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[Bizantura]

My son just ran me through Path of Exile. OMG.

The Skill/Talent structure is enormous. Put's anything that Bioware have ever envisaged in the shade.

I advise any gamer to inspect it. The site has tons of info and there are stacks on Youtube.

It is free and microtransactions not necessary.

Developers are in New Zealand.

Check it out and stop the weeping over Bioware's betrayal.

Got any suggestions about offline RPG games?  I know "online" is reality and one  to stay but I can't cope with the online aspect of PvP and raidings.  I simply don't find it fun.

[Dubya75]

I think I picked that info up on the Dragon Age wiki where it referred to a Bioware design team beginning around about the time of DA2, with an MMORPG as their remit. Later a change of plan hit the project. Had Biowore continued in the vein they started in, I'm convinced that this would have ended up being a good game rather than something which isn't the best at anything it tried to achieve through advertised mutifunctioning

 

Exactly! And there is a little Polish developer that has been doing exactly that! And come May 19th, we will see them reap the benefits of that: staying with their vision. Not turning right or left. Without distraction.

Bioware in stark contrast, squandered their excellent start with the Dragon Age franchise.

Had they kept that depth and built on the strengths of DAO and improved upon it instead of trying to follow mainstream trends and failing miserably at every turn, DAI would have been a truly SPECTACULAR game!

 

But alas, that ship has sailed.

 

Congratulations, Mark Darrah, you single-handedly sunk the Titanic.

[Cobwebmaster]

To avoid triggering (trauma is so lucrative these days) anyone and not derail the thread, Jeebus-Hyper-Kerist-nailed-to-two-hockey-sticks-alone-knows how many must get punished for it, this thing goes off the rails so often...

 

Vigilance, though - the watchdogs here are keen.  Vigilance and $69.99 gets you an exclusive issue of the Bioware Faustian Times and Colonic Reader.  ...this a thing devoutly to be wished or so it's rumoured.

 

So...

 

How can Bioware make it right, kids, mein bros und fraus?  What can they do to make up for the kerfuffling of base and rank knavery this lie of a game has wrought?  How can they win back the bitter and disenfranchised heartbroken PC Dogs that only wanted to love them?  Abased and abashed, catholic in our hopes, what can follow?

 

Bioware, Bioware lama sabachthani?

 

 

 

Also, any word on that patch and Emporium/Witcher-Killer-offering yet?  Bated breath, etc, etc...

 In my original criticism of this game my comments were that this should have been 2 games not one for SP as it took me so long to finish most of the core, important, and side quests that I clocked up well over 100 hours. My problem with it boils down to the fact that it doesn't break down into manageable chunks easily, and as unlike ME you aren't "led around by the nose" (not that in a Bioware RPG it was a bad thing - it wasn't) quest wise, the problem essentially is one of player endurance trials rather than adrenaline pumping fun. I found trying to do most stuff in the game left me with a feeling at the end of  "Thank the maker that's over", rather than "Please sir I'd like some more". For my I can't see a way back for Bioware to encourage me to stump up for any more of their games. Others may feel differently but I think the key is don't try and be all things to all platforms, and be a bit more up front  about any potential differences in gameplay between them. That also applies to reviewers too

On the other hand it may be just that pc gamers are a dying breed

 To be, or not to be transitory, that is the question—

Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind for Bioware to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,
Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,
And by opposing, end them? To die, to sleep—
No more; and by a sleep, to say we end
The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks
That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished

Are pc users in EA eyes living in a Nunnery? Is it mind over matter? (they don't mind as we don't matter?) Time will tell but this game or rather any future one wther in this franchise or no, needs to be a lot better, and focus hard on optimising gaming experiences for inidividual platform users. It's obvious to my mind that they can't do that - yet. Whether that is a desirable achievement remains to be seen

[Cobwebmaster]

I have to say goodbye here. Been fun but life moves on and it was obvious from day one that this mess was going to be swept under the carpet. In principle I would like to post once per day just to keep making a noise but after a while one knows that one is shouting into the void.

 

Good to meet some of you...I wish you well in the good fight should you choose to keep fighting it.

 

I will be playing TW3 and PoE as therapy after this harrowing ordeal 

 

I will leave a quick comment:

 

There is a certain section of society that has always existed that thinks it knows better than anyone else how things should be. Any opposition to their way of thinking is met with violence. Violence can be direct physical or verbal and may include thousands of forum posts shouting down opposition. This section of society have always been called fascists.

 

Today they have cleverly re-branded themselves as liberals. However their particular brand of freedom is very limited. You are free to have a different opinion only in so far as your opinion must be  a shade of the same colour. Any actual differing opinion is met with calls for re-education and if that does not work violence. This kind of thinking has led to the camps in Europe and all the most grotesque periods and actions in human history.

 

This kind of fascism may be carefully disguised with a passive aggressive style and reasonable sounding argument but it is what it is and becomes clear quite quickly. I would heartily recommend in the forum environment that this kind of person be met with a wall of silence and the simple "do not feed the troll", be not only quoted but followed strictly. The troll after all only thrives on interaction...if there is none their censure and posturing become null and void.

 

BioWere died with DAO...mourn them and move on would be my advice.

 

As JPR would say...over and out!

 

Arne

 

We are farts in the wind, Arne. Farts in the wind!

 

Adios amigo!

It's a pity that the farts have insufficient methane content for a more intense global pollution. Greener emissions from EA/B would then be more likely 

[Cobwebmaster]

Well in turn following Arne's wisdom, I mentioned earlier that it was time to move on and I think it is for me. The experience on this thread has been a fullfilling one and most informative from every quarter. I thank you all for sharing your thoughts here. Witcher 3 starts soon and I want another bash at some of my old and new favourite games before I get into Geralt's adventures. After that the coarse fishing season starts here and I shall be otherwise occupied for a while

Auf Weidersehn

[Arne Saknussemm]

fixed that for ya.

 

Thank you for making my point for me so clearly there 

 

Oh damn now I didn't follow my own advice 

 

Cobwebmaster...that sounds infinitely better than DAI

 

Cyan, Dubya...and the rest; have a good one!

 

Adios...

[DragonsDream]

con

 

Thank you for making my point for me so clearly there 

 

Oh damn now I didn't follow my own advice 

 

Cobwebmaster...that sounds infinitely better than DAI

 

Cyan, Dubya...and the rest; have a good one!

 

Adios...

conservatives claiming that liberals lack tolerance of conservatives intolerance: "I'm not allowed to disagree with liberals anymore. If I say anything bigoted, racist or homophobic they jump down my throat! Why don't they tolerate me? I just have a different point of view.They all talk about tolerance but as soon as you act like a douchebag, they stop tolerating you"

 

We are under no obligation to tolerate your intolerance nor is it "intolerance" to do so. You are perfectly free to continue being a d-bag all you want but you are not exempt from being called out on it in the name of "tolerance" and pointing out your bigotry and homophobia is not being intolerant of your opinion. You are allowed to have it, you just aren't allowed to use it to hinder or hold down anyone else.

[Errationatus]

 In my original criticism of this game my comments were that this should have been 2 games not one for SP as it took me so long to finish most of the core, important, and side quests that I clocked up well over 100 hours. My problem with it boils down to the fact that it doesn't break down into manageable chunks easily, and as unlike ME you aren't "led around by the nose" (not that in a Bioware RPG it was a bad thing - it wasn't) quest wise, the problem essentially is one of player endurance trials rather than adrenaline pumping fun. I found trying to do most stuff in the game left me with a feeling at the end of  "Thank the maker that's over", rather than "Please sir I'd like some more". For my I can't see a way back for Bioware to encourage me to stump up for any more of their games. Others may feel differently but I think the key is don't try and be all things to all platforms, and be a bit more up front  about any potential differences in gameplay between them. That also applies to reviewers too

On the other hand it may be just that pc gamers are a dying breed

 To be, or not to be transitory, that is the question—

Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind for Bioware to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,
Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,
And by opposing, end them? To die, to sleep—
No more; and by a sleep, to say we end
The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks
That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished

Are pc users in EA eyes living in a Nunnery? Is it mind over matter? (they don't mind as we don't matter?) Time will tell but this game or rather any future one wther in this franchise or no, needs to be a lot better, and focus hard on optimising gaming experiences for inidividual platform users. It's obvious to my mind that they can't do that - yet. Whether that is a desirable achievement remains to be seen

 

Bioware is dead.  This franchise is dead.  There is no saving it.  They have no interest in saving it.  PC users like the power and flexibility their rigs can afford them.  Unfortunately, most gaming companies are run by bacterial money-grubbers and the product only has to run on cruddy locked-in consoles.  Like the last gen, this gen will see the same games with the same graphics, glitches and empty garbage for the next decade.  No need for innovation or storytelling when the majority of your consumers only play to distract themselves and nothing else.  There's a reason you can't upgrade that console.

 

You heard 'em.  They don't need us.  PC players force them to work for a living and they just don't need that.

 

Last time I looked, my money bought the same things the mod-blowin' bootlickers' money bought, but apparently it's the wrong colour or something.  Fine and dandy, I'm perfectly happy for my PC cash to go elsewhere.

 

The problem, dear EA, with casual gamers is that they're fickle as hell.  They don't develop loyalties and they don't keep coming back with their reliable cash, and eventually, even they get tired of getting bent over and treated like two-dollar mentally challenged prostitutes.

 

This is an abusive relationship, folks, between us and EA and it's time we got out, which is exactly what I'm doing.  

 

I'm done.

 

Y'all take care and get out of this hole before you can't get the stink off.

[Amplitudelol]

Thank you for making my point for me so clearly there 

 

Oh damn now I didn't follow my own advice 

 

Cobwebmaster...that sounds infinitely better than DAI

 

Cyan, Dubya...and the rest; have a good one!

 

Adios...

 

Just when you thought you were out they pull you back in!

 

Such is this thread.

[Drantwo]

QTEs will be a part of the next Dragon Age. I am telling you'll now itself....QTEs in the next Dragon Age game. 

[line_genrou]

Got any suggestions about offline RPG games?  I know "online" is reality and one  to stay but I can't cope with the online aspect of PvP and raidings.  I simply don't find it fun.

 

Right now we have Divinity: Original Sin (if you haven't, check this out ASAP. It's amazing.), Pillars of Eternity and soon we'll get Sword Coast Legends.

First two are wonderful games.

[Joe-Poe]

Right now we have Divinity: Original Sin (if you haven't, check this out ASAP. It's amazing.), Pillars of Eternity and soon we'll get Sword Coast Legends.

First two are wonderful games.

Sword Coast Legends looks promising. Especially since they guy who directed DA: Origins is at the helm. 

[Morroian]

Congratulations, Mark Darrah, you single-handedly sunk the Titanic.

 

I think its more Laidlaw myself but Darrah certainly allowed it to happen. 

[line_genrou]

I love how Darrah's last access to the forum was on november 27 last year LOL

[line_genrou]

Nov. 27th... that was a short window of caring about the product. The game launched Nov. 19th right?

 

"hey we're listening and we're gonna fix things, just buy the game, buy it buy it buy it, make your friends buy it, we're listening, just buy the game ,instant profit, instant profit, instant profit, instant profit"

 

Now it's just whatever. DAI is a corpse and Bioware's reputation is beyond destroyed. I'm just here for the lolz and DAO section.

[Elhanan]

Got any suggestions about offline RPG games?  I know "online" is reality and one  to stay but I can't cope with the online aspect of PvP and raidings.  I simply don't find it fun.

As I understand, any of the solo RPG's for sale at GOG.com are able to be played off-line.

[SACanuckin Oz]

You can also play Steam and Origin games offline, so?

 

When you sign in (to either of those) you can choose to go offline.

 

I like the look of gog.com, especially as they have some of the earlier games like Neverwinter Nights (1 & 2), BG, Icewind Dale, etc, and some newer ones, generally for reasonable prices

[DavianBurke]

Exactly! And there is a little Polish developer that has been doing exactly that! And come May 19th, we will see them reap the benefits of that: staying with their vision. Not turning right or left. Without distraction.

Bioware in stark contrast, squandered their excellent start with the Dragon Age franchise.

Had they kept that depth and built on the strengths of DAO and improved upon it instead of trying to follow mainstream trends and failing miserably at every turn, DAI would have been a truly SPECTACULAR game!

 

But alas, that ship has sailed.

 

Congratulations, Mark Darrah, you single-handedly sunk the Titanic.

 

 

To be fair, if EAWare is the Titanic, Casey Hudson was the lookout that didn't see the iceberg. Mark Darrah was the pilot that stayed the course, imagining that the mighty engines of past glories would carry them safely past the hazard. 

[TobyJake]

^^

Laidlaw was the navigator controller in hand.