Dragon Age II Forum Activity

Shortly after IGN’s preview with the claim that dialogue has only 3 options was posted to the BioWare forums, several developers replied to point out that IGN is wrong. Technical designer Craig Graff.

We put up to 5 choice options and 5 investigate options per dialog node. There is also a difference between choices (where you are actually deciding something) and giving you the opportunity to express yourself in different ways (which I think is quite cool, but not something I believe we have released any details on yet).

Lead designer Mike Laidlaw.

I’m not really sure where the “there are only three options for dialog” impression they got came from. Perhaps it was when I showed one half of the dialog wheel with three options…which, you know, leaves another half open for…you know…other….options. *Shrug*

Also probably worth noting that we’re not locked into specific icons per place in the wheel. Oh no. We have -much- more flexibility than that. We’re like gymnasts.

Lead writer David Gaider.

I imagine that’s the only dialogue he saw? The demo is pretty action-packed and there’s only the one conversation– which, yes, has three options in it. As has been said elsewhere in this thread, however, that’s not all we’re limited to.

The personality options (which the article mis-characterizes, I’m afraid– they may have been more his impression of the lines he saw rather than our explanation of them) have a bit more complexity as to what they affect. That’s probably part of a larger conversation, however, so we’ll talk about it at length later.

Thanks Rob.