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Bioware wants your feedback on gameplay to make Dragon Age Inquisition fun
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Uncle Ulty
Banned
I think she meant "Super Phun Thyme"
BuckRobotron
Member
They really need to be able to figure this out themselves. Checked in on the survey anyway, and was surprised how I couldn't remember much about the DA2 cast.
Psychoward
Banned
I know the internet loves to love Obsidian but let's not pretend Alpha Protocol, Dungeon Siege 3, New Vegas etc. have great gameplay.
Ya'll are haters. DA2 was awesome game play wise.
WHY don't you guys stop playing your games on "Normal" mode and set it to very hard or extreme. That way fucking up matters in the game and you have to be tactical.
yiepekaiyei
Banned
What are you doing in a Dragon Age thread if you don't like the game? And the fact that you said that you never played Origins on PC already gives a notion that you don't know what you're talking about, at least for the PC version.
Psychoward
Banned
It's hard to be tactical when enemies spawn out of thin air behind you. Intentionally.
Did them well for Dragon Age 2.
Gintoki313
Banned
YES! I got uninterested in Dragon Age 2 on PC when I found out it had no controller support.
shinobi602
Member
Not necessarily, they do interact a lot with their fans on their official forums and have implemented some ideas and suggestions in their games in the past from there.
To bitch about a game I didn't like. Was simply going to suggest they drop the combat engine and go with real time combat.
And on the PC version, unless it's an entirely different game, it can't be saved. When you click the mouse button, are you controlling the attack or are you just telling your character to go hack and slash? That's literally the only change I can think of that would be a significant change. Does it actually have an open world, or am I still dealing with redundant random encounters on the worlds most boring map screen?
I mean, I know it's not a universal opinion, but I can't stand third person camera control with a mouse and I don't play at a desk, so it's awkward anyway. If the change is just how the special attacks are macro'd (as I imagine it to be) or simply less buggy and better looking, not good enough.
They were going to start another file but then remembered the fade, deep roads and the other 2 hour long dungeons with seemingly endless waves of enemies and lost all their will to play it again.
Sounds eerily similar to my feelings on that game.
CharmingCharlie
Member
No doubt when they get the results back from this survey and they don't like the feedback they will probably say "it is only a vocal minority that voted for the stuff we didn't want to do so we are going to ignore them".
At this point is is pretty hard to have any confidence in Bioware. I mean just how much feedback do they need ?
At this point is is pretty hard to have any confidence in Bioware. I mean just how much feedback do they need ?
Is there one for the other 3-4 dungeons in the game too?
Lostconfused
Member
I imagine you would all probably hate me if you saw how I answered that survey.
Kiss my ass, bioware social
Amen to that.
They're all horrible. The fade, the deep roads, the forest+crypt area, the mountain pass and the several hour long tutorial/intro up until you leave Lothering. It's such an unbelievable chore to play through those areas again.
Yes that was the fade.
This I agree with. I thought the Fade was all kinds of ass, but my god the Deep Roads was worse. Such a long and boring section of that game.
I had a lot of fun with Alpha Protocol's gameplay. New Vegas, on the other hand, was not good. The unfortunate nature of being shackled to Fallout 3.
Oh man, if only I could skip those other dungeons, I would play Dragon Age Origin again in a bloody heartbeat.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Outsource it.
The Smoking Bun
Banned
You must be living in Bizaaro world. Alpha Protocol was boring and cumbersome to play.
New Vegas on the other hand is the greatest WRPG of this generation.
To Obsidian? Yes. lol
Pretty sure they said that is in. Human, Elf, Dwarf, and I believe even Qunari.
Sentenza
Member
And play what at that point? Fetch quests and an empty, boring map where you can occasionally make a couple of random encounters?
I'm not exactly a fan of Dragon Age because it has tons of design flaws and very few redeeming qualities, but to claim it would be better without dungeons strikes me as delusional... And that's putting it mildly.
Or did I miss the sarcasm and that was exactly your point about beating it in a heartbeat?
BurnOutBrighter
Banned
If they have to ask us what makes a game fun, they're not doing their jobs.
Did the same, it worked in KOTOR because it was tied into the main story but all games after that have treated the romances like a mini game, they are just pointless.
Sentenza
Member
"Hey, you, developer! Yes, you! That single, last, party based tactical game of yours... Do you know what would make it a lot better? Making it *not* party based, and without tactics either! Like everything else!".
Seriously, people, what's wrong with you?
shinobi602
Member
You kept playing the game even though you were having a miserable time?
- Nice sense of weight and impact with amazing animations for a variety of attacks/weapons.
- Battles with various strategic possibilities that force you to think and even use the environment to your advantage.
- Battles that force you to make quick sacrificial choices that can be defined as grey, rather than good or bad. But clear choices for good or evil in general would be nice as well.
- Of course we need a strong emphasis on environment variety for all of this to take place in.
- Battles with various strategic possibilities that force you to think and even use the environment to your advantage.
- Battles that force you to make quick sacrificial choices that can be defined as grey, rather than good or bad. But clear choices for good or evil in general would be nice as well.
- Of course we need a strong emphasis on environment variety for all of this to take place in.
Not sure but the slight romance in KOTOR II was fine with me.
Handmaiden and Visas were pretty cool gals I didn't mind trying to seduce.
and then corrupt TO THE DARK SIDE!
MOUHAHAHAHA!
Ehm, Dragon's Dogma is party-based? Besides, did I say copy all aspects of each game? The examples are suggestions on what each game does admirable or inspirationally - e.g. actual climbing mechanics against large monsters, morally grey scenarios, actual narrative choices & consequences.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
I want to press A for awesome shit to happen. And I want to think like a general, but fight like a Spartan.
edit: The DA2 DLC was actually pretty good, when I was doing a replay for the first time last summer. The rest of the game still mostly sucks though, didn't even manage to finish it.
edit: The DA2 DLC was actually pretty good, when I was doing a replay for the first time last summer. The rest of the game still mostly sucks though, didn't even manage to finish it.
Honestly, I think Bioware has absolutely horrid facial modeling.
Like all their games always have characters who look like they have faces made of dough or took a couple of punches.
Aside from that, I don't mind their insistence on making open relations regardless of gender, but man some of that stuff is pretty hamfisted / cringeworthy.
Like all their games always have characters who look like they have faces made of dough or took a couple of punches.
Aside from that, I don't mind their insistence on making open relations regardless of gender, but man some of that stuff is pretty hamfisted / cringeworthy.
Sentenza
Member
Having a couple of morons running around you doing random stuff doesn't make it a party based game. Let alone "tactical".
And you mentioned three third person action games, which is as far away as possible from the direction a game like Dragon Age should go (and on the other hand exactly where it *will* go).