Posting while trying to get out the door at work doesn't usually go well. So now I have to stay late in order to post some more.
The short version: I apologize to the thread for being such a burst of negativity lately. It has been accumulating for a while, but nobody needs to read it. I am sorry about the drama.
The Wall of Text version: I've been a BioWare fan since Baldur's Gate, and I've played all of the fantasy titles many, many times, falling in love with them over and over again. Each successive game made me fall in love a little more. It's as if they were custom made to my precise RPG specifications. DA:Awakening shook that perception a little. I loved the game, but the streamlined companion conversation was a disappointment, and the whole thing felt a little rushed. I loved DA2 and adored *each* of the characters, but as with Awakening, the streamlined conversations, heavy-handed plot, and visibly cut corners reinforced my impression that things were slipping. Subtly, but noticeably. My faith began to waver. A few weeks ago, "leaks" started to surface, and if true, they suggested that BioWare was going in a direction I really didn't like. I don't want to play an inquisitor. Make me play a specific race or even a specific gender, if you must, but I don't want to play a character with pre-determined values. Please don't try to tell me that the organization that became the templars is not going to have fixed religious or political beliefs. That dead horse has been beaten to dust. One of the criticisms of both DA2 and ME3 was that choices don't matter. My fear is that the solution was to take away the choices. Do I think BioWare would do that? I'd like to say no. In the absence of real news, the rumors are all we have to go on, and they aren't really all that promising. The hope of Cullen and Galyan (moreso Galyan, but this is a Cullen thread) was about all that was left of my enthusiasm for the next thing. Like a lot of Cullen fans, I've liked him since DA:O, and it seems as if finally, after an expansion, a sequel, and a whole load of DLC, we might get our wish. So no pressure.
It's impossible to avoid the legacy of recent titles. Things were done, and people remember how quests like Best Served Cold and events like Orsino's... transformation... make no sense for mage-siding Hawke. So yes, I am skeptical. I do try to remain positive, but with nothing to go on but rumors, that's becoming more difficult.
While it might be helpful to BioWare to learn the doubts that some players may be harboring, the Cullen thread is a haven, a politics-free zone, and I apologize for disrupting the goodwill with my outburst of negativity. I am also sorry for causing unnecessary drama.
Anyway, this post took about an hour and a half to write. I do hope that Ms... er... Ms... The-One-Who-May-or-May-Not-Have-Written-Cullen (sorry, bad memory) sees it so that it puts my comment in perspective, but she has probably gone home herself by now.
Modifié par berelinde, 29 août 2012 - 11:19 .
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