Oh man I can't wait for 2014. Dragon Age 3, The Witcher 3 hopefully FF15, and others
RPG greatness!
What about romance bioware?! ROMANCE?!
Cassandra as a playable party member is cool but Morrigan not being one makes me a sad panda.
also, is this game not called Dragon Age 3 anymore? its just DA: Inquisition?
I tweeted Mike Laidkaw asking that same question. He said people were definitely asking for it but they weren't talking about it yet.
What would that have to do with anything? There's already games with full nudity on consoles. The Witcher 2 didn't tone down the full nudity on the 360.speaking of which, i wonder if witcher 3 is going to tone down nudity/sex because its coming to consoles.
There was an interesting note about encounter design btw:
Boss:
-They mention an armored dragon. You can have a warrior bash off its leg armor, and then a rogue can poison that leg ones the armor is gone. This causes the dragon to stumble, making it more susceptible to spells.
But this is where I am almost positive you could go back to pre-release for Dragon Age 2 and likely find where they said something exactly the same. What with how enemies would fit certain archetypes and work together against you and so forth. I almost had déjà vu when I was reading that part of the article, cause I could have sworn they said the exact same thing in the lead up to DA2.Regular Fights:
-The enemies generally seem better designed, like prowlers who can sneak up behind you and do a lot of damage, but retreat whenever you try to take them head on, so catching them is tricky. They also try to target out characters with lower life. The mention that on their own they might not be too difficult to fight, but if you have archers pelting you, a two handed warrior throwing people around, and an enchanter buffing and healing your enemies, suddenly the encounter becomes quite difficult and it's much easier for something like a prowler to sneak in and do serious damage on one of your party members.
Looks good.
Next year is going to be a bloodbath between CDPR and BW if true.
What would that have to do with anything? There's already games with full nudity on consoles. The Witcher 2 didn't tone down the full nudity on the 360.
CDPR already said they won't anyway.
Are they continuing no controller support on pc like their past games?
And while they're duking it out, Obsidian will come in and wipe them both out with Project Eternity (although I don't remember if PE is supposed to come out next year or not...)
well I felt like with the amount of "sex" scenes and nudity in Witcher 2, they were able to get away with it because it was only on PC. good to know they don't have to tone it down.
Well, let's just say that if they were planning a tactical "isometric" camera, point and click interface and so on* on the PC version and then they would ditch all this because of "all your tweets" I will hate you guys for years to come.No definite word, but probably given what Bioware has always done with PC versions of its games.
Maybe if we tweet hard enough at them they'll reconsider this stupid policy.
Just play dragon age 2. It is a really fun game, the story is great and so are the characters, setting and combat. People who complain about your choices not mattering, don't understand the story Bioware was trying to tell in DA2. The mass amounts of hate this game gets is saddening. Although I will agree and say the level design is utter garbage.So should I hold my nose and play DA2? Everything sounds great but I'm a bit worried about not understanding some references.
So should I hold my nose and play DA2? Everything sounds great but I'm a bit worried about not understanding some references.
Just play dragon age 2. It is a really fun game, the story is great and so are the characters, setting and combat. People who complain about your choices not mattering, don't understand the story Bioware was trying to tell in DA2. The mass amounts of hate this game gets is saddening. Although I will agree and say the level design is utter garbage.
Well, let's just say that if they were planning a tactical "isometric" camera, point and click interface and so on* on the PC version and then they would ditch all this because of "all your tweets" I will hate you guys for years to come.
*.But of course they aren't
So should I hold my nose and play DA2? Everything sounds great but I'm a bit worried about not understanding some references.
No, of course they're not. And in any case, I'm not asking them to take stuff out. I just want them to leave controller support in as an option. Given that nearly every other developer of a major title issued within the last three to four years has managed to somehow master the dark art of seamless controller support when it comes to the PC versions of their games, Bioware's inane decision to keep on removing controller support on the PC looks less like some (stupid) strategy to pump up console numbers and more like sheer incompetence. It's apparently just too fucking hard for them to manage it.
I want them to design a PC interface that is so slick and perfect that playing with a controller would be impossible. Can't always get what we want though.
Wait, so they just called the second one Dragon Age II with no subtitle, and then the third one is going back to numberless with a subtitle?
They're saying the right things. We'll see. DA2 was easily my least favorite game of the entire generation, so they have a lot of ground to cover. We'll see how much of this stuff actually makes it to final build.
They always do this.
I want to believe.
So now in order, the acronyms are DAO, DAII, and DAI.Wait, so they just called the second one Dragon Age II with no subtitle, and then the third one is going back to numberless with a subtitle?
I know people didn't like the ending cause your choices didn't matter, and I can understand that, but on the flip side the choices you made aren't suppose to affect the outcome w/ the story Bioware was trying to tell. I think a neat little trade off for that would be to see the city environment change based of the decisions you made. Not just w/ level design, but w/ how people react to you.Level design is atrocious, like possibly worse from any game with a budget more than $10. I can't even think of a RPG longer than 10 hours that made me do the same 3 areas for all eternity.
Party control/customization is garbage.
Combat is less deep than Origins.
Story is acceptable, don't hate it.
I actually did like the characters too.
I still think all hate is justified simply because the things they did poorly, they did so poorly it's incomprehensible to me.
For the curious, this is the default decision set if you don't import a save and don't change any settings:
DA1:DA2:DAO: Dalish Elf, warden dead, Alistair kingDA2: Mage, sides with Mages
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