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[Marionetten]

... Or was Georg just exaggerating to quell all the bellyaching about the silent protagonist ?

Inquiring minds want to know!

[shayboy4]

hopefully not

[Grommash94]

We have no definite proof that it will be.

[Divine Justinia V]

Doubt it. Although it hasn't been confirmed, I'd imagine with side quests and such it'll be a lot longer than that.

[Zhijn]

Hah thats funny. How long did it take you to track that line down?. =)

p.s theres more btw:
http://old.dragonage...m/thread/669238

David Gaider - 24 February 2009
As has been mentioned, the traditional method of dialogue choices coupled with the silent PC was chosen for DA because we felt it fit this game better -- primarily the fact that you have options of race and origin as well as gender and trying to find a single voice to match all these options would be difficult. In ME you were playing a human character with a set military background, and while I get that some people don't like the voices we chose for Shepherd there it fit the game overall.

Whether or not we would switch to the use of ME-style dialogue in the future I honestly have no idea. I suppose a lot of it will rest on how many fans and reviewers see the reasoning behind our choice rather than continuously calling it "a step backward" as opposed to a style choice.

I wouldn't mind using the ME-style in a DA game, myself -- perhaps with some modifications? Maybe the ME team learned a few lessons about it in their first game that will make it even easier for them in the future, I don't know. Such a switch would come with some inherent limitations, however. Just because something is innovative doesn't necessarily make it appropriate for all occasions.

Fun to dig up the past!. Ah but i still belive we havnt seen anything yet. Much is still to be revealed.

Modifié par Zhijn, 26 juillet 2010 - 08:01 .

[Marionetten]

Zhijn wrote...

Hah thats funny. How long did it take you to track that line down?. =)

Not that long. It's been stuck in the back of my head for a long time so I knew what to search for. Always appreciated Georg's posts as I found them to be extremely informative.

And I love that Gaider quote. Seems like he hasn't changed at all.

[errant_knight]

Marionetten wrote...

... Or was Georg just exaggerating to quell all the bellyaching about the silent protagonist ?

Inquiring minds want to know!

 I expect that is very close to correct. In the right ballpark, anyway.

[Stompi]

I think there is difference between having to voice 12 main characters (6 origins 2x) or two main charachters (DA 2).

[Realmzmaster]

VA will always tie up some resources. Will the game be 50% shorter I do not think so. Will it be as long as DAO that would depend on the budget that Bioware recieves from EA. There will be tradeoffs.

[Demx]

I don't know about 50% sorter; I imagine that DA2 will be shorter than DA:O, but longer than Awakening.

[Ulicus]

I read "fifty percent shooter" and got really confused.

[Amentep]

Ulicus wrote...

I read "fifty percent shooter" and got really confused.

Hahaha, I did the same thing.

I agree though that part of the time issue may have been a "had DA:O been voiceover with 12 differen VOs to cover each origin".

But even if it is shorter...*shrugs* if I still enjoy the game I still enjoy the game.  I almost never finish a game in the same amount of time as is suggested by the devlopers so planning my purchases around that never makes any sense for me.

[Mirander]

Marionetten wrote...

... Or was Georg just exaggerating to quell all the bellyaching about the silent protagonist ?

Inquiring minds want to know!

DAO would've required separate voices for each race.  DA2 only has one race to worry about, so no, it probably won't decrease the game's size (at least not quite that much).

[Rubbish Hero]

Oh course, rushed game.

Probably not even have lighting put in.

[Faust1979]

Kordaris wrote...

There is no doubt that this action combat game Dragon Age 2 will be shorter and have less plot than the rpg game Dragon Age 1, just the reduction of available chracters means the reduction of plot lines.

the first game while the plot was good didn't have much of a plot. Some of it just felt like padding the length. While some of the quests were long it sometimes felt like they were just extending the length. The whole plot wasn't exactly deep or all that long really. 

[Stefanocrpg_rev91]

Siradix wrote...

I don't know about 50% sorter; I imagine that DA2 will be shorter than DA:O, but longer than Awakening.

Well, Awakening is an expansion and is long only 20 hours (which is good for an expansion, but would be short for a sequel).
I hope that Dragon Age 2 will still be a long game, though I think it will be a bit shorter than Origins.

[Faust1979]

I actually don't care how long it is. Long or short just hope the game is fun and tells it's story good enough that I will want to play it over and over again

[BlackyBlack]

If DAO had it, yes, because there's three races

[Ponce de Leon]

I hope it's longer. But depends on the playing style.

For example, Awakening required me 12 hours to complete. Origins averagely twice as much, trice in the worst case (when I read the whole codex and played on Nightmare, my eighth run).

[Faust1979]

I have played through origins twice so far and each time it took me about 30 hours which is a pretty good length.

[Ponce de Leon]

Faust1979 wrote...

I have played through origins twice so far and each time it took me about 30 hours which is a pretty good length.

O thanks god I am not the only one that was able to complete the game below 40 hours. I just don't understand how can people take 200 hours to complete one run on normal, but oh well 

[Sneelonz]

A long game is not necessary a good game. I would rather have a detailed short game than a tedious, empty long one. Any open-world games that require you to walk across a huge map is an example of what I'm talking about. But in the end, I'll guess that DA2 will be 2/3 of what DAO was in length; I highly doubt that it will be half. But considering that it's still being made, it's to early to tell.

[BlackyBlack]

Yes Dragon Age 2 will be fifty percent shooter