“Unlike other titles from Bioware, this [score] was kind of a rush job”
“EA really wanted to capitalize on the success of Origins, so the game was really being pushed hard to be released now.”
said Inon Zuer.
Now this is for all you hotheaded guys. I’m in no way calling Dragon Age 2 a bad game. Yes i will be saying bad things about it but overall it is a good game with a lot of potential that went unused due to EA rushing the game for profit. They knew everyone would flock to the game, like me, because of DA. EA told their Ma and Dad they want the money for their Will early and they got it.
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.
EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.
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When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!
cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla
The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.
The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result
It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way
And blame Bioware for allowing itself to be purchased by EA in the first place.
No the fans can Blame BioWare due to them becoming sheep of EA. If Bioware had actually stood up to EA the game might have actually been worth it.
While Bioware is not innocent, this is still very true.
They addressed just about all the problems with DA:O, DA2 has better graphics, better A.I, better combat, smarter tactics configuration, voiced PC ( playable character ).
The problems with the game were the price gouging, DLC and rushing the release, which did come down to EA.
Look at Kotor 2 ( yes I know it was made by obsidian ), it was far better than Kotor 1 in every regard, characters, story, combat, graphics, skills...and then it turned to crap at the end because Lucasarts forced them to release the game unfinished so they did a rushed ending.
There are mods to restore the end game content that was in the install but not finished and people have polished and you can play the game as it was intended.
If Lucasarts had STFU it would have been much more successful and we would likely have Kotor 4 by now.
Same thing with DA2. It is a great game but tarnished by the marketing side of things.
I would go as far as to say it is every bit as good as the witcher whereas DA:O fell far short.
If they patch out all DRM from the game, release a bug and performance patch all in one. I will buy the game for sure.
It's not as short as people say either. I'm 25hrs in and I'm only 3/4 through act 2 out of 3 acts total.
It should be at least 40hr by end game. The 40hrs of game time in DA2 is also actual story and combat, 50% of the gametime in DA:O was fetch quests and $#!+ that dragged on too long.
*cough* the fade *cough*
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There is also supposedly a glitch on the console version where the follow through attacks are disabled and you can't enable it ( when you select an enemy your character should keep attacking until they die by themselves ) But supposedly this does not happen and you have to keep clicking to attack with your main character. When they patch it the game will be much less of a button masher.
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http://www.youtube.com/watc...
I don't care if it's Bioware's fault or EA's fault, my expectations for Biowares other games have been lowered because of this.