Chris Priestly wrote...
To those who have had a negative expereince here (other posters, mods, me, whatever) what can be done to improve your experience here in the future?
Just speaking in general for Bioware as a whole, put you money where your mouth is. Everything you say is going to come under heavy scrutiny and won't be entirely believed unless you show it off. This was sort of a marketing difference that we saw changed a lot since Origins. During Origns someone might say, "this game has this, this and that," and there would be a video acompanying that explicitly, and proudly, showing those features. If someone said choices mattered, there'd be a video or two showing off a part of the game played multiple ways. If there were spell combos, they were showed off. After Origins this sort of marketing fell off in all of Bioware's projects.
Basically, don't talk about a project until you have something to show for it, then once you do have something to show only talk about what you're willing to hand out publically.
Generally speaking, I had a very negative reaction to ME3, the way Bioware promoted it, and the way critics talked about it. The game felt horribly rushed, started and ended horribly, relegated too many characters to cameo roles, forgot its identity, was filled with plot holes, had terrible sidequests, contained far too few choices both in dialogue and in general, and relied on combat to pad out the length overly much rather than the idea of story and adventure, making combat grow boring after awhile. The way Bioware promoted the game was nothing less than dishonest and it seemed like there was a lot of reading between the lines being done to get any information. It seemed rare that people would bluntly confirm or deny features and instead would state some obscure line which seemed positive, but could be taken a number of different ways. This does not help me trust the company or the people working for it, and does not leave me with a positive image. Finally, the media surrounding the game refused to crticize it. It was left to users to figure out what all was wrong and only after the fact did the media begin to address the backlash. That's crap. It's no coincidence that few, if any, reviews even made mention of the ending, or how horrible the beginning/demo intro was. All this just makes me want to ignore Bioware completely then look toward general consensus of the games long after they're released, when their prices have dropped and my investment in them is lower.
Modifié par b09boy, 01 mai 2012 - 04:16 .
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