VGW's Jen Bosier: "After my Dragon Age 2 review, I felt the need to address some of the general backlash within the Dragon Age community. In fact, due in large part to comments left on the article, I was able to quantify a few of my previous statements. Please note that this discussion is probably best left to those who have played the game as it is peppered with minor spoilers."
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.
Hmm, you know, I've always been a fan of the clear-cut three act approach. But then again, I really like open-endedness. I suppose it just has to do with how "open" the game is. I think what it comes down to is if I feel like I'm having fun.
I'm actually a little miffed by the philosophy of recent Bioware RPGs. I love experimentation and I love loot. It seems to me like they are trying to take those factors out. I have always enjoyed trying different armor and weapon sets, augmentations and what-have-you. Mass Effect 2 felt somewhat hollow to me. At the end of the day, I was just being strung along by the story. Or maybe I was annoyed by the mining mini-game. GOD that was so annoying.
***You must complete all of the main story within Act 1 before venturing to the Deep Roads.***
And how is this any different than the mass majority of RPGs out there?
What the author is nitpicking here is what he doesn't want to be considered as a main part of the storyline and not the fact that he has to completely the main storyline elements.
If the quest is listed as a plot quest, you have to complete it. There are a ton of quests, though, that don't fall within this and that you don't even have to consider.
Look at it this way, since they used DAO as an example: Can you go straight to fighting the dragon without getting all of the support of the mages, elves, dwarves, and humans? No, you can't. Why would you expect this to be true in DA2 or any other RPG?