Dragon Age is my first game where I dived into the Forums and read till I dropped. And laughed. And snarled. And even posted some.
With the Dragon Age 2 Forums, I'm hitting my head up against a wall I have hit with movies.
It came to me when I was reading the postings on humor in DA:O and what DA2 might hold. And the a poster said something to the effect that with the consensus that DA2 would have more of the same, he just wouldn't bother.
Now this was a WTF moment. The game isn't out yet and there aren't even any in game trailers. Yet people are already deciding (or saying they are) if they like the game!
WTF?
But, OK, I think this might just be a way of continuing to live a DA life. Most of us have probably played DA and its cash cows, I mean DLCs as much as we're going to and while we wait, well, there's always speculation and the drip drip drip of EA/Bioware data dumps.
But, you ask, what does this have to do with movies?
Ah, right. My point. Thanks for bringing me back to that.
So I used to love finding out about movies. But now I don't. I like heading off to a movie knowing as little as possible so that when the dark surrounds me, and the show starts, I come at the experience unprejudiced and with the chance for the work to make its impact uncluttered with the voices of friends and pontificators. I want MY reaction! damn it.
So, I'm not saying I'm going away until I've played the game in six months: like I've got that much aversion to the nuggets of knowledge to be had here. But, less. Yes, I want this game to feel new when it arrives, and not like I've already played it.
How about you all?
Do you think a game can be like a movie? and be ruined by too much information?
Too Much Information
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Tae Jir
, oct. 22 2010 01:02
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Posté 22 octobre 2010 - 01:05
Tiax Rules All
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Tae Jir wrote...
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Do you think a game can be like a movie? and be ruined by too much information?
Absolutely, I ruin a little bit of DA2 every day I come onto these forums. Just don't have enough willpower to stay away.
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Posté 22 octobre 2010 - 01:05
Ortaya Alevli
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All I know is one should stay well away from forums if they're concerned with getting spoiled too much. Forums and other possible avenues of getting information which I can't think of at this time of day (4:05am).
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Posté 22 octobre 2010 - 01:09
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Yes, definitely. Sometimes I'm torn between coming on these forums and knowing about the game before it comes out too. Eventually boredom wins over, and I invariably come here. I like to think the laughs are worth the minor spoilers I get about the game. I admit, a few characters would have been cooler in DA:O if I didn't know about them beforehand (like Zevran, or Oghren). Sometimes there will be spoilers, won't always be nice hearing them. About people's opinions about it...well, they can't be accurate until the game comes out. So as long as you don't come on the forums until after you beat the game after it releases, you'll be fine.
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Posté 22 octobre 2010 - 01:10
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You cannot stop advertisement, you know?
We, the forum folks, aren't the only ones who'll play the game. And thus, there are companions trailers and that sort of things.
You should avoid the trailers and this particular forum (Dragon Age II General Discussion).
We, the forum folks, aren't the only ones who'll play the game. And thus, there are companions trailers and that sort of things.
You should avoid the trailers and this particular forum (Dragon Age II General Discussion).
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Posté 22 octobre 2010 - 01:11
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What are you saying, that people are unable to know what they like or not without actually trying it first.Tae Jir wrote...
The game isn't out yet and there aren't even any in game trailers. Yet people are already deciding (or saying they are) if they like the game!
WTF?
Example I don't need to try this game to know that I don't like it.
http://www.hellokittyonline.com/
Of course too much info about some game can ruin the game, before even trying it, but it's also way to deside does someone like it or not. Players allways need some information to deside could the game be something they like. So, buying without knowing anything isn't any better than knowing too much. Every player can stop reading the info when they feel it's enough.
Modifié par Lumikki, 22 octobre 2010 - 01:17 .
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Posté 22 octobre 2010 - 01:13
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I've tried to leave places like this so i can go in without already knowing everything, but the information is like crack to me i can't stay away for long
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Posté 22 octobre 2010 - 01:28
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I've trolled many a forum and I can tell you with absolute confidence...posters never know what heck we're talking about prior to playing the game. Even as informative as I've found Biowares forums to be, regarding staff provided info that is, there's no way anyone that doesn't work for Bioware has a clue how the game will turn out. That's because games are nothing like movies. They are interactive and to a much greater extent than movies, are more than a sum of their parts. So even if Bioware gave the play by play of the game, with video included, a month prior to the games release we really couldn't make a judgement on it.
I don't know if you have played the game Limbo, but I'll use it as an example. The game is about a boy looking for his sister. He wakes up in a wooded area where he last saw her. During his quest to find his sister he has to navigate traps, overcome obsticles, avoid enemies, and evade, subdue, or endure hostile wildlife. It's two dimensional and it's entirely monochrome. And that's it. That's the game. But, Limbo is maybe one of the most moving videogames available. I could spend a bunch of time trying to explain how it is so moving, but unltimately, you have to play it to understand and if you have played it you understand.
As was the case with Dragon Age. Frankly, the graphics and (to we console jockey's at least) the gameplay were a bit dated. However, the game was much more than what it looked like or how it played.
In short, if the game is really any good, then knowing a lot about it won't change that. As another example, more likely than not, you have played through Dragon Age more than once, knowing a great deal about what your were playing through. And you probably enjoyed doing so. That's because it's a great game. In that respect it's like a movie: you can watch one that is truly good more than once and still appreciate it.
The only way to ruin a game is make a bad one. Bioware doesn't do that (thus far at least), so I don't think you have a lot to worry about.
I don't know if you have played the game Limbo, but I'll use it as an example. The game is about a boy looking for his sister. He wakes up in a wooded area where he last saw her. During his quest to find his sister he has to navigate traps, overcome obsticles, avoid enemies, and evade, subdue, or endure hostile wildlife. It's two dimensional and it's entirely monochrome. And that's it. That's the game. But, Limbo is maybe one of the most moving videogames available. I could spend a bunch of time trying to explain how it is so moving, but unltimately, you have to play it to understand and if you have played it you understand.
As was the case with Dragon Age. Frankly, the graphics and (to we console jockey's at least) the gameplay were a bit dated. However, the game was much more than what it looked like or how it played.
In short, if the game is really any good, then knowing a lot about it won't change that. As another example, more likely than not, you have played through Dragon Age more than once, knowing a great deal about what your were playing through. And you probably enjoyed doing so. That's because it's a great game. In that respect it's like a movie: you can watch one that is truly good more than once and still appreciate it.
The only way to ruin a game is make a bad one. Bioware doesn't do that (thus far at least), so I don't think you have a lot to worry about.
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Posté 22 octobre 2010 - 02:10
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Flemmeth kills Bethany
Spoiled enuff for ya?
Spoiled enuff for ya?
