Upsettingshorts wrote...
Nohvarr wrote...
Hmmm here's a question, what would you do if Lord Laidlaw stepped from the Shadows and asked you "What do you want?"
*five cool points to the first person to get the reference.*
Mr. Laidlaw is never alone. He always has his associates lurking in the shadows.
Nohvarr wrote...
Ha! Well done, enjoy your cool points good sir.Upsettingshorts wrote...
Nohvarr wrote...
Hmmm here's a question, what would you do if Lord Laidlaw stepped from the Shadows and asked you "What do you want?"
*five cool points to the first person to get the reference.*
Mr. Laidlaw is never alone. He always has his associates lurking in the shadows.
MerinTB wrote...
Nohvarr wrote...
Ha! Well done, enjoy your cool points good sir.Upsettingshorts wrote...
Nohvarr wrote...
Hmmm here's a question, what would you do if Lord Laidlaw stepped from the Shadows and asked you "What do you want?"
*five cool points to the first person to get the reference.*
Mr. Laidlaw is never alone. He always has his associates lurking in the shadows.
Does this mean that one day I'll look up, see Mr. Laidlaw's head on a pike, and I'll wave?
I think that hits it for me. My concerns were never (much) about gameplay aspects, but believability and being able to take the story and characters seriously, that does affect how much I enjoy the game. I'm planning on playing it, but the washed-out, sterile art style together with cartoonish over-the-top animations and the cartoon/ anime look of the characters do not appeal. I wish it really was grittier and darker.1varangian wrote...
My biggest concern with DA2 is that going so over the top with the talents and animations makes the characters themselves and the story less believable. I won't relate to or feel as much for a spin kicking Hawke who bounces around like Bugs Bunny and can't die in combat unless everyone else dies too.
I haven't read David Gaider's novels but I doubt the characters are spinning and twirling all the time and doing a hail of arrows with one crossbow. I can't help feeling a disconnect when I think about the story of Origins and looking at DA2 gameplay. It feels like the writers might be making a serious, mature RPG but the gameplay designers and animators are making a cool spinning action story-lite RPG.
Less is more, Biodevs.
Modifié par Addai67, 17 décembre 2010 - 12:18 .
Maria Caliban wrote...
Herr Uhl wrote...
I'm sorry, but my main impression from this is the dramatic lighting.
Fight like a Spartan?
Think like a general?
Either way you play it,
this lighting's fantastical.
Download this video
Watch it and you will seeeeeeee
This game's just as tactical (tactical)
When played on your PC
Because it's pause-and-play, party-based
Zoom-it-out or in your face
Either way you end up
This addresses your concerns hopefully, hopefully.
Modifié par shepard_lives, 17 décembre 2010 - 12:16 .
Addai67 wrote...
I think that hits it for me. My concerns were never (much) about gameplay aspects, but believability and being able to take the story and characters seriously, that does affect how much I enjoy the game. I'm planning on playing it, but the washed-out, sterile art style together with cartoonish over-the-top animations and the cartoon/ anime look of the characters do not appeal. I wish it really was grittier and darker.1varangian wrote...
My biggest concern with DA2 is that going so over the top with the talents and animations makes the characters themselves and the story less believable. I won't relate to or feel as much for a spin kicking Hawke who bounces around like Bugs Bunny and can't die in combat unless everyone else dies too.
I haven't read David Gaider's novels but I doubt the characters are spinning and twirling all the time and doing a hail of arrows with one crossbow. I can't help feeling a disconnect when I think about the story of Origins and looking at DA2 gameplay. It feels like the writers might be making a serious, mature RPG but the gameplay designers and animators are making a cool spinning action story-lite RPG.
Less is more, Biodevs.
RealityEngine wrote...
The prospects of this game have actually made my enjoyment of Origins seem less real, which is quite the accomplishment.
Why is there even a PC version coming out at all, again?
Point, seems to be something you can choose to avoid.Xewaka wrote...
The flashiness seems to be rogue exclusive. Well, another reason to play Varric in the party and a non-rogue Hawke, I guess.
The balance can be reached by limiting the use of the abilities. If mages regenerated mana much more slowly the "mundane" classes would get to use their abilities more frequently.Allison W wrote...
As far as breaching the Real Ultimate Power line that's supposed to separate mages from non-mages, the problem with trying to enforce that line is that it leads directly into Linear Warrior Quadratic Wizard syndrome (seriously, how are non-mages going to keep up with human tacnukes without cartoon realism getting involved), which most developers these days are trying to avoid in the interests of trying to at least get in the general ballpark of balance rather than the best party being as many mages as you can make room for. Also the fact that most developers these days have grown up enough to leave the whole jocks vs. nerds rivalry behind.
simfamSP wrote...
Has anybody downloaded it? I will now, maybe the game looks better at 720p
Why should a rogue be any different? I always thought of my rogues as warriors with a few extra tricks up their sleeves, and with Sigrun and Nathaniel I thought that was a good direction for the class to go. Though I agree, some of the wilder effects in Awakening like Rain of Arrows and Flicker, I did not like those either. Seems like the writing was on the wall in Awakening about where the franchise was going.Xewaka wrote...
The flashiness seems to be rogue exclusive. Well, another reason to play Varric in the party and a non-rogue Hawke, I guess.
Addai67 wrote...
Why should a rogue be any different?
That's not a solution. I play rogues and mages, or at least I did, and the wild swinging of the 2H sword I've seen in other videos comes under the same rubric really.ziggehunderslash wrote...
Point, seems to be something you can choose to avoid.Xewaka wrote...
The flashiness seems to be rogue exclusive. Well, another reason to play Varric in the party and a non-rogue Hawke, I guess.
Modifié par Addai67, 17 décembre 2010 - 01:52 .
underhill1990 wrote...
But i need the exclusive character that comes with the sig edition, damn you capitalism. I do agree that EA is a bad thing for the overall integrity of Bioware
Addai67 wrote...
Some people obviously like it.
We all know you folks aren't really people.Upsettingshorts wrote...
Addai67 wrote...
Some people obviously like it.
Hey now, don't leave us "honestly, I don't care either way all that much" folks out!
simfamSP wrote...
Has anybody downloaded it? I will now, maybe the game looks better at 720p
StingingVelvet wrote...
It's funny how Guild Wars 2 videos showing the rogues jumping and rolling around constantly get a lot of praise
Modifié par Liana Nighthawk, 17 décembre 2010 - 12:32 .
StingingVelvet wrote...
It's funny how Guild Wars 2 videos showing the rogues jumping and rolling around constantly get a lot of praise, but here it's wrong for some reason. The rogue actions looked great to me.
Liana Nighthawk wrote...
StingingVelvet wrote...
It's funny how Guild Wars 2 videos showing the rogues jumping and rolling around constantly get a lot of praise
You've seen a Guild Wars 2 video with rogues? Does ArenaNet know about this?
Modifié par Altima Darkspells, 17 décembre 2010 - 12:34 .
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