Lord_Valandil wrote...
bEVEsthda wrote...
Lord_Valandil wrote...
Fast Jimmy wrote...
Nevertheless - yes. MP for DA3. Everything is going according to the prophecy.
Hopefully the prophecy will end with fire, blood and the demise of the franchise.
Unless it somehow finds the path to redemption. Then I'll believe in miracles.
I have for a while considered posting a thread about overdoing negativeness, and the masochistic impulses and the lingering bitterness that might drive us to do that.
Here's the danger and the point: We risk creating an environment where DA3 never gets a fair chance.
I for one, think we should try to avoid that.
I agree in part.
I hope no one takes my posts as some kind of 'drama-llama', sometimes I tend to exaggerate a bit on purpose (I get a laugh out of my own posts). I don't wish any bad luck to the devs, I respect them. Even if I don't agree with their choices and the road they're following, maybe some people will like the game, and that's great.
Maybe I'm still a little bitter, because I loved Origins, and I hoped for something different than the current direction the franchise is taking. That, and the half baked DLC they have released for the DA games (which weren't cheap) and their lying marketing campaign (like Witch Hunt, which was supposed to answer all of your questions and give closure, yeaaahh right...it was a glorified DA2 advertisement).
I'm not still here to annoy people or to troll, if I like what I see when they show previews of DA3, then I'll get more positive, that's for sure.
Well, I like to think of myself as one of the most vitriolic DA2 critics who have managed to escape permaban. And I'm certainly bitter. Very bitter. I see nothing wrong in bashing DA2, or the silly ideas and logic which resulted in the "new direction".
But one would also have to think that Bioware can't be as thick as they sometimes appear to be (or are forced to pretend to be, since they can't bash themselves or their bosses). Ultimately this is a business. And they have to be aware of that DA2 failed bigtime, that the sales were just driven by DA:O's popularity. There should be reasons to believe that Bioware can be able to avoid repeating past mistakes.
It doesn't look good. I agree on that. We tell them we don't want VA. They tell us we will get it and that it's off the table. We tell them we don't want dialogue wheel. They tell us we will get it. We tell them we don't want "iconic" NPCs. They tell us we will get them. We tell them we don't want MP. They tell us we will get it. We tell them we don't want autodialogue. They tell us we will get it. They tell us it will be a mix of the best parts of DA:O and DA2. We ask what "best parts of DA:O" will be included. They only give us silence. We go "- What best parts of DA2!?". They point to all the things we don't want.
But Bioware must be aware of all these things. There's reason to expect that they have a plan. That they think they can execute things so much better this time, that most of the disastrous features are acceptable. Remember - MP was pretty neat in BG. It allowed you to create more custom characters for the single-player game.
There's also this: If I didn't love Skyrim so terribly much, I wouldn't find it difficult to pick on features I hate or think are rubbish. It's the emergent narrative, the customized char, the freedom, experiencing a story from your own character's perspective that's important. The key is if the game as whole works for you. Not the individual features. But we must be in the right mood to be perceptive for that. What happens if you're set in the mood to look for features or details that you'll hate?
While we're waiting for DA3, until we know differently, it seems only fair to assume that the game will be interesting. And to assume that Bioware have a plan, that they're not stupid enough to just repeat DA2.
But by all means, go on bashing DA2. I probably will, whenever there's a reason.
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are you the same fisto who made this 
