This is not a topic to flame the game, troll, or just cause problems here on the forum. I did not know how else to get this info to Bioware as we all know emails will never reach the dev's. My only hope is that DA 3 will be more like DAO and not what DA 2 has become.
First, DAO was one of the best RPG's I have played. There are many other greats and I can't say DAO is the best, but it was a great game. This praise ends when the game ends and does not extend to any DLC or Awakenings. I truly feel the magic of DAO ended when the game ended and I have not seen it in anything since, including DAO2.
The problem I had with DAO post game (DLC and Awakenings) was it was a total mess story wise. You jumped around the time line, back in forth, playing many different roles (including darkspawn?) that had little bearing on the main DAO plot. Having to go back in the time line, to play DLC where events took place before the main ending, was the single most annoying aspect of post game play. Second, and nearly equally annoying was the lack of character carry over from DAO to DLC and Awakenings. Certain characters due to the nature of their plot would come and go, but others that should have been part of DLC & awakenings were no where to be found with out any explanation.
In the post game, with reguards to any game play that occurs after the death of the Archdemon, characters that should have been present had no appearance with little explanation. Leliana said she would follow me to the ends of the earth at the end of DAO, but then was left out entirely from the rest of the series accept for one tag line of text at the end of Awakenings. How about some of the other characters that said they would consider traveling with you at the end of DAO? Nothing accept for an annoying dwarf who was brought back into Awakening. Even Witch Hunt, which is suppose to be about Morrigan only had her appear for 2 minutes at the end with little relevance on the story plot.
The game makes me think its 100% about the main character with every other role as nothing but a side thought. This is exactly how I felt in Awakenings, which is why I hated the title. You can't possibly tell a compelling story over the course of 10) years in a ~50 hour (if that) game and still focus on meaningful supporting characters plot development. They are going to have to have characters come and go making DAO 2 something like a bunch of flashes in history, which is no where near compelling game play. Lastly, whats this crap about a fixed human protagonist? How many steps backwards in character development freedom are you going to take?
I don't know what happened at Bioware. I don't know if your plot writers changed, if the crew is now different, or if you just wandered off the path, but ever since DAO ended, DLC, Awakenings and now DAO 2 has been nothing but a giant plot mess. Someone there needs to take some Ritalin and calm down, because seriously it feels like you are going in 100 different directions with no coherent thought process. The whole series has left me with my head spinning and no care what so ever for future titles. I was not excited about DA 2, in fact I just picked up the box at gamestop, looked at it and put it back. I have no interst in playing another DAO title till you settle down and focus a little more on cohesion.
The point of an epic fantasy story is character development. In Mass effect you choose to keep a lot of characters from one game to the other making it compelling to play future titles. I already have a vested interest in the ME universe and know a lot of the characters. Sure, you can add new ones, but you also revisit old ones, and have a core party that works its way through the game titles. DAO you have not done this after the DAO main title ended, in fact you rarely brought back any supporting roles and never for more then a scene or two. Nothing ties the story together accept the world itself, and a very loose plot.
I can only Imagine fantasy novels like LOTR, Wheel of time, Sword of truth, etc being written like your plot team has taken this games story. I feel like I am reading all three fantasy series, but instead book 1 of one series, then book 5 of another, and then book 3 backwards of another series, hoping that somewhere in this giant clusterfk something will make sense. Unfortunately, I give up. I have lost interest. DA 2 takes everything bad about post DAO, All the DLC and Awakenings) and embraces it making it into a complete title. No thanks, I'll pass.
Modificata da Thalinor00, 08 marzo 2011 - 05:41 .
), and so far the game has lived up to my expectations.
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