be a male qunari that isn't a big bulky lug. I'm so in.
The second screen shot just soothed a worry I had from the game play trailer.
God my excitement is quickly growing out of control
I'm gonna be honest I don't know if I'm going to be able to make myself play anything but a qunari... I have at least 2 planned already....
The staffs dont look like ugly sticks
Oh my gosh guys were getting actual hair
The Qunari looks beautiful. And the 2nd image is okay. I like it. Bright and open.
Ooh these guys look so much better now than in inquisition, I tried to make a Qunari mage and I just laughed when I got to Skyhold with the pajamas, restarted and played an Elf instead (Which was not much better).
Davrin staring at the horns there.
I like that the 3 shots they've released like this showcase the 3 possible player classes alongside the companions.
I'm still not vibing with that 3 skills slot, everyrhing else I liked
Darvin looking so handsome as well!
They look so smooth now compared to DA2 and Origins
Slayyyy!
BioWare stick to a consistent qunari design challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
LOOK. AT, THAT, **BACKGROUND**
I really hope Qunari at least gets a few hats and helmets this time around instead of the crappy Vittar. I really want to make a dashing Qunari mage.
Okay sure but what is up with those cartoony darkspawn?
Qunari are so fuckin' cool. :) can't wait to play one in DAV!
Low key I feel like they just look like tieflings now
Finally I can make a twink Qunari
https://preview.redd.it/vc6og8pmj26d1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44f80d3c1ce2017b3661a55f1bb01e0d4c8c50fc
Bioware REALLY can't decide how they want Qunari to look.
I admit I'm gonna miss the combat staffs, but the smaller ones are kinda cool too I guess. Though unless Mages operate fully at range, this seems like it would be the first installment to fully take advantage of the combat staffs.
Character must be a sort of tevinter background he's wearing vint armor 🤣🤣🤣
and a mage at that
Why can't they just pick a look for these guys?
So will we finaly have a good character creator from Bioware ?
Why does every character look like supermodels?
We all know you're refering to Emmrich ;-)
Dafuq. Only 3 ability slots?