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icharchivist · 24 days ago

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going into my spiral of sea monsters madness i suddenly remembered that the first concept arts of da4 had sea monsters and the books and codex have been hinting to sea monsters for a while (ex: the giants at the bottom of the sea that Ghilan'nain created, which are also mentioned in the TTRPG book), and the artbook says originally instead of our HQ being in the fade we were supposed to be in a magical submarine at the bottom of the sea,

and i remember being so hyped then because OUGHHHHHH

and while i totally understand eventually going against it because of cost reasons (i mean considering da4 only really allowed itself a handful of unique new monsters designs in its bestiary (with Ghilan'nain and Razekiel as boss fights and for however a bitch i may be about da4 those were definitely my highlights i fucking loved the Razekiel boss) i doubt they didn't have much room to wiggle in with new designs) and i guess the Ossuary is kind of what remains of that because you do see a sea monster very quickly in the distance

..... But then i remember this and

bites fist and screams. We could have had so much.....

#this is fully a fuck EA of that bc of the game hadn't had to be rebooted 2 times maybe we'd have had those goodies #this is genuinely something that makes me so sad looking at the concept arts for the game #so many cool things that were developped over 10 years fully scrapped bc they had to restart the development 3 years before release #those pictures date from the trailer from what. 2020? it was just after Tevinter Nights #i thought the first monster was a Cerotax.... from TN...#there's also this whole catacomb area in Minrathous that gives to a massive water hole #and the companions talking about how it's so huge here you don't know what could be lurking there #and i was sure it was hinting to the big monsters in Minrathous teased in TN #but this ended up just being the set up for a platform with a Pride Demon Battle Boss....#Like it FEELS the devs wanted to actually do more and they just had to cut so much #but im GRAAAAaa *bites fist and chews* if we just had let them do their work....#the deep sea angle and sea monsters would have worked so hard on me i'm still so sad #ichatalks about da #ichablogging davg #ichasalty #ish??

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