Bitmob: News about a forthcoming Dragon Age: Origins sequel is awesome, and most of the new, slowly emerging details are only increasing my excitement. But three nagging worries plague me. The question is whether BioWare will address my concerns before or after Dragon Age 2's release.
Dragon Age 2 set the precedent that the series would always carry our choices over, but was it worth it?
If the choices won't matter, why bother? Bioware works so hard at giving meaningful choices but rarely if ever carrying out the impact of such choices to the end.
Immersed Gamer writes: "In order to replace the oppressive BioWare Points system, EA is making a large portion of the Mass Effect and Dragon Age DLC catalogs free for PC users.
For those of you blissfully unaware, EA and BioWare employed a payment system called BioWare Points on PC to pay for DLCs for titles like Mass Effect and Dragon Age. While PC gamers have been struggling with BioWare point’s unfair conversion rates and extremely scarce and cost-detrimental sales.
Console players have been allowed to purchase content in pieces through the appropriate Sony and Microsoft shops. For real money, and not BioWare monopoly bucks. In turn, console players missed out on some DLC content, such as Mass Effect 2 pre-order bonuses that have been repackaged into a DLC pack."
Great response to Ubisoft and their disgusting behavior. Ubisoft decide to take away DLC from people who paid for it, while EA give it for free to everyone when they realize their system sucks. Who would have thought that EA of all companies would be showing Ubisoft how it should be done (even if this is EA fixing their own mistakes as well).
What goes around comes around and I promise you, Ubisoft will see their actions blow back on them when their diminishing sales numbers and stock taking a hit downward. That's the only way a company learns when they decide to be reactive instead of proactive.
BLG writes: "There was a time that BioWare games were the biggest deal in gaming. The Canadian developer’s legacy of all-time classics is well known. Mass Effect, Knights of the Old Republic, and Baldur’s Gate are some of the biggest names in gaming.
While BioWare’s quality has fallen off lately, there’s no denying the quality of titles in their portfolio. That’s why we’re going to dive in and rank every BioWare game from worst to best. By every, I do mean every BioWare game, even the ones you completely forgot about!"
Ranked from worse to even more worse more like, they been on free fall for a fair few years now and I personally don't think any of there earlier games have aged well
Wow to think at one point in their history they made a Sonic the Hedgehog game..crazy
Anthem is crazy underrated. I really enjoyed it. ME1 is Bioware's best imo
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I actually put quite a bit of hours into Anthem but i dont think its underrated. It was a huge mess, server issues, gameplay issues, crashes, no endgame loop, too few different enemies, uninteresting gear. too few dungeons.
It for sure had potential and if they could have managed to keep the same gameplay of the classes but without the rest of the issues, this game could have been huge, but in the state in which it launched it was such a letdown. They partly fixed some of the issues, but it took too long. A grinding game like this needs to hook players from day 1.
Poor graphics, long load times, linar gameplay, repetitive actions... you know, dragon age origins all over again.
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was a true next gen RPG though - First or 3rd person perspective. Open world gameplay and graphics, larger in scale and scope. And that game came out in 2006...
Yeah, i played both games on console. My issue wasn't that DA wasn't hardcore enough, it was that it was a poor, old gen game.
Your team members are getting battered by the enemy and they can't heal themselves! WTF? You have to keep flipping between squard members to heal them - why?
Why can't i cut across a field? why am i stuck in liner roadways? Its something i played on my PS2!
I don't consider myself a 'Harcore' gamer or a 'Casual'
I don't fit into a box.
I just want to play next gen quality made games.
I like DA and Oblivion and Fallout. Myself and millions of others have no desire to micro manage every single item and scroll though reams of text and items.
The games you guys like to play are a dying breed, not the future.
so why are games like Fallout New Vegas, Two Worlds Two, Arcania 4, Dungeon Siege III, Hunted, Diablo 3, Deus Ex, The witcher 2, Torchlight 2, White Knight Chronicles 2, Final Fantasy Versus XII and Elder scrolls V being produced ?
There's never ever been so many RPG's to look forward to, so you clearly fit into the 'not very well informed' box.
And it's not about being 'hardcore' or 'casual', its about 'adult', 'teenager' or 'child'. Now there's another box you definitely fit into ... unless you're dead, in which case you'll still fit into a box.
If you read what i wrote properly, you will see i didn't mean RPG's are a dying breed, but rather the super hardcore PC centric RPG games these guys have been happily playing for decades.
Fallout, elderscrolls etc... all those games are the type of RPG's these guys don't like. They arn't hardcore enough for them, but like you said (validating my comments) they are the future.
RPG's are going strong, but they are evolving. And that's not what these guys like.
You sir, are just an angry confused idiot.
And the box thing, what they hell are you smoking?
You arn't making any sense what so ever.
So you're now ignoring everything i wrote other than the box comment?
Why? Because you realized you were wrong? Ok.
As for the bloody box thing...
(Why am i explaining this to you> lol)
I said, i don't fit into a box. I'm neither what you would classify as a harcore or casual gamer. You then said 'Get in your box... and said i must fit into a box of either adult, teenager, or child.'
True, but WTF? That has nothing to do with anything any of us were talking about?
Were you trying to b funny, or what?