Cimeas wrote...
Question One: So you want Bioware to forget about attracting new players and only focus on the classic audience of old BG2 players?
Question Two: So you agree that a game of DA:O's length will have to have significant periods of level recycling (like DA:O) and hardly have state of the art graphics?
Question Three: You understand that if Bioware cannot keep up with other successful RPG devs like CDPR, they will get hurt in reviews and customer perception, few want to play a game worse (in a few core ways) than the alternatives, as shown by DA2's reasonably lackluster sales?
Question Four: Do you understand that Bioware has a very large team and is a big company (or sub-company)? As a company that wishes to make bigger games, employ more people, and get more fans (i.e. become more SUCCESSFUL) they want to expand their audience, and that means marketing to those outside the classic RPG fanbase.
Question Five: Do you understand that most people's only complaints, as evidenced on dozens of gaming sites were that (1) there was too much level-recycling, which was absolutely the case, and (2) there was no companion gear/skill/weapon customization? Seriously, that was the extent of most complaints. The voiced main character is a huge improvement, no longer are we playing a glorified choose-your-adventure hero, but someone who has that fundamental human quality- speech!
Other games had VO'd leads in 2002, and here we are in 2012 and you want things to go back to lifeless, personality-less characters who are merely avatars of yourself, rather than people of their own.
Dear Cimeas,
I hope you don't take this in any way wrong, because I'm gonna go through the steps with you here.
You can't just throw out something, that is phrased as counter points, without knowing what position you're arguing against. I don't know why you did this. Guesses are, that you had some frustrated feelings about where you think the gist of this thread is going. Couldn't find any specific points, or opponent, to suit your purpose, and went ahead anyway. Just to vent. But, of course, I can't know. Only you do. In any way, that doesn't look so good, so try avoid it.
Also (and this is soo common on these forums) you can't rely on others' counter- (supposedly) -arguments, for understanding what the original position was. Let the fool be alone in his misunderstandings, even if you perceive him as an ally. You have to go back to the source statements for the real position.
Related to that, is that it is a helluva good idea, to read a thread from the beginning. Particularly if one intends to ask questions. But it's also nice if one intends to make some general argument on the thread topic, rather than a specific detail in some post.
Hope this helps.
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