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Greg Zeschuk Developer Interview - July 22, 2010

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Posté 23 juillet 2010 - 09:41

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Valmy wrote...

PilotJoe wrote...
This isn't a "hardcore" vs. "casual" thing, it's the issue of the casualization of everything lately.   DAO certainly wasn't hardcore, but what few elements it had that made it the spiritual successor to BG appealed to a wide range of people.  Ergo, why change a winning formula?


Budgets are ballooning.  Companies, if they plan on continuing to make cutting edge products, have to continue to build sales.

I recognize the phenonmenon but will continue to play their games so long as it does not become too annoying.


Dragon Age Origins has sold what, something like 2.5 million copies?!

Which begs the question:

At what point can something be deemed enough of an economic success to save it from this watered down, focus-tested revisioning?



This is something that has been posted on these forums before, but I'll bring it up again because I think it's especially relevant: www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/publishers-note/7688-Publisher-Note-10-E-for-Everyone-Except-Me

It's a very good, if somewhat disheartening read that adresses the economic reality that studios like Bioware (now that they've sold out to EA, *cough cough) find themselves in producing AAA titles.

Check it out, if you haven't already done so.

Modifié par PilotJoe, 23 juillet 2010 - 09:46 .

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Posté 23 juillet 2010 - 11:50

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joriandrake wrote...

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This game is going to be awful, I can feel it in me water! Just look how dissapointing ME2 was?

Dissapointing to you maybe. I loved Mass Effect 2 more than the first,and I played the first over 20 times. Bioware has yet to dissapoint me...but I do understand that some people just have different tastes.


hmm, how many times did you play ME2?

Well, I picked up ME2 at the midnight release(first time in my life ...I loved ME that much)and did not put it down for 3 months straight. I have about 15 playthroughs,but right now Im burnt out. Keep in mind I bought the first Mass Effect 2 years ago.

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Posté 23 juillet 2010 - 11:58

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andar91 wrote...

I think that DA:O was disliked by some because it was harder than what they were used to. If they make it more accessible I'm not going to complain because I can just adjust the difficulty setting if I think it's too easy.

I really hope they dont dial down the difficulty level. Awakenings was a cakewalk on nightmare and if thats how difficult Dragon Age 2 will be then we might have a problem.
Origins was the first game I played where I had to start out on casual(my pride was crushed)but the sense of acomplishment when I was finally able to play on hard mode was unreal. The challenge is what made it great.

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Posté 24 juillet 2010 - 12:01

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So he basically just admitted it will be streamlined to emulate Mass Effect.
Spiritual successor to Mass Effect 2, not Baldurs Gate.

Modifié par Rubbish Hero, 24 juillet 2010 - 12:01 .

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Posté 24 juillet 2010 - 12:01

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BioWare admits to streamlining DA2.



I am disappoint.

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Posté 24 juillet 2010 - 12:09

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Noobius_Maximo wrote... I am disappoint.


To be expected, pretty much every AAA single pc game that isn't an RTS   or MMO is now a console game, designed for console gamers.  It seems  Bioware and other developers  now have about as much passion for games   as putting a happy meal in a paper bag, or perhaps it was always that  way? Games have hardly got there Ingmar Bergmans or Werner Herzog yet.  Hopefully in ten or twenty years games will be less about ticking boxes  like a bad summer movie targeting demographics. Everything sucks.

Modifié par Rubbish Hero, 24 juillet 2010 - 12:11 .

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Posté 24 juillet 2010 - 12:30

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Rubbish Hero wrote...

Noobius_Maximo wrote... I am disappoint.


To be expected, pretty much every AAA single pc game that isn't an RTS   or MMO is now a console game, designed for console gamers.  It seems  Bioware and other developers  now have about as much passion for games   as putting a happy meal in a paper bag, or perhaps it was always that  way? Games have hardly got there Ingmar Bergmans or Werner Herzog yet.  Hopefully in ten or twenty years games will be less about ticking boxes  like a bad summer movie targeting demographics. Everything sucks.

These wounds...will they heal?

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Posté 24 juillet 2010 - 04:48

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probably no

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Posté 24 juillet 2010 - 06:00

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The danger with answering like a politician is that you come off as shifty, belching platitudes and downright disengenuous.



Not to mention being associated with a corrupt, bribe taking jerk who no longer represents the people he is supposed to.

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Posté 26 juillet 2010 - 04:19

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Davasar wrote...

The danger with answering like a politician is that you come off as shifty, belching platitudes and downright disengenuous.

Not to mention being associated with a corrupt, bribe taking jerk who no longer represents the people he is supposed to.


I don't think it was intentional, he just knew that he had to carefully find a way to say they are changing everything - but only to make it better! Honest! Um,  Better!

Well, everything's subjective, so I guess we'll see.

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Posté 26 juillet 2010 - 04:26

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joriandrake wrote...


Looking at the success this system has had in Mass Effect 2, will BioWare
look at making the RPG elements in games such as Star Wars: The Old Republic
and the forthcoming Dragon Age sequel more streamlined too?


Yeah, to a certain degree. Like I said, we want to make each game better than
the last and to a certain degree, the easier we can make the gameplay

Easier? I don't recall Dragon Age 1 being a math contest. It was easiest as it can be. Are they designing this game for mentally challenged people?

Modifié par Kordaris, 26 juillet 2010 - 04:29 .

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Posté 26 juillet 2010 - 08:10

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Kordaris wrote...

joriandrake wrote...


Looking at the success this system has had in Mass Effect 2, will BioWare
look at making the RPG elements in games such as Star Wars: The Old Republic
and the forthcoming Dragon Age sequel more streamlined too?


Yeah, to a certain degree. Like I said, we want to make each game better than
the last and to a certain degree, the easier we can make the gameplay

Easier? I don't recall Dragon Age 1 being a math contest. It was easiest as it can be. Are they designing this game for mentally challenged people?


"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

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Posté 26 juillet 2010 - 08:57

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rexil wrote...

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I have to agree with PilotJoe


Yeah, don't Mass Affect my Dragon Age.


.... seriously?
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