*The kings of one kind of fantasy RPG.
They're not exactly the kings of deep and emotional storytelling now are they?
The Witcher looms over DA like Football Manager looms over Fifa. Just because they're both about football doesn't mean you can compare.
If DA:I only had one character, just two swordtypes to choose from, no topdown view, no multiple races, no multiple classes, ... The entire Bioware team would be skinned alive, burned to a crisp and then fed to hogs. Does that say anything bad about the Witcher? No. Does that make you (and all the others) wrong from bringing up TW in ...
With other words, don't modernize. With RTS newer has begun to mean eather MMO, free-to-play or dumbed down. Give us bigger, more graphicly advanced versions of their predessors.
Please be a real Settlers game, please don't be a Browser, MMO, or otherwise not classic RTS game. Just give me a bigger, better lookin', old school Settlers game. I will pay for it!
I should've never played the Beta, it got me hungry, now 6 days seems like a lifetime.
All this gender business seems a bit one sided. Let the developers decide what fits in their story. Have you ever heard a man demanding he can play as a man in Tomb Raider? I didn't think so.
Diablo isn't Dragon Age though. Diablo is all about the loot and the grinding and finetuning your build.
Bioware games are about story and story-choices. I don't really want Diablo-esque mechanics seeping into Dragon Age
When the story ends, the game ends. They're not taking anything away, they're selling you a story with a beginning and an ending. Not every game needs to be endless, it isn't an mmo.
Did anyone see the interview? Angry Joe kept calling Morrigan 'Morgana'. Irritated me endlessly.
Rather have it all be thought through, by a talented writer, instead of just randomized by a computer. That's how you make each encounter feel as meaningful and different as possible.
edit: Plus 20 dragons sounds like a lot, I think 4 or five really powerful ones might have been better (personal preference)
I don't think you'll be able to pet them and feed them, it isn't Zoo Tycoon after all. Riding them, luring them and chasing them away are probably the options.
@quickset
If you're a tactical isometric man, like myself, playing Dragon Age without KB + M just doesn't make sense.
I can say only one thing, stop comparing them. Gameplay-wise they should be miles apart.
It's like comparing Halo and Mass Effect because they're both sci-fi shooters.
Again, the gameplay vids for DA2 were equally promising in the time. EA knows how to frame a pretty picture.
Does no one remember how great the gameplay videos for DA2 were? And the previews?
Up until the day I bought it, there was little indication of its demise. It even got super-reviewscores.
+ from the gameplay videos I've mainly seen a focus on action, not tactical (which is repeating a DA2 mistake in my book).
I agree, although I do think it's a bad thing. It doesn't need to resemble DD or The Witcher, it needs to resemble Origins.
Isn't it telling that we have to look halfway through last years video just to remember there is tactical view?
We all know it's there, now I want to see it be essential.
How it's meant to be played. Not a little extra to please the Baldur's Gate fans.
Killing off rpg-elements in favor of a more console-suited game does sound an afwul lot like their M.O.
So they're trying to be more like The Witcher because they're they've got a better engine?
What a mindless article. Thought this was going to be about gameplay, you know, like an actual proper reflection on the games.
A great game, no doubt.