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DA:Inquisition - Jaws Of Hakkon Interview

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    [​IMG]PC Gamer interviewed BioWare Producer Chris Pickford about the just released DLC Jaws of Hakkon, and the developer's plan for the future of Dragon Age: Inquisition.

    What were your goals when planning out this first DLC? Presumably it's been in the works for a while.

    We started this during the certification period of Inquisition. What we really wanted to do was marry the size of our exploration areas with the complexity of our plot areas-to try and get a 'critical path' plot style, which has 2000+ of dialogue, and marry that with our exploration areas which offer a huge amount of space.

    With Jaws of Hakkon, what we've tried to do is thread the critical path narrative, the cutscenes and ambient storytelling through a large vertical space. Somewhere where you can climb up trees and go into the depths as well-but when you go through the plotline it's got cinematics and high-quality character moments as well.​
    Based on the interview, more small DLC like Jaws of Hakkon is the future plan.

    Is this template, an expansion that costs this much and includes this much stuff-is that the pattern going forward for singleplayer Inquisition DLC?

    This is our first look at it. In this day and age in the games industry there's no such thing as a template-at least in terms of a BioWare experience. We've seen that with Mass Effect. There are different types of content and, honestly, it's a very long complicated and difficult process to figure that out.

    At this point we've tried to merge the critical path, the exploration experience and the dungeon experience into one coherent, long quest. We're hoping that fans enjoy that, but obviously what we're looking for now is feedback.​
     
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