14 DAY TRIAL // Dragon Age: Inquisition, the upcoming medieval fantasy role-playing game from BioWare, requires around 100 hours to complete, according to the studio, and is set to feature about 20 individual dragons that can be fought in different ways.
Dragon Age: Inquisition is one of the most anticipated games of the year, with BioWare looking to deliver a sprawling role-playing game experience that can compete with contemporary rivals like Skyrim, or Dark Souls.
The game received plenty of details and quite a fair amount of gameplay footage at E3 2014 last week and fans are certainly looking forward to the game's release this October.
While talking with Angry Joe, via Gamepur, BioWare's Cameron Lee has gone in depth about the scope and size of Inquisition and how it has sprawling story and over 100 hours of actual gameplay in the world.
"For the open world stuff, just getting lost in the world, [you can expect] a hundred hours, easily. In addition to that, there’s the Bioware storytelling; that’s like you know, 40-50 hours of narrative, meaty kind of stuff," he said.
"There’s surely enough content to get lost and explore much. The narrative is in addition to that, so that’s a big, big game, it took us years to make it. I’ve had a ball making it!"
Lee also talked a bit about the actual dragons in Dragon Age: Inquisition, saying that the current amount of beasts is around 20, although that can change until the game is released. He also mentioned that, in order to make these fights feel epic, players can finally target individual limbs on a dragon, which have an impact on the beast's mobility.
"I think we’ve got around twenty at the moment in the game. There could be more or less, that may change you know, but right now it’s about twenty and for the first time, you can actually target individual limbs of the dragons – you can knock down its legs and the dragon will fall over and clash."
Dragon Age: Inquisition certainly sounds like an ambitious role-playing game, so it's going to be interesting to see if BioWare can pull it off once Dragon Age: Inquisition is released on October 21 for the PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One platforms.
Main rivals, like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, have been delayed recently, so BioWare won't have that much competition in terms of actual RPGs, although many other big games are set to debut in that window.