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[Ridwan]

Bump, with rumours of the constant internet connection required for what's essentially a singleplayer game, will this affect your choice?

[TKavatar]

They are even more niche when you consider that they are one of the few RPG developers who craft RPGs where the characters are the focus. Most are like Bethesda games, where the world is the focus and the characters an afterthought. If you prefer the former...there is Bioware and maybe CD Projekt Red. And that's it.

Don't forget Obsidian.

[Heimdall]

Haven't we had this thread before?

I don't write off a company on the basis of one game. Moreso Bioware, as there're aren't really any others that deliver their style of RPG besides Obsidian, who don't release games half as regularly. My options are limited. In any case, I've been playing their games since KOTOR and they've yet to release one that failed to entertain me.

[Turnip]

It won't be a make or break for me. I was one of the big believers in the Indoctrination Theory, so after that whole fiasco I've learned to control my Bioware fan-rage. If I don't like DAI (which at this point I really don't think will happen), it might make me more cautious about buying future products, but that's about it.

[dutch_gamer]

Bump, with rumours of the constant internet connection required for what's essentially a singleplayer game, will this affect your choice?

Bioware has already responded on this forum that this rumor is completely false.

http://forum.bioware...lay/?p=16512751

[rashie]

DA2 and ME3 where not bad games standing on their own, but there's no way those live up to the record set by the previous games imo. If judging them one off i still have faith in Bioware. DA2's problems was in large part a symptom of a rushed game as well.

[Reclusiarch]

I've really enjoyed all of the recent Bioware games so I personally have no trouble preordering DA:I.

[Ridwan]

Bioware has already responded on this forum that this rumor is completely false.

http://forum.bioware...lay/?p=16512751

 

Cheers bro.

[twincast]

I don't see how ME's lore/world states could ever be salvaged, so barring a bona fide miracle, that franchise is dead to me after ME3's ending.

 

While I have little good to say about the utterly disappointing DA2, however, it didn't irrevocably ruin the setting for me, so I've always said that a DA3 standing up to scrutiny would be BW's last chance for me. Not in the sense of never, ever, ever touching another game of theirs for all eternity, but in the sense of feeling finally abandoned by them for good and therefore no longer bothering to follow the development of any of their games. Also, no pre-orders anymore unless all the important questions (most of all the tactical camera) are answered and proven(!) satisfyingly.

 

So, I don't agree with the changes from DA:O to DA2 that they've kept for DA:I.

(Well, other than the change from linear to (in part) non-linear skill/spell progression, which I expect them to keep and add non-combat skills back to in DA:I.)

I do however agree with all the adjustments they've made to those changes (e.g. display of intent on dialog wheel, multiple voice options for the voiced PC).

Naturally, I agree with all the aspects in which they went back from DA2's model to DA:O's.

And in regards to most of them, they seem to be even more ambitious this time, which is certainly agreeable.

 

Still need better presentations of tactical combat and companion customization in particular before I'll consider pre-ordering, but I'm definitely looking forward to the game. EA and BW certainly seem to have learned their lesson. Asunder and The Masked Empire raising my interest in the characters and conflicts they feature helped for sure as well.

[Grand Admiral Cheesecake]

Unless it's Pre-EC ending bad I'll probably be neutral, my standards are low so it shouldn't be hard to meet them.

[Aaleel]

I don't think it'll ever be a make or break because I'll always buy a good game no matter the producer.  However, I removed Bioware from my pre-order list after DA2.  I didn't even pre-order ME3.  This game won't be a pre-order either, I'll wait to hear about the story because the combat looks a little over the top for my taste.  After I saw the last trailer where what looked like the protaganist fired a chain and then pulled himself throught he air to the enemy I really said wait and see on this one.

 

But even if this game turns out to be a no buy or a buy and don't like I'll still look at the next Bioware game that comes out and decide.  But I'll keep doing the due dilligence with no more pre-orders. 

[Cigne]

 ....I have no intention whatsoever of waiting for reviews or reactions from other players. In fact, I'll be avoiding those until I've played the game myself and formed my own opinions.....

 

This.

 

So very much this.

[The_Other_M]

Unless it's Pre-EC ending bad I'll probably be neutral, my standards are low so it shouldn't be hard to meet them.

^^Yep

Though I'd still argue that all the Extended Cut did was further solidify how bad those 3(or 4) choices really were, but I digress.

[90s Luke]

I never pre-order anything anyway. I always wait for good reviews from people I trust.

[Chiramu]

Inquisition will be another game I will play, it will not make or break anything for me. I have a lot of games to play, Mass Effect 3 took me ages to finish (the camera is right up your ass and the story is dead depressing). 

 

It will just be another game. I can't set my standards too high, although I will likely be disappointed with the writing of the character I am suppose to be playing.

[SporkFu]

Every time I play a game and there are things in it that I don't like, or it's a huge bugfest, i always think,'I'm not going to buy another one, or at the very least I won't pre-order and wait for reviews instead.'

 

And then the next game is announced and I cave. Besides, solar flares would have to permanently disable all electronics for me not to get ME4. I've already decided that. If that game is not good, though, I'll never buy another... 

[Killer3000ad]

I know I said long ago I'd swore myself of pre-ordering any Bioware games after the ending farce that was ME3, but being DA:I is being made by a different team who seem on the surface to have learned their mistakes from DA2, I MIGHT still pre-order DA:I depending on what I see released in the next info and trailer releases.

[SomberXIII]

I loved DA2 and even ME3 ending. No problem with Bioware but whiny people across the internet. 

[Dobyk]

I know that at some point I will indeed play DA:I. I will probably wait to see some of the in-game content and get some reviews a few weeks after the game is released, but I'm planning on eventually buying it. Pre-ordering is something I never do, even for games I hotly anticipate. I don't have as much time or energy to invest in games anymore as I've had before so I always play safe and see what the product is in its entirety before buying it. I'm trying not to get too excited, because that can be very damaging for a fan actually. Cautious excitement, that's the phrase But either way, Inquisition will be the make or break factor whenever the fourth game in the franchise comes out. I think this will be the turning point, and the game will either be brilliant and attract even more fans, or... well, remain a game for a few dedicated fans and niche gamers. Dragon Age gives a unique RPG experience, the only franchise on the market that currently does that. But that's not a reason to glorify it. If they have done a brilliant job on Inquisition and everything is meticulously and carefully crafter, from visuals to mechanics to, most importantly, writing and dialogue, then I will swear my fealty to the franchise entirely But for me personally, it's mainly about the dialogue and the characters. At least we're getting to play elves!

[Anderielle]

I loved DA2 and even ME3 ending. No problem with Bioware but whiny people across the internet. 

 

Agreed 

[Omikuji]

Well, I never liked Mass Effect to begin with even though I started with 2 and had no interest in ever beating it as I wasn't enjoying the story or characters. I tend to not like scifi though with the exception of a small select few that may as well be fantasy games with the made up tech. 

 

I didn't hate DA2 at all, in fact I had loads of fun with it and my opinion hadn't been tainted by anything like a review/the scores or even spoilers. I see the issues with it, but clearly Bioware itself knew of the issues as well so I can't fault them for EA demanding a sequel so fast (Only had a year of development? The fact we even got a game with the standard shorter end of an rpg length with a fair amount of attention put into it is more then can be said for other triple A games these days) So I never got that 'BETRAAAYALLLLLL' that people seemed to get with ME3, DAII.

 

KotOR though is just a sad story. I never liked the Star Wars universe so that's another thing that I can't have any bitter emotions over. But the fall of that game is tragic considering how good the story apparently was in it.

 

I also preorder games I don't want to have to deal with day 1 drama. A number of games in the past that I get interested in quickly become short of stock and become very annoying to track down a physical copy of without having to buy it online. When Fire Emblem Awakening came out, I store hopp'd so much just to find one it was frustrating. There have been other instances of this, I just don't want to deal with it. I rarely care about what reviewers have to say, since these days I don't trust any of them because, well, I know my tastes and they're very niche and picky. There is never a review I 100% agree with, my opinions are my own and the only way to get my own opinion on something is to play it myself. Or watch a lets player for the first episode or two that I enjoy, generally that will really make me go out and get the game because I want to play along side them. 

 

I do believe in educating yourself before you jump into preorders, since the preorder abuse has been rampant lately, but I trust my gut and wouldn't try to convince others into not doing or doing preorders since they have their own ways of getting opinions on a game and if it's worth it to them. Certainly should NOT listen to reviewers 100% either, since that is just as bad unless you know their personal tastes, since no matter what, those reviews are going to be biased.

 

The only recentish preordered game that failed me as of late was Kingdoms of Amalur. And that was because I had been pulling an all nighter and had learned about the game a day before it was released, staggered to the gamestop preordering it. Staied up all night looking up information on it so haggered my sleep even more, was surprised to find a stream of someone I liked already playing the game as their first impressions on twitch, and then went and got the game. My gut had nothing to do with that choice, and was purely done on spur of the stupid moment. 

[Sequin]

I'm one of those crazy people who enjoyed DA2. And although I wasn't happy with a number of things with the direction ME3 went, I still love BioWare's games as they remain unique to the gaming market. So I will continue to preorder them for now.

[ladyoflate]

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

 

You'd be surprised.