jbrand2002uk wrote...
I dont need an unknowable truth because its clear from their comments they have only played the standalone game minus Legacy and the other DLC dragon age is a combat oriented rpg after having played videogames for over 24 years i can tell the difference and the one thing you dont do in a combat oriented game is make the combat criminally slow like it was in origins thats like putting someone in a motorcycle race and then taking away the motorcycle.
and wether it was marketed as a sequel or not is irrelevant if it was a true sequel then the main character would have been the warden not hawke who was a minor figure in the battle for ostagar featured in origins.
therefore it isnt a sequel and should not be treated as such, and yes DAO fans are selfish because as far as they are concerned juding by their comments and rants is that the only soloution they will accept for DA3 is to make it exactly like DAO but with better visuals,where as most sensible sane people like me and others are willing to accept some compromise between the 2 and we dont go shouting oh well if DA3 isnt exactly like DA2 then we're not buying it Which is exactly what most of the hardcore DAO fans that post on here say and as for bias i have none personally i would choose the ace combat series or Total war series of games over WoW or BG
the fact is many gamers like myself have wives children and jobs which we have to put first and its those kind of gamers that have other more important responsibilities than sitting on our butts for 120hrs eating deep fried mars bars that wouldnt be able to enjoy a decent RPG if all these Hardcore origins fans had their way and since as there are at 20 other RPG's out there that would please that group of hardcore RPG'ers then yes i think it is selfish of them to keep wanting more of the same.
put it this way would you like it if every TV show was Big Brother or American Idol or Xfactor or Dance with the stars or Eastenders or Coronation Street or Neighbours or Home and Away because more people have watched them than say Top Gear or WWE or TNA i dont think you would would you ?
May I suggest that your perception is blinded by your own bias? Why would anyone invest additional funds into DLC when the base game was so below their expectations, secondly a combat heavy game such as DAO is quite different from resolving almost every encounter through combat which was DA2. Whilst I don't require someone with 24 years experince to tell me a shovel is a shovel, just as individuals who dumped DA2 halfway through didn't need to get to Act 3 to gain a legitimate view of the game, paticularly as the player should not have to drag themselves through it.
As to whether it is a sequal, that is a faulty syllogism, "it does not posses the same character therefore it is not a sequal" Ignoring the overwhelming details of setting, timeline, lore, character refrences, continuation of events (however small they might be. Whilst, how you managed to get to "DAO fans are selfish because they want more DAO." is beyond me, but I assume you are a purveyor of that perfidious little fantasy like so many others who run out of reasoned discourse and engage in the equivalent of Mcarthyism in an attempt to discredit legitimate complaints. Compromise? More akin to an act of appeasement, particularly as disign direction is mutually exclusive in some cases, and obviously there has been no cry for DA3 to be exactly the same as DA2, considering the negative reception its release recieved, it is probaly wise for a developer to distance oneself from it.
Whilst you're sterotypical view of gamers, tells me a great deal and remains on a par with the same foolishness as that of those gamers who assume any casual gamer is a drooling moron. Myself, I have little time to play or use the forums as I have work, studies, reading, gym, etc. Yet, that is not a reason to streamline an entire genre into utter simplicity, or do you enjoy a simple storyline of A vs B whilst mindlessly hacking through the third wave of cannon fodder enemies? Personally I couldn't think of a bigger waste of time, nor does it hold my interest.
And, I actually grew up playing the odd FPS game, whilst total war is one of my favorite RTSs, but from your comments I gather that you are content with the homogonisation of all genres into a single mass market, which is what you are implying, by claiming DA2 is the move for RPGs to follow. Personally I am not, If I pick up an RPG or and FPS I expect there to be a difference in game design, not superflous alterrations, whilst I have only recently come into RPGs, so I have never played BG. And for the record I despise all forms of soaps operas and rarely watch the Tv, other than the news, because of the current decline towards x factor becasue it is popular. Which DA2 epitomises in its move towards attracting a wider audience through simplification, rather than modification and improvement.
Whilst your own comments remind me a great deal of DA2's most strident detractors, in their blinkered views. I will simply say pot meet kettle.
Modifié par billy the squid, 02 septembre 2011 - 12:49 .
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The main focus is the stories and the characters..............OR that used to be how it was. Bioware has taken it into their minds they want the Call of Duty fans for their fanbase, hence all the changes in DA2, hence why DA2 which is supposed to be a SEQUEL, is nothing at all like DA: Origins. I HAVE played DA:2 they got a free 60 bucks out of me, because from release day to now, I still cannot get immersed in that game..it is no longer an rpg, which is what I thought it was supposed to be. It is an action ..shooter hybrid ..THING..to attract the COD players.
everyone is entitled to their opinion, but if that opinion is bad, they should not express it here
