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[myahele]

Hard to say, I certainly won't buy a playstation just to play the game like I did with DAO.

If I don't like DAI I may not get another Dragon Age game, but I will still keep up and get myself updated with the lore/story. Even if I don't like the gameplay it doesn't mean that I dislike the overall world they set up.....unless they say it's somehow a prequal...or sequal to Mass Effect :-/

[Mercedes-Benz]

I don't trust them enough anymore to pre-order DA: I, I have already given up on the Mass Effect series, and will wait to see the fan reaction before deciding whether to buy DA: I or not, and if it turns out to be like Mass Effect 3, I will never buy another BioWare game again.

[AlanC9]

To confirm, the incidental fetch quests of DA2 screamed rush job, as did much of the game. That's not to say that they represent the only means by which one can come to that realisation, but then I'm not saying that am I Alan? And if that final question of yours was designed to be some kind of gotcha, I'd invite the good people reading this thread to decide for themselves whether the padding of any bare-bones game with bland, cursory content offers an indication that said game was rushed. Seems obvious to me, but YMMV.

If you want to take issue with any of that, perhaps we should take things to PM?

 

 I'm just confused how adding more of any kind of content can make something more rushed. Wouldn't DA2 without those fetch quests have been even more rushed than the version of DA2 we got? It would have had less content, right?

 

This is similar to the ME3 debate over squadmates's one-liner reactions to the previous mission. Some kinds of content make some players feel that they're getting less content even when they're getting more, and I'm curious about the thought process.

[Abelas Forever!]

 So it's not a make or break for me: because I would rather spend the money supporting a more female friendly game, than games like the witcher. I owe it to the younger-female-gamers still growing up, to support games like DA2; and decrease the misoginistic BS that plauges the industry, and makes games like the witcher, socially acceptable.

 

I haven't played Witcher so I can't say anything about it. I want to support more female friendly games too and I think DA games are those kinds of games. There are strong female characters who can be leaders like Warden and Hawke. Aveline is quite strong too. I also think that there isn't that many good games with strong female characters. Well there aren't many movies or TV series either. I also like romances in games but the reason why DA games are so good is that you can choose whether to start a romance or not and usually you have several options to choose your LI from. So by buying games and DLCs I feel that something what I do can have some impact on what kind of games there will be in the future. Because if a game doesn't make a profit then why would the company make more of those games.

[Soulseeker25]

Its not going to make or break it at all for me. Since I personaly had no problem what so ever with DA2 or the ME3 ending. Even TOR wasn't bad either.

[Divine Justinia V]

If you mean break me like emotionally, then yes. I can already tell.

[Mes]

will wait to see the fan reaction before deciding whether to buy DA

 

I will probably not take any reactions, good or bad, to heart until I experience the game for myself. If I had listened to fan reactions of DA2, I would have passed up a really enjoyable game.

[Naesaki]

I will probably not take any reactions, good or bad, to heart until I experience the game for myself. If I had listened to fan reactions of DA2, I would have passed up a really enjoyable game.

Yeah, I'd rather form my own opinions of the game as well

[WidePaul]

I thoroughly enjoy both origins and 2 and liked what I've seen of this so far and will be getting it, don't know about preorder yet, I want to know what's in the collectors edition first.

[EmissaryofLies]

It definitely won't be getting a pre-order from me. I learned my lesson the last time. But I doubt that I'll be disappointed. 

 

I have evidence to back that claim. 

[Barquiel]

I liked DA2. Not as much as I liked Origins, but it was a decent enough game. I certainly don't regret the purchase. And while I was upset about ME3's original ending, I thought it was a very enjoyable game. As for DA:I...it actually might be one of my most anticipated titles at the moment.

[I SOLD MY SOUL TO BIOWARE]

No. 

 

I don't really care enough for that honestly. 

[nihiliste]

In the wasteland that is the RPG market, there's not a chance it'll be make or break, from the POV that I'd definitely be willing to try any future products that got good reviews - though if DA:I is bad I won't have any expectations for future games.

 

Planescape: Torment and Baldur's Gate 2 came out in 1999 and 2000 respectively.  In the black hole between that time and the release of Origins, the only good fantasy RPG that came out was Mask of the Betrayer.  At this point waiting a decade for another game in the vein of what I like is more the expectation than a surprise.

 

Though I hope this year with DA:I, Eternity, Witcher 3, Torment, that there will be something memorable and worth re-playing.

[TKavatar]

In the wasteland that is the RPG market, there's not a chance it'll be make or break, from the POV that I'd definitely be willing to try any future products that got good reviews - though if DA:I is bad I won't have any expectations for future games.
 
Planescape: Torment and Baldur's Gate 2 came out in 1999 and 2000 respectively.  In the black hole between that time and the release of Origins, the only good fantasy RPG that came out was Mask of the Betrayer.  At this point waiting a decade for another game in the vein of what I like is more the expectation than a surprise.
 
Though I hope this year with DA:I, Eternity, Witcher 3, Torment, that there will be something memorable and worth re-playing.

Witcher 3 isn't out until next year

[Iakus]

ME3 was make or break for me.

 

The answer:  Break.

 

DAI is more a question of "Can you win me back?"

 

Otherwise, I'm backing Pillars of Eternity and Tides of Numenera.

[bEVEsthda]

No. I will buy DA:I. I'm pretty much sure of that. I'm too curious of the game and too curious of how Bioware will try to handle the situation they have put themselves in.  And don't misunderstand one thing: - I'm rooting for DA:I. I hope it'll be a big success.

 

But no. The break has occured. Exactly when, I don't know. But I see Bioware as something completely different these days. I certainly no longer look on them as a group of people who can or want to develop my kind of games. I kinda also perceive Bioware as silently hostile against me and my ilk, because we're from their old customers, who don't want the kind of games they now want to do. "Go away and be quiet. Leave us in peace and let us pick up new customers". Like it's all our fault. That's the kind of vibes I get. Not that I don't totally sympathize with their situation. I do. It must often have been dreadful and a bad experience. Not at all what they signed up for when becoming game developers, and throwing in all their hard work, time and creativity.

[The Love Runner]

If you mean break me like emotionally, then yes. I can already tell.

Well, it certainly can't break anyone physically. I mean, it's a video game!

[brightblueink]

At this point, most of the marketing for Inquisition is telling me exactly what I want to hear, and I want to be as unspoiled as possible on major plot choices while playing the game, so I might actually go ahead and preorder.

 

That being said, I completely sympathize with people that are wary of preordering any games, and particularly Bioware games because of all of the recent screw-ups. I have it a lot easier than most--although I definitely agree that DAII was *very* flawed, I still loved playing the gaem because I love the world and the characters, so I greatly enjoyed the game despite how obviously rushed it was (although I'm glad that at the time I played it because my brother bought it, and not me--when I did eventually buy the game myself for PC I got it for something like $5-10 on sale, so it's hard to have buyer's remorse since I like the game AND it cost me about what I'd pay to get some lunch). TOR didn't matter much to me--it was disappointing, because I had been interested in it, but TBH I don't really like MMORPGs anyway so it wasn't a huge loss for me.

 

But ME3? Eerrgghh. I enjoyed it for the most part (and I think they really got leveling/skill points just right in that game, at least for my taste), but I was one of the people that REALLY hated the ending. And believe me, I wanted to like it, but the actual ending and the fallout afterward left a really bitter taste in my mouth. Honestly, the main thing saving Bioware for me is that I love Dragon Age as a series and even liked Dragon Age II despite its flaws. Mass Effect as a series is sort of dead to me, at least right now. Like, I'm sure I'll follow news for the next game once it starts to come out, but I'm really not all that interested in the world anymore. I feel a little silly saying that, since I did at least enjoy most of the rest of the game--but I think the original ending really screwed up everything I really enjoyed about the setting of ME and made me feel like any possible continuation would no longer have the elements I really loved about the setting. (It probably doesn't help that, unlike DAII, I DID preorder Mass Effect 3, since at the time my brother was too broke to get it and I was excited.)

 

So no, my trust in Bioware isn't quite broken yet--or, rather, my trust in the Dragon Age team isn't broken. That being said, if (God forbid) Inquisition turned out to be a mess, I don't think I'd ever preorder a game from BW again, and I'd probably be less hyped over any upcoming titles in general.

[nihiliste]

No. I will buy DA:I. I'm pretty much sure of that. I'm too curious of the game and too curious of how Bioware will try to handle the situation they have put themselves in.  And don't misunderstand one thing: - I'm rooting for DA:I. I hope it'll be a big success.

 

But no. The break has occured. Exactly when, I don't know. But I see Bioware as something completely different these days. I certainly no longer look on them as a group of people who can or want to develop my kind of games. I kinda also perceive Bioware as silently hostile against me and my ilk, because we're from their old customers, who don't want the kind of games they now want to do. "Go away and be quiet. Leave us in peace and let us pick up new customers". Like it's all our fault. That's the kind of vibes I get. Not that I don't totally sympathize with their situation. I do. It must often have been dreadful and a bad experience. Not at all what they signed up for when becoming game developers, and throwing in all their hard work, time and creativity.

 

Yeah I don't know about the hostility but I definitely agree that I no longer feel like part of of Bioware's target audience which wasn't the case for many years.  I don't blame them for wanting to try new things or wanting to make more money, I just wish there was a developer out there for whom I was still the target audience.  Obsidian is fine but they've never developed the same quality of games as Bioware used to, or that they used to as Black Isle.

[elyu]

Nope. Dragon Age is my favorite franchise and considering what we've already seen of Inquisition I feel it's gonna be the best DA game so far. I wasn't even that disappointed in DA2 tbh. So yeah, I'm gonna pre-order and buy a collector's edition if there's gonna be one.

[XXIceColdXX]

Probably not make or break for me.

I still enjoy Bioware's character driven style. For example, while I enjoy Skyrim and it's open world, the Bethesda games just don't develop the close relationships with my companions or other NPCs that Bioware seems to deliver so well.

Bioware's focus on keeping their own lore / continuity in check does worry me though , and hope that can be of highest priority going ahead.

[AlanC9]

Hmm... meanwhile, I feel as much a part of Bio's audience as I ever have. I suppose that's because I was never a huge fan of most CRPG conventions in the first place, so when Bio breaks one it usually doesn't bother me, and occasionally I really like it.